Board To Death

Released in 1976 by Milton Bradley, with absolutely no designer or artist credits that can be dug up, Breaker 19: The CB Truckers Game is easily one of the oddest board games I've seen thus far, and that includes things like Squatter. Imagine Truck Driving Simulator but in board game fashion. According to Board Game Geek, it's extremely straight forward and sounds somewhat bland: Players move around the board delivering loads and trying to earn money to pay off their "rigs". The rules are printed on the inside of the box top, and the components are relatively light - two types of cards, player markers, and play money. Not to mention they only have 3 photos of this game, when they usually have a good few handful of photos for each game I cover. That's how exceedingly unknown this thing is. In fact, when doing research for this post, I began to question whether or not there was even enough to work with to warrant an entire post about it, but I have dedicated mys...

You want to play a board game that might help you fall asleep? Then Squatter is the game for you! Sadly not a board game about illegally living inside of buildings, Squatter is a board game about sheep herding, and according to Wikipedia, takes 1 to 2 hours to play a full game of. Designed by Robert C. Lloyd and released in 1960 - which makes sense, now that we have this information, because what the hell else are you going to do in 1960 than a play a 2 hour sheep herding board game, in Australia no less - the cover really tells all you need to know. It's about as exciting as attempting to finish this sentence with an analogy, or watching someone watch paint dry. Unsurprisingly, Board Game Geeks state this was a self published game, which is actually somewhat impressive given the time period. But hey, you wanna see the biggest box to board difference in the history of board games? Okay. Check this out. Scope this dope ass mother fucker out. Isn't that just the coolest most eye ...