Board Game Quotes

Awesome Board Game Quotes

1. Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponent’s mind. — Bobby Fischer.
   

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2. Sure, I like to win when I play basketball or board games or video games, but my day isn’t ruined if I lose. I’m always up for a rematch. In all seriousness, that’s something that’s nice about maturing. — Aaron Staton.
3. “Life is like a board game. Advancing forward is the key.” ― Torron-Lee Dewar (life is like a board game quote).
   

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4. Three times a year, there’s a Strategicon convention, and I go for the board games. It happens on Presidents Day, Labor Day, and Memorial Day weekends. You go and take a look at the new board games and meet a couple of board game designers, and you can check out games you don’t own from the library and then return them. — Rich Sommer.
5. “Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.” – Anatoly Karpov.
6. “Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting.” ― Trevanian, Shibumi.
7. “To develop a long-term relationship with a board game is to tease out the intricacies of all the different ways it can nudge you and shape the way you approach a variety of situations and possible interactions with people.” ― Eric Thurm, Avidly Reads Board Games.
8. Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome. — Jerry Seinfeld.
9. Most innovative little board game since chess. — Michael A. Stackpole.
10. “Bear in mind three essential qualities in all games of intellect: – Never to show selfishness or to wound the feelings of your adversary. To be modest with a good game. To lose without ill-temper, and to win without bragging.” ― Patterson.
11. But it’s still a coach’s game. Make no mistake. You start at the top. If you don’t have a good one at the top, you don’t have a cut dog’s chance. — Bear Bryant.
12. Independence of thought is a most valuable quality in a chess-player, both at the board and when preparing for a game. — David Bronstein.
13. As with Steinitz, Fischer’s genius has often been concealed by controversies away from the board. Like Lasker, Fischer has raised chess to new financial heights despite frequent retreats from serious play. And, like Capablanca, Fischer is recognized by millions of non-players and has won the game many new enthusiasts. — Andrew Soltis.
14. They say that life’s a game, & then they take the board away. – Alan Moore.
15. Sucka’s only see what’s in front of them while real game playa’s see the whole board, – 777.
16. When she moves a chess piece on the board, it isn’t so she can win; it’s to move the game forward. She’s just keeping us all moving forward. – Danielle Stewart.
17. People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start to feel very empty and worth nothing, you start to become a piece in a board game you never wanted to play. –Anna Friel.
18. Making a movie in Hollywood is a bit like playing a board game, where you have to throw a six to start. – Nigel Cole.
19. “Last year, Pandora, who had always loved toys and parlor amusements, had designed a board game. With Mr. Winterbourne’s encouragement, she had filed for a patent and intended to produce and distribute the game. Mr. Winterbourne owned the largest department store in the world, and had already agreed to place an order for five hundred copies. The game was a guaranteed success, if for no other reason than that there was hardly any competition: Whereas the board game industry was flourishing in America, thanks to the efforts of the Milton Bradley company, it was still in its infancy here in Britain. Pandora had already developed two more games and was almost ready to file patents for them. Someday she would earn enough money to make her own way in the world.” ― Lisa Kleypas, Devil in Spring.
20. ‘CLUE’ is a spin on the classic board game. It uses the original characters and weapons, but it goes even further in depth than the classic who-kills-who idea. – Sterling Beaumon.
21. He felt oddly powerless, as if his entire life were in the fingers of two faceless players maneuvering pieces in the same patterns on some vast board in a game that, for all he knew, had lasted for eternity. –David Eddings.
22. I listen to a lot of podcasts, which are split down the middle between comedy and board game podcasts, and a couple of eclectic ones like ‘The Dinner Party’ from NPR, where they take an event that happened that week in history and give you a cocktail recipe inspired by it. – Rich Sommer.
23. There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children’s book and the board game. – Brian K. Vaughan.
24. Gods play games with the fates of men. But first they have to get all the pieces on the board and look all over the place for the dice. – Terry Pratchett.
25. I do really well in the traditional board games: Backgammon, Checkers. – Chelsea Clinton.
26. The game had to be played the same way every day or the pieces would fall to the floor, the board would collapse, and the illusion that you were shaping your own life, that you were in control, would break. – Kevin Brockmeier.
27. Not all activities are equal… Those that involve genuine concentration – studying a musical instrument, playing board games, reading, and dancing – are associated with a lower risk for dementia. – Norman Doidge.
28. “The special thing about games, and tabletop games in particular, is the way they actively train you to think from within their rules. Other forms of art do this too, but in a more roundabout way that requires a certain sensitivity and willingness to taken in by the television show you’re watching or the book you’re reading. With games, it’s a prerequisite. If you don’t think the way the game wants you to think, at least a little bit, you’re not really playing the game at all.” ― Eric Thurm, Avidly Reads Board Games.
29. I love card games, and I’ve always loved board games and stuff like that as a kid, and I think it’s that part of your brain that’s engaged in con movies. It’s like this ‘Who’s outsmarting whom. – John C. Reilly.
30. “A man can learn all of an opponent’s weaknesses on that board,’ said Gilt.
31. ‘Really?’ said Vetinari, raising his eyebrows. ‘Should not he be trying to learn his own?” ― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal.
32. Oh, ‘twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players and white, and fixed rules, and nary a shade of grey. – Glen Cook.
33. Dante and this Palero were definitely playing some sort of game, and I didn’t know the rules, which was fine with me. Whenever a game became too complicated, I just set the board on fire. – Kenya Wright.
34. “Well, what is there to do around here, anyway? Well, here we have World Domination; it builds strategy skills—you can play as a dog, a boot, or a trebuchet.” Bewilder builds language and observation skills…” – Noelle Stevenson, Nimona.
35. “I said I wanted to play VIDEO games.” “Video games are a waste of time.” “And board games AREN’T? – Noelle Stevenson, Nimona.
36. Why do you even have these? No one lives here but you!” – Noelle Stevenson, Nimona.
37. “I used to have some henchmen. Game night was a big hit.” – Noelle Stevenson, Nimona.
38. “I can’t work with mercenaries. It’s impossible to build trust when they only care about their paychecks. “– Noelle Stevenson, Nimona.
39. “Above all, a game is an opportunity, an easy- to-understand instrument by which context is defamiliarized just enough to allow what Huizinga famously refers to as his “a magic circle” of play to occur.” ― Mary Flanagan, Critical Play: Radical Game Design.

Family Board Game Quotes

41. The perfect family board game is one that can be played each time with fewer pieces. – Robert Breault.

Funny Board Game Quotes

42. I am a Puzzle Jedi Master –
43. If you try and lose then, it isn’t your fault. But if you don’t try and we lose. Then it’s all Your fault. – Orson Scott Card, Enders Game.
44. Invent A Board Game. – Anonymous.
45. “Checkers is for tramps.”― Paul Charles Morphy.
46. I’m Gonna drive all over this Gorilla. – Anonymous.
47. I just painted myself into a corner. – While playing Kanagawa, Unknown.
48. I beat your Wheat.
49. That was the easiest baby birth I’ve ever had. – While playing Takguoko.
50. Cards Against Humanity Is Profanity and Dark Humor in A Box.
51. Say Anything Gives Players Ultimate Freedom.
52. Just One Is So Simple Yet So Brilliant.
53. So, Clover Lets Players Feel Incredibly Smart.
54. Don’t Get Got Makes Every Player Feel Like A Spy.

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55. I’m standing on my Monopoly board which means I’m on top of my game. – Anonymous.
56. “How you play shows some of your character. How you win or lose shows all of it.” – Anonymous.
57. “It’s always the small pieces that make up the big picture.”
58. “Bored? Who said I was bored?”
59. “Everyone must know by now the aim of Scrabble is to gain the moral high ground, the loser being the first player to slam the board shut and upset all the letters over the floor.” – Craig Bowen.
60. “When you see a good move, look for a better one.” – Emanuel Lasker.

Dream Phone Board Game Quotes

61. Moreover, photography has made it possible to fix these images and now provides us with a permanent record of each observed spectrum, which can be measured out at any time. – Pieter Zeeman.
62. If there is anything I’ve learned, is that piety is smarter than hate, that mercy is preferable even to justice itself, that if you go around the world with friendly look, one does good friends. – Philip Gibbs.
63. I always wanted so much glamour in my life, so I have always been obsessed with class, and from dating a few people who were from old money and a few from new money in my 20s, I just sort of became obsessed with this idea of clueless rich people. – Natasha Leggero.
64. It’s a big chip on my shoulder that I have not been to any of his parties – P. Diddy, Diddy Puff. But he was super nice to me. And he does look sharp, that guy. Doesn’t ever go wrong with a suit. – Emily Blunt.
65. In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it. – G.Wells.
66. It is not only impolitic and injudicious to even attempt to think ouside a box with a linearly skewed, acutely constrained and partial view. I would rather choose to think iside an infinitesimal pinfold but in 3D. – John Onyango Agumba.
67. Andi’s eyes widened. “Bob. . .is it really him?”
68. “Yes, but he works for the bad guys now,” Bob said. “It’s probably safest to shoot him. – Jim Butcher.
69. People who do good work often think that whatever they’re working on is no good. Others see what they’ve done and think it’s wonderful, but the creator sees nothing but flaws. This pattern is no coincidence: worry made the work good. – Paul Graham.
70. All the things that stay the same… and everything that’s changed. – Huntley Fitzpatrick.
71. Nor should they be, but everyone needs to feel they’re part of something worthwhile. That, in the last analysis, their life has some meaning in a larger context. The questions is what am I part of? What have I done? – Julian Fellowes.
72. It took four years for me to fall in love with him. It only took four pages to stop. – Colleen Hoover.
73. I always wanted so much glamour in my life, so I have always been obsessed with class, and from dating a few people who were from old money and a few from new money in my 20s, I just sort of became obsessed with this idea of clueless rich people. – Natasha Leggero.

Risk Board Game Quotes

74. Fair-minded people avoid zero-sum games in which one-person’s win translates into another person’s loss. – Frank Sonnenberg.
75. To one who is not eager I do not reveal anything, nor do I explain anything to one who is not communicative. If I raise one corner for someone and he cannot come back with the other three, I do not go on. – Confucius.
76. In you the wars and the flights accumulated, From you the wings of the songbirds rose. – Pablo Neruda.

Common Board Game Phrases

77. Phrase 1- F**K – (OK-you knew that one was coming).
78. Phrase 2- Attack HIM! – (Usually heard with “Why ME!”)
79. Phrase 3- This game Sucks
80. Phrase 4- I like this game.
81. Phrase 5- What’s wrong with these dice?

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