Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard)

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Having folks enjoy board games is our glorious purpose. He/Him in the Mid-western United States. Post beautiful boardgames to #ThirstyCardboard. Pro: FLGS, small publishers, great boardgames, rock climbing, disc golf Con: shelving vertically, gatekeeping.

Look at me meme. "I am the first player now"
Can't Stop neoprene mat, dice and player pieces.
Ticket with "she's got a ticket to ride" written on it
Man with kn*fe, "your opponent will likely st*b you"
Post by @TheBoardMole with Simpsons on couch meme. Text on image saying "Join us". Post text: board games are essentially an MLM. You're constantly pitching your hobby to friends and family in the hopes of getting them onboard and growing the amount of people to play with.
Bgstats game view
Demon with words "turns out the real demon is loneliness"
Shirt with arrows that says ORTHOGONAL on it
Shirt with burning dice saying "it's a good day to die"
Hat that reads "Too many board games"
Indiana Jones grabbing an idol labeled GAMING and replacing it with a bag full of SLEEP. It sets off a trap with a boulder labeled TOMORROW MORNING chasing him.
Man with kn*fe. "Your opponent will likely try to st*b you"
Map on how I fit everything in the Cosmic Encounter box
Dizzy Dizzy Dinosaur game circa 2011
BG Stats May 2026 Plays: 15 H-index: 2 Games: 9 New: 0 Players: 8 Locations: 1 Hours: 6 Days: 3 Codenames: 4 Star Realms: 3 BANG! The Dice Game: 2 6 Nimmt: 1 Flip 7: 1 Lost Cities: 1 Saboteur: 1 Celestia: 1 Point Salad: 1 13 designers: Aaron Weissblum: 11% Darwin Kastle: 11% Eric Olsen: 11% Fréderic Moyersoen: 11% Lukas Zach: 11%.
3 ping pong trophies
Two ping pong trophies being held by people
Two ping pong Championship trophies and one for #1 dad on a Kallax shelf
Roll for the Galaxy custom dice scattered over the table and the rolling cups.
Game mat on boardgame table
BG Stats Apr 2026 Plays: 17 H-index: 2 Games: 14 New: 0 Players: 6 Locations: 1 Hours: 11 Days: 5 Space Base: 2 BANG! The Dice Game: 2 No Thanks!: 2 Suburbia: 1 Small World: 1 Harmonies: 1 Century: Golem Edition: 1 6 Nimmt: 1 PitchCar: 1 19 designers: Antoine Bauza: 7% Benoit Turpin: 7% Corentin Lebrat: 7% Emerson Matsuuchi: 7% Goro Sasaki: 7%.
Can't Stop boardgame with pieces of like colors stacked, neoprene mat, and red dice. Gorgeous!
Arachnophobia mode - option to remove spiders in video games.
Home-made board game components on the table. Numbers on square tiles and circles with a wheel in the middle as well as objectives
Shelf with a shadowbox filled with all variants of dice.
Where's Waldo drawing of boat with the deck being a deck of cards
PitchCar track with start section in green. Has 2 ramps from extension 6, also utilizes the Y splits.
PitchCar track setup on big white table with a split, jumps, a loop, long straight and some 3D printed "bump rails"
Boardgame table mat covering a table
Dice pitcher made from ceramic
I have brought strategic conflicts simulations --controlled revelry-- I selected the ones that are most enjoyable --In what sense?-- These are the ones I am best at --The strategy has already commenced-- Perhaps
Stack of camels from Camel Up (not CUP!)
Boardgame shelves with other fun decorations like a dice box
Board with lanes for each of the 6 players. Red squares send you back 4 spaces.
Inside the boardgame box. With rules, a board, and 6 caps with animals drawn on them.
Boardgame box. Home-made. With a dog running on it and a cat in a cage. Called "Animal Escape: A Teamwork Game"
BG Stats Mar 2026 Plays: 15 H-index: 2 Games: 9 New: 1 Players: 8 Locations: 1 Hours: 8 Days: 4 No Thanks!: 3 Captain Flip: 3 6 Nimmt: 2 Biblios: 2 Scoville: 2nd Edition: 1 Galaxy Trucker: 1 Cosmic Encounter: 42nd Anniversary Edition: 1 Cartographers: 1 Flip 7: 1 14 designers: Bill Eberle: 11% Bill Norton: 11% Ed Marriott: 11% Eric Olsen: 11% Jack Kittredge: 11%.
Half empty board game shelves
Before shot of the bare wall in my office with the cabinet base on the ground
Black wooden base for Kallax built in. Vent cut into it to bring vent from floor to under unit.
Set of alien cards from Cosmic Encounter: Trickster, Xenophile, Sorcerer, Bride, Invader, Mite
Bamboo kitchen table with 6 chairs. 36" deep by 78" long (up to 109" with leaves).
Shelf of boardgames with the text "Board games are my retirement plan"
Large PitchCar track with loop and long straight between two tables
PitchCar track with multiple expansions including extensions 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8.
When the player complaining that they're losing the whole time wins the boardgame.
Kallax full of boardgames
When someone asks why we always teach the rules... Alien saying "Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong."
Dog cards and dice from Spots boardgame
From Cascadia rulebook. "In the case of a tie, the player with the most NATURE TOKENS wins."
Picture of fabric storage containers with lid.
BG Stats Jan 2026 Plays: 28 H-index: 2 Games: 19 New: 0 Players: 8 Locations: 2 Hours: 12 Days: 5 Codenames: 4 BANG! The Dice Game: 3 Point Salad: 2 6 Nimmt: 2 Captain Flip: 2 No Thanks!: 2 Clank! In! Space!: A Deck-Building Adventure: 1 Libertalia: 1 Spots: 1 30 designers: Paolo Mori: 10% Alan R. Moon: 5% Alex Hague: 5% Andrea Crespi: 5% Antoine Bauza: 5%.
Hen with chicks twisted paper art
Coaster with Boardlandia logo on it (die with B on a face and a castle with a flag)
Shelf with PitchCar extensions on top. Especially the Loop.
Board game collection on Kallax shelf. Mostly mid to light games.
When someone tries to get you to play Catan... "The future is now, old man"
Board game collection on a kallax.
Pyrotechnics on BGA screenshot. Undo turn button displayed despite it not being my turn
Baggies with cardboard squares in them. Roughly drawn on with markers. A rough, barebones boardgame prototype.