The Most POINTLESS Board Games
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Ain't now way you're telling ME that these are worth money. Actual currency that famously can otherwise be exchanged for goods and services? Yeah ok buddy.
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CRITICAL ERROR! Apparently Joe IS a valid Scrabble word, as pointed out by the lovely commenters below. As penance I will go sulk in the corner until I memorize 15 words from the dictionary, my sincerest apologies.
Who you got in the next tourney, BreaKey? RPS? Or we thinking a Spin The Bottle sweep?
I hope that BreaKey lasts at least a few rounds in the tournament, it's so stupid 😭
Breakey must be a number 1 seed in the tournament. No contest
I'd prefer RPS not make the tournament; we've pretty much seen what it's capable of, and if it won this time the Adultery post tournament match would just be a repeat of the first tournament's finals.
BreaKey. I was a RPS tourney fan before you introduced this.
RPS
The fact that a BreaKey booster pack comes with only 4 keys and not the 5 required for one person to play the game is absolutely diabolical.
it's so transparently designed only to make money. say what you will about any collectible game, but in most cases there's smart and caring people working on it to provide fun and art and maybe even a message. this is just the result a bunch of business majors sitting around a table to make the greediest product possible.
Gives off live service game vibes. Put an item in the shop, make sure it looks cool enough for people to actually want it, only sell currency bundles that fall just below or way above the price of everything in the shop. If you pay low you’re punished for being poor, if you pay too high you’ve got a bunch of stuff you’ll never use, tempting you to go buy more stuff in the shop. That's literally BreaKey.
Wouldn't you only need 4 keys since you have the winner of the last match?
@Pulstar232 yes, unless you lost.
Actually, almost every person on earth is born with _TWO_ free copies of _Rock, Paper, Scissors_ Classic.
Some even come with three! The Hindus tend to worship those people...
Depends on how dextrous you are its 4 free copies.
@EcclesiastesLiker-py5tsthey have a god with unlimited amounts of copies of rock paper scissors they could probably play a tournament all by themselevs
Well, I've got the oldest XBox known to man! (oops wrong reference)
@@Seydaschu”YOU HAVE ROCK PAPER SCISSORS!”
can''t believe Upper Deck tried to invent competitive wishbone
Or Plastic Conkers
@@llewelynshingler2173 I actually had a plastic conker once. Not sure where it came from, and never saw another one, but it had a monster theme. The difference between it and Breakey? You could it back together when you were done.
I'm looking at the patent right now, the segments are held on with clips. This stupid, pointless and environmentally harmful version of a virtually free game with a biodegradable component was designed to be reused. Breakey is uniquely awful.
💯👍🏿
I Have No Mouth But I Must Play Rock Paper Sissors
Then use your hands
@PedroAlmeida-z1tif not feet
@PedroAlmeida-z1tit's a reference to I Have No Mouth But I Must Scream
This is literally what I thought when I saw that segment.
So glad that Ted has a way to pass eternity with AM now 😔🤌
>buy one piece branded breakeys
>keys break into two pieces when used
I can hardly even believe this was a conceived idea on Earth, incredible
We are no longer
We Aren't
@@notshinjiikari9996 We Were Once
@@notshinjiikari9996 also username checks out
Okay but if BreaKey made the keys out of something edible, like a candy or something, million dollar idea
Winner eats more chocolate
@@vytahbut don't play it with a spinner. That is heresy.
Okay, but that's actually brilliant. Make the handles plastic, so you can keep the character pictures. Then, you have the additional market of selling BreaKey candy. This means you have different flavour packs, as well. It would have to be a candy, not a chocolate, since chocolate melts to easily. Get hard candy, and that satisfying snap, the winner gets two flavours at once. Three, if you count the taste of victory. Hell, that'd make a half-decent tagline. "Unlock the taste of victory" or something.
Additionally: if you make them candy, you'd inevitably have to make them bigger, since it'd be more expensive to make a snapping mechanism out of sugar at that small a scale. Bigger key break = more dramatic and tactile effect + more candy for the winner.
@@cerberusmutt4252Unironically banger idea. I think they could also work as being cheaper but fully-edible: Mass-produce them and sell them in carnivals/amusement parks/fairs/etc. They would be a gimmicky treat kinda like Dippin' Dots, but you get to play a little game with them before you eat them. I bet kids would love that.
That’s an unironically brilliant
I was banned from the Professional BreaKey circuit for 3D printing keys that were over-spec...
You're joking, right? That really shouldn't be a bannable offense
It absolutely is. They’re the Lance Armstrong of BreaKey.
I would do the same TBH
@@bestaround3323 3d printing over powered keys in breakey is like making your own boxing gloves out of a stronger matireal
That's why Professional BreaKey is losing so many players. Too many sweats
BreaKey sounds like a child-friendly way for one to get the necklace decorated with the ears of defeated enemies we always wanted when we were young.
Modern day version of bonetooth necklaces taken from hunted animals
It's honestly a pretty fun sounding waste of time and money for a kid. It's just such an outrageous waste of money that it can't be condoned. Just play pogs but instead of playing for keeps, holepunch the pogs you flip
I know I did after watching Universal Soldier.
BreaKey seems like the type of “game” that would inexplicably get a 4 season anime with a surprisingly killer soundtrack that gets dubbed by 4kids, and have arguments online about how it’s secretly so peak and a misunderstood classic.
If Uno could get a sports anime-like game exclusive to Japan, then why not BreaKey?
Kam basically made the anime in this vid
and i would watch the hell out 2 cours of that
The parody definitely isn't that far off from the dialogue in Yu-Gi-Oh.
This is so specific yet so true
@@karlispovisils5297wait what
My family used to play BreaKey all the time. And by that, I mean when we ate eggs, before cleaning them we'd butt them together to see who's shell is the strongest. So not only is it insanely wasteful. It also can be completely replaced by a common breakfast item.
Yeah I remember doing this with Reese's Pieces
BreakEgg
That is an Easter tradition in our family! Plastic wraps apparently make no difference
And wishbones
We do this on Easter in Romania!
I can think of a use for Spin the Bottle. If you force your kids to play it enough times during family game night, then when they get old enough to go to parties they won’t want to play the actual spin the bottle.
Same sort of discipline as “Oh, smoking in my house, are you? Here. Smoke the entire pack right here, right now.”
Tough, but unusually effective the way people describe it.
This is why you also need to stay up to date on the latest youthspeak and use it in cringe ways, so your kids never start endlessly repeating whatever 2030's version of Damn Daniel is.
@@DiamondKingStudios You wanna smoke? How about I give you a smoking associated trauma? Not gonna smoke if it brings this back to mind!
@@tompatterson1548 Emotions and memory are powerful things I guess
@@tompatterson1548it works. My dad used his coffee cups as ash trays and now I can't stand either one
BreaKey is phenomenonal in one aspect: it shows a company trying their best to make a more predatory model, and it failing. Those kinds of things are rare, but hilarious, like Gammaworld's "buy boosters build your own loot deck" mechanic, which was an obvious test of a way to monetize d&d without risking the actual brand
Or Mattel's Hyperscan.
"These games already have all the content in them, but you still need to buy collectable cards to unlock them, better get spending!"
At-least the D&D 4th edition implemention of Gamma World's cards was a neat mechanic that actually did stuff and the problem was someone higher-up at WotC deciding to sell additional cards as Booster Packs instead of Expansion Decks, which seems like probably what the devs intended and how they work now that the game is POD anyways, and the game worked perfectly fine with just the cards in the core box.
Oh, and the rules didn't tell you to rip the cards in half if you lost a mutation or something.
at least those cards wouldn't be physically destroyed with one loss. Still a stupid idea though.
@@ZorotheGalladethe hyperscan did end up being a success, just in a different format: all those "living toys to games" crap, like Skylanders.
@@nobodyinparticular9640 To be fair, with Skylanders you do get the cool-looking collectible toys instead of just cards.
I remember there was a kid at school who had a "foil" breakey that he never lost with. His dad owned a machine shop, and made one out of steel.
he simply planned ahead
Modern Problems etc
Kid at my school did this with Beyblade, fucking beast of a thing
Breakey but it's beyblade
You forgot to mention that BreaKey doesn't have the same rule of 'the rarer the game piece, the stronger it is' that every other collectible card game abides by, because only the stronger pieces would be the ones left.
It's not necessarily the rule in CCGs though
i also have suspicions that all the keys are physically identical and therefore there is no strategy at all
Magic: the Gathering managed to make some very, very, good common cards. Sometimes to the point of "Oops... Well next time we reprint it, it needs to be uncommon."
@csmead209 this is mostly because common cards often have simple effects whereas rarer ones have complex ones.
If your effect is simply "discard 1 card: tap target land" then that has a lot more use than something with 50 kajillion effects and a high cost.
Nah, my friends pauper deck kicks my standard abominations ass.
Can't believe we got Nuzlocke mode pogs before we got GTA6.
We got them before gta 4
ironically if somebody could port the rock paper scissors game to tabletop simulator that could be at least a little useful in a tiny capacity
Moot point, there's several websites dedicated to just RPS in case you wanna play it online
@@poggersuni9637 but if you are already in tts leaving to go to a website is harder than just loading in some new props
you could also just send messages in whatever your using to chat at the same time
Hey! RPS can be useful.
If you lost both arms in a grenade juggling accident, this may be really good to have!
@ did you even watch the video he went over why that's not the case
also if you lost both your arms how would you use it in the first place?
Breakey might legitimately be the most wasteful THING...EVER. there is no actual game. Its a game of luck with no outside information to apply any tactical decisions to. You literally are buying wishbones
And just like wishbones, they're one-time use!
If I'm into pointless board games does that make it have a purpose
wait, so then they're NOT pointless
Or would that make YOU pointless?
Sorry if that sounds rude
You're too smart
New paradox unlock
Oh no, it's the lowest uninteresting number all over again.
I honestly like the conceptual GIMMICK of BreaKey, but the idea that the snap-able part of the key cannot be reattached to the head of the key is ABSURD 😭 Like honestly I’m surprised they DIDN’T make some sort of add-on that will allow you to reattach a broken off key part, in order to save and keep your key, so it wouldn’t go straight into the trash? It would’ve been cute if it was even shaped like a lock, like come onnnnn the potential was THERE
I also think the minimalist art style used for all of the illustrations on the original set’s key head art are pretty neat looking too, but the MLB collab set looks absolutely horrendous for just using low quality pictures of the players instead of making neat unique illustrations oh my god 😭
Yeah.
As soon as he mentioned it I immediately thought about using magnets or something to make the gimmick not the worst thing of all time
@@Memento_Mori-24I immediately thought spring loaded ball bearings that slot into place. It would give that snapping feeling that is probably pretty satisfying without breaking anything
There is an unofficial addon that you can use to re-attach a broken off key part. It's called Super Glue.
Again, that defeats the entire point. The whole reason it was created was "How can we make a collectible game that forces kids to keep buying more and more forever? Oh, we just have them break and be unusable!". There is no greater concept to protect or fundamentally cool idea there, it entirely revolves around them breaking to force you to buy more.
Ok, no joke, if Breakey was reinvented to not self-destruct / be reusable, it would have been a cool playground duel game, being easy to understand with nice haptic feedback (twisting something is satisfying). Maybe have the two keys connect to a duel lock or something that acts as a emitter of a "fake broken part" that attaches to the winner key and that can be reinserted to do another fight.
That's why it's so infuriating. Literally all it had to do to be a decent game was not be excessively wasteful.
What I was thinking was a machine (sold separately) where you could place the key and the broken part inside, melt them both down, and forge a new one.
Yes but that defeats the entire point, which was to force people to keep buying more. Also because all the pieces were constructed the exact same, people would quickly find out it didnt matter what you used, it was just totally random.
you could use magnets for that.
1: The key has a springloaded ball bearing inside.
2: The "broken part" has a little indent that the ball slips into.
3: Now you can push the "broken part" back in and reuse the key.
Simple as that...
Magic the gathering has a card called Chaos Orb that you're supposed to throw and it destroys whatever card(s) it lands on. The urban legend is that a player won by tearing up their chaos orb into confetti and then throw it onto the table to destroy everything.
Wizards later printed Chaos Confetti which tells you to tear the card up, throw it, and destroy everything it touches.
The same set (Unglued) that featured Chaos Confetti also featured Blacker Lotus, a stronger version of the infamously powerful Black Lotus that required you tear the card up after activating it instead of sacrificing it.
(For non-MtG players, Unglued was a parody set, it's not intended for serious play)
@@unmarketableplushie Still wild it was even printed
@@DryPaperHammerBro yeah Mark Rosewater (lead designer for the game) said they would never do anything like that ever again, even for parody sets
@unmarketableplushie It was a good time back then. Now parody sets are legal in almost all formats.
@@MrGhosta5 no? If you're talking about Unfinity, it's not legal in standard, pioneer, modern, brawl, and historic (and to my knowledge never was). SOME of the cards are legal in formats like vintage, commander, and pauper, but they're ones with mostly vanilla-friendly mechanics and a third of them are banned in all formats except commander (a kitchen table format not intended for serious competitive play) anyway.
I imagine that at least one person in Breakey history cheated by reinforcing the inside of the key with super glue so that it would be stronger than any other. Kind of like those Beyblade players who added weights to their top to turn it into a demolition machine
When I saw Euchre, my first thought was, "Wait, why is that on here? I love that game!"
My second thought was, "Oh, wait a minute, someone actually-"
One Piece is a REALLY funny promotion to have with something called "BreaKey"
imma b real w/ u m8
u look like a x between sonic & spyro
"One piece"? WRONG. Now it's two pieces.
@@jan_Eten Thanks, I like those things. This is quite an old picture of my OC, actually. Like 4 years old or something?
Also, Toki Pona is cool. I like your username.
@dragonick2947 þnx
I remember seeing Spoons at Target being sold. You know, Spoons, the card game that's played with a regular deck of cards and spoons, a common household item.
Scenarios it's not pointless in:
1. You somehow own neither spoons nor a deck of cards, and you want to buy them both in the same place.
2. For some reason, you just really care that the plastic spoons that the game comes with are all different colors (even though differentiating the spoons are not a requirement for the game), and you can't find a pack of different colored plastic spoons at your store.
3. You want to get a gift for a dumb child who won't realize that they could've already played this at home, because buying a game that comes in a box is a better gift than saying, "Here's a gift: a rules sheet on a game you could play with a deck of cards and spoons."
Wow, Breakey is so bad you don't even get the reveal. A piece of black plastic visibly flew off, indicating that the green key won, before they were pulled apart.
Okay so I've lived in the Netherlands for like 27 years, and from what I can tell, if Laurien won, her bed time was extended for a whole week, and if Marla won, she can eat a looot of pancakes. I have the biggest trouble finding ANYTHING about this show online though - how in the world did you find it?
@@wibbol I found it because someone on BGG listed a link to their UA-cam channel, which only has two total episodes. No idea if there were more after those
How did u comment this 19hr ago?
Users who pay a patreon-like “channel member” subscription get early access to videos if the UA-camr sees it fit.
@@ImPreRestoredyou watched the vid on 1x speed saving no time, I'm guessing they watched the vid on 12x~ speed to save 20 hours. Probably a browser extension
So they clip was in Dutch? Was many of the words in English? Or do Dutch and English just have that big an overlap?
The funny thing about the Yugioh-Break Key comparison is that Upper Deck used to be in charge for selling the Yugioh TCG in North America. Then Konami sued them and starting handling the TCG directly because Upper Deck was discovered to be making and profiting off of counterfeit cards
We used to press breakfast eggs against eachother as kids to see which cracked first, effectively battling them. Then we ate the eggs... There you go, the Breakey experience with some worth this time.
And M&Ms and skittles. Crunch. There, breakey solved.
3:44 words with friends travel edition. When your phone just isn’t portable enough to take on vacation
You can almost picture the corporate board meeting that led to breakeys. 'They only cost a penny to make and they're designed for kids to break them intentionally. Kids like baseball right? Just slap some baseball players on 'em and kids'll go nuts for them. We're gonna make billions.' And that is probably the entirety of the meeting that led to Breakeys.
That LowTierGod reference at 21:50 was glorious, even replicated the camera angle
There's another at 23:22
Someone finally commented on it
I did not expect to see you here of all places.
I play a ton of scrabble, here’s a few things I want to say.
1. Joe is also a perfectly valid word in the scrabble dictionary as well. It means “sweetheart.” WWF does have some weird words you could’ve mentioned, like OO and IO, but Joe isn’t one of them.
2. A key difference that you didn’t mention is that some WWF letters are worth different amounts of points than their counterparts in scrabble. The J is worth 10 instead of 8, the N, L, and U are all worth 2 instead of 1, and there are many other small differences.
Besides that, great vid!
OO and IO are both valid words in the international (Collins) Scrabble dictionary, too! You need to get even more obscure than that. FU, IB, and VU are all words in WWF but not Collins, for example, while GU and FY are in Collins but not WWF.
@@drew53768 oh you’re right! Completely forgot about the Collins dictionary. I typically only play NWL.
Jo means sweetheart. Joe means coffee
My guess is “Jo” for “sweetheart” comes from Scots, simply because of “Auld Lang Syne”.
In the vein of BreaKey, I remember as a kid getting a whole box of some clearance sale collectable card game that WAS destructible! I just did a search; it was called "BattleCards", and apparently came out about the same time as Magic: The Gathering, 1993. I believe the game was basically Battleship, where the cards all had scratch-off spots like lottery tickets, and you took turns scratching off your opponents spots hoping to reveal a hit! Eventually revealing the fatal spot that means the character is dead. Meaning that even if you win, your card permanently has less spots left, thus closer to dying! I'm sure there was some advanced optional rules, but it's still a game where each card is ever 100% ready to use once. I'm sure at some point, we just completely scratched off some dead characters, said "that's how many spots you get?", then replicated the game on pencil and paper, hiding our own weak spots for a smaller-scale version of Battleship. ...Some of the art was rad, though. I think it advertised some rare mail-order only cards that are nothing but collectibles, that you 'win' by sending them exact combinations of certain dead cards, for 'quests'.
...
I also don't quite see the appeal of "Legacy Games", but that's just me. Unless it's undoable. "Replace this card in the deck with this card" is much different from "DESTROY WHAT YOU PAID FOR, NEVER PLAY THIS AGAIN, $60".
Did a bit more research, more fun facts:
-NOT ALL SCRATCH-OFFS WERE RANDOM! Some were random, but many character cards unfortunately had their weakspots in the exact same spots for every copy of that character! I believe by simply memorizing two hit spots and their fatal life spot, you can always beat that character very fast every time!
-I don't think they had printed rarities, but some characters were explicitly better than others! Namely with a rank on the back of the card, tougher characters having less weakspots. (though if your top-level guy is one of those not-actually-random guys I mentioned before, uh-oh)
-Not only were the character cards not reusable, but the booster packs contain quite a few non-fighter cards! As in, a pack of 10 cards will certainly have fewer than 10 characters to play with. Some were spells you could scratch a spot to do something useful or goofy, but also there was quite a few collectible-only lore cards! With all that mail-order stuff from before, I'm certain they were trying to be collectible first, game second.
I wasn't expecting a collectible "legacy" game with exactly 1 rule and tons of waste.
I can see Breaky as an anime actually, with high stakes like each key has an actual being inside or the keys tied to the characters life force
I'm imaging a chess look game were each piece represents a person so whenever a piece is captured that person dies
@ the stronger their bond with the MC the stronger the break key which drives up the stakes
@@ZackScogginsand if a key breaks the loser will be violently broken themselves on screen,which would have to be censored for worldwide releases.
Technically done in harry potter and yugioh @@courier6402
Thats just Bakugan but you destroy the toys after winning
I think the only game missing is the retail version of the bottle flip game. They were literally selling a plastic water bottle for considerably more money than a bottle of water which came with the same key component. Yeah it had some challenge cards, but c'mon, you could just as easily make up any challenge you want without ever needing them.
I want to see a video about the most USEFUL board games: the games that not only fun but actually give items or knowledge that makes your daily life more comfortable.
I mean wouldn't minute to win it technically make your daily life more comfortable because now you have oridnary household objects you can use for other purposes.
Ah yes, Monopoly, the modern version of "The Landlord's Game", teaching the next generation that Capitalism isn't fair!~
Same, anyone have any examples?
@@TheGudeGamerperhaps a game like Wingspan, where you might acquire interesting bird knowledge? Certain war games, where you might acquire knowledge about history or battle strategy. Trivial Pursuit, perhaps?
@ So anyone who won in The Campaign for North Africa: The Desert War 1940-43 can actually win in real wars.
The Breakey introductions were so much more entertaining than the game itself. I want to become the BreaKing now and just cause chaos with ny power
If they made each key in breakey reusable it could've had some potential as it is an interesting base concept but the fact that you waste money on simgle use keys makes it so that no one would buy it
JOE is now allowed in the official Scrabble dictionary too though...
As in “cup of joe”?
@@atanvardecunambiel8917 as in meaning a “fellow”
Sloppy joe
21:10 I Have No Mouth And I Must Scissors
Pretty sure I saw a video titled something like that but on another 'tube
Honestly, all Upper Deck had to do to make BreaKey not be worthless is to just make the pieces reattachable.
Also, I really hope these games don't get entered into the tournament, because most of these pointless games aren't even more frustrating than some of the other games out there. They would waste the space of all of the competition behind them because they would just sweep unless they encounter something incredibly heinous. It's detrimental for competition.
If the games are so bad you know they will sweep then doesn't that mean they belong in the worst games tournament?
@exantiuse497 Do you want this tourney to be a foregone conclusion?
I think if a game is worthless/pointless then that nominates it for potential disqualification, depending on the circumstances; the contest bracket should be a comparison of games, not products. Euchre, the product, shouldn't be on the bracket for the same reason I wouldn't stick a standard 52 deck of cards on there. The production and component design involved can be a factor in judging the game, sure, but I'd rather not see shit like RPS or Euchre on there.
@@confirm-okt5480 I agree with this completely. No reason for that Euchre deck to be there when it's still just euchre but using a deck that's reduced out of the box that doesn't need to exist
My local K-Mart had Break Keys until they closed. I couldn't even believe how dumb of a product it was, I thought I was imagining something. Fantastic skit!
I love Kam essentially pulling a "what if Goku was betrayed and trapped in the time chamber without his arms, legs and is blind" with *Rock Paper Scissors*
Yeah but can Goku beat The Campaign for North Africa?
@@kylematthews5438With the Hyperbolic Time Chamber? I'm sure he can.
BreaKey would be so peak if there was a way to “unbreak” the keys.
Yeah maybe if the bottom part could just could attach and detach
21:50 the lowtiergod reference was out of left field given the PG nature of this channel
23:22 is also a ltg reference or im just brainrotted?
@@cheeseking6661
Your correct.
BreaKey giving you 4 out of the 5 keys required to play the game in a booster pack gives out the same vibe as when live service titles put things in their shop that they know you'll want and then ever so inconveniently only sell currency bundles that fall just below or way above the amount of currency you need to buy that thing. You either have to double up on a lower priced item or spend higher and then have stuff left over, Tempting you to buy even more to even the number out. It’s so unapologetically scummy and it’s the kind of thing that you love to see fail.
i think i figured out the use for the rock paper scissors 'console', a gag gift to insult the other person's intelligence
I think what really sucks is that there's a way to make BreaKey into something really fun, if the keys were just made of candy and whoever won got to eat the piece broken off the other player's key.
You might be onto something
EXTREMELY NICHE potential use of the euchre deck: if you're a magician who's frequently writing on or tearing up these specific cards, the euchre deck can restock those without ending up with tons of extras of the others. my dad is a magician (long story) and he uses pinochle decks for this same purpose
Tell us the long story.
@ so during quarantine, my dad got really, REALLY into doing magic tricks. (i was his guinea pig for most of those tricks.) which also meant he got really into collecting decks of cards + stocking up on more normal decks for his tricks. he also streams them on twitch now. (i moderate his twitch chat.) he especially likes ones that set things on fire
BreaKey does sound like it could lead to a premise for an anime in the vein of Beyblade and Bakugan.
Or we could make an MLB One Piece crossover fanfic
Considering how big both baseball and One Piece are in Japan, I am 99% sure that already exists
or manga adaptation serialize on corocoro comic magazine
Spin the Bottle is "fun for the whole family" if your family is the Hapsburgs.
Spin the bottle board game is my favourite way to get people to stop talking to me so it is very useful
This very impressively explained showcase of the concept of pointless and worthless games honestly kinda made me feel better about myself. It is nice to have a reminder that I am neither of those things, especially to the people I love. Thank you.
Also thanks for awakening a dormant memory about the existence of BreaKey because holy crap I still can't believe they did that despite Upper Deck being exactly the company that would do that.
LANDMINE!
HAS TAKEN MY SIGHT!
TAKEN MY SPEECH
TAKEN MY HEARING
TAKEN MY ARMS
TAKEN MY LEGS
TAKEN MY SOUL
LEFT ME WITH LIFE IN HELL!
But damn I could go for a game of Rock Paper Scissors.
As a Dutch person who remembers seeing that BreaKey stuff on TV, I was, in fact, hooting and/or hollering when they came up. HECK YEA!!!
PS: This appreciation was ironic, even back then I was extremely confused by the product/concept
Im going to be honest. I was peak age when breakey was a thing.
But when he mentioned it I only had a vague, I sort of remember this feeling.
But the second he mentioned a show my entire memory of that era came back.
I remember getting a free key at the toy store with any purchase, so instead of buying what I wanted in one go (Pokemon booster packs) I bought every pack separate to get multiple keys free.
and then playing it at "basis school".
Only for the school to ban playing it cause of amount of plastic left at the playground.
I also remember a kid super glued his key. Cause winning was more important then sportsmanship at that age. And eventually no one won anymore cause everyone had a super glued key.
BreaKey: collectable permadeath.
I have an argument FOR spin the bottle, because it has unique dares AND a unique way to play, it may have a niche as a fun game with close friends (to laugh at) who wouldn't play it otherwise. At its time, it had use as a low commitment dare game cause you couldn't just look up the dares and spin your own bottle, and now it has its use as something that would be hilarious to watch some youtubers do together
I found a use for the Euchre deck:
Orthodox Jews have a lot of dos and don'ts on Shabbat. One of the prohibitions is _Borer_: separating what you don't want/need from what you want/need. If an observant Orthodox Jew wanted to play Euchre on Shabbat, they would need to prepare the deck on Friday. But with this special deck, they don't need to separate anything at all.
(OK, technically they can just spread out a regular 52-deck and pick out the cards they want, but this is much more convenient).
Ok I'm gonna TRY defending the truly pointless board games in this video
The RPS game: It could be good for presenting the results, so it might be useful in those school competitions where they determine whose team goes first with RPS.
The Breakey game: The concept on the surface is kinda red honestly, where the winner gets to collect the loser's "skull" as a trophy, but it NEEDS more strategies and rulesets behind it, for instance, maybe the stronger the key is, the higher the score the opponent gets to earn after breaking it? So It could be a risk-and-reward thing where a player tries to use weaker keys to beat your opponent so it doesn't score too much even if they lose a round? Or like a jungle chess thing where the weakest keys could defeat the strongest to add to the risk and reward system? Man, what was Upper Deck on??
The Euchre Deck: Maybe for collection?? I know there are Bicycle fans out there, also It might be good for presentation in the Euchre tournament??
Spin the bottle: I don't know, I can't think of anything to justify the existence of this abomination. Why would anyone want this crap?? The fact that this exists proves that god is dead. I'm actually pissed right now. How did you find this game?? Why did you have to inform me that this is a thing?? I'm gonna go take a shower Jesus Christ man
@@cheaperying5672 They really needed to bake the BreaKey idea for another month or two, because the stakes are there, just not anything else
The RPS you could just have a judge write the results on the RPS on a piece of paper
Most people say you’re a board game Scott the Woz but honestly I see you as more engaging as modern day Scott the Woz because you don’t try to put a damn five chapter story into your work. Just pure content with a dose of comedy. And all the jokes hit well. As a new fan, I say keep up the good work!
As a counter to the minute to win it gift argument.
If you have a friend and the only gift you can think of that they want more then anything else in this magnificent world was that "game".
The real gift is to end the friendship.
And as a dutch person, i totally forgot that breakey show and toy was a thing. Untill you mentioned it.
Then i remembered at the end people starting super glueing the keys.
And nobody won and or could trust each other so people stopped playing.
The Euchre deck actually isn't pointless if you want to do a very specific magic trick wherein you remove the number "6" from a 6.
Why not just go to a card shop and ask them to make a 6 of diamonds without the 6?
@@DelphoxGaming712 Because it's the manufacturer that controls that, not the shop, that's like going to a bookstore and asking them to change the text on the back of a book.
@@Andrethegiant2008a card shop in the same sense as a car shop. In that they both sell AND customize.
The defenition of card shop where they only sell doesn’t work, as there is no store that both doesn’t do custom orders AND only sells something as specific as cards. The whole point of specializing that much is so you can do custom orders.
as a dedicated one piece fan it's kinda insane to me that there was a collaboration with breakey. merchandising for this series used to be so weird outside of japan before the 2020 anime resurgence.
Heavily appreciate you thinking of people with disabilities. Lots of people will just dismiss things that seem useless to them and not think about the potential accessibility they can provide to people. Glad you entirely considered that before ripping a new one out of that trash RPS game.
Pete the Cat: the Missing Cupcakes is so pointless even Board Game Geek refused to review it.
I could imagine that it would make more sense if it came with a package of cake mix, or at least some recipes...and make actually eating some of them part of the objective....
a little over a decade ago some friends and I were able to dig up a number of boxes of breakeys and held a massive tournament amongst ourselves. I still have my (unforuntaely losing) purple Avalanche key to this day. It was quite fun actually, but I can’t imagine playing it at its original price point
21:33 When you said this I immediately thought of the character Flypp Champion from the TV show Ballmastrz: 9009. His whole thing is that he chopped off all his limbs and put his head into a spiked helmet with no holes in order to focus himself completely and totally on his combat training, which he now does through a psionic beam.
Granted, he can talk through the helmet and can hear as well, so even he still would be able to play normal Rock Paper Scissors. Not even in the post-apocalyptic year 9009 is there any use whatsoever for the Rock Paper Scissors board game.
The worst bit about breakey is the fact that it could have easily been handled in a way that doesn't create waste, the inner bit of the keys could have been threaded with different keys having different textures and materials on the inside to add or minimize resistance
The Dutch Blitz card game I believe belongs in the Almost Pointless section of pointless games because while it would be visually more difficult, you can play the game with four different packs of cards using the Ace-10 cards out of each deck and belongs a spot above the Euchre deck. But it would make a great gift for someone who is a fan of the game because you could follow along easier.
Ooooh, I have an idea on how you could fix BreaKey!
What if it was a hollow tube that you could slot a pez like candy in securely that could the breaking piece? That way you could reuse it and get a little victory snack!
34:21 HOLD UP, HIS WRITING IS THIS FIRE?!??!?!?!?! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I owned RPS game as a kid, and actually enjoyed it. The sound of the plastic when flipping it was satisying to 8yr old me. But most usefully, you could stagger reveals to build the tension. Still gets use now at a primary school we donated it to.
I like to imagine an engineer formulated a reusable Breakey mechanism only for the execs to trash it.
So I was hoping one of the oddest things i have seen on the shelves of Walmart "The Original THE Floor is Lava"
How would that even work?
Breakey actually sounds fun if it was cheap. Like if it was $5 for 50 keys and multiple necklaces, you could have fun with your friends a couple times.
That BreaKey bit at the end was frickin hilarious! I'd love seeing more skits like that from you in the future
I remember GenCon when BreaKey was released, and everyone's free goodie bag had a bunch of keys in them. Everyone played with random people in lines until they broke all their free keys, saw it was the stupidest thing ever, and totally lost interest. The only people who kept playing it were the ones who glued the bit back into the key so it was unbreakable (until you matched a guy who also did that and you twisted so hard the handle snapped in half).
Of course literal landfill filler would collab with One Piece
It all makes sense now
The One Piece turns out to be an unbreakable BreaKey. That's why it's called the One Piece.
and if we try to combine the last two, Rock Paper Scissors but you lose your hand if you lose
The national card game of Germany is Skat (be careful when googling that), which uses a 32 card deck, that is 7's through Aces. And you can buy bespoke Skat decks across Germany and Europe. So while the Euchre deck is useless, it's not alone in its uselessness.
It's really no wonder that BreaKey got as much support as it did. The idea of a collectable game where players are forced to keep buying product to keep playing is a CEO's wet dream.
The ultimate counter to the RPS game being useless to those without hands is how are they even going to use the console?
What a lovely *music* video!
Or at least, that's what my phone says when I try to put it in picture-in-picture mode.
BreaKey would be an awesome game if it didnt BREAK when you use it. If there was a re-release of it but with keys that can be repaired after using it I think it would be kinda fun! Maybe even go as far as to reinvent how they break too so it becomes a more complicated rock paper scissors inside the key when its break time. The Guardian Star system from Yu-Gi-Oh Forbidden Memories comes to mind!
Honestly I would watch a Breakey show... as long as its fictional like the skit. Like a mini-series being a parody of how some shows like Beyblade or Yugioh take the game so seriously.
Can we nominate spin the bottle game for the worst board game fight, so it can prove it’s a better “loving game” than adultery.
It all depends on what the tasks are. If they're tame e.g. kiss someone on the cheek then it doesn't even qualify as a sex game. I tried to find the rules online but apparently nobody has uploaded them, all I could find is that one task (or "stunt") was "make another player blush, no physical contact allowed" which sounds cringy as anything but isn't too inappropriate
@@exantiuse497 but do you have to have sex to have love in the first place.
I wasn't ready for that "inc3st edition" box art we just saw.
18:46 That wheel looks rather small and might be hard to move if you have damaged fingers. I would argue that in terms of disability support it might be worse than regular rock paper scissors.
14:00 I was gonna say the labor involved in separating the cards would be a point for it, but it’s not worth 2 dollars of labor.
Seeing someone legit making a TV show about a product where the "game" for it lasts less than a second hurts me.
They cancelled a lot of great competitive TV shows for some reason or another...and then had the brilliant idea to greenlight one for a "game" where you can't even play again unless you shell out even more money!!
Edit: Also, for the show, the two players look so uncomfortable. Laurien looks like they want to be ANYWHERE but here, and Marla looks so uncomfortable and awkward like "I have no idea what I'm supposed to do", the shrug and awkward smile says it all. Neither of them wanted to be there and they are so done, and they just started!
I would argue that by putting the games on this list you have removed them from the list. Them being pointless makes them so rare and weird they become something fun to own due to this unique aspect, therefore they are not pointless.
is anyone seriously going to purchase and buy the rock paper scissors game? I will argue that the euchre set is a great gag gift for somebody who’s really competitive over euchre (I know several)
But if you were to do that, they would no longer be on the list due to not being pointless, so it's a grandfather paradox
apparently there WAS a plan for what to do with the broken keys! the dutch Breakeys webpage mentions that players can get "BreaKey Feeties" (hell of a name) to repurpose any broken key as *a game token with a wider base*; hence the orientation of the characters / photos!
...selling that sort of thing separately is just depressing. and naturally, there doesn't seem to have been any plan for the tiny broken stubs.
The Breakey game... It's just so weird to me. I could absolutely seeing it working as a party favor, since those are also plastic tat that gets thrown away right after. Get a box of like 16, give one to each guest, have a bracket, and winner gets a prize or something. It's basically a raffle with extra steps, but it could be a fun way to make it more exciting since there really isn't any skill involved.
I think the hyper-competitive pogs-rippoff is just such a strange way to handle it. It doesn't make any sense.
the fact that Kam threw in a Baki joke AND LTG joke in this vid is why he is becoming one of my fav content creators. plus the overall quality of his production and his delivery. Keep it up Kam!
32:42 Alright, how I understand this promotion, The One Piece BreaKeys will give you a code you can use to unlock Online-Battles, where you can then play against other players "virtually". So, these things weren't even made to be used irl and just seemed to be part of a competition for prizes. Still plastic waste though.
Also, apparently German television also had a show about this plastic waste called "Break Off" which aired "between Pokemon and Beyblade". I watched both of those shows back then and I don't remember that at all.
I feel like Logan Paul in that infamous forest hearing about breakey. I shouldnt be laughing at it, but i literally cannot help it in this case... maybe because corporations arent people
BreaKey needs a version with repairable keys. Let it rip.
Breakey looking like a front runner for the tournament already