The “IT Crowd” plays boardgames

Written by alejo on July 26th, 2010

A few weeks ago a friend of mine sent me a 360º panorama from the IT Crowd basement as he was aware of my enthusiasm towards this sitcom. I spent a few minutes trying to figure out images and objects… till I focused my eyes on the upper shelf behind Moss.

As you can see from the image above, they’ve placed 5 boardgames, in the following order: Memoir ’44 (is it the main game or an add-on?), Shadows over camelot, Mystery of the Abbey, Ticket to Ride and War onTerror. After checking the characteristics of every game I didn’t know, actually just 2 of them, it seems like the games were randomly bought and placed there. Obviously, these games would fit in a single collection but, taking into account the huge differences between them, it should be quite big. Mystery of the Abbey and Ticket to ride made me suspect about games driven by Hand Management but my theory failed against War on Terror, so that’s where I got my conclusion from.

I’m quite certain some of you wonder about the reason for posting. Easy: most Go players are somewhat nerds, who may enjoy watching this comedy and playing the same games I do. For the ones who didn’t know these games, I would recommend starting with Ticket to Ride, an easy family game with certain luck factor and lots of fun if played with 4-5 players.

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3 Comments to “The “IT Crowd” plays boardgames”

1. Posted by Proximo, July 29th, 2010 at 8:30 pm

Does the name of that friend start with an M or an A?

2. Posted by alejo, August 1st, 2010 at 1:57 pm

Hahah!!! Nice to see you around… Whassssup? How is “I”?

Well, as you guessed, it starts with M.

3. Posted by raccoon, August 19th, 2011 at 4:02 pm

“it seems like the games were randomly bought and placed there”

Since I don’t know the background of those items, I can just add that the upper 4 games are from the same publisher “Days of Wonder”, so it might be some kind of product placement (speculation!). Those 4 games never were used or mentioned in any context in the series, and war on terror even got banned from a german boardgame fair – interestingly, that’s the only one really played in an episode.

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