r/mildlyinfuriating 2d ago

Played Battleship with my 7 year old son

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He sunk all my ships without me getting 1 hit, so I played on to find where his were.

He hid them in his pocket.

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u/akio3 2d ago

That's why they invented Sub Search.

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u/caintowers 2d ago

I love board games that require so much pre-game assembly that all desire to play has been vacated by the time it’s together

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u/potataoboi 2d ago

Risk is absolutely one of them lmao I set up a game of Risk Star Wars the Clone Wars with my brother for about 30 minutes before a dinosaur toy came careening across the whole board, wiping everything out. My youngest brother felt left out so he just sat watching before sneaking up to the table and unleashing plastic fury before skedaddling away. Boy was I pissed lmao

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u/Exterminator-8008135 1d ago

Same, we had a paper roleplay ongoing and buddy's younger bro ( 7 ) was too young to play but kept pestering us because he is what envious little kids are.

At the 5th time, i screamed like a banshee because i was explaining an important upcoming fight and he went in try to steal my dices.

He bolted out of the room to not even come back when i were leaving to head home 2 hours later.

It's why i avoid playing with younglings, they will cry if loosing, try to cheat or being jealous they didn't win.

i don't need to be mom no.2 to take care of a kid doing a tantrum.

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u/enaK66 2d ago

Bro mouse trap seemed so cool then we got it and I hated it. What a nightmare game.

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u/Financial_Machine609 2d ago

That looks really fun but there's no chance of being able to Google it and finding a copy with that name in this day and age.

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u/Cheet4h 2d ago

Search for Sub Search game. Tried this and all the results on the first page were for this game, second page had some flash game about submarines and subway surfers mixed in.
Although I used DuckDuckGo (which gets its results from Bing) and not Google.