Jonny Nexus

Category: Board Games

  • 44 Per Cent: A Party Game About Populist Politics

    Type: Party Game Players: 5 upwards (20 is ideal) Duration: ~20 minutes Equipment: Paper and pencils Complexity: Simple Risk of Conflict: High 44 Per Cent is a fun and educational party game that takes its name from the fact that in the 1933 German General Elections, Hiter’s Nazi party achieved a 44% share of the…

  • The True Story Behind “The Campaign for Real Monopoly”

    Seven years ago, as part of the penultimate issue of my gaming web fanzine Critical Miss, I wrote a short filler article about an interesting fact I’d discovered about the board game Monopoly (which was that if you land on a property but opt not to buy it, it gets auctioned off by the bank). Critical…

  • Boardgame Camp

    Last Saturday I headed down to Richmond to go to Boardgame Camp, a boardgaming “unconference” organised by my friend and publisher James Wallis. I will talk about how it went and what I did, but I should probably first answer the question that’s probably occupying the minds of a good chunk of those reading this,…