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{{Infobox game
| name = World's Worst Boardgame
| designer = Richard Hutnik
| publisher = Self-Published
| date = 2011
| genre = Board game
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| random_chance = Extremely High
| AKA = W.W.B.
| website = wwbgame.com (offline)<ref>{{cite web |last1=The Games Ninja |title=wwbgame.com is now registered. |url=https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/870729/wwbgamecom-is-now-registered |website=BoardGameGeek |access-date=2024-11-04}}</ref>
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'''''World's Worst Boardgame''''', marketed as '''''W.W.B.''''', is a [[board game]] self-published by Richard Hutnik in 2011 to satirize commercial boardgames that are too dependent on random chance. The game is mathematically impossible to win in a reasonable time; one computer model suggested that to finish 17% of the game would take over 6 million years. Hutnik encouraged users of the ''Board Game Geek'' website to give this game the lowest rating of 1 out of 10.
 
== Description ==▼
'''World's Worst Boardgame''' was a [[board game]] created in 2011 and was designed to be one of the worst board games,<ref name=":1">{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7r6Qu0Sncs |title=On May Your Die Always Roll 5 and winning W.W.B. |date=2014-11-17 |last=The Game Changer Channel: Classic Games Redefined |access-date=2024-10-28 |via=YouTube}}</ref> rated a 1.4/10 on [[BoardGameGeek]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=W.W.B |url=https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/99918/wwb |access-date=2024-10-27 |website=BoardGameGeek |language=en-US}}</ref> The cause behind the creation of World's Worst Boardgame was for it to be published, and for all of the money to go to [[Charity (practice)|charity]].<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySikH7EcVAQ&lc=UgwR-StKMrcTxAapPfV4AaABAg |title=Comment from @richardhutnik |date=2013-11-05 |last=GotGameTesters |access-date=2024-10-28 |via=YouTube}}</ref><ref name=":4" />
''W.W.B.'' is a game that is totally dependent on dice rolls, with no strategy involved.<ref name=":2">{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6a3-oKWJOA |title=The Math Behind... WWB, World's Worst Board Game (Special) |date=2024-05-15 |last=Beer Money Engine |access-date=2024-10-28 |via=YouTube}}</ref> Richard Hutnik, as a fan of [[Eurogame|Eurogames]] that favour strategy over luck, felt that too many American board games favored luck over strategy. He made the point by deliberately designing a game that was all luck and no strategy,<ref name=":1">{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7r6Qu0Sncs |title=On May Your Die Always Roll 5 and winning W.W.B. |date=2014-11-17 |last=The Game Changer Channel: Classic Games Redefined |access-date=2024-10-28 |via=YouTube}}</ref> with all profits from the game sales going to charity.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySikH7EcVAQ&lc=UgwR-StKMrcTxAapPfV4AaABAg |title=Comment from @richardhutnik |date=2013-11-05 |last=GotGameTesters |access-date=2024-10-28 |via=YouTube}}</ref><ref name=":4" /> The only objective of the game is to be the first to reach the Finish card.
 
▲== Description ==
World's Worst Boardgame is a mathematically long game, determined by [[luck]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6a3-oKWJOA |title=The Math Behind... WWB, World's Worst Board Game (Special) |date=2024-05-15 |last=Beer Money Engine |access-date=2024-10-28 |via=YouTube}}</ref> Movement is always determined by [[dice]], while the placement of spaces is determined by [[shuffling]].<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last=Corp |first=Tabletopia |title=W.W.B |url=https://tabletopia.com/games/w-w-b |access-date=2024-10-28 |website=Tabletopia |language=en}}</ref>
 
The game would come with a bonus game inside called Massive Multiplayer Rock Paper Scissors.<ref name=":4">{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySikH7EcVAQ |title=WWB (World's Worst Board Game) - Got Game Testers - Episode 21 |date=2013-11-05 |last=GotGameTesters |access-date=2024-10-28 |via=YouTube}}</ref>▼
 
A Deluxe set with three variant games (one using trivia questions, one using play money, and the other using role-play) was envisioned but never published.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=W.W.B: Trivia |url=https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/166427/wwb-trivia |access-date=2024-11-05 |website=BoardGameGeek |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite web |title=W.W.B: Deckbuilder |url=https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/166428/wwb-deckbuilder |access-date=2024-11-05 |website=BoardGameGeek |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=W.W.B: RPG rules... {{!}} W.W.B |url=https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1242441/wwb-rpg-rules |access-date=2024-11-05 |website=BoardGameGeek |language=en-US}}</ref>
=== Components ===▼
World's Worst Boardgame's box came packaged with:
 
▲=== Components ===
* 2 6-sided dice, with one side having a "5" (the rest are blank)
*The game consists of 102 cards, 100two of them being labelled from"Start" 1-100and "Finish", whileand the otherrest 2numbered cardsfrom 1 to 100. There are labelledalso "Start"two and6-sided dice with one side marked "Finish5"; the other sides are blank.<ref name=":0"(Ordinary />six-sided die can be used, with all numbers except 5 ignored.)<ref name=":1" />
 
== Gameplay =Set-up===
The cards are shuffled and dealt out face up on the table. (The placement of the cards has no effect on the game, but having to do this it adds a few minutes of pointless work to the game.)<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last=Corp |first=Tabletopia |title=W.W.B |url=https://tabletopia.com/games/w-w-b |access-date=2024-10-28 |website=Tabletopia |language=en}}</ref> Players place their tokens on the Start card, wherever it has landed. Players roll the dice and whoever rolls a five moves first. (If two or more players roll a 5, they roll again until only one player rolls a 5.)<ref name=":3" />
The objective of World's Worst Boardgame is to put your piece at the "Finish" space. When the game begins, the player assigned to go first must roll their die. If they don't land on a 5, the turn is over and the other player must roll their die. If their die lands on a "5", they get to roll again. If their second roll was not a 5, they immediately go back to the start. If their second roll was a 5, they move to the next space in numerical order. (Start would go to the "1" space, and 100 would go to the "Finish" space.) If a piece goes onto a card that has already been occupied by another player via rolling, both pieces must go back to the beginning.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":1" />
 
==== Game Setup =Gameplay===
The first player rolls the dice. If the player does not roll a 5, their turn ends. If the player succeeds in rolling a 5, they roll again and must roll another 5. If they do not, their turns ends, and their token remains where it was. If the player succeeds in rolling two consecutive 5s, they move their token to the "1" card, their turn ends and play passes to the next player. The rest of the game follows in identical fashion, with two consecutive 5s required to move up to the next numerical card. If a player's token reaches a card already occupied by another token, both tokens are returned to the Start card.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":1" /> The first player to reach the Finish card is the winner.
Before each game, shuffle up every card, including the "Start" and "Finish" cards, and put each card onto the table. Each player would then put their piece onto the "Start" card. To see who goes first, each player must roll their die. The first person to get a 5 goes first. If both players got a 5, keep rolling until only one person gets a 5.<ref name=":3" />
 
==== Variant Rules ====
There are several variants designed to make the game even longer:
In the Rules of Play, there are 3 "variant rules" that try to make the game longer. The first one, called "Longer game", asks the players to add cards 101-1000 to the game. The second variant rule, called "Match Play", says that a player can only win if they win 2 games. Each time a game is played in the Match Play variant, the cards are reshuffled. If playing with the "Use pieces that are of identical shape and color" variant, if a player moves a piece that isn't his, moves both pieces back to the start, and the game restarts.<ref name=":3" /> The final variant rule, called "Use pieces that are of identical shape and color", says that both pieces must have the same shape and color. If a player moves a piece that isn't his, the game resets.
*"Longer game": The players create cards from 101 to 1000, making the game ten times longer.
*"Match Play": A player must be the first to finish first in two games in order to be declared the winner.
*"Use pieces that are of identical shape and color": Each player must use two tokens in the same game. The player to reach the Finish card with both tokens is the winner. If a player accidentally moves the wrong token, the entire game resets to the beginning.<ref name=":3" />
 
==Feasibility==
= Reception =▼
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GotGameTesters would leave a review of the game on November 5th, 2013. Jarek, the reviewer of said game would joke about the game by saying "...I don't know, beating my head against the wall, 10 times, would be much more satisfying than having to play this game. Is that a good description?"<ref name=":4" />
 
▲== Reception ==
Richard Hutnik, creator of World's Worst Boardgame, would upload a tutorial video about World's Worst Boardgame in 2014, 3 years after the creation of World's Worst Boardgame. In the description of said video, he would actively say to give the game a 1/10 on [[BoardGameGeek]].
▲The gamewebsite would''GotGameTesters'' comeconcluded, with"I adon't bonusknow, gamebeating insidemy calledhead Massiveagainst Multiplayerthe Rockwall Paperten Scissorstimes would be much more satisfying than having to play this game. Is that a good description?"<ref name=":4">{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySikH7EcVAQ |title=WWB (World's Worst Board Game) - Got Game Testers - Episode 21 |date=2013-11-05 |last=GotGameTesters |access-date=2024-10-28 |via=YouTube}}</ref>
 
Sean Weeks, writing for ''Dicebreaker'', thought that Hutnik had missed the point about using dice. "As a species, we'll never completely outgrow superstitions about dice ... Anyone puzzled by the tenacity of 'luckfests' like ''[[Left, Centre, Right]]'' or ''[[Snakes and Ladders]]'' needs to understand that they occupy a folkish space, enjoyed through agnosticism toward how many ways two dice can make a seven. Mathematicians only started charting probability and odds in the 16th century. Perceiving chance is a rite guarded by class and education."<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.dicebreaker.com/categories/board-game/opinion/ameritrash-is-dead-long-live-ameritrash-board-games-eurogames-luck-strategy| title = Ameritrash is dead - long live Ameritrash| last = Weeks| first = Sean| date = 2023-05-29| website = Dicebreaker| access-date = 2024-11-04}}</ref>
▲Several [[Computer program|computer programs]] were run to figure out how long it would take to beat the game. User dragonnyxx would make a [[Computer program|program]] that stopped at card 13 after only 28,794,244,157 turns.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Computer Simulation of W.W.B. {{!}} W.W.B |url=https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/862792/computer-simulation-of-wwb |access-date=2024-10-28 |website=BoardGameGeek |language=en-US}}</ref> Beer Money Engine made a [[computer program]] that stopped at turn 35,409,637,192,649 at only card 17 before the simulation crashed at around turn 49,000,000,000,000. An estimation that each turn would take ~5.55 seconds would mean that getting to turn 17 takes approximately 6,171,350 years, 3 months, and 21.97 days.<ref name=":2" />
 
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== External links ==
[https://c.tabletopia.com/games/w-w-b/rules/rules-to-wwb-12/en ''World's Worst Boardgame'' Rules]
[[Category:Board games introduced in 2011]]
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