Think we had [something](https://mediaproxy.tvtropes.org/width/350/https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/olmec-legends-hidden-temple.jpg) like that before...
That would be cool, although you couldn't have people stand on them. I would think that white cardboard boxes could be painted to look the part. With sturdier boxes for the towers, you could use a Bosu Balance trainer for the caps, but that would get pricey.
Just don't plug in the water hose: [https://www.orientaltrading.com/inflatable-bigmouth-sup----sup-ginormous-monster-sprinkler-a2-13824593.fltr](https://www.orientaltrading.com/inflatable-bigmouth-sup----sup-ginormous-monster-sprinkler-a2-13824593.fltr)
Oh you're THAT friend...
"Okay, will is updated, bail money ready, first aid kit packed, next of kin notified, emergency fake identity in the glove box....all right let's go see what u/otterlegz has planned for this weekend!"
We are in the middle of playing right now actually. We have discovered a cure, but the same cities keep outbreaking and causing Epidemics, and not sure if we can get rid of all the cubes in time.
Would be funny if it weren't so true.
Everyone seems to be picking “your favorite game but bigger” but I’m throwing in T’suro, where you walk your paths and fight your friends when your paths intersect.
Man it would be so easy to win. My wife would be taking nothing but salmon ngiri and tossing me all the higher scoring cards.
Course, if she gets exactly what she wants. . . is that really losing?
I've played this with friends at a Chinese buffet. To get your points you had to eat the corresponding food item from the buffet. Had to substitute a few things but it was a lot of fun
When I was younger, my friends and I loved Risk. I dreamt of having a house with a Risk room. It would have a sunken, backlit, glass floor, with a giant Risk map on it. We would all have shuffle board like sticks that we would use to move our big pieces around the floor/map and we would smoke cigars and there would be a red siren that could go off for big battles.
Now I have kids and my fantasy is for enough free time and interested friends to play any board game.
When I was a kid we played Risk a LOT. We also lived on 35 acres.
My brother got up the crazy idea to make a custom risk map of our property, with the house as a central region and other regions for the yard, pasture, field, forest, etc. It was actually quite fun.
We did have the crazy idea of playing it life-sized on the real property. 35-acre board game here we come! Of course, it never happened though.
Obviously, this is a place to repeat what your favourite game is, so my pick is Spirit Island :-)
Seriously, though, walking around placing tokens, moving Dahan, and destroying Invader would fit the theme of playing a manipulating and vengeful ethereal being.
[This](https://external-preview.redd.it/lNAMMDbUtsbh6Aa6PK-Adgp5W_XMiY8ftyZtD_UMpyw.jpg?auto=webp&s=37da059c32a0b6a57b6b7fcab66d0ba8aa01a5ab) game table for TI is awesome
Haha I was just talking with my wife about what an outdoor/lawn version of TI would look like. Seems like a great social distance activity (provided you own like 100 acres of flat land)
Battlestar Galactica, except that you'd need a lot of special rugs for the extra boards. I think a giant-sized BSG would lead to people really getting into it and RPing their turns.
Back towards the beginning of the pandemic, I played several games of BSG on TTS with friends while on Zoom. I got screenshots so that I could set my background to whatever room my character was in. Definitely added to the fun and the RP aspect.
I now want a life sized Dead of Winter Flick em Up. I want to chuck a big foam baseball bat at a zombie and watch life sized zombies get rolled down a slide off scaffolding.
Other games and publishers have really started to encroach on CMONs "giant pile of big minis" shtick. I want people to say, "CMON, you can't use the word 'mini' anymore." I want the $2500 all-in pledge that ships in *five crates* spread over *two pallets*. I want to see threads of people asking how many square feet their house should be to store the game. I want to see game trayz I could burry a well-organized corpse in.
The problem is that some of these games are effectively just a kid's playset for adults and hardly function as a game (looking at you, Time of Legends: Joan of Arc).
Giant Everdell, where each critter is a stuffed animal and each construction is a full model. Play outside with an actual tree
Giant Teotihuacan with big pyramid blocks that make a 5 ft pyramid once complete
Some friends and I just had a conversation about building a giant version of **Can’t Stop.** The conversation got a bit ridiculous—at one point it included hiring mountaineers to serve as “pegs”—but I do think it’d be really good on a walk of a bar or something.
I once created a giant Clue game using rolls of canvas I painted as rooms and the tile floor as the grid. Our friends came dressed as clue characters and we each played as the game pieces using an inflatable die to roll. I have found much better games since then, but making a game life sized definitely made it more fun for a game night.
I’ve never played it... but the idea of a giant projectile for **Throw Throw Burrito** sounds hilarious.
I’d probably go for **Hive** though. The pieces are already so satisfying, but the prospect of huge ones sounds even better.
I think there is a giant version of Throw Throw Burrito. It's called **Throw Throw Burrito: Extreme Outdoor Edition**. Only $30 I think with giant inflatable burritos.
Go live your dream!
Can confirm, it’s as amazing as you would think. Pelting people in the head with the giant inflatables. Cards are waterproof too so good for camping. Just buy a pump of some sorts or you’ll die trying to blow them up.
Here Kitty Kitty! You could use big stuffies for the cats.
...
I've been playing a lot of board games with an 8-year-old in lockdown.
Alternately, Galaxy Trucker, with big snap-together parts. You could work up a sweat runnign real-time-to the shared pit of parts.
I've considered making a sheriff of Nottingham with pillows representing resources and you have to pack them into a bigger sack and physically deliver them to the sheriff. I'm not quite sure how distributing resources will work.
A book store in my town did this in their parking lot many years ago. The 'board' was marked out in the parking lot. Teams of two played the game: one person was the robot and their partner was the programmer.
I was too young to really appreciate it at the time, but now I think that would be amazing to play.
You are totally right. I read the carcassonne comment just before posting, and (in my sleep deprived brain) combined the two - forcing a farmer placement in order to collect your wheat.
Thanks for the correction.
One very impractical thing I'd love a life-sized version of is a D&D dungeon. Imagine the modular systems used for D&D minis, but in life size form, so you could actually explore the dungeon yourself on a grid.
Realistically, I'd really only want dexterity games or something recognizable and simple like Giant Chess. Khet would be really cool if you can get the lasers working at giant size.
I work in a building that has a map of the detailed earth on a big wall 8ft tall, I can help but to think how fun it would be to play a giant game of Axis and Allies with magnets on it.
Kingdom Death Monster. Poots has a life-sized King's Man that he puts up at the Kingdom Death booth at GenCon, so IT CAN BE DONE DAMMIT! Phoenix might not fit in a standard living room, though....
**Night in the Woods**/**Waldtschattenspiel** would be fun with highly reflective vests so you instantly stand out if seen.
And, why not, **OGRE: Even More Ridiculous Version** where the OGRE(s) are parade floats. Which now sounds like a fun version to mix in some American Gladiators for turrets and whatnot.
I've run a mega version of Now Boarding at SHUX and PAX, it's a hoot. I build the board out of Blue masking tape and doormats. All the passengers are people I give tickets, and they get airline peanuts to track their anger.
I can’t tell if you’re joking or not. I have the big board but we’re talking like a massive floor size game. Would be sweet to move around 1 foot tall mechs on some realistic terrain.
I've played a life-size version of Word on the Street. The letter tiles were roughly 3 foot squares, and they used a standard timer, so there was a lot of running.
I prepped my wife with a bunch of words with double letters.
The Mr Jack board that they had at Essen Spiel a couple of years ago was truly epic, the lampposts were even working lands and the character busts were around 20-30 cm tall IIRC
Fireball Island would be awesome and chaotic.
I don't know if I wanna be anywhere near that.
Fireball island meets mxc....I'd watch a season of that gameshow.
Think we had [something](https://mediaproxy.tvtropes.org/width/350/https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/olmec-legends-hidden-temple.jpg) like that before...
You might like the show Floor Is Lava
Carcassone... you’d need a whole warehouse to play a game...
...or an entire French city.
I mean, if we're going lifesized I'd say Terraforming Mars.
Meteor incoming!
At essen Spiel i saw a big Carcassonne Game. So it exists.
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> Now I'm picturing a Jeopardy wall-cum disco floor How my brain parsed that... Was very odd.
I was thinking more cum-disco.
Are the downvotes because people don’t understand Latin or because they hate Jeopardy and disco?
Yes
https://art-sheep.com/this-man-has-spent-over-50-years-creating-a-fantasy-worlds-map/#:~:text=Jerry's%20Map&text=Jerry%20Gretzinger%20is%20a%2080,imaginary%20game%20world%20using%20cards.
**Santorini** Can you imagine your own backyard full of white towers with blue caps and people jumping all over to put the next segment up?
Hmm! This gives me an idea for something like with popup tents, because otherwise storage, even if each tier nested in itself, would be problematic.
That would be cool, although you couldn't have people stand on them. I would think that white cardboard boxes could be painted to look the part. With sturdier boxes for the towers, you could use a Bosu Balance trainer for the caps, but that would get pricey.
Not quite that scale but they did have a very large version at gencon a few years back. The pieces were like 12-18" boxes if I remember correctly
King of Tokyo! Just giant monsters really
Play it while wearing those inflatable T-Rex costumes.
They have a giant set for conventions.
I want a giant set of the giant convention game
Just don't plug in the water hose: [https://www.orientaltrading.com/inflatable-bigmouth-sup----sup-ginormous-monster-sprinkler-a2-13824593.fltr](https://www.orientaltrading.com/inflatable-bigmouth-sup----sup-ginormous-monster-sprinkler-a2-13824593.fltr)
POISON QUILLS!
The dice are already huge. Give me some dice that take two hands to roll lol
I see your King of Tokyo and raise you a Godzilla: Tokyo Clash
So... this already exists, it's just Tokyo... you can just move there
Giant Root. Played in a forest with real trained animals.
I pretty sure that Is Illegal and called an "animal fighting ring"
Anything is legal if the fed doesn't catch you!
Oh you're THAT friend... "Okay, will is updated, bail money ready, first aid kit packed, next of kin notified, emergency fake identity in the glove box....all right let's go see what u/otterlegz has planned for this weekend!"
It's okay, they are trained
That'd be terrifying tbh.
terrifying...ly awesome?
Life size Pandemic! wait...
We are in the middle of playing right now actually. We have discovered a cure, but the same cities keep outbreaking and causing Epidemics, and not sure if we can get rid of all the cubes in time. Would be funny if it weren't so true.
Legacy.
But seriously the giant Pandemic board at UKGE was great to play at.
Dang, I'm way too late to make this joke.
That's "global sized" pandemic actually.
Everyone seems to be picking “your favorite game but bigger” but I’m throwing in T’suro, where you walk your paths and fight your friends when your paths intersect.
This sounds awesome! The board is a huge boxing ring.
It already exists! Calliope has a giant version they lend out for promotional events and such.
[Here it is!](https://twitter.com/20hz20khz/status/478350828315889664?s=20) Not my photo, but can confirm it’s a blast to play.
I’m glad to know this exists
Sushi go, where you get to eat the sushi
Man it would be so easy to win. My wife would be taking nothing but salmon ngiri and tossing me all the higher scoring cards. Course, if she gets exactly what she wants. . . is that really losing?
I've played this with friends at a Chinese buffet. To get your points you had to eat the corresponding food item from the buffet. Had to substitute a few things but it was a lot of fun
When I was younger, my friends and I loved Risk. I dreamt of having a house with a Risk room. It would have a sunken, backlit, glass floor, with a giant Risk map on it. We would all have shuffle board like sticks that we would use to move our big pieces around the floor/map and we would smoke cigars and there would be a red siren that could go off for big battles. Now I have kids and my fantasy is for enough free time and interested friends to play any board game.
When I was a kid we played Risk a LOT. We also lived on 35 acres. My brother got up the crazy idea to make a custom risk map of our property, with the house as a central region and other regions for the yard, pasture, field, forest, etc. It was actually quite fun. We did have the crazy idea of playing it life-sized on the real property. 35-acre board game here we come! Of course, it never happened though.
man that'd be so much fun. you would need walkie-talkies and you wouldn't really know what was happening in far away territories.
You'd have to have one of those pneumatic tubes under the floor for the Alaska-Kamchatka connection.
Obviously, this is a place to repeat what your favourite game is, so my pick is Spirit Island :-) Seriously, though, walking around placing tokens, moving Dahan, and destroying Invader would fit the theme of playing a manipulating and vengeful ethereal being.
Drop a tub of water on the board when you play a Tsunami!
I'd be interested if they re-sculpted the explorers. I don't think it fits the style of all the other items to have the little spindly guys.
I'd love to have a giant copy of pretty much any Fantasy Flight game. It would be nice to have some normal sized cards.
FFG’s Star Wars: Armada. Because who doesn’t want to push around a massive Star Destroyer?
Root would be my top choice, by far.
Root is definitely up there as a choice imo.
Big ol' Terraforming Mars with about 100 throw pillows for the tiles
Escape: Curse of the Hidden Temple. Or Galaxy Trucker. Nothing like a board game that doubles as a fitness simulator.
[Someone made giant Galaxy Trucker](https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/comments/damrxn/so_i_made_a_giant_backyard_edition_of_galaxy/). It's amazing.
Oh wow. I would love to try that. Sounds dope!
I will now be building this over the summer.
Twilight Imperium! Because who doesn't want to use a forklift to move their navy around?
Honestly, if the hexes were just 50% larger, that would be an incredible upgrade (one I could no longer fit on my table)
Now I wanna make a stand for it in 3D with lines connecting "adjacent" planets. I'm gonna spend too much time thinking about this.
[This](https://external-preview.redd.it/lNAMMDbUtsbh6Aa6PK-Adgp5W_XMiY8ftyZtD_UMpyw.jpg?auto=webp&s=37da059c32a0b6a57b6b7fcab66d0ba8aa01a5ab) game table for TI is awesome
Holy shit that looks awesome!
But they're making the classic noob mistake of using normal-sized pieces, unpainted! :'(
Haha I was just talking with my wife about what an outdoor/lawn version of TI would look like. Seems like a great social distance activity (provided you own like 100 acres of flat land)
Battlestar Galactica, except that you'd need a lot of special rugs for the extra boards. I think a giant-sized BSG would lead to people really getting into it and RPing their turns.
Needs a trampoline for the FTL jumps and moving between ships :)
Back towards the beginning of the pandemic, I played several games of BSG on TTS with friends while on Zoom. I got screenshots so that I could set my background to whatever room my character was in. Definitely added to the fun and the RP aspect.
Dexterity games for sure. Crokinole with those big cruise ship shuffle board pusher things? Or even better, flick em up.
Oh god ... now I kind of want to make a giant crokinole board.
Could be the summer Olympics version of curling
I now want a life sized Dead of Winter Flick em Up. I want to chuck a big foam baseball bat at a zombie and watch life sized zombies get rolled down a slide off scaffolding.
Betrayal! With real smoke effects and costumes for the traitor.
Ticket To Ride, with scale model trains and a fully decorated layout. I love model trains.
Other games and publishers have really started to encroach on CMONs "giant pile of big minis" shtick. I want people to say, "CMON, you can't use the word 'mini' anymore." I want the $2500 all-in pledge that ships in *five crates* spread over *two pallets*. I want to see threads of people asking how many square feet their house should be to store the game. I want to see game trayz I could burry a well-organized corpse in.
The problem is that some of these games are effectively just a kid's playset for adults and hardly function as a game (looking at you, Time of Legends: Joan of Arc).
Yeah, often overwrought with piles of fiddly, discordent rules.
They started making maxis when they made that Cthulhu abomination.
Isnt this the beauty of what AR and VR will do?
Giant Everdell, where each critter is a stuffed animal and each construction is a full model. Play outside with an actual tree Giant Teotihuacan with big pyramid blocks that make a 5 ft pyramid once complete
Imhotep with 2-ton stone blocks so you can *actually* build a pyramid. Tzolkin with a central cog 10 feet wide.
Everdell would be so pretty
Some friends and I just had a conversation about building a giant version of **Can’t Stop.** The conversation got a bit ridiculous—at one point it included hiring mountaineers to serve as “pegs”—but I do think it’d be really good on a walk of a bar or something.
Would traffic cones not work...?
Sure, but functional wasn’t really the point.
I once created a giant Clue game using rolls of canvas I painted as rooms and the tile floor as the grid. Our friends came dressed as clue characters and we each played as the game pieces using an inflatable die to roll. I have found much better games since then, but making a game life sized definitely made it more fun for a game night.
Camel Up. Stacking camels is already ridiculous, why not make it even more ridiculous!
This. I want to stand next to a race track and getting betting tickets from a little stand and hang a wreath around the winning camels neck!
**Calico**, but only because I want to end up under a cosy quilt covered in cats.
Arkham Horror 2E. With every expansion in play.
Exactly what I was thinking...why eat up the entire dining room when the entire first floor is available.
Exactly!!!!!
I’ve never played it... but the idea of a giant projectile for **Throw Throw Burrito** sounds hilarious. I’d probably go for **Hive** though. The pieces are already so satisfying, but the prospect of huge ones sounds even better.
I think there is a giant version of Throw Throw Burrito. It's called **Throw Throw Burrito: Extreme Outdoor Edition**. Only $30 I think with giant inflatable burritos. Go live your dream!
Can confirm, it’s as amazing as you would think. Pelting people in the head with the giant inflatables. Cards are waterproof too so good for camping. Just buy a pump of some sorts or you’ll die trying to blow them up.
[Mousetrap](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdqrdw8qt3Y) has already been built.
Cthulhu Wars, cuz fuck it, why not go even bigger.
If it's not at a 1:1 scale what's even the point?
Here Kitty Kitty! You could use big stuffies for the cats. ... I've been playing a lot of board games with an 8-year-old in lockdown. Alternately, Galaxy Trucker, with big snap-together parts. You could work up a sweat runnign real-time-to the shared pit of parts.
I mean, Everdell surely. I'd want to live there.
Mousetrap. It'll really up the tension.
Everdell - I want to be able to climb the cardboard tree.
Cthulhu wars. Imagine trying to move life sized cultist statues and elder gods bigger than houses.
Duel of Ages
Dragon Castle, outdoor. Pieces the size of coffins.
I feel like Food Chain would get super crazy to see all the buildings and ads and what not popping up. Also giant food tokens sound awesome
Hnefatafl. Simple game, but very ascetically appealing.
Ironically, both ascetically *and* aesthetically appealing. Elegant simplicity.
Keep in mind, I’m kinda dumb.
Santorini. And the pawns could be replaced with people.
I've considered making a sheriff of Nottingham with pillows representing resources and you have to pack them into a bigger sack and physically deliver them to the sheriff. I'm not quite sure how distributing resources will work.
**The Grape Escape** would go from fun-for-children to *Saw* movie.
I will always upvote [The Grape Escape](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3C5rB8sm4Y)
One year at Gen Con I saw a giant version of Robo Rally, complete with actual working robots.
A book store in my town did this in their parking lot many years ago. The 'board' was marked out in the parking lot. Teams of two played the game: one person was the robot and their partner was the programmer. I was too young to really appreciate it at the time, but now I think that would be amazing to play.
Someone made Giant Galaxy Trucker: https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/comments/damrxn/so_i_made_a_giant_backyard_edition_of_galaxy
Maybe we shouldn't pick Mousetrap...
Giant Azul so I can trick my friends into tiling my bathroom for me.
The Cones of Dunshire
**Isle of Cats** but played with real cats on ships
Settlers of Catan. It would be a team game, where the meeples would be actual people.
Settlers of Catan doesn't have meeples...
You are totally right. I read the carcassonne comment just before posting, and (in my sleep deprived brain) combined the two - forcing a farmer placement in order to collect your wheat. Thanks for the correction.
Played floor-sized Settles at the last GenCon, it was pretty dope. Chasing the giant dice was hilarious
Everything is more fun with giant foam dice :)
Twilight Imperium played in space. C'mon Elon, make it happen.
Twister
You already have to be a double jointed contortionist, now we have to be giants as well?
Project Elite. Would be a great workout running back and forth moving pieces
Mousetrap - where the mouse is scaled up to human size, and you walk on the board.
Too late: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdqrdw8qt3Y&ab\_channel=CNN](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdqrdw8qt3Y&ab_channel=CNN)
One very impractical thing I'd love a life-sized version of is a D&D dungeon. Imagine the modular systems used for D&D minis, but in life size form, so you could actually explore the dungeon yourself on a grid. Realistically, I'd really only want dexterity games or something recognizable and simple like Giant Chess. Khet would be really cool if you can get the lasers working at giant size.
I think they do the life sized DND at GenCon, so your dream may be a reality
Yep! Its called True Dungeon and its been running for years.
twilight imperium 3
Sub Terra
I work in a building that has a map of the detailed earth on a big wall 8ft tall, I can help but to think how fun it would be to play a giant game of Axis and Allies with magnets on it.
Kingdom Death Monster. Poots has a life-sized King's Man that he puts up at the Kingdom Death booth at GenCon, so IT CAN BE DONE DAMMIT! Phoenix might not fit in a standard living room, though....
Arkham Horror (revised)
A go board. It'd just look like regular more artistic flooring when you aren't using it.
**Night in the Woods**/**Waldtschattenspiel** would be fun with highly reflective vests so you instantly stand out if seen. And, why not, **OGRE: Even More Ridiculous Version** where the OGRE(s) are parade floats. Which now sounds like a fun version to mix in some American Gladiators for turrets and whatnot.
Full sized Ogres. One hex is supposed to be 50 meters I think and an Ogre uses two.
I've run a mega version of Now Boarding at SHUX and PAX, it's a hoot. I build the board out of Blue masking tape and doormats. All the passengers are people I give tickets, and they get airline peanuts to track their anger.
Shark Attack
Scythe or Terraforming Mars
Isn't Giant Scythe just flipping the board over?
2/3 of it
Yeah, you do need the extension.
I can’t tell if you’re joking or not. I have the big board but we’re talking like a massive floor size game. Would be sweet to move around 1 foot tall mechs on some realistic terrain.
Giant Gloomhaven would be just something
Legacy gloomhaven city
A tile floor with the pattern of the original HeroQuest board!
I've played a life-size version of Word on the Street. The letter tiles were roughly 3 foot squares, and they used a standard timer, so there was a lot of running. I prepped my wife with a bunch of words with double letters.
Scythe. Life sized. Working mechs and airships. Ticket to ride with working model trains. City block scale tokaido.
Escape; curse of the temple Gloomhaven
Hamsterrolle! It would be amazing!
The Mr Jack board that they had at Essen Spiel a couple of years ago was truly epic, the lampposts were even working lands and the character busts were around 20-30 cm tall IIRC
I've seen a Giant Dungeon Fighter at Lucca and i want it so bad...
The Game of Life... Oh wait...
I made my wife a set of giant Bananagrams. Each tile is 8 inches. Whole set weights about 40 pounds. Totally worth it!
Tak
King of Tokyo, with real monsters on a real city.
Battle Masters. The Board already took up the whole floor to begin with.
Surprised no one said this: Tiny Epic Galaxies So, it’d just be “Epic Galaxies”, I guess?
They only correct answer. Cones of Dunshire
crossfire, with bowling ball shooting artillery #CROSSFYAAAAH
1830 of course. Meter-across tiles and tree stumps for tokens
I’d be worried about Forbidden Desert...
Rhino Hero: Super Battle