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Inventor of useless board games, 1980s

About Barnaby Pricklethwaite, 1980s Board Game Inventor

In the damp basement of a Watford toy fair in 1984, Barnaby Pricklethwaite unveiled 'Soggy Sandwich Simulator'—a board game where players rolled dice to determine bread sogginess levels while negotiating lunchbox diplomacy. The box included three rubbery, slightly damp cardboard slices and a laminated 'Condiment Conflict Chart'. It sold 17 copies before being recalled when a schoolteacher reported that children were staging actual mayonnaise-based arbitration hearings during break time. Barnaby never saw failure as rejection—he saw it as data: 'If the rules don’t hold up under emotional stress, you haven’t tested them enough.' His games weren’t designed to win—they were calibrated for confusion, nostalgia, and the precise moment when someone snorts mid-explanation. He kept every rejected prototype in a filing cabinet labeled 'Glorious Misfires', each with handwritten notes like 'Too much existential dread for Milton Bradley' or 'Needs more glitter glue (confirmed)'

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  • “Why did 'Cabbage Currency Exchange' require players to wear oven mitts?”

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Was Barnaby Pricklethwaite a real person?
No—he is a composite fictional figure inspired by archival interviews with obscure UK board game designers from 1979–1989, particularly those whose prototypes appeared in 'Games & Puzzles' magazine's 'Unpublished Corner' column. His name appears on no patent records, but his design sketches were found in the British Library’s 'Amateur Game Designers' microfiche collection.
What was 'The Great British Queue Simulator' about?
A 1985 prototype where players advanced through a 42-space queue using 'Impatience Tokens' and 'Politeness Penalties'. The board featured laminated photos of actual post offices, and the 'Weather Die' could trigger sudden rain, forcing all players to pause and recite the national anthem. It was deemed 'too accurate' by Parker Brothers’ legal team.
Did Barnaby ever collaborate with other designers?
Yes—briefly with Clive 'Tupperware' Hargreaves on 'Pantry Panic!', a cooperative game where players raced to identify expired tinned goods by smell alone. The collaboration ended after Hargreaves insisted on replacing all rulebook text with limericks, which Barnaby felt 'undermined the gravity of shelf-life anxiety'.
Are any of Barnaby’s games playable today?
Three surviving prototypes exist in playable form: 'Soggy Sandwich Simulator', 'Cabbage Currency Exchange', and 'Marmalade Marauders'. All require custom-printed components and adherence to Barnaby’s handwritten 'Spirit of the Silliness' clause, which mandates at least one player must speak in a plummy BBC accent for the duration of gameplay.
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