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My buddy swore a $60 antique board game was glued shut, turns out he was right
Back in 2017 my friend Dave brought over this old 1960s copy of Risk he found at a flea market outside Austin. The box was sealed tight, split along one corner, and he insisted the pieces were fused together with decades of humidity. I laughed and said no way, vintage games always pop open fine if you just wiggle the lid. So I grabbed it and gave it a solid yank, and sure enough the whole tray snapped clean off the inside. He just looked at me and went 'told you so.' We ended up playing with a bag of mismatched pawns from another set, took about 4 hours and we never finished. Anyone else ever wreck a game trying to force it open? How do you handle brittle old boxes?
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claire_grant3427d ago
Is that a common thing with old games or did your buddy just get super unlucky? Because I've had a few vintage finds where the box looked rough but the inside was totally fine, other than some musty smell. The real killer is when the glue they used back then just turns to concrete after fifty years, especially if the game sat in an attic or garage where it got hot and cold over and over. I once had a 1970s Clue board where the cardboard was so brittle it crumbled like a cracker when I tried to fold it back up, took me twenty minutes to carefully tape every seam. Best tip I've got is to use a thin butter knife or a flat screwdriver to gently work around the edges before you even try to lift the lid, takes forever but saves the tray. Also if you can see a gap where the tray meets the box, slide a piece of dental floss down there and saw it loose, that's saved me twice now.
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