Also, Galaxy Trucker has produced my favorite gaming stories.

When playing with new players, we always make a big show out of getting them to stop and listen after the game ends, as we open the rulebook and read the victory text verbatim. (It is, in my opinion, the greatest punchline in boardgaming.)

Was playing with one friend, and he’d gotten some pretty beat-up spaceships. I think his last spaceship was almost entirely obliterated, except for his core piece. He was pretty constantly going “OH NO! THIS IS SO TERRIBLE! WOE IS ME!” et al. Not exactly literally that, but you get the idea.

Then we read the victory text out to him. I do not have words for his reaction.