Matt's Board Game Back Room

I like your solutions very much. Nice pictures!

I will bag components if it makes set-up easier. For example in Agricola each player colour gets its own bag. However EVERY resource is in one big bag together and every animal is in one big bag together.

It's good to keep cards together though just because it's annoying to scrabble around a box to get all the cards together, turning them up the right way etc etc...

I will bag components if it makes set-up easier. For example in Agricola each player colour gets its own bag. However EVERY resource is in one big bag together and every animal is in one big bag together.

It's good to keep cards together though just because it's annoying to scrabble around a box to get all the cards together, turning them up the right way etc etc...

We do the same with Puerto Rico. We normally play with 4, so we keep all the 4 player counts (VP, "workers", etc.) in baggies, seperate from the "extras".

We also do this for Catan. We own the 5-6 player expansion and Seafarers. We always keep the 4 player Seafarer setup we like to normally play seperate from the others in one of the expansion boxes, so we can set up without having to sort, count, dig out the number chits, etc.

Storage is not only about keeping things in good shape, good storage can make game play setup and cleanup go easier - even to the point where others who might not be as "OCD" can help with either - "Just put all the "workers" in the baggie marked '4 Player' while John, you put all the victory point in that baggie labelled '4 Player VP' - thanks!"

What irks me more than anything is doing a trade or purchase of a used game, have it shipped to me, and have bits and cards all mixed together and floating around in the box! Don't any of you other gamers care about your bits like I do?!

I don't like baggies for the Agricola pieces. I've been using Flexatop FT-14s. Unfortunately Storables doesn't carry them any more, so I'm going to need to make a bulk purchase of at least 100. Unfortunately at that price they're still somewhat spendy.



Having them in snap open boxes makes setup much faster.

The nice thing about these boxes is that with no lip/lid, they stack very easily inside the game box and don't take up a lot of space.

A personal tip from an OCD game sorter as well.

If your game is going to contain lots of baggies (Agricola, I'm looking *RIGHT* at you), those baggies will take up varying amounts of space due to air being trapped in them.

At first, my solution was to take a hole punch and put a small hole in the baggie. Then I looked at the fence sticks, and at the baggie holes, and started to get concerned.

My ultimate solution was a little more elegant. I snip the very smallest corners possible off of the bottom of the baggie. Just enough to let air out, but not big enough to let any pieces through. When I'm done with the game I roll the baggies up and squeeze all the air out, and things store *much* neater.

I've since gone through and snipped most of my baggie-heavy games this way.