You know you're a Game Geek when....
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This list has probably been done before, but I enjoyed doing it.
Feel free to add to this list.
(Note: This list is done from the point of view of a US gamer, since I'm American.)
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Leo Tischer
United States
Parma
Ohio
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You know you're a geek when ...
you fix games with house rules, then write them down & put them in with the game so you don't forget the next time you play.
Evrn worse - you "fix" games before the first playing because you KNOW some rules just won't work.
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United States
Naperville
Illinois
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You need to buy just one more expansion to the game you have, while you already have 6 copies of the same thing.
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Eric Nielsen
United States
Boston
Massachusetts
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"Darf ich mitspielen?" makes sense, but "Wie spat ist es?" does not.
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Calin Grigorovici
Romania
Cluj-Napoca
Romania
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Ypu know you're a Game Geek when you spend your entire working day at the office searching the web for the latest news about games.
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You create a Geeklist and it gets over 300 thumbs up.
Wow. Thanks for all the contributions. You all made this list - I only posted the first 15 items (now 16 :-).
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Matthew Barratt
United Kingdom
Royal Leamington Spa
Warwickshire
Beware the nun of doom
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You go into a board game shop to buy card protectors and come out with over £100 of games.
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Andrew Pidcock
Canada
Baie d'Urfe
Quebec
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You have more games than you have friends, and this concerns you because it means you might not get to try out those games
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Board Game: Babel
[Average Rating:6.73 Overall Rank:596]
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If you spot an ambiguity in the rules written in your preferred language, you check the rules written in other languages to see if they would resolve the ambiguity.
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... the most crucial criterion for the acquisition of your new kitchen table is if it's suitable for playing your favourite wargames on it.
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Martin Labrecque
Canada
Montreal
Quebec
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You're a Geek if, when you hear the sound "Haba", you think Haba and not ABBA.
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Ward Vanden Berghe
Belgium
Menen
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when you make spreadsheets in excel of your games, counting all the cards, tokens, pawns and bits, coping with important issues as "are the tokens in T&E tiles, or counters?" or "do the racesheets in TI3 go under 'boards' or under 'information sheets'"
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Brian Poe
United States
Tucson
Arizona
Something that would have been purple if there was light to see it by scuttled across the floor.
Time is for Dragonflies and Angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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...you take the biggest board you own with you to go shopping for furniture. "If it can't hold my tycoon map, we're gonna hafta get a bigger table."
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Jeff Anderson
United States
Utah
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You buy new games just so you can punch out all of those AWESOME components!
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Matt R
United States
DFW
Texas
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When your 2nd grader has a chance to bring a "favorite game" to school for a party and instead of choosing a more mainstream game like "checkers" or "Sorry!" he insists on bringing a game that non-geeks have never heard of, takes half an hour to setup, half an hour to explain the (basic) rules, and an hour to actually play the game - not to mention the ten thousand little plastic miniatures, terrain hexes, cards, tokens, and markers.
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Matt R
United States
DFW
Texas
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You take actual pride in being able to fit a game and ALL of its expansions into the original game box.
However, you still keep all of the original boxes and carboard container inserts for all expansions "just in case".
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Matt R
United States
DFW
Texas
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The top priority after purchasing a new game is to painstakingly inspect each and every component, piece, and card, to make sure that absolutely nothing is missing or damaged.
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Board Game: Bang!
[Average Rating:6.75 Overall Rank:466]
Matt R
United States
DFW
Texas
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You have a hard time sleeping at night because you actually worry about the damage that may result from using rubber bands with your games' cards...
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Chris J Davis
United Kingdom
Overtext pending moderation...
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T&E...?
PR...?
TI3...?
SoC (as opposed to SOC)...?
AH...?
AoS...?
C&C...?
WotR...?
M44...?
TtR...?
Need I go on...? 
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JT Smythe
Australia
Sydney
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You know more about the political intricacies of a country that hasn't existed for a thousand years than a modern day super power.
"Who is the leader of China anyway"
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Mike Ellis
Canada
Vernon
British Columbia
Gaming is a lifestyle choice.
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You buy little expansions "one-by-one" and pretend like you didn't spend $100's of dollars on little plastic toys. You also hide these expansions in the office and slowly introduce them to the main game set to hide your daily purchasing spree.
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Chuck Carroll
United States
Fishers
Indiana
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You know the names of European cities in their own languages (München, Köln, Firenze) better than their names in your native language.
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Robin Ashby
Canada
Kemptville
Ontario
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You realize you just spent 6 hours reading though an entire 65 page, 1623 post Werewolf game for kicks.
I think I've crossed some kind of line somewhere...
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Max Jamelli
United States
Chambersburg
Pennsylvania
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your geography gets a little skewed. Someone flew to San Juan and I first thought they were flying near or around New York.
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Toronto
Ontario
Washington
Donald
Oregon
Quebec city
Quebec
Ellicott City
Maryland