Hosting game night got rough after my $60 timer died mid-turn in a 4 hour War of the Ring session

Ngl, the egg timer totally failed at hour three when Sauron was about to corrupt Gandalf, and I had to track 14 minutes of player phases with my phone while three people argued about siege rules, so is a fancy chess clock worth the cash or do you all just wing it with app timers that keep glitching on Android?

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the_max29d ago

Ever actually timed a tense board game with a proper clock? I tried once and it just made everyone play faster and dumber, killing all the trash talk and plotting. Your phone timer failing is annoying, sure, but now you got a funny story about Gandalf getting corrupted, that is worth way more than sixty bucks. Honestly, a broken timer at the worst moment is part of the chaos that makes game night memorable, and a fancy clock just turns it into a stressful speedrun.