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Various guessing, outdoor recreation, tabletop, pen-and-paper, roleplaying, collectible/trading card, and video games have been featured on The Big Bang Theory. According to Sheldon's schedule, Wednesday is "Halo Night"[1] and Friday is "{{w|retrogaming|Vithekaaame="2-20">"The Hofstadter Isotope" (2-20)</ref> Raj also holds Scavenger Hunts and Murder Mystery Nights.
- Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock[2]
- Basketball free throwing[3]
- Bowling[4]
- Guessing games[5][6][7][8][9]
- Kite fighting[10]
- Paintball[11][12]
- Singing games[13]
- Trestling[14]
- Twister[15]
- Emily or Cinnamon
Card/board/tabletop games
- [S01E01] dart board (on back of the front door), which is never seen used in the show because, as Leonard explains in "The Itchy Brain Simulation" (S7E08), they had played dart once (obviously off the screen), and Leonard broke the window that is opposite to the door.
- [S01E01] Rubik's cube by Hasbro , total of 3 appear on the shelves behind the couch
- [S01E03] Jenga[21][22]
- [S01E11] Star Trek 3-D Chess [16][17]
- [S02E14] Talisman: The Magical Quest Game [15][26][27][28]
- Optical laser chess set.
- Seen on a table at the edge of the alcove. This set of red and blue on a metallic board is a one of a kind piece that came from Tommaso Baldacchini at Newport Corp. (a laser and optics company near Burbank, CA). For more info, see this article from Central Science. It is intended to be played with actual lasers, so don't anticipate finding these for sale to the public.
- [S02E07] Klingon Boggle [23][24]
- [S03E13] Dungeons and Dragons [18][19]
- [S06E10] Pictionary [20]
- [S05E13] The Settlers of Catan[21]
- [S06E10] Ticket to Ride [22]
- [S08E13] Ticket to Ride and Forbidden Island
Video Gaming Platforms
- In S03E13, Sheldon lists their gaming platforms stolen during a break-in, including:
- PlayStation
- PlayStation II
- PlayStation III
- X-Box
- X-Box 360
- Classic Nintendo
- Super Nintendo
- Nintendo 64
- Wii
- In other episodes, these are mentioned or seen:
- Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
- Super NES
- Nintendo GameCube
- PlayStation portable (taken away by Ramona in "The Cooper-Nowitzki Theorem")
- Razer Orca Pro Gaming Headset (usually hanging on the Apple iMac monitor on the desk near the rear window)
Video games
{in alphabetical order}
- [S02E03] Age of Conan [23]
- [S06E16] Assassin's Creed [24]
- [S05E08] Champion Jockey: G1 Jockey & Gallop Racer [25]
- [S01E08] City of Heroes
- [S01E01] Clone Wars X-Box 360
- [S01E02] Dance Dance Revolution X-Box 360
- [S01E07] Halo 3 (a Halo Master Chief helmet is on the table by the alcove) [[The Dumpling Paradox [1]]]
- [S07E20] Killer Instinct (2013) [26]
- [S06E06] Kinect Star Wars ("Galactic Dance-off")[27]
- [S03E10] Mario Kart for Wii [28]
- [S05E12] Red Dead Redemption [29][30]
- [S02E15] Rock Band 3 (X-Box 360)
- [S06E18] Soulcalibur IV [31]
- [S05E19] Star Wars: The Old Republic [32]
- [S02E02] Super Mario 64 [33] (Sheldon's favorite childhood video game)[17]
- [S04E09] Wii Play#Fishing|Wii Play [34]
- [S02E11] Wii Sports bowling [35]
- [S01E15] Wii Sports boxing (Punch Out) [44]
- [S04E20] Wii Sports Resort archery [36]
- [S06E06] Words with Friends [37]
- [S01E03] World of WarCraft [38][39][40]
- [S02E20] Zork [41]
Posters of Lineage II and Mirror's Edge were in Howard's bedroom before he moved in with Bernadette. A copy of Lineage II can often be seen on the table in front of the alcove (next to the Halo 3 helmet in many episodes). In "The Bozeman Reaction", Sheldon and Leonard's apartment was burglarized and Sheldon reported to the police officer that their various video game consoles and many video games were among the items stolen.[18]
Fictional games
- Counterfactuals[42]
- Mystic Warlords of Ka'a[43][44][45][15][46] (which became a reality in 2011)[47]
- Physics Mad Libs[48]
- Research Lab[49]
- Secret Agent Laser Obstacle Chess[50]
- Three-Person Chess[51]
- Chutes and Lawyers - Sheldon's invention.
References
- ↑ "The Dumpling Paradox" (1-7)
- ↑ "The Lizard-Spock Expansion" (S2E09) and "The Rothman Disintegration" (S5E17)
- ↑ "The Rothman Disintegration" (5-17)
- ↑ "The Wheaton Recurrence" (3-19)
- ↑ "The Euclid Alternative" (2-5), Sheldon tries to play a chemical element naming game with Penny while she drives him to work
- ↑ "The Vegas Renormalization" (2-21), Penny plays Twenty Questions with Sheldon
- ↑ "The Cruciferous Vegetable Amplification" (4-2), during a commute with Leonard, Sheldon (as "Shelbot") asks him how many sphincters he can name in the human body
- ↑ "The Love Car Displacement" (4-13), during a road trip, in the lead car they play the chemical element game
- ↑ "The Pulled Groin Extrapolation" (5-3), Sheldon creates a guessing game where he asks the question: "This four letter word describes either a printer's type size OR a compulsion to eat dirt
- ↑ "The Cornhusker Vortex" (3-2)
- ↑ "The Cushion Saturation" (2-16)
- ↑ "The Skank Reflex Analysis" (5-1)
- ↑ "The Stars Nearest To Me" is a song Sheldon makes up when walking down the apartment building's stairs in "The Desperation Emanation" (4-5)
- ↑ "The Peanut Reaction" (1-16)
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 "The Flaming Spittoon Acquisition" (5-10)
- ↑ "The Pancake Batter Anomaly" (1-11)
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 "The Launch Acceleration" (5-23)
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 "The Bozeman Reaction" (3-13)
- ↑ "The Wiggly Finger Catalyst" (5-4)
- ↑ "The Re-Entry Minimization" (6-4)
- ↑ "The Recombination Hypothesis" (5-13)
- ↑ "The Fish Guts Displacement" (6-10)
- ↑ "The Barbarian Sublimation" (2-3)
- ↑ "The Tangible Affection Proof" (6-16)
- ↑ "The Isolation Permutation" (5-8)
- ↑ "The Relationship Diremption (7-20)
- ↑ "The Extract Obliteration" (6-6)
- ↑ "The Gorilla Experiment" (3-10)
- ↑ "The Shiny Trinket Maneuver" (5-12)
- ↑ Red Dead Redemption played on The Big Bang Theory, RockstarWatch, January 13, 2012
- ↑ "The Contractual Obligation Implementation" (6-18)
- ↑ "The Weekend Vortex" (5-19)
- ↑ "The Codpiece Topology" (2-2)
- ↑ "The Boyfriend Complexity" (4-9)
- ↑ "The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis" (2-11)
- ↑ "The Herb Garden Germination" (4-20)
- ↑ "The Extract Obliteration" (6-6)
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- ↑ "The Hot Troll Deviation" (4-4)
- ↑ "The Zarnecki Incursion" (4-19)
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- ↑ "The Creepy Candy Coating Corollary" (3-5)
- ↑ "The Justice League Recombination" (4-11)
- ↑ "The Engagement Reaction" (4-23)
- ↑ "The Decoupling Fluctuation" (6-2)
- ↑ "Big Bang Theory" Fake Game Turns Real, Chris Marlow, Digital Media Wire, September 23, 2011
- ↑ "The Vacation Solution" (5-16)
- ↑ "The Guitarist Amplification" (3-7)
- ↑ "The Work Song Nanocluster" (2-18)
- ↑ "The Wildebeest Implementation" (4-22)