Missing board game pieces

I also had a flat point bit that matched the grove on the Blokus pieces. If you're not familiar with Blokus, the game board has raised grid lines and the playing pieces have grooves in between each square segment.

Together these keep the playing surface neat and all pieces adequately seated on the board. After mounting the straight point bit on the rotary tool I lowered the tip of the cutting bit into the groove of one of the existing game pieces.

I used a piece of angle for a straight edge fence. After clamping it down I used one of the pieces to measure the distance from the fence to the first groove. Once the width was set I ran one of the white samples through to see if the measurements were adequate.

Happy with the sample piece I went ahead and got the proper color to replace the missing piece. Apply market research to generate audience insights. Measure content performance. Develop and improve products. List of Partners vendors. Tips Don't be afraid to buy an entire game to replace parts. Offer trades—sometimes gamers will trade parts from one game for parts from another. Think about what other pieces can be used to substitute for the ones you need. You can use buttons, small toys or coins as game tokens.

Or you could get creative and sculpt something out of an oven-baked clay or design something on your computer. Look around your local craft shop or hobby store for inexpensive alternatives.

Use your imagination. You could make art for your walls, magnets, jewelry… the possibilities are endless. Or list the game on Freecycle or even eBay and let someone know what pieces are missing. Someone may be looking for a great deal on those game board pieces you do have. We use small green Lego bricks for extra houses in Monopoly just make sure they are all put away properly at the end of the game — this Mom is tired of doing the Lego Dance after stepping on a Lego first thing in the morning.

Stores like Value Village VV Boutique as it is known in these parts and Salvation Army often have stacks of old board games in their toy department. Sometimes you buy a pre-owned board game with some pieces missing, other times they just get lost over several hundred games and places. Replace the Entire Game There are times where the way to replace an incomplete set will be to buy another set of the entire game and just replace the pieces that you have missing.

Visit Auction Sites Straight auction websites like eBay and Amazon are also endless resources for tracking down whole sets or replacement parts — sometimes really random collections of game parts are available in bulk.