Found a hidden trick for pricing vintage board games

I kept grabbing thrift store board games for cheap but never knew if they were worth anything. Then I tried checking the copyright year on the box bottom and cross referencing it on a database I found. Last Saturday I picked up a 1972 copy of Masterpiece for $4 that sells for $60 online because I spotted the early edition markers. It only took about 10 minutes of scanning to figure out the pattern of which years had value. Has anyone else stumbled on a quick way to spot valuable games without pulling out your phone every time?

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jordan90310d ago

Yeah that's a solid trick! I found something similar with the Parker Brothers logo changes. If you spot the really fat font from the 60s on the box lid those are usually the ones worth grabbing.

finley_price2410d ago

Wait, you mean the fat 60s font ones are actually the ones to look for? I always thought those looked kind of goofy so I passed them up. I figured the older logo from the 40s and 50s was the real score, but you're saying I had it backwards this whole time. That's wild, man. I'm gonna have to go dig through my boxes and see if I threw any of those away. Thanks for setting me straight, I definitely learned something new today.

grace_wright10d ago

Totally feel this, I did the exact same thing with the old Atari logo changes. I used to think the earlier blocky letters were the grail but turns out the goofy fat '70s font is where it's at for rarity. Spent way too long ignoring the ugly ones before I figured out they were the real keepers.

sandraflores10d agoTop Commenter

Did I seriously trade away a fat font Monopoly board for like five bucks?