All three of them were very shoddy quality but only Secret Hitler was actually unplayable.” I think I might have known they were counterfeit and not really cared because I was relatively poor. Two of them were fake versions of Saboteur and Lost Cities that I bought when I was a student. “I've bought three counterfeit games online. “I bought a copy of Secret Hitler, which I thought was genuine but was a terrible counterfeit version missing half the cards needed to play the game.”Įley confesses that this wasn’t the first time he’d encountered fakes. Instead, what turned up was a cheap imitation. When tabletop gamer Sam Eley added to his already substantial board game collection with a new purchase from eBay, he expected it to arrive ready to play.
