Board Games Available With Sand Timers

An element of timed rounds is required by many board games. To gain points for their team or themselves and complete a certain task to try each player has a set amount of time. For quite some time, this has been an element of board games with plastic stone although to produce this effect, over the ages these board games have used different means.

Until it reaches the deadline, you twist a knob and it ticks the time down where it will ring or beep, alerting players that the time frame is over. However, these electronic timers in the past weren't as common and for timekeeping purposes, most board games provided a sand timer.

To count down anywhere in between thirty seconds to three or five minutes, These sand timers contained enough sand and were shaped like miniature hourglasses. To complete the task at hand, it all depended on how long the game with plastic stone China would give players.

By having all players ready themselves for the task, these timers would generally work, and then to begin the round, one player would flip the timer over. For when the sand had run out, the responsibility of watching the timer often fell upon either the entire group or one player. To announce to the group that time was up and the round was over, it was the responsibility of the player.

With the board game, they were almost always supplied and, it didn't cost anything to maintain since it did not run on batteries.

Additionally, so that they were always accurate, they were tested. However, one would need to buy a replacement sand timer if one broke. One of the drawbacks is that one might not notice that the sand timer from the plastic stone manufacturer had run out and extra time might have been granted to players during a game where everyone was trying to participate.

Although while counting down, most of these timers would make ticking noises an electronic timer would always loudly alert that the time was over, which could greatly distract. While sand timers during these contemporary times have almost completely faded out of board games, they still are a nostalgic bit of board game fans.