When there is a Joke of the Day, a graphic appears with confetti.
The Joke of the Day is the title given to the best joke in a given episode of Board Game Club.
This is sometimes said multiple times in an episode due to competition for the Joke of the Day. It is accompanied by an elaborate graphic that says "JOKE OF THE DAY," involving confetti and smiley faces. However, these elements are often themed around the joke so the smiley faces may be replaced or the words may be changed. A little trumpet also sounds.
Usage seems to have slowed over time; there were no JotDs in 2023 until the end of March.
List of Jokes of the Day[]
This list includes rhyming puns on "Joke of the Day" as well as unofficial nominations. A compilation playlist can be found here.
| Episode | Teller | Context/setup | Punchline | Link (with timecode) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Let's Play DETECTIVE CLUB | Rosie | Adam said a picture of a mug with a whale in it reminded him of the legend of Moby Dick | "Mugby Dick." | 0:48:56 | The first Joke of the Day |
| Let's Play DUNE | Adam | Talking about sand going from sand worm larva butts to people's mouths etc. | "Human sandterpede." | 0:07:24 | Unofficial; Joke of the Day was not proclaimed and there was no graphic |
| Let's Play MYSTERIUM | Laurie | Adam, as the ghost, was humming 'Girl from Ipanema' as they waited for the time to run out. It sounded very much like the sort of muzak hell might play | "hellovator music" | 0:20:34 | Normal graphic |
| Let's Play KING OF TOKYO | Jon | Sullivan and Tom were the monsters happily hanging out in Tokyo and Tokyo Bay | [To Tom] "Would you say you're Sully's Tokyo bae?" | 0:22:47 | Normal graphic |
| Tom | After Jon offered to blow on Tom's dice | "If one of these is a claw I'm gonna eat your dicks myself." | 0:51:50 | Unofficial; only recieved confetti with no text or smileys due to later joke recieving JotD | |
| Adam | Tom had a voice crack during a game about big monsters | "His voice is kraken." | 0:52:46 | ||
| Tom | While Jon was under peer pressure | "All this peer pressure and you're not even in Tokyo Bay." | 0:54:45 | Recieved "Joke of the Bay" | |
| Adam | In reference to previous Joke of the Day pun | "Joke of the Bay." | 0:54:57 | Rare awarding of JotD to a JotD announcement | |
| Let's Play FOR SALE | Adam | Playing a tense round with two tent cards | "I think this round is getting a little two tents." | 0:41:19 | |
| Let's Play 6 NIMMT | Dom | Playing a game about bulls, after Adam said about the "rampant bollocks" James had to cut out from the episode | "Rampant bullocks" | 0:36:30 | Followed by "Joke of the Bray," and "Joke of the Quack" |
| Let's Play DON'T MESS WITH CTHULHU | Brooke | Laurie pronounced Cthulu as "Clulu," after Dom said Lovecraft pronounced it that way | "I haven't got a clue, Lou." | 0:22:43 | "Secret Joke of the Day" (play it back and turn your volume up) |
| Brooke | Tom was being accused but kept his cool | "Cthul as a cucumber." | 0:26:46 | "Secret Joke of the Day" (shhhhhhhh) | |
| Laurie | Brooke and accused Adam of doing a switcheroo | "Switcherulu." | 1:24:57 | "Not the Joke of the Day" | |
| Let's Play NEMESIS LOCKDOWN (Part 2) | Adam | A Peter Pan reference but also Spider-Man | "Bring me pictures of Peter Pan!" | 0:40:28 | Adam wanted it to be a secret one (shhhhhhh) |
| Let's Play WISE GUYS | Laurie | Sully was going first but they were all doing New York gangster accents | "Foisted by your own petard." | 0:04:35 | |
| Let's Play CAMEL UP | Ken | Playing a game about camels | "I don't think they're real camels. I think they're people." | Told 0:21:04, recognised 0:34:19 | Secret JotD due to it not being recognised until later, when Dom made the same joke |
| Let's Play LIBERTALIA: WINDS OF GALECREST | Sully | After Tom took a map item, Carley said he'd be the "map champ" next round | "What a Pokémon." | 0:19:52 | "Poké of the Day" (with images of Machoke) |
| Let's Play BETRAYAL AT HOUSE ON THE HILL (3rd ed.) | Laurie | Sully became cleverer as a ghost by reading books by ghostly authors such as: | "Paul T. Guist." | 0:20:57 | |
| Tom | Adam described his character as nippy - Tom said: | "Like a cold wind" | 0:45:13 | Laurie suggested the audience should decide what was actual joke of the day | |
| Tom | Tom said we need to abandon our nerd hobbies and become jocks | "Jock of the Day" | 0:58:11 | Images of American football players shown | |
| Let's Play MAFIA DE CUBA | Laurie | Adam said they'd be ending the game with Carley as the Godfather | "Don Carleyone." | 1:05:47 | Images of Don Vito Corleone were shown on either side |
| Let's Play THE THING: INFECTION AT OUTPOST 31 | Laurie | Jon asked "is this what being in a sex cult feels like?" after Brooke entered as Lord of the Board | "Couldn't tell, I had my eyes wide shut" | 0:04:39 | Rosie dissented as she deemed it too early for a nomination |
| Adam | When Sully knocked out a window pane | "You're a pain but not a window pane." | 0:12:23 | Laurie dissented | |
| Adam/Rosie | While playing a game about The Thing | "Well, here's The Thing." | 1:02:15 | Joke of The Thing. Sully awarded it to Rosie as she was the one who screamed first | |
| Let's Play COLT EXPRESS | Jon, not Tom | After Laurie stole money from Tom, but Adam said "you do not get to check your bag" | "It's not the airport, mate." | 0:16:47 | Redone a second time by Jon, as when Tom made the joke he said he did not want the award. Raucous laughter |
| Laurie | After Blair didn't state a reason not to shoot her, and the others said things like "I'll be vindictive" | "Reach out, I'll be Blair." | 0:19:08 | "It's the real Joke of the Day" | |
| Adam | Playing the final card of the day in a wild West game | "Make it your wild wild best." | 1:02:41 | "Cowpoke of the Day" | |
| Let's Play WESTERN LEGENDS | Brooke | Brooke's character Wild Bill stole some money from Sully's character | "Wild Bill wants some wild bills from you." | 1:27:59 | Also "Cowpoke of the Day" |
| Let's Play VAGRANTSONG | Sully | Sully lost two humanity because he was adjacent to terrain | "I can't stand terrain against my window." | 1:10:37 | "Spook of the Day" / "Shake of the Day" due to it being followed by an uncomfortably long handshake |
| Let's Play THE ESTATES | Dom | Dom said Brooke instead of Blair (they often get mixed up) | "I've got Brooke-". | 31:38 | "Brooke of the Day" |
| Let's Play JAMAICA | Adam | Sully was singing about playing football on a boat | "Sailing on the Chelsea." | 1:17:09 | "Chelsea Joke of the Day" |
| Let's Play SOUNDS FISHY | Sullivan | Sullivan said Nikolai Tesla was in love with electricity. Adam started the song, Sullivan finished with an 'aargh' for electrocution | "Tesla and electricity, sitting in a tree, K - I - aargh!" | 0:37:22 | With plasma ball graphics |
| Brooke | Compliment of the Day | "Oh Sullivan - you're great!" | 0:41:07 | ||
| Sullivan, and everyone else | Sullivan started fake laughing and the others joined in. At some point this became real, breath-stealing, tear-inducing laughter | Laughter | 0:42:14 | Lasts until 0:43:39 | |
| Let's Play DECEPTION: MURDER IN HONG KONG III | Adam | If there was a Scream-themed restaurant, what would the tag line be? | "What are you Wes Crav-eng?" | 0:51:08 | Adam was very reluctant for this to be JOTD. We had Scream masks in the graphic |
| Laurie | If there was a hammock-themed restaurant, they'd say... | "What will you be hammock?" | 0:51:47 | Hammocks in the graphic | |
| Let's Play PITCHCAR | Laurie | Sully failed another shot, and they sang Martine McCutcheon's song "Perfect Moment" | "If he gets it, it'll be McClutcheon." | 0:12:09 | "Sorry, Martine" with graphics of a clutch pedal on her face |
| Let's Play BRISTOL 1350 | Izzy | Izzy (the Friar) kicked Sullivan (the Sheriff) out of the cart | "Separation of church and state!" | 1:08:58 | |
| 100k Subs NRB Charity Marathon For Mind!!! | Sully | They were talking about what was "under dog" | "What's subdog." | 0:27:34 | No graphic as it was a livestream |
| Laurie | Holly moved the pink cow so Laurie was looking up its undercarriage | "Uddercarriage." | 3:36:03 | "Cow of the Cow" | |
| Let's Play WITS & WAGERS II | Adam | Adam is too chicken to bet large on Edgar Allan Poe. No, he's a piss boy. No, he's... | "Edgar Allan Pissboy" | 0:24:24 | Piss of the Day, became Poe-k of the Day |
| Dial GM For Murder (NRB Plays Call of Cthulhu) | Tom | Buck McFadden said that he would hang the albatross Nathaniel Fairmont around his neck | "Kink of the day" | 0:45:57 | Kink of the Day |
| Angel Delight (NRB Plays Call of Cthulhu) | Laurie | Ivy Cordova is administering first aid badly to Nathaniel Fairmont, Laurie suggests that she might as well 'spit on it' | "Kink of the day" | 0:21:20 | Kink of the Day |
| Let's Play PANDEMIC II | Laurie | Laurie pronounced Chicago slightly differently. Everyone agreed this is evidence of him being a once in a generation wit | "Chickago" | 0:44:48 | Joke of the Year, 2022. Graphic showed year decals |
| Angel Delight (NRB Plays Call of Cthulhu) | Dom | Dom kinkily suggested that Ivy Cordova spit on Nathaniel Fairmont's shoulder wound | "Spit on it" | 0:21:19 | Kink of the Day |
| Let's Play SECRET IDENTITY | Carley | The cast is trying to explain the relationship between Donald and Daisy Duck, to Rosie and Sully. We cycle through a number of options before we get to... | "Duck buddy!" | 0:05:14 | Graphic is flanked by pictures of Donald Duck |
| Let's Play LIFEBOATS | Adam but really Tom | Let's replace most nouns, particularly those that sound alike, with the word 'boat' | "All right folks!" "Don't you mean 'all right, boats!'?" | 0:12:10 | Graphic is flanked by pictures of boats. Changes from "Joke of the Day" to "Boat of the Day" |
| Tom | Sullivan is trying to appeal to Rosie to back him in the game, as his comedy partner. Tom's not helping | "Nicholls and Brown comedy? Nicholls and Drown comedy, surely?" | 0:23:44 | Graphic is flanked by pictures of boats. Changes from "Boat of the Day" to "Boat of the Bay" | |
| Laurie | Nobody can remember the name of the yellow boat (Red Hot Too Hot Dead) so they riff on red boat something for a while | "Red dead redemption."..."Red boat redampboat" | 0:26:10 | Graphic is flanked by pictures of boats. "Boat of the Boat" | |
| Everyone. Except Tom. | We've descended into repetitions of the word 'boat' by this point. This one is the Hokey Cokey, with almost all words replaced with 'boat' | "Oh the boaty boaty! Oooooh the boaty boaty! Oooooh the boaty boaty! Boat boat boat boat boat boat boat." | 0:48:20 | Graphic is flanked by pictures of boats. "Boat in the Bay" | |
| Let's Play MODERN ART | Adam | Holly misheard 'Let that' as 'Let dad' and the cast decided there should be a dad of the day to help them make games decisions | "Every week a new dad with some good dadvice". | 0:25:41 | "Dad of the Day", flanked by "Best Dad" rosettes |
| Let's Play MOONRAKERS | Laurie | The crew were trying to move on from past betrayals | "Why are we moon-raking over the past?" | 1:15:27 | Graphic with moons |
| Let's Play CITADELS | Rosie but really Laurie | During the hellos, Laurie said "Citadello" but Adam crashed it. When they went for the rerun Rosie was introduced before Laurie and stole the joke | "Citadello" | 0:03:10 | Credited to Rosie |
| Rosie | King Sully decided all coins would be replaced by tangerines | "Money does grow on trees!" | 0:48:21 | Graphic with tangerine trees | |
| Paralegal Activity | Adam | Dom was being the Ghost Lawyer | "Pro boono" | 2:11:45 | Graphic with BotC doorknockers |
| Let's Play AMONG CULTISTS | Sully | Sully pointed to a room with a hat on it | "It's a hat" | 1:07:27 | Told several times in a row. We hope it becomes a t-shirt |
| Let's Play SALEM 1692 | Holly | Sully went for an M1 card | "It does take you all the way north" | 0:20:30 | "Joke of the Motorway" with motorway signs |
| Your Willy Knows | Ivan | Dom needs the toilet, Adam is determined to talk at length to torture him | "A willy-buster" | 1:25:48 (Patreon) | Graphic with BotC doorknockers |
| Let's Play FAST & FURIOUS: HIGHWAY HEIST | Adam | Holly said there were so many SUVs about - Jesus! Adam combined them... | "SUV-sus" | 0:54:20 | |
| Holly | There was a lot of stuff about car sex, then it came to Holly... | "Car-ma sutra" | 1:59:15 | Joke of the year - confetti, explosions, sirens, slo mo | |
| Let's Play FEED THE KRAKEN | Tilly | We got rid of some guns, but we're not bearing grudges, in fact... | "let bye-guns be bye-guns" | 1:08:11 | Graphic flanked with guns |
| Holly | Building on the last joke, the guns like everyone regardless of gender; they're... | "bi-guns" | 1:08:26 | Graphic in smaller, then smaller font | |
| Sullivan | This probably needs spelling out so... | "let bisexual guns be bisexual guns" | 1:08:48 | Graphic in all caps, with bi-pride flags | |
| Let's Play HEAT: PEDAL TO THE METAL | Holly | Laurie needs to slow down, he should brake, because he's ... | "elBrak-idor" | 0:12:56 | It's not quite the Joke of the Day - it's the Fine of the Day - with appropriate graphics |
| Sullivan | Holly is trying to count her cards - that makes her ... | "Cheat: Pedal to the Metal" | 38:55 | It's our Burn of the Day | |
| Let's Play SPICY | Oli | A new variant is introduced into the game, which spices it up a little | "That variant's so fierce, I'd send Owen Wilson out to get it." | It's a Loki reference | |
| Let's Play MEN AT WORK | Laurie | They've built a memorial to the pigs of war | "The hogs of war" | 7:19 | Begrudgingly, as it's a reference to a Playstation1 game. We have a Peppa Pig logo |
| Let's Play HORRIFIED | Dom | Laurie's explaining that Dracula does two things... | "Tooth things!", "Fangs a bunch!", "What a pain in the neck, am I right?" | 23:10 | Graphic has vampire bats, and that's three back-to-back Jokes of the Day, Dom's on fire! |
| Let's Play SMASH UP | Laurie | Blair is a cowboy dinosaur. | "Tyrannosaurus Tex!" | 6:11 | Graphic has 2 T-Rexes dressed like cowboys. |
| Luke | Extensive talk about checking your bot-bots throughout the episode, which slowly morphed into a PSA. | "Always check your bot-bots. It's very important. They need to be changed fairly often." | 30:47 | Message of the Day. | |
| Let's Play GLOOM | Laurie | Holly's character who worked in a circus was terrorised by tigers. | "Tiger who came to teehee." | 48:22 | Graphic with tiger faces. A reference to the children's book 'The Tiger Who Came to Tea'. |
| Holly | Following on from Laurie's joke with the author of the book... | "Judith Kerr-haha." | 49:03 | Not the Joke of the Day. Laurie asked for the previous graphic to be played in reverse. | |
| Sullivan | Ghosts apparently don't like piss, but it's their fault for haunting a toilet. | "But that's immaterial to the ghosts because they are immaterial." | 59:06 | Ghost of the Day. | |
| Let's Play SABOTEUR II | Jon | Was Tilly's reference genius? No ... | "It's igneous!" | 48:09 | Graphic with The Rock's face. Followed immediately by Laurie's Hand Gesture of the Day. |