Battleship gets Miniminter's vote as Mark Rober solves board games
The reaction tops MiniminterClips' five-upload week, with viewers requesting a Sidemen Catan session.
Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
Miniminter Reacts To Solving Every Board Game
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- 6:33Simon picks Battleship from the lineup and recommends Pandemic: Iberia, which he plays with Talia.
- 7:09Simon identifies the orange properties near Jail as a promising Monopoly strategy.
- 14:04Rober explains why controlling Connect 4's centre column matters.
- 22:54The Jenga explanation connects block-size variations with static and kinetic friction.
- 27:16Rober's Monopoly section examines housing shortages and the return from building three houses.
Miniminter has a favourite among Mark Rober's board-game selection: Battleship. Connect 4 gets a considerably less enthusiastic hearing. Those small preferences give the week's most-watched MiniminterClips upload something beyond a collection of winning tactics: Simon thinking through which games he actually wants to play.
"Miniminter Reacts To Solving Every Board Game" has reached about 260,000 views. The stream reaction follows Rober's statistical approach to familiar games and his challenge against former teacher Mr. Malloy. Simon anticipates the appeal of Monopoly's orange properties near Jail, then recommends Pandemic: Iberia, which he plays with Talia. In the comments, viewers propose Catan and Carcassonne, while others ask for board games on MoreSidemen. One returning viewer singles out the familiar intro.
The clips channel's other new uploads took in UK general knowledge, Facebook Marketplace food, a professional-athlete challenge and ItalianBach answering unfamiliar questions. That last reaction has the strongest daily momentum of any individual upload right now, despite arriving late in the week. The older "Most Famous Person In Your DMs?" is also drawing viewers faster than the board-game reaction.
Across the channel, weekly views totalled roughly two million, with daily viewing modestly above its usual level and subscribers unchanged. Nearby in the stream-highlights world, Stable Ronaldo Live had a substantial subscriber-growing week, while DukeDennis LIVE was quieter. Here, Simon's board-game choices supplied the week's most substantial new draw, and the audience supplied a ready-made games cupboard of suggestions.
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What viewers say
I need to see sidemen playing Catan, its just a much better version of monopoly and i think the boys will love it.
@CinogardSee it on YouTubeTo return to this channel after so long and seeing the intro is still this one warms my heart
@ninjacarrot278See it on YouTubeTry the boardgame (please with all extras which takes half a day to finish but is soooo much fun) Carcassonne
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Best board game has to be risk
@CHAMPMANCVSee it on YouTubeBoard games on moresidemen plz
@xxMraredxxSee it on YouTubeI was today's years old when I learned tic-tac-toe has a different name in the UK 1:40
@sleddog3088See it on YouTubePlease invite him for an Among Us video!!! Make Mark use his statistics... :)
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- MiniminterClips
- Subscribers
- 1,620,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 2,137,075
- Videos published this week
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- November 9, 2026
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Which game does Simon choose as his favourite from Mark Rober's lineup?
Simon names Battleship as his favourite among the games Rober has chosen.


