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Games

Games of all kinds! (PacMan)

Various guessing, outdoor recreation, tabletop, pen and paper, roleplaying, collectible/trading card, and video games have been featured on The Big Bang Theory. According to Sheldon's schedule, Wednesday is "Halo Night"[1] and Friday is Vintage Game Night. [2] Raj also holds Scavenger Hunts and Murder Mystery Nights.

Card/board/tabletop games[]

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Optical Laser Chess



Video Gaming Platforms[]

  • In S03E13, Sheldon lists their gaming platforms stolen during a break-in, including:
  • PlayStation
  • PlayStation II
  • PlayStation III
  • X-Box
  • X-Box 360
  • Classic Nintendo (also called, NES)
  • Super Nintendo (also called, SNES)
  • Nintendo 64
  • Wii



  • In other episodes, these are mentioned or seen:
    • Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
    • Super NES
    • Nintendo GameCube
    • PlayStation portable (taken away by Ramona in "The Cooper-Nowitzki Theorem")
    • Razer Orca Pro Gaming Headset  (usually hanging on the Apple iMac monitor on the desk near the rear window
    • Xbox ONE (Howard mentions playing Assassins Creed on Xbox ONE)

Video Games[]

{in alphabetical order}

Posters of Lineage II and Mirror's Edge were in Howard's bedroom before he moved in with Bernadette. A copy of Lineage II can often be seen on the table in front of the alcove (next to the Halo 3 helmet in many episodes). In "The Bozeman Reaction", Sheldon and Leonard's apartment was burglarized and Sheldon reported to the police officer that their various video game consoles and many video games were among the items stolen.[21]

Fictional Games[]

References[]

  1. "The Dumpling Paradox" (1-7)
  2. "The Hofstadter Isotope" (2-20)
  3. "The Lizard-Spock Expansion" (S2E09) and "The Rothman Disintegration" (S5E17)
  4. "The Rothman Disintegration" (5-17)
  5. "The Wheaton Recurrence" (3-19)
  6. "The Euclid Alternative" (2-5), Sheldon tries to play a chemical element naming game with Penny while she drives him to work
  7. "The Vegas Renormalization" (2-21), Penny plays Twenty Questions with Sheldon
  8. "The Cruciferous Vegetable Amplification" (4-2), during a commute with Leonard, Sheldon (as "Shelbot") asks him how many sphincters he can name in the human body
  9. "The Love Car Displacement" (4-13), during a road trip, in the lead car they play the chemical element game
  10. "The Pulled Groin Extrapolation" (5-3), Sheldon creates a guessing game where he asks the question: "This four letter word describes either a printer's type size OR a compulsion to eat dirt
  11. "The Cornhusker Vortex" (3-2)
  12. "The Cushion Saturation" (2-16)
  13. "The Skank Reflex Analysis" (5-1)
  14. "The Stars Nearest To Me" is a song Sheldon makes up when walking down the apartment building's stairs in "The Desperation Emanation" (4-5)
  15. "The Peanut Reaction" (1-16)
  16. "The Pancake Batter Anomaly" (1-11)
  17. "The Launch Acceleration" (5-23)
  18. "The Hofstadter Insufficiency" (7-1)
  19. 19.0 19.1 "The Flaming Spittoon Acquisition" (5-10)
  20. "The Pancake Batter Anomaly" (1-11)
  21. 21.0 21.1 "The Bozeman Reaction" (3-13)
  22. "The Wiggly Finger Catalyst" (5-4)
  23. "The Re-Entry Minimization" (6-4)
  24. "The Recombination Hypothesis" (5-13)
  25. "The Launch Acceleration" (5-23)
  26. "The Fish Guts Displacement" (6-10)
  27. "The Hofstadter Insufficiency" (7-1)
  28. "The Barbarian Sublimation" (2-3)
  29. "The Tangible Affection Proof" (6-16)
  30. "The Isolation Permutation" (5-8)
  31. "The Relationship Diremption (7-20)
  32. 32.0 32.1 "The Extract Obliteration" (6-6)
  33. "The Gorilla Experiment" (3-10)
  34. "The Shiny Trinket Maneuver" (5-12)
  35. "The Contractual Obligation Implementation" (6-18)
  36. "The Weekend Vortex" (5-19)
  37. "The Codpiece Topology" (2-2)
  38. "The Launch Acceleration" (5-23)
  39. "The Boyfriend Complexity" (4-9)
  40. "The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis" (2-11)
  41. "The Herb Garden Germination" (4-20)
  42. "The Fuzzy Boots Corollary" (1-3)
  43. "The Hot Troll Deviation" (4-4)
  44. "The Zarnecki Incursion" (4-19)
  45. "The Hofstadter Isotope" (2-20)
  46. "The Zazzy Substitution" (4-3)
  47. "The Creepy Candy Coating Corollary" (3-5)
  48. "The Justice League Recombination" (4-11)
  49. "The Engagement Reaction" (4-23)
  50. "The Decoupling Fluctuation" (6-2)
  51. "Big Bang Theory" Fake Game Turns Real, Chris Marlow, Digital Media Wire, September 23, 2011
  52. "The Vacation Solution" (5-16)
  53. "The Guitarist Amplification" (3-7)
  54. "The Work Song Nanocluster" (2-18)
  55. "The Wildebeest Implementation" (4-22)
  56. The Spock Resonance [S9E7]. Full scene from YouTube. Full quote here.
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