#280: Equal and Opposite Interactions
We're veering into the dark roads of board game classification, but this time with a goal in mind - how to best highlight games that feature strong interaction. Shouldn't BoardGameGeek have a scale fo...
8 Kesä 202345min
#279: Let the Golden Age Begin
Are we living in a golden age of board games? It's a simple question, but there's a lot to unpack - what even qualifies as a golden age, have we already had one, and if we are living in one, when does...
1 Kesä 20231h 1min
#278: Check Check Check
We're lucky to have covered wide swathes of the board game world, but there was a time when some of those things were aspirational. Like achievements to cross off on the great board game check list .....
25 Touko 202356min
#277: Definitely Not a Mailbag Episode
It's just two of us, so we turn our attention to the burning questions that you've been asking us, in a feature we're calling Topic Talk Back. This is not to be confused with the format we've used bef...
18 Touko 202351min
#276: Fantasy Draft: BoardGameGeek 801-900
It's the penultimate draft of the BGG Top 1000 series, and all of these games are garbage ... but it's up to us to sift through that garbage, and each find a collection of five games that's worthy of ...
11 Touko 202354min
#275: Building and Breaking Conventions
Any creative work is built on a lot of conventions - things that we take as granted, the unspoken rules that must be followed. We get a lot of really great games by following design conventions, but s...
4 Touko 202351min
#274: Guessing Golden Geeks
We can all agree the Golden Geeks peaked last year, but I suppose we can continue the facade if we must. Nominees are out for BoardGameGeek's annual awards, and as the presiding champions of taste, we...
27 Huhti 20231h 2min
#273: Bob Chat
Board games are a social medium, which is a big part of their appeal for us. It's not just about being heads down solving a puzzle, they facilitate conversation. Some games are better at this than oth...
20 Huhti 20231h 20min
