#59: Ain't Nothing Like It
Board Game Barrage14 Maalis 2019

#59: Ain't Nothing Like It

Some games offer an experience so unique, so unlike anything else, that you can't help but take notice. It might be a bold thematic setting, or a set of mechanics that you've never seen before. This week, we're counting down our favourite games that do something ... a little bit different. Before we stand out from the crowd, we also talk about Looting London, and Chimera.

01:05 - Looting London
04:17 - Chimera
09:45 - Unique Thematic Experiences
12:12 - Food Chain Magnate
16:11 - Space Cadets: Dice Duel
18:38 - Long Shot
21:23 - Dungeons & Dragons: Rock Paper Wizard
23:16 - Dead of Winter
26:42 - Pit
28:38 - Millennium Blades
33:11 - Alchemists
36:33 - Chaosmos
40:07 - Ponzi Scheme
42:24 - Space Hulk
45:39 - Adrenaline
47:37 - Diplomacy
51:06 - Sol: Last Days of a Star
53:22 - Captain Sonar

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#195: Eric, Eric, He's Our Lang

#195: Eric, Eric, He's Our Lang

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#194: Essen SPIEL 2021 Hype List

#194: Essen SPIEL 2021 Hype List

Convention season in the new world continues, and this time it's Germany's turn, with Essen SPIEL just days away from kicking off. But tanks, you say, I don't sprechen Deutsch. We've got you. We're go...

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#193: Three Dimensions of Space

#193: Three Dimensions of Space

There is one unenviable truth of board game ownership that we're forced to contend with - they occupy space. We've each had to wrestle with this reality in different ways recently, so we offer our tho...

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#192: Fantasy Draft: BoardGameGeek 301-400

#192: Fantasy Draft: BoardGameGeek 301-400

A new list of a hundred games to draft, and it only gets harder and harder. We're each picking a standalone collection of five games in a snake draft format. And the best part is you could win $50 jus...

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#191: Take Off Every Zig

#191: Take Off Every Zig

While one of the appeals of following a specific game designer is the comforting familiarity of what they do best, it's also really fun to see them go off the garden path. We're looking at games and m...

16 Syys 202148min

#190: Why Are You the Way That You Are?

#190: Why Are You the Way That You Are?

One of the things we love to do, especially if we're playing a game for the first time, is analyse it while we're playing. We're sure this totally isn't annoying for those around us. In particular, we...

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#189: Uwe Baby

#189: Uwe Baby

We love Uwe Rosenberg around these parts, whether it's because of our infatuation with polyominoes, the need to keep workers fed, or the strange mechanisms of animal breeding. Join us down the (cottag...

2 Syys 202157min

#188: Whatever It Takes

#188: Whatever It Takes

Sometimes, if you want a game bad enough, you're willing to go to absurd lengths to acquire it. Whether it's because it's out of print, or just hard to come by, we've all put more effort than we shoul...

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