#84: Best With Two

#84: Best With Two

Kellen graces us with his absence, which means it's time for Mark and Neilan to start talking numbers. Specifically, player numbers. We're talking about optimal player counts for games, whether games ever mean what they recommend on the box, and how well they scale. Before we count to ten, we talk about Vindication, Royal Palace, Throw Throw Burrito, and Pipeline.

05:40 – Vindication
12:05 – Royal Palace
17:28 – Throw Throw Burrito
21:37 – Pipeline
29:48 – Optimal Player Counts
31:51 – Eternal: Chronicles of the Throne
32:50 – Caverna: The Cave Farmers
33:13 – Alien Frontiers
34:19 – Dead of Winter
37:13 – Throw Throw Burrito
38:20 – The Resistance
39:17 – Inis
39:45 – Rising Sun
40:09 – Maria
43:48 – Sidereal Confluence: Trading and Negotiation in the Elysian Quadrant

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

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

We're always excited for a new Eric Lang game, which makes him an obvious candidate for the absolutely-not-called BGB DOG - our series where we deep dive into a designer's .... designography. He's mad...

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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...

30 Syys 202157min

#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...

23 Syys 202155min

#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...

9 Syys 202149min

#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...

26 Elo 202141min

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