Boardgames To Go 247 - Fairplay Scoutaktion Results for Essen 2025
Boardgames To Go1 Marras 2025

Boardgames To Go 247 - Fairplay Scoutaktion Results for Essen 2025

Opener: Please send in your comments, questions, or suggestions for next month's Feedback-focused episode

Closer: When do you opt out of game night?


Every year I pay special attention to Fairplay magazine's booth at Essen. In recent years, they've been great about sharing their Scoutaktion results on social media, too. Fairplay is primarily a German language print magazine for our hobby, but every year at Essen they do an additional service for our global hobby: they collect ratings for the first impressions of these new titles, and share them for all to see.



Here's what they reported last year. Notice anything? The top rated game in the expert category went on to win the Kennerspiel a year later, and the same thing happened with the top-rated family category game winning the Spiel des Jahres! The predictions for later success & staying power aren't always that accurate, but they're always pretty good. They are definitely worth watching.

For this episode I go through the 10 top titles in each of this year's Expert and Family categories for Fairplay booth voting. They call these their Scoutaktion reports. I've been following these avidly for a quarter-century. Amazing!


-Mark

Jaksot(290)

Boardgames To Go 225C - Mark Madness 2024 The Sweet Sixteen (with Patrick Pence)

Boardgames To Go 225C - Mark Madness 2024 The Sweet Sixteen (with Patrick Pence)

Get your Sweet Sixteen votes in now! https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/328714/boardgames-go-season-20-2024?itemid=10561730&commentid=12074798#comment12074798

19 Maalis 202412min

Boardgames To Go 225A - Mark Madness 2024 (with Patrick Pence)

Boardgames To Go 225A - Mark Madness 2024 (with Patrick Pence)

Please join us on the Boardgames To Go discord server where you can chat online with other podcast listeners.   Play along and predict the winners at https://challonge.com/3abpsej6 Predictions must b...

19 Maalis 202454min

Boardgames To Go 225B - Mark Madness 2024 Round of 32 (with Patrick Pence)

Boardgames To Go 225B - Mark Madness 2024 Round of 32 (with Patrick Pence)

Micro-episode for the next round of voting.    Vote here! https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/328714/boardgames-go-season-20-2024?itemid=10561730&commentid=12070025#comment12070025

17 Maalis 202415min

Boardgames To Go 224 - Year in Review 2023

Boardgames To Go 224 - Year in Review 2023

Please join us on the Boardgames To Go discord server where you can chat online with other podcast listeners. Opener: Daybreak     Last year was a great year of boardgaming for me. Apparently I pl...

1 Helmi 20241h 4min

Boardgames To Go 223 - Season 20 and the BGGcon Recap

Boardgames To Go 223 - Season 20 and the BGGcon Recap

Please join us on the Boardgames To Go discord server where you can chat online with other podcast listeners. Opener: Welcome to Season 20(!!!) of this little podcast I didn't make it to BGGcon las...

1 Tammi 20242h 30min

Boardgames To Go 222 - The Curmudgeon Show

Boardgames To Go 222 - The Curmudgeon Show

Please join us on the Boardgames To Go discord server where you can chat online with other podcast listeners. Opener: Sea Salt & Paper eryn roston @baditude Darryl Boone @booned ...

1 Joulu 20231h 24min

Boardgames To Go 221 - Old Dogs, New Tricks (with Dave Arnott)

Boardgames To Go 221 - Old Dogs, New Tricks (with Dave Arnott)

Please join us on the Boardgames To Go discord server where you can chat online with other podcast listeners. Openers: • Mark: Basketboss • Dave: Istanbul David Arnott @Arnott After h...

1 Marras 20231h 17min

Boardgames To Go 220 - Ken Tidwell and The Game Cabinet

Boardgames To Go 220 - Ken Tidwell and The Game Cabinet

Please join us on the Boardgames To Go discord server where you can chat online with other podcast listeners. Opener: Hammer of the Scots Ken Tidwell @Ken Tidwell If you entered the hobb...

2 Loka 20231h 53min

Suosittua kategoriassa Vapaa-aika

nikotellen
antin-matka
the-harlin-show
ihan-oikeesti
sita
unicast
rss-nikotellen
eturivi
tahtitehdas
mutsiputki
everypodi
terkuin-jenna
oral-sex
mysteeripodcast
himocast
20-30-40-podcast
kasper-ja-mikko
rss-lapseton-elama
kaikkea-hyvaa
rss-viihde-media