#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...
14 Okt 20211h
#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...
7 Okt 20211h
#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 Sep 202157min
#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 Sep 202155min
#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 Sep 202148min
#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 Sep 202149min
#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 Sep 202157min
#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 Aug 202141min
