Board Game Hot Takes3 Jun 2024

Hot Topic -You're Just Not My Type

In Episode 199 we talk about types of games that don't get us excited... but we also reflect on why that is and talk about some games in those genres that have worked or might work for us.

We also discuss a related poll on genres or types of board games that are an immediate turn off.

Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction

00:24 Poll Time: Are there any genres or types of board games that are an automatic turn off?

02:56 Game types that we're not into

05:47 Skirmish Games (Guards of Atlantis II, Warhammer 40K, Heroclix, Batman: Gotham City Chronicles, Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures Game, Battletech)

10:50 Team Games/Cooperative Games (Cerebria: The Inside World, Batman: Gotham City Chronicles, Star Wars: Rebellion, Ankh: Gods of Egypt, Sky Team, Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood, Cthulhu: Death May Die, Codenames, Rush Out)

19:18 Collectable Card Games (Magic: The Gathering, Wonders of the First, Disney Lorcana, Star Wars Unlimited, Mindbug, Star Realms)

28:14 Party Games (Trivial Pursuit, Apple to Apples, Codenames, Challengers!, Skull, Just One, So Clover, Green Team Wins, Balderdash, El Grande, Libertalia)

38:45 Multi-player Solitaire (Hallertau, Nucleum, Bruxelles 1893, Wingspan,

43:20 Negotiation Games (John Company, Rising Sun, Dune, Pax Pamir: 2nd Edition, Diplomacy, Chinatown, Poker, Eclipse: Second Dawn for the Galaxy)

50:47 Message Games (Daybreak, Doubt is our Product, This War of Mine, Meltwater: A Game of Tactical Starvation)

54:17 Wargames (Maria, Twilight Struggle, Undaunted)

1:00:23 Abstract Games (Mandala, Cascadia, Azul, Sagrada, Project L)

1:02:03 Trick Taking Games (Shamans, Cat in the Box, Brian Boru: High King of Ireland, Skull King, Lettertricks, Euchre, Spades, Boast or Nothing.

1:05:39 Listener Shoutout

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