Decision Space Jacob Frydman, Brendan Hansen

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games.Vote for Decision Space to win the Golden Geek HERE: https://boardgamegeek.com/geekawards/boardgame(If you have any questions or difficulty, please reach out in the discord!)
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Episode 167 - Top 10 Games 2024
Not much to say here, folks! Hop into the Interdecisional Spaceship as Jake and Brendan update all travellers about their current top 10 games of all time as of May 2024
 
Pre-Planners
The next few episodes will discuss puzzling games and the Decision Space Jam. 
TimestampsIntro - 0:00Honorable Mentions - 1:54Number 10s - 6:17Number 9s - 11:08Number 8s - 16:54Number 7s - 23:11Number 6s - 29:48Number 5s - 36:26Number 4s - 42:40Number 3s - 50:09Number 2s - 55:39Number 1s - 1:00:41Final Thoughts - 1:05:34
Games Mentioned
Ra, High Society, My City, The Resistance, Bruges, BattleCon, Monolith Arena, Tigris and Euphrates, Fox in the Forest, Magic: the Gathering, Just One, Babylonia, Broom Service, Keyflower, Cosmic Encounter, El Grande, Modern Art, Challengers, Azul, Cascadia, Findorff, Tikal, Bonfire, Age of Innovation, Nokosu Dice, Scout, Trajan
 
Music and Sound Credits
Thank you to Hembree for our intro and outro music from their song Reach Out. You can listen to the full song on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQuuRPfOyMw&list=TLGGFNH7VEDPgwgyNTA4MjAyMQ&t=3s
You can find more information about Hembree at https://www.hembreemusic.com/. 
Thank you to Flash Floods for use of their song Palm of Your Hand as a sting from their album Halfway to Anywhere: https://open.spotify.com/album/2fE6LrqzNDKPYWyS5evh3K?si=CCjdAGmeSnOOEui6aV3_nA
Rules Overview Music: Way Home by Tokyo Music Walker https://soundcloud.com/user-356546060​ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/tokyo-music-walker-way...​ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/pJThZlOuDtI
Contact
We can be reached individually on Twitter at @jakefryd and @burnsidebh. You can also follow Decision Space on Instagram @DecisionSpacePod and talk to us there! If you prefer email, then hit us up at decisionspa@gmail.com.
This information is all available along with episodes at our new website decisionspacepodcast.com.
Byeee!

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games.Vote for Decision Space to win the Golden Geek HERE: https://boardgamegeek.com/geekawards/boardgame(If you have any questions or difficulty, please reach out in the discord!)
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Episode 166 - Quantum
Holy geek! Decision Space has been nominated for a Golden Geek award again. Thank you all so much for voting, truly. With that out of the way, this week we are giving Quantum our traditional Decision Space deep dive treatment. We will explore why the game's efficient use of dice feels simultaneously, foundational, thematic, and efficient. We also talk about end-game dynamics, if this space game feels like chess, special powers, and so much more. Interdecisional Spaceship travellers, join us in the magic circle and let's explore Quantum!
 
Pre-Planners
Next week we will share our top 10 games of all time!
TimestampsIntro - 0:00Ratings and Game Background - 2:56Rules Overview - 7:45Quantum Deep Dive - 10:00
Music and Sound Credits
Thank you to Hembree for our intro and outro music from their song Reach Out. You can listen to the full song on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQuuRPfOyMw&list=TLGGFNH7VEDPgwgyNTA4MjAyMQ&t=3s
You can find more information about Hembree at https://www.hembreemusic.com/. 
Thank you to Flash Floods for use of their song Palm of Your Hand as a sting from their album Halfway to Anywhere: https://open.spotify.com/album/2fE6LrqzNDKPYWyS5evh3K?si=CCjdAGmeSnOOEui6aV3_nA
Rules Overview Music: Way Home by Tokyo Music Walker https://soundcloud.com/user-356546060​ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/tokyo-music-walker-way...​ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/pJThZlOuDtI
Contact
We can be reached individually on Twitter at @jakefryd and @burnsidebh. You can also follow Decision Space on Instagram @DecisionSpacePod and talk to us there! If you prefer email, then hit us up at decisionspa@gmail.com.
This information is all available along with episodes at our new website decisionspacepodcast.com.
Byeee!

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games.Nominate Decision Space for a Golden Geek Here: https://boardgamegeek.com/geekawards/boardgame(If you have any questions or difficulty, please reach out in the discord!)
Join our active and welcoming Discord community,
Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or
Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast!
Episode 165 - Revisiting Games
Golden Geek, Golden Geek, Golden Geek! That's right, it's pledge week here on Decision Space. Please consider nominating us for best podcast in the golden geek awards on BGG. In this week's episode. Jake and Brendan talk about revisiting games. What causes us to dust off and revisit a game after it has been on the shelf for some time? Are there some qualities that make a game more revisitable than others? Is revisitability even a word? Don't answer that last question. After an initial discussion, Jake and Brendan dive into some games that they have been revisiting lately and there experiences with them. Enjoy, Decisionaughts, and ask yourself, did I do my part... to nominate Decision Space for a golden geek award.
 
Pre-Planners
Quantum is on our radar, Taverns of Tiefenthal is a maybe. Give us some recs!
TimestampsIntro/Golden Geek - 0:00Revisting Games - 3:03Mansions of Madness/The Hunger - 4:15String Railways - 5:35Dominion - 7:55Transatlantic/Dune Imperium - 8:45Wyrmspan/Wingspan - 9:30Bruges/Castles of Burgundy - 13:35Fox in the Forest - 14:30Pandemic Legacy/My City - 16:30Broom Service - 20:30Findorff/The Mind - 21:45Challengers! - 26:45Riftforce - 32:45Magic: the Gathering - 37:15Spades - 44:33Tikal - 49:30
 
Music and Sound Credits
Thank you to Hembree for our intro and outro music from their song Reach Out. You can listen to the full song on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQuuRPfOyMw&list=TLGGFNH7VEDPgwgyNTA4MjAyMQ&t=3s
You can find more information about Hembree at https://www.hembreemusic.com/. 
Thank you to Flash Floods for use of their song Palm of Your Hand as a sting from their album Halfway to Anywhere: https://open.spotify.com/album/2fE6LrqzNDKPYWyS5evh3K?si=CCjdAGmeSnOOEui6aV3_nA
Rules Overview Music: Way Home by Tokyo Music Walker https://soundcloud.com/user-356546060​ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/tokyo-music-walker-way...​ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/pJThZlOuDtI
Contact
We can be reached individually on Twitter at @jakefryd and @burnsidebh. You can also follow Decision Space on Instagram @DecisionSpacePod and talk to us there! If you prefer email, then hit us up at decisionspa@gmail.com.
This information is all available along with episodes at our new website decisionspacepodcast.com.
Byeee!

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games.Nominate Decision Space for a Golden Geek Here: https://boardgamegeek.com/geekawards/boardgame(If you have any questions or difficulty, please reach out in the discord!)
Join our active and welcoming Discord community,
Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or
Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast!
Episode 164 - Ticket To Ride with Bill Collins
This week we are joined by Bill Collins. You may know him as Varianor on the Decision Space Discord. In this episode, Bill, Jake, & Brendan dive deep into the decisions in this new classic family board game. We look deep at all possible actions, the timing puzzle, the implications of no hand limit, and much more decisional goodness. Then, Bill guides us through the high points of what is out there in the extended TTR universe of products.
 
Pre-Planners
Quantum is on our radar, Taverns of Tiefenthal is a maybe. Give us some recs!
TimestampsGolden Geek - 0:00Episode Start  - 1:30Ratings and Game Background - 4:14Rules Overview  - 12:52Deep Dive Discussion - 14:45
 
Music and Sound Credits
Thank you to Hembree for our intro and outro music from their song Reach Out. You can listen to the full song on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQuuRPfOyMw&list=TLGGFNH7VEDPgwgyNTA4MjAyMQ&t=3s
You can find more information about Hembree at https://www.hembreemusic.com/. 
Thank you to Flash Floods for use of their song Palm of Your Hand as a sting from their album Halfway to Anywhere: https://open.spotify.com/album/2fE6LrqzNDKPYWyS5evh3K?si=CCjdAGmeSnOOEui6aV3_nA
Rules Overview Music: Way Home by Tokyo Music Walker https://soundcloud.com/user-356546060​ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/tokyo-music-walker-way...​ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/pJThZlOuDtI
Contact
We can be reached individually on Twitter at @jakefryd and @burnsidebh. You can also follow Decision Space on Instagram @DecisionSpacePod and talk to us there! If you prefer email, then hit us up at decisionspa@gmail.com.
This information is all available along with episodes at our new website decisionspacepodcast.com.
Byeee!

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games.
Join our active and welcoming Discord community,
Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or
Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast!
Episode 163 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Drafting, Part Two
In the second part of our What We Talk About episode on drafting, we move away from drafting mechanisms and into drafting decisions. Jake and Brendan discuss the decision space created in drafting games, focusing on traditional pack drafting games, and then move on to designing drafting games. Enjoy, nerds!
 
Pre-Planners
Next week we will be deep diving Ticket To Ride!
 
Timestamps
Intro - 0:00Main topic - 4:13Magic: The Gathering - 6:20Keyflower - 11:00Imhotep - 19:00Sushi Go/Seven Wonders/Bunny Kingdom - 21:00Challengers - 33:05Drafting Design -35:30Star Wars Unlimited - 38:35Moon - 42:20Cascadia/Blood Rage - 49:26
 
Music and Sound Credits
Thank you to Hembree for our intro and outro music from their song Reach Out. You can listen to the full song on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQuuRPfOyMw&list=TLGGFNH7VEDPgwgyNTA4MjAyMQ&t=3s
You can find more information about Hembree at https://www.hembreemusic.com/. 
Thank you to Flash Floods for use of their song Palm of Your Hand as a sting from their album Halfway to Anywhere: https://open.spotify.com/album/2fE6LrqzNDKPYWyS5evh3K?si=CCjdAGmeSnOOEui6aV3_nA
Rules Overview Music: Way Home by Tokyo Music Walker https://soundcloud.com/user-356546060​ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/tokyo-music-walker-way...​ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/pJThZlOuDtI
Contact
We can be reached individually on Twitter at @jakefryd and @burnsidebh. You can also follow Decision Space on Instagram @DecisionSpacePod and talk to us there! If you prefer email, then hit us up at decisionspa@gmail.com.
This information is all available along with episodes at our new website decisionspacepodcast.com.
Byeee!

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games.
Join our active and welcoming Discord community,
Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or
Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast!
Episode 162 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Drafting, Part One
Brendan is back in the saddle, and we settle down to part one in a two (or more) part series on drafting in board games. This episode is specifically on drafting as a mechanism and how this common mechanism shows up in games. It's a mechanism survey folks. Sound the alarm! 
Pre-Planners
Ticket To Ride, Food Chain Magnate, Taverns of Tiefenthal, Quantum
 
Timestamps
Intro - 0:00Drafting - 4:08Blood Rage, Ark Nova, Booster Draft/Magic the Gathering - 14:00Grid Drafting/Sobek for 2 Players - 18:52Push Your Luck Drafting/Coloretto/Kanagawa/Circus Flocati - 22:06Winston Draft - 28:15Memory in Drafting - 31:35I Cut You Choose/Wingspan/ - 36:00Variable Set Up Drafting/Agricola/Age of Innovation/Catan/Findorff - 40:55Entwined Drafting/Cascadia - 46:03Player Arranged Drafting/Kingdomino/Arboretum/Enchanged Plumes  - 48:15Solitaire Drafting/Challengers! - 55:06Card Row Drafting/Star Reals/Robot Quest Arena - 57:21        
 
Music and Sound Credits
Thank you to Hembree for our intro and outro music from their song Reach Out. You can listen to the full song on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQuuRPfOyMw&list=TLGGFNH7VEDPgwgyNTA4MjAyMQ&t=3s
You can find more information about Hembree at https://www.hembreemusic.com/. 
Thank you to Flash Floods for use of their song Palm of Your Hand as a sting from their album Halfway to Anywhere: https://open.spotify.com/album/2fE6LrqzNDKPYWyS5evh3K?si=CCjdAGmeSnOOEui6aV3_nA
Rules Overview Music: Way Home by Tokyo Music Walker https://soundcloud.com/user-356546060​ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/tokyo-music-walker-way...​ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/pJThZlOuDtI
Contact
We can be reached individually on Twitter at @jakefryd and @burnsidebh. You can also follow Decision Space on Instagram @DecisionSpacePod and talk to us there! If you prefer email, then hit us up at decisionspa@gmail.com.
This information is all available along with episodes at our new website decisionspacepodcast.com.
Byeee!