Garrett's Games and Geekiness Douglas Garrett

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Remember that you can support the podcast directly by becoming a patron at www.patreon.com/garrettsgames
or check out our extensive list of games for sale - games that no longer fit on our shelves, but belong on your table:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16ovRDNBqur0RiAzgFAfI0tYYnjlJ68hoHyHffU7ZDWk/edit?usp=sharing
This week Shelley and I discuss the latest nominations for the Games of the Year coming out of Germany, then have a great time interviewing YouTube gamer and Bezier Marketing guru Jay Bernardo!
Jay's YouTube Channel (Cardboard East):
https://www.youtube.com/@CardboardEast
And the names and BGG links to all of the SdJ, KdJ and Kinder nominees and recommended titles:
Spiel des Jahres Nominees:
Captain Flip by Paolo Mori and Remo Conzadori from PlayPunk
In The Footsteps of Darwin by Gregory Grard and Matthieu Verdier from Sorry We Are French
Sky Team by Luc Remond from Scorpion Masque and KOSMOS
SdJ Recommended Titles:
Harmonies
Passt nicht!
Phantom Ink
Schatz it if you can
Trekking Through History 
Trio
Kennerspiel des Jahres Nominees:
Daybreak (or e-Mission) by Matt Leacock and Matteo Menapace from CMYK and Schmidt Spiele
Guild of Merchant Explorers by Matthew Dunstan and Brett J Gilbert from AEG and Skellig Games
Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West by Matt Leacock, Alan R. Moon, and Rob Daviau from Days of Wonder
KdJ Recommended Titles:
Bier Pioniere
Botanicus
Forest Shuffle
Ritual
Kinderspiel des Jahres Nominees:
Große kleine Edelsteine by Wolfgang Warsch from Schmidt Spiele
Die magischen Schlussel by Markus Slawitscheck and Arno Steinwender from Happy Baobab and Game Factory
Taco Kitten Pizza by Dave Campbell and Thierry Denoual from Blue Orange
Kinder Recommended:
Fluffy Valley
Lecker Lava
Die Nadel im Heuhaufen
 

Shelley and I get a wonderful new SMALL card game to the table
Aqua: Set Collection Game of Art by Ta-Te Wu from Sunrise Tornado
then check out our first of FOUR new map expansions for
Mini Express by Mark Gerrits from Moaideas Game Design:
United Kingdom 1918 by Tony Boydell

Shelley and I compete as ultrasmart rat clans in
Rats of Wistar by Simone Luciani and Danilo Sabia from Cranio Creations and Capstone Games
then we look once again (prepping to look at expansion maps) at
Mini Express by Mark Gerrits from Moaideas Game Design
This week's podcast is sponsored by Bezier Games, makers of modern classics like 
Castles of Mad King Ludwig
Suburbia
as well as the draw and write sequel
Blueprints of Mad King Ludwig
and the new trick-taking card games
Xylotar
and 
Sandbag

This week Shelley and I join the ancient Roman medical society and try to treat patients and impress Galen in 
Galenus by Harry-Pekka Kuusela from ION Game Design
and then we try out a new version of an older title
Pollen by Dr. Reiner Knizia from Allplay
a solid retheming of the 2009 Samurai The Card Game
Remember you can support the podcast at www.patreon.com/garrettsgames OR
check out our extensive list of games for sale (with more coming over the next couple of weeks!):
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16ovRDNBqur0RiAzgFAfI0tYYnjlJ68hoHyHffU7ZDWk/edit?usp=sharing
 

Shelley and I get in some games with the guys, checking out
Ecos: First Continent by John D. Clair from AEG
and
Garden Guests by Stephen Glenn from Van Ryder Games
Sponsor the podcast at www.patreon.com/garrettsgames OR check out our extensive list of games that no longer fit on our shelves, but belong on your table:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16ovRDNBqur0RiAzgFAfI0tYYnjlJ68hoHyHffU7ZDWk/edit?usp=sharing
 

Shelley and I check out a couple of trick takers originally from Japan
First we discuss Gossip Trip Trix by Maeda Jay from Mashika
then we try to avoid paradoxes in
Cat in the Box Deluxe Edition by Muneyuki Yokouchi from Bezier Games
Remember you can sponsor the podcast at www.patreon.com/garrettsgames
OR 
Check out our extensive list of games for sale and get a cool game that no longer fits on our shelves, but belongs on your table:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16ovRDNBqur0RiAzgFAfI0tYYnjlJ68hoHyHffU7ZDWk/edit?usp=sharing