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Join Kellen, Neilan, Mark, and Christina for a podcast about board games, the latest hotness, and how to have fun with your friends even when you're losing.
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#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 just by voting on your favourite collection! Before we get to clubbing, we talk about Regicide, Dice Miner, and Let's Make a Bus Route, and SCOUT!
02:06 - Regicide
08:34 - Dice Miner
16:55 - Let's Make a Bus Route
16:55 - Get on Board: New York & London
18:56 - SCOUT!
22:42 - Drafting BGG's #301-400
25:18 - Biblios
26:56 - Innovation
28:18 - Monikers
29:20 - The Great Zimbabwe
30:42 - Ginkgopolis
33:34 - For Sale
35:24 - Nusfjord
37:45 - Bunny Kingdom
39:18 - Chinatown
39:38 - Twice as Clever!
41:17 - Macao
43:03 - Lancaster
45:05 - Obsession
48:23 - Lost Cities
50:36 - Gùgōng
See Badgers from Mars' statement on TGG Games:
https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2723017/badgers-mars-and-tgg-games
Check out Mark playing Dice Miner on GameNight!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CouxIvYzh-s
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#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 mechanics where one of our beloved designers zigged, when they easily could’ve zagged. Before we go our own way, we talk about Biosphere, The Ratcatcher: The Solo Adventure Game, and Stephenson’s Rocket.
Timecodes:
01:46 – Biosphere
10:58 – The Ratcatcher: The Solo Adventure Game
19:10 – Stephenson’s Rocket
30:51 – Neilan’s at Gen Con!
31:42 – Designers “Zigging”
33:03 – Codenames
33:07 – Pictomania
35:25 – El Grande
35:36 – 6 nimmt!
37:25 – Blood of the Northmen
37:54 – Strasbourg
38:25 – FlowerFall
40:37 – Kitchen Rush
42:19 – Mercado de Lisboa
43:02 – Age of Steam Expansion: Portugal
46:51 – XCOM: The Board Game
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#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 love picking apart little mechanical choices, imagining what the designer's thought process was, and wondering "why is that like that?" Before we get to speculating, we talk about Divinity Derby, Mexica, and Strasbourg.
03:28 - Divinity Derby
11:54 - Hab & Gut
13:22 - Mexica
19:06 - Strasbourg
24:35 - Taj Mahal
30:38 - Why is that mechanic like that?
33:28 - Risk
33:39 - Kemet
34:58 - Scythe
38:57 - Circadians: Chaos Order
39:57 - Tinner's Trail
41:22 - Ankh: Gods of Egypt
42:58 - Rocketmen
45:09 - The Oracle of Delphi
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#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 (cottage) garden path of his designography, and make sure to plant some vegetables along the way. Before we get agricultural, we talk about Bosk, Spies & Lies: A Stratego Story, and Glen More II: Chronicles.
00:58 - Bosk
07:57 - Spies & Lies: A Stratego Story
12:37 - Love Letter
15:21 - Glen More II: Chronicles
24:52 - BGG 201-300 Fantasy Draft Winner
27:49 - Strategicon
29:01 - Uwe Rosenberg
29:56 - Bohnanza
33:58 - Agricola
37:19 - Le Havre
39:34 - At the Gates of Loyang
40:58 - A Feast for Odin
41:20 - Patchwork
46:45 - Caverna: The Cave Farmers
47:34 - Nova Luna
49:36 - Hallertau
53:59 - Mamma Mia!
54:28 - Nusfjord
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#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 should've into finding or playing specific games. We tell our stories of just how far we've gone. Before we secure the bag, we talk about Tinner's Trail, and The Night Cage.
01:10 - Tinner's Trail
08:13 - The Night Cage
17:31 - Games you've gone out of your way for
18:39 - Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective
23:36 - World of Warcraft: The Boardgame
27:06 - Discworld: Ankh-Morpork
27:57 - Dead of Winter
29:16 - Ugg-Tect
32:26 - HeroQuest
33:55 - Warhammer
35:38 - Watch the Skies
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#187: Fantasy Draft: BoardGameGeek 201-300
We're back with another fantasy draft, as we keep on moving down the BoardGameGeek top games list. If you're not familiar, we're each picking a standalone collection of five games before our picks get stolen out from under us. Want to win a $50 gift card? You've got to vote on whose collection is best! Before we get the knives out, we talk about Raiders of Scythia, and Ankh: Gods of Egypt.
02:01 - Raiders of Scythia
02:18 - Raiders of the North Sea
08:56 - Ankh: Gods of Egypt
29:09 - Drafting BGG's #201-300
32:58 - 1830: Railways & Robber Barons
34:52 - Flamme Rouge
36:51 - Beyond the Sun
37:59 - Cthulhu Wars
39:14 - Modern Art
39:27 - Glory to Rome
41:35 - Dune
42:49 - Imperial 2030
43:36 - The Resistance
44:35 - Arboretum
45:47 - Hive
46:47 - Glen More II: Chronicles
48:20 - Dwellings of Eldervale
49:35 - Dixit
51:23 - Burgle Bros
Check out our wiki at:
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Customer Reviews
Just the Best
BGB is truly the funniest and most engaging podcast I’ve ever listened to in my life. They assemble, they assimilate, they trudge but don’t judge, they bask, they bosk, they cram and slam, they banter, they are excellent. Maybe that boating/cruise story from episode 74 made me very sad and I hope everything is ok. I’m a social worker and would love to help. Great Podcast!
Enjoyable
Fairly solid podcast. Not quite on the level of something like Heavy Cardboard or SU&SD but that’s a tall order. Sometimes a little too chatty and too much with the inside jokes, which isn’t fun to listen to when you’re 100% an outsider.
I had to drop a full star for the intro/outro music. It is the worst I’ve ever heard on a podcast. I’d give it 4 if they dropped it.
Great conversation and laughs
I had found this podcast a few months before the pandemic and had begun to binge all their episodes because of their witty repartee, the fabulous but sadly just occasional addition of the blue tank Christina and their well thought out approach to discussing tabletop games. I never posted a review, however, and just got back into binging their episodes when I was moved by their willingness to acknowledge the Black Lives Matter movement at the end of episode 124. A couple of days after Juneteenth became a federal holiday, I felt moved to acknowledge their willingness to see the world beyond themselves and to speak to current events in America. Thank you for your podcast and thank you for your courage to speak up and not be afraid of any potential consequences. I’ll be signing up for the discord ASAP because these three (no four!) podcasters exhibit the kind of inclusive experience I wish to experience regularly.