After a prolonged period where we have not discussed Kramer & Kiesling (the Kramer & Ulrich duo yielded El Grande, which we mention rather frequently), here we see a bumper krop of K&K kollaborations. The gibbons are fickle, and even the mighty Wolfgang and Michael must yield to their whims. But fortune (and apes) have at last smiled on them, and we revel in the classic Euro goodness as well as their more recent offering.

Games Played Last Week:

01:05 -Monikers (Alex Hague and Justin Vickers, CMYK, 2015)

05:34 -Java (Michael Kiesling and Wolfgang Kramer, Ravensburger, 2000)

11:31 -Tikal (Michael Kiesling and Wolfgang Kramer, Ravensburger, 1999)

13:31 -Wandering Towers (Michael Kiesling and Wolfgang Kramer, ABACUSSPIELE, 2022)

18:30 -Morgan's Magic Map (Gian Andrea Cappuzzo, Rio Grande Games, 2023)

20:17 -Tiny Towns (Peter McPherson, Alderac Entertainment Group, 2019)

22:08 -Sniper Elite: The Board Game (Roger Tankersly & David Thompson, Rebellion Unplugged, 2022)

25:43 -Earthborne Rangers (Andrew Fischer, Brooks Flugaur-Leavitt, Andrew Navaro, Adam Sadler, and Brady Sadler, Earthborne Games, 2023)

35:57 -Through the Desert (Reiner Knizia, Allplay, 2024)

38:34 -Mythwind (Nathan Lige and Brendan McCaskell, Open Owl Studios, 2023)

44:41 -Tapple (Uncredited, The Op Games, 2021)

46:04 -G.I. JOE: Battle for the Arctic Circle (Matt Hyra, Renegade Game Studios, 2024)

News (and why it doesn't matter):

48:56 CYSMIC update on Gamefound and board game bundling economics

51:03 Ada's Dream from Alley Cat

51:20 So much drama around Wonders of the First CCG! AI art, NFTs, ratings, oh my!

53:10 Feature Game: Leviathan Wilds (Justin Kemppainen, Moon Crab Games, 2024)

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00:00:00 Intro
00:01:00 Marty’s Move
00:13:15 Easter Egg in Ep 322
00:14:16 Cheerwine Festival
00:17:00 Strike Tournament Info
00:24:40 My City Roll & Draw
00:27:30 Episode Title Stats
00:32:10 Portal Games
00:33:55 Sunrise Lane
00:40:50 Path of Civilization
01:02:20 Compile
01:07:45 Gametoppers
01:10:25 Mind Map
01:18:05 Miniature Market
01:20:02 Outro (Baseball & SWU)

It’s time for the big Gen Con Strike Tournament ticket sale! You can hear all the details in the episode.

Marty struggles to get through the episode as he tries to recovery from helping his son move. But he manages to find the energy to get through reviews of four games including one of our favorite style of games, a civ style game.

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This week Peter, Mike, & Jesse review Leviathan Wilds, then have a design discussion about multi-use cards. _________________________ YouTube - www.youtube.com/channel/UCrOtGhui_jdLdoQNI7PU4Pg X - @onestopcoopshop Discord - discord.gg/p4jX8AF Merch: one-stop-co-op-shop.creator-spring.com/ Donate to One Stop Co-op Shop - www.patreon.com/onestop Email - onestopcoopshop@gmail.com

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This week Dan, Dana and Lauren are talking about what games have been hitting their table. We ask Dan what's in your head and your wallet, Dana is celebrating Christmas in June, and Lauren is at war with a robot named Rick. 

There's also the Question of the Pod, and we boldly go where 295 podcasts have also gone before in Swearing an Oath. This and the usual Board Game BBQ antics. 

New Question of the Pod: If you could only play one board game for the rest of your life, what would it be and why?

Sizzling Games:
Games we've been playing (0:01:18)
Santa's Workshop (0:31:29)
The Walking Dead: Surrounded (0:40:05)
Robotrick (0:48:44)
Question of the Pod Recap: (0:58:40)
Swear An Oath: (1:05:25)

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Cascadito - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/401217/cascadito 
Ultimate Railroads - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/329591/ultimate-railroads 
Robotrick - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/374866/robotrick 
Santa's Workshop - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/353942/santas-workshop-second-edition 
The Walking Dead: Surrounded - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/406591/the-walking-dead-surrounded 
The Bloody Inn - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/180593/the-bloody-inn 
Woodcraft - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/355093/woodcraft 
The Quest for El Dorado - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/217372/the-quest-for-el-dorado 
Almost Innocent - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/359838/almost-innocent 

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On this episode of On Board Games, Erik is joind by Steve Chivers, from Board Game Chin Wag, to talk about games (and other things) they've played including:

• World Wonders
• Heat: Pedal to the Metal
• Atlantis Rising
• Pole Position

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This week's guest is designer and consultant, Ellie Dix. We talk about games in the classroom, running a game consultancy and family games...but which games did she choose?

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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

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Openers: Knarr, Faraway Closers: Ordering games nominated for the IGA and SdJ awards

Mark Johnson

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Mark Jackson

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Recently I asked my listeners for more feedback about this old podcast. What I heard back was very encouraging--thanks for that. Most of you just tell me to keep doing what I like & want. Good, I will! Some other comments called back to the All About… episodes I used to do, deep dives into individual games. Others remembered the 100 Great Games series fondly, a collaboration I did with Mark Jackson and Stephen Glenn. More ideas came up, too. I've mulled those over and devised something that should be fun for me and worthwhile for the listeners. I've invited an old friend to join me in discussions about the Spiel des Jahres winner from a particular year. That makes it kind of a deeper dive into that title, but we also talk about the other nominees from that year. Not only that, but the longer list of recommended games, too. Along the way, we briefly mention the winners of the Kennerspiel, Deutscher Spielepreis, and the À La Carte, all notable awards in Germany where the Spiel des Jahres is still the preeminent award for our hobby.

When this podcast is released, we'll be only a week away from hearing the list of nominees and recommended games for this award year, 2024. I'll be very interested in that, however this new, occasional podcast series is about the SdJ in prior years. The award itself goes back to 1979--and I may cover those oldies someday--but for this episode I'm starting with something much closer to our present time. Five years ago seems like a good place to start--recent enough that the games are familiar, but distant enough that most gamers will have had plenty of opportunity to play them, if desired. Future episodes may jump around to other years that interest me, like a goofy time machine. My co-host for this episode is Mark Jackson, a well-known writer about boardgames. He's had multiple websites, is active on social media, is part of the Opinionated Gamers editorial board, a member of the International Gamers Awards panel, and has been on my podcast several times. I'm happy to call him my friend, too. Really, the only downside to this guy is the confusion we generate with our similar identities.

Mark & I have similar histories, but not always the same taste in games. Nonetheless, I know I can count on him to appreciate the kind of family strategy boardgames I focus on in this podcast--it's in the opening to every episode! That's what the Spiel des Jahres awards and selection jury are all about, too. It's a great fit.

By setting our Spiel des Jahres Wayback Machine to 2019, Sherman & Peabody Mark & Mark will be going back to when Just One took home the prize over fellow nominees Werewords and L.L.A.M.A. Do you know all of those? How about the list of recommended titles, Belratti, Dizzle, Krass Kacke/Who Did It?, Reef, and Sherlock? We do our best to talk about all of those, while also mentioning that Wingspan won the Kennerspiel & DSP, while Belratti won the À La Carte. Let us know what you think about these games, and the SdJ Wayback Machine itself. Is there a particular year you want us to visit next? With 44 more years to choose from, we're not going hit them all or go in any order. Future episodes will be occasionally interspersed with the "regular" episodes of Boardgames To Go. Very soon we'll have this year's nominees to discuss on our Discord server or elsewhere. I'm looking forward to all of it. -Mark

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It's the 8 year anniversary of our podcast! Woo hoo! To celebrate, Ambie and Crystal have updated their lists of Top 100 Games of ALL TIME and we share our top 10 games with you! Watch the rest of Ambie's Top 100 list on YouTube!

0:00-Intro
0:42-Announcements
2:30-Top 10 Games
3:55-Number 10
6:35-Number 9
8:48-Number 8
12:17-Number 7
14:25-Number 6
16:55-Number 5
20:38-Number 4
23:19-Number 3
26:02-Number 2
28:23-Number 1
35:05-Outro
36:18-Bloopers

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It's back, and it's spicier, more harrowing, and more lucrative than ever before! It's the Fantasy Draft, and this time we're changing things up by asking you not to vote for favourite games, but for the set that you think will still be relevant ten years from now (AKA the far flung future). Vote to stand a chance to win a gift card for one hundred dollars! Before we say things we'll regret in a decade, we also talk about London (Second Edition), and Spectral.

02:58 - London (Second Edition) 12:51 - Spectral 22:10 - Drafting games to last a decade 26:05 - Ark Nova 28:08 - Dune: Imperium – Uprising 29:34 - Cascadia 30:55 - Blood on the Clocktower 32:18 - Heat: Pedal to the Metal 33:56 - Sea Salt & Paper 35:26 - John Company: Second Edition 35:53 - So Clover! 37:08 - Zoo Vadis 38:39 - Stationfall 39:50 - Age of Innovation 42:16 - Caesar!: Seize Rome in 20 Minutes! 43:11 - The White Castle 44:11 - Guards of Atlantis II 46:52 - Sky Team

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• The Withered Heath Retro pre-review
• Haldan & Dale vs Evil (Ered Mithrin Player card decks)
• AMA
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In this episode Ben and Uli have a little row over the Spiel des Jahres, board gaming's biggest award. Also we talk about 'hobby' designers and how the globalisation of games has been a benefit to the industry. 

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Hey now Cabalists! Today's episode of The Secret Cabal Express Tony gives us the rundown of his first visit to the California game convention KublaCon! And then the fellas get into a discussion about Epic Board games. Enjoy!

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In today's episode, the guys talk about their recent plays at PPCon and review Rats of Wistar. Review starts at 01:29:33 Matthew's Geeklist about attending PPCon https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/336878/pp-con-2024-my-first-convention Help support the podcast on Patreon! www.patreon.com/punchboardparadise Join our Discord! discord.gg/4FrZ8S3yCv Check out the Website! punchboardparadise.com Need a new shirt? www.punchboardparadise.threadless.com Music by HookSounds

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Adrian signs off his first player run but allowing us all to get our board gaming gripes off our chests in a second round of great hexpectations.  It's time to take off our shoes, jump back onto the chez lounge and dive into the inner conscious minds of our players...you have been warned.

FIRST PLAYER: Adrian
OTHER PLAYERS: JP, Becky, Tambo

In this episode you'll learn:

- that JP has been digging a small boxed light game for a change which crossed deck building and an Uno style game in Avant Carde by Resonym
- Adrian continues his Sinister Fish trilogy by playing the latest game in the series Moon
- Becky decides to not talk about board games but her new found love of Walkabout Mini Golf on the VR (MetaQuest)
- Tambo goes back in time to talk dinos in Dinogenics by Ninth Haven Games 
- that Adrian is giving the group another chance to offload their board gaming woes with a return to great hexpectations

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EPISODE CHAPTERS
0:00 - TURN 1 - Player Count
1:52 - TURN 2 - Let's Talk About Hex
2:24 - JP - Avant Carde
7:07 - Becky - Walkabout Mini Golf VR...that's not a board game?
11:24 - Tambo - Dinogenics
19:33 - Adrian - Moon
25:40 - TURN 3 - Main Event: Great hexpectations - Return to the chez lounge
26:15 - Getting stuck in roll & move hell in Batman Talisman
33:31 - Dog Park can keep its new tricks
40:57 - There's a Mindclash Game which I think might not be for me
48:33 - I just don't like Uwe Rosenberg games
54:56 - Getting punished in Hallertau by having zero card combos
59:02 - My husband just isn't interested in playing Earth anymore
1:03:17 - I no longer have the capacity to go on lengthy big adventures in my board games
1:11:04 - It feels bad that I don't have a corner of the hobby which feels like mine
1:18:45 - TURN 4 - Would you rather...everyone around the table talked through all of their thought processes or play silent
1:26:35 - TURN 5 - Penultimate Turn: What's Coming Up
1:33:09 - TURN 6 - The Final Turn

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Tom, Julie and Eric run through some of their plans for Dice Tower East and Gen Con later this summer before taking a look at the year that was 2004, which was inexplicably 20 years ago. We share a new Tale of Boardgaming Horror, answer a question from the mailbag, and round up our Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops.

00:48 - Events at Dice Tower East

03:04 - Gen Con Plans

05:36 - Looking back at 2004 - 20 Years Ago

21:23 - Tale of Boardgaming Horror

28:52 - Listener Question: Digital Game Implementations

36:27 - Splendor

39:51 - Bus & Stop

42:44 - Clash of Galiformes

46:48 - BOG

50:02 - The Morrison Game Factory

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In the vast panoply of human misfortunes, it is often fruitless to try to rank misery. Was historical tragedy X worse or better than atrocity Y? It seems callous to ask. That said, thanks to the applied research of a retired ethicist with the aid of Reiner Knizia's Zoo Vadis, we have conclusively discovered that it is better to be extorted by a marmoset than assaulted by an armadillo. Thus is human knowledge expanded.

01:01 AYURIS: Heroscape (Stephen Baker, Rob Daviau, & Craig Van Ness, Hasbro, 2004)

Games Played Last Week:

05:30 -Uprising: Curse of the Last Emperor (Cornelius Cremin, Pawel Mazur, & Dirk Sommer, Nemesis.Games, 2021)

10:23 -Zoo Vadis (Reiner Knizia, Bitewing Games, 2023)

15:53 -Marabunta (Reiner Knizia, Space Cowboys, 2023)

22:35 -Feed the Kraken (Maikel Cheney, Dr. Hans Joachim Höh, and Tobias Immich, Funtails, 2022)

26:19 -La Granja: Deluxe Master Set (Michael Keller and Andreas "ode." Odendahl, Board&Dice, 2023)

31:30 -Sand (Ariel Di Costanzo and Javier Pelizzari, Devir, 2024)

News (and why it doesn't matter):

38:45 Calico spinoff: Knitting Circle

39:29 Founders of Reyvick: Richard Garfield and GMT

40:54 Boardgaming has jumped the shark: Winston: Nineteen Eighty-Four 

42:56 Expeditions: Gears of Corruption

43:14 Radlands gets 1.2 rules and a new deck

44:20 Topic: The One that Broke the Kallax's Back

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This week Dan, Adrian and Dana are back and have taken a Panadol for their ailments so they can share their favourite games of the past month. In Sizzling Games, Dana is strategically stocking shimmering silver, Adrian is assembling ambitious aqueducts against an adversary, and Dan is collecting cozy creations for clever critters.

There's also the Question of the Pod, Swear an Oath, and all of the usual shenanigans you've come to expect from the Board Game BBQ Podcast.

New Question of the Pod: What game do you use to introduce new people to modern board gaming, and why?

 

Sizzling Games:

Kutna Hora: City of Silver (33:00)

Barrage: New Lands - Duel (44:35)

Creature Comforts (56:20)

 

Question of the Pod Recap: (1:14:08)

Swear An Oath: (1:29:33)

 

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Has this episode left you with a thirst for more? Here are all of the games that we discussed:

Unmatched: Tales to Amaze (2023), Zombie Teenz Evolution (2020), Bardwood Grove (2024), Faraway (2023), Lost In The Shuffle (2023), Beer and Bread (2022), Star Wars: Bounty Hunters (2024), Kutna Hora: The City of Silver (2023), Barrage: New Lands - Duel (2024), Creature Comforts (2022)

 

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I don’t know about you, but I think there’s something special about the momentum of two player games. The tension, the back and forth. The sensation of making a clever move is so much more palpable than in any other player count. Today we’ll take a look at three two player games, each interesting in its own way, and also two more on our bonus episode. Our friend Jon from JonGetsGames has designed a game called Spring Cleaning, which we mention in the episode, you can pre-order it here: https://www.newmillindustries.com/store/p/spring-cleaning-preorder or you can play it online on boardgamearena. If you’d like to check out our bonus episodes - become a patreon supporter on https://patreon.com/nopunincluded On to the timestamps: 0:00 Cold Open 2:04 Intro 4:08 Run 24:31 Haggis 37:07 Harrow County

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Reviews of Rats of Wistar, Art Society, Tesseract and so much more. Featured review: Dabba Walla by Queen Games. Board game discussion starts at {00:32:53}.
Thank you to our sponsors: Queen Games, and Grand Gamers Guild.

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