Clef and Tim talk about the success of the Winter Formal online gathering and go over Tim's Top Ten board games. We also talk about Power Grid, Age of Steam, Isle of Cats Duel, and Winter Court! We also start the inevitable journey of going through the alphabet with movie picks!
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In the second annual 5G4D Awards Ben and Steve give out the awards for The Biggest Disappointment and The Biggest Surprise with help from the contributors of the best discord in the world.
And back to Mark! It's the soggy middle of his top 50, or as he insists on calling it, his numbers 30 through 11. That is twenty more delicious games, and he's here to tell you all about them while we continue to berate and praise him for his choices. 01:20 - #30 - Anomia 05:12 - #29 - Sidereal Confluence 08:47 - #28 - Chicago Express 11:46 - #27 - Rise & Fall 16:34 - #26 - Tigris & Euphrates 19:14 - #25 - Hegemony: Lead Your Class to Victory 22:29 - #24 - Blue Lagoon 25:37 - #23 - Lancaster 28:07 - #22 - El Grande 30:57 - #21 - Modern Art 33:54 - #20 - Pictomania 36:58 - #19 - Ark Nova 40:19 - #18 - Stationfall 41:59 - #17 - Stephenson's Rocket 43:36 - #16 - Cascadero 45:19 - #15 - Ra 48:45 - #14 - Bus 50:49 - #13 - Tramways 52:40 - #12 - Mr. President: The American Presidency, 2001-2020 57:05 - #11 - Caylus 1303
Dave does it live! This episode was recorded in front of our Patrons for better or worse.
This Game is Broken is a comedy board game panel show with Matthew Jude, Dave Luza, Paula Deming, Nick Murphy and Mike Murphy. We play a lot of nonsense games full of role playing and trivia as well as other fun stuff which can be found at the links below.
Adrian comes back with a classic, it's been over a year since we did a Niche Number 1's episode so it's high time to bring the format back for another round of favourite games in obscure circumstances.
FIRST PLAYER: Adrian OTHER PLAYERS: JP, Becky, Tambo
In this episode you'll learn: - that Becky has become a landlady in Taverns of Tiefenthal by Schmidt - that JP shouldn't be in marketing whilst explaining the latest expansion of Anno: 1800 by Kosmos - that Tambo is Here to Slay with a light monster killing card game by TeeTurtle - that sometimes theme doesn't matter in AI: 100% Human as Adrian has played this Essen release he picked up last year - what our favourite games are at conventions, that other people own and even ones that we can smuggle through customers...intrigued then check out the episode
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EPISODE CHAPTERS 0:00 - TURN 1 - Player Count 1:48 - TURN 2 - Let's Talk About Hex 2:08 - Becky - Taverns of Tiefenthal 7:42 - JP - Anno 1800: The Expansion 13:23 - Tambo - Here to Slay 18:19 - Adrian - AI: 100% Human 27:19 - TURN 3 - Main Event: Niche Number 1's - Round 6 27:58 - Favourite game that doesn't have meeples, characters or workers in it 36:38 - Favourite game that deserves a reprint 47:04 - Favourite game that your glad you don't own 49:37 - Favourite game that isn't very replayable 56:24 - Favourite game that we prefer to play at a convention 1:04:17 - Favourite game that you could smuggle through customs if board games are contraband 1:11:32 - TURN 4 - Receive, Sleeve or Leave 1:17:18 - TURN 5 - Penultimate Turn: What's Coming Up 1:26:16 - TURN 6 - The Final Turn
This week's guest is owner of Button Shy games Jason Tagmire. We talk about New Jersey, games in wallets and the pains and joys of being an independent publisher...but which games did he choose?
On this uphill episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom is rambling to Matt about a couple bits and bobs he’s played recently! First up is Flamme Rouge’s ‘Grand Tour’ expansion, that turns a simple session of Flamme Rouge into a month long tour! Is it as good as it was when Matt played it just seven short years ago? Find out here!
That’s then followed by a little recommendation for a recent Oink title - Moving Wild - before capping the podcast off with a bit of retrospective chat regarding SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence after our recent(ish) middling review…
Thanks for listening everyone! Have a great weekend!
Timestamps:
02:15 - Flamme Rouge: Grand Tour
17:55 - Moving Wild
28:07 - SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
It's meeeeeeeeeee! So if you care to find my top 50 list, look right here. The first twenty incredible games on the list that early critics are calling "surprisingly tasteful" and "delightfully roomy" is finally yours to consume. It's the greatest board games of all-time, Neilan edition! 01:10 - #50 - Anachrony 03:56 - #49 - The Vale of Eternity 05:47 - #48 - Arcs 09:05 - #47 - Bus 11:26 - #46 - Wilmot's Warehouse 13:03 - #45 - Spectral 15:57 - #44 - Innovation 18:12 - #43 - Codenames 20:12 - #42 - In the Year of the Dragon 21:17 - #41 - Decrypto 23:50 - #40 - Werewords 27:27 - #39 - Challengers! 31:03 - #38 - Inis 33:39 - #37 - Watson & Holmes 35:17 - #36 - Twice as Clever! 36:17 - #35 - Scythe 39:45 - #34 - Iberian Gauge 41:47 - #33 - Cascadero 47:04 - #32 - Eclipse: Second Dawn for the Galaxy 49:19 - #31 - Dune: Imperium - Uprising
Hey Now Cabalists! The Founders are back on the day before the day of Steve's birth - so everyone jump over to the Discord and wish him a happy birthday! The gang talks about a bunch of games that they've been playing including Age of Innovation, Unsettled, Divide et Impera, Mille Fiori, How Do you Doodle and feature SETI Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence from Tomas Holek and Czech Games Edition. Then Tony T whips up a whirlwind of wonder with his wonderful news segment. And finally the gang discusses the 2024 Shelf of Shame Challenge and challenges themselves again with a new batch of games. SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Review 00:56:56, News with Stevie S 01:39:42, Short Topic Extravaganza 02:41:55
On board the Dice Tower Cruise 2025, Tom, Julie, and Eric run through their holiday gaming opportunities. Julie asks how we prefer to to vacation, and we end the show with a bunch of Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops that we encountered on the ship.
The editorial department of So Very Wrong About Games has several sub-divisions, and admittedly the orgchart gets a bit baroque at this point. The rules errors office is technically a sub-branch of the fact checking desk, but it is funded out of the game design sub-budget. This muddies the line of accountability, and as anyone who works with gibbons can tell you, this is not ideal.
03:53 AYURIS: Lacrimosa (Gerard Ascendi and Ferran Renalias, Devir, 2022)
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05:20 -Endeavor: Deep Sea (Carl de Visser and Jarratt Gray, Burnt Island Games, 2024)
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