Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including Side Quest: Nemesis, Side Quest: 7th Sea, Mystery Detective Vol. 1: Classic Cases, Mystery Detective Vol. 2: Funny Death and Real Life Cases, and AQUA: Biodiversity in the Oceans. Then, we talk about drawing games and how the drawing mechanism is used creatively in different games.
Ambie had to use backup audio due to Zoom messing with her microphone, so sorry for the lower quality audio!

0:00-Intro
0:47-Recent Games - Side Quest: Nemesis and Side Quest: 7th Sea
5:05-Mystery Detective Vol. 1: Classic Cases and Mystery Detective Vol. 2: Funny Death and Real Life Cases
7:44-AQUA: Biodiversity in the Oceans
11:05-Drawing Games
24:13-Outro
25:17-Bloopers

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What? Your podcasters are evolving! While we're certainly steadfast in some of our opinions (ahem, Biblios) we were curious to reflect on how we've changed - nay, grown - in the years since we started. What do we feel differently about with regards to the games we like, and how we approach the hobby? Before we moult, we also talk about Twinkle Starship, Pirates of Maracaibo, and Skyrise.

01:45 - Twinkle Starship 12:42 - Pirates of Maracaibo 23:16 - Skyrise 35:23 - How we've changed 39:42 - Diplomacy 47:43 - Nucleum

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Adrian takes the mic as first player and celebrates all those little things in board gaming when the publishers get it right.  The players around the table recall those little things which make a big difference

FIRST PLAYER: Adrian
OTHER PLAYERS: Dan, Becky & Kerley

OVERVIEW
In this episode you'll learn:
- Becky just can't get enough of Ark Nova on BGA and can now give Kerley a kicking every now and then
- Dan's getting his kids into board gaming with Ticket to Ride First Journey by Days of Wonder
- whether sheep are better than cows in the latest Great Western Tail New Zealand by Eggertspiele
- more about Adrian's flip & write journeys in Next Station: Tokyo
- more about the players round robin experiences of those small things that publishers do which brings a smile to board gamers faces.

LINKS REFERENCED IN THE SHOW
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EPISODE CHAPTERS
0:00 - TURN 1 - Player Count
4:19 - TURN 2 - Let's Talk About Hex
4:34 - Becky - Ark Nova on BGA & Opening Dog Park New Tricks
6:05 - Dan - Ticket to Ride First Journey
9:35 - Kerley - Great Western Trail New Zealand
15:24 - Adrian - Next Station Tokyo
19:29 - TURN 3 - Main Event: All the small things...
20:00 - It's a Wonderful World's turn counter
23:24 - Publisher inserts that are actually quite good
28:10 - The player trays in Eclipse Second Dawn
30:41 - When animeeples really elevated Agricola
35:09 - The textured feel of Wingspan's rulebook
38:54 - The squidgy berries and resources in Everdell
41:48 - When games don't just pick standard player colours
46:07 - Transparent cards in Fallout Shelter & Canvas
48:23 - The rubber hats in Viticulture World
50:36 - Adding that second layer to player boards
57:17 - Creating randomness through inventive dice towers
1:01:06 - TURN 4 - Would you rather play a game which was slightly too small or slightly too big
1:05:12 - TURN 5 - Penultimate Turn: What's Coming Up
1:05:25 - Dan - Terraforming Mars
1:05:52 - Kerley - Kerley - Heroes of Might & Magic III & Anunnaki: Dawn of the Gods
1:07:28 - Becky - JP's Birthday Games Day
1:09:15 - Adrian - Trying an upgraded 3D printer & creating inserts
1:12:27 - TURN 6 - The Final Turn

You can check out JP's new podcast called Just Play right here https://www.justplaypod.co.uk we'd love to have you and also on the new YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@JustPlayPodcast

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