Spinning pandas, evolving primates, and... Capitalism! We have all three for you in this episode - thankfully not all in the same game.
We could have had three games about mammals, but we didn't think this through.
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Onto the timestamps:
00:00 Cold open
02:09 Intro
03:45 Panda Spin
18:34 Primates
32:51 Tycoon: India 1981
48:25 Correspondence
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57:34
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57:34
Magical Athlete, Identity, Out of Sorts
Only three games this episode? What gives? Well, in the tried and true brand tradition, we decided to go back to our original formula. But no sad trombone noises please - we're really, definitely, honestly going to make it work this time...
On this episode, we have Identity - a trick taking game that promises personality, Out of Sorts - a game of inventing a cataloguing system for books in an alien library, and Magical Athlete - a game of racing a banana, a giant baby, and various other quirky things round a track.
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On to the timestamps:
00:00 Cold open & intro
05:50 Identity
14:16 Out of Sorts
28:57 Magical Athlete
42:03 Correspondence
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45:22
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45:22
Brink
There are episodes where we bring as much knowledge as we can about whatever board game we are talking about. And then there are episodes where we just want to share why something didn't click so much that we didn't want to go beyond game one. Apropos of nothing, today we'll be chatting about Brink, a "trading cubes in space" game that conceptually riffs on Catan but in execution whiffs on us.
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On to the time stamps:
00:00 Cold Open & Intro
Work in Progress:
2:08 Tenby
7:26 Railroad Tiles
10:42 Rumble Nation
18:53 Winter Rabbit
Audience Correspondence:
25:05 Vantage, Neurodivergence in Board Games
Main Feature:
31:23 Brink
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59:18
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59:18
Hot Streak
Well, Hot Dog! Do we have an episode for you! We peruse the lofty promises of Vantage, try to keep ourselves on track in Railroad Tiles, discuss whether selling doughnuts at night is really worth your time in Taiwan Night Market, and Efka tells us about angry dice you can chuck about in the bath, in Wroth.
But wait! That's not all! The main game on our podium is Hot Streak - which not only has a hot dog, but also a fish, a bear, and HM the Queen herself in a game of racing, falling down, getting back up again, and trying all over again. Phew.
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On to the timestamps:
00:00 Cold Open & Intro
Work in Progress:
00:54 Vantage
19:14 Railroad Tiles
25:01 Taiwan Night Market
28:26 Wroth
Audience Correspondence:
36:19 Gaming Tables
Main Feature:
41:23 Hot Streak
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58:48
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58:48
Toy Battle
Pew pew kaboom! That's the sound of every child's living nightmare - their toys coming to life and unleashing an arsenal of deadly weaponry in their bedroom. Many a sleepless night I've had in my youth with this vivid imagery - blood, guts, plastic viscera strewn across my chewbacca rug - which might I add, also comes alive and eats the other toys... anyway, turns out they made my nightmare into a board game and you can now play it.
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On to the time stamps:
0:00 Cold Open
Work In Progress
0:56 The Old King's Crown
6:24 Ensemble
12:19 Haggis
Audience Correspondence
16:14 Trick Taking
Main Feature
27:51 Toy Battle
Portugal