BGB Podcast #143 – Pace Yourself

Your pace or mine?

Slow and steady might win the race, but it doesn’t make for an exciting board game. Pacing is a vital component of most entertainment mediums that doesn’t often get applied to board games, so we’re going to climb and climb and climb and climb … and then rapidly descend down the roller-coaster of emotion that makes for some of our favourite games. Before we set the pace, we talk about Bus, The Game: Quick & Easy, and Tekhenu: Obelisk of the Sun.

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Timecodes:

02:27 – Bus
21:40 – The Game: Quick & Easy
28:34 – Tekhenu: Obelisk of the Sun
41:50 – Teotihuacan
45:45 – Pacing in Board Games
50:53 – Fast Sloths
52:20 – The Estates
53:39 – Taj Mahal
54:03 – Kemet
54:29 – Rising Sun
55:22 – Food Chain Magnate
55:46 – Archipelago
57:47 – Escape Plan
58:39 – Troyes
1:01:28 – Splendor
1:01:58 – Dogs of War
1:01:58 – Cursed Court
1:03:07 – Time’s Up
1:04:08 – The Voyages of Marco Polo

Thank you to Heart Society for generously letting us use What’s On Your Mind, Kid? from their album Wake the Queens.