BGB Podcast #280 – Equal and Opposite Interactions

We’re veering into the dark roads of board game classification, but this time with a goal in mind – how to best highlight games that feature strong interaction. Shouldn’t BoardGameGeek have a scale for that somewhere? And while we’re at it, BGG … Before we put our thoughts in the suggestion box, we talk about Guatemala Café, and Ride the Rails.

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Timecodes:

01:56 – Guatemala Café
12:43 – Ride the Rails
23:09 – Quantifying interactivity
25:43 – A Feast for Odin
32:13 – Yucatan
34:31 – What else should be on a BGG page?
37:15 – Stationfall
44:20 – Biblios

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