Okay, things are a bit different this year. In honour of our 350th episode (a very important milestone), we’re going to combine forces, like … Voltron. I’m the head, and my left and right feet are here with me to collaboratively (yes, you heard right) compile Board Game Barrage’s definitive (definitely definitive) top 50 board games… of all-time!
Remember way back at the beginning of the year when we took some bets on what we thought the games of the year were gonna be? Well, all those good and bad decisions are back to help or haunt us, as we tally up where things stand with the end of the year results. Before we find a winner, we talk about Wriggle Roulette, Whale Street, and Scales of Fate.
Somehow Ghost Turkey returned. And you never saw it coming! That might be because we forgot to remind people that it’s Thanksgiving, but never mind that, the important thing is you’re fools. Not us though, we’re back with yet another juicy, cranberry soaked list of bird gaming goodness. Gobble gobble!
BGBBOB is back, and it’s been long enough that you might need a reminder. Ten game designers enter the ring, and through the arduous process of one vs one battles, we arrive at our (and not just our, but the) definitive ranked list of … these particular designers. It’s science. Before we fight it out, we talk about Iliad, The Old King’s Crown, and Franchise.
Not perturbed by Kellen’s trip to Germany, we’re all daydreaming about the motherlode of board game conventions, Essen SPIEL. There’s a lot of games coming to the show, and because we’re not going, and presumably you aren’t either, we’ll just tell you what’s going to be there instead! The good stuff, anyway. Before we Germinate, we talk about Calimala, Tír na nÓg, and Typewriter.
Dreaded continuity! We’re following up Episode 41 from seven years ago about the games that started our love for board games! After those first loves, what really got our hearts aflutter with the joy that the hobby had to offer? Before we yearn, we talk about Der Fliegende Holländer, and The Hobbit: There and Back Again.
The draft’s back! This time it’s card games, and we’re picking the bestof what ought to be a staple of any good collection. We love card games, we love drafting games, and you love winning money, so be sure to vote for whoever you think drafted the best set, and you could win a $100 gift card! Before deal everyone in, we talk about Money!, Venture, and Fishing.
There’s any number of subtle innuendoes we could’ve gone with, but this is what we’re doing I guess. If you haven’t got there yet, we’re talking about games that aren’t just slow rides, but instead leave you gasping for more right as they climax. Before we finish, we talk about No Loose Ends, Eselsbrücke, and The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship.
One, two, three, four, five, everybody in the car so come on let’s ride … to the mailbag! We’re answering your pressing questions – and oh how they press – about all manner of things: Crowdfunding ads! Narrative games! Getting jaded about board games! You wrote in because you had to know what we thought, and who are we to say no. Before we get covered in papercuts, we talk about Wheedle, Dune: War for Arrakis, and Transgalactica.
Are board games best played multiplayer? Who can say, but whether it’s because you can’t get people together at the appropriate time, or you’re just itching to play something on your lonesome, there’s a burgeoning scene of solo games out there waiting to be played, and we’re going to talk about them. Well, some of us are, anyway. Before we go it alone, we talk about Hunted: Kobayashi Tower, Corps of Discovery, and Senji.