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Pandemic Legacy: Season 1

2022-01-23T15:12:22Z

GManAvalon:

In Pandemic Legacy: Season 1, players fight to control four diseases across 12 months. This starts out similar to Pandemic, but the game board, card decks, and more will change permanently based on player's decisions. This is the first game released in the Pandemic Legacy trilogy, with Season 2 being a sequel and Season 0 a prequel.

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Pandemic Legacy: Season 1

2022-01-23T15:11:23Z

GManAvalon:

Obscurio

2022-01-20T03:43:36Z

GManAvalon:

A cooperative Libellud game of deciphering surreal hints in a wizard's tower while one player secretly sabotages things and leads other players astray.

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7 Wonders

2021-11-08T21:08:57Z

GManAvalon:

An award-winning game of drafting cards across three rounds to build a superior civilization and possibly complete a wonder of the world.

7 Wonders won the Kennerspiel des Jahres in 2011.
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Village

2021-11-08T21:08:12Z

GManAvalon:

Village won the Kennerspiel des Jahres in 2012.
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Istanbul

2021-11-08T21:07:29Z

GManAvalon:

Istanbul won the Kennerspiel des Jahres in 2014.
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Exit: The Game

2021-11-08T21:06:55Z

GManAvalon:

Not one, but a family of games that are designed to mimic an escape room. Exit: the Game is a timed, cooperative or solo puzzle that often involves using components in clever and unexpected ways. The games can only be played once, as solving it involves folding, marking, tearing, or otherwise destroying certain components.

Exit: The Game won the Kennerspiel des Jahres in 2017.
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The Quacks of Quedlinburg

2021-11-08T21:05:52Z

GManAvalon:

The Quacks of Quedlinburg won the Kennerspiel des Jahres in 2018.
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Wingspan

2021-11-08T21:04:43Z

GManAvalon:

Wingspan won the Kennerspiel des Jahres in 2019.
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The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine

2021-11-08T21:04:11Z

GManAvalon:

The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine is a trick-taking card game with the unique twist that players work together to complete a series of missions. It recently received a sequel game with an undersea theme, new missions, and some slight rules changes.

The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine won the Kennerspiel des Jahres in 2020.
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Paleo

2021-11-08T21:03:14Z

GManAvalon:

Paleo won the Kennerspiel des Jahres in 2021.
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Scotland Yard

2021-11-08T20:59:04Z

GManAvalon:

Scotland Yard won the Spiel des Jahres in 1983.
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Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective

2021-11-08T20:57:00Z

GManAvalon:

Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective won the Spiel des Jahres in 1985.
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Catan

2021-11-08T20:53:00Z

GManAvalon:

Perhaps the most famous hobby board game, Catan (once titled "Settlers of Catan") is about expanding and building settlements to acquire goods, then collecting and trading those goods to build cities and developments for points.

Catan won the Spiel des Jahres in 1995.
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El Grande

2021-11-08T20:51:39Z

GManAvalon:

Perhaps the most elegant, classic area control game in the hobby and a favorite of the podcast, in El Grande, players spend one-time initiative cards from their hand to claim actions and take control of strategic locations across medieval Spain. But plans can be turned upside-down when the Castillo spills out its soldiers.

El Grande won the Spiel des Jahres in 1996.

[[Image:Red_Tank.png|50px|link=User:RedTank]]  '''Top 10''' - [[Episode 158|2020]], [[Episode 104|2019]], [[Episode 50|2018]]

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Carcassonne

2021-11-08T20:49:13Z

GManAvalon:

A classic family game of laying tiles and collectively building out a French countryside while placing meeples to claim features, gaining points when they are completed.

Carcassonne won the Spiel des Jahres in 2001.
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Alhambra

2021-11-08T20:47:52Z

GManAvalon:

A tile-laying game of managing four different currencies to buy buildings and expand your palace, now with a big box version and lots of small expansions.

Alhambra won the Spiel des Jahres in 2003.
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Ticket to Ride

2021-11-08T20:47:06Z

GManAvalon:

Ticket to Ride won the Spiel des Jahres in 2004.
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Niagara

2021-11-08T20:45:43Z

GManAvalon:

Niagara won the Spiel des Jahres in 2005.
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Dominion

2021-11-08T20:43:58Z

GManAvalon:

The original deckbuilding game, in which players use gold to buy from a central market of action cards, more gold, and victory points, improving their deck every time they draw through and reshuffle it. Points are imperative to win, but since they do nothing else, buying them too early will make your deck weak. Dominion has received over a dozen expansions since its release.

Dominion won the Spiel des Jahres in 2009.

[[Image:Orange_Tank.png|50px|link=User:Neilan]]  '''Top 10''' - [[Episode 50|2018]]
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Dixit

2021-11-08T20:42:51Z

GManAvalon:

Dixit won the Spiel des Jahres in 2010.
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Qwirkle

2021-11-08T20:42:08Z

GManAvalon:

Qwirkle won the Spiel des Jahres in 2011.
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Kingdom Builder

2021-11-08T20:41:16Z

GManAvalon:

Kingdom Builder is a lightweight game of spreading your kingdom across the countryside a few settlements at a time, trying to block off your opponent's growth and reach key positions to fulfill goals and earn the most points. You're limited each turn to the terrain type that you draw, so you have to make the most of it and expand your options for the future.

Kingdom Builder won the Spiel des Jahres in 2012.
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Hanabi

2021-11-08T20:40:18Z

GManAvalon:

Hanabi won the Spiel des Jahres in 2013.
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Camel Up

2021-11-08T20:39:22Z

GManAvalon:

Camel Up won the Spiel des Jahres in 2014.
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Colt Express

2021-11-08T20:38:40Z

GManAvalon:

Colt Express is a simple programming game among bandits on a speeding train, planning out actions to attack, move, and grab loot, then revealing them one by one to see how they pan out. The game is played on an actual 3D cardboard train rather than a board.

Colt Express won the Spiel des Jahres in 2015.
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Codenames

2021-11-08T20:37:43Z

GManAvalon:

Codenames is a party word game by varied designer Vlaada Chvatil. It is played in teams, with one codemaster on a team giving a single word hint that points their team members to as many central word cards as possible while steering them away from accidentally choosing an opponent's.

Codenames won the Spiel des Jahres in 2016.

[[Image:Orange_Tank.png|50px|link=User:Neilan]]  '''Top 10''' - [[Episode 158|2020]], [[Episode 104|2019]], [[Episode 50|2018]]
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Kingdomino

2021-11-08T20:35:24Z

GManAvalon:

A simple family game by designer Bruno Cathala where players claim domino-like realm tiles to add to their kingdom, but whoever picks the best tile will choose last in the next round.

Kingdomino won the Spiel des Jahres in 2017.
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Azul

2021-11-08T20:33:53Z

GManAvalon:

A modern classic, this is a family-weight abstract game of cleverly building out your board with lovely-looking tiles.

Azul won the Spiel des Jahres in 2018.
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Just One

2021-11-08T20:33:03Z

GManAvalon:

A very simple, cooperative, party game in which players must give one-word hints to help someone guess a word - but they can't be too obvious, as duplicate answers are erased before they're revealed.

Just One won the Spiel des Jahres in 2019.
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Pictures

2021-11-08T20:32:31Z

GManAvalon:

Pictures won the Spiel des Jahres in 2020.
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MicroMacro: Crime City

2021-11-08T20:31:24Z

GManAvalon:

A solo or cooperative puzzle that presents players with a huge, intricately detailed cityscape packed with cartoon denizens. Players then unpack the details of a series of mysteries by scanning for clues and following threads across the scene.

MicroMacro: Crime City won the Spiel des Jahres in 2021.
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MicroMacro: Crime City

2021-11-08T20:31:06Z

GManAvalon:

A solo or cooperative puzzle that presents players with a huge, intricately detailed cityscape packed with cartoon denizens. Players then unpack the details of a series of mysteries by scanning for clues and following threads across the scene.
MicroMacro: Crime City won the Spiel des Jahres in 2021.
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Pandemic

2021-11-08T20:25:17Z

GManAvalon:

Designed by Matt Leacock, Pandemic has prompted numerous spin-off games and has strongly impacted cooperative game design as a whole. Players take on specialized roles and use a limited number of actions to travel the world and cure a quartet of diseases without letting any of them get out of control.
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The Oracle of Delphi

2021-11-08T16:51:50Z

GManAvalon:

Oracle of Delphi is a race game by Stefan Feld in which players use their dice results as efficiently as possibly to sail between islands and complete quests for Zeus.
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Oceans

2021-11-08T16:44:12Z

GManAvalon:

Oceans is a follow-up to Evolution and builds on the concept of adding traits to animals to survive best among the species other players are developing. In Oceans, you only develop aquatic species, and you modify them with a common set of simple adaptations as well as a hugely diverse deck of bizarre adaptations. The latter will cost you points, though, so choose carefully.
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The North

2021-11-08T15:19:10Z

GManAvalon:

A design by John Clowdus of Small Box Games, The North is a minimalistic 2-player game with multi-use cards that create a surprising strategic depth. Players seek to damage each other's health while they play cards as either ancients or facilities, creating combos and bringing bizarre, arcane technology and organisms to life in the mysterious, frozen wasteland.
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No Thanks!

2021-11-08T15:14:50Z

GManAvalon:

A quick, easy card game in which players bid chits to avoid taking points until the player with the fewest points wins. Play involves either paying a chip to pass on the face-up point card, or taking it, adding its points to your score but also gaining all the chips players have contributed, allowing you to pass longer in the future.
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Nidavellir

2021-11-08T15:07:51Z

GManAvalon:

A game of gathering dwarves from the local taverns to go slay a dragon, Nidavellir has players bid on dwarves of various trades using differently valued coins from their hand in an attempt to create high-scoring sets and attract unique heroes. The coins you keep in hand grow in value, so bidding low will get you last pick early on but skyrocket your recruiting power later.
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Nidavellir

2021-11-08T15:07:38Z

GManAvalon:

New Frontiers: The Race for the Galaxy Board Game

2021-11-06T01:44:59Z

GManAvalon:

A reimplementation of the popular Race for the Galaxy card game, New Frontiers returns to some of the elements of the seminal inspiration, Puerto Rico, by reintroducing player boards and a single shared pool of actions. Players explore then settle worlds, purchase developments, and exploit their worlds' resources for credits and victory points.
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Mysterium

2021-11-06T01:33:49Z

GManAvalon:

Mysterium builds heavily on the concept of the party game Dixit. It is a cooperative game in which players, as gathered psychics, must work out the details of an old murder purely from surreal art cards given to them by the silent ghost player.
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My City

2021-11-06T01:28:11Z

GManAvalon:

A lightweight legacy game designed by Dr. Reiner Knizia in which players choose how to fit a sequence of polyomino buildings onto their personal board, adapating to the twists and new rules and that each game introduces.
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Mouse Trap

2021-11-06T01:10:35Z

GManAvalon:

An old family game in which players take actions at random by rolling and moving along the board, gradually building an excessively complicated mouse trap and hoping to catch their opponents in it and be the last mouse remaining.
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Monopoly

2021-11-06T00:53:30Z

GManAvalon:

One of the most well known and popular board games of the 20th century, Monopoly was originally designed by Lizzie Magie as The Landlord's Game to demonstrate the problems with monopolies. The idea was seemingly stolen and the game now sees players rolling dice to move around the board and purchase or bid on properties, charging anyone who lands on them exorbitant rent if you control all like properties, until one player has all the money renaining in the game. The game is frequently criticized in the hobby for running too long and having too few meaningful decisions.
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Monikers

2021-11-06T00:28:58Z

GManAvalon:

A charades-like party game in which players must communicate a card to their team through hints, then a single word, then only miming. Nearly identical in concept to Time's Up! and its variants, Monikers adds a point system with some cards worth more than others.
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Modern Art

2021-11-06T00:23:38Z

GManAvalon:

Modern Art is an early design by Dr. Reiner Knizia in which players bid on art through a variety of auctions. However, the value of the paintings won't be determined until the end of a round, when only the paintings of the artists who sold the most will be worth anything.
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The Mind

2021-11-06T00:17:53Z

GManAvalon:

A cooperative card game in which players must play their numbered cards into the middle from lowest to highest without speaking. There is no turn order, and players read each other and play whenever they feel they should, with more and more cards every new round.
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MicroMacro: Crime City

2021-11-06T00:12:02Z

GManAvalon:

Men At Work

2021-11-06T00:03:18Z

GManAvalon:

Men at Work is a comical dexterity game in which players collectively build a lopsided construction site and attempt to perilously stack workers on it without bringing the whole thing down.
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