Podcast Episodes

Every episode of the podcast

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  Episode 366: Collaborative Draft: Games of 2017
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  Episode 365: Gen Con 2026 Preview
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  Episode 364: Mechanism Matchup
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  Episode 363: The Dark Depths of Mailbag
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  Episode 362: Hot Takes About Board Games
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  Episode 361: Collaborative Draft: Games of 2016
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  Episode 360: Guessing Golden Geeks Galore
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  Episode 359: Top Brass
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  Episode 358: Our Listeners' Top 20 Board Games of All-Time 2026
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  Episode 357: We Played a Mass of Games!
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  Episode 356: On the Road Again
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  Episode 355: Anticipation Auction: Games of 2026
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  Episode 354: Don't Call It a Comeback
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  Episode 353: Getting it Just Right
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  Episode 352: Combined Top 50 Games of All-Time 2025 Draft: 10-1
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  Episode 351: Combined Top 50 Games of All-Time 2025 Draft: 30-11
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  Episode 350: Combined Top 50 Games of All-Time 2025 Draft: 50-31
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  Episode 349: Anticipation Auction 2025: And the Winner Is…
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  Episode 348: Got 'Em, Ghost Turkey
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  Episode 347: Bob's Design
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  Episode 346: It’s One Bananagrams, How Much Could It Cost?
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  Episode 345: Essen SPIEL 2025 Hype List
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  Episode 344: ... But the Second Leaves a Mark
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  Episode 343: Fantasy Draft: Card Games
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  Episode 342: Oops! All Foreplay
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  Episode 341: A Little Bit of Mailbag
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  Episode 340: All by Myself
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  Episode 339: One and Done
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  Episode 338: Gen Con 2025 Preview
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  Episode 337: Our Listeners’ Top 20 Board Games of All-Time 2025
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  Episode 336: Happy Little Accidents
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  Episode 335: A Cole New Wehrle
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  Episode 334: Nothing's Done It Better
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  Episode 333: Golden G33ks
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  Episode 332: Hard Pass!
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  Episode 331: One Thing I Hate About You
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  Episode 330: We Played a Load of Games!
• Episode 329
  Episode 329: All the Stars Are Here!
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  Episode 328: Anticipation Auction: Games of 2025
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  Episode 327: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2024: 10-1
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  Episode 326: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2024: Neilan's 30-11
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  Episode 325: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2024: Mark's 30-11
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  Episode 324: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2024: Neilan's 50-31
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  Episode 323: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2024: Mark's 50-31
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  Episode 322: And What a Year It’s Been
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  Episode 321: Fire Away, Ghost Turkey
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  Episode 320: We Played A Clump of Games!
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  Episode 319: One Exception To Rule Them All
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  Episode 318: A Mix of Things We’d Like To See with Mike DiLisio
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  Episode 317: Fantasy Draft: Overrated Games
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  Episode 316: Four Heads Are Better Than One
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  Episode 315: Essen SPIEL 2024 Hype List
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  Episode 314: Bringing Out the Best in People
• Episode 313
  Episode 313: That Don't Impress Me Much
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  Episode 312: Fantasy Draft: Spiel des Jahres Winners
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  Episode 311: Of Lovers and Travel
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  Episode 310: Bob's Decade Delights
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  Episode 309: Moretuary
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  Episode 308: Fantasy Draft: Games To Last a Decade
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  Episode 307: Gotta Guess More Golden Geeks
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  Episode 306: We Could All Use a Little Change
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  Episode 305: Hook, Line, and Sinker
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  Episode 304: Our Listeners’ Top 20 Board Games of All-Time 2024
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  Episode 303: We Played a Pile of Games!
• Episode 302
  Episode 302: A Lotta Prattle About Vlaada Chvátil
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  Episode 301: Our Most Anticipated Games of 2024
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  Episode 300: Resolutions and Ruminations
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  Episode 299: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2023: 10-1
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  Episode 298: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2023: 20-11
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  Episode 297: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2023: 30-21
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  Episode 296: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2023: 40-31
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  Episode 295: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2023: 50-41
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  Episode 294: We Played a Stack of Games!
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  Episode 293: The Great Epochs Of Board Gaming
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  Episode 292: Lightning Round
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  Episode 291: Fantasy Draft: Reiner Knizia
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  Episode 290: Stuck in the Mid With You
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  Episode 289: Essen SPIEL 2023 Hype List
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  Episode 288: Less is More
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  Episode 287: There's a Time and Place for Everything
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  Episode 286: The Worst Duo, Kellen & Mark
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  Episode 285: Starting is Easy, Finishing is Hard
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  Episode 284: Gen Con 2023 Preview
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  Episode 283: Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal
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  Episode 282: A Soupçon of Sackson
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  Episode 281: Fantasy Draft: BoardGameGeek 901-1000
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  Episode 280: Equal and Opposite Interactions
• Episode 279
  Episode 279: Let the Golden Age Begin
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  Episode 278: Check Check Check
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  Episode 277: Definitely Not a Mailbag Episode
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  Episode 276: Fantasy Draft: BoardGameGeek 801-900
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  Episode 275: Building and Breaking Conventions
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  Episode 274: Guessing Golden Geeks
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  Episode 273: Bob Chat
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  Episode 272: Cool Story, Bro
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  Episode 271: The Un-Episode
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  Episode 270: You May Feel a Little Discomfort
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  Episode 269: Keep On Rollin', Bob
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  Episode 268: We Played a Slew of Games!
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  Episode 267: Our Listeners’ Top 20 Board Games of All-Time 2023
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  Episode 266: Don't Mess with Cathala
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  Episode 265: Fantasy Draft: BoardGameGeek 701-800
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  Episode 264: Kellen
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  Episode 263: Our Most Anticipated Games of 2023
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  Episode 262: The Sweet Sound of Mailbag
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  Episode 261: Resolutions and Ramifications
• Episode 260
  Episode 260: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2022: 10-1
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  Episode 259: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2022: 20-11
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  Episode 258: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2022: 30-21
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  Episode 257: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2022: 40-31
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  Episode 256: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2022: 50-41
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  Episode 255: Kellen Played a Hop of Games!
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  Episode 254: A Celebration of Innovation
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  Episode 253: The Ghost of Turkeys Past
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  Episode 252: Digital Killed the Tabletop Star
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  Episode 251: Tabling the Teach
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  Episode 250: The Times They Are a-Changin'
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  Episode 249: The Essence of Excess
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  Episode 248: The Need for Theme
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  Episode 247: We Played A Heap of Games!
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  Episode 246: SHUX 2022 Live with Tom Brewster
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  Episode 245: Essen SPIEL 2022 Hype List
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  Episode 244: Quick Count
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  Episode 243: We’re on Each Other’s Team
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  Episode 242: Second Time's the Charm
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  Episode 241: Fantasy Draft: BoardGameGeek 601-700
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  Episode 240: The Pillars of Recreation
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  Episode 239: We're Back and We Brought Lots of Games
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  Episode 237: Where Are They Now?
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  Episode 236: Gen Con 2022 Preview
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  Episode 235: The Twin Game Showdown
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  Episode 234: It’s About Family with Ambie Valdés from Board Game Blitz
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  Episode 233: A Decade of Missed Games: 2010-2019
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  Episode 232: Transcontinental Mailbag Express
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  Episode 231: Why Fight When You Can Negotiate?
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  Episode 230: Worth the Weight
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  Episode 229: The Positives of Being Negative
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  Episode 228: Bob Is Beautiful
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  Episode 227: Board Games: The Sequel: Part II: Electric Boogaloo
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  Episode 226: Metapod
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  Episode 225: Itchy, Tasty
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  Episode 224: Golden Geek Awards 2021
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  Episode 223: Ye Olden Games with Mark Bigney from So Very Wrong About Games
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  Episode 222: Are You the Gatekeeper?
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  Episode 221: P-P-P-Party Questions
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  Episode 220: Fantasy Draft: BoardGameGeek 501-600
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  Episode 219: A Perfect Ten
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  Episode 218: Our Listeners’ Top 20 Board Games of All-Time 2022
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  Episode 217: We Got Rid of a Bunch of Games!
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  Episode 216: We’re Doing This Together!
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  Episode 215: Some Like It H-H-H-Hot
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  Episode 214: Bob's Alright (For Fighting)
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  Episode 213: Approach Without Caution
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  Episode 212: Two Can Play At That Game
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  Episode 211: Our Most Anticipated Games of 2022
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  Episode 210: No One Man Should Have All That Power
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  Episode 209: Holiday Hits and Hot Questions
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  Episode 208: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2021: 10-1 (ft. Tom Brewster)
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  Episode 207: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2021: 20-11 (ft. Ambie Valdés)
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  Episode 206: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2021: 30-21 (ft. Mike Walker)
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  Episode 205: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2021: 40-31 (ft. Monique & Naveen)
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  Episode 204: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2021: 50-41 (ft. Mike Dilisio)
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  Episode 203: You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
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  Episode 202: Your Fulfilled Potential
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  Episode 201: I Choose You, Ghost Turkey!
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  Episode 200: The Big 200 Spectacular
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  Episode 199: Amerigames and Eurotrash
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  Episode 198: Making Memories
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  Episode 197: Fantasy Draft: BoardGameGeek 401-500
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  Episode 196: Question Time with Jeremy
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  Episode 195: Eric, Eric, He's Our Lang
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  Episode 194: Essen SPIEL 2021 Hype List
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  Episode 193: Three Dimensions of Space
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  Episode 192: Fantasy Draft: BoardGameGeek 301-400
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  Episode 191: Take Off Every Zig
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  Episode 190: Why Are You the Way That You Are?
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  Episode 189: Uwe Baby
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  Episode 188: Whatever It Takes
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  Episode 187: Fantasy Draft: BoardGameGeek 201-300
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  Episode 186: Don’t Knock It Till You Try It
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  Episode 185: The Most Important Meal of the Day
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  Episode 184: Science Based Friction
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  Episode 183: Catch a Falling Wallace ...?
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  Episode 182: Fantasy Draft: BoardGameGeek 101-200
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  Episode 181: Save Dat Money
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  Episode 180: The Rules of Investing
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  Episode 179: Ignorance Is Bliss
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  Episode 178: The Power of Production
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  Episode 177: Fantasy Draft: BoardGameGeek Top 100
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  Episode 176: Sweet Summer Lovin'
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  Episode 175: Cute As a Button
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  Episode 174: Live Your Legacy
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  Episode 173: Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Games
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  Episode 172: Don't Hate the Player, Hate the Game
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  Episode 1: I'm Not Upset, I'm Just Disappointed
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  Episode 2: Catching Trains and Mathing Trades
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  Episode 3: Double Dragonfly
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  Episode 4: Buy Buy Buy
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  Episode 5: It's Good To Be Kingmaker
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  Episode 6: Today's Theme: Pronunciation
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  Episode 7: Kicking and Screaming
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  Episode 8: Just Deserts
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  Episode 9: PhD in Legacy
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  Episode 10: Everyone is Wrong and We are Right
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  Episode 11: Heavy is the Head that Wears the Crown
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  Episode 12: More Isn't Always Better
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  Episode 13: We're Still Right
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  Episode 14: Do You Want to Know a Secret?
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  Episode 15: Keep Your Hands to Yourself
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  Episode 16: How to Win Friends Area Control People
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  Episode 17: The Best Things in Life Are $20 or Less
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  Episode 18: You Get What You Give
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  Episode 19: What Are You Made Of?
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  Episode 20: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
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  Episode 21: The Beautiful Game
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  Episode 22: Baby's First Social Interaction
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  Episode 23: Are You Feeling Lucky?
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  Episode 24: Gen Con 2018 Preview
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  Episode 25: Gen Con 2018 Day One
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  Episode 26: Gen Con 2018 Day Two
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  Episode 27: Gen Con 2018 Day Three
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  Episode 28: Dance Like Nobody’s Watching
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  Episode 29: Cult of the You Do You
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  Episode 30: Party Party Party
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  Episode 31: Logged and Loaded
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  Episode 32: Are We Having Fun Yet?
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  Episode 33: You Can't Win 'Em All
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  Episode 34: You Know the Rules and So Do I
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  Episode 35: The Power of Balance
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  Episode 36: Your Unfulfilled Potential
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  Episode 37: Origin Story
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  Episode 38: Six Things I Hate About You
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  Episode 39: Essen SPIEL 2018 Preview
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  Episode 40: Bling It On
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  Episode 41: The First Cut Is the Deepest
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  Episode 42: We've Been Co-opted
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  Episode 43: My Triumphs, My Mistakes
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  Episode 44: Red Letter Episode
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  Episode 45: Green Letter Episode?
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  Episode 46: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2018: 50-41
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  Episode 47: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2018: 40-31
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  Episode 48: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2018: 30-21
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  Episode 49: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2018: 20-11
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  Episode 50: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2018: 10-1
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  Episode 51: The Best of Times
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  Episode 52: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Theme
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  Episode 53: Objection!
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  Episode 54: 2019: An Up and Coming Year
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  Episode 55: Answerversary
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  Episode 56: Shelf of Shape Up or Ship Out
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  Episode 57: Where There's a Will, There's a Gateway
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  Episode 58: Game Board Confessional
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  Episode 59: Ain't Nothing Like It
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  Episode 60: Tabling the Discussion
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  Episode 61: Beware of the Cyber
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  Episode 62: A Melange of Games to Play Again
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  Episode 63: Hype Men
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  Episode 64: Are Games Even Fun?
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  Episode 65: Board Games and Chill
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  Episode 66: The Only Winning Move
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  Episode 67: Shelf Life
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  Episode 68: A Mailbag of Biblical Proportions
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  Episode 69: Bang for Your Buck
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  Episode 70: Spiel des Jahres! The Games War!
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  Episode 71: A Hate-Love Relationship
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  Episode 72: The Long and the Short of It
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  Episode 73: Dictionary Attack
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  Episode 74: Story Time with Paula Deming
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  Episode 75: Failing Forward
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  Episode 76: Gen Con 2019 Preview
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  Episode 77: What You Don’t Know Can’t Hurt You
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  Episode 78: You Gotta Get a Gimmick
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  Episode 79: Gen Con 2019 Day One
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  Episode 80: Gen Con 2019 Day Two
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  Episode 81: Gen Con 2019 Day Three
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  Episode 82: Tales from the Tables
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  Episode 83: Dexterous Laboratory
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  Episode 84: Best With Two
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  Episode 85: Episode Too: Attack of the Adjectives
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  Episode 86: Shame! Shame! Shame!
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  Episode 87: The Game of Life
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  Episode 88: Essen SPIEL 2019 Preview
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  Episode 89: Classified Information
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  Episode 90: Timmy, Jenny, Spike
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  Episode 91: SHUX 2019 Live with Quintin Smith
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  Episode 92: Chasing the MacGuffin
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  Episode 93: Tap Tap, No Take-Backs
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  Episode 94: Even When You're Losing
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  Episode 95: Holiday Hits
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  Episode 96: The House of Bounce
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  Episode 97: Eleven Herbs and Biases
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  Episode 98: Thanks, Ghost Turkey!
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  Episode 99: Sore Today, Strong Tomorrow
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  Episode 100: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2019: 50-41
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  Episode 101: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2019: 40-31
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  Episode 102: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2019: 30-21
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  Episode 103: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2019: 20-11
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  Episode 104: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2019: 10-1
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  Episode 105: Resolutions and Revelations
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  Episode 106: Popcorn Time with Mike DiLisio
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  Episode 107: Get It Right the First Time
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  Episode 108: We Have to Go Back
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  Episode 109: Harshing My Buzz
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  Episode 110: One Small Thing
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  Episode 111: Conventional Wisdom
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  Episode 112: We Played a Bunch of Games!
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  Episode 113: Trust is Good, Area Control is Better
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  Episode 114: Let It Grow
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  Episode 115: Gone But Not Forgotten
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  Episode 116: The Cyber Reloaded
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  Episode 117: All Decked Out
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  Episode 118: Of the Utmost Importance
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  Episode 119: The Seven Week Itch
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  Episode 120: Light on the Horizon
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  Episode 121: FANTASTIC Four with Mike Walker from So Very Wrong About Games
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  Episode 122: Strongest Starter
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  Episode 123: Filler Up
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  Episode 124: Constraints You Can See
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  Episode 125: REwrite the Stars
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  Episode 126: So Very Wrong About Games
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  Episode 127: No Stupid Questions
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  Episode 128: The Means of Production with Richard Simpson
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  Episode 129: Fight for Your Right to Party
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  Episode 130: And the Award Goes To ...
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  Episode 131: But At What Cost?
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  Episode 132: Heavy Duty with Monique from Before You Play
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  Episode 133: Light It Up
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  Episode 134: CHAOS!
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  Episode 135: Social Climbing
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  Episode 136: H-h-h-hot Hot Hot
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  Episode 137: Past Its Prime
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  Episode 138: Life's Lessons Learned
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  Episode 139: Bugbear Brawl
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  Episode 140: All About Auctions
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  Episode 141: Expectations Great and Small
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  Episode 142: Play Me a Memory
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  Episode 143: Pace Yourself
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  Episode 144: Zero to One Hundred: Red Tank’s $100 Collection
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  Episode 145: Zero to One Hundred: $100 Collection Triple Triumph
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  Episode 146: Essen SPIEL 2020 Hype List
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  Episode 147: The Great Compromise
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  Episode 148: Your Comfort Zone
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  Episode 149: Have You No Shame?
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  Episode 150: Revenge of the Ghost Turkey
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  Episode 151: Your Attention Please
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  Episode 152: Bob's Holiday Gift Guide
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  Episode 153: Never Look Back at 2020
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  Episode 154: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2020: 50-41
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  Episode 155: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2020: 40-31
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  Episode 156: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2020: 30-21
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  Episode 157: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2020: 20-11
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  Episode 158: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2020: 10-1
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  Episode 159: Picking Favorites
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  Episode 160: Resolutions and Revisitations
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  Episode 161: Mechanically Bullish
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  Episode 162: God Does Not Play Dice
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  Episode 163: Our Listeners' Top 20 Board Games of All-Time 2021
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  Episode 164: Get Uncomfortable
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  Episode 165: Thriving or Barely Surviving?
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  Episode 171: A Complimentary Compilation
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  Episode 166: You’ve Got to Iterate to Innovate
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  Episode 170: Friedemann Friese Frenzy
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  Episode 169: Our Most Anticipated Games of 2021
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  Episode 168: Board Games Suck with Dan Hughes from Sporadically Board
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  Episode 167: Cleanin’ Out My Closet