Oh yeah! The Founders are back with another jam-packed episode of The Secret Cabal featuring: Fort, Bios Genesis, Titanic, Just One, Mercado de Lisboa, The Search for Planet X, Living Planet and Root Digital. Then Don and Jamie take a deeper dive into Marvel United from CMON and look back at Tzolk'in The Mayan Calendar from CGE. After Tony T pins the wild meter to the red with his wonderful news segment, we jump into a Short Topic Extravaganza including board game bloat, the best games with the worst components and board games for miniatures gamers.
Marvel United Overview 01:07:23, Marvel United Review 01:10:24, Lookback of Tzolk'in The Mayan Calendar 01:27:27, News with Tony T 01:30:23, Short Topic Extravaganza 02:29:04
Nick has the chair as he takes us through what he believes is a normal show... Nick's normal is not normal.
This Game is Broken is a comedy board game panel show with Matthew Jude, Dave Luza, Paula Deming, Nick Murphy and Mike Murphy. We play a lot of nonsense games full of role playing and trivia as well as other fun stuff which can be found at the links below.
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In today's quick episode, we discuss Papayoo, Welcome to Dino World, and Gudetama. We cover a couple of board game apps... and double down on digital in an Analog Inspired Game Pie.
The mere framing of a question can subtly or overtly determine the answer. There's an old joke about a monk who asks his superior, "Can I smoke while I meditate?" He is told no, as that would be sullying an act that is meant to be free from worldly concerns. The clever monk decides instead to ask another superior, "While I smoke, can I meditate?" So it is with boardgames! Framing can have tremendous consequences.
01:55 AYURIS: XenoShyft: Onslaught (Keren Philosophales & Michael Shinall, CMON, 2015) and Dreadmire (Michael Shinall, CMON, 2017)
Games Played Last Week: 04:35 -Assault on Doomrock: Doompocalypse (Christopher Niewiadomski & Tom Stasiak, Beautiful Disaster Games, 2017) 06:47 -Alma Mater (Acchittocca, Flaminia Brasini, Virginio Gigli, Stefano Luperto, & Antonio Tinto, eggertspiele, 2020) 11:50 -Spirit Island: Jagged Earth (R. Eric Reuss, Greater Than Games, 2020) 15:13 -Marco Polo II: In the Service of the Khan (Simone Luciani & Daniele Tascini, Hans im Gluck, 2019) 17:36 -Inhuman Conditions (Tommy Maranges & Cory O'Brien, Web published, 2018) 23:43 -First Class (Helmut Ohley, Hans im Gluck, 2016) 26:35 -Argent: Summer Break (Trey Chambers, Level 99 Games, 2014) 35:55 -On the Edge (John Nephew & Johnathan Tweet, Atlas Games, 1994)
News (and why it doesn't matter): 40:23 Sakura Arms from Level 99 Games 42:27 Armada by Mantic 43:27 Groundhog Day by Prospero Hall 44:10 Renegade and Hasbro monetize your childhood: G.I. Joe, Transformers, and My Little Pony 44:53 Nerd Alert: First Monday in October
This week's guest is biblical scholar, Latin teacher and evangelist for Solo Games, Elizabeth Davidson. We talk about playing alone, why Christianity was so successful and how David Hasselhoff is in real life...but which games did she choose? A deck of cards. Lord of the Rings LCG Mage Knight Too Many Bones Aeon's End
Reviews of Pandemic Legacy: Season 0, Mythos Tales, Aqualin. Featured review: Greenville 1989 by Sorry We Are French; Reroll Horrified by Ravensburger. Board game discussion starts at 24:08. https://bluepegpinkpeg.com/ep181.
Thank you to our sponsors: Queen Games and Grand Gamers Guild.
Timestamps:
00:24:08 - Pandemic Legacy: Season 0; 00:32:36 - Mythos Tales; 00:41:25 - SilenZe: Zombie City; 00:49:33 - The Science and Séance Society; 01:00:00 - Mia London and the Case of the 625 Scoundrels; 01:04:39 - In a Flash Firefighter; 01:08:26 - Aqualin; 01:12:08 - News; 01:23:19 - Tara Interview; 01:43:05 - Greenville 1989; 02:28:34 - Reroll Horrified
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Timestamps:
NPI News ( 1:08 )
Games We’ve Been Playing ( 02:48 )
The King is Dead ( 03:32 )
Super Skill Pinball 4-Cade ( 08:26 )
Calico ( 22:57 )
Too Many Bones: Undertow ( 33:23 )
Games We’re Looking Forward To ( 43:51 )
Efka Grumps a Board Game ( 46:58 ) HeroQuest
Elaine Ungrumps a Board Game ( 54:21 )
Puzzle Deduction One and Done Escape Room Segment ( 58:55 ) Star Wars Unlock
Feature Review - Iwari ( 1:12:10 )
Blessed are the forgetful, because they don't have to play memory games? After all, games with a strong memory component often get a bad rap in the hobby. We look at some of the reasons why very few games want to test your memory, and just to be otherwise, we discuss some of our favourite games that do. Before we walk our mind palaces, we talk about Fort, Under Falling Skies, and Tellstones: King's Gambit.
01:47 - Fort 10:15 - Under Falling Skies 17:56 - Tellstones: King's Gambit 29:37 - Ghost Turkey 2020 32:52 - Memory as a Game Mechanic 38:43 - Carnival of Monsters 39:38 - Inis 42:01 - El Grande 45:51 - Modern Art 47:50 - Tigris & Euphrates 48:43 - Time's Up! 51:09 - Cthulhu Wars 53:08 - Heroes of Land, Air & Sea 56:03 - Aeon's End 57:24 - Dune Check out Optimal Play's Tellstones playthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3x7oZRfCs0
In this Patreon supported bonus show we finally do a real Board Game Podcast as we each bring our unique top 5 to talk about.
This Game is Broken is a comedy board game panel show with Matthew Jude, Dave Luza, Paula Deming, Nick Murphy and Mike Murphy. We play a lot of nonsense games full of role playing and trivia as well as other fun stuff which can be found at the links below.
This Game is Broken is eternally thankful to our Sponsors Restoration Games Find them at https://restorationgames.com/
Why not join The Board Game BBQ Community page on Facebook. It's a place where everyone can post about their games, write reviews, engage with the community, and support each other. Regardless of if you are a casual gamer, a designer, an artist, a content creator - everyone is welcome!
In episode 65 Jamie and Don welcome Honorary Founder, Rodney Smith of Watch It Played, to discuss reviewing board games including the perceptions of viewers, the integrity of the reviewer, what makes good reviews and more.
In today's episode, The guy's talk about their recent plays, give an update on their gaming resolutions and review Food Chain Magnate: The Ketchup expansion.
00:00 - Banter/Intro
02:21 - Roads & Boats: 20th Anniversary Edition
08:35 - Lisboa: Queen Variant
11:42 - Bonfire
17:45 - Babylonia
23:13 - Gaming Resolution Update
31:52 - Food Chain Magnate: The Ketchup Mechanism & Other Ideas Review
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01:16:48 - Clef's Game
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Suzanne joins us as we review Ohanami, Marvel United, Hierarchy, Micro City, Finished!, and Inhuman Conditions. Geoff talks about Markov Chains, we talk about dessert and games, skirmish games, and other questions. And finally, we end the show talking about games that defy "Vasel's Law" which states 'Every great game will eventually be reprinted'.
Social standards of behaviour are often subtle and variable, but we can all agree that children are often blind to their subtle nuances. Like, don't be a massive jerk--that's one of those tricky nuances that often escape the notice of your average child, what with many of them being borderline sociopaths kept in check only by their relative powerlessness and incompetence. Then again, perhaps Mark is the sociopath for not being able to tolerate the annoyances of child behaviour. Then again, perhaps both are true, and Mark is merely a giant, sociopathic man-baby. All that said, no human deserves to be subjected to Monopoly.
Games Played Last Week: 01:20 -Monopoly (Charles Darrow & Elizabeth J. Magie Phillips, Hasbro, 1933) 06:55 -Pendulum (Travis P Jones, Stonemaier Games, 2020) 16:53 -The Crew: The Quest for Planet 9 (Thomas Sing, KOSMOS, 2019) 17:48 -My City (Reiner Knizia, KOSMOS, 2020) 19:35 -Flick ‘Em Up: Dead of Winter (Gaëtan Beaujannot, Jonathan Gilmour, Jean Yves Monpertuis, & Isaac Vega, Pretzel Games, 2017) 21:51 -Cthulhu Wars (Sandy Petersen & Lincoln Petersen, Petersen Games, 2015) 24:25 -Pandoria (Jeffrey D. Allers & Bernd Eisenstein, Irongames, 2018) 28:06 -For What Remains (Paul Low, David Thompson, & Ricardo Manuel Luis Tomas, DVG Games, 2020)
News (and why it doesn't matter): 30:48 HeroQuest, and much history of Hasbro 38:14 Quartermaster General: Total War expansion 38:42 The Last of Us 39:55 GMT makes good on recent errata 40:49 Grand Austria Hotel gets grander? 41:21 For Sale expansion and Autorama 43:14 Dragonland reprint
00:00 Intro19:00 Tellstones29:00 Silver Dagger36:00 Yukon Airways41:22 Marvel Champions: Rise of Red Skull44:51 Ohanami50:00 The Broken Token51:44 Empires of the North: Barbarians57:35 Toy Hall of Fame Nominees1:10:45 Portal Games1:12:04 Tammany […]