Family-style games hit the table this week as we check out three more Essen 2024 titles:

Tivoli by Asger Johansen from Plotmaker Games

Tower Up by Frank Crittin, Gregoire Largey and Sebastien Pauchon from Monolith Board Games

Feiges Huhn! by Ken Gruhl and Quentin Weir from Amigo

Thanks as always to our sponsor Bezier Games

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Shelley and I check out a small Amigo card game from Spiel 2023, as well as two BRAND NEW Spiel 2024 games:

Z3bra by Dirk Hanneforth and Uwe Molter from Amigo

Floresta by Nuno Santos and Przemek Wojtkowiak from MEBO Games and Arcane Wonders

Spectacular by Eilif Svensson and Asmund Svensson from Chilifox

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This week as we finish our stay in Essen, we look at a re-release, as well as a recent fun play

First up is

Kreta or Sardegna by Stefan Dorra the former title released by Goldsieber in 2005, and now re-released as the latter title from Playte

then we try to get shoppers to our stores over our rail networks, all while avoiding Godzilla in

Shinjuku by Gary Kacmarcik from Studio Supernova

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Shelley and I check out a couple of card games that are readily available at Essen this week, then have some fun with an Essen 2023 release as well.

First up is

Seers Catalog by Taylor Reiner from Bezier Games (they're located in Hall 2)

then we check out a new 2-player title

Chu Han by Tom Lehmann from Matagot, Frosted Games, and Grail Games (Matagot can be found in Hall 3)

and one of 2023's family-friendly releases

Havalandi by Reiner Knizia from Edition Spielewiese (Hall 6) and Pegasus Spiele (Hall 3)

Thanks to Bezier Games for their sponsorship.

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This week Shelley and I discuss another Bezier Games trick taking title

Sandbag by Ted Alspach

then delve into Halls 4, 5 & 6 to see what we will check out at Essen in early October!

Here are the BGG links to the games we are "Interested" in checking out:

https://boardgamegeek.com/geekpreview/68/spiel-essen-24-preview?priority=2

https://boardgamegeek.com/geekpreview/68/spiel-essen-24-preview?sharekey=ckpiaTIxS3lYN0F6M2wwM2pMY2hFQT09&priority=1,2,3&sort=priority&viewstyle=thumbs

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Shelley and I check out highlights from Halls 2 & 3 of Essen this week, but first we check out one of Bezier Games' latest

Xylotar by Christopher Wray

Thanks as always to our sponsor, Bezier Games

Here are two different links to check out the Essen titles we are most interested in:

https://boardgamegeek.com/geekpreview/68/spiel-essen-24-preview?priority=2

https://boardgamegeek.com/geekpreview/68/spiel-essen-24-preview?sharekey=ckpiaTIxS3lYN0F6M2wwM2pMY2hFQT09&priority=1,2,3&sort=priority&viewstyle=thumbs

Hall 2 Publishers/Games Albi (2-B631): Atoll Tea Garden Arcane Wonders (2-E310): Floresta (also at MEBO GAMES - Hall 5) Leylines (demo) Mezen Super Kawaii Pets Vegetable Stock Bezier Games (2-D620) Sandbag Seers Catalog Xylotar Bright Eye Games (2-D210) Sumo EmperorS4 (2-D411) Torii Four Comma Game (2-D432) Age of Automation The Game Builders (2-E620) Suna Valo Jelly Jelly Games (2-E315) Minecart Town Little Rocket Games (2-D421) Coney Fall Ludonaute (2-E125) Arctic Paverson Games (2-E121) Luthier (demo) Snovid (2-E319) Galebari To Be Continued... Tiros-Games (2-E311) Space Missions Weird City Games (2-E111) Canopy Evergreen Wonderful World of Board Games (2-E330) Loco Momo Hall 3 Publishers/Games 2F Spiele (3-G511) Fishing 2 Tomatoes (3-P311) Boule Rouge Through Ice & Snow AEG (3-B211) Cascadia Landmarks Mini Expansion Nocturne & Expansion Undergrove & Expansion Waffle Time Alion (3-F111) Gardlings Sparks Alley Cat Games (3-N311) Ada's Dream Station to Station Aporta Games (3-F113) Saltfjord Board&Dice (3-G210) Barcelona Expansion Minos Reef Project Chilifox Games (3-F113) Spectacular Cranio Creations (3-V411) Beyond the Horizon Golden Cup Mesos Czech Games Edition (3-Z411) SETI Deep Print Games (3-B311) Civolution Intarsia Devir (3-D611) Daitoshi The Lie Venturesome White Castle: Matcha Expansion dlp Games (3-H613) Atlantis Exodus DMZ Games (3-U111) Harmony Dranda Games (3-H511) Explorers of Navoria Feuerland Spiele (3-S311) Black Forest Tauschrausch Frosted Games (3-B200) Galileo Galilei (demo) Solstis Game Brewer (3-T112) Algae Inc. Bone Wars Geek Attitude Games (3-S211) Babylon Grail Games (3-F102) Chu Han Snowcrest Hodari Spiele (3-G412) Galaxy Postman ION Game Design (3-V211) DerrocAr Looping Games (3-D313) 1980 - Sixtina Around the World in 80 Days Lucrum Games (3-H512) Night Sky Explorers Ludonova (3-F112) Flatiron Men-Nefer Matagot (3-F102) Kyoto no Neko Mighty Boards (3-L311) Rebirth Moon Gate Design (3-F102) Panda Spin Pendragon Game Studio (3-L124) Escape From New York Plotmaker Games (3-D311) Tivoli Red Mojo (3-C310) Inferno Spielefaible (3-G611) Cube Express Tangerine Games (3-R411) Nestlings TCG Factory (3-B113) Cudillero Food Trucks Medang Smart City Trekking Thundergryph Games (3-R211) Darwin's Journey Expansion Wonderbow Games (3-V110) Nebula

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Shelley and I check out Tom Lehmann's latest Rio Grande 2-player

Winter Court

and then you guys get to enjoy Tom, Matt, Joe and the gang continue our conversations from Night 1 of Meeplefest 2024

Thanks as always to Bezier Games for their support.

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Yes, it's Meeplefest time once again, and the roundtable of luminaries is topped off with three designers:

Matt Leacock, fresh from his KedJ win for Daybreak/eMission where he went up against HIMSELF with Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West and known for such titles as Pandemic and Forbidden Island

Tom Lehmann, known for the classic Race for the Galaxy, and with new titles such as Winter Court and Chu Han

and Joe Huber, lover of trick takers and designer of such titles as Caravan, Blue Skies, and Burger Joint.

We spend some time talking about Matt's win, as well as design choices & the creative spark.

And here's that Auden quote which Tom sent to me after the podcast:

In his preface to The Collected Poetry of W. H. Auden (1945) he wrote: In the eyes of every author, I fancy, his past work falls into four classes. First, the pure rubbish which he regrets ever having conceived; second–for him the most painful– the good ideas which his incompetence or impatience prevented from coming to much (The Orators seems to me such a case of the fair notion fatally injured); third, the pieces he had nothing against except their lack of importance; these must inevitably form the bulk of any collection since, were he to limit it to the fourth class alone, to those poems for which he is honestly grateful, his volume would be too depressingly slim.

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This week Shelley and I enlist companions in the dicefest

Glow by Cedrick Chaboussit from Bombyx (a 2021 release)

and then check out one of the KedJ Recommended titles

Botanicus by Samuele Tabellini Ferrari and Vieri Masseini from Hans im Gluck

Thanks as always to our sponsor Bezier Games and their latest GenCon releases: Seers Catalog and Rebel Princess Deluxe Edition

Support the podcast directly at www.patreon.com/garrettsgames

or check our our extensive list of games that no longer fit on OUR shelves, but belong on your table:

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Shelley and I check out a great card game

Cabanga! by Michael Modler from Amigo

then plan a trip to Japan in

Let's Go! to Japan by Josh Wood from AEG and Lucky Duck Games

Thanks as always to Bezier Games for their support! Check out their new releases Xylotar, Sandbag, Seers Catalog, and Rebel Princess Deluxe Edition!

You can also support the podcast directly at www.patreon.com/garrettsgames

OR

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This week Shelley and I enjoy a deduction and memory game that's great with non-gamers

Trio (also known as NaNa) by Kaya Miyano from Cocktail Games

Then we help design a city in India in

Chandigarh by Toni Lopez from Ludonova

Thanks as always to our sponsor Bezier Games

You can also sponsor the podcast by going to www.patreon.com/garrettsgames

OR check out our extensive list of games that no longer fit on our shelves, but belong on your table:

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Shelley and I tackle a HUGE box of train goodness in the Kennerspiel des Jahres nominated

Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West by Rob Daviau, Matt Leacock, and Alan R. Moon from Days of Wonder

and then we check out the second roll & write version of the SdJ winner Cascadia

Cadcadia: Rolling Hills by Randy Flynn from Flatout Games and AEG

Thanks as always to our sponsor Bezier Games

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OR check out our extensive list of games for sale - ones that no longer fit on our shelves, but belong on your table!

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Shelley and I tackle a roll & write version of the SdJ winner Cascadia

Cascadia: Rolling Rivers by Randy Flynn from Flatout Games and AEG

then we journey to a new world as the old one dies in

Evacuation by Vladimir Suchy from Delicious Games and Rio Grande Games

Thanks as always to our sponsor Bezier Games

You can support the podcast directly by going to www.patreon.com/garrettsgames OR

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This week Shelley and I play to beautiful games, one of which is a Kennerspiel nominee!

The first has us collecting umbrellas and decorating our cities in

Agueda: City of Umbrellas by Dustin Dobson and Milan Zivkovic from 25th Century Games

Then we attempt to work together to halt climate change in

Daybreak (also known a e-Mission) by Matt Leacock and Matteo Menapace from CMYK and Schmidt Spiele

Thanks as always to Bezier Games for their sponsorship of the podcast.

You can support us directly at www.patreon.com/garrettsgames OR check out our extensive list of games for sale that no longer fit on our shelves, but belong on your table:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16ovRDNBqur0RiAzgFAfI0tYYnjlJ68hoHyHffU7ZDWk/edit?usp=sharing

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Shelley and I compete as rival hotel operators in

Snow Planner by Akashi from Soragame Studio

then we try valiantly (and sometimes successfully) to land a plane together in

Sky Team by Luc Rémond from Scorpion Masqué

Thanks as always to Bezier Games for their support - check out their "Year of the Card Game" titles at www.beziergames.com.

Remember that you can support the podcast directly at www.patreon.com/garrettsgames or check out our extensive list of games that no longer fit on our shelves, but belong on your table here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16ovRDNBqur0RiAzgFAfI0tYYnjlJ68hoHyHffU7ZDWk/edit?usp=sharing

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This week Shelley and I check out one of the Spiel des Jahres nominees

Captain Flip by Paolo Mori and Remo Conzadori from PlayPunk

and then check out a heavier title

Sand by Ariel Di Costanzo and Javier Pelizzari from Devir

Thanks as always to Bezier Games for their sponsorship

You can also sponsor the podcast directly by becoming a Patron at www.patreon.com/garrettsgames

OR check out our extensive list of games that no longer fit on our shelves, but belong on your table here:

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This week Shelley and gather performers together and compete in

3 Ring Circus by Remo Conzadori and Fabio Lopiano from Devir

then we enjoy a couple of classic 2-player titles:

Balloon Cup (also published as Pinata) from Stephen Glenn from Rio Grande and KOSMOS

and

Die Pyramiden des Jaguar by Gunter Burkhardt from KOSMOS

Thanks to Bezier Games for their support, and you can support the podcast directly by heading over to www.patreon.com/garrettsgames

or checking out our list of games that no longer fit on our shelves, but belong on your table:

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This week Shelley and I have fun sketching the

Blueprints of Mad King Ludwig by Ted Alspach from Bezier Games

then check out the another map expansion for

Mini Express by Mark Gerrits from Moaideas Game Design

the Taiwan 1908 map by Jay Bernardo

Thanks to our sponsors Bezier Games and YOU, the listener, who can support the podcast directly at www.patreon.com/garrettsgames

and possibly purchase a few games from us after perusing our extensive list of games that no longer fit on our shelves, but belong on your table:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16ovRDNBqur0RiAzgFAfI0tYYnjlJ68hoHyHffU7ZDWk/edit?usp=sharing

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Thanks to our sponsors www.beziergames.com

Remember that you can support the podcast directly by becoming a patron at www.patreon.com/garrettsgames

or check out our extensive list of games for sale - games that no longer fit on our shelves, but belong on your table:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16ovRDNBqur0RiAzgFAfI0tYYnjlJ68hoHyHffU7ZDWk/edit?usp=sharing

This week Shelley and I discuss the latest nominations for the Games of the Year coming out of Germany, then have a great time interviewing YouTube gamer and Bezier Marketing guru Jay Bernardo!

Jay's YouTube Channel (Cardboard East):

https://www.youtube.com/@CardboardEast

And the names and BGG links to all of the SdJ, KdJ and Kinder nominees and recommended titles:

Spiel des Jahres Nominees:

Captain Flip by Paolo Mori and Remo Conzadori from PlayPunk

In The Footsteps of Darwin by Gregory Grard and Matthieu Verdier from Sorry We Are French

Sky Team by Luc Remond from Scorpion Masque and KOSMOS

SdJ Recommended Titles:

Harmonies

Passt nicht!

Phantom Ink

Schatz it if you can

Trekking Through History

Trio

Kennerspiel des Jahres Nominees:

Daybreak (or e-Mission) by Matt Leacock and Matteo Menapace from CMYK and Schmidt Spiele

Guild of Merchant Explorers by Matthew Dunstan and Brett J Gilbert from AEG and Skellig Games

Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West by Matt Leacock, Alan R. Moon, and Rob Daviau from Days of Wonder

KdJ Recommended Titles:

Bier Pioniere

Botanicus

Forest Shuffle

Ritual

Kinderspiel des Jahres Nominees:

Große kleine Edelsteine by Wolfgang Warsch from Schmidt Spiele

Die magischen Schlussel by Markus Slawitscheck and Arno Steinwender from Happy Baobab and Game Factory

Taco Kitten Pizza by Dave Campbell and Thierry Denoual from Blue Orange

Kinder Recommended:

Fluffy Valley

Lecker Lava

Die Nadel im Heuhaufen

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Shelley and I get a wonderful new SMALL card game to the table

Aqua: Set Collection Game of Art by Ta-Te Wu from Sunrise Tornado

then check out our first of FOUR new map expansions for

Mini Express by Mark Gerrits from Moaideas Game Design:

United Kingdom 1918 by Tony Boydell

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