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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.

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Timecodes:

02:05 – Wheedle
09:31 – Dune: War for Arrakis
19:52 – Transgalactica
34:00 – Mailbag
34:39 – Kickstarter red and green flags?
43:36 – Narrative in board games?
51:23 – Do we get jaded?

Thank you to Heart Society for generously letting us use What’s On Your Mind, Kid? from their album Wake the Queens.

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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.

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Timecodes:

01:56 – Hunted: Kobayashi Tower
12:51 – Corps of Discovery: A Game Set in the World of Manifest Destiny
26:30 – Senji
43:50 – Solo games
46:08 – For Northwood! A Solo Trick-Taking Game
48:09 – Marvel Champions: The Card Game
50:22 – Mr. President: The American Presidency, 2001-2020
53:49 – Guilty: Houston 2015
55:13 – Vantage
55:51 – Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood

Thank you to Heart Society for generously letting us use What’s On Your Mind, Kid? from their album Wake the Queens.

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Sometimes once is enough, you know? Doesn’t mean it was bad, but it might just be that you can have too much of a good thing. We’re talking about board games that we’d recommend everyone play once, but only once. Before we hit and run, we talk about Kaivai, East India Companies, and Vantage.

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Timecodes:

01:44 – Kaivai
10:58 – Feya’s Swamp
13:15 – East India Companies
21:31 – Vantage
39:41 – Games to play only once
41:22 – War of the Ring: Second Edition
41:47 – Twilight Imperium: Fourth Edition
43:44 – Sidereal Confluence
44:08 – Blood on the Clocktower
44:19 – Two Rooms and a Boom
45:19 – Mister Diamond
45:40 – Hearts of AttrAction
46:51 – Catan
49:21 – Sanctum
49:37 – Deal with the Devil
50:08 – Nemesis

Thank you to Heart Society for generously letting us use What’s On Your Mind, Kid? from their album Wake the Queens.