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Episode 36 Patrick and Eric discuss "Abstract Games" “Abstract” from BGG: "Abstract game" often refers to games of perfect information with alternating turns and no randomness; usually for 2 players. e.g. Chess or Go. It is also often used to refer to a game without a theme (regardless of the game mechanics). E.g. Backgammon or Tantrix. It is also often used to refer to games that are "mostly" perfect information and "mostly" lacking in theme (leading to even more confusion and disagreement about whether a given game is an "abstract game" or not). Classics: Checkers Chess Xiangqi Go Mancala Reversi/Othello (1883) Modern: Gipf Series (Gipf, Yinch, etc) Shobu Canosa Tak Blokus Amazons Onitama Quoridor  Quarto Quantik Abstracts with Theme: Battle Sheep Patchwork Hive Santorini Abstracts with Luck: Backgammon Nova Luna Qwirkle Number 9 Ingenious Abstracts with Theme and Luck: Azul and sequels War Chest The Duke Calico Seikatsu

A sort of Patrick & Eric in the Morning episode - but this episode we invited on Charles from the Things of No Interest Blog to discuss the 31 games released on Board Game Arena during the month of December. 12/01: Thurn & Taxis, from Andreas Seyfarth & Karen Seyfarth, 2006 Spiel des Jahres 12/02: Welcome to… / Welcome to New Vegas, from Alexis Allard & Benoît Tupin 12/03: 99, public domain 12/04: Flaming Pyramids, designed by Norbert Abel 12/05: Small Islands, designed by Alexis Allard 12/06: Map Maker, designed by Louis Lafair, Joshua Lafair, Becca Lafair 12/07: Solo Whist, public domain 12/08: Kami, adapted from Goïta Shogi 12/09: Luxor, from Rüdiger Dorn, 2018 Spiel des Jahres nominee 12/10: Hungarian Tarokk, public domain 12/11: Cacao, from Phil Walker-Harding, 2015 Spiel des Jahres Recommended 12/12: Piraten Kapern, from Haim Shafir 12/13: Off the Rails, from Andrew Platt, Stuart Platt 12/14: Connect 6, from Professor I-Chen Wu 12/15: Spades, public domain 12/16: Saint Petersburg, from Bernd Brunnhofer, 2004 Spiel des Jahres Nominee 12/17: Cribbage, from Sir John Suckling 12/18: Yokai, from Julien Griffon 12/19: Quantik, from Nouri Khalifa, from Gigamic’s Classic game line 12/20: Nanga Parbat, from Steve Finn 12/21: Oh-Seven, from Alex Weldon 12/22: Bandido, from Martin Nedergaard Andersen 12/23: Concept, from Gaëtan Beaujannot & Alain Rivollet, 2014 SdJ Nominee 12/24: Haiclue, from Will Leaf 12/25: Via Magica, from Paolo Mori, reimplementation of Rise of Augustus 12/26: Martian Dice, from Scott Almes 12/27: Dungeon Roll, from Chris Darden 12/28: Con Sonar!, from Christian Boutin 12/29: Big Time Soccer, from Andrew S. Fischer 12/30: Forbidden Island, from Matt Leacock, 2011 Spiel des Jahres Nominee 12/31: Klaverjassen, public domain @BoardGameArena Patrick Hillier @overthehillier Eric Buscemi @EricBuscemi Charles Hasegwa @charleshasegawa

32 - Patrick and Eric in the Morning - Wolfgang Kramer / Michael Kiesling Recorded 11/22/2020 Patrick El Grande - Wolfgang Kramer, Richard Ulrich Colosseum - Wolfgang Kramer, Markus Lübke 6 nimmt - Wolfgang Kramer Seeland - Günter Burkhardt, Wolfgang Kramer Azul - Michael Kiesling Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra - Michael Kiesling Azul: Summer Pavilion - Michael Kiesling Azul: Crystal Mosaics Vikings - Michael Kiesling Downforce - Rob Daviau, Justin D. Jacobson, Wolfgang Kramer The Palaces of Carrara - Michael Kiesling, Wolfgang Kramer Eric Michael Kiesling: Azul Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra Azul: Summer Pavilion Vikings Wolfgang Kramer: 6 nimmt Seeland El Grande Downforce (restored from Tempo, Kramer’s first published game, which was updated as Top Race, Daytona 500, etc.) Co-designs: Tikal (Mask Trilogy) Java and Mexica Torres  The Palaces of Carrara Haven’t played: Colosseum, Java/Mexica (Kramer) Heaven & Ale (Kieling) Paris (co-design) Website you can play online: http://www.boiteajeux.net/ Torres  http://yucata.de/ El Grande The Palaces of Carrara Torres Vikings Boardgamearena.com 6nimmt, Palaces of Carara    Awards: Kramer Palaces was a SDJ nominee in 2012 El Grande DSJ 1996 Kesiling  Azul 2018 Heaven and Ale nominee 2018 Shared Tikal 1999 Torres 2000  

Patrick & Eric catch up after not recording for a while. This episode was recorded on 9/3/2020 and the last episode on 8/8/2020.  Since the last episode they have been meeting up and playing games virtually such as: Super-Skill Pinball: 4-Cade Clever hoch drei (AKA Ganz schön clever three) Marco Polo (Patrick Won) Topic - House Rules: Sagrada Marrakesh  Isle of Cats Copenhagen Dice Nova Luna Start Player Rules - Patrick's geetlist Who chooses what games to play? @ericbuscemi @ovethehillier www.punchboardmedia.com            

Patrick and Eric return to their designer spotlight series - Reiner Knizia Reiner Knizia Recent Plays My City Tutankhamun Auction Games Ra  Modern Art "Numbers on Art" En Garde Shotten Totten Lost Cities Llama “Reiner Knizia is also criticized that his games are all dry, mathematical affairs, and unfortunately, he can't dodge the bullet completely on this one.” - Some person on BGG How does theme impact his games? Abstracts Ingenious Tigris and Euphrates "Kenizia scoring" i.e. lowest track scores. Misc games Star Trek Expeditions Through The Desert (or Dessert if you eat the camels) Quest of El Dorado Age of War/Risk Express En Garde in detail Awards and nominations - Kinder - Who Was It? Speil - Keltis Co-operative games Lord of the Rings "Remember: When playing a game, the goal is to win, but it is the goal that is important, not the winning..."  

Recorded 7/26/2020 Patrick and Eric discuss Storytelling Games They start off discussing the many different kinds of storytelling games: RPGs  Escape room games  Detective games  Graphic Novel Adventures and Choose Your Own Adventures  Board games with story elements Tales of the Arabian Nights - Agents of Smersh Rory’s Story Cubes Above and Below Near and Far Dead of Winter (the original Crossroads game) Forgotten Waters Games that are so thematic they lend themselves to the players telling stories without overtly having storytelling mechanisms (e.g. Fortune and Glory) - Colosseum

Recorded 5/24/2020   Holiday weekend plans   Quickbread recipe   Ingredients: 1/2 cup butter 1/2 cup sugar 2 eggs 2 cups flour 2 tsp baking powder 1/2 cup milk 1 cup chocolate chips    Directions: Cream together butter and sugar, then add eggs one at a time.    Mix flour and baking powder, then mix with butter-sugar-egg mix alternating with milk. Stir in chocolate chips.   Bake in greased and floured loaf pan or crock at 350F for one hour.   Canceled conventions (as of 6/7/20)   Essen Speil Gencon Geekway BBG at Sea BBG November? Origins (November?) PAX   Virtual Conventions Renegade Portal Origins BGG Online gaming Terraforming Mars Scythe

Patrick and Eric in the Morning: Episode 23 - Culling This episode Patrick and Eric discuss latest news and how they chose and cull games from their collection. Recorded 2/29/2020 Getting ready for Granite Game Summit Plaid Hat News What inspires you to cull? What do you cull? How do you cull? Give it away to charity Give it to friends  Math trade Selling at a VFM Do you pay BGG?

Episode 21 - Patrick and Eric discuss their favorite games beyond 500 in the BGG rankings.   Christmas Gifts Villainous Parks / Trekking the National Parks   Patrick and Eric Hidden gems over 500 on the BGG listing   Game Rank Get Bit! 2159 Crystal Clans 2210 Pastiche 1364 Longhorn 2077 La Boca 1200 Custom Heroes 1681 The Great Heartland Hauling Co. 1170 Artifacts Inc. 1135 Arctic Scavengers 1127 Odin’s Ravens (2nd ed) 1076 The Golden Ages 849 Ulm   929 Sid Meier's Civilization: A New Dawn 670 2017 Dice Town 796 Honshu 792 The Pursuit of Happiness 646 Hawaii 630 Adrenaline 617 Ex Libris 613   Scott Nicolson Pillars of the Earth bit https://youtu.be/Lv-Q1S_ToaE   Granite Game Summit https://www.granitegamesummit.com/   @ericbuscemi @overthehillier www.punchboardmedia.com

Episode 19 - Solo games recorded 11/9  Purely Solo Friday Pentaquark Deep Space D-6 Hostage Negotiator Coffee Roaster Saashi (Stronghold reprinting) Should only be played solo SOS Titanic Sprawlopolis Nemo’s War One Deck Dungeon Cooperative games (per Eric) — Burgle Bros The Game Solo Designers Shadi Torbey: Onirim Castellion Sylvion Nautilion Aerion Todd Sanders: Aether Captains The Draugr Pulp Detective Mr. Cabbagehead Can be played Solo Roll and Writes Rolling America Ganz Schon Clever Welcome to Dino World Exit, Unlock Games (see episode 6) Cooperative games (per Patrick) Spirit Island Terraforming Mars Clank! - with App Viva Java Dice Scarabya NMBR9 Not great (not bad games just bad solo versions) Spell Smashers Star Trek: The Dice Game — reimplemented as Astroforce Sagrada

Episode 17 Patrick & Eric discuss favorite and less than ideal board game expansions. Board Game Gumbo upcoming show www.facebook.com/boardgamegumbo Tuesday 10/29/19 at 9:30 EST. Meeple Overboard sent out a tweet asking for your top 5 expansions. Their response was that they had only played one of mine - so I guess we need to talk about them here.   Discuss Extensions vs Expansions, Expand alone (such as Ticket to Ride Europe) Patrick: Power Grid: any map. More of the best game ever. Pandemic: On the Brink added roles & play modes. Ticket to Ride: USA 1910. Bigger cards & more routes Flash Point: Fire Rescue Urban Structures & 2nd Story. More options & characters & tokens. Lord of Vegas UP Wits and Wagers - Vegas playmat - expands  Wits & Wagers Party  Eric: Marvel: Legendary -- Most of them, as the base game is FAR too easy without any of the expansion masterminds. Jamaica: The Crew -- Actually makes the game easier to teach as it simplifies the treasures. Raiders of the North Sea: Hall of Heroes -- Love the addition of the mead hall, great for adding a little extra to the game. Sprawlopolis: Beaches -- Love the added spatial restrictions and that it makes the city a bit bigger. Lords of Waterdeep: Scoundrels of Skullport -- Basically, the blueprint for how to make a good expansion. Adds interesting decisions without adding too much complexity and very little rules overhead. Clank -- New maps are great if you play a lot. Keeps the game from getting stale. Summoner Wars -- But this gets away from the true meaning of expansions, as any two factions play standalone. This is more of the serialized LCG content model. Mixed Bag: Kingdomino: Age of Giants -- Like the additional scoring bonuses, meh on the actual Giants King of Tokyo: Power Up -- Yay, the monsters are now all unique! Boo, now some of them seem much stronger than others! Carcassonne: The Catapult - stupid fun El Grande - King and Intrigue are for experienced players only Dislike: 7 Wonders: Leaders -- I don’t feel this adds enough to the game to justify the extra draft in the beginning of the game. Castles of Mad King Ludwig: Secrets -- I love the base game, but it doesn’t need this extra stuff. Tracking swans isn’t adding fun to the game. Can't Stop: Rolling down the highway - why does this need to exist? Francis Tresham memorial

Patrick & Eric started to talk about expansions but quickly veered off into discussion about Kickstarter and other topics.  Recorded on 10/5/19.   CMON https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cmon/cmon-time-machine   Legends of Sleepy Hollow https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dicehateme/legends-of-sleepy-hollow/description   Campaign update - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dicehateme/legends-of-sleepy-hollow/posts/2627484   Giga-Robo https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2115086518/giga-robo/description   Sovereign Skies https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/deepwatergames/sovereign-skies-0/description   Kickstarter CEO Statement https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a35jpg/heres-what-the-ceo-of-kickstarter-said-to-creators-about-firing-union-organizers   Loanshark Games comments http://lonesharkgames.com/2019/10/02/lone-shark-games-statement-about-kickstarter/   Cleopatra and the Society of Architects https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mojitostudios/cleopatra-and-the-society-of-architects   Scott King Calendar https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/th3rdworld/2020-gaming-calendar   Pododplege https://www.podpledge.com/home   KOFI https://ko-fi.com/   Wavelength  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alxhague/wavelength/description   Puzzlebitz https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/flyingsheep/breaking-kickstarter-puzzle-blitz   Break Kickstarter: Soup! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/th3rdworld/break-kickstarter-soup   Bag of Spiders https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gamegeekninja/break-kickstarter-bag-of-spiders-8-games-of-spider-y-fun/description Tower by the Warden https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/brokenrulergames/the-tower-2   Wendy’s RPG https://www.feastoflegends.com/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=feastoflegends   Eric: @ericbuscemi Patrick: @overthehillier www.punchboardmedia.com

Recorded 09/07/2019 - Patrick & Eric discuss their favorite two player games. Met the listener Nathan Boster Favorites Targi Patchwork Akrotiri Lost Cities Lost Cities (Rivals) actually 2-4 Star Realms Ascension (1-4 per BGG) Jaipur Cribbage   Two-Player Versions of Existing Games   7 Wonders Duel Agricola: All Creatures Big and Small Imhotep Duel Kingdomino Duel Codenames Duet Bohnanza: The Duel   Direct Conflict Games Magic the Gathering Summoner Wars Dice Masters Star Wars: Destiny Pixel Tactics Exceed Battle Con   Abstract Othello (or Reversi?) Chess Xiangqi (Chinese Chess) Go    The Duke War Chest Hive (made of phenolic resin ie Bakelite) Onitama SHOBU Tak Santorini Asymmetrical   Android: Netrunner Skulk Hollow Fugitive Mr. Jack / Pocket Getaway Driver Raptor   Card Games Fox in the Forest Fox in the Forest Duet (upcoming cooperative version) Circle the Wagons Ahead in the Clouds Sprawlopolis Herotech   Epic Hollandspiele Interview mentioned  Twilight Struggle Star Wars X-wing/Armada/Rebellion (2-4) Star Trek Fleet Captains (2-4)   Asymmetrical Android NetRunner Skulk Hollow  Mr. Jack Blood of an Englishmen The Ravens of Thri Sahashri  Getaway Driver Raptor   Hidden Gems Morels Longhorn En Guard (Eric needs to play) Odin’s Ravens

Patrick and Eric return to discuss Roll and Write, Rando Writers, or Flipp and Fills whatever you may call them. Games discussed Spare Time Bowling Yahtzee Scattergories Pictionary Qwixx Ganz schön clever Dizzle (Brandon Kempf review mentioned) Tag City Avenue / Kokoro: Avenue of the Kodama Welcome To… Chroma Cubes Rolled West Clip Cut Parks 30 Rails Railroad Ink Castles of Burgundy the Dice Game La Granja: No Siesta Corinth Imperial Settlers Kingdomino Dice Game Copenhagen: Roll & Write Brikks Bloxx Pentathlon (link to Dale Yu’s write up) Rolling Japan/America Qwinto Knapp Daneben! (Close to the Mark!) Criss Cross (jump jump)  

Flashback episode with the return of: Rory's Story Cubes Jamie Maltman The Valiant Variant by Carl & Ali Vs Spencer Kellis That Thing With by Chad McCallum The Spotlight On Segment by Eric Buscemi

Patrick & Eric recap their trip to Origins 2019 focusing on hits and misses as a follow up to their preview issue 011. Patrick Hit: Rolled West Miss: Naga Raja Eric: Hit: Copenhagen Miss: Letter Jam Demo Patrick Hit: Slide Quest Miss: Abomination: The Heir of Frankenstein Eric: Hit: Lockup: A Roll Player Tale Miss: Abomination: The Heir of Frankenstein Shared hit. Semi-regular Power Grid - Brazilian Map with Jon and Emily Detmer and Daniel Newman. Patrick's Power Grid blog Eric's Origin's Recap 

Want to know more about Essen Spiel 2018? Well our Chris Wray is over in Germany and he's finding out about all the new hotness in board gaming that we'll be searching out. Join him for a run down of what he's seen this year at Essen so far. 

Join Patrick as he sits down and chats with some of our northern neighbors, the fine folks who make up the Of Dice and Men Podcast -- Ryan, Chad and Adam.   

Chris and Brandon actually conclude the Spiel des Jahres discussion with a look at this year's Kennerspiel and Spiel des Jahres Nominees. Kennerspiel Heaven & Ale designed by Michael Kiesling and Andreas Schmidt Die Quacksalber von Quedlinburg designed by Wolfgang Warsch Ganz Schön Clever designed by Wolfgang Warsch Spiel des Jahres The Mind designed by Wolfgang Warsch Luxor designed by Rudiger Dorn Azul designed by Michael Kiesling  

Join Chris and Brandon as they wrap up their journey through the winners of the prestigious Spiel des Jahres Award. 2010 - Dixit 2011 - Qwirkle 2012 - Kingdom Builder 2013 - Hanabi 2014 - Camel Up 2015 - Colt Express 2016 - Codenames 2017 - Kingdomino 2018 - ???????????

Join Chris and Brandon as they tackle the 2000s and the winners of the prestigious Spiel des Jahres Award from 2001 - 2009 2001 - Carcassonne 2002 - Villa Paletti 2003 - Alhambra 2004 - Ticket to Ride 2005 - Niagara 2006 - Thurn and Taxis 2007 - Zooloretto 2008 - Keltis 2009 - Dominion

Join Chris and Brandon as they continue their journey through the prestigious Spiel des Jahres Award and it's winners. This week we focus on the years 1990 - 2000. 1990 - Hoity Toity 1991- Wacky Wacky West 1992 - Um Reifenbreite 1993 - Call My Bluff 1994 - Manhattan 1995 - Settlers of Catan 1996 - El Grande 1997 - Mississippi Queen 1998 - Elfenland 1999 - Tikal 2000 - Torres

Join Patrick and Chad as they sit down and chat with the fine folks of The Board Boys Podcast.  https://www.facebook.com/TheBoardBoysPodcast/ https://twitter.com/TheBoardBoysPod https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-board-boys-podcast/id1295832817?mt=2  

Join Chris Wray and Brandon Kempf as they journey through the winners of the prestigious Spiel des Jahres Award. This week they tackle the beginnings, 1979 - 1989. 1979 - Hare & Tortoise 1980 - Rummikub 1981 - Focus 1982 - Enchanted Forest 1983 - Scotland Yard 1984 - Dampfross 1985 - Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective 1986 - Heimlich & Co 1987 - Auf Achse 1988 - Barbarossa 1989 - Cafe International  

Please join Patrick and Matthew Franz as they put Shaun and Michelle from the All the Bits Podcast on the hot seat.     

Please join Patrick and Brandon as they sit down and chat with Helaina Cappel & Mark Specter about gaming and their current Kickstarter, Endeavor.  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/burntislandgames/endeavor-age-of-sail?ref=nav_search&result=project&term=Endeavor  

Join us as Patrick and Eric Buscemi welcome Ambie Valdès, Star and creator of the Ambierona Youtube channel, Star of Gamenight! and oh, by the way, she is one of the wonderful hosts of the podcast Board Game Blitz. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvt8rhQ0E0MThxaFLCbGoWw http://www.boardgameblitz.com/ https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1930295/pioneers-gamenight-se5-ep24    

Please join Patrick and Brandon as they sit and chat with one of the Nights at the Game Table and the driving force behind Path of Play, Mike Primeau.   https://www.facebook.com/groups/pathofplayday/   https://www.facebook.com/nightsatthegametable/

Join Patrick Hillier & Eric Buscemi as they welcome one half of the Dukes, and the new Chief Noisemaker from Grey Fox Games.  https://twitter.com/AlexG_Human http://www.dukesofdice.com/ https://www.greyfoxgames.com/  

Please join Patrick Hillier and Brandon Kempf as they sit down and chat with Chris Darden, game designer, game player & one of the organizers of Geekway to the West, the best convention in all the land. 

Join Patrick as he sits and chats with Isaac Shalev, host of On Board Games Crowdfunding Edition & game designer. http://www.kindfortress.com/ http://www.inversegenius.com/    

Join Patrick Hillier as he sits down with Chris Kirkman of Dice Hate Me Games as they discuss Halloween and Sleepy Hollow, the upcoming Kickstarter from Dice Hate Me Games which launches on 10/17/17 at 11 am Eastern on Kickstarter!

This week on our conversation feed we hear some recordings Patrick did at Gen Con 50 with fellow www.punchboardmedia.com members. It starts with a lunch time impromptu recording with Zach, Jeff and Adrian - AKA the Mile High Game Guys.  The rest of the recording is at the Punchboard Media meetup that was held at the beer garden.  Some of the voices you will hear are Draft Mechanic, Sean from Dukes of Dice and Eric - from What's Eric Playing along with fans or new fans after they won some new games. 

Join Patrick Hillier and Brandon Kempf as they sit down and chat with Randy Hoyt about Foxtrot Games and the development of games. With a focus on the launching soon on Kickstarter, Spy Club! Watch for a WDYPTW Preview of Spy Club in the very, near future. 

Please join Patrick Hillier and Marc Gurwitz as they welcome the host of Jon Gets Games and one half of the Last Place Podcast, Jon Cox to the hot seat!

Please join Patrick, Eric Buscemi as they welcome Daniel Newman to the Conversation Thing!

Please join Patrick as he sits down to chat with designer, Peter Gousis as they chat about a Salvation Road and some Dark Dealings.

Please join Patrick Hillier and Brandon Kempf as they sit down and chat with designer, Jay Little. Jay currently has a project on Kickstarter, Zero Hour: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1345857031/zero-hour-1?ref=user_menu

Join Patrick Hillier and Matthew Franz as they sit and chats with Scott King about gaming, photography and writing!! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/th3rdworld/2018-gaming-calendar?ref=nav_search https://www.amazon.com/Scott-King/e/B002BMAE9C/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1499865873&sr=8-2-ent

In episode 74, Craig is back once again to bring useless chatter to your earbuds. In this episode, he is joined by his lovely family, Erin and Tyler to talk about the so few, so so few, games they've played over the past two weeks. In the third segment, Craig is joined to two first timers from the What Did You Play This Week Podcast, Derek and Jamie to dig deep into connecting with the community, raising your children as board gamers, and lashing out against board game weight shamers. Haters gonna hate, but the discussion tells you why you shouldn't!  Show Times:  Intro: 0:23 Family Played: 2:57 Third Segment w/ Derek and Jamie: 16:44 Wrap-up: 1:21:05 Punchboard Media Stinger: 1:23:08

Anniversary! Can you believe that this podcast made it one whole year? Our hosts barely can. Luckily, some other podcasts hosts give the podcast some love with bumpers peppered throughout the show. Episode starts off with the normal banter, with Zach saving lives in Flatline, Adrian tried to gain Italian fame in Lorenzo il Magnifico, and Jeff played a god in Chaos in the Old World. Moving on to News, the Splendor expansion gets some info and Tiny Epic Defenders 2.0 and expansion gets announced.In Kickstarters, Lords of Hellas dumps a ton of minis and Deception gets an expansion. Afterwards, our hosts start a one year retrospective. This includes many emails, bgg responses, and twitter feedback. Once the past has been thoroughly picked clean, they move on to the future.They discuss a format change, announce a slack channel, and give some hints on the upcoming patreon. 00:00:21 - Heavy Cardboard Bumper 00:00:47 - Intro 00:02:50 - What are we drinking? 00:05:08 - Banter! featuring: PUBG, Kingdomino, Flatline, Honshu, Lorenzo Il Magnifico, Chaos in the Old World, Indonesia, 00:21:51 - Board Game Blitz Bumper  News and Kickstarters! 00:23:48 - News: Cities of Splendor Expansion 00:27:27 - News: Brasil goes to Kickstarter 00:28:32 - News: Tiny Epic Defenders 2.0 and Expansion Announced 00:29:40 - News: Terraforming Mars gets 6 Expansions 00:31:01 - El Doc Logan Bumper 00:32:14 - KS: Oaxaca 00:35:15 - KS: Lords of Hellas 00:39:23 - KS: Rise of Tribes 00:41:40 - KS: Deception: Undercover Allies 00:43:46 - News: Secret Hitler Trump Pack 00:44:46 - Eric the Cardboard Hoard Bumper The Mile High Game Guys 1 Year Retrospective 00:47:00 Our Thoughts on One Year 01:04:15 Patrick 'The Over the' Hillier Gamer bumper 01:05:55 A special thanks to Brandon and Patrick from WDYPTW and the Conversation Thing 01:09:13 Listener and Fan Feedback Extravaganza: Emails!!! 01:37:20 Of Dice and Men Bumper 01:44:11 Listener and Fan Feedback Extravaganza: BGG and Twitter ?s!!! 01:58:55 Brandon/ WDYPTW Bumper 02:00:57 Looking at the future of the MHGG 02:01:14 Format changes 02:09:21 MHGG Slack Channel 02:11:31 MHGG Patreon is coming   Slack Link WDYPTW Convo w/ MHGG 12/21/16

In the 65th EVER episode of the podcast, Craig brings you almost two hours of gloom, thanks to the topics from this episodes lovely guests. BUT FIRST, Craig catches you up on the two weeks leading up to this episode including an impromtu trip to Toronto, Valentine's Day celebration, and info about the Golden Geek awards. Then Craig is joined by the family for a short catch up on their games played. In a special segment, friend of the show Eric Buscemi tells a grand story of his perfect game night. Lastly, in the infamous Third Segment, Craig is joined by Brandon Kempf of the WDYPTW podcast and convention staple Chris Copac where they get all gloomy in a mini topic roundtable! Enjoy! Show Times:  Intro: 0:12 Family Played: 10:21 Contest Reminder: 28:26 Eric Buscemi Story: 31:33 Third Segment!: 33:46 Wrap-Up: 1:38:21 PNCN Bumper: 1:41:13 Extra Clip: 1:41:37  

Welcome the 64th EVER episode of the Botch Games Podcast! In this very special episode, Craig is joined, as always, by his loving family to talk about their played games over the last several weeks. Erin then surprises the group by making us lost the five games we would want to see at our "perfect" game night. Guess what? Then we made a contest out of it! Also, in the now infamous third segment, Craig is joined by fellow WDYPTW contributors Eric and Johannes for a mini-topic-round-up where they discuss such topics as input and output randomness, shelves of shame vs. shelves of opportunity, and conducive gaming environments in and out of the home. Thanks so much for listening!  Show Times: Intro: 0:11 Family Played: 4:41 Third Segment: 32:45 SPECIAL THANK YOU LISTENERS CONTEST!: 1:31:20 Wrap-Up: 1:38:43 PNCN Bumper: 1:41:10

This extra episode focuses on objectivity, subjectivity and the roles of media. Craig is joined by Matt from the League of Nonsensical Gamers and Brandon from the What Did You Play This Week Podcast and they discuss why we, as reviewers exist, who we're a benefit to, and our role as intermediary between producer and consumer. I sincerely hope you enjoy this discussion and thanks for listening!