Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they've played recently, including Villainous and Sprawlopolis. We then talk about board games involving water. In this week's "Board Game Etymology" segment, Crystal discusses the origins of the word "flood."
Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they've played recently, including Container and Istanbul: The Dice Game. We then talk about gaming as an introvert or extrovert. In this week's "Board Game Etymology" segment, Crystal discusses the origins of the word "crowd."
For our two year podcast anniversary, we decided to put together our top 100 board games of all time! In this video, Ambie goes over her top 60-51 games.
Ambie, Cassadi, and Crystal discuss some games they've played recently (or are looking forward to playing), including Magic Maze, DropMix, and Twilight Imperium: Fourth Edition. We then talk about some board games that involve exchanges. In this week's "Board Game Etymology" segment, Crystal discusses the origins of the word "shuffle."
Strategically Thematic is a segment featured on The Dice Tower's bi-weekly Throat Punch Lunch videos about games where the theme and mechanics go together really well.
This year was my husband (Toby) and my first year at BGG.CON, and it was amazing. I tried out 53 distinct games, 49 of which were new to me (some were really quick dexterity games). I'm obviously not going to go over every game I played (you can see what I played here, but here are some highlights of the convention for me.
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One of the best things at BGG.CON is the library. The library is HUGE. A whole conference room is filled with board games on all the walls, a lot of which are brand new games from Essen! There was also a section in the main hall with a lot of the hot games set up so that people could play them. Because BGG.CON is right after Essen, it was great for trying out all those games I've been hearing about the past month.