November 29, 2023

2023 Holiday Board Game Gift Guide

1 hour 8 minutes

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Episode 147 - 2023 Holiday Board Game Gift Guide

This week Decision Space veers towards consumerism at the seasonally appropriate time. We bring you our best insights on what games will make good gifts to the people in your life (we hope) by answering prompts shared in our discord. Interdecisional Spaceship passengers, prepare your wallets!

Pre-Planners

Heat, Ticket To Ride, and Planet Unknown

Timestamps

Intro - 0:00

Main Discussion - 3:11

Heat - 4:16

Ticket to Ride: Legacy - 5:01

Apiary - 5:47

Azul - 6:52

Frosthaven - 7:22

Mansions of Madness 2nd Edition - 11:59

Warhammer Underworlds - 12:45

Marvel United - 13:33

The Resistance - 16:15

Modern Art - 16:46

Raiders of the North Sea - 17:49

Spicy - 21:10

Sushi Go - 23:41

Cascadia - 27:34

My City - 28:19

The Fox in the Forest - 29:15

A Feast for Odin - 30:12

Riftforce - 30:35

Planet Unknow - 30:40

Can't Stop - 34:30

Just One - 35:49

Challengers! - 39:29

Set - 41:43

Claim it! - 44:21

Draftasaurus - 45:56

Coconuts - 47:19

Mysterium/Mysterium Park - 49:16

Celebrity - 49:22

Renature/Babylonia/Zoo Vadis - 50:50

Findorff - 52:08

Paperback - 53:58

The Isle of Cats - 55:30

Calico - 56:18

Potion Explosion - 57:08

Forgotten Waters - 59:05

Crokinole - 1:00:58

QE - 1:02:01

Wingspan - 1:03:07

Sea Salt & Paper - 1:03:38

Air, Land, & Sea - 1:04:19

Blue Lagoon - 1:04:53

Music and Sound Credits

Thank you to Hembree for our intro and outro music from their song Reach Out. You can listen to the full song on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQuuRPfOyMw&list=TLGGFNH7VEDPgwgyNTA4MjAyMQ&t=3s

You can find more information about Hembree at https://www.hembreemusic.com/.

Thank you to Flash Floods for use of their song Palm of Your Hand as a sting from their album Halfway to Anywhere: https://open.spotify.com/album/2fE6LrqzNDKPYWyS5evh3K?si=CCjdAGmeSnOOEui6aV3_nA

Rules Overview Music:

Way Home by Tokyo Music Walker https://soundcloud.com/user-356546060 Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/tokyo-music-walker-way... Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/pJThZlOuDtI

Contact

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Byeee!

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