Board Game Hot Takes

In Episode 101 we provide our hot take review of Circadians: Chaos Order covering the mechanisms, the production, and our overall feelings of the game.

We discuss a poll about other player's attitudes impacting your feelings about a game and then we discuss some games on our table including Radlands, Diplomacy, and Space Station Phoenix.

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Episode 100 is our listener appreciation episode where we highlight the board games that our listeners love, get to hear some of our listener's voices, and draw the winner of our giveaway from the listeners that contributed with their favorite games.

We also discuss a poll on how listener's found their favorite board game podcasts.

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In Episode 99 we finish counting down our top 30 Board Games of all time with numbers 1-10.

We also discuss a poll on favorite ways to learn new board games

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In Episode 98 we continue counting down our top 30 Board Games of all time with numbers 11-20.

We also discuss a poll on how review copies provided from publishers impact your trust in a board game critic.

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In Episode 97 we start the countdown of our top 30 Board Games of all time with choices 21-30.

We also discuss a poll on luxury versions of board games.

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In Episode 96 we take a look at the top 100 games on Board Game Geek and discuss the games on that list that we haven't played.  We list the top 5 games we each want to play from that list and the top 5 games that we don't want to play from that list and discuss why some of them are interesting to us and others aren't.

We also discuss a poll on the Golden Age of hobby board games.

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In Episode 95 we provide our hot take review of Arcs covering the mechanisms, the production, and our overall feelings of the game.

We discuss a poll about hyped board games and then we discuss some games on our table including Biblios and Now or Never (solo).

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In Episode 94 we provide our hot take review of Nemesis covering the mechanisms, the production, and our overall feelings of the game.

We discuss a poll about sleeving cards in games and Chris provides his themed cocktail of the week.  Then we discuss some games on our table including Planet Unknown and Ghosts of Christmas.

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In Episode 93 we provide our hot take review of Golem covering the mechanisms, the production, and our overall feelings of the game.

We discuss a poll about best time of day to play board games and Chris provides his themed cocktail of the week.  Then we discuss some games on our table including Tetris: The Card Game, Tinner's Trail, Carcassonne, and Crusaders: Thy Will be Done.

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In Episode 92 we take a look back at the games we've played together over the last several years and discuss the ones where we think our opinions were unanimous and consider the common elements that may make games work (or not work) for all of us.  We also discuss a poll on whether the size of a board game's box may influence your decision to acquire it.

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