Board Gamers Anonymous

This week, we're revisiting a past topic through 2019 with the best female characterization in gaming. We're also excited to have launched our Patreon contests last week - congratulations to our first winner, Jon who took home Root, and this week's winner Jeremy. 

For our question of the week, we asked the listeners "What's your favorite video game that feels and plays like a board game (not a board game app)?"

For our acquisition disorders, Anthony looked at Newdale, the new Oh My Goods universe game from Alexander Pfister coming out soon, and Chris looked at the Kickstarter campaign for Millennium Blades: Collusion from Level 99 Games.

At the table, the guys review Gugong and Scorpius Freighter, a pair of mid-weight games that are getting some buzz. Find out if they're worth tracking down. 

Finally, in our feature, we look at six games that handle female representation and characterization well in gaming from the last 9 months. 

• Question of the Week: 4:07
• Acquisition Disorders: 7:02
• Gugong Review: 14:42
• Scorpius Freighter Review: 23:04
• Female Characterization in Gaming 2019: 30:11

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Happy Valentine's Day! 

This year we're looking at the top 10 games you can play with your partner on the day all about love - from low key themes to romantic experiences. 

For our question of the week, we ask a question from Niko: During a long game (1+ hour), how do you deal with a player who becomes uninterested, overwhelmed, unhappy, or otherwise unengaged with the game?

For acquisition disorders this week, Anthony looks at the newly announced Star Wars Game, Outer Rim and Chris looks at PARKS: the Board Game. 

At the table, we're reviewing Trapwords and Decrypto, two recently released party games that are super popular right now. 

Finally, in our feature, we're looking at the top 10 games for Valentine's Day. 

• Question of the Week: 5:25
• Acquisition Disorders: 10:18
• Trapwords Review: 18:44
• Decrypto Review: 24:01
• Top Ten Games for Valentine's Day: 27:21

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This week, Anthony and Chris take a closer look at Teotihuacan, the hottest euro game released in the last 6 months, and share some other games you might also like if you're a fan. 

First, though, they dive into the question of the week, asking listeners, "

It's that time of the month again - time to dig in and check out the hotness for January. But first off, we're psyched to announce that we've hit our goal on Patreon to launch our weekly contests! Back us at patreon.com/bga to join the party!

First up, we ask everyone the question of the week: With so many reprints and reimplementations lately, what do you still have on your grail game list?

For our acquisition disorders this week, Anthony digs into a line of Imperial Settlers and Detective content coming from Portal Games and Chris looks at the new expansion for Food Chain Magnate recently added to the Splotter website. 

At the table, Anthony reviews Blackout: Hong Kong and Chris finally gets a chance to bring Newton to the table. 

Finally, in our feature, we dig through the top 15 games on BGG and share why they are on the hotness this month. 

• Question of the Week: 4:12
• Acquisition Disorders: 12:35
• Blackout: Hong Kong Review: 21:56
• Newton Review: 35:35
• BGG Hotness Review: 43:49

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Thanks to our new Patreon backer this week, Andrew. We’re only $9 away from our next milestone – which would mean contests every week for backers. Check it out!

To kick things off this week, we asked the listeners our question of the week: What's your go to digital board game when on a bus, in a line, or otherwise, whiling away time?

Then we dive into acquisition disorders, in which Anthony looks at the slate of new digital games coming soon from Dire Wolf Digital, and Chris looks at Rio Grande's big slate of games for 2019, highlighted by Roll for the Galaxy: Rivals.

At the table this week, Anthony reviews Victorian Masterminds and New Frontiers, while Chris looks at Dinosaur Island: Totally Liquid and Franchise. 

For our feature, we're diving into an important topic, talking about social justice in board games and how it impacts the subjects, gameplay and processes in the games we love, with six examples of how it can be done right. 

• Question of the Week: 2:35
• Acquisition Disorders: 7:16
• Victorian Masterminds Review: 13:48
• New Frontiers Review: 23:18
• Dinosaur Island Totally Liquid Review: 33:19
• Franchise Review: 43:28
• Social Justice in Board Gaming: 48:53

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Thanks to our new Patreon backer this week, Jim. Special thanks as well to Martin for his upgraded pledge. We’re only $13 away from our next milestone – which would mean contests every week for backers. Check it out!

It's that time of year again - we're looking forward to the games we already know are on the horizon to share what we're most looking forward to. 

We kick off this week's episode with our question of the week, "What are your board game resolutions for 2019?" and then dive into the big question - what games are we most looking forward to. Chris and Anthony run through 20 or so that are on the horizon. 

If you haven’t yet, be sure to connect with us on Facebook (www.facebook.com/boardgamersanonymous), Twitter (http://twitter.com/bgapodcast), and on our website (www.boardgamersanonymous.com). You can support the show as well by donating on Patreon (www.patreon.com/bga), or using our Amazon affiliate link.

Thanks to our new Patreon backers this week, Keith and Amy. Special thanks as well to Jim for his upgraded pledge. We're only $26 away from our next milestone - which would mean contests every week for backers. Check it out!

With 2019 now here and new games just around the corner, we want to take one last look back at 2018 and the games we listed as our most anticipated of the year last January. 

How did they fare? Did they release and if so, did we like them or were we disappointed? There's a fair mix of both in the list, plus a good bunch of games we didn't even know about until later in the year. 

Check out the full list, plus our question of the week, "Do you track your plays? If so, what is your most played game of 2018?" If you haven’t yet, be sure to connect with us on Facebook (www.facebook.com/boardgamersanonymous), Twitter (http://twitter.com/bgapodcast), and on our website (www.boardgamersanonymous.com). You can support the show as well by donating on Patreon (www.patreon.com/bga), or using our Amazon affiliate link.

Another year of amazing games is behind us, and that means it's time to share our best of the best and hand out our annual awards. 

This year, we've selected 10 categories (5 of which were recommended by listeners) and then rounded it off with our top 2 games of the year overall. Categories include:

Listener Categories:

• Overlooked Gem of the Year
• Most Innovative of the Year
• Biggest Surprise
• Theme that's Done (for a while)
• Best Expansion
• Most Underrated

BGA Categories:

• 2.0 of the Year
• Kickstarter of the Year
• Game We Wish We'd Played
• Most Unnecessarily Overproduced
• Most Argued Over Game

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As a followup to Episode 200, we wanted to hear from the listeners on what their favorite games were, and you came through!

We're excited to share the results of a survey of nearly 300 listeners who shared their top 20 games. We've aggregated the results and pulled the top 20 overall games together into a list of the best of the best. 

Additionally, we take a look in this episode at what fell off of our top 50 lists from 4 years ago when we recorded Episode 100, and how we feel our lists have evolved since then. 

If you haven’t yet, be sure to connect with us on Facebook (www.facebook.com/boardgamersanonymous), Twitter (http://twitter.com/bgapodcast), and on our website (www.boardgamersanonymous.com). You can support the show as well by donating on Patreon (www.patreon.com/bga), or using our Amazon affiliate link.

It's the big 200 this week - our 200th episode of all time, and we're psyched. So psyched that we recorded a whole bunch of content to help keep you guys busy over the holiday break. 

That's right, it's time for our Top 100 games of all time again, and this time with a bit of a twist. Anthony and Chris have both prepared a top 100 list of their own games. On episode 200 you can listen to the top 50 for each of them, with a very special bonus coming to Patreon including the 51-100 selections for all backers at $1 or higher. 

We worked hard to pull this list together and are excited to share it with you. Check it out, our top 100 games (combined!) of all time. 

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