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This week, Amanda and Brad go over their experiences at Gen Con 50 in Indianapolis! They had such a wonderful time meeting so many wonderful people and playing many great games. Find out what games ended up coming home with them as well as their favorite game of the convention!

 

Gen Con continued it's impressive size with turnstile attendance of 207,979.  

 

1:00 Pre-Gen Con events

• 5:45 Gen Con Day 1

Thursday Morning

• 8:15 Grabbing the games off of our list
• Greyfox: Champions of Midguard expansions/mat
• Renegade: Chaos at the booth
• Restoration Games Bundle: Downforce, Stop Thief, Indulgence
• Bezier Games: Whistle Stop

• 13:00 Cheapass Games
• Butten Men, Tak, Pairs, Kill Doctor Lucky Expansion

• 14:38 Nerd Night
• 15:50 Flamme Rouge
• Photosynthesis, Go Nuts for Donuts
• 17:20 Fantasy Realms
• 18:03 Charity Auction
• 20:20 Red Scare

Friday

• 21:45 Second attempt at picking up Ex Libris
• 24:41 First impressions of Ex Libris
• 27:14 Meeting with Lance at TMG
• Orleans Expansion, Lumeria, Ars Technica
• 28:23 Hot Shots by Fireside Games

• 30:26 Dice Tower Live Show
• 32:15 Fireball Island Announcement
• 33:11 Overlight announcement from Renegade Games
• 33:58 Ticket to Ride map reveal by Alan Moon
• 34:51 Coaster Park by Pandasauras Games

• 36:25 Five Minute Dungeon

• 38:56 Rolling Dice and Taking Names Meetup / Strike Tournament

• 43:49 Late night gaming with friends

• Our greatest game of Spyfall ever

Saturday

• 46:57 Red Rocket Farm art
• 47:54 Pirate Lab game bag
• 49:09 By Order of the Queen (meeting designers/artists)
• 50:00 Spy Club by Foxtrot Games

• 55:56 The Secret Cabal Meetup
• Crowd, Food, Raffle
• 59:15 Crossfire

• 1:00:00 Truck Off
• 1:03:25 Spirit Island

Sunday

• 1:05:43 Near & Far ; Empires of the Void

• 1:08:55 Sunday Funday

• 1:10:20 Recap of our Top 5 games we were excited to demo
• 1:11:05 Expansions we were excited to buy
• Harry Potter, Dead of Winter Warring Colonies, Blue Happy Salmon, Terraforming Mars, Champions of Midguard: Valhalla and Dark Mountains, Sherriff of Nottingham Merry Men, Dark Tales: Little Mermaid, Snow White, and Little Red Riding Hood
• 1:14:40 Top Games we were excited about picking up
• Stop Thief, Flick 'Em Up Dead of Winter, Klondike Rush, Indulgence, Mountains of Madness, Whistle Stop, Professor Evil and the Citadel of Time, Ex Libris, Codenames Duet, Deckscape
• 1:20:55 Downforce
• 1:24:21 Photosynthesis
• 1:25:50 Favorite Game of the Convention: Spirit Island

This week, Amanda and Brad go over one of their favorite party games, Word Slam by Inka and Markus Brand and published by KOSMOS. 

Player Count: 4-99

Play Time: 45 Minutes

Ages 12+

Category: Part Game

 

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This week Amanda and Brad are reviewing the expansion for Wits & Wagers called Vegas Wits & Wagers. It is designed by Dominic Crapuchettes, with art from Ali Douglass and Ben Goldman, and published by North Star Games.

 

They start the episode going over how the game plays and the changes this expansion brings. They finish with their review starting at 8:22 in the episode.

 

The Kickstarter for Vegas Wits & Wagers will be going live on Saturday, August 19, 2017.

 

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 It's almost Gen Con!!! It's going to be crazy this year with record crowds and insanity surrounding the 50th anniversary. Let Amanda and Brad help provide some guidance!

Also, they'll be at a Pre-Gen Con event at their friendly local game store: Game Preserve. They'll post the info on our facebook page! Here's the event!

Intro - 0:00

What is GenCon? - 3:48

Things to Know:

• Generic Tickets - 7:39
• Balloon Sculpture - 9:25  
• Cardhalla - 10:31  
• Registration/Ticket Pick Up -  11:54  
• Exhibit Hall - 15:01
• Gaming Hall - 19:34    
• Costume Contest - 21:32   

Food Options -  23:17

Coupon Book 31:55

Events - 33:19      

• Nerd Night - 33:48  
• Dice Tower Live - 35:08
• Secret Cabal Meet-Up at Tow Yard -  36:54

Brad's Con Tips  -  38:03  

Games we already own  - 42:03

Games we are excited to Demo - 45:53    

Honorable Mentions:

Legends of Sleepy Hollow

Divinity Derby

Top 5

5 Palace Mad King Ludwig

4 Wits & Wagers Vegas Wits and Wagers: Superheroes vs. Supervillain

3 Spy Club

2 1001 Odyssey

1 Founders of Gloomhaven

 

Expansions we are excited to buy - 57:05  

Honorable Mentions:

Harry Potter Hogwarts Battle - The Monster Box of Monsters Expansion

Dead of Winter: Warring Colonies

Top 5 Expansions  

5 Blue Happy Salmon

4 Terraforming Mars Hellas & Elysium  

3 Champions of Midgard (Valhalla and The Dark Mountains)

2 Sheriff of Nottingham - Merry Men

1 Dark Tales - Little Mermaid

 

 

Most Anticipated Games  - 1:14:13

Honorable Mentions:

Stop Thief

Flick em up Dead Winter

Top 10 Games for GenCon50  

10 Klondike Rush

9 Indulgence

8 Mountains of Madness

7 Whistle Stop

6 Professor Evil and the Citadel of Time

5 Ex Libris

4 Deskscape - Time Test/ Fate of London

3 Codenames Duet

2 Downforce

1 Photosynthesis

 

BGG Geek Preview  - 1:40:29

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This week, Amanda and Brad go over their Top 10 High Player Count Games (6+) and include a few Honorable Mentions. 

 

Top 10 starts at 25:43

 

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This week, Amanda and Brad review Flip Ships by Kane Klenko and published by Renegade Games. Have they finally found a dexterity game that Amanda loves?

 

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In this episode, Amanda and Brad go over what they've been playing for the past two weeks as well as give their thoughts on the top two wooden insert companies for board games. This week they are highlighting The Broken Token and Meeple Realty.

Dead of Winter – 0:50

Hey That's My Fish – 3:18

Pandemic Iberia – 3:56

Castles of Mad King – 5:50

Sagrada – 8:40

Okey Dokey – 9:20

Carcassonne – 11:02

Dixit –  12:48

Purrrlock Holmes – 14:50

Wits and Wagers Vegas –  15:15

Word Slam – 16:43

Bang the Dice Game – 18:27

Insider – 20:18

One Night Ultimate Alien –  21:19

Firefly – 25:15

Flipships – 26:33

Century Spice Road – 27:30

Flatline – 28:00

Flip City –  29:00

Affliction – Salem 1692 – 30:10

Colonists – 31:04

Werewords – 32:42

Squeek & Sausage – 34:52

Ravenwood Castle – 37:12 

Game Box Insert Conversation –  46:00

Game Hobby News

Watch it Played Indiegogo 1:36:00

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In this episode, Brad and Amanda go over the recent release by IDW Games called Purrrlock Holmes: Furriarty's Trail . This semi co-operative deduction game designed by Stephen Sauer is all about trying to figure out what your card is that's facing away from you. Can you follow the trail and catch Furrriarty?

 

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In this episode, Amanda and Brad talk about the games they've been playing since Origins 2017 and present their Top 5 Favorite Tile Placement Games.

00:34 Purrlock Holmes Furryaties Trail by IDW games

01:04 Sentient by Renegade Games Studios

01:24 Nefarious by USAopoly

02:30 World Slam by Kosmos

04:30 Flip Ships by Renegade Games Studios

05:32 Island Hopper by Eagle Gryphon Games

07:41 Escape from 100 Million BC by IDW Games

10:19 Lignum by Capstone Games

12:11 Tokaido by Funforge

14:13 Hive, Quarto, Welcome to the Dungeon at Kingmakers

15:45 Dixit by Asmodee

17:06 Okey Dokey by Tasty Minstrel Games

18:46 Time Stories: Lumen Fidei by Space Cowboys

20:00 Dead Men Tell no Tales

21:56 Sagrada by Floodgate Games

25:43 Our Top Five Tile Placement Games

 

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This review examines Sentient by J. Alex Kevern and published by Renegade Games.

Player Count: 2-4

Play Time: 45-60 min

Theme: Building Sentient Robots is easy but programming them to work properly in the network takes a lot of skill. 

Game Play: Roll dice and place them on the assigned spaces. Pickup robots from a selection row and place them onto your player board and manipulate the flanking dice according to the card. If the objective to the card is met at the end of the round, you score the victory points listed on the card. Area control comes into play as you have to send agents and possible assistants to secure the robots. Having the most control above certain card slots grants the player investor markers that score at the end of the game.

 

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