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Episode 174: How To Get Your Non-Gaming Spouse Into Board Games or Katie Gets Way Up High on Her Soapbox to Throw Jason Under the Bus

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Episode 174 - How To Get a Non-Gaming Significant Other Into Gaming

Introduction: 

  • Fickle Favorite: Scott Christley

News: 

  • Enigma: Crime Scene - 4 days, $70
  • Pisces - 12 days, $45
  • Fossil Canyon - 13 days, $20

    • Games Played: 

    • Red Rising
  • Tidal Blades
  • Lions of Lydia

    • How to Get A Non-Gaming Significant Other Into Gaming:  

    • Jason - Know the game before trying to teach the game
  • Katie - Mitigate some of the mental clutter (child care, food prep, etc)
  • Jason - Don’t start with a super heavy/deep game because YOU enjoy it
  • Katie - Let them pick the game/dictate the theme
  • Jason - Let them make the decisions of the game and don’t play for them
  • Katie - Plan/convenient time for them 

    • Closing:

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