The Ascent of Board Games

Episode 30 - Games with Changing Boards


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Happy New Year! Congratulations on surviving 2020 with enough mental fortitude to listen to a podcast about board games! To celebrate the (hopefully positive) change in the calendar, we're talking about games where the board changes as you play. You'll hear us say things like:

  • "Sometimes you just wanna go punch your friends in the face."
  • "In 2003, Mayfair Games produced a tiny little bundle of hate."
  •  "Yahtzee, with punching." (I'm sensing a theme here...)
  • "Hey Culligan Man!"
  • Other items of interest in this episode include:

    • A classic commercial for an abstract family game about murder and cannibalism.
  • The board that lets the Titanic slip beneath the waves (after which the survivors, apparently, will also face murder and cannibalism).
  • Whales are jerks, Exhibit A.
  • Château Roquefort is much easier to show than to explain in audio format, so here's a series of four pictures on how the board is constructed (thanks to BGG user @pasquy).
  • And the folding/unfolding boards of Key to the Kingdom (folded and unfolded) and The Mushroom Eaters (folded and unfolded)
  • As always, we appreciate your listening and would love to hear your comments on any or all of these items, and especially a review on iTunes if you have the time and inclination!

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  • And more coming soon! (Ooh, foreshadowing!)
  • Intro and outro music is "Evening Melodrama" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under a Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License.

    The Ascent of Board Games is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Some rights reserved.

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