What does 7/10 mean? What does it mean to you? Is it great? Is it average? This week we are diving into game ranking and rating systems as well as launching our own. This podcast is all about boardgames and helping you find the good ones. We also talk about,

0:48 Community Question: How do you know how to pick a boardgame?

7:11 Recently Played: Sea of Legends

9:01 Feature Topic: The Meeple in a Gamestack Shelfworthy Award and The Meeple in a Gamestack Top Shelf Award

11:34 Secondary Topic: Rating Games and Ranking Systems

Let us know what you think of our ranking system or the awards at https://twitter.com/meeplegamestack or at [email protected]. Also if you have questions fire away!

Shoutout to Jenna for her excellent question! Thank you so much for listening.

Welcome to the final part of Corey Konieczka Month! We're done (for now) covering games by the varied boardgame designer, Corey Konieczka. But what did we learn about his style? Did his designs live up to the hype? What did we learn from his games?  Listen in to find out. We also talk about,

0:54 Community Question: If you were to design your own boardgame what would it be?

7:56 The King's Dilemma

9:18 Sanctum

16:16 Feature Topic: Corey Konieczka Month Conclusion

Let us know what you think of the Mr. Konieczka, his games, and our conclusions. You can ask us questions at https://twitter.com/meeplegamestack or at [email protected].

Shoutout to Carter for his great question! Thank you so much for listening Carter.

Welcome to the first annual Birthday Week here on the Meeple in a Gamestack podcast, where we're making sure we're living the "and just having a good time" part of our tagline by celebrating Mitch's birthday. How will we be celebrating this occasion by playing boardgames of course! This year we chose to focus on one of our great white whale games and tackle the gargantuan galactic game that is Twilight Imperium 4th Ed.

0:55 Birthday Week Intro

1:57 Community Announcements

2:40 Spiel des Jahres Discussion

4:55 Community Question: Dice Based Games or Card Based Games?

7:36 Recently played: Adventure Games: The Dungeon

12:17 Recently played: Railroad Ink: Challenge Lush Green

16:31 Feature Game: Twilight Imperium 4th Ed.

If you have questions for the podcast we would love to hear from you. Reach us at https://twitter.com/meeplegamestack or at [email protected]

Shoutout to Mitch for his great question! Thank you so much for listening!

Welcome to the third part of Corey Konieczka Month! We are super excited to be unveiling the latest game by the ever unpredictable boardgame designer, Corey Konieczka. Listen in to hear our thoughts on this recently released game, The Initiative!

2:14 Community Question

10:10 Recently Played: Railroad Ink: Deep Blue Edition

23:38 Feature Game: The Initiative

Let us know what you think of Mr. Konieczka's games, and your thoughts on our thoughts haha. Also ask us your questions! Reach us at https://twitter.com/meeplegamestack or at [email protected]

Shoutout to David for his most excellent question. Thank you so very much for listening!

Welcome to the second part of Corey Konieczka Month! We continue discovering the varied games by the creative boardgame designer, Corey Konieczka. Listen in to hear what we thought of this explorative exploration game, Discover: Lands Unknown.

1:48 Congrats to the BGG Golden Geek Award Winners

2:59 Community Question

14:46 Recently Played: Carcasonne & Hey, That's My Fish!

22:47 Feature Game: Discover: Lands Unknown

Let us know what you think of our choice of Corey Konieczka's games, and what you think of Discover: Lands Unknown. We appreciate all your input and would love to hearmore of your questions. Reach us at https://twitter.com/meeplegamestack or at [email protected]

Shoutout to Maryland! I was today years old when I learned Maryland is a real place. Thank you so very much for listening from your non-ficticious home!

Welcome to part one of Corey Konieczka Month! This is the first episode of the third part in our series focusing on boardgame designers big and small and some of boardgamings greatest games. We are quite excited to be diving into some of the games by the boardgame designer, Corey Konieczka.  Check it out to hear what we think of the first of his games that we'll be covering, Star Wars: Rebellion!

0:54 Community Segment and admitting our mistake!

1:35 Community Question from Chris

15:05 Recently Played: The King's Dilemma

16:06 Corey Konieczka Intro

18:15 Feature Game: Star Wars: Rebellion

Let us know what you think of our choice of Corey Konieczka's games so far, and what you think of this game. Or if you have a question for the show you can reach us at https://twitter.com/meeplegamestack or at [email protected]

Shoutout to Chris for his excellent question! Thank you so very much for listening!

The chained murderer stands before you, across the cold marbled floors of the council room. If you don't punish this man for his actions others may think they can get away with it as well and the kingdom could fall into chaos. But personaly you think he acted justly, and the victim deserved what they got for slighting your house. Now it is time for your vote, but which way will you? Which will it be the kingdom or your family? This podcast is all about boardgames and this week we are featuring The King's Dilemma. The heated debate game of tough decisions that ties in a campaign and a story from Horrible Guild, but did it prosper or will we have it beheaded? Find out on this episode of the Meeple in a Gamestack podcast, also covered games are,

0:54 The Community Segment (Ask us Questions)

2:17 Recently Played: Ashes Reborn: Rise of the Phoenixborn

12:36 Feature Game: The King's Dilemma

If you have any questions for us about boardgames or the show you can reach us at https://twitter.com/meeplegamestack or at [email protected]. Always happy to hear from you!

Shoutout to our listeners from New South Wales. Thank you so much for listening!

Are you pushing yourself to beat your highscore? Are you grinding to complete your 10x10? Should you be? This podcast is all about boardgames and managing your goals and enthusiam for them. We also mention,

0:41 Some teases for upcoming games: Ashes: Rise of the Phoenixborn and Cloudspire

4:31 Topic: Gaming Goals and Burnout

Let us know if you've ever had experience with this topic at https://twitter.com/meeplegamestack or at [email protected].

Shoutout to our Quebecois listeners! Merci for listening.

As the horde of aliens bear down on your position, gaping maws frothing, you go to reload your weapon. It clicks, empty. Without time to think about it you turn to run back to base. But the horde is faster, soon they're right on your heels bearing down on you. As you're quickly overwhelmed... the timer beeps. Okay what round is it? Did we lose? This podcast is all about boardgames and this week we are featuring Project: ELITE. The tense and exciting real-time dice rolling action game rereleased from CMON Limited, but did it impress or crumble under the hordes of aliens? Find out on this episode of the Meeple in a Gamestack podcast, also covered games are,

0:55 Recently Played: Innovation

3:39 A War of Whispers

9:13 Balderdash

14:04 Feature Game: Project: ELITE

If you have any questions or want to tell us what you think of Project: ELITE you can reach us at https://twitter.com/meeplegamestack or at [email protected]. Always happy to hear from you!

Shoutout to our listeners from Oregon. Thank you so much for listening!

You just taught your friend the game. You're in a couple rounds and they're pulling ahead of you in points, and you know you could change that. But should you? This podcast is all about boardgames and getting new people to play them. We also talk about,

0:37 Recent Plays: Ethnos

1:51 Champions of Midgard and the Valhalla Expansion

6:03 Innovation

7:21 Topic: New Players, and Should You Go Easy On Them?

Let us know what you think of going easy on new players, or any tips for teaching games that you have at https://twitter.com/meeplegamestack or at [email protected]

Shoutout to our English listeners! We think this is a bloody good one. Thank you so much for listening.