Patrick and Eric in the Morning

Episode 36

Patrick and Eric discuss "Abstract Games"

“Abstract” from BGG:

"Abstract game" often refers to games of perfect information with alternating turns and no randomness; usually for 2 players. e.g. Chess or Go.

It is also often used to refer to a game without a theme (regardless of the game mechanics). E.g. Backgammon or Tantrix.

It is also often used to refer to games that are "mostly" perfect information and "mostly" lacking in theme (leading to even more confusion and disagreement about whether a given game is an "abstract game" or not).

Classics:

• Checkers
• Chess
• Xiangqi
• Go
• Mancala
• Reversi/Othello (1883)

Modern:

• Gipf Series (Gipf, Yinch, etc)
• Shobu
• Canosa
• Tak
• Blokus
• Amazons
• Onitama
• Quoridor 
• Quarto
• Quantik

Abstracts with Theme:

• Battle Sheep
• Patchwork
• Hive
• Santorini

Abstracts with Luck:

• Backgammon
• Nova Luna
• Qwirkle
• Number 9
• Ingenious

Abstracts with Theme and Luck:

• Azul and sequels
• War Chest
• The Duke
• Calico
• Seikatsu

Episode 35

Patrick and Eric discuss favorite Racing Games

They start up talking about growing up watching real racing.

Long Shot: The Dice Game 

Long Shot the Original

Camel Cup

Mint Julep

Snow Tails

Formula D

Downforce

Automobiles

Rallyman/Rallyman GT

Thunder Alley

PitchCar

Wacky Races

Power Boats (remade as Powerships)

Jamaica

Flamme Rouge

Steampunk Rally

Quicksilver (balloons)

Missippi Queen (steam paddleboats)

Oden’s Ravens

Granite Game Summit show 3/13/21 at 11:00am 

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Patrick & Eric in the Morning Episode #34 - Catching Up

Recorded Sunday 1/24

Recent Plays:

• Deckscape - Escape from Alacatraz
• Burgle Bros 2 
• The Search For Planet X
• Three sisters - see notes below
• Underwater Cities - yucata
• Longhorn
• Elfenland (Bga)
• Letter Tycoon 
• Near and Far
• Takenoko (Pandas)  

 BGA Update:

• Carcassone Hunters and Gatherers
• Alhambra
• No Thanks
• Rolled West  
• Paris Connection
• Claim It - Yucata

Granite Game Summit 2021 - VIRTUAL

Patrick & Eric in the Morning - Live Show Saturday 3/13/2021 - Cartographers and maybe other roll and writes.

https://www.granitegamesummit.com/

Three Sisters is a strategic roll and write from designers Matt Riddle and Ben Pinchback.

Three Sisters is a backyard farming roll and write. Three Sisters is named after the Indigenous agricultural technique that is still widely used today. Three different crops—in this case, pumpkins, corn, and beans—are planted close together. Corn provides a lattice for beans to climb. The beans bring in nitrogen from the air into the soil, and the squash provides a natural mulch ground cover helping to reduce weeds and keep pests away.

The player sheets have several areas: Your field, divided into six zones, each containing the three crop types, and various other areas related to additional actions you can take: Fruits and flowers, beehives, and a shed with tools that have special abilities. 

All the crops, fruits, flowers, and hives are represented by mini-tracks. The areas are interconnected to other elements in the game, giving you bonuses along the way. Many crops generate goods that are used to unlock bonus actions. Advancing on all of these tracks offers various amounts of points, advancements, and bonuses.

So basically combo driven roll and write that is a spiritual successor to Fleet Dice coming to KS March 9.

A sort of Patrick & Eric in the Morning episode - but this episode we invited on Charles from the Things of No Interest Blog to discuss the 31 games released on Board Game Arena during the month of December.

12/01: Thurn & Taxis, from Andreas Seyfarth & Karen Seyfarth, 2006 Spiel des Jahres

12/02: Welcome to… / Welcome to New Vegas, from Alexis Allard & Benoît Tupin

12/03: 99, public domain

12/04: Flaming Pyramids, designed by Norbert Abel

12/05: Small Islands, designed by Alexis Allard

12/06: Map Maker, designed by Louis Lafair, Joshua Lafair, Becca Lafair

12/07: Solo Whist, public domain

12/08: Kami, adapted from Goïta Shogi

12/09: Luxor, from Rüdiger Dorn, 2018 Spiel des Jahres nominee

12/10: Hungarian Tarokk, public domain

12/11: Cacao, from Phil Walker-Harding, 2015 Spiel des Jahres Recommended

12/12: Piraten Kapern, from Haim Shafir

12/13: Off the Rails, from Andrew Platt, Stuart Platt

12/14: Connect 6, from Professor I-Chen Wu

12/15: Spades, public domain

12/16: Saint Petersburg, from Bernd Brunnhofer, 2004 Spiel des Jahres Nominee

12/17: Cribbage, from Sir John Suckling

12/18: Yokai, from Julien Griffon

12/19: Quantik, from Nouri Khalifa, from Gigamic’s Classic game line

12/20: Nanga Parbat, from Steve Finn

12/21: Oh-Seven, from Alex Weldon

12/22: Bandido, from Martin Nedergaard Andersen

12/23: Concept, from Gaëtan Beaujannot & Alain Rivollet, 2014 SdJ Nominee

12/24: Haiclue, from Will Leaf

12/25: Via Magica, from Paolo Mori, reimplementation of Rise of Augustus

12/26: Martian Dice, from Scott Almes

12/27: Dungeon Roll, from Chris Darden

12/28: Con Sonar!, from Christian Boutin

12/29: Big Time Soccer, from Andrew S. Fischer

12/30: Forbidden Island, from Matt Leacock, 2011 Spiel des Jahres Nominee

12/31: Klaverjassen, public domain

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32 - Patrick and Eric in the Morning - Wolfgang Kramer / Michael Kiesling

Recorded 11/22/2020

Patrick

• El Grande - Wolfgang Kramer, Richard Ulrich

• Colosseum - Wolfgang Kramer, Markus Lübke

• 6 nimmt - Wolfgang Kramer

• Seeland - Günter Burkhardt, Wolfgang Kramer

• Azul - Michael Kiesling

• Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra - Michael Kiesling

• Azul: Summer Pavilion - Michael Kiesling

• Azul: Crystal Mosaics

• Vikings - Michael Kiesling

• Downforce - Rob Daviau, Justin D. Jacobson, Wolfgang Kramer

• The Palaces of Carrara - Michael Kiesling, Wolfgang Kramer

Eric

Michael Kiesling:

• Azul

• Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra

• Azul: Summer Pavilion

• Vikings

Wolfgang Kramer:

• 6 nimmt

• Seeland

• El Grande

• Downforce (restored from Tempo, Kramer’s first published game, which was updated as Top Race, Daytona 500, etc.)

Co-designs:

• Tikal (Mask Trilogy) Java and Mexica

• Torres 

• The Palaces of Carrara

Haven’t played:

• Colosseum, Java/Mexica (Kramer)

• Heaven & Ale (Kieling)

• Paris (co-design)

Website you can play online:

http://www.boiteajeux.net/

• Torres 

http://yucata.de/

• El Grande

• The Palaces of Carrara

• Torres

• Vikings

Boardgamearena.com

• 6nimmt,

• Palaces of Carara 

Awards:

Kramer

• Palaces was a SDJ nominee in 2012

• El Grande DSJ 1996

Kesiling 

• Azul 2018

• Heaven and Ale nominee 2018

Shared

• Tikal 1999

• Torres 2000

Patrick & Eric catch up after not recording for a while. This episode was recorded on 9/3/2020 and the last episode on 8/8/2020.  Since the last episode they have been meeting up and playing games virtually such as:

• Super-Skill Pinball: 4-Cade
• Clever hoch drei (AKA Ganz schön clever three)
• Marco Polo (Patrick Won)

Topic - House Rules:

• Sagrada
• Marrakesh 
• Isle of Cats
• Copenhagen Dice
• Nova Luna

Start Player Rules - Patrick's geetlist

Who chooses what games to play?

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@ovethehillier

www.punchboardmedia.com

Patrick and Eric return to their designer spotlight series - Reiner Knizia

Reiner Knizia

• Recent Plays
  • My City
  • Tutankhamun
• Auction Games
  • Ra 
  • Modern Art
• "Numbers on Art"
  • En Garde
  • Shotten Totten
  • Lost Cities
  • Llama

“Reiner Knizia is also criticized that his games are all dry, mathematical affairs, and unfortunately, he can't dodge the bullet completely on this one.” - Some person on BGG

How does theme impact his games?

• Abstracts
  • Ingenious
  • Tigris and Euphrates

"Kenizia scoring" i.e. lowest track scores.

Misc games

• Star Trek Expeditions
• Through The Desert (or Dessert if you eat the camels)
• Quest of El Dorado
• Age of War/Risk Express
• En Garde in detail

Awards and nominations -

• Kinder - Who Was It?
• Speil - Keltis

Co-operative games

• Lord of the Rings

"Remember: When playing a game, the goal is to win, but it is the goal that is important, not the winning..."

Recorded 7/26/2020

Patrick and Eric discuss Storytelling Games

They start off discussing the many different kinds of storytelling games:

• RPGs 
• Escape room games 
• Detective games 
• Graphic Novel Adventures and Choose Your Own Adventures 
• Board games with story elements
• • Tales of the Arabian Nights - Agents of Smersh
  • Rory’s Story Cubes
  • Above and Below
  • Near and Far
  • Dead of Winter (the original Crossroads game)
  • Forgotten Waters
• Games that are so thematic they lend themselves to the players telling stories without overtly having storytelling mechanisms (e.g. Fortune and Glory) - Colosseum

Recorded 6/14/2020

Patrick and Eric reiterate their Black Lives Matter stance

The go on to discuss recent news in the board gaming community.

Cards Against Humanity #CAHisOver

Reddit r/boardgames moderators all quit

New location is https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgamediscussion/

Boardgamegeek RSP (Religion Sex Politics)

Moved to a guild - "harder to find"

GAMA / Origins Online / Origins

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Recorded 5/24/2020

Holiday weekend plans

Quickbread recipe

Ingredients:

1/2 cup butter

1/2 cup sugar

2 eggs

2 cups flour

2 tsp baking powder

1/2 cup milk

1 cup chocolate chips 

Directions:

Cream together butter and sugar, then add eggs one at a time. 

Mix flour and baking powder, then mix with butter-sugar-egg mix alternating with milk. Stir in chocolate chips.

Bake in greased and floured loaf pan or crock at 350F for one hour.

Canceled conventions (as of 6/7/20)

• Essen Speil
• Gencon
• Geekway
• BBG at Sea
• BBG November?
• Origins (November?)
• PAX

Virtual Conventions

• Renegade
• Portal
• Origins
• BGG

Online gaming

• Terraforming Mars
• Scythe