Pick Up and Deliver

Brendan, inspired by plays of Electrify, talks about a few of his favorite Action Selection games. Join us, won’t you?

• Choose an action, varying strength
  • Civilization: A New Dawn (2017)
  • Electrify (2027)
  • Ark Nova (2021)
• Simultaneous action choice, all perform
  • Race for the Galaxy (2007)
  • Puerto Rico 1897 (2022)
  • Roll for the Galaxy (2014)
• Choose an action, others may follow
  • Glory to Rome (2005)
  • Broom Service (2015)
• Hand Management
  • Transatlantic (2017)
  • Concordia (2013)
• Other AS methods (Suchy!)
  • Praga Caput Regni (2020)
  • Pulsar 2849 (2017)

What are your favorite action selection games? Share your thoughts over in our guild, #3269.

Brendan revisits the subject of mystery-themed games. Join us, won’t you?

• Pick Up & Deliver 242: Mystery Game
• Race Games
  • Whitehall Mystery (2017)*
  • Fury of Dracula (Third/Fourth Edition) (2015)
  • Scotland Yard (1983)
  • Mysterium Park (2020)
    • HeroQuest; Apothebakery; Mysterium Park; Big Book of Madness (revisited)
• Story Games
  • The Sherlock Files: Elementary Entries (2019)*
  • Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Thames Murders & Other Cases (1981)
    Time Stories (aka T.I.M.E Stories) (2015)
  • MicroMacro: Crime City (2020)
    • The Frank Book
  • Undo: Cherry Blossom Festival (2019)
• Deduction and Clue games
  • Awkward Guests: The Walton Case (2016)*
  • Clue (1969)
  • Awkward Guests 2: The Berwick Cases (2023)
  • P.I. (2012)
    • Cryptid (2018)

Descriptions with an asterix ( * ) are also used in my current mystery class.

PU&D870: HeroQuest; Apothebakery; Mysterium Park; The Big Book of Madness (revisited)Brendan shares his thoughts on three games he tried recently for the first time, and one game he revisited or expanded. Join us, won’t you?

• HeroQuest (1989)
  • Last Night on Earth: The Zombie Game (2007)
• Apothebakery: The Culinary Alchemists (2025)
• Mysterium Park (2020)
  • Mysterium (2015)
• The Big Book of Madness (2015) (revisited)
  • Pandemic (2008)

Have you played these games? What do you think of them? Share your thoughts over on boardgamegeek in guild #3269.

Brendan adds to his Great Designers series, talking about his experience with Stefan Feld games, and which ones he likes the best. Join us, won’t you?His four games I’ve played the most:

• The Castles of Burgundy (2019)
• Carpe Diem (2018)
• Trajan (2011)
• Bonfire (2020)

Played multiple times, but not top tier

• Bruges (2013)
• Forum Trajanum (2018)
• AquaSphere (2014)
• La Isla (2014)

What are your favorite Stefan Feld games? Share your thinking over on Boardgamegeek in our guild #3269.

Brendan talks about three games he played for the first time recently. Join us, won’t you?

• Night at the Zoo (2026)
• The Emerald Flame (2021)
• Elder Sign: Omens of the Pharaoh (2018) (expansion)
• dnup (2025)

What do you think about these games? What have you been playing lately? Share your thoughts over on boardgamegeek in guild #3269.

Brendan explores his game plays in September and sets up his October plays. Join us, won’t you?

• September Top of the Stack
  • New Game – Recall✓
  • Top 50 game – Messina 1347✓
  • Another New Game – Outdoor Survival
  • One More – Tekhenu: Obelisk of the Sun
• Shelf of Opportunity
• October Top of the Stack
  • New Game – Joan of Arc: Orleans Draw & Write
  • Top 50 game – Mosaic: A Story of Civilization
  • Another new game – Too Many Bones
  • One More – Arkham Horror 3rd Edition

What games will you play in October? Share your plans over on boardgamegeek in guild #3269.

Brendan does a deep dive into one of his favorite games: Trickerion. Join us, won’t you?

• Trickerion: Legends of Illusion (2015)
• Tactical Worker Placement
  • Dungeon Petz (2011)
• Very Tight Economy
  • Agricola (2007)
• Interdependent Resources / Mechanisms
  • On Mars (2020)
  • Ark Nova (2021)
• Well-integrated Theme
  • Obsession (2018)
• That “Just not quite enough” feeling
  • Messina 1347 (2021)

What do you think of this worker placement classic? Share your thoughts over in our guild, #3269.

Brendan reflects on the games he dusted off in June, July, and August but didn’t have time to reflect upon. Join us, won’t you?

• Top 50 Dusted off
  • Trickerion: Legends of Illusion (2015)
  • Glory to Rome (2005)
  • Orléans (2014)
• Classic bangers
  • Carcassonne (2000)
  • Root (2018)
  • Splendor (2014)
  • High Society (1995)
• Other Games I Played
  • Antiquity Quest (2019)
  • Cribbage (1630)
  • Gin Rummy (1909)
    Skull (2011)
  • Chicken! (2023)
    Bunny Bunny Moose Moose (2009)

What games did you dust off over the summer? Share your plays over on Boardgamegeek in guild #3269.

Brendan talks a bit about what games people born under the zodiac sign Virgo might like best. Join us, won’t you?

• Previous Astrology Files episodes
• Allure.com’s “12 Zodiac Signs: Dates and Personality Traits”
• Farming and Wheat
  • The Canadian Potato Museum
  • Agricola (2007)
  • Pick Up & Deliver 229: Duel – Agricola vs. Everdell
• Logical, Practical, and Systemic
  • Trickerion: Legends of Illusion (2015)
  • Tzolkin: The Mayan Calendar (2012)
  • Messina 1347 (2021)
• Meticulous, Deductive
  • Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Thames Murders & Other Cases (1981)
  • Got Five! (2026)
• Helpful to others
  • The Big Book of Madness (2015)
  • Daybreak (2023)

What other games do you think represent Virgo gamers well? Share your thoughts over on boardgamegeek in guild #3269.

Brendan gives his first impressions of three games he tried recently. Join us, won’t you?

• The Game Makers (2026)
  • Fromage (2024)
• Wanted Wombats (2022)
• Wandering Towers (2022)
• The Downfall of Pompeii (2004) revisited

What do you think of these games? Share your thoughts over on Boardgamegeek in guild #3269.

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