Pick Up and Deliver

Brendan shares his thoughts about games themed around heat and the desert. Join us, won’t you?

• The Lost Expedition (2017)
  • The Lost City of Z
• Through the Desert (1998)
• Forbidden Desert (2013)
• Evacuation (2023)
• Daybreak (2023)

Honorable Mentions:

• CO2 (aka CO₂) (2012)
• Anachrony (2017)
• Scoville (2014)
• Heat: Pedal to the Metal (2022)
• The Downfall of Pompeii (2004)

What games do you associate with heat? Share your thoughts over on boardgamegeek in guild #3269.

Brendan talks about the films he watched in June and what games would go well when paired with those films. Join us, won’t you?

• Boys in the Boat
• All the President’s Men
  • Watergate (2019)
  • 1960: The Making of the President (2007)
• Hit Man
  • Fiasco
  • The Killer
• Marlowe
  • P.I. (2012)
  • Detective: City of Angels (2019)
• Dune (Part Two)
  • Dune: Imperium – Uprising (2023)

What films have you seen lately? Share with us over on Boardgamegeek in guild #3269.

Brendan shares his first impressions of three games he tried for the first time recently. Join us, won’t you?

• Scooby-Doo: Escape from the Haunted Mansion (2020)
• Sand (2024)
• Patrician (2007) (revisited)
• The Game of Wolf (2019)

What games have you played recently? Share with us over on Boardgamegeek in guild #3269.

Brendan devises maybe his weirdest episode theme yet! It’s a board-game focused meditation on the episode number, as filtered through Google. Hold on to your butts.

• The Meaning of the 640 Angel Number
• KFI AM 640 – The News. What It Means, Why It Matters
  • Radio Game (1925)
  • Game of Radio (1924)
• 640 Area Code
  • Monopoly (1935)
  • Cape May (2021)
  • The Doom That Came to Atlantic City (2013)
• 640 Credit Score: Is it Good or Bad?
  • High Society (1995)
  • QE (2019)
• 640 Meats
  • Dungeon Petz (2011)
  • Agricola (2007)
  • Mosaic: A Story of Civilization (2022)
• Year 640
  • Kutná Hora: The City of Silver (2023)

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Brendan shares his thoughts on the delightful Worker Placement game Anachrony. Join us, won’t you?

• Anachrony (2017)
• Different Worker Types
  • Dwellings of Eldervale (2020)
  • Oak (2022)
• Mechanism + Plot = Great Theming
  • Trickerion: Legends of Illusion (2015)
  • Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization (2015)
• Variable goals and Individual Player powers
  • Great Western Trail: Second Edition (2021)
  • Revive (2022)
  • Underwater Cities (2018)
• Great Table Presence
  • Return to Dark Tower (2022)
  • Villagers (2019)

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Brendan shares his first impressions of three games he tried recently, and one game he dusted off. Join us, won’t you?

• Chicken! (2023)
• Picture Perfect (2020)
• Nexus Ops (2005) (revisited)
• Inventions: Evolution of Ideas (2024)

What games have you played recently? Share your experience over at BoardGameGeek in guild #3269. Join us, won’t you?

Brendan shares a few thoughts about what games might go along with historical events from July 5th. Join us, won’t you?

• What happened in history: July 5
  • Idea borrowed from Spielmill on Tiktok
• 1996: Dolly the Sheep is cloned
  • Android: Netrunner
  • The Loop
  • Star Wars: The Clone Wars
• 1978: Group of 19 Protest about bus accessibility
  • Stonewall Uprising
  • Let’s Make a Bus Route
  • Bus
• 1946: Bikini Introduced
  • Santa Monica
• 1775: Olive Branch Petition
  • Dawn of the Peacemakers
• 1865: Execution of the Lincoln Assassination Conspirators
  • Unforgiven: The Lincoln Assassination Trial

What games would you play on the 5th of July? Share your thoughts over on boardgamegeek in guild #3269.

Brendan talks about how he organizes his collection and what makes him keep or give up a game. Join us, won’t you?

• Previous episodes about collection management:
  • Pick Up & Deliver 272: Organizing Your Collection
  • Pick Up & Deliver 474: Games That Hang On (when they probably shouldn’t)
  • Pick Up & Deliver 355: Leaving the Collection
  • Pick Up & Deliver 048: Culling Your Collection
  • Pick Up & Deliver 198: On the Chopping Block
  • Pick Up & Deliver 016: On Collecting
• Keep: Haven’t played it yet
  • Shelf of Opportunity
• Keep: Because I love them and/or my wife loves them:
  • Wingspan
  • Sagrada
• Keep: Because I ‘collect’ the designer
  • 20th Century (2010)
  • League of Six (2007)
• Keep: Because they’re a novely
  • Columbo Detective Game (1973)
  • Murder, She Wrote (1985)
• Ditch: Not fun to me
• Ditch: Easy to get hold of
  • CATAN (1995)
• Ditch: Never Gets Played
  • Bunny Kingdom (2017)

What makes you keep or get rid of a game? Share your thoughts over on boardgamegeek in guild #3269.

Brendan shares his game plays from the month. Join us, won’t you?

• Top of the Stack, June 2024
  • NEW GAME – Mythic Mischief✓
  • NOVELTY CHOICE – The Office Downsizing Game X
  • ONE PLAY – Scooby Doo and the Haunted Mansion✓
  • TRYING AGAIN CHOICE – Forum Trajanum✓
• Shelf of Opportunity
• Top of the Stack, July 2024
  • NEW GAME – Terrors of London
  • SHELF CLEARER – Space Freaks
  • SOLO – Warp’s Edge
  • TRYING AGAIN CHOICE – Switch & Signal

What games did you play this month? Share your game plays over on Boardgamegeek in guild #3269.

Brendan shares his thoughts on three games he tried for the first time recently. Join us, won’t you?

• Tipperary (2023)
• Voidfall (2023)
• Pax Pamir: Second Edition (2019)
• Hellboy: The Board Game (2019) (revisited)

What games have you tried lately? Share your game plays over on boardgame geek in guild #3269.