Pick Up and Deliver

Brendan looks back at the games that came out in 2011 and ranks them. Join us, won’t you?Exempt

• Last Will (2011)
• The Castles of Burgundy (2011)

Top 5

• Dungeon Petz (2011)
• Trajan (2011)
• The Adventurers: The Pyramid of Horus (2011)
• Mage Knight Board Game (2011)
• Friday (2011)

Want to play

• War of the Ring: Second Edition (2011)
• Discworld: Ankh-Morpork (2011)
• Village (2011)
• Nightfall (2011)

Honorable Mentions

• Sign of things to come: A Few Acres of Snow (2011)
• Best Stabby game: A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) (2011)
• Game I could get lost in: The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game (2011)
• Best Dice Game: Elder Sign (2011)
• Game I like that no one else does: Kingdom Builder (2011)
• Weirdest game: Tragedy Looper (2011)
• Game that’s more hype in my mind than plays on my table: Fortune and Glory: The Cliffhanger Game (2011)
• Best game I played in Iceland with an Icelander: Yggdrasil (2011)
• Really fun real-time drawing game: Pictomania (2011)
• Excellent I pick-you choose mechanism game: Mammut (2011)

Played

• Takenoko
• King of Tokyo
• Skull
• Flash Point
• Sentinels of the Multiverse
• Fake Artist Goes to New York
• Eminent Domain
• Rhino Hero
• Dark Moon
• The City
• Star Trek Expeditions
• Star Trek Deck Building Game
• City Square Off

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Brendan talks about three games he tried for the first time recently, and one he dusted off. Join us, won’t you?

• Rats of Wistar (2023)
  Bullet♥︎ (2021)
• The Hunger (2021)
• Race for the Galaxy (2007) (revisited)

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

• Linko!
• Vampire Queen
  • It IS the same Kramer as the one who co-designed Linko!
• Terrors of London
• Flip 7

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Brendan shares a bit about games he’s come to realize he doesn’t want to play any more. When someone sets these up, he’s likely to say “Nah, I’m good.”

• Settlers of Catan (1995)
• Monopoly (1935)
• Munchkin (2001)
• Cards Against Humanity (2009)
• Photosynthesis (2017)
• Smash Up (2012)
• Cosmic Encounter (2008)
• On the bubble:
  • Arboretum (2015)

What games are on your “Nah, I’m good” list?

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

• Rats of Wistar (2023)
• The Hunger (2021)
• El Grande (1995)
  Revisited Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra (2018)

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Brendan talks about a few classic games he knows and what he thinks about them. Join us, won’t you?

• Chess (1475)
  • Searching for Bobby Fischer
• Go (-2200)
• Checkers (1150)
• 500 (1904)
• Bridge (1925)
• Poker (1810)
• Backgammon (1630)
  • Rich Sommer’s CARDBOARD!
• Stratego (1946)
• Risk (1959)
• Axis & Allies (1981)
• Rummikub (1977)
• Scrabble (1948)
• Yahtzee (1956)
• Monopoly (1935)
• Clue (1969)
  • Sleuth (1971)
  • P.I. (2012)

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Brendan talks about three games he’s played recently for the first time, and one game he dusted off. Join us, won’t you?

• Rhino Hero: Super Battle
• Suburbia
• Antiquity Quest
• Dungeon Petz  (1 Year, 8 Months, 12 Days dusty)

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On this, the 666th episode of Pick Up & Deliver, Brendan talks about games themed around demons and devils. Join us, won’t you?

• Devil’s Run: Route 666 (2016)
• Demonic workplaces
  • Demon Worker (2016)
  • The Good Place
  • Good Omens
• Dealing with the Devil
  • Deal with the Devil (2022)
  • Faust
  • The Devil Went Down to Georgia
  • Bedazzled
  • Oh God, You Devil
• Protecting a village from an onslaught of demons
  • Ghost Stories (2008)
  • Mr. Vampire
  • Army of Darkness
• Number of The Beast
  • Beast (2022)
  • Kingdom Death: Monster (2015)
  • The Witcher: Old World (2023)
  • Prey

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

• Blokus Trigon (2006)
  • Blokus (2000)
• Casino Yahtzee (1986)
• Switch & Signal (2020)
• Favor of the Pharaoh (2015) (revisited)

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