Episode 107: Brendan talks about how easy it is to make serious mistakes when you play a game.

Episode 106: Brendan shares the latest updates to his top buy list, reflecting some of the exciting new games coming out of Essen this year.

Brendan’s Top Want List
Brendan’s Games of Interest 2018
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Episode 105: Brendan does a little brainstorming about a multi-use card game played standing up. What will it be like? Join us to find out.

Show notes:

Innovation
Eminent Domain
Iain M. Banks
Palm Island
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Episode 104: Brendan continues reflecting on the experience at Protospiel Chicago 2018.

Pick Up and Deliver 097: Protospiel plans
Pick Up and Deliver 101: Protospiel part 1
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Episode 103: Brendan discusses some of the games he's played in the first half of October.

The Mind
Welcome to...
SKULL
Secret Hitler
Two Rooms and a Boom
Werewords Deluxe
Dice Forge
Carassonne
The Expanse Board Game
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Episode 102: Brendan discusses two games he’s tried for the first time recently, Smile and Innovation. He gives his first impressions.

Smile
Innovation
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Episode 101: An episode recorded back in September, Brendan shares the first part of his reflection on the Protospiel playtesting event Rattlebox Games attended in September.

First Against the Wall
Something Wakes in the Forest
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Brendan looks back at the last 99 episodes and picks out his favorite 10. Enjoy!

10. How well do you know your gaming partners? (Episode 75)
9. On Collecting (Episode 7)
8. Moral Ambiguity in Games (Episode 28)
7. My Top 50 games (Episodes 50, 51, 52, 53, 54)
6. Ethical History (Episode 47)
5. On Being a Carebear (Episode 7)
4. Board Game Sommelier – Horror (Episode 98)
3. Coin Flip on a Knife Edge (Episode 72)
2. Free-Riders (Episodes 32, 33)
1. The Curious Case of Jakub Rozalski (Episode 42)

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Brendan answers more questions from the Boardgame Geek guild, #3269.

Question: how do you organize your game shelves? Take a look at how I organize my game shelf.
Question: Expansions, yay or nay? Here’s a list of the expansions I own.
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Introducing a new segment, the Board Game Sommelier, in which Brendan pairs games with other popular media to recommend an evening of entertainment. This week's theme, HORROR.

Our recommendations for thematic pairings:

Desperation throbs, like an infected bite, throughout Dawn of the Dead and Dead of Winter.
Want to be a real bastard to your friends? Viciousness infects the heart of both Land of the Dead and City of Horror.
Sometimes we want a little haunting in our lives. Johnny Depp's Sleepy Hollow and the Flying Frog Productions creepfest A Touch of Evil both do this well, colonial style.
Tension doesn't get much higher than during the high-stress middle of Alien and Escape from the Aliens in Outer Space.
Do you delight in being suspicious? The Thing and Dark Moon both dare you to be paranoid.
What games and films would you pair to promote a horror-filled evening? Let us know in our Board Game Geek guild, #3269.