Pub Meeple Podcast

Welcome to Episode 45 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Gary, Shuck, Just Bryan and Proper Brian as they talk about one of Shuck's great passions - creating a collection of travel games. But, of course, we first have to define our terms. What constitutes a travel game anyway?

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0:00 - Intro and brew talk

4:02 - What we've been playing

9:52 - MAIN TOPIC - Travel Games

Welcome to Episode 44 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Gary, Shuck, Just Bryan and Proper Brian as they talk about collecting games. Is collecting games as much a part of the hobby as playing them? Or is it a hobby unto itself?

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0:00 - Intro and brew talk

4:58 - What we've been playing

17:56 - MAIN TOPIC - Collecting as part of the hobby

Welcome to Episode 43 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Gary, Shuck, Just Bryan and Proper Brian as they look forward to all things 2021 - playing our games with people, new games, revisiting old games, events, and much more.

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0:00 - Intro and Our Brews

2:15 - Project Triangle Strategy and Tactics Games discussion

13:00 - Shuck's travel games

17:56 - MAIN TOPIC - 2021 Look Forward

Welcome to Episode 42 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Gary, Shuck, Just Bryan and Proper Brian as they talk about what makes dungeon crawlers great. Or, in some cases not so great. But first we try to define what a dungeon crawler actually is.

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0:00 - Intro and Our Brews

4:14 - What we've been playing

16:41 - MAIN TOPIC - What's So Great About Dungeon Crawlers?

Welcome to Episode 41 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Gary, Shuck, Just Bryan and Proper Brian as they talk about luck in games. How much is too much? When is luck a good thing? How does luck best serve a game.

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0:00 - Intro and what we've been playing

13:45 - MAIN TOPIC - How much luck is too much luck?

Welcome to Episode 40 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Gary, Shuck, Just Bryan and Proper Brian as they talk through the things they hate about the games they love. Every game has its warts and the guys do their best to forgive these games.

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TIME - TOPIC:

0:00 - Intro and our Brews

3:10 - WandaVision!!

9:20 - MAIN TOPIC - The things we don't like about games we love

Welcome to Episode 39 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Gary, Shuck, Just Bryan and Proper Brian as they go through the Board Game Ranking Engine 2020 top 10 and announce the 2020 Game of the Year. This is the game published in 2020 that was the highest ranked by the people who use the Ranking Engine. What game will sit on top of the heap of 2020? Listen and find out. We then go through some interesting ranking stats from the year to close out the episode.

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TIME - TOPIC:

0:00 - Intro/What we've been playing

6:15 - MAIN TOPIC - BGRE Rankings Intro

8:10 - BGRE Top 10 2020

25:45 - BGRE Game of the Year 2020

36:30 - Some fun ranking stats

Welcome to Episode 38 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Gary, Shuck, Just Bryan and Proper Brian as they go through their personal top 5 games as well as the groups combined top 5. Shifts in these lists are inevitable each year as more games are played but which will come out on top?

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0:00 - Intro/Our Brews

2:31 - Game Spotlight - Parks

12:47 - MAIN TOPIC - Top 5s Intro

13:10 - Pub Top 5

32:34 - Our Personal Top 5s

Welcome to Episode 37 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Gary, Shuck, Just Bryan and Proper Brian as they discuss games that are worth a deep dive - games (or types of games) we would like to spend more time with to see all they have to offer.

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0:00 - Intro/What we've been playing

9:54 - MAIN TOPIC - Deep Dives

Welcome to Episode 36 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Gary, Shuck, Just Bryan and Proper Brian as they pick their only nine. If you could only have nine games, which would they be? And these aren't just our top 9 games. It's a harder exercise than you think.

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0:00 - Intro/Brew Talk

3:30 - What have we been up to?

14:34 - MAIN TOPIC - Only Nine 2020