Decision Space
By Jacob Frydman, Brendan Hansen
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Dinasaurtaco
Sep 11, 2025
Fantastic deep dive into board games.
Antony Lee
May 31, 2022
Love the concept and content of this podcast!
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Decision Space is a board game podcast about the decisions in games.
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Design Day Recap: Feedback, Feelings, and Fun
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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The Best Components of All Time
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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Chunky Decisions and Other Design Lessons with Jon Perry
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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Deckbuilding 101 and Dominion
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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Meeples, Money, and Other Chit
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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Brain Burning Decision Spaces and Castles of Mad King Ludwig
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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Dice Are Nice
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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Expanding Root (Deep Dive Part 2)
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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Trick-Taking With A Twist
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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Apiary and Positive Player Interaction
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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All About Boards
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Exploring Cardboard Worlds: Earthborne Rangers and Vantage with Dan Thurot
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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Top Games of the 00's That Are Worth Playing in 2025
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Board Game Junk Food
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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An Ode to the Tile, the Best Component in Tabletop Gaming?
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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What Have Pete and Jake Been Playing?
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Player Count Problems and Solutions
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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Mail Time! (Ask Us Anything)
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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Root: the Greatest Game of All Time?
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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Lifestyle Games (What We Talk About)
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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The Wow Factor of Games
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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Innovation and Games without Guard Rails (Look Mom, No Hands!)
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May 28, 2025 |
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We Played Hot Games at Geekway To the West! (Featuring Laughing Table Friends' Luke Williams and Jared Ingersoll)
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May 21, 2025 |
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Top 10 Games of All Time (5 to 1)
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May 14, 2025 |
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Top 10 Games of All Time (10 to 6)
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May 07, 2025 |
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Cooperation, Communication, and Vantage with Jamey Stegmaier
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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Let's Duel! Toy Battle and Dueling Games
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Quintessential Pete and Paul Games
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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F Is for Filler and Faraway
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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This Episode Is Broken (Game Show)
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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RIP To 3 Dearly Beloved Board Games
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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Can Games Be Mean?
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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Drawing Cards Is the Best Mechanism in Board Games (What We Talk About)
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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Expression in Board Games (What We Talk About)
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Types of Simultaneous Play and Fromage Deep Dive
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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Age of Innovation and Discussion on Sequels, Expansions, and Reimplementations
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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Action Points in Board Games (What We Talk About)
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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Episode 200! Our Favorite Decisions in Board Games
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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Shedding in Board Games (What We Talk About) and a Haggis Review
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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The Best 2024 Board Game Decisions and Games We Look Forward to in 2025
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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Our Top 5 Kramer & Kiesling Games and Mexica Deep Dive
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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The State of Decision Space - Big News, Reflections, and the 2024 Listener List
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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RANKING ALL THE GAMES 2024: Year End Rank-A-Thon
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Dec 25, 2024 |
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Quintessential Brendan Games
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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Quick Show Update
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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Double Feature! Dracula vs Van Helsing / Castle Combo
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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The 5 Types of Rules (What We Talk About)
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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Quintessential Jake Games
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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Burgle Bros - Is This Pac-Man the Board Game?
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Play at Work (Business Casual Dress Code Strictly Enforced for all Listeners)
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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TOP 10 Games of the '90s with Jared Ingersoll
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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EGO - Does this New Knizia Game Come in Peace?
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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The Sweet Spot Mechanic (WWTA)
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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Five Tribes - Still Hanging Tough on the BGG Top 100?!
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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What We Think About When We Think About Playtesting with Paul Salomon
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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Oops, We Played the Hotness (Stamp Swap, Wilmot's Warehouse and other Recent Plays)
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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Playing on Hard Mode (What We Talk About)
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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Games We Love To Lose (What We Talk About)
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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Azul Summer Pavilion - Does this Reimplementation Succeed?
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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18: BOARD GAME SIGNPOSTS (Re-Listening Club)
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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22: Castles of Burgundy (Re-Listening Club)
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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The Ultimate Stefan Feld Tier List with Tyler Hackmann
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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More Design Problems and Games that Solve Them with Jamey Stegmaier
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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Tikal - Digging the Jungle
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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Arcs, Food Chain, and the $%@! List (What We're Playing)
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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10: Welcome To... (Re-Listening Club)
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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Progression (What We Talk About)
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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Art Awards 2024
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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Captain Flip - To Flip or not To Flip
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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The Hidden Gem Connections Game with Paul Salomon
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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What Makes Games "Puzzly"? Plus Short Reviews of Looot and Nimalia
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May 29, 2024 |
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Freshies and Refreshies at Geekway To the West
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May 22, 2024 |
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Trick-Taking in Board Games (What We Talk About with Pete Wissinger)
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May 15, 2024 |
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The Decision Space Jam!
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May 09, 2024 |
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TOP 10 Games of All Time (May 2024 Nothing Is Sacred Edition)
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May 01, 2024 |
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Quantum - The Dice Are Nice
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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Revisitability vs. Replayability and Revisting Games
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Ticket To Ride - A Classic for All Ages with Special Guest Bill Collins
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Play & Design Decisions in Drafting Games (What We Talk About)
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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All the Things We Call Drafting (What We Talk About)
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Gamers Ranch Recent Plays and Pete's Back!
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Bunny Kingdom - Drafting with Strategy and Flavor
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Scoring Logistics (What We Talk About)
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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What We're Playing with Pete Wissinger
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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Learning Plays (What We Talk About)
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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Player Interaction (What We Talk About)
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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The Resistance - You Should Play this Game
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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Roll and Write Games
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Jake Played 19 Games at Geekway Mini (Mini Reviews)
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Planet Unknown - More Is More?
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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The Future of Decision Space
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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We Rank Every Game - 2023 Year End Special (Episode 150!!!)
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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Nine Paradigm Shifting Games!
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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Heat: Pedal to the Metal - But, Is It a Board Game?
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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2023 Holiday Board Game Gift Guide
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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Top 5 Knizia Hidden Gems with Jared Ingersoll
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Something Old, Something New, & Something Never Getting Reprinted (7 Mini-Reviews)
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Replayability and Why It Doesn’t Matter (What We Talk About)
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Santa Monica - Dreams of Variabilityication
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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What Do Our Most Played Games Tell Us About Replayability? (Top 5 Most Played Digital and Physical Games Lists!)
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Catching Up on Jake’s Vacation, Stonemaier Design Day, and More
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Pumpkin Spice Board Games: The Decision Space Spooktacular (Can Games Be Scary and Scary Game Recommendations)
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Torres - Year of the Kramer and Kiesling
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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Balance, Pt. 2 (What We Talk About)
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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Balance, Pt. 1 (What We Talk About)
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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TOP 10 - Games We Are Enjoying in 2023 (So Far)
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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Playtesting and Prototyping - This Is the Podcast About the Designing of Games 😉
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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Ark Nova - A Rondel by Any Other Name
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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LTF Con Recap (Nine Game Plays and One Designer Who Changed Everything)
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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Games that Play Fast (What We Talk About)
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Pushing Your Luck Feat. Spots and Can’t Stop
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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Recent Plays at Gamers Ranch (Mini reviews of Heat, The Search for Lost Species, and More.)
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Challengers! - Auto Battlers, the Next Big Thing in Board Games?
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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We Can Only Keep 10 Games!
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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Chicago Express/Wabash Cannonball - We’re the Train Game Podcast Now 👀
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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Answering ALL of Reddit’s Board Game Questions (BONUS EPISODE!)
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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Designer Space - Kramer and Kiesling (Bonus Tikal Mini Review!)
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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Comfort Games (What We Talk About)
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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Troyes - Cult Classic or Just Old?
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Rondel Roundtable Feat. Findorff and Imperial 2030
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May 31, 2023 |
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Geekway Plays and Large Player Count Games Feat. Blood on the Clocktower, Guards of Atlantis II, and Challengers!
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May 25, 2023 |
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Mission Planning - Geekway to the West!
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May 17, 2023 |
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The CoD of Board Games? Architects of the West Kingdom Deep Dive
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May 10, 2023 |
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TOP 10 Games of All Time
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May 03, 2023 |
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Overcentralizing Mechanisms and Messina 1347
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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Combos (What We Talk About)
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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Talking Blocking Feat. Hansa Teutonica, Zoo Vadis, and Go
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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My City Pt. 2 - The Legacy Game
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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My City, Pt. 1 - The Eternal Game
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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Babylonia - Brendan and Maya Take the Case!
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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Design Problems? Yo, These Games Solved ’Em!
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Six Recent Plays - Ark Nova, Through the Desert, SolForge Fusion, Bullet ♥, Startups, and District Noir
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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Barrage - The Crew Gets Heavy with Special Guest Aurore Inara
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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Asymmetry (What We Talk About)
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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Campaign Games, Legacy Games, and a Game Design Case Study
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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Coloretto (and a Little Bit Zooloretto) - The One Where Jake Says Something Really Stupid
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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Elegance (What We Talk About)
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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BONUS EPISODE - Things We Hate About Our Favorite Games
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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Thirteen Recent Plays at Geekway Mini (Five Knizia Reviews Inside!)
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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Renature - This Game Is a Unit
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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Decision Space 101 - Start Here (Top 10 Touchstone Episodes)
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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Episode 100! The Next 100 Episodes and Games Played Over Break
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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In the Year of the Dragon - Most PUNISHING Game Ever?
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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We Rank EVERY Game - 2022 End of Year Special
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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BattleCON - Do Video Game Fighters Work Without a Screen?
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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Games as Gifts and $100 Budget Collections
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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Memoir ’44 - Boy Meets War Game
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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Rajas of the Ganges - A Log Rolling Good Time
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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Board Game Podcasters Review MARVEL SNAP
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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Developing Decisions in Games, The Wolves, and a Special Announcement with Alex Cutler
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Point Salad - Jake Sends His Salad BACK TO THE KITCHEN
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Bonfire - We Attempt To “Find the Path” Through this Episode
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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TOP 15 Waning Decision Space Games with Jamey Stegmaier
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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Visual Design (What We Talk About)
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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Get on Board: New York & London - Brendan Says Mean Things About Old Ladies
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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Blood Rage - A Game That Is Bigger Than Its Box
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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Decision Space Debate - Cult of the Old VS. Cult of the New (Brendan Hansen VS. Paul Salomon)
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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Mechanical Artifice (What We Talk About)
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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Dice Hospital - Our Biggest Fight Yet
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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Agricola - Getting More Workers Is Bad Because They Cost Food
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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Power Grid, Playing Games in Teams, and Other Odds & Ends
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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Vacation Games - The Best Games To Play on Vacation
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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The Isle of Cats - Are These Ghost Cats?!
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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Living Forest - WE’RE DOING THE HOTNESS
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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TOP 10 - Games We Are Enjoying in 2022 (So Far)
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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Mechanics that MAKE the Game with Special Guest Gnarly Carley
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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Space Base - Augmenting Randomness in Space
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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Depth and Size in Board Games (What We Talk About)
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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Lost Cities - Reiner Knizia Master of Theme
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Riftforce - What’s This Lifestyle Dueling Card Game Doing In My Euro Filler?
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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Board Game Design Process (What We Talk About)
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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Bärenpark - PWH Fan Club Meeting with Special Guest Paul Salomon
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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Ganz Schön Clever (That’s Pretty Clever) - Wolfgang’s World
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May 25, 2022 |
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Reviewing FOURTEEN Games - Geekway Convention Recap
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May 18, 2022 |
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Games Are Agency As Art - A New Way To Talk about Games With C. Thi Nguyen
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May 11, 2022 |
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Downforce - We Have Concerns
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May 04, 2022 |
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Sushi Go! with Azul Queen’s Garden on My Mind
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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Audience Q&A - What Is the Best Board Game To Eat?
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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Tigris and Euphrates, Pt.2
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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Tigris and Euphrates, Pt. 1
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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Great Western Trail - A Straight Shootin’ Strategy Game
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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Playing 30 Games at Once! What We’ve Learned from Digital Play (What We Talk About)
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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A Feast for Odin - The Feast Is a LIE
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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A New Way To Talk About Objectives in Games (What We Talk About)
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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Broom Service - Knowing the COWARDLY Mind of the Opponent
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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Our Board Game Biases (What We Talk About)
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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Cartographers - You Draw a Map!
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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Cascadia - The Cascadia Kid with Special Guest Maya Polan
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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Tempo in Board Games and What It Isn’t (What We Talk About)
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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Evolution: Climate - Keep Your Politics in My Evolution Board Game?!
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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Palaces of Carrara - Can You Grok the Block?
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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Episode 50! (Mission Planning 10 Games We Want to Explore in 2022 and Aspirations)
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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Splendor - The Little Engine That Could (Not Be Killed?)
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Jan 05, 2022 |
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We Rank EVERY Game - 2021 End of Year Special
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Dec 29, 2021 |
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Azul - Clones The Castles of Burgundy‘s Decision Space?!
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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Raiders of the North Sea - A Raid to Remember
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Irrational Actors (What We Talk About with Tony Faber)
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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Kingdom Builder - We‘re Gonna Need A Bigger Decision Space
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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Patchwork - Buttons Rule Everything Around Me
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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Objective Vs. Subjective Decision Space (What We Talk About)
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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7 Wonders Duel with Special Guest Jamey Stegmaier
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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Race for the Galaxy - Phases Set To Fun
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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10 Decision Spaces We Want To Explore ASAP - Mission Planning (New type of episode?!)
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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Spirit Island - Imposing Depths of Indomitable Board Game
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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Praga Caput Regni - The Actions on the Wheel Go Round and Round
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Oct 13, 2021 |
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A New Way To Talk About Theme (What We Talk About)
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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Kingdomino - What‘s Hiding Beneath This Quirky Art?
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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Imhotep - The Perfect Poached Egg?
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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Our Personal Top 10 Games (What We Talk About)
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Jaipur - Jake EVISCERATES It
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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Villagers - Are These Combos?
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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Feedback In Games (What We Talk About)
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Aug 25, 2021 |
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The Sport of Kickball - Highest Rated Game Ever?!
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Aug 18, 2021 |
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Bruges - You've Got Grail
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Aug 11, 2021 |
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Ankh, Snakesss, and Sagrada - Paul and Jake Volume 2
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Aug 04, 2021 |
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Keyflower - Keylove It or Keyhate It
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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The Art of Being Good (What We Talk About)
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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Ares Expedition, Summer Camp, Juicy Fruits, and Fireball Island - Paul and Jake Talk Games
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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Hey, That's My Fish! - Decisions Have Never Waned Harder
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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Castles of Burgundy - Crème de la Crème
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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Mistakes are GOOD but sometimes they HURT (What We Talk About)
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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Carcassonne - A Funny Thing Keeps Happening
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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Grand Austria Hotel - Jake Gives Strategy Tips But Doesn't Know The Rules
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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BOARD GAME SIGNPOSTS! (What We Talk About)
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May 26, 2021 |
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KeyForge - The MOST Skill Intensive Dueling Card Game?!
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May 19, 2021 |
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Lost Ruins of Arnak - This Game Won Us Over
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May 12, 2021 |
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Return of the Game Night (What We Talk About)
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May 05, 2021 |
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Star Realms with Paul Salomon - But Why Four Factions?!
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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El Grande - Is this "Classic" Game Actually GOOD?
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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A New Way To Talk About Games (What We Talk About)
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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Welcome To... - Little Boxes
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Apr 07, 2021 |
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Magic: The Gathering - A Battle of Wits?
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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Competitive Play (What We Talk About)
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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The Fox in the Forest - It's Like Chess and Basketball
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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The Value of Games with Jamey Stegmaier (What We Talk About)
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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Underwater Cities - Let Them Eat Kelp
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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Res Arcana - Start Your Engines! (Emphasis on Start)
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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Decision Space (What We Talk About)
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Feb 10, 2021 |
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Carpe Diem - Stefan Feld's Masochistic Pain Land
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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Kanagawa - Let's Paint Some Murals!
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Feb 04, 2021 |