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Derek Bruff
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In this episode, we grab our press passes and hustle to meet our newspaper’s printing deadline in Fit to Print!
In Fit to Print, a 2023 game designed by Peter McPherson with art by Ian O’Toole and published by Flatout Games, players take on the role of reporters and editors at the various newspapers in Thistleville, one of those charming woodland towns with adorable anthropomorphic animals. The game is played over three rounds—Friday, Saturday, and Sunday—with each round seeing players racing the clock to collect stories, photos, and ads and laying them out on their newspaper front pages to score the most points. I’m burying the lede here because Fit to Print’s most notable aspect is that most of the game is played in real-time with players playing simultaneously while racing a timer!
Listen as our 12-year-old media correspondent and I review this delightfully stressful game.
Episode Links:
Buy Fit to Print on Amazon.
Read more about Fit to Print on its Kickstarter page.
Visit designer Peter McPherson's website to learn about his other games.
Music:
"Open Road," "Soda Pop," and "The Concept" by Purple Planet.
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Usually when I review and recommend a board game here on the podcast, I’ve played that game at least ten times. That way I know the game well and I know it has some staying power. But sometimes, I try a game that's new to me and it really grabs me. So here’s a FIRST PLAY review of an older game that I think you might like!
Today we’ll take a look at Flipships, a 2017 cooperative dexterity game for 2to 4 players designed by Kane Klenko with art by Kwanchai Moriya published by Renegade Games.
Episode Links:
See if you can find a secondhand copy of Flipships on the BGG GeekMarket.
Read about Dread, the horror RBG that uses Jenga blocks.
Episode 12: ICECOOL
Episode 45: Under Falling Skies
Music:
"Open Road," "The Concept" by Purple Planet.
"Starforged: Fray" by Tabletop Audio.
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In this episode, we spend a weekend in a cabin in the woods and play a whole lot of board games! A few friends and I recently spent a weekend playing board games at a cabin we rented in Cedars of Lebanon State Park. We played the board games that don’t fit into normal game nights! Most ran about three hours long, some longer. These are the crunchy, brain-burning games that some of us love to play, and in this episode of the podcast, I report out on the games we played, all of which were fantastic.
Music:
"Open Road" by Purple Planet. "Old Tom Bombadil, A Hobbit Folk Song" by Heimburger Music.
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Usually when I review and recommend a board game here on the podcast, I’ve played that game at least ten times. That way I know the game well and I know it has some staying power. That means I usually review older games, but I like to play new games, too. So here’s a FIRST PLAY review of a new game that I think you might like!
Today we’ll take a look at Club Spooky, a 2-to-4-player game designed and illustrated by Connor Wake and published by Always Awake Games.
Episode Links:
Pre-order Club Spooky from Always Awake Games.
Music:
"Open Road" and "Spooked" by Purple Planet
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In this episode, we put the spotlight on the preschooler with twelve games that are fun to play with a three-year-old!
I’ve been on a quest to find board games that the three-year-old can play and enjoy and that don’t drive the rest of us crazy. On this episode, I’m going to share an update about that quest and point listeners to a few games that we’ve found work well for our family of five—including the three-year-old.
Episode Resources
Buy Hoot Owl Hoot on Amazon.
Buy Go Go Little Penguin on Amazon.
Buy Cascadia Junior on Amazon.
Buy Ghost Fightin' Treasure Hunters on Amazon.
Episode 57 - Kariba
Episode 32 - Outfoxed
Episode 24 - Incan Gold
Episode 20 - Sleeping Queens
Episode 5 - Deep Sea Adventure
Episode 4 - Sushi Go!
Episode 3 - Love Letter
For context on my statement in the episode about Dane Chapin, the CEO of Op Games, see this thread on Bluesky and also this press release.
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In this episode, we complete our quest to find out which fictional character is the ultimate fighter in our 2025 Unmatched tournament!
To run the tournament, I identified our 16 most-played Unmatched heroes, then set up some brackets to pit them against each other. A few episodes ago, I reported on the first half of the tournament: the first-round games that whittled our list of heroes to the Elite 8. Today, I’m excited to share the second half of the tournament!
As a reminder, the hero who wins each battle isn’t necessarily the hero who moves on in the tournament. The teenager and I play a game with each pair of heroes, then discuss the game and the heroes and decide which of the two heroes we like playing the most. That’s the hero that moves on to the next round.
Achilles, Little Red, Houdini, Invisible Man, Beowulf, Jekyll & Hyde, Shakespeare, and T-Rex! Who will be the champion?
Episode Resources:
Buy Unmatched sets on Amazon.
Listen to our 2023 review of Unmatched.
Listen to Part 1 of our 2025 Unmatched tournament.
Music:
"Open Road," Purple Planet Music
"Field of Heroes," Tabletop Audio
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In this episode, we travel back to ancient Egypt, build some pyramids, and compete to be the pharaoh’s favorite architect in Imhotep.
Imhotep was said to be the architect of the step pyramid in Djoser, rising 200 feet tall, the earliest colossal stone building in Egypt. Imhotep is also a 2016 game for two to four players designed by Phil Walker-Harding and published by KOSMOS, in which players step into the sandals of the original Imhotep to build pyramids and obelisks and other great monuments.
Episode Links:
See if you can find a secondhand copy of Imhotep on the BGG GeekMarket.
Read designer Phil Walker-Harding's introduction to Imhotep.
Music:
"Open Road" by Purple Planet.
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In this episode, we make some movies while accusing our friends and coworkers of being communists in Hollywood 1947.
Hollywood 1947 is the latest entry in the Dark Cities line from Façade Games publisher and designer Travis Hancock and artist Sarah Keele. It takes the Red Scare’s Hollywood blacklist and turns it into a lively and thematic game that’s hit our gaming table many times.
The game is a particular favorite of our twelve-year-old, which might surprise you unless you know she’s planning to be a lawyer when she grows up! We will hear from her in the episode for her thoughts on the game.
Episode Links:
Buy Hollywood 1947 on Amazon.
Listen to my interview with Travis Hancock about Bristol 1350.
Music:
"Open Road," "Summer in Paradise" by Purple Planet.
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It just was over two years ago when we covered the game system called Unmatched here on the podcast. In Unmatched by Restoration Games, two players battle, each with a different hero that has their own unique deck of 30 cards for attack and defense.
When we covered Unmatched here on the podcast in 2023, we only had six heroes in our collection for our battles. But now, two years later, we have a lot more than six Unmatched heroes! I think we’re up to 25 characters, drawn from eight different sets.
I thought it was time for us to cover the game on the podcast again, and I wanted to have some fun doing so. Today’s episode is the first of two detailing our 2025 Unmatched tournament! The teenager and I set out to determine which of our 25 Unmatched heroes was our absolute favorite. That meant, naturally, making some brackets and playing a lot of games of Unmatched!
In this episode, we’ll go through all eight first-round matches, and in a future episode, we’ll whittle those eight winners down to our overall Unmatched champ.
Episode Resources:
Buy Unmatched sets on Amazon.
Listen to our 2023 review of Unmatched.
Music:
"Open Road," Purple Planet Music
"Field of Heroes," Tabletop Audio
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In this episode, we work together to find out just how hard it is land an airplane in Sky Team.
Sky Team is a 2023 game designed by Luc Rémond with art by Eric Hibbeler and Adrien Rives published by Montreal-based Scorpion Masqué. Sky Team is a two-player game in which players work together to land a passenger airplane.
Emily and I had the chance to try it at Tennessee Game Days last year, and one play was enough to ensure Sky Team would be found under our Christmas tree! It’s been in regular rotation for me and Emily this year, second only to our all-time favorite Wingspan.
In this episode, Emily and I chat about Sky Team. We start off with a little color commentary, then talk about why we keep coming back to this game—and why Emily will never get her pilot’s license!
Episode Links:
Buy Sky Team on Amazon.
Music:
"Open Road" by Purple Planet.
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In this episode, we grab our binoculars and our field guides to go birdwatching in Wingspan.
Wingspan is a 2019 game designed by Elizabeth Hargrave and published by Stonemaier Games. Most days, if you ask me what my favorite board game is, I'll tell you it's Wingspan. It's my most played game, and it's the one that Emily and I are most likely to pull out and enjoy after the kids go to bed.
We first covered the game on the podcast back in 2020. That was five years ago! In this episode, Emily and I chat about what's changed in the world of Wingspan in the last five years (expansions! fan art! bird meeples!) and how our interest in birdwatching has grown in that time.
Episode Links:
Wingspan Fan Art Pack from Stonemaier Games
Wingspan component upgrades from Meeple Source
My photos from the High Island, TX, trip
Wingspan expansions from Stonemaier Games
Music:
"Open Road," "Sunbeam" by Purple Planet.
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In this episode, we plant a prize-winning vegetable garden while dodging tedious neighbors in Mr. Cabbagehead’s Garden.
Mr. Cabbagehead's Garden is a solo game designed by Todd Sanders first released in 2016 as a print-and-play and later published by LudiCreations. The game is inspired by the whimsical illustrations of anthropomorphic vegetables found in Victoria-era seed catalogs. Your job as Mr. Cabbagehead is to plant an award-winning vegetable garden while avoiding your tedious and tiresome neighbors who want to sabotage your garden.
If you're looking for a quirky and puzzly solo game that plays in about 15 minutes, Mr. Cabbagehead's Garden is for you.
Episode Links:
· Mr. Cabbagehead’s Garden print and play
· GeekMarket for secondhand copies of Mr. Cabbagehead’s Garden
· The Maiden in the Forest print and play
· The Draugr at the BoardGameGeek store
· The Draugr on the Apple App Store
Music:
"Open Road" by Purple Planet.
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In this episode, I play capture the flag with seven of my friends in Challengers!
Challengers! is 2022 game for 2 to 8 players designed by Johannes Krenner and Markus Slawitscheck and published by Z-Man Games with art by Jeff Harvey. It’s a little hard to describe. If I said it’s a deck-building, auto-battler built around a capture-the-flag tournament structure, would that make sense? Maybe not. You'll have to listen to this episode to get the full description.
If you're looking for a high energy game that blends strategy and luck and plays equally well at 4 players or at 8 players, Challengers! is the game for you.
Episode Links:
Buy Challengers! on Amazon.
Buy Challengers! Beach Cup on Amazon.
Music:
"Open Road" and "Rise of the Superhero" by Purple Planet.
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Our last episode on second editions of the games Santorini and Tortuga 1667 reminded me about another second edition of a family favorite game that’s out now: Parks designed by Henry Audubon and published by Keymaster Games. We covered the first edition of Parks way back on episode 7 of the podcast, and I thought I would reshare that episode here on the podcast feed in honor of the new edition of Parks.
In this episode, I’m changing things up a bit and recommending a great board game for couples: Parks by Keymaster Games.
I’m a big fan of the US National Parks, ever since I took my kids out west on what we called the Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Tour. We saw the largest of each: we went whale-watching off the coast of San Francisco, we saw redwoods and sequoias in California, and we visited the Grand Canyon in Arizona. We visited three National Parks during that trip—Grand Canyon, Kings Canyon, and Sequoia—and each of them provided amazing sights and experiences.
The board game Parks, designed by Henry Audubon, does a great job of capturing the beauty and wonder of the US National Parks. It is the prettiest game I own, with stunning artwork from the Fifty-Nine Parks Print Series. In the game, you take on the role of hikers, exploring the great outdoors and visiting as many National Parks as you can.
We have two special guests in this episode. My wife Emily stops by for some color commentary and thoughts on why she enjoys playing Parks. Also, Matt Aiken from Keymaster Games joins us to talk about the origin of the game and why he thinks it’s a great game for couples and to tell some stories of people playing PARKS in the great outdoors.
See my photos of Parks, First Edition.
Learn more about Parks, Second Edition.
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In this episode, we go back to the island in second editions of podcast favorites Santorini and Tortuga 1667!
Santorini: Pantheon Edition takes the original Santorini and its “Golden Fleece” expansion and presents them in a new package with revised rules and upgraded components. The teenager and I have been playing it regularly since we got it, and we are loving it.
When I heard about Tortuga 1667: Deluxe Edition, I was excited at the prospect of upgraded components for the game, but I was a little worried when I heard that there would be revised rules. The original game is so, so good, it was hard to imagine how they would improve it, but they did!
In this episode, I discuss what's new in each of these games and what I appreciate about the changes. Kudos to Roxley Games and Facade Games for these quality second editions of some of our favorite games!
Links:
Pre-order Santorini: Pantheon Edition from Roxley Games.
Buy Tortuga 1667: Deluxe Edition from Facade Games.
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"Open Road," "The Concept" by Purple Planet. "Pirates!" by Tabletop Audio.
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In this episode, we conspire together to take out one of the worst evils of the 20th century in Black Orchestra!
Black Orchestra is a 2016 cooperative game for 1 to 5 players designed by Phillip duBarry with art by Lucas Soriano published by Tabletop Tycoon. In Black Orchestra, players take on the role of conspirators in Nazi Germany working together to assassinate Adolf Hitler. The game is based on actual attempts by members of Hitler’s military and civilians to take out the man they saw as an incredible threat to their country.
The game is a rollercoaster full of close calls and near misses. Our military history correspondent (age 13) approves! Hear his thoughts on the game in this episode.
Links:
Buy Black Orchestra on Amazon.
Listen to the Immersed episode about Black Orchestra.
Read about The Faithful Spy by John Hendrix.
Learn about the Black Orchestra expansion, Resistance.
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In this episode, we sail the high seas on our Viking ships to establish trading routes and not pillage in Knarr!
Knarr is a 2023 game designed by Thomas Dupont with art by Antoine Carrion published in the US by Pandasaurus Games. Knarr celebrates the trading life of a Viking. In the game, players take on the role of Viking traders, recruiting crew to your ship, then sailing to distant lands to establish trade routes. Your trade routes will earn you victory points, as will the songs that skalds sing about you.
If you’re looking for a medium-light game that offers a fun twist on engine building and celebrates the softer side of Vikings, Knarr is the game for you.
Links:
Buy Knarr on Amazon.
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3D print your own Knarr insert.
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In this episode, we work together to tell the story of how a religion changes over the centuries in… Keep the Faith!
Keep the Faith is a storytelling game for 2 to 5 players about religions in transition. Each player represents a sect within a fictional religion. Players collaboratively make up the story about the religion and how it changes over five hundred years, with a focus on how the material and observable aspects of the religion reflect or contradict the religion’s core values.
Keep the Faith is currently on BackerKit seeking crowdfunding. If you’re listening to this before March 6, 2025, follow the link below to the BackerKit page to see if you’d like to help get this game published. Keep the Faith will be published by Central Michigan University Games, an academic press that specializes in peer-reviewed board and role-playing games with educational utility.
The designer of Keep the Faith is Greg Loring-Albright, and I'm excited to share highlights from an interview with Greg that I did for my other podcast, Intentional Teaching. Greg shares about his design goals for the game, the role of agency in Keep the Faith, and the challenges of designing a game about a sensitive topic like religion.
Links:
Support Keep the Faith’s crowdfunding effort before March 6, 2025.
Listen to a longer cut of my conversation with Greg Loring-Albright on the Intentional Teaching podcast.
Throw a few bucks at the Intentional Teaching Patreon to hear a few more clips of my talk with Greg.
Listen to Liz Davidson’s conversation with Greg on her Beyond Solitaire podcast.
Learn more about Greg Loring-Albright on his professional website.
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Today we have a FIRST PLAY review of Everdell Duo, a 2025 game designed by James and Clarissa Wilson with art by Andrew Bosley and Enggar Adirasa, published by Tabletop Tycoon. The game is a two-player version of the popular 2018 game Everdell, a game that launched a trend in board games featuring friendly anthropomorphic forest animals. Both games are set in the land of Everdell where the squirrels are woodcarvers, the badgers are innkeepers, and the hedgehogs are doctors.
Everdell Duo is a quality two-player experience with all the things you’re looking for in a game: balanced design, thematic mechanics, and adorable art and components. Duo feels like the original Everdell, with worker placement and resource collection and card combos, but with a simpler, faster, and more competitive experience.
Links:Preorder Everdell Duo from the publisher.
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In this episode, we gather around an African watering hole to see who can chase away the most animals in Kariba!
Kariba is about animals gathering around an African watering hold, so the cards are all elephants and giraffes and zebras and meerkats and such. Players take turns playing cards from their hands to the watering hole in the middle of the table, with larger animals chasing off smaller ones. Kariba is my favorite game to bring to family gatherings when (a) I know there will be young kids there, especially pre-readers and (b) I don’t have much space in my luggage, since it comes in a very small box.
Links:
See my photo of Kariba.
Buy Kariba on Amazon.
Watch a watering hole in the Namib Desert.
See Felix Kindelán's Instagram.
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"Open Road," "The Concept" by Purple Planet.
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In this episode, we fight zombies and frostbite and maybe stab our friends in the back in Dead of Winter!
In Dead of Winter, a 2014 game designed by Isaac Vega and Jonathan Gilmour with art by Fernanda Suarez, players take on the role of survivors of a zombie apocalypse, trying to find the resources they need to fend off zombies and hunger and cold and the occasional fellow survivor. Dead of Winter is a semi-cooperative game, in that you’re mostly working together to beat the game, but each player has personal objectives that might get in the way.
Dead of Winter was the game that helped me appreciate the world of board gaming beyond Settlers of Catan, and it was my favorite game for several years. I'm happy to help celebrate its tenth anniversary with this episode, which features comments on the game from me, the teenager, and the toddler.
I didn't have time to mention the expansions for Dead of Winter in the episode, but there are two: The Long Night, which adds more characters and scenarios and three optional modules to the game, and Warring Colonies, which you can use to pit two colonies against each other in what can be an 11-player game. I played that one once, and it was a bit much, but The Long Night is a great addition to the base game.
Links:See my photos of Dead of Winter.
Buy Dead of Winter on Amazon.
Listen to "Bringing Dead of Winter to Life" on the Quarter to Three podcast.
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Music:
“Winter Wonder" by Purple Planet.
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In this bonus episode, I share an extended cut of my recent interview with Jonathan Chaffer, designer of the Holiday Hijinks series of 18-card escape room games. Jonathan had a lot to say about the design constraints he faced in creating these games, more than I could fit in last episode's review of the series. If you're interested in tabletop game design, I think you'll find this interesting.
Links:
Back the newest Holiday Hijinks games on Kickstarter.
Order the original Holiday Hijinks games from Game Gamers Guild.
See Jonathan Chaffer's full list of designed games.
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"Open Road," "The Concept," and "Summer in Paradise" by Purple Planet.
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In this episode, we save Christmas and a lot of other holidays from potential catastrophe in Holiday Hijinks!
Holiday Hijinks is a line of 18-card holiday-themed escape room games designed and illustrated by Jonathan Chaffer and published by Grand Gamers Guild. Each one offers the cooperative puzzle solving of an escape room in just 18 cards. There are nine games in the series currently, with names like The Cupid Crisis, The Turkey Trial, and The Groundhog Gambit. The newest Holiday Hijinks games -- The Leprechaun Larceny, The New Year Nightmare, and The Krampus Caper -- are now crowdfunding on Kickstarter, along with a collector's box that stores all 12 games.
This episode features an interview with Holiday Hijinks designer and illustrator Jonathan Chaffer. What does it take to pack this much escape room fun in 18 cards? Will the Holiday Hijinks series run out of holidays? Jonathan pulls back the curtain on this clever game series in his interview.
Links:
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Music:
"Open Road," "The Concept," and "Summer in Paradise" by Purple Planet.
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In this episode, we load up our donkey carts with fruit to deliver around the island in Finca!
In Finca, players take on the role of farmers at harvest time on the Spanish island of Mallorca. Move your farmers around the windmill to generate resources, collect colorful chunky fruit tokens, deliver fruit strategically around the island with your donkey cart... That's Finca in a nutshell. It's easy to teach, has beautiful art and components, and ramps up nicely to a very tense ending.
Finca is one of the older games we've covered here on the podcast, having first been published in 2009 in Germany. It had been out of print for a while, but Pandasaurus Games recently issued a new edition with updated art and streamlined rules. In this episode, I talk with Raina Huang, marketing manager at Pandasaurus games, about the new edition.
Links:See my photos of the original edition of Finca.
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Music:
“Open Road” and "Summer in Paradise" by Purple Planet.
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Today we have a FIRST PLAY review of Sirens, a 2024 game for two players designed by Art Casey with illustrations by Gabi Naftaly and published by Envy Born Games. In Sirens, players take on the role of the sirens of Greek myths, those creatures whose beautiful singing lured Odysseus’ sailors into the sea and to their doom. In the game, players draft cards to create musical symphonies, with the best symphonies enthralling those hapless sailors.
This episode features an interview with Sirens designer Art Casey (from the floor of Gen Con 2024) and some color commentary with my fascinating wife Emily!
Links:Buy Sirens on Amazon.
Get notified when the Kickstarter for Kalahari is launched.
Check out some ancient Greek pottery: Example 1, Example 2.
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Usually when I review and recommend a board game here on the podcast, I’ve played that game at least ten times. That way I know the game well and I know it has some staying power. That means I usually review older games, but I like to play new games, too. So here’s a FIRST PLAY review of a new game that I think you might like!
Today we’ll take a look at Tír na nÓg, a 2024 game for designed by Isaac Shalev and Jason Slingerland and published by Grand Gamers Guild. In Tír na nÓg, we journey into a world of Celtic myths and come back with amazing stories. Coincidentally, I recently journeyed into the world of Gen Con, North America’s biggest board game convention, I have come back with amazing stories, one of
which is an interview with Isaac Shalev, one of the designers of Tír na nÓg.
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“Open Road” and “Summer in Paradise” by Purple Planet.
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In this episode, we build the technologies and societies needed to fight climate change in Daybreak!
Daybreak is a 2023 game published by CMYK and designed by Matt Leacock and Matteo Menapace. In this cooperative board game, up to four players take on the role of world powers like the U.S. and China enacting climate action policies. The goal of the game is to cut carbon emissions before the planet gets too hot or too many communities are put into crisis. That sounds like a lot of heavy lifting for a board game until you consider that one of the game’s designers, Matt Leacock, is the designer of the very popular cooperative board game Pandemic, another game that does a lot of heavy lifting.
Earlier this year, I had the chance to interview Daybreak’s other designer, Matteo Menapace, about the design of the game as a learning experience. In my day job, I help faculty and other instructors in higher education develop and refine their teaching skills and as part of that work I produce and host a podcast called Intentional Teaching. That podcast gives me a chance to interview all kinds of educators about the ways they approach their teaching. I couldn’t resist reaching out to Matteo to talk about Daybreak. He and I had a fascinating conversation about learning design in that context, and I share a few clips of that interview in this first-ever crossover between my two podcasts!
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“Open Road,” “Summer in Paradise” by Purple Planet.
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In this episode, we celebrate four years (and 50 episodes) of the podcast by recommending my top five games to start your board collection!
Usually when I review and recommend a board game here on the podcast, I’ve played that game at least ten times. That way I know the game well and I know it has some staying power. That means I usually review older games, but I like to play new games, too. So here’s a FIRST PLAY review of a new game that I think you might like!
Today we’ll take a look at Color Field from 25th Century Games. Color Field is a 2024 game designed by Mondo Davis with art by Peach Benitez.
Links:
Buy Color Field on Amazon.
“How Mark Rothko Unlocked the Emotional Power of Colors” by Alina Cohen
Canva’s Color Wheel, where you can make your own tetradic color schemes
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“Open Road” and “Sunbeam” by Purple Planet.
In this episode, we put on our funny Viking hats and go plundering in Raiders of the North Sea!
Raiders of the North Sea is a two to four player game published in 2015 by Garphill Games. It was designed by Shem Phillips with art by Mihajlo Dimitrievski. The game is about building your Viking crew, raiding settlements, and bringing back plunder for your chieftain. Raiders offers an interesting twist on the worker placement genre of games. Each player has precisely one worker—a Viking—that they can send on their turn to some unoccupied location on the board. They activate that location, getting something useful from it, and then—here’s the twist—they choose another location that has a worker, activate that location, and retrieve the worker to use on their next turn.
Place a Viking, do a thing, retrieve a different Viking, do a different thing. This simple mechanic powers a very fun game with the right balance of strategic planning and beating your opponent to the punch.
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Music:
“Open Road” by Purple Planet.
In this episode, we board the Jolly Roger and steal from treasure from a Spanish galleon in Tortuga 1667!
In Tortuga 1667, players take on the role of pirates attacking Spanish ships near the island of Tortuga and stealing their gold. Half of the players are secretly working for the British and half for the French. At the start of the game, you know which team you’re on, but no one else does. As you play the game, triggering event cards, attacking the Spanish galleons, brawling on the island of Tortuga, and occasionally committing mutiny, you’ll start to figure out who is on which team. There’s treasure to be had in the game, and at the end of the game (triggered by the arrival of the Spanish armada) the team with the most treasure wins.
Tortuga 1667 has quickly become a favorite at our monthly game nights because of its quality production values, ability to handle high player counts (up to 9!), and the fun that can be had with hidden roles in the game. There can be a lot of chaos in the game, but usually also opportunities to use that chaos to your advantage, which sounds like the pirate’s life to me.
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Music:
“Open Road” by Purple Planet. “Pirates!” by Tabletop Audio.
In this episode, we round up some lone wolves and carve out our territory in… The Wolves!
The Wolves is a 2022 game designed by Ashwin Kamath and Clarence Simpson with art by Pauliina Linjama and a quality production from publisher Pandasaurus Games. In The Wolves, between two and five players each controls a pack of wolves vying for territory across a wilderness. This game is richly illustrated with tons of wolf tokens to represent your packs spreading across a semi-randomized map full of different terrain types. It has a unique action selection mechanism that uses those terrain types. I really like this game. I like how clever it can make me feel, I like the liberty it gives me to be as aggressive as I can be, and I like how quickly it escalates.
This episode features a review of The Wolves, as well as the podcast’s first-ever family color commentary segment!
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Music:
“Open Road” and “Sunbeam” by Purple Planet.
In this episode, we try to save the planet from a relentless alien invasion in Under Falling Skies!
Under Falling Skies is a 2020 board game designed by designed by Tomáš Uhlíř published by Czech Games Edition with art by Petr Boháček and Kwanchai Moriya. It’s a solo game about repelling an alien invasion that clearly takes some inspiration from the film Independence Day and from the classic arcade game Space Invaders, with those alien spaceships descending toward vulnerable cities one row at a time. Under Falling Skies is a fantastic solo game, with beautiful components, decisions that are full of painful trade-offs, and a campaign that will keep you returning to the game again and again.
This episode features a rousing speech, an overview of Under Falling Skies and why it’s so so good, a spoiler-warned set of thoughts on the game’s campaign mode, and a special appearance from the youngest member of the First Player Token crew!
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Read Tomáš Uhlíř’s designer diary for Under Falling Skies.
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Music:
“Open Road: by Purple Planet.
“Space Invaders” by SilvaGunner.
In this episode, we see if Jack can steal the goose that lays golden eggs from the giant at the top of the beanstalk in The Blood of an Englishman!
In 2016, Renegade Games published a two-player card game inspired by “Jack and the Beanstalk” called The Blood of an Englishman. One player takes on the role of Jack, attempting to steal the giant’s treasure through a series of quick little moves, and the other player is the giant, trying to stop Jack. The game was designed by Dan Cassar and he said in an interview that he read his young son the story one night, and the kid went around shouting “Fee fi fo fum!” for days. He wanted to capture a bit of that energy in a game, and The Blood of an Englishman is the result. As you’ll hear in this episode, the game had the intended effect in our house!
The Blood of an Englishman is a great introduction to asymmetric games, and it’s one of my favorite two-player games.
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“Open Road” and “The Concept,” https://www.purple-planet.com/.
In this episode, I try out a new format by giving very brief reviews of ten games I played at our local board game convention, Tennessee Game Days, earlier this fall!
Tennessee Game Days is an event held each spring and fall here in Nashville, Tennessee, where people come from around the state and the region to spend a few days in hotel convention rooms playing all kinds of board games with friends and strangers. There’s a library of hundreds of board games you can check out and play, along with a play-to-win room and a distributed flea market.
My time at TGD was spent in two different ways: (1) playing games with my adult friends that we can’t find the time to play any other way and (2) bringing my family to the event and letting the kids pick games to check out of the game library to learn and play. I thought it would be fun to offer some very short reviews of ten games I played at TGD in September, to give you a sense of what my family and friends and I are playing these days!
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In this episode, we try to figure out if our opponent put the poison in our glass or in his glass in the game In Vino Morte!
In Vino Morte is a 2016 game designed by Chris Anderson with art by Ben Toz and published by Button Shy Games. It’s inspired by that classic scene in The Princess Bride where the Dread Pirate Roberts and the scoundrel Vizzini face off over a couple of glasses of wine, one of which is poisoned. In Vino Morte takes that basic idea and scales it up to a 16-card game for three to nine players. I love In Vino Morte because it’s dead simple, it always leads to lively if nonsensical play, I can teach it in about 30 seconds, it plays in like 5 minutes, and it handles a bunch of players. We do, however, call the game “Grape Juice and Poison” when we play with kids…
In this episode, our viticulture correspondents (ages 9 and 10) review “Grape Juice and Poison” along with another great Button Shy wallet game, The Boy Who Cried Wolf. If you’re looking for a quick-to-teach, quick-to-play, kid-friendly game that’s more social than strategic, either of these games fits the bill.
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Music: “Open Road” and “The Concept,” https://www.purple-planet.com/.
In this "First Play" bonus episode, we take a look at the game After Us from Pandasaurus Games. It’s a 2023 game designed by Florian Sirieix with art by Vincent Dutrait.
In this episode, we see what happens when heroes from stories and legends battle it out in Unmatched!
In this "First Play" bonus episode, we take a look at the game Blazon from 25th Century Games. It’s a 2023 game designed by Dave Conklin with art by Ian O’Toole.
In this episode, we battle for the honor of hosting the king in our chateaus in Royal Visit!
In this episode, we become Scottish chieftains expanding our lands in… Isle of Skye: From Chieftain to King!
The Isle of Skye is one of the large islands off the northwest coast of Scotland, famous for its stunningly beautiful landscape and as the home to the Scottish clans of MacLeod and MacDonald. This mountainous land suitable for fishing and farming is the inspiration for the 2015 board game Isle of Skye: From Chieftain to King designed by Alexander Pfister and Andreas Pelikan currently published by Lookout Games. In the game, two to five players take on the role of rival Scottish chieftains trying to claim the best lands for their clans.
Here’s a photo from my very first game of Isle of Skye at TN Game Days 2016!A friend of mine describes Isle of Skye as “Carcassonne meets Tunica.” It features the same kind of tile laying fun that the classic game Carcassonne features, as well as a tile buying market that often feels like you’re gambling on your clan’s future! According to my Board Game Stats app, it’s my fourth most played game, and it’s the game I’ve played in the most different locations. That’s because I love to introduce it to new players, and I’ve done that at game nights and family gatherings for years. I’m very excited to finally review Isle of Skye here on the podcast (with a little help from the 12-year-old).
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Some of the many scoring conditions found in Isle of Skye
Usually when I review and recommend a board game here on the podcast, I’ve played that game at least ten times. That way I know the game well and I know it has some staying power. That means I usually review older games, but I like to play new games, too!
That leads me to this bonus episode you’re listening to right now. Instead of a scripted and highly edited review of a family favorite game, I present to you my loosely organized thoughts about a FIRST PLAY of a new board game.
Today, we’ll take a look at the game Kohaku from 25th Century Games, a 2020 game designed by Danny Devine with art also by Danny Devine!
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Music: “Open Road” and “The Concept,” https://www.purple-planet.com/.
We reviewed the game Mysterium in our last episode, and Emily and I had a great time recording her “color commentary” about the game. Mysterium is all pictures and no words, and my artist wife had a lot to say about the game! I only used a few minutes of our conversation in the episode, so I thought I would share an extended cut here as a bonus episode. We talk about color and art and game design and more!
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Music: “Sunbeam,” https://www.purple-planet.com/.
In this episode, we work together to solve a murder in the game with no words… Mysterium!
Have you ever heard of a game that sounds so good, you find yourself ordering a copy from Poland because the US edition hasn’t come out yet and you want it right now? Probably not, but I’m the kind of guy who does that kind of thing. And that’s how I got my copy of the game Mysterium back in late 2014.
Mysterium is the English name for a 2013 Polish game called Tajemnicze Domostwo designed by Oleksandr Nevskiy and Oleg Sidorenko. It’s a cooperative game where two to seven players work together to solve the mystery of a murder in about 45 to 60 minutes. Like the classic game Clue, you’re trying to figure out who, where, and what—who is the murderer, where did it happen, and with what weapon. But unlike Clue, there’s no deduction involved; in Mysterium, you’re trying to interpret dreams to point you to the culprit. Those dreams take the form of a stack of oversized cards, each depicting some fantastical or surreal scene. Each round, the ghost player draws a hand of seven of these dream cards and selects the ones that will point the other players to the elements of the crime. This is why I could play the original Polish version of this game. The game has no words!
This episode features a review of Mysterium by our supernatural correspondent (age 11) and some color commentary on the game from my wife the artist! Listen here or search for “First Player Token” in your podcast app.
Artists for the original Polish version of the game: Mateusz Bielski, Igor Burlakov, Mariusz Gandzel, Oleksandr Nevskiy, Oleg Sidorenko, and Karolina Węcka
Mysterium rules options:
Polish rules (translated to English)
Ukranian rules (translated to English)
North American rules (in English)
And the usual links…
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Music: “Open Road,” “The Concept,” and “Sunbeam,” https://www.purple-planet.com/.
Usually when I review and recommend a board game here on the podcast, I’ve played that game at least ten times. That way I know the game well and I know it has some staying power. That means I usually review older games, but I like to play new games, too!
That leads me to this bonus episode you’re listening to right now. Instead of a scripted and highly edited review of a family favorite game, I present to you my loosely organized thoughts about a FIRST PLAY of a new board game.
Today, we’ll take a look at the new game Power Plants from Kids Table Board Gaming, a 2022 game designed by Adam Daulton with art by Apolline Etienne.
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In this episode, we take a look a game that you’ll want to know about if you’re tired of playing tic-tac-toe… Gobblet Gobblers!
Gobblet Gobblers is a 2003 game published by Blue Orange Games, and it turns tic-tac-toe into a genuinely fun game. In the box, you’ll find four long wood pieces that you fit together like a tic-tac-toe board, along with twelve player pieces, each of which has a goofy smile and a little feather on top of its head. I guess they’re meant to be turkeys? Gobble gobble, and all that. The player pieces come in small, medium, and large sizes, and they can stack on top of each other, a bit like Russian nesting dolls.
Each player takes six player pieces, two small, two medium, and two large. It’s a Blue Orange game, so one player gets all blue pieces and one player gets all orange pieces. Then you take turns placing those pieces on the tic-tac-toe board, trying to get three-in-a-row for the win. Here’s the twist: Instead of placing your piece in an empty square, you stack your piece on top of a smaller piece that’s already on the board! This turns tic-tac-toe on its head and makes the game way more interesting, while being just as accessible to little kids.
Check out this episode for more on Gobblet Gobblers, as well as another spin on traditional tic-tac-toe: Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe! Listen here or search for “First Player Token” on your favorite podcast app!
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In this episode, we work together to catch a sneaky, pot-pie-stealing fox in the cooperative kids game Outfoxed!
In this episode, we build cities and farms and roads in the modern classic, Carcassonne!
In this episode, we review Bristol 1350 and try to avoid a pandemic like it’s the 14th century by escaping the city on an apple cart!
In this episode, we’re going back to the space race with the upcoming new expansion, Space Explorers: Age of Ambition!
In this episode, we have a very special guest joining us to review Takenoko, a game that teaches you what to do in the unlikely event someone gives you a panda.
In this episode, we review Tsuro: The Game of the Path! See whose path to enlightenment lasts the longest...
In this episode, we review the game Clank! Go searching for dragon treasure while moving very quietly...
In this episode, we review Incan Gold, a game that will have you pressing your luck to recover lost treasure!
We take a look at Patchwork, a game about quilting and one of the best two-player games around!
Splendor, a game about collecting gems and impressing fancy people!
Sleeping Queens! A game of queens and kings and dragons and knights and basic arithmetic!
In this episode, we time-travel to the 1960s to compete in the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union in… Space Explorers!
In this episode, we travel to a beautiful island off the coast of Greece famous for its white and blue buildings in the board game Santorini!
In this episode, we travel to 17th century Japan for some competitive vacationing in the board game Tokaido!
We're back with another family game recommendation: The Crew, a game that will have you taking tricks and exploring space!
In this episode, we recommend the city-building game Sprawlopolis, a game to play without family and friends.
In this episode, we recommend a game that will have you eating your vegetables: Abandon All Artichokes!
In this episode, we recommend a game that will have you bluffing, bribing, and smuggling: Sheriff of Nottingham.
We're back with a family board game recommendation for a game that will have you cheering on cute, colorful penguins: ICECOOL.
We're back with another family board game recommendation, a game that will make you want an ice cream cone: Rocky Road a la Mode!
We have another great family game to recommend: Gizmos. Ever want to make your own Rube Goldberg machine?
We have another great family game to recommend: Herbaceous. You can't help but want to collect and pot herbs as you play this relaxing game.
In Wingspan, players take on the role of bird enthusiasts, trying to collect the best birds for their wildlife preserves. It's a great game for couples, and might just turn players into birdwatchers.
PARKS does a great job of capturing the beauty and wonder of the US National Parks, and it's a fun game for couples.
Forbidden Island is a cooperative game where the players work together to explore a mysterious island, find its treasures, and escape before the island floods.
Deep Sea Adventure is a push-your-luck game with colorful components about diving for underwater treasure.
In this episode, we have another family game recommendation: Sushi Go! It is by far my favorite game about anthropomorphic sushi!
This episode features another family game recommendation: Love Letter. How much fun can you have with a game consisting of just 16 cards? As it turns out, a lot! Love Letter is one of our family's favorite games.
In this episode, I have another family board game recommendation, Space Park. In Space Park players cruise around the galaxy collecting crystals and trading those crystals in for badges.
Welcome to the First Player Token podcast, a short podcast for folks who enjoy playing board games with family and friends. In this episode, we’re taking a look at a great family game called Kingdomino.
Welcome to the First Player Token podcast, a short podcast for people who enjoy playing board games with family and friends!