Gaming Without Credentials: Recent Episodes
Gaming Without Credentials
A podcast about board games and knowing which games can stand the test of time and deserve a spot in your collection.
We do something a little different for this episode. We rank all the games that we have taken to the limit since the start of the podcast. Some opinions have changed over time and each of us need to use the juice to get our games moving forward. Also, Matt gets maple syrup on his pants and that is somehow hilarious.
This week we play some coop games where nothing bad ever happens e.g. FUSE followed by Atlantis Rising Second Edition.
The rotation see us bringing in Tiny Towns and we push our luck playing our limit game and see if we Can't Stop playing it.
We double our hosts in this episode from the previous. Not a sustainable increase but we will try to manage. You can hear us talk about Pinata and Risk: Star Wars Edition (Or is it Star Wars: Risk Edition?) which we played.
Our rotation game invitation is given to Hanamikoji and we talk about taking Blitzkrieg!: World War Two in 20 Minutes to the limit.
Life is what happens while we are making other plans. Mike has rightly decided to continue with renovations.
Matt cobbles up another solo episode where he plays Orchard: 9 Card Solitare game, Toledo, Firefly: Shiny Dice and Dungeon Roll. Finishing of with some Badge updates.
You will have to forgive us as we needed to reupload to get rid of 2 minutes of dead air.
This week's episode is a little different. We are down a host so there is a little less banter but still full of game talk. Matt talks about Burgen & Drachen, No Thanks! and On the Underground London/Berlin.
Then just a little talk about the recent KanataCon in Ottawa, Ontario.
While it's a shorter episode compared to most, it's no less important! Like the small brown tiles in Patchwork.
On the light side we played Stellar and Point Salad. We ramp it up with Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition which one of us liked more than the other. Lastly we discuss Splendor as our limit game. Love those poker chips.
It appears we are still playing games and this week starts of with Scotland Yard, My City and 878 Vikings: Invasions of England which I didn't know used a colon until I wrote this description.
I hope our listener enjoys beer themed games because we are putting Heaven & Ale into the rotation and then Azul leaves as our limit game.
It's the "THE" week with us talking about Firefly: The Game, The Quacks of Quedlinburg and The Duke.
Those looking forward to the Rotation and Limit will have to wait a week as we talk about our favorite mechanisms instead.
Thanks for sticking with us for the double Xpisode!
As you might have been able to guess we played The Quest for El Dorado, Machi Koro and Dominion this week.
Innovation goes in the rotation and Santorini is our limit... even if it doesn't rhyme.
These are the games we played this week, this week.
These are the games we played this week.
Silver & Gold, Calico and ROVE: Results-Oriented Versatile Explorer
For our rotation and limit games we discuss Cubitos and Hive respectively.
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This week we played Ohanami
Matt talks about his current facination
which of course is Age of Civilization
We won't cower or hide
as last we played Regicide
Into the rotation we bring out all the challengers
Just survivors playing Arctic Scavengers
Lastly we muse about the limit game which does not irk
Episode concludes with Uwe's Patchwork
There is no time to waste. Listen as we discuss the games we played this week: King of Tokyo, Clank!(Explanation Point):(colon) A Deck-(hyphen) Building Adventure and Coup
We put Twin Palms into the rotation (Another trick-taking game eh?). We end with another riviting discussion where we talk about the benefits and pitfalls of online gaming. We probably missed something.....
We dive right into MicroMacro: Crime City, The Red Cathedral and Factory Funner which we played this week.
Troyes enters our rotation and we talk about taking the trick-taking game Jekyll vs. Hyde to the limit.
Greetings and salutations! Relax as we talk about the games Hera and Zeus, Honga and Disney Sidekicks that we played this week.
Afterwhich we welcome Tigris & Euphrates, from the good doctor, into the rotation and say goodbye to Viticulture Essential Edition as our limit game.
In this wacky and wild episode the hosts are talking about the games they played: the unambiguously named The Lord of the Rings, Baseball Highlights: 2045 and The Castles of Burgundy: The Card Game.
Into the rotation Fleet: The Dice Game is invited and the hosts see Japiur leave the rotation as their limit game.
This persistent podcast talks about the games we played this week as always. We play the prominent co-op Spirit Island, purposeful Copenhagen and the precise Ingenious. We followup with the promising Living Forest joining the rotation.
We end with a discussion about when to buy expansions among the plethora therein.
Hopefully not percieved to be pontificating or pedantic.
It appears that there are a few games we haven't played yet. Tune in as we talk about our plays of That's Life and Eminent Domain.
After some Badge Talk, we are excited to bring Memoir '44 into the rotation then finish with a discussion about Draftosaurus as our limit game.
We travel by train and space ship with the games we played this week: Trains and Gravwell 2nd Edition. Since Matt has played Red Rising now we touch on that briefly.
Into the rotation we bring the auction/engine builder Furnace. Last we discuss our many plays of Lost Cities as if we took it to the limit.
This healthy podcast starts with plays of Ticket to Ride: London, Gheos and a dash of Tiny Epic Zombies which we played this week.
Exercise is always good, so we start with a rep of Ashes Reborn to add in our rotation. Then, after enough plays of Targi, we talk about taking it toooo the limit.
It was a dark and stormy night. Two credential-less gamers reminisce about the games they played this week including Air, Land & Sea, Drakon and Star Trek: Ascendancy.
Then we nail down how often you have to play a game before you play without refering to the rules. We figure at least once to start.
The recipe for this weeks episode is
3 played games this week: Red Rising, Dimension and Drakon
1 Rotation game: A Feast for Odin
1 Limit game: Sprawlopolis
Listen for about an hour and we will have more games we can sink our teeth into.
Back to the Future: Back in Time, Deus and Game of Thrones: Hand of the King..... these are the games we played this week. Then, when you likely expected it, we introduce our rotation game Kahuna. For the limit we see 7 Wonders Duel.... but will we see it ever again?
We further our gaming adventures this week with Food Chain Island, Going Going Gone, Rush M.D. Into the rotation we welcome Paint the Roses and we take Res Arcana to the limit after 57 plays between us this year.
Listen as we discuss Dinosaur Island: Rawr & Write, Sagrada and our first play of Orleans: Invasion. After that we try to nail down what makes a game fun.
New theme song as well which is exciting.
Sit around the fire as we talk about Cloaked Cats, Lord of the Rings: The Duel(s) and Raptor.
Later we talk about Oceans which we put into the rotation and Kingdomino which we took to the limit.
We talk about the games of On Tour, War of the Ring: Second Edition and Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends that we played this week. We bring Clans of Caledonia into the rotation and about taking Race for the Galaxy to the limit.... base game at least.
Inaugural episode where we discuss Betrayal at House on the Hill, Long Shot: The Dice Game and Samurai Spirit. Into the rotation we put The King is Dead and talk about Fugitive which we took to the limit.