This week Fletcher leaves Chris with Kitty, who wants to talk about tie breakers and how unfair they are when they make her lose.  Or something like that.  But really, this is a fun one.  Should tie breakers exist?  What makes a good, or bad, tie breaker?  And why do they always feel like an after thought?  (spoiler: because they are)

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This week Kitty leaves Chris and Fletcher alone and they decide to talk about work.  Kind of.  They discuss what it takes to write a digital version of a board game.  But don’t worry, they don’t go too technical, and when they do, they back up and explain what they are talking about.  Probably.  Oh, and, software development isn’t easy – $.99 isn’t too much to pay 🙂 

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This week we talk about board game tournaments.  Probably because we’re all participating in the first ever TGT Azul tournament (being run on boardgamearena.com).  What makes a good game for tournaments?  Why might you want to play in a tournament even if you’re not that good?  And will Fletcher ever win a game?  (that last one will make more sense later.)

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This week we take a deep dive into why we (as a collective whole in the board gaming hobby – yes we speak for all of you) tend to play a game once and move on.  Or maybe we don’t.  Maybe we play the same game over and over and Chris just has a problem.  Could go either way on this one…

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This week we use a new found addition to roll and write games on board game arena as a reason to take about roll and write games (mostly on board game arena).  From Yahtzee to Hadrian’s Wall we cover EVERY (no we don’t) roll and write ever!! (no. we don’t.  There are thousands, we talk about, like, 6).

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This week we have a replay episode from about 3 1/2 years ago where we talk about Euro Games.  We did plan to record a new episode, but due to sick kids we just weren’t able to make it happen.  As long as everything goes as planned though, next week we will talk about Roll & Writes (probably, hopefully, just depends on how the dice come up).

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This week we take a look at the different between making your own stuff up or playing published content and stories.  What’s better?  Well we for sure definitively answer that question, honest.

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This week Josh joins Chris on the Dice Tower Cruise and they talk about all the games they played with a eye towards the pros and cons of player experience differences in competitive games.  What types of games are more prone to causing frustration and what types are more player experience indifferent?

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This week we talk about logic “games” – or puzzles as most people would call them.  It’s not really a puzzles vs. games episode at all though, instead we talk about what makes logic puzzles so interesting and why we keep playing them in spite of the fact they kind of feel like homework.

The puzzle book Kitty mentioned: https://www.amazon.com/Montague-Island-Mysteries-Other-Puzzles/dp/145491811X

The game Fletcher talked about: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002YGIH76

And if you want to play some logic puzzles, you can find an app here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cross-logic-puzzle-game/id1561830495

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This week we take a look at what makes players so bad.  From game play to etiquette, we talk about ourselves and what makes us such bad players.  And we may talk about players that aren’t ourselves as well.

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This week we talk a lot about Wordle (the first half of the show) and then switch to talking about what to do with those games you just want to throw away.  We also mention a few different links in this episode so here are those:

If you want to play archived Wordle puzzles, you can find them here: https://www.devangthakkar.com/wordle_archive

Want to recycle old game and craft stuff: https://upcyclingcolors.com/

And if you want to play some logic puzzles, which is what we’ll be talking about in a future episode, you can find an app here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cross-logic-puzzle-game/id1561830495

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