Board Game Hot Takes

In Episode 326 we give our hot take review on Arctica covering the mechanisms, the production, and our overall feelings of the game.
We discuss a poll on exclusive pre-order bonuses and then discuss some games on our table including Project L, Tower Up, and Chai Tea Jazz.
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:39 Poll Time: How do you feel about exclusive pre-order bonuses?
09:42 Arctica Description
12:01 Gameplay and Mechanisms
28:23 Production and Theme
41:11 Final Thoughts
48:33 Project L
56:40 Tower Up
1:13 Chai Tea Jazz
1:13:55 Listener Shoutout and Listener Shaming
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In Episode 325 we discuss a handful of recent games that we've been playing.
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
02:06 Gaming Weekend Preferences
08:19 Mille Fiori
20:18 Druids of Edora
33:14 Deep Regrets
43:35 Cthulhu: Death May Die - R'lyeh Rising
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In Episode 324 we give our hot take review on Drillers covering the mechanisms, the production, and our overall feelings of the game.
We discuss a poll on Board Game Packaging and then discuss some games on our table including Sky 5, Forbidden Stars, and The Hobbit: There and Back Again.
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:19 Poll Time: How important is the board game box?
12:14 Drillers Description
13:57 Gameplay and Mechanisms
27:41 Production and Theme
38:10 Final Thoughts
44:02 Sky 5
51:15 Forbidden Stars
1:06:55 The Hobbit: There and Back Again
1:13:05 Listener Shoutout
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In Episode 323 we're joined by board game designer Connie Vogelmann to discuss our top 3 board games we wish we'd designed.
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:56 Connie tells us about Tideward and Weaverbirds
12:16 Top 3 board games we wish we'd designed
15:26 Baseball Highlights 2045
19:04 The Gang
23:05 Dominion
26:27 Glass Road / Black Forest
33:03 Smartphone, Inc.
36:34 It's a Wonderful World
40:14 Blue Lagoon
44:47 Nemesis
49:56 Eclipse: Second Dawn for the Galaxy
52:58 Fromage
58:54 Super Motherload
1:04:08 Nexus Ops
1:12:29 Will the BGHT Hosts ever design a board game?
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In Episode 322 we discuss epic (big, long) board games. How do you define an epic game? Are they worth the time investment? What games do you consider epic games? How often do you want to be playing them?
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