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Look Back at 2010 · Pick Up and Deliver

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to pick up and deliver the podcast where I
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  Speaker 1: pick up my audio recorders, I step out for a
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  Speaker 1: walk and deliver an episode to you while I stroll around.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Brendan Riley. Well, greetings, listeners. It's a lovely day
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  Speaker 1: here in suburban Chicago. The weather is brisk, but not
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  Speaker 1: outragiously cold. It's kind of icy, so I'm having to
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  Speaker 1: be a little careful about where i walk, but generally
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  Speaker 1: it's a pleasant day. I am taking a walk up
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  Speaker 1: to the library and walk around a little bit and
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  Speaker 1: I'll come back. And I thought I would talk with
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  Speaker 1: you a little bit about games. I noticed that about
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  Speaker 1: ten episodes ago I did a look back, and I
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  Speaker 1: thought it would be fun to do one more look
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  Speaker 1: back before the end of the year. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: when I'll do the next one, but I may have
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  Speaker 1: to shift into a different pattern because this is the
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  Speaker 1: first year where I felt like I just hadn't played
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  Speaker 1: enough games to really have enough to talk about.
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  Speaker 2: I'll get into it, so for those of you who
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  Speaker 2: are new to the podcast, Welcome.
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  Speaker 1: A look back is an episode where I obviously look
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  Speaker 1: back at a year, and I mean I do a
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  Speaker 1: couple different ones sometimes I'll just look back four seasons.
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  Speaker 1: That's something I made a podcast episode about and see
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  Speaker 1: like what was I doing then other times. Because I
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  Speaker 1: started doing the podcast six years ago and since then,
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  Speaker 1: I've done kind of a Game of the year every year.
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  Speaker 1: There are a bunch of years before the podcast came
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  Speaker 1: out that I wasn't doing the podcast yet. So what
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing is working my way backwards in time doing
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  Speaker 1: game of the year of previous years, sort of looking back.
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  Speaker 1: So for this episode, I did a Game of the
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  Speaker 1: Year of twenty ten, or top five games of the
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  Speaker 1: year of twenty ten.
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  Speaker 2: Again. How I do this search is I go.
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  Speaker 1: Into Board Game Geek and I do advanced search, and
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  Speaker 1: I put in twenty ten as the publication.
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  Speaker 2: Year, and then I go through.
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  Speaker 1: Usually what I do is I go through the top
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  Speaker 1: one thousand ranked game or the top all the games
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  Speaker 1: from twenty ten in the Board Game Geek top ten thousand,
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  Speaker 1: and markdown whether I've played them or not, and then
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  Speaker 1: I take that list and I put it in order
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  Speaker 1: to figure out my top five. This time, I actually
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  Speaker 1: went through the top twenty thousand games. There weren't there
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  Speaker 1: were quite a few from twenty ten in the ten
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  Speaker 1: to twenty thousand ranking on Board Game Geek, but not
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  Speaker 1: very many I had played. The other thing I do
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  Speaker 1: is if a game is in my top fifty, it's
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  Speaker 1: fair to say it would be in the top five
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  Speaker 1: of my collection of the year. So instead I give
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  Speaker 1: those a pass. They get a bye, they get mentioned
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  Speaker 1: as games I think very highly of, and then I
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  Speaker 1: talk about other games. They don't get to be in
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  Speaker 1: the top five because they're already in my top fifty. Now.
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  Speaker 1: As you know, I'm working on a new top fifty.
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  Speaker 1: I'm nearly done with it, and that will come out
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  Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks. In the meantime, I'm using
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  Speaker 1: the top fifty that I made almost three years ago now,
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  Speaker 1: so it's a little outdated but still holds up pretty well.
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  Speaker 1: All right, well, let's get into it. So there are
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  Speaker 1: two games from twenty ten that are in my top
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  Speaker 1: fifty already, and so I'm not considering them here. The
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  Speaker 1: first of these is Seven Wonders. As of last check,
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  Speaker 1: I believe it was number forty nine and Seven Wonders
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  Speaker 1: is an excellent card drafting, tableau building game. I've talked
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  Speaker 1: about it a lot. It remains a favorite of mine
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  Speaker 1: now the other one, this is I don't know. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if this counts or not. The other one
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  Speaker 1: is London. And the thing is, I've only played London
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  Speaker 1: second Edition, which came out maybe five years after this,
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  Speaker 1: in twenty ten.
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  Speaker 2: We have Martin.
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  Speaker 1: Wallace's first version of London, which I have not actually played.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm still going to exclude it from the list
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  Speaker 1: because it would be hard to I mean, I could
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  Speaker 1: just ignore it because I haven't played it, but that
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  Speaker 1: feels not right because I do really like London and
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how different the two are, so I
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  Speaker 1: am excluding it. But when you're looking at the top fifty,
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  Speaker 1: what you're looking at is London second Edition, not London
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  Speaker 1: first Edition. All right, So let's get into it. My
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  Speaker 1: top five games in backwards order, so least number five
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  Speaker 1: first and.
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  Speaker 2: Working out my way to number one. Number five is
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  Speaker 2: K two.
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  Speaker 1: K two is an interesting game in which you are
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  Speaker 1: trying to lead a climb up one of the world's
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  Speaker 1: most dangerous mountains, if not the world's most dangerous mountain.
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  Speaker 1: Everest is also very dangerous, but I think more people
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  Speaker 1: have died on K two. Not one hundred percent sure
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  Speaker 1: about that, but it is a more dangerous climb and
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  Speaker 1: a more difficult one. My understanding is it's a more
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  Speaker 1: technically challenging climb. As you know from listening to the
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  Speaker 1: occasional episode of this show. I do really like mountain
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  Speaker 1: climbing as a subject of study. I wouldn't want to
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  Speaker 1: do it myself because it's terrifying and extremely dangerous, but
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a fascinating thing that people do, and
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  Speaker 1: so I've watched movies and seen books and stuff, and
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  Speaker 1: K two is a really interesting game about that idea.
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  Speaker 1: K two plays on the fact that once you get
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  Speaker 1: about a certain height you are you start dying. They
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  Speaker 1: call it the death zone because oxygen just isn't strong
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  Speaker 1: enough to support human life, and so your body starts dying.
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  Speaker 1: And what you're trying to do is get to the
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  Speaker 1: top of the mountain and then get back down alive.
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  Speaker 2: If you don't make it back down alive, it doesn't count.
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  Speaker 1: So it's about which team got the highest and made
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  Speaker 1: it back down. An interesting game, really fun, challenging one.
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  Speaker 2: That's K two.
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  Speaker 1: Next up we have Space Hulk Death Angel the card game.
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  Speaker 1: This is a game from Fantasy Flight Games. It was
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  Speaker 1: It is an incredibly difficult, very luck dependent card game
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  Speaker 1: in which you play space marines making your way into
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  Speaker 1: a abandoned space hulk that's full of gene stealers.
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  Speaker 2: And basically what you do is you go in. You
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  Speaker 2: set up this line of.
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  Speaker 1: Cards, and you have this line of soldiers who are
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  Speaker 1: working your way deeper and deeper into the ship, and
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  Speaker 1: monsters are popping out on all sides, and basically you
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  Speaker 1: have to use all your resources to move them, to
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  Speaker 1: kill them, to do everything you can to kind of
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  Speaker 1: hold them off, and then if you have to attack them,
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  Speaker 1: you roll these dice, and the dice are just terrible.
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  Speaker 1: I think you get one six. There's two successes on
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  Speaker 1: the six sided die, so it's very easy to take
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  Speaker 1: your chances at attacking the gene stealers and then finding
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  Speaker 1: yourself dead or losing soldiers quickly. It's a very difficult
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  Speaker 1: co op game that is really luck dependent, but it's
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  Speaker 1: pretty fun. It's a game I've played a lot of times,
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  Speaker 1: but I haven't played it much in the recent years,
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  Speaker 1: so it's probably something I should bust out again to
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  Speaker 1: see if I still like it. It's a great solo game.
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  Speaker 1: I don't really think it's all that good at even
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  Speaker 1: not two players, just because it's I think it's fun
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  Speaker 1: to make decisions for yourself and then you don't feel
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  Speaker 1: bad if the luck doesn't go your way. This game
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  Speaker 1: was already hard to find when I bought it in
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  Speaker 1: like twenty twelve or twenty thirteen. Now it's very, very
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  Speaker 1: difficult to find, I understand. But if you get a
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  Speaker 1: chance to play, you should. That's Space Hulled Death Angel
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  Speaker 1: my number four from twenty ten. Mountain Goats. I like
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  Speaker 1: this one because it's named after a cool band. No,
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  Speaker 1: that's not the case. The band is cool. I do
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  Speaker 1: like the band Mountain Goats very much. If you haven't
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  Speaker 1: listened to them, it's worth it, I think. But I
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  Speaker 1: bring this game up because it is an interesting shared
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  Speaker 1: of competitive area control game. You play these Goats Climbing Mountains.
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  Speaker 1: I was republished like two or three years ago. I've
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  Speaker 1: only played the new version. I don't know what the
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  Speaker 1: old version was like. But it's got really interesting mechanism
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  Speaker 1: where you're trying to you get to the top of
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  Speaker 1: the mountain and then you sort of hold it and
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  Speaker 1: you get points as long as you're on top of
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  Speaker 1: the mountain, and other people will try to get up
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  Speaker 1: there and boot you off. I haven't played it a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of times. I don't remember it in a ton
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  Speaker 1: of detail, but I do remember being pretty good, and
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  Speaker 1: it's certainly what I would try again if I had
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity. So that's Mountain Goats. My number two game
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  Speaker 1: from twenty twenty ten is Twentieth Century. Twentieth Century is
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  Speaker 1: the third game from one of my favorite Designersdimirsuki or Suchi.
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  Speaker 1: His first game was League of six in the second
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  Speaker 1: game was Shipyard in Twentieth Century was his third game.
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  Speaker 1: It is sort of a civilization tableau builder in which
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  Speaker 1: you're building a city or a small city state and
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  Speaker 1: you're trying to modernize, maximize your industrial capacity and the
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  Speaker 1: happiness of your people while avoiding getting overwhelmed with trash.
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  Speaker 1: One of the big things in the game is managing
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  Speaker 1: your pollution and your trash to keep the happiness of
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  Speaker 1: your people solid. It's got this weird betting mechanism that
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  Speaker 1: isn't It feels a little strange, and that's probably why
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  Speaker 1: it never really took off. But it's an interesting game
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  Speaker 1: that I like quite a bit and makes me want
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  Speaker 1: Just talking about it makes you want to pull it
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  Speaker 1: out again, which is the marker of a good game.
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  Speaker 1: I think you have talking about it makes me want
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  Speaker 1: to play it again, and this is the case with
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  Speaker 1: Twentieth Century from Vladimir Suci, my number two game from
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  Speaker 1: twenty ten. And finally, the top of the list for
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  Speaker 1: twenty ten is Innovation. This is a Carl Chuttick game.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I'm giving too much away when I
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  Speaker 1: say I'm pretty sure this is in my top fifty.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't finished it yet, but I'm sure sure it's there.
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  Speaker 1: Innovation is one of three really really great Carl Chuttick
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  Speaker 1: multi use card games, and it is the most different
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  Speaker 1: from the other two. Mataynai is sort of seen as
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  Speaker 1: a kind of spiritual successor to Glory to Rome. He
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  Speaker 1: uses a lot of the same mechanism. Matinai works very
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  Speaker 1: differently but still has this idea of multi use cards.
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  Speaker 2: And actually they're not. Are they multi use cards? Not really?
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  Speaker 1: I mean the cards have a bunch of different stuff
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  Speaker 1: on them, but I don't know that I would call
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  Speaker 1: them multi use interesting, but it is really good. There's
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  Speaker 1: really interesting interplay between the different cards. There's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of luck involved, but generally people who are better at
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  Speaker 1: the game can beat people who aren't. It's not just
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  Speaker 1: totally a luckfest, and it has some of that patented
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  Speaker 1: cards that feel too powerful stuff that is so which
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  Speaker 1: a big part of Carl chutuk designs. I really like it.
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  Speaker 1: It's a game I've played many, many times, and I
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  Speaker 1: will continue to play. I'm very excitedly waiting for the
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  Speaker 1: innovation ultimate addition, which should be coming soon. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: sure exactly when, but it should be. So that is
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  Speaker 1: innovation from Karl Chuttick. Well, those are my top five
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  Speaker 1: games from twenty ten. I thought would take a moment
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  Speaker 1: here to introduce a few other superlative games, a few
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  Speaker 1: that I thought are really good and I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: give an award to but didn't make the top five.
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  Speaker 2: First one is best theme, Nuns on the Run.
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  Speaker 1: Nuns on the Run is a hidden movement game where
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  Speaker 1: players are initiate nuns who are trying to sneak out
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  Speaker 1: and do shenanigans like getting a piece of cake or
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  Speaker 1: drinking some of the sacristy wine. And one player is
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  Speaker 1: the mother Superior trying to catch the nuns who are
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  Speaker 1: sneaking around. It's a pretty dumb game and really clunky,
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  Speaker 1: like the mechanisms are sort of fiddly. Is the word
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking for or the word people use for this
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  Speaker 1: kind of game where it feels like it should be
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  Speaker 1: a little smoother and it's not. But it's a really
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  Speaker 1: silly premise, and it's a game I've held on to
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  Speaker 1: even though we've only played it once or twice, and
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  Speaker 1: it's so clunky that it hasn't gotten a lot of
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  Speaker 1: additional play, but it's still a fun time. So that
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  Speaker 1: is Nuns on the Run. The coolest experience. The twenty
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  Speaker 1: ten game that I would say has the coolest experience
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  Speaker 1: is Escape from Aliens in Outer Space. In this game,
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  Speaker 1: you are a player on a ship that has an
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  Speaker 1: alien on it if you think about the original alien,
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  Speaker 1: and you are trying to get away from the alien
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  Speaker 1: and get to an escape pod, and so are all
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  Speaker 1: the other players, and there's not enough escape pods for
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  Speaker 1: the players. It's a hidden movement game where everybody's hidden.
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  Speaker 1: You're each moving at different times, and if you're the alien,
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  Speaker 1: you move until you think you're in the spot where
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  Speaker 1: one of the humans are and then you can pounce.
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  Speaker 1: If you're a human, you move until you think maybe
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  Speaker 1: there's an alien there, and you could shoot your gun.
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  Speaker 1: You might accidentally shoot another human. If you get pounced
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  Speaker 1: on by an alien, then you turn into one. It's
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  Speaker 1: really tense and very interesting. It is very fragile though.
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  Speaker 1: If somebody doesn't understand what's happening, it gets really screwed up.
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  Speaker 1: And it requires a level of decorum that I rarely
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  Speaker 1: get to feel like. It has to have to be
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  Speaker 1: very quiet to play it and orderly, and it just
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  Speaker 1: doesn't doesn't work out all that often.
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  Speaker 2: We tried to play several times.
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  Speaker 1: We had like one or two good games and several
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  Speaker 1: not great games. So it was a game I got
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  Speaker 1: got rid of a long time ago. But it's beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: It's a really neat production. It's a cool experience that's
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  Speaker 1: alien escape from aliens and outer space. To be clear,
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  Speaker 1: I was playing the Osprey Games edition. I know that
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  Speaker 1: in twenty ten the game was the game came out
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  Speaker 1: in a different form, so just nodding to that. Next time,
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  Speaker 1: I have an award for the best Origin game. This
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  Speaker 1: is like a game where they made a later edition.
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  Speaker 1: That later edition was amazing. I could have put London here,
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  Speaker 1: but London I already excluded this is a onrim or
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  Speaker 1: on Nirim.
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  Speaker 2: By the time I.
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  Speaker 1: Got to wanting to play this game, they had already
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  Speaker 1: published the second edition, which is really the only one
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  Speaker 1: you can get now. I don't know anything about what
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  Speaker 1: the first edition was about, except that the second edition
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  Speaker 1: is great.
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  Speaker 2: It's one of my favorite solo games.
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  Speaker 1: It's consistently fun, the modules make for interesting variety, the
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  Speaker 1: theming is really good, and it's led me to get
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of the other Shady Torby games if you
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  Speaker 1: haven't played it. An Irim is a game about being
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  Speaker 1: a dream trying to get through the dreamscape and avoiding.
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  Speaker 2: Nightmares and such.
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  Speaker 1: It's beautifully abstract and a really fun puzzle.
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  Speaker 2: The art is lovely, so if you get a chance
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  Speaker 2: to try it.
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  Speaker 1: On rim or Onirim from Shady Torby Next Award is
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  Speaker 1: the game that causes the most anxiety. This is anomia.
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  Speaker 1: Anomia is the word for not being able to think
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  Speaker 1: of a word. In anomia, you It's a high speed
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  Speaker 1: anomia as a high speed party game where you have
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  Speaker 1: a card in front of you with a symbol on
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  Speaker 1: it and a category like magazines, and the opponents around
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  Speaker 1: the table all have cards a symbols on them and categories.
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  Speaker 1: As long as none of the symbols match the symbol
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  Speaker 1: you have, you don't do anything. But each round somebody
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  Speaker 1: draws a card and puts in front of them and
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  Speaker 1: displaying a new symbol. And now if your symbol matches theirs,
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  Speaker 1: you're in a duel where you try to name something
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  Speaker 1: from their category before they name something from your category.
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  Speaker 1: It's delightful because sometimes you just can't think of anything
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  Speaker 1: to say, even though it's obvious.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be like cities and you can't think of a city.
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  Speaker 2: It's wild.
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  Speaker 1: The other two rules that make the game really work
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  Speaker 1: are one if anybody says something from the category as
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  Speaker 1: an answer, you can't use it again. So if you're
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  Speaker 1: in a race with somebody to say city and magazine
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  Speaker 1: and they say National Geographic before you say Chicago, Chicago
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  Speaker 1: is out. Even though you didn't get to use it
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  Speaker 1: as the answer, no one else can use it. Similarly,
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  Speaker 1: the winner in the case of a tie is who
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  Speaker 1: are finished their answer first. So if we started speaking
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  Speaker 1: at the same time and I said National Geographic, even
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  Speaker 1: if I said it really fast, you could say Chicago
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  Speaker 1: or Des Moines or New York and you could finish
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  Speaker 1: before I said the whole magazine, and then you'd win
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  Speaker 1: even if I started speaking first, which is a really
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  Speaker 1: fun game. The other rule that makes it really great
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  Speaker 1: is you have this stack of cards in front of
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  Speaker 1: you because when you draw a new one, you put
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  Speaker 1: it on top of the old one that you had,
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  Speaker 1: and then when your turn, when you match with somebody,
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  Speaker 1: if you lose, they take the top card off your
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  Speaker 1: stack and that reveals the symbol that was underneath. Well,
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  Speaker 1: in the meantime, since you covered that up, someone else
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  Speaker 1: might have gotten that symbol, which means you're immediately in
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  Speaker 1: another duel.
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  Speaker 2: So often when you lose a duel, you're immediately in.
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  Speaker 1: Another duel, which is hilarious because often people don't realize that,
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  Speaker 1: or they're still mad about the last one that they
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  Speaker 1: failed at and on and on.
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  Speaker 2: It's great.
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  Speaker 1: So that's a nomia most Anxiety. The last category or
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  Speaker 1: super litin I want to call out here is battle
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  Speaker 1: Sheep for best minis. Battles Sheep is a game where
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  Speaker 1: you are putting out, oh, never mind, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: scratch that because I'm thinking of a different game, So
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  Speaker 1: never mind Battleshep. So those are the superlative games that
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to point out. Next up is games I
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  Speaker 1: haven't played but want to or should. More than any
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  Speaker 1: other year that I've done a best of this far,
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  Speaker 1: I found a lot of games that I would like
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: to have played in order to make this list more robust.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: There's a bunch of them. These are games I hear
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  Speaker 1: about from other people. I feel like Richard ham Rotto
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  Speaker 1: likes a lot of these games or brings them up.
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: But there's a bunch.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: Here from a bunch of different people that I think
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: are interesting and I would like to try if I
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: had the opportunity. These would all be on the acquire
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: for five or ten dollars list if I found them
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: at like a thrift store or even a garage sale
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  Speaker 1: or a Yeah, these are all games I would enjoy
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: having to try. Dominant Species, which is apparently a very
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: aggressively vicious game, but I'd still like to try it.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: Merchants and Marauders a pirates game. We do have that toggle,
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: so I could try it if I want it. Sid
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  Speaker 1: Meyer's Civilization the board game. I have that in my basement.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: Why haven't I tried it yet? That's the question.
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  Speaker 2: Fresco.
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  Speaker 1: This is a Queen Games game about painting Luna. A
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: Steffenfeld game that gets a lot of love. Vinhos, which
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: is the first of the vital Aserta Games. Part of
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: what's kept me from playing this mostly is I don't
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: like the theme at all, but I hear people bring
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: it up a lot. Preta Porte, which is the game
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: about fashion design from Portal Games, supposed to be very good.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: I would enjoy trying it, although I haven't had a
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: lot of luck with Portal Games. Defenders of the Realm
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: a Richard lanniis game about sort of defending. It's a
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: tower defense game about defending a castle from fantasy monsters.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Looks pretty great. Catacombs is a flicking game. I probably
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: would want to play the second edition of this that
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: uses art from Quanchai Moria and looks just beautiful. Either
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: of these would be fun to try, though. Conquest of
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: Planet Earth, the space alien game. This is another one
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: that I have access to. We do have it at toggle.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: It is a game by Flying Frog Productions, who make
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: Last Night on Earth and a Touch of Evil. In fact,
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: I understand this game is compatible with Last Night on Earth.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: You could play them together this one and Last Night
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: on Earth, which would be interesting to try. It looks
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: silly and dumb, and I'd love to try it. Mystery
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: Express This is a game from Days of Wonder that
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: is out of print now, but it is a mystery
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: game that looks pretty neat and I would like to
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: try at some point. And finally, Munga Invaders, Mad Scientists
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: and Atomic Monsters Attack the Earth.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: This is a game I have a copy of and
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: I just haven't gotten it to the table.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: It was part of Martin Wallace's tree Frog Games era,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: and I did go to play it once the rule
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: book was rough. I was sort of all ready to play,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: and then we started playing and I couldn't understand it,
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: and I ended up putting it away. But I still
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: have it. I still think it would be fun to
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: play at some point. Finally, I did want to take
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: a moment to talk about games that I have also
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: played from twenty ten but did not make any of
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: the lists of the superlatives. These are Alien Frontiers, Forbidden Island,
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Ghost Blitz, Hanabi Olympus, Categories categories, Snake Oil, Troy artois
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Witz and Wager's Family, and Zombie Dice, Almost All of
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: those games are games I enjoy enough that I would
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: play them if you put them in front of me.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: Some more than others, like Olympus, I probably wouldn't want
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: to play. I wouldn't pick that, but we had fun
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: with it when we had it. It wasn't bad. So yeah.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: So that's my pick for the top games of twenty ten.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Which games do you like best from those that I
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: listed or other games from that era? Head over to
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Board Game Get Guild three two sixty.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: Nine and let me know what you think of games
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: from twenty ten. I'd love to know which ones are
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: your top five. Thanks for joining me and me walk today.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: I hope your next walk is a pleasant as mine was.
• 19:51
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