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Monday Mini: Tabletop Game Reviews (Wingspan and Dutch Blitz) · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to Stephan Never told you production.
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  Speaker 1: iHeart radio, and welcome to another Monday Mini. And you
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  Speaker 1: know what, we and you recently did an episode a
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  Speaker 1: Monday Mini about the board game industry and more specifically
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  Speaker 1: with women and how a sex industry that often discredits
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  Speaker 1: and excludes women from being a part of this industry
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  Speaker 1: and criticizes women in this industry. Or as you had said,
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  Speaker 1: he says that women don't do anything interesting and they
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  Speaker 1: don't include robots.
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  Speaker 2: It's for shame.
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  Speaker 1: It's because there's so many games that I have play
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  Speaker 1: that have robots in them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, exclusively.
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  Speaker 1: I never played a game with robots in it, so
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand.
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  Speaker 3: No interesting critique. Yeah sure, sure, sure, sure sure.
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  Speaker 1: And in it you mentioned the game Wingspan and the
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  Speaker 1: creator Elizabeth Hargrave.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, and.
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  Speaker 1: We decided that we needed it obviously, so we actually
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  Speaker 1: did buy it. Just as a reminder about this game.
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  Speaker 1: It was again created by designer Elizabeth Hargrave and the
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  Speaker 1: art is done by Natalia Rojas and Anna Marie Martinez. Heramio.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry if I said that wrong. And is a beautiful,
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  Speaker 1: beautiful game. So here's a descriptor. Wingspan is a competitive
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  Speaker 1: medium weight cards driven engine building board game from designer
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  Speaker 1: Elizabeth Hargrave and stone Meyer Games. It is the twenty
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  Speaker 1: nineteen winner of the prestigious Skinnerspield de Jars Award, and
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  Speaker 1: I hope I said it right. That is not the
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  Speaker 1: only award that they have won. They won Game of
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  Speaker 1: the Year in twenty nineteen for Diamond Climber Award, the
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  Speaker 1: Dice Tower Award. It looks like a German named award
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  Speaker 1: and I'm not gonna say it, maybe Dutch. It also
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  Speaker 1: won for a Golden Geek Award for several things. The
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  Speaker 1: expansion also won Expansion of the Year for Golden Geek Award,
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  Speaker 1: American Tabletop Awards for a Strategy Game of the Year,
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  Speaker 1: and again in twenty twenty the Expansion for Golden Geek
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  Speaker 1: Award and then for Wingspan Oceania Expansion as well. So
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  Speaker 1: they've won tons of awards. When I was looking at
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  Speaker 1: their site, it looks like they're redoing some things because
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  Speaker 1: they're different bird groups. Sorry, y'all are taking out like
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  Speaker 1: Native American names for birds as well as people names
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  Speaker 1: for birds because it could be offensive, and so they're
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  Speaker 1: renaming some birds, and as that happens, I believe Wingspan
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  Speaker 1: is correcting their cards as well. So I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what that will look like like, or if that's already happened,
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  Speaker 1: but I believe it's been in the process for the
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  Speaker 1: last year, so I find that very commendable as well
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  Speaker 1: for them to keep up with it. But it is
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  Speaker 1: a gorgeous game and it continues. It says about the
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  Speaker 1: game you are bird enthusiasts, researchers, birdwatchers, ornithologists, and collectors
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  Speaker 1: seeking to discover and attract the best bursts to your
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  Speaker 1: network of wildlife preserves. Each bird extends a chain of
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  Speaker 1: powerful combinations in one of your habitats.
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  Speaker 3: Actions.
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  Speaker 1: These habitats focus on several key aspects of growth. Gain
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  Speaker 1: food tokens via custom dice in a birdfeed or dice
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  Speaker 1: tower lake eggs using egg miniatures in a variety of colors,
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  Speaker 1: draw from hundreds of unique birds bird cards, and play them.
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  Speaker 1: The winner is the player with the most points after
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  Speaker 1: four rounds. And we actually did play this game. So
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  Speaker 1: when I bought this, I had like faltered about giving
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  Speaker 1: it as a gift Indian, I decided to keep it.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, I like this I'm gonna keep it,
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  Speaker 1: thank you very much. But so it was a merry
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  Speaker 1: Christmas present to me. But we did take it down
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  Speaker 1: to Florida and my partner's family. Big game people, especially
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  Speaker 1: the siblings, love games. We played Katan often. We play
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  Speaker 1: at least ten rounds of Uno, different types of Unu,
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  Speaker 1: including the really mean one wild all wild, y'all, if
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  Speaker 1: y'all get a chance. It's a brilliant, shorter game, but
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  Speaker 1: it's mean. So if you don't have a great relationship,
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  Speaker 1: you may not want to play this game. Or if
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  Speaker 1: you need to get it out, you know, yelling out,
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  Speaker 1: that could be it. But we took this game and
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  Speaker 1: it took us. I don't know if it were just tired.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if it was just one of those moments.
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  Speaker 1: It took us forever to figure this game out. And
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  Speaker 1: to me, kind of like Katan, which is Annie's favorite game,
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  Speaker 1: was a sponsor at one point in time, and I
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  Speaker 1: guess we should put in here. None of these are
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  Speaker 1: current sponsors, perhaps one day because I would love, actually
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  Speaker 1: we would love to have us sit down with Elizabeth Hargraves.
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  Speaker 3: That would be really fun.
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  Speaker 1: But like it's one of those that you have to
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  Speaker 1: play through to realize what you're doing, and they do
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  Speaker 1: have startup cards, which any you didn't play because by
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  Speaker 1: this time my partner and I have figured it out
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  Speaker 1: when we played with you, so we did like go through.
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  Speaker 1: It had some moments. It's described as being one of
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  Speaker 1: the most relaxing card builder games, and I will say
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  Speaker 1: the times that I've played it were not relaxing, but
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  Speaker 1: it is fun. I think there were moments where we
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  Speaker 1: just scream at each other about how relaxing we were
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  Speaker 1: or how relaxed we were. But it was a really
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  Speaker 1: fun game. It is beautifully created, like the art is fantastic,
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  Speaker 1: very educational. Learned a lot about different birds. As per usual,
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  Speaker 1: I created my own names and my own ways of
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  Speaker 1: describing things on the board, so instead of calling it
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  Speaker 1: what it was, I would just like yell out descriptors.
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  Speaker 1: And once again Annie was the only one to really
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  Speaker 1: interpret what I was saying. My partner couldn't even understand
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  Speaker 1: when only Annie could. We had moments as fine.
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  Speaker 3: It's fine as fine, but.
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  Speaker 1: It is a really fun game, and we kind of
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  Speaker 1: wanted to take a time to review it since it
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  Speaker 1: is one of the most highly regarded games out there,
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  Speaker 1: especially created by mostly only women, so we love to
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  Speaker 1: see it. So, Annie, I do want to ask, because
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  Speaker 1: you came in blind. You're like, what is happening? And
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  Speaker 1: my partner and I were kind of prepared. How did
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  Speaker 1: you fell from the start of the game to the
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  Speaker 1: end of the game.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it was very nice to play with people who
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  Speaker 2: knew it, because that is one of the most stressful
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  Speaker 2: parts I think of playing a game, is that first
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  Speaker 2: time or two where you're still I don't know how
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  Speaker 2: this works, and I feel like I didn't understand it
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  Speaker 2: in the beginning. By the end I understood it. I
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  Speaker 2: feel like and I do want to play again because
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  Speaker 2: I was like, okay, and this makes sense. It's simple
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  Speaker 2: enough once you play it. And it was good because
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  Speaker 2: I had you two to correct me if I make
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  Speaker 2: a mistake. I actually think I could have won if
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  Speaker 2: i'd put the eggs in the right place because I
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  Speaker 2: wasn't looking at the bonus thing.
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  Speaker 1: In this card really help.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So that was nice because it was good that
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  Speaker 2: I could play it and feel by the end like
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  Speaker 2: I got a pretty good grasp on it instead of
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  Speaker 2: still like annoid or confused. Okay, I got this round.
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  Speaker 2: This the last of us was on the background. There
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  Speaker 2: was alcohol for me, so the fact that I could still.
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  Speaker 1: Of course it was only three of us, but you
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  Speaker 1: beat out my partner because yes us all, yes, I
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  Speaker 1: want you.
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  Speaker 3: I had so many eggs.
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  Speaker 1: I had played out my card perfectly where I would
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  Speaker 1: just have eggs everywhere and every action, which, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: in the roles it says, would you in the unlikely
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  Speaker 1: event you were to run out eggs? And we have
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  Speaker 1: done that two out of three times that we played
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  Speaker 1: this game, and the last time was with only three players,
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  Speaker 1: So I'm starting to think I might have done something wrong.
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  Speaker 1: But like I had built up the deck where I
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  Speaker 1: would get free eggs every time certain things and actions
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  Speaker 1: would play, So I gathered up all of my eggs.
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  Speaker 3: I had all.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, like it is when we first tried to
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  Speaker 1: play this game. When I first tried to play this game,
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  Speaker 1: nothing made sense to me. I had to try to
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  Speaker 1: play a video and it still didn't feel like very
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  Speaker 1: familiar to anything. And then thank god for my partner's
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  Speaker 1: sister who went through it all and sat down with
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  Speaker 1: it and opened through it and she really like worked
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  Speaker 1: through the game, and we finally at the end of it,
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  Speaker 1: got it, and I had a strategy. I'm still mad
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  Speaker 1: about this with the bonus cards and I like backed
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  Speaker 1: out thinking that I needed other things I would have won,
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  Speaker 1: but I didn't. I I was so upset. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there is strategy to the game. If you look at
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  Speaker 1: the bonus cars, if you look at the extra actions,
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  Speaker 1: like there's goals that you have per and you get first, second, third,
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  Speaker 1: it is really well thought out. Like it is so
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  Speaker 1: well put together that as you move through it, you're like, oh, okay,
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  Speaker 1: this is better than I thought. This is easier than
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  Speaker 1: I thought. It's just knowing where to go and how
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  Speaker 1: to start. Because honestly, long time ago, I want to
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  Speaker 1: say over a year ago, my partner knew about this game,
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  Speaker 1: had been reading about this game, and I was like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we should play this, and he got it for steam
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  Speaker 1: Deck and so we did play it. I had no
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  Speaker 1: idea what was going on the playthrough went through, because
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  Speaker 1: it kind of does it for you and tells you
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  Speaker 1: what you should do, and I'm like, okay, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: do that. Okay, I'm gonna do that like that. That's
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  Speaker 1: kind of all that way, and I'm what was happening
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  Speaker 1: and he won, and I got mad, so I was like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to play this anymore. I'm not necessarily
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  Speaker 1: a sore loser, but between being confused and still not
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  Speaker 1: knowing how to play by the second round and him winning,
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  Speaker 1: and it was like, yeah, I'm done.
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  Speaker 3: I'm done with this.
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  Speaker 1: But now that I've played through it, now we've gotten
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  Speaker 1: all of the items. They have the cutest little birdhouse
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  Speaker 1: that you create to do the dice and you're like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: this is how you do this, and trying to play
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  Speaker 1: out and then if you're trying to go after people,
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  Speaker 1: because you're like even though you're playing your own board,
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  Speaker 1: and that's kind of how it is you build, you
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  Speaker 1: just don't mind your own you can't make it still competitive,
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  Speaker 1: and like watching what they're doing, and then like if
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  Speaker 1: they need certain types of food or whatever, you're like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you can't have that type of thing.
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  Speaker 3: But it is.
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  Speaker 1: It is very fun put together game. It is amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Like the art, the strategy, the thought process. I cannot imagine.
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  Speaker 1: I would love to have a sit down with hard
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  Speaker 1: Graves and ask like how long did this take the process,
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  Speaker 1: because creating a game with that much pieces, with that
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  Speaker 1: many pieces to it and then building it up with
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  Speaker 1: all of those cars and researching all of those birds.
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  Speaker 1: I could only imagine the level it takes to get
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  Speaker 1: to there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's for anyone in listening who is you
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  Speaker 2: have no idea what we're talking about. When I first
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  Speaker 2: saw what this game was, I was like, what, So
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  Speaker 2: it's one of those games where you kind of have
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  Speaker 2: to play it, but yeah, essentially you're just you got
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  Speaker 2: some birds and you're trying to, you know, get make
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  Speaker 2: your best bird flock that you can. But it was
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  Speaker 2: interesting because yesterday I hung out with a friend of
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  Speaker 2: ours and he brought up this game. I didn't even
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  Speaker 2: bring it up. He was like, you know what, we
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  Speaker 2: should play Wingspan And he was saying like he and
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  Speaker 2: his wife love it, and he lives near a friend
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  Speaker 2: of the show, Joe McCormick, who's also in a D
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  Speaker 2: and D campaign, and he will go over there with
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  Speaker 2: Joe and his wife and they all play it together.
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  Speaker 2: But he was like, I learned so much about birds.
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  Speaker 2: It was really cute.
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  Speaker 3: You do you.
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  Speaker 1: Learn so much about birds? Again, I don't know any
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  Speaker 1: names for the birds, but I've learned a lot about birds.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, by the way, so it looks like according
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  Speaker 1: to the Wikipedia that was set up for them. Some
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  Speaker 1: Wingspan was positively received commercially and sold forty four thousand
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  Speaker 1: copies worldwide over three printings in the first month of
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  Speaker 1: its release, with the publisher issuing a public apology for
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  Speaker 1: not having more copies available. The game had sold around
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  Speaker 1: two hundred thousand copies worldwide by the end of twenty nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: By March twenty twenty one, Cells of Wingspan had reached
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  Speaker 1: six hundred thousand and one point three million by September
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, which is the highest number of copies
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  Speaker 1: sold for stone Meyer games. So it jumped from six
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  Speaker 1: hundred thousand to one point three million in about six months.
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  Speaker 1: That's amazing. So I can't imagine where it's at today.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure it's even giant, more giant numbers because we
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  Speaker 1: are growing fans of this game obviously. And yeah, the
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  Speaker 1: expansions include the European so wing Span European expansion, and
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  Speaker 1: then the other expansion Ada had. How do you say
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: it again, because I cannot say this.
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  Speaker 2: Word Oceannia, although I think that is specific pronunciation and
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  Speaker 2: it's not the American English pronunciation.
• 13:13
  Speaker 1: This is where I know I don't do like science
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  Speaker 1: and conservation science very well because I'm like, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know any of these words.
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  Speaker 3: I've never said these out loud.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, that's what a podcast will teach you.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, and then the digital versions were sold in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty to Steam and Switch apparently also has it
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  Speaker 1: on Android. Maybe you go find it and play it
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  Speaker 1: on my own. And according to Slay, as of August
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, Wingspan had sold one hundred and twenty
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  Speaker 1: five thousand combined copies of digital editions on the platforms combined,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm sure there's a lot more now. And they
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  Speaker 1: also have expansions on the different platforms. So if you
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  Speaker 1: are interested, as you should be, you should definitely go
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  Speaker 1: and try this game. If you like it building expansion.
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  Speaker 1: It does have four rounds, so you do build up
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  Speaker 1: points systems, but it's really fun. It is a gorgeous
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  Speaker 1: it is gorgeous artwork. But yes, so with all of that,
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  Speaker 1: you should go and definitely definitely purchased this game because
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  Speaker 1: it is well worth the money, the time, and the
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  Speaker 1: learning curve. Because I've seen, like I'm not the only
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  Speaker 1: person who was really confused, so feel better about that,
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: I just quickly wanted to mention a second game that
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  Speaker 1: we played over the Christmas because it had pretty higher
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  Speaker 1: reviews and I feel like I did not know this.
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  Speaker 1: There is a huge community of people who loved this game.
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  Speaker 1: Any I figured out that there's like Instagram followings for
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  Speaker 1: this which the game is called Dutch Blitz, which I
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  Speaker 1: made anti play one round. We didn't make too much
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  Speaker 1: because it was getting late night and everybody was getting tired,
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  Speaker 1: and I was the only one really excited by it.
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  Speaker 1: So yes, the game was Dutch Blitz, which essentially is
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  Speaker 1: like speed or Solitaire with a group people. Here's something
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  Speaker 1: from an article written for The Strategist titled this card
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  Speaker 1: game threatens to tear my family apart, but we can't
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  Speaker 1: stop playing it, so they say. Dutch Bliss is essentially
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  Speaker 1: a simultaneous play version of what the manufacturer describes as
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  Speaker 1: quote very energetic Solitaire. It was invented by a German
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  Speaker 1: optometrist to teach his children numbers and colors, so it's
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  Speaker 1: incredibly simple. Each player selects one of four decks denoted
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  Speaker 1: by a pump, carriage, pel or plow. They then lay
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  Speaker 1: out three groups of cards refer to the post blitz
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  Speaker 1: or woodpiles. The main objective is to use your blitz
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  Speaker 1: pile to build as many cards in the sending order
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  Speaker 1: one through ten in the same respective colors as the
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  Speaker 1: center Dutch pile that everyone plays into. You can help
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  Speaker 1: clear blitz pile by moving cards blah blah blah, but
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  Speaker 1: they have alternate between the Pennsylvania Dutch boy and girl
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  Speaker 1: drawings on each card. The game ends when a player
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  Speaker 1: has gotten rid of their blitz pile and shouts blitz
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  Speaker 1: and they go on to say I've since introduced the
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  Speaker 1: game to at least ten people. I've brought it to
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  Speaker 1: bars and on hikes. I've ordered packs to get to
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  Speaker 1: friends going through tough times that involve waiting. I'll persuade
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  Speaker 1: my husband to play a few hands between meetings as
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  Speaker 1: we both work from home and are slugging through the day.
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  Speaker 1: The dopamine hit from a two minute game gives me
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  Speaker 1: a U four separation from the stress of my outlook
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  Speaker 1: box and it is. This game is intense and.
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  Speaker 3: Really goes through.
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  Speaker 1: My partner has a hard time. I think it's because
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure he has add ADHD, so trying to
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  Speaker 1: watch everybody makes him anxious because he's feeling like he's
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  Speaker 1: trying so far behind, but he's watching everything. As for me,
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  Speaker 1: I love him. I grew up with speed and it
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  Speaker 1: was very competitive with my brothers to the point like
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  Speaker 1: he would throw packs of cars at me when I
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  Speaker 1: would win.
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  Speaker 3: M and I love to win, you know this, I
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  Speaker 3: love to win.
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  Speaker 1: But this is also from a blog called Drunken the
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  Speaker 1: Minnow blog. That's the name of it, and they were
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  Speaker 1: explain it is not Dutch. It helps from the Mennonites
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  Speaker 1: of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and the title refers to Pennsylvania Dutch,
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  Speaker 1: the dialect spoken there, which also isn't Dutch, but is
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  Speaker 1: properly known as Pennsylvania Deutsch or Pennsylvania German, though the
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: providence of the term is under some dispute. That, however,
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  Speaker 1: would make you think that these Mennonites originally came from Germany.
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  Speaker 1: Some of them did come from the South Germany, but
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: in Mennonite circles, all of these ethnic Mennonites are considered
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  Speaker 1: the Swiss Mennonites. There are other Mennonites who came from
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  Speaker 1: the north and actually do have Dutch lineage, but the
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  Speaker 1: Dutch Ones didn't make the Dutch Blitz game, and so
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  Speaker 1: they wouldn't into it all completely. And they go on
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  Speaker 1: to explain Blitz, of course is German for lightning. The
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  Speaker 1: title of the game is not reference to not see
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  Speaker 1: bombing tactics. You could be forgetten for the confusion, but
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: it would be a very different game and Mennonites wouldn't
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: play it. I suppose it could be a reference to
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: the Rotterdam Blitz, but like I said, it's not really
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: a war game and it's not Dutch.
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: Keep saying this.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: According to the game's website, Dutch Blitz was created as
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: an educational game to help teach children numbers and colors. Yes,
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: we aim high in our educational aspirations, mind you, given
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: that color blindness isn't all that uncommon around Amish and
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Swiss Mennonites, it was perhaps a very high aspiration after all.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: I found that interesting. And yeah, the game in itself
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: is it literally describes it on the box a very
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: gooped game.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: And yeah, I'm not.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Trying to make conven by make fun of anything, but
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: it literally goot game is how they put it. And
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: it's really interesting because I didn't want to bring it up.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: I really enjoyed the game. But my partner's brother, who
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: was very like self aware and talks a lot about, like,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: you know, intersectional feminism themselves, where kempt calling at one
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: point where you do the boy girl, Boy Girl, He's like,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: this is really gendered. This is really gendered, and it is.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: It is very gendered, interestingly, and it was not created
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: like way back when it was like two thousand and six,
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: I believe is when it came out, so you would think, like,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: that's an interesting tactic, I guess, but it was a
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: simple way of doing because in solitary you do suits
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: so different color suits, the black and the red, so
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: you can't really do that with this game.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: I guess.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: His only thought was like, okay, we'll do boy girl,
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: boy Girl, and yeah, it is exactly like has that
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: Dutch outfit? Is it Dutch outfits or is it mind
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Night outfits as well.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Sounds like we are forgiven for being confused.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: But so it's a very interesting game that is really
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: fun to play. And the other Eider the Strategist and
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Strategist said they that they recently scrolled and saw on
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Instagram hashtag Dutch Blitz with enthusiasts who play and showed
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: this off, and apparently there are groups that play together.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: They are like people that come together to play this
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: game together. So I found that interesting because I know
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: we talked about with Werewolf that has occurred, but they
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: there's groups for Dutch Bliss, and I wonder how you
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: play that like that or if they just show off
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: what they're playing. I don't know, but it is an
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: interesting game. I did find it interesting with the gender things.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: I was like, Huh, is there specifics to this or
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: is it just literally like, let's just do this. I
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: guess in uh, what has he called it Mennonite culture.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Perhaps it's not mainly it's not obviously a big deal.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: It just is because I don't know about the queer
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: culture in the Mennonite community looking too. But I did
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: find this game interesting and also wanted to kind of
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: talk about it as well. There is a possible drinking
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: game with this anny that the Mennonite blogger wrote, and
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: I thought it was interesting and I wanted to kind
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: of talk about it because he creates a drink called
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: the Dutch Blitz and it's Dutch geneva gin rhubarb but
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: soda pop which I've seen it, I've never had it.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: And then you put those together in a shot glass
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: and one ounce of each and then quick quickly put
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: your hand over the shot, lift up and slam hard
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: on the table.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: Drink while still fizzing.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: The UH as a directions and it says this drink
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: encapsulates the sense of triumph upon finishing your deck and
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: yelling blitz. It has bite, but also good humor. It's
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: not a game of bitterness. The next round will begin
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: again soon enough. And he says, I do not suggest
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: that you drink this while playing Dutch Blitz.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: I fel like you just told us too, though.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I guess it's like once a round
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: then you do it.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: I guess so, but not just say when he said
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: yelling blitz, and that's when the end of the game.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: But okay, I guess maybe not throughout, but yeah, he
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: added a whole drinking game. So there you go. If
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: we need options, I just need to find reubarb soda.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I mean, make it interesting because it's already
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: moving pretty fast. I feel like I was like I
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: would look at a car.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: Well, you were also just learning.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: We didn't get a second round back because we wanted
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: to show you what it was. And I did have
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: to say, hey, Annie, you have this, this, and this
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: in your hand because we couldn't move until you moved,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: and I was ready for you to.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: Move, chilling your.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Ing it and seeing that you had like three cards
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: placed down, and he looks, stop it, stop it because
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: he couldn't.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: Figureut what was happening.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: It's a lot going on.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: There's a lot going on. But there you go.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: There's two game reviews that I thought would be fun.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Stick around because then the next one we're going retro.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: Oh yes, I was explaining this game that will be
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: talking about to my friend and he was like, this
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: is a real game. Yes, I was burned even though I.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: Won, I was burned. You won twice.
• 23:08
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• 23:12
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• 23:16
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• 23:20
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• 23:22
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• 23:24
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• 23:26
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• 23:29
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• 23:31
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