I'm in a bit of a quandary here, because Mark told me not to tell you what this episode is even about, but I want this description to be, well, descriptive but he's glaring at me really hard, and making a throat slitting gesture so I daren't risk it. It's about ... board games? Before we get ahead of ourselves, we talk about Binho, Stamp Swap, and First Rat.

03:33 - Binho
07:24 - Stamp Swap
17:04 - First Rat
30:16 - ???
34:47 - Agricola
34:47 - Bohnanza
36:28 - Patchwork
37:05 - A Feast for Odin
39:02 - Power Grid
39:43 - Friday
40:06 - Fearsome Floors
41:25 - 504
42:40 - Fast Sloths
43:03 - Fresh Fish
44:44 - Ra
45:28 - Tigris & Euphrates
46:45 - Lost Cities
46:52 - Yellow & Yangtze
47:23 - Blue Lagoon
47:43 - The Quest for El Dorado
48:22 - My City
49:13 - Through the Desert
49:28 - Ingenious
50:59 - Schotten Totten

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We may or may not be going to Germany (who can say), but that's where all the good gaming is gonna be, so that's what we're gonna talk about. It's almost Essen SPIEL! That sure is a lot of games debuting there though, so which ones should you care about? Don't worry, we've done the hard work for you. Before you go back to being eine faule socke, we talk about Nekojima, We're Sinking!, Hues and Cues, and Colorful.

02:46 - Nekojima
09:01 - We're Sinking!
15:31 - Hues and Cues
15:31 - Colorful
22:09 - Essen SPIEL 2023 Preview
22:57 - Æterna
25:32 - Babylon
27:17 - Bus & Stop
28:55 - COSCA: Take Over the Mafia
31:54 - Galileo Galilei
33:41 - SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
34:39 - Fishing
37:19 - AI Space Puzzle
38:59 - Zero to Hero
40:51 - The Gang
42:46 - Golden Cup
45:09 - Black Forest
50:02 - Battalion: War of the Ancients
53:01 - Beyond the Horizon
56:10 - Asian Tigers: A Story of Prosperity
58:16 - Skull Queen
58:38 - King of Tokyo: Origins
59:15 - Penguin Airlines
1:00:18 - Dungeon Exit

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It's about people, right? Below all the mechanics, after all the rules explanations, beyond every crushing loss and glorious win, what really matters is people we're playing with. Some games make that more apparent than others, and we're here to celebrate that. Before we realize it's about the friends we made along the way, we talk about Arcs, and Luthier.

03:02 - Arcs
19:26 - Luthier
37:11 - Games that make you feel good about people
41:11 - Codenames
42:05 - Decrypto
43:09 - Time's Up!
43:38 - Telestrations
43:56 - Fuji Flush
44:04 - Mino Dice
46:01 - Word Slam
47:00 - Krazy Wordz
47:43 - Just One
48:16 - Pictures
48:44 - Stationfall
51:12 - The Estates
51:37 - Sidereal Confluence: Trading and Negotiation in the Elysian Quadrant
52:16 - The Resistance
52:16 - Blood on the Clocktower
52:55 - The Thing: Infection at Outpost 31

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