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**Every Night is Game Night**

Every Night is Game Night is a weekly podcast dedicated to gamer’s games. We cover board games that have heavy strategy, awesome theme, and everything in between. We also have interviews, discussion topics both serious and fun, and a special love for gamers who play their games solo.

Latest Episodes:

ENGN 182(ish) - Ranking the Top Six Oniverse Games Mar 20, 2020

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Liz and Jason rank the Oniverse Games! No more needs to be said.

This episode originally aired as a video on the Beyond Solitaire YouTube channel on 3/14/20.

Beyond Solitaire video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01H84yGn_4w
One Stop Coop Shop Slack - bit.ly/onestopslack
BGA Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/bga

ENGN 181(ish) - Jason's Board Game Parody Songs, and Stay Safe Everyone! Mar 13, 2020

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First up, Jason wishes that everyone is safe with their families and in their communities in the face of the Covid-19 outbreak.

For a bit of entertainment, we're posting a few board game parody songs from a few years ago. Here are the original videos on YouTube:

We Didn't Start the Fire (7:31) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_8yzHMauBE&t=30s
You'll Be Back (from the Hamilton soundtrack - 12:17) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG4Pg2SKjSw
Dear Little Gamer (from the Hamilton soundtrack - 15:51) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALHRVtXhRmI
Wood and Fur (from the Moana soundtrack - 19:05) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v9GyWxz-BI&t=5s

ENGN 180(ish) - Play is the Thing with Max Davie Mar 06, 2020

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Jason had the amazing privilege of being a guest on the Play is the Thing podcast with Max Davie. This episode originally aired on July 3rd, 2019. In this episode. Max and Jason discuss trauma, treatment, board games, and some other random silliness along the way.

Max's blog - https://playisthething.home.blog/One Stop
Coop Shop Slack - bit.ly/onestopslack
BGA Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/bga

ENGN 179(ish) - Discussion and Top Three for IP Games (with Room 51) Feb 28, 2020

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This is an appearance that Jason did on the Room 51 podcast on Feb 4th, 2020. This one is about IPs in games - when they're bad and when they're good. The back half of the episode also has our Top Three IP games.

Room 51 - @MelissaMakak on twitter
One-Stop Coop Shop Slack - bit.ly/onestopslack
BGA Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/bga

ENGN Episode 178 - More Reviews, and an Announcement Feb 21, 2020

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Jason is joined by Liz Davidson from Beyond Solitaire this week. We have some game reviews for you, and also make an announcement. Listen to find out!

First up, Jason reviews the 18 card, tile laying mini-game from Leitman Games, Squire for Hire (10:40), comparing it to some very well known contemporaries like Sprawlopolis and Circle the Wagons. Does Squire for Hire stand with these other beloved games?

We then follow up with three games from Weird Giraffe Games. First up is Fire in the Library (17:41), a quick, push your luck filler game. Then we have Stellar Leap (24:18), a family friendly euro game with a space theme and 4x flavor. Finally from Weird Giraffe, we have Dreams of Tomorrow (32:11), a tactical, small box worker placement game with gorgeous art.

Rounding out the episode, we have two games from Starling Games, the cerebral head-to-head deduction game Anomaly (37:46), as well as Ascendant (44:09), the expansion to Archmage from last year.

One Stop Coop Shop Slack - bit.ly/onestopslack
BGA Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/bga

ENGN 177 - Marvel at Sorcerer Cat's Last Bastion Feb 14, 2020

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Jason is joined this week by thebrandt, his good buddy from the Portal Gaming Podcast, to chat about some solo games hitting the table recently. But before we get into all of the fun, we give a heartfelt, final shout out to a podcast that came directly before this one - Low Player Count. They recently released the final episode in their run, so we'd like to thank Travis, Donny, and Shawn for blazing the trail and for being generally awesome to listen to. Kudos.

For our first game, Brandt and Jason chat about Sorcerer City (5:51), a mashup of a tile-laying game and a deckbuilding game that manages to recreate the feel of both genres in interesting ways. Our second feature is Isle of Cats (21:50), the most recent tile/ puzzle game from good friend of the podcast, Frank West.

Next up, we get into the re-implementation of the classic game Ghost Stories called Last Bastion (34:15), seeing whether it offers enough to differentiate itself from its predecessor. Finally, Brandt updates us on some of the latest expansions for the Marvel Champions LCG line, Ms. Marvel, Captain America, The Green Goblin, and the Wrecking Crew (41:00).

In Liz We Trust - Wonderland's War - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/druidcitygames/wonderlands-war?ref=discovery&term=wonderland%27s%20warOne Stop
Coop Shop Slack - bit.ly/onestopslack
BGA Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/bga

ENGN 176 - Psych Chat: Games that Help You Help Others Feb 07, 2020

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Jason is back in the chair solo this week, and can't believe it's taken 176 episodes to get to this topic! Jason is a licensed, practicing psychotherapist in Connecticut who has used board games in his therapy for almost a decade. Along with way, Jason has accrued some go-to board games for different situations, dealing with mental health and wellness. Some of these include:

Promoting cognitive sharpness (4:53, including a review of Brain Waves: The Astute Goose, a memory game from Dr. Reiner Knizia).
Connecting with teenagers (25:25)
Managing Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (36:29)
Coping with Anxiety (42:32)
Coping with Depression (57:04)

One Stop Coop Shop Slack - bit.ly/onestopslack
BGA Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/bgaIn Liz We Trust -
Genotype: A Mendelian Genetics Game - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/geniusgames/genotype-a-mendelian-genetics-game?ref=discovery&term=genotype

ENGN 175 - Best in Class and Top Ten; Miniatures in Board Games with Sam Healey Jan 31, 2020

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For our 175th episode (nice round number!), Jason welcomes Dice Tower veteran and current outreach manager for Mythic Games, Sam Healey. He is famous in the gaming community for his love of miniatures in board games, so we could think of no on better to chat about the subject. We answer the critical question - what is the point of them? Jason gets to play some fun Devil’s advocate in this one!

We then get into Sam’s Top Ten Board Games with miniatures (38:00), which hopefully will give you some ideas about what to get if you want to explore the world of minis a bit further. Finally, we briefly mention the Best in Class for solo gamer miniature games, by popular acclaim - Kingdom Death: Monster.

This is a long one, but worthy. Hope you all agree!

ENGN 174 - Review and History Chat: Days of Ire and Nights of Fire Jan 24, 2020

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Liz from Beyond Solitaire is back to chat about two of our favorite things - games and history! We have two games for review this week. The first is Days of Ire (2:52), a classic cooperative game (or 1 vs. many game) depicting the struggle of revolutionaries during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. The game was released in 2016, yet much of the gameplay still holds up today.

The follow-up to Days of Ire, entitled Nights of Fire (12:52), delivered to Kickstarter backers this past year. Nights of Fire is much more of a traditional wargame with Euro elements. It depicts the Soviets striking back against the Hungarian revolutionaries, and the players job (in the solo and coop) is to save civilians and delay the oncoming Soviets as much as possible.

After all of that gaming goodness, Liz and Jason geek out and chat about the historical background of both games. We are NOT scholars of the time period by any means. We may have misstated a few of the elements (or more than a few). However, we are both very interested to learn, and also very happy to help interested gamers gain access to these two games in a whole new way.

One Stop Coop Shop Slack - bit.ly/onestopslack
BGA Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/bga

ENGN 173 - Best in Class and Top Ten: Deckbuilding Games Jan 17, 2020

Show notes

We roll on with our Best in Class series with one of the most popular genres out there. Thanks so much to everyone who has given positive feedback on the "Best in Class" format so far - we like it, and we'd love to keep bringing it to you!

This week, Jason and friends tackle deckbuilding games. When Jason put out the call on twitter to explore deckbuilding games, lots of folks responded who wanted to share their favorites. We take all of those clips and organize them into a Top Ten! We also reach into the wayback machine for some previous content to round out the episode, including when a game designer stopped by the show to share why his deckbuilding game is the Best in Class.

Thanks to everyone who helped out with the episode!

Board Game Crockpot - https://boardgamecrockpot.blog/author/crocko33/
Room 51 - https://anchor.fm/room51
Sarah Reed - at_eurogamergirl on Twitter
Game All Night - https://www.gameallniteshow.com/
One Stop Coop Shop - bit.ly/onestopslack

In Liz we Trust - Warp's Edge - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/renegadegamestudios/warps-edge

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