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**Game Brain: A Board Game Podcast About Our Gaming Group**

A podcast about Board Games and friendship, and a real life board game group! Join us every week for an in-depth look at the board gaming hobby, including board game news, reviews and much, much more.

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Round 12, Turn 2: "Faiyum" with Ben May 24, 2021

Show notes

00:00:00 Introduction - Potluck with Ben
00:05:30 Puzzle Solution
- Key to the puzzle.
- Link to final puzzle:
00:09:43 Game Night
- Kraftwagen on Yucata
- 18xx.games
- 1822
- 1882
- Oath
00:20:50 Game News
- Paperback Adventures on Kickstarter
- Railways of Sweden and Australia on Kickstarter
- Vampire Rivals
- Goonies: Never Say Die
- Elder Scrolls
- Kennerspiel des Jahres 2021 Nominations
- Also recommended:
  - Aeon's End
  - Riftforce
  - Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion
  - Barrage
00:40:00 Games on the Brain
- Barrage 5 player expansion
- Ginkopolis
- Squaring Circleville
00:49:28 Game Review - Faiyum
01:41:42 Co-Host Segment - Board Position
- Games mentioned
  - Agricola
  - Brass
  - Wildcatters
  - Barrage
  - Terraforming Mars
  - Dinosaur Island
  - Roads & Boats
  - Food Chain Magnate
  - Praga Caput Regni
  - On the Underground
  - Diplomacy
  - The Transcontinental
  - Keyflower
  - The Cost
  - Fast Sloths
  - Power Grid
  - Fresh Fish
  - Great Zimbabwe

Round 12, Turn 1: "1840: Vienna Tramways" with Jennifer May 17, 2021

Show notes

0:00:00 - Introduction: Welcome Jennifer, the Game Pioneer
0:03:36 - This Week's Game Night
- Hadrian's Wall
- Imperial Bells and Steam (4:41)
- 1822 (5:03)
- Tribune (6:19)
- Terraforming Mars, 1840, Faeyim (8:22)
0:08:46 - This Week's News
- Hoplomachus Victorum
  - Chip Theory
- Frosthaven, Isaac Childress's Update #80: Cultural Consultancy (12:45)
  - Gloomhaven
  - Race for the Galaxy
  - Alma Mater
- Delicious Games, Messina 1347 (22:47)
- Mosaic (24:22)
  - Advanced Civilization
- Pipeline: Emerging Markets (30:31)
  - Hanse Teutonica (32:08)
- Jesse's Puzzle (33:18)
0:34:06 - Games on the Brain
- Coffee Traders (34:38)
  - 1829 (35:30)
- Imperium: Classics and Imperium: Legends (39:02)
- Merchant's Coat (39:36)
- Faeyim (40:18)
  - Power Grid
  - Fresh Fish
  - Folkenschlag
  - Fiersome Floors
  - 504
0:49:10 - Review of 1840: Vienna Tramways
- Russian Railroads
- 18xx
1:19:00 - Hosting Game Events
- Game Nights versus Game Days
- 1830
- 1822
- Ticket to Ride
- Carcassonne
- Magic the Gathering
1:49:25 - Game Sommelier
- Hive
- Lost Cities
- Watergate
- Seven Wonders Duel
- Azul
- Race for the Galaxy
- Dominion
- The Crew
- Pax Pamir
- Res Arcana
- Ra
- Modern Art
1:54:05 - Sign Off

Round 11, Turn 9: "Dwellings of Eldervale" with Matthew May 10, 2021

Show notes

0:00:00 - Introduction: Welcome Matt, the Game Enthusiast
- 0:01:03 - This Week's Game Night (Prologue)
  - Barrage, Dwellings of Eldervale
  - Late Night Avalon
0:05:35 - This Week's Game Night
- Summoner Wars 2.0 Online Beta Version and Physical Copies
  - Fantasy Flight
  - Keyforge, Netrunner, Arkstone, Magic The Gathering Online
  - Barrage on Steam
- Pitchcar (15:49)
- Avalon
- Tribune (17:28)
0:18:05 - This Week's Game News
- Void Fall
  - Eclipse
- Concordia: Solitaria (22:28)
  - Corsica, Creda, Brittania, Salt Italia Maps
- Splotter Food Chain Magnate, Zimbabwe Reprints Delayed (23:41)
  - Horseless Carriage
  - Antiquity
- My Father's Work (25:54)
  - Viva Java!
  - My Life with Master (28:25)
  - Seventh Continent
- Station Fall (30:47)
  - Transhumanity
  - Pax Renaissance, Pax Viking
0:37:43 - Games on the Brain
- Rubick's Cube
  - Speed Cubing
  - Super Cubes, Smart Cubes, Connected Cubes, 4x4, 5x5, Pyramids
- 1840 (43:17)
  - Age of Steam, 18xx
  - 1889 (46:25)
- Marvel United X Men (46:40)
0:51:54 - Review of Dwellings of Eldervale
- Manhattan Project
- Energy Empire
- Terra Mystica
- Concordia
- Warlord
- Empire of the Masquerade
- Warhammer
- Gaia Project
- Caverna
- Cryo
1:36:57 - Culling Your Board Game Collection
- War of the Rings, 2nd Ed
- Watergate
- Welcome to the Dungeon
- Wingspan
- Wizard’s Quest
- Babylonia
- Barrage
- Battlestar Galactica
- Belfort
- Beyond the Sun
- Bios Genesis, megafauna, origins
- Black Angel
- Blackout Hong Kong
- bohnanza
- Bonfire
- Brass Birmingham and Lancashire
- Broom Service
- Brussels 1893
- Bus
- The estates
- Pax pamir
- Terraforming Mars
- Gallerist
- Kingdom death monster
- Dune
- Tzolkien
- Le Havre
- Kanban
- Too Many Bones
- Gloomhaven
- Through the ages
- Pax porfiriana
- Castles of Burgundy
- Nemo’s war
2:00:00 - Sign Off

Round 11, Turn 8: "Detective: L.A. Crimes" with Jesse May 03, 2021

Show notes

Words that might have something in common...
00:00:35 Introduction - Planning some puzzles with Jesse
00:03:15 Game Night
- PitchCar
- Avalon
- Ginkgopolis
- Dwellings of Eldervale
- Skull
- Wavelength
- Nations on MaBiweb
00:08:08 Game News
- Hasbro News
- Tyrants of the Underdark
- GenCon Safety Update
  - Strategicon goes virtual
- Alien: Fate of the Nostromo
00:18:09 Games on the Brain
- Twilight Struggle
- Valheim
- Bartle Types
- Quantic Foundry survey
00:41:54 Game Review - Detective: L.A. Crimes
- Lethal Weapon - 1987!!!
01:05:07 Member Segment: The Commandments of Puzzle Design
- Pipeline
- Curious Cargo
- Feast For Odin
- Patchwork
- Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game
- Chronicles of Crime
- Time Stories
- 7th Continent
- Jonathan Blow
- 48 Laws of Power
- The Cypher Files
- Cicada 3301
- Pigpen Cipher
- Tenyoism
01:33:28 What--?! A Hidden Puzzle??
- What is the connection?
01:35:53 Game Sommelier
- submit questions to contact@gamebrainpod.com
- Agricola
- Barrage
- Lorenzo il Magnifico
01:38:51 Wrap-up
- Game Brain Youtube channel
- Facebook Group
- Discord invite link

Round 11, Turn 7: "Dungeon Petz" with Jake Apr 26, 2021

Show notes

0:00:00 - Introduction: Welcome Jake, the Casual Gamer
- Dungeon Lords
0:07:39 - This Week's Game Night
- Words with Friends, Scrabble
- Terraforming Mars, Tichu, Crokinole
0:10:20 - This Week's Game News
- Splotter, Capstone Games
  - Arkwright
  - Gaia Project
  - Pipeline
  - Curious Cargo
- Imperial Steam (13:25)
- Christian T Peterson, Fantasy Flight Games (14:10)
  - Battlestar Galactica
  - Android Net Runner
  - Game Center in Roseville Minnesota (15:20)
- 18 Cash and 18 Shares Kickstarter (17:18)
  - 1830, 1870, 1867, 18 Chesapeake
- Monster Hunter World the Board Game Kickstarter (22:50)
- The 15th Annual Golden Geek Awards Nomination (24:22)
  - Our nomination for podcast of the year
  - Heavy Cardboard
0:28:30 - Games on the Brain
- Tribune
- 1822
0:32:06 - Review of Dungeon Pets
- Dungeon Lords
- Code Names
- Through the Ages
- Galaxy Trucker
0:58:20 - Building a Game Library and Game Group
- Skulls
- Wavelength
- Just One
- Pictionary
- Telestrations
- Just One
- Secret Hitler
- Sheriff
- The Crew
- King of Tokyo
- Lost Cities
- Love Letter
- Ricochet Robots
- Tichu
- Code names
- The Lord of the Rings: Confrontation
- Fugitive
- Seven Wonders Duel
- Everdell
- Samurai
- Solenia
- Barrage
- Seven Wonders
- Stone Age
- Pandemic: Legacy
- Modern Art
1:30:45 - game sommelier
- Mysterium
- Sleuth
- Cryptid
- Deception: Hong Kong
- Tragedy Looper
1:36:07 - sign off

Round 11, Turn 6: "Through the Ages" with Alfred Apr 19, 2021

Show notes

00:00:00 Introduction Getting competitive with the "Rules Lawyer."
00:05:28 Game Night
- Santorini
- Terra Mystica
- Game Brain group on BoardGameArena.
- Russian Railroads
- Terraforming Mars
00:09:02 Game News
- 7 Wonders Mystery
- 2021 American Tabletop Award Winners
- The Siege of Runedar
  - Babylonia
  - My City
- The Shores of Tripoli
- Love & Monsters on Netflix
00:15:53 Games on the Brain
- Valheim
00:32:17 Review: Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization
01:12:50 Member Segment: Competition and Tournament Play
01:35:46 Game Sommelier

Round 11, Turn 5: "Castles of Mad King Ludwig" with Elder Apr 12, 2021

Show notes

0:00:00 - Introduction: Welcome Professor Elder
0:03:25 - This Week’s Game Night
- Dance Central (05:02)
- City of Eternity (06:55)
- Just Dance (07:43)
- Terraforming Mars, Splendor (08:23)
- Pipeline (09:06)
0:11:27 - Game News of the Week
- Factory Funner, Bear Raid, Ghosts of Christmas Kickstarter
  - Ghosts of Christmas (12:15)
    - Time Palatrix
  - Factory Funner (13:45)
    - Galaxy Trucker
  - Bear Raid (17:20)
    - Curious Cargo
- A Siege of Runedar (20:01)
  - The Hobbit
  - Amun-Re
  - Tigris & Euphrates, Modern Art, Through the Desert, Samurai, Taj Mahal, Yellow & Yangtze
- Spirit Island: Branch and Claw (25:21)
- Hippocrates (25:45)
  - Dice Hospital
  - Clinic: Covid Expansion
  - Container
0:29:25 - Games on the Brain
- Dance Central
- Pax Vikings (32:37)
0:36:00 - Castles of King Ludwig
- Suburbia
- Palaces of Mad King Ludwig: Between 2 Castles of Mad King Ludwig; Castles of Mad King Ludwig: Secret Passages; Swans; Moats.
- Castles of Mad King Ludwig: The Collector’s Edition: Swans; Towers; Royal Decrees.
0:55:22 - Becoming a Successful Board Game Designer
- Mystic Vale, Space Base, Ecos
- Edge of Darkness, Cubitos
- Trickerion
1:28:05 - Game Sommelier
- Catan: Knights and Cities
  - Pandemic, Chinatown, Genoa, Bohnanza, Above and Below, Firefly
  - Ponzi Scheme, Container, Red Cathedral, Venice
  - Goa, Hawaii, Stone Age, Boomtown
1:36:30 - Sign Off

Round 11, Turn 4: "Indonesia" with Dmitry Apr 05, 2021

Show notes

0:00:00 - Introduction: Welcome Dmitry, The Philosophical Gamer
0:07:05 - Last Week's "Table Image" Reassessment
0:13:29 - Game News
- Matt Leighcock's Daybreak (13:41)
  - New York Times article
- John Company 2nd Edition (0:15:37)
  - Kickstarter link
  - Root (17:42)
  - Candace Harris's John Company Preview
  - Cole Wehrle Design Diary
0:18:43 - Games on the Brain
- Praga Caput Regni (19:35)
- Maglev Metro
- Reacting to the Past
00:33:31 Game Review - Indonesia
01:12:54 Member Segment - Consolidation and why we STOP playing games
- Theory of Fun
- Hidden Spring
01:54:36 Game Sommelier

Round 11, Turn 3: "Maria" with Paul Mar 29, 2021

Show notes

0:00:00 - Introduction: Welcome Paul, the Game Breaker
0:07:00 - This Week's Game Night
- 1800 Chesapeake (07:35)
  - Terra Mystica
- Terraforming Mars, Crokinole, Wavelength (10:00)
  - Winter Kingdom
  - Troyes (10:27)
0:13:35 - This Week's News
- Fractal: Beyond the Void (13:55)
  - Eclipse,
  - Twilight Imperium 4 (14:55)
    - Twilight Imperium 3
- Stellaris (19:20)
  - Valheim
- Keyforge Adventures (37:40)
  - Rise of the Keyracken
  - Abyssal Conspiracy
  - Marvel Champions
0:39:50 - Games in the Brain
- Terra Mystica, Gaia Project,
- 18xx, Age of Steam
0:51:30 - Maria Review
- Friedrich (55:46)
- Sleuth (1:07:10)
- Game of Thrones (1:07:25)
- Vier Sind das Volk
- Twilight Strugglr
- Pax Pamir, Pax Renaissance, Pax Porphyriana
- Dominion
1:17:32 - Table Image
- Wildlife (1:27:07)
- Die Macher (1:30:54)
  - Frustration of Purpose as an issue in contract law (look it up)
- Eclipse
- Avalon (1:38:25)
1:59:05 - Sign Off
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Round 11, Turn 2: "Praga Caput Regni" with Ben Mar 22, 2021

Show notes

00:00:00 Introduction - Experiencing all the emotions with Ben
- Watch What Crappens
- Slap Chop
00:13:40 Game Night
00:29:38 Game News
00:49:15 Games on the Brain
00:58:49 Game Review - Praga Caput Regni
01:50:52 Member Segment - Being in your emotions while gaming
02:18:24 Game Sommelier

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