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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 5, Turn 6: "Blood on the Clocktower" with Jesse Jan 20, 2020

Show notes

0:00:00 - Introduction: Welcome the Analytical Gamer, Jesse.
0:01:33 - This Week’s Game Night
- Food Chain Magnate Ketchup Expansion
- On the Underground (0:02:03)
  - Tokyo Metro
- Food Chain Magnate Modules (0:04:32)
  - New Milestones, Coffee, Rural Area, Apartment Buildings, Night Manager, Lobbyist, Noodles
  - Marketer versus Recruiting Girl with Night Manager Strategies (0:07:07)
    - Luxuries Manager (0:09:30)
- Caylus 1303 (0:11:20)
- Blood on the Clocktower (0:13:54)
  - Werewolf
0:16:04 - This Week’s News
- No Pun Included Games of the Year
  - Sidereal Confluence, 2017
  - Now Boarding, 2018
- Burgle Bros
- Sabotage
- 2019 No Pun Included Game of the Year Pipeline (0:17:50)
  - Barrage, Crystal Palace, Marvel Champions
- Asmodee Acquisition of Repos Productions (0:20:19)
  - Times up, Just One, Seven Wonders
- Mariposas (0:22:03)
  - Wingspan
- Return to Dark Tower (0:23:52)
- Foundations of Rome Kickstarter (0:27:39)
  - Century Road, Specter Ops
- Oath (0:29:53)
- Cosmic Encounter Duel (0:33:03)
- Today Show’s Ten Board Games for Adults (0:36:06)
  - Do You Know Me, Flying Sushi Kitchen, Twister Scrabble, Monopoly Speed, Candyland Mashup
- Most played Board Games on BGG (0:39:27)
  - Catan, Agricola
  - Top 5: carcasson, Code Names, Magic the Gathering, Race for the Galaxy, Dominion
0:41:27 - Games on the Brain
- Teen Fight Tactics Auto Chess
  - Twilight Struggle
- 1862, Food Chain Magnate (0:46:55)
0:49:48 - Weight Loss Challenge
0:59:00 - Blood on the Clocktower Review
1:47:55 - Immersiveness in Game Mechanisms Matching Theme
- Twilight Struggle, Star Wars Rebellion, War of the Ring
- El Grande (1:51:10)
- Diplomacy (1:53:43)
- Sidereal Confluence, Genoa
- XComm (1:55:30)
- Dead of Winter, Battlestar Galactica, Dune
- Godfather Corleone (1:58:30)
- High Society (2:01:39)
- Detective (2:02:10)
- Space Alert (02:04:33)
- Captain Sonar, Arms (02:05:24)
- Santiago (02:05:54)
- Dune, Marco Polo
- Gloomhaven
- Terraforming Mars
- Die Macher
2:13:28 - Sign Off

Round 5, Turn 5: "Everdell" with Jake and Dmitry Jan 13, 2020

Show notes

0:00:00 - Introduction: Casual Gamer Jake and Non-Gamer Dmitry
0:01:57 - This Week's Game Night
- 1862 (0:02:35)
- Pipeline, Everdell, Concordia, Tichu
- Throw, Throw Burrito (0:04:19)
- Food Chain Magnate Ketchup Expansion (0:07:42)
- Ricochet Robohs, Jaws (0:14:57)
0:15:38 - News of the Week
- Shout Out to Efka from No Pun Included: Sidereal Confluence, Now Boarding
- Fantasy Flight Interactive RPG Layoffs (0:18:17)
- Afternova (0:21:06)
  - Genoa, Chinatown
- Traintopia (0:22:19)
- Ride the Rails (0:22:31)
  - Irish Gauge, Age of Steam
  - Dune
- Pacific Rails, Inc. (0:27:30)
  - Ticket to Ride
- The Shining (0:29:50)
- Marvel United Miniature Game (0:31:18)
  - Marvel Champions
0:32:48 - Games on the Brain
- Johnny Trigger iPhone App (0:33:05)
- Age of Steam Moon Map (0:33:35)
- City of the Big Shoulders (0:35:20
- 1862 (0:37:18)
- Food Chain Magnate (0:38:24)
0:39:58 - 8X8 Challenge
0:40:18 - Review of Everdell
- Crystal Palace
- Terraforming Mars
1:12:36 - Favorite Game Themes and Laser Sharks
- Resistance, Avalon (1:13:25)
- Terraforming Mars (1:14:48)
- Gaia Project, Terra Mystica (1:16:34)
- Traveler, Dungeons and Dragons (1:18:30)
- Agricola (1:20:45)
- Trickerion (1:23:15)
- Bus (1:23:45)
- Avalon, Tichu (1:24:33)
- Time’s Up, Wavelength (1:25:30)
- Barrage (1:26:00)
- Dune, Rex, War is the Ring (1:27:08)
- Marvel Heroes (1:28:35)
- Kremlin (1:29:17)
- Eclipse (1:29:42)
- Greed, Inc. (1:30:09)
- Gallerist, Sheriff of Nottingham, Estates (1:31:16)
- Junta, Die Macher (1:31:38)
- High Frontier, Space Alert (1:32:52)
- Container (1:35:55)
- Kanban (1:36:22)
1:37:00 - Game Sommelier
- Pico 2 (1:40:17)
- Welcome To (1:41:20)
- Time's Up (1:42:15)
- Clans of Caledonia, Acquire, Mombasa (1:45:10)
1:46:37 - Sign-Off

Solo Mode #2: "Pax Transhumanity" Jan 06, 2020

Show notes

Welcome to another single-serving episode of Game Brain solo mode!
Your host, Matthew Robinson, takes a look at the latest in the Pax series of games, Pax Transhumanity.

Round 5, Turn 4: "On Mars" with Matthew and Alfred plus THE TOP 10 GAMES OF 2019! Dec 30, 2019

Show notes

Matthew and Alfred return to the podcast in glorious fashion to rejoin Tom for a review of On Mars, the latest from Vital Lacerda, plus Tom and Matthew's TOP 10 GAMES OF 2019!
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MATT’S TOP 10:
1. Pax Pamir 2e
2. Barrage
3. City of the Big Shoulders
4. Pipeline
5. Res Arcana
6. Taverns of Tiefenthal
7. Paladins of the West Kingdom
8. Maracaibo
9. Tapestry
10. Marvel Champions: The Card Game
TOM’S TOP 10:
1. Barrage
2. Crystal Palace
3. On Mars
4. Pipeline
5. Watergate
6. Sabotage
7. Wingspan
8. Marvel Champions: The Card Game
9. City of the Big Shoulders
10. Jaws

Round 5, Turn 3: "Taverns of Tiefenthal" with Paul Dec 23, 2019

Show notes

0:00:00 - Introduction: Welcome Game Breaker Paul Seetachitt
0:02:09 - This Week’s Game Night
- Pax Transhumanity (0:03:02)
- Wavelength (0:07:47)
- Architects of the West Kingdom (0:09:03)
- Trickerion (0:09:47)
- Bus at Three Players versus Four (0:12:21)
0:15:05 - This Week's News
- Game Brain on Reddit (0:15:23)
- Joel Eddy, Drive-Thru FM #27 (0:16:58)
- Gale Force 9 Dune Expansion: Ixians and Tleilax (0:18:54)
  - The Duel, The Spice War - Original Dune Expansions (0:21:15)
- Teotihuacan: Shadow of Xitle Expansion (0:26:20)
  - Teotihuacan: PreClassical Period Expansion
  - Tribune Expansion
- Sleeping Gods (0:30:30)
  - Far and Away (?)
  - Near and Far (?)
  - Above and Below
- Ankh: Gods of Egypt (0:33:54)
  - Blood Rage
  - Rising Sun
- Architects of the West Kingdom: Age of Artisans (0:37:12)
  - Raiders of the North Sea, Paladins
- Who's Your Game: Artificial Intelligence (0:39:28)
  - Madeira
  - New Angeles
  - Net Runner
- Imperial Struggle (0:41:25)
  - Twilight Struggle
  - GMT Games: Here I Stand, Paths of Glory, Fire in the Lake, Cuba Libre, Churchill, Barbarossa to Berlin, 1846, 1862
0:46:28 - Games on the Brain
- Trickerion with far-flung friends (0:46:56)
- Through the Ages (0:48:28)
- 1862 (0:57:55)
- 9% Body Weight Challenge (1:06:50)
1:20:36 - 8x8 Challenge - Bus
1:20:48 - Taverns of Tiefenthal
- Dominion
- Wingspan
1:38:41 - Paul's Favorite Things - Gaming with Family
- Seven Wonders
- Skull and Roses
- Dora the Explorer: Memory
- Rummy Cube
- Mah Johng
- Tichu
- Agricola
- Wits and Wagers
- Pandemic Legacy
- Trivial Pursuit
1:58:17 - Board Game Sommelier
- Bootleggers, Concordia (1:58:57)
- Sheriff of Nottingham (1:59:40)
- El Grande (2:01:20)
- Santiago (2:01:47)
- The Estates (2:02:37)
- Fillers/ Lunch Games (2:03:33)
  - Now Boarding
  - Through the Desert
  - Fresh Fish
  - Ricochet Robots
  - Samurai
  - Dachmus
  - Cockroach Poker
  - Rick and Morty: Total Rickall
  - The Mind
  - Codenames
  - Race for the Galaxy
  - Glory to Rome
  - The Bloody Inn
  - QE
  - Cryptid
  - Sleuth
  - Tichu
  - High Society
  - For Sale
  - Innovation
  - Arboretum
  - Love Letters
- 2:06:40 - Sign Off

Solo Mode #1: "Marvel Champions: The Card Game" Dec 20, 2019

Show notes

Welcome to the very first bite size, single-serving episode of Game Brain solo mode!
Your host, Matthew Robinson, takes a look at Fantasy Flight Games latest LCG, Marvel Champions: The Card Game.

Round 5, Turn 2: "Maracaibo" with Jennifer Dec 16, 2019

Show notes

0:00:00 - Introduction: Welcome Jennifer Schlickbernd, The Game Pioneer.
- Die Macher, Advanced Civilization, 1822xx, Ora et Labora, Great Western Trail, Dominant Species, Indonesia, Food Chain Magnate, Crystal Palace.
0:05:33 - This Week's Game Night
- Maracaibo, Crystal Palace
- Wavelength (0:07:17)
0:12:57 - News of the Week
- Yellowing Yangtze App (0:13:09)
  - Tigris and Euphrates
- Terraforming Mars App Fix (0:15:16)
  - Cesar, Alpha Centauri
- The Crew: Quest for Planet 9 (0:16:32)
- Wingspan: European Expansion (0:19:47)
- Car Wars Kickstarter (0:21:20)
  - Auto Duel
  - Gas Lands (0:23:32)
  - Dungeon Crawl Classics
- Mothership (0:27:16)
  - Traveler
  - Drive-Through RPG
  - Kickstarter Expansion
  - Gloomhaven
- Survivor Controversy (0:33:27)
0:39:27 - Games on the Brain
- Underwater Cities Expansion (0:40:15)
- Barrage (0:40:32)
- Bus (0:42:00)
- Foodchain Magnate (0:43:17)
  - Ketchup Expansion
0:44:42 - 8x8 Challenge
0:44:55 - Review of Maracaibo
- Mumbasa, Great Western Trail, Expedition to Newdale
- Anno 1800
- Shia
- Newton
- Pipeline
1:14:30 - Pioneering Gaming
- Diplomacy
- Agricola
- Catan, Splendor, Western Empires, Advanced Civilization
- 1846, 1862
1:25:16 - Holiday Gift Giving Guide
- The Mind (1:26:10)
- Sushi Go, Las Vegas (1:27:01)
- Just One (1:27:36)
- Wavelength (1:27:56)
- Wingspan (1:28:13)
- Ticket to Ride (1:29:05)
- Codenames (1:29:38)
- Mastermind (1:29:57)
- Carcasonne (1:30:21)
- Ricochet Robots, Xendo (1:30:50)
- Tichu (1:31:22)
- Bus, Baron Park, Santorini, Samurai, Santiago (1:31:52)
- Pit, Concordia (1:32:38)
- 1862, Pipeline (1:33:33)
1:34:26 - Sign Off

Round 5, Turn 1: "Bus" with Dmitry Dec 09, 2019

Show notes

0:00:00 - Introduction to Round 5
0:03:45 - Introduction: Co-Host Dmitry Portnoy
0:04:32 - Matt's Upcoming Solo Game Reviews and Game Brain Discord Channel
0:05:06 - This Week's Game Night
- Terraforming Mars: Turmoil Expansion (0:05:38)
  - Colonies, Venus Next, Prelude, Helasport Terraforming Mars Expansions
- Now Boarding (0:09:37)
0:14:06 - This Week's News
- Alternative Essen Top 5: Die Crew, Crystal Palace, Marco Polo 2, Azul: Summer Pavilion, Barrage.
- Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon (0:16:35)
  - Gloomhaven, War of the Ring
  - Battlestar Galactica, Game of Thrones, Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective, Robinson Crusoe, Tales of Arabian Nights, Detective
- Frosthaven (0:22:09)
  - Gloomhaven
- Venice (0:23:09)
  - Anachrony, Trickerion, Ragusa
- Infamous Traffic (0:24:52)
- Top Gun (0:26:11)
  - Jaws
- Tapestry Adjustments (0:29:58)
- Barkham Horror (0:32:18)
0:34:15 - Games on the Brain
- Avalon (0:34:33)
- Poker (0:39:30)
- Crystal Palace (0:42:11)
  - Paladins, Orleans
0:48:00 - 8x8 Challenge
0:48:30 - Review of Bus
- Food Chain Magnate, Roads and Boats, Duck Dealer, Greed, Inc., Indonesia, Great Zimbabwe
1:23:30 - Dmitry's Favorite Thing: Penelope's Suitors
1:48:34 - Board Game Sommelier
- Air, Land, and Sea; Maracaibo
- Francis Drake (1:49:58)
- Merchants and Marauders (1:51:22)
- Shia: Legends of the Drift System; Firefly
- Eclipse (1:54:04)
  - Eclipse, 2nd Edition
1:56:56 - Sign Off

Round 4, Extra Turn: BGGcon and "Crystal Palace" with Trey Dec 02, 2019

Show notes

00:00:00 - Introduction

Table Top Network

00:14:36 - Interview with Alan Moon

The Gathering of Friends
Ticket to Ride, Union Pacific, Airlines Europe, Where's Bob's Hat?
Pandemic Legacy, Descent: Journeys into the Dark

00:32:22 - Cooper Island

00:39:01 - Sabotage

Captain Sonar, Burgle Brothers

00:46:07 - Interview with Tim Fowers

Paperback, Now Boarding
Fowers.games

00:59:54 - Expedition to Newdale

Oh My Goods!

01:07:33 - Magnificent

01:17:04 - Marco Polo 2: In Service of the Khan

01:28:03 - Taverns of Tiefenthal

01:37:00 - On Mars

01:44:26 - Jaws

01:56:32 - Sierra West

02:01:40 - The Crew: The Quest for Planet 9

02:05:57 - Review of Crystal Palace

Round 4, Turn 7: "Trismegistus" with Jake Nov 18, 2019

Show notes

00:00:00 - Introduction: Co-Hosts Jake Shapiro and Trey Alsup

New email: Contact@GameBrainPod.com

00:09:10 - Game Night

Trismegistus
Barrage
Avalon

00:14:40 - Game News
00:46:15 - Games on the Brain
00:51:00 - Game Review: Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/281442/trismegistus-ultimate-formula

01:20:35 - Jake's Segment - Gaming with kids
01:48:16 - Game Sommelier -

Newton
Castles of Burgundy
Grand Austria Hotel
Fields of Arle
Patchwork
All Creatures Big & Small
Twilight Struggle
Roads & Boats
Antiquity
BGG Game Design Forums: https://boardgamegeek.com/forum/974616/boardgamegeek/board-game-design
Age of Steam
First Snow of Winter

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