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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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The Best Boardgames of 2023! Jan 22, 2024

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Hosts Matt, Tom, Trey, and Ben unite for our list of the best boardgames of 2023!

0:00:00 Introduction
0:05:10 Contest Results
- Sol: Last Days of a Star
0:18:35 Game Brain's Top Boardgames of 2023
0:20:04 T16 Great Western Trail: New Zealand
0:25:20 T16 Inferno Guelphs and Ghibellines Vie for Tuscany, 1259-1261
0:27:30 T13 Bloodstones
0:29:00 T13 Scholars of the South Tigris
0:32:00 T13 Thunder Road: Vendetta
0:34:35 12 Apiary
0:37:10 11 Horseless Carriage
0:43:15 10 Rats of Wistar
0:46:15 9th Stationfall
0:50:08 8th Earthborne Rangers
0:54:50 7th White Castle
0:59:05 6th Kutná Hora: The City of Silver
1:03:10 5th Voidfall
1:09:28 4th Nucleum
1:16:05 3rd Age of Innovation
1:24:45 2nd Evacuation
1:33:40 1st Hegemony: Lead your class to victory

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#203 Dude, Where's My Keshi? Jan 08, 2024

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Ben and Paul catch up on the games they played over the 2023 holiday break. Afterwards they reflect on their favorite play sessions and new-to-them games. Strangely enough, they seem to gravitate towards their favorite meltdowns, which is a commentary on something, not sure what.
Games discussed include Marrakesh, Dude, K2, Age of Steam, and Manhattan Project 2: Minutes to Midnight.
Timestamps to come...

#202: Evacuation Dec 18, 2023

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Trey, Tom, and Ben review Evacuation as we evacuate 2023.

0:00:00 Introduction
0:05:22 Recent Plays
- Agricola
- Forbidden Stars
- Bloodstones
- Manhattan Project 2: Minutes to Midnight
- Daybreak
- Enter the contest to win a copy of Sol:Last Days of a Star
  - email us at contact@gamebrainpod.com
0:51:10 Game Review: Evacuation
- The games of Vladimir Suchý

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#201: Kutna Hora: The City of Silver Dec 11, 2023

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Ben, Trey, and Jordan discuss the city-building, dynamic economy game Kutná Hora: The City of Silver. Plus recent plays of Horseless Carriage, Nucleum, and more.

#200 Our 200th Episode Extravaganza! Dec 04, 2023

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Hosts Matt, Tom, Trey, and Ben unite for our 200th episode and revisit our favorite games from our time on the podcast.

0:00:00 Introduction
0:05:45 BGGCon Report
0:58:00 Other Plays
1:16:05 Our Favorite Games of the Podcast
- Ben #3 - Red Cathedral
- Matt #3 - Ark Nova
- Trey #3 - Imperial Steam
- Tom #3 - Barrage
- Ben #2 - Hegemony: Lead Tour Class to Victory
- Matt #2 - Age of Innovation
- Trey #2 - War of the Ring: The Card Game
- Tom #2 - Imperial Steam
- Ben #1 - Barrage
- Matt #1 - Barrage
- Trey #1 - The Transcontinental
- Tom #1 - Pipeline

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Solo Mode #8: Earthborne Rangers and the Co-Op LCG Renaissance Nov 27, 2023

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A new Solo Mode has arrived, just in time for Matt to take you down the rabbit hole of Earthborne Rangers and the current LCG renaissance.

#199: Chatting with Ken Kuhn of GMT Games Nov 13, 2023

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Ben catches up with Ken Kuhn of GMT Games, who talks about his company, what's coming down the pipeline, and of course 18XX (and war games too!). They also chat about recent plays of Sky Team, Evacuation, 535, Kutná Hora, The Plum Island Horror, Arborea, and 1880.
Time codes to come!

#198: The White Castle Oct 30, 2023

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Tom and Trey review The White Castle, discuss what makes a game "elegant," and they each give their top 10 Elegant Games.

0:00:00 Introduction
0:16:50 Quick Discussion of Elegance
- The Gallerist
- Thunder Road: Vendetta
0:25:45 Game Review: The White Castle
0:56:30 Our Top 10 Elegant Games

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#197 First Look at Nucleum Oct 16, 2023

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Tom and Elder talk about their early play(s) of Nucleum, and other recent games of note.

#196: Direct Aggression Oct 09, 2023

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Ben and Trey discuss direct aggression: how does it make them feel, when does it work, and how should it be managed. Plus, discussions of Coffee Traders, Voodoo Prince, and Sons of Anarchy: Men of Mayhem

0:00:00 Introduction
0:02:35 Games on the Brain
0:48:00 Design Topic: Directed Aggression
- Terraforming Mars
- Voidfall
- Trey's pillars of directed aggression
  - Risk 1959
  - Diplomacy 1959
  - Civilization 1980
  - Axis & Allies 1981
- Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization
- Survive: Escape from Atlantis!
- Cosmic Frog
- Skymines
- The Rich and the Good
- Dune
- Lords of Vegas
- Maria
- Forbidden Stars

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