Episode 105: Elegance (What We Talk About)

We promised an inelegant conversation and oh boy do we ever deliver on that. In this what we talk about episode, we begin with a definition of elegance and then struggle to apply that definition to board games. Brendan thinks it is about being ingenious. Jake thinks it is about style. However, both of our intrepid hosts can agree on some overall trends that tend to make a game more likely to be elegant than not. As we think through and discuss this topic, we also discuss a whole bunch of games. Hope you are up for a bumpy one because the Interdecisional Spaceship is now sailing, elegantly, through space.

Timestamps
Intro - 0:00
Pandemic - 10:41
San Francisco - 14:47
Root - 25:31
Lost Ruins of Arnak - 26:06
Living Forest - 27:06
Castles of Burgundy - 29:09
Castles of Tuscany - 30:52
Cosmic Frog - 34:38
Azul - 36:51
The Fox in the Forest - 39:46
Lost Cities - 43:05
Patchwork - 46:12
Tigris & Euphrates - 48:49
Dominion - 52:35
Jenga - 53:41
El Grande - 55:47
Tiletum - 57:02
Cascadia- 58:28
Carpe Diem - 1:00:23
Bonfire - 1:01:23
In the Year of the Dragon - 1:02:23