Weekly Episodes, Launched Every Wednesday.
Episode 69: Ganz Schön Clever (That’s Pretty Clever) - Wolfgang’s World
A clever little game, does it hold up?
Episode 68: Reviewing FOURTEEN Games - Geekway Convention Recap
Jake attended a board game convention for the first time in three years!
Episode 67: Games Are Agency As Art - A New Way To Talk about Games With C. Thi Nguyen
We are joined by philosopher and author C. Thi Nguyen to discuss the ideas in his incredible book Games: Agency as Art
Episode 66: Downforce - We Have Concerns
Buckle your safety belts because this one gets a little bit bumpy.
Episode 65: Sushi Go! with Azul Queen’s Garden on My Mind
As card-carrying members of the PWH fan club, we're excited to sink our teeth into this super-light game
Episode 64: Audience Q&A - What Is the Best Board Game To Eat?
You asked, and in this episode, we answer.
Episode 63: Tigris & Euphrates, Pt. 2
In the second part of the first two-part episode ever, Brendan and Jake apply our decision space lens to Tigris & Euphrates.
Episode 62: Tigris & Euphrates, Pt. 1
In the first part of the first two-part episode ever, Brendan and Jake spar about the merits of Tigris and Euphrates.
Episode 61: Great Western Trail - A Straight Shootin’ Strategy Game
Howdy! Today, we cover a game that, fittingly, Brendan and I have both had our own long and winding journeys with.
Episode 60: Playing 30 Games at Once! What We’ve Learned from Digital Play (What We Talk About)
This episode is all about the way we play board games digitally and what we've learned from the experience.
Episode 59: A Feast for Odin - The Feast Is a LIE
An extravagant menu, satisfying options, and playing out over 7 courses, A Feast for Odin by Uwe Rosenberg delivers on the promise of a decadent gaming experience and then some.
Episode 58: A New Way To Talk About Objectives in Games (What We Talk About)
Wow! It's a new way to talk about type episode after long last. In this one, Brendan presents his new framework for describing scoring/objective systems in games. These come in three types, solitary, juxtaposed, and overlaid.
Episode 57: Broom Service - Knowing the COWARDLY Mind of the Opponent
Imagine if to fold in poker you had to say, "I'm a cowardly hill witch." Well, that is basically Broom Service in a nutshell, and I don't need to say more than that to tell you that Broom Service is an incredible game.
Episode 56: Our Board Game Biases (What We Talk About)
We dive into our board gaming biases and affinities
Episode 55: Cartographers - You Draw a Map!
We chart a course (heh) for the flip-n-write game Cartographers, designed by Jordy Aidan and published by Thunderworks Games!
Episode 54: Cascadia - The Cascadia Kid with Special Guest Maya Polan
Does this 2021 tile-laying puzzle game enough decisional variety to keep it hitting the table fifty plays onwards?
Episode 53: Tempo in Board Games and What It Isn’t (What We Talk About)
We talk about tempo, pacing, and initiative in games…
Episode 52: Evolution: Climate - Keep Your Politics in My Evolution Board Game?!
A Decision Space deep dive into Evolution: Climate…will we survive?
Episode 51: Palaces of Carrara - Can You Grok the Block?
Jake and Brendan are back in the interdecisional spaceship and - look out! - we're heading straight for Kramer and Kiesling's 2012 game Palaces of Carrara—a decision space some call ungrokable.
Episode 50: Episode 50! (Mission Planning 10 Games We Want to Explore in 2022 and Aspirations)
Our biggest milestone yet—episode 50! In this episode, we do a little pre-planning of our own and discuss 10 we want to cover imminently in 2022.