GiftTRAP is party game focused on selecting the best gift for your other players. (16:06) This week on Board Games with Scott, I’m taking a look at GiftTRAP. This is a new party game by a new publisher. It’s lavishly produced, as you will see, and is focused on the acts of getting and giving [...]
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BGWS 025 – Aqua Romana
Aqua Romana is a light strategy tile-laying game about digging aquaducts, cutting off your opponents and avoiding being cut off yourself. (11:01) This week on Board Games with Scott, I’m taking a look at Aqua Romana. This game is in the tile-laying family, so has a similar feel to Caracassonne, Tsuro, or Streetcar/Linie 1. The [...]
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BGWS 024 – Die Macher
Die Macher is a 5 hour heavy strategy game about German Politics. It is, however, one of the classic euro-style games. (56:35) This week on Board Games with Scott, I’m looking at the granddaddy eurogame, Die Macher. Die Macher is a heavy procedural strategy game that takes about 5 hours to play. It is complex [...]
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BGWS 023 – Masons
Masons is a strategy game about building walls, creating cities, and developing high-scoring patterns on the board that match scoring cards. (14:44) This week on Board Games with Scott, I’m looking at the strategy game, Masons (a.k.a. Mauer Bauer). Masons is a fairly abstract strategy game with a good balance of luck and skill. In [...]
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BGWS 022 – Apples to Apples and Attribute
Apples to Apples and Attribute are both party games based on the mechanic of matching a descriptive word from your hand of word cards to a main concept. (12:45) This week on Board Games with Scott, I’m looking at two lighter party games – Apples to Apples and Attribute. Apples to Apples is a very [...]
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BGWS 021 – Cleopatra and the Society of Architects
Cleoptra and the Society of Architects is a light strategy game about collecting sets of cards and placing buildings strategically for the most points. (24:14) On this week’s episode, Scott Nicholson talks about the Days of Wonder game, Cleopatra and the Society of Architects. This game has some of the best components in a board [...]
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BGWS 020 – Power Grid with Friedemann Friese
Power Grid is a medium-weight strategy game with auctions, markets, and connetions of cities. (26:41) Itunes user? If you just got audio, delete the file and then get it again, and it should be video. On this week’s episode, Scott Nicholson is joined by designer Friedemann Friese to talk about Power Grid. Power Grid is [...]
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BGWS 019 – Thurn and Taxis
Thurn and Taxis is a light strategy game about delivering mail to cities in Germany (17:01) This week on Board Games with Scott, I’m taking a look at Thurn and Taxis, which is the newest game by Andreas and Karen Seyfarth. This is a light strategy game that is about delivering the mail! It’s a [...]
Reminder and Request
This is just a reminder that BGWS is moving to a biweekly schedule, so there won’t be an episode this week. Now, I have a request. I was listening to the Have Games will Travel blog, and Paul Tevis has a suggestion for his readers that I would like to present here. One of the [...]
BGWS 018 – Poker Chips
I’ve explored Poker Chips as a replacement for money in games, and this week’s episode explores the cheap to the expensive of poker chips. (26:41) Announcement: Board Games with Scott is going Biweekly. When I started it, I had hopes that I would be able to significantly reduce the time to edit an episode. While [...]