Ad Acta is a game about being a civil servant involving card and queue management and a good dose of humor. (25:20) This week on Board Games with Scott, designer Andrea Meyer joins Scott Nicholson to talk about her game, Ad Acta. This game takes a tongue-in-cheek approach to civil servitude as players attempt to [...]
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BGWS 029 – Easter Island
New! There is a PayPal donate button over to the right on the main site, if you’d like to help support the show directly. I’m trying to upgrade some of my equipment. Easter Island is a a two-player strategy game about bouncing light beams around the board in an attempt to destroy your opponent’s pieces. [...]
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BGWS 028 – Timbuktu / Tombouctou
New! Order the BGWS DVD, with episodes 1-9 and a special episode on Aquadukt. Timbuktu is a lighter-weight deduction game where players lead herds of camels through the dangerous desert, avoiding traps and delivering goods. (17:15) This week on Board Games with Scott, Scott Nicholson explores Timbuktu. This is a deduction game from Germany where [...]
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HourCNY appearance and details
On Friday, August 25th, I appeared on the HourCNY talk show in Syracuse on a 14-minute live segment about boardgaming with your kids. You can watch the video through the Internet Archive. Right-Click and Save: HourCNY Visit 003, Low quality (21 MB) HourCNY Visit 003, High quality (99 MB) If you are visiting BGWS from [...]
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BGWS 027 – Tahuantinsuyu with Alan Ernstein
Tahuantinsuyu is a medium-weight strategy game where players build roads, cities, and temples in a historical setting based on the Inca empire. (27:22) This week on Board Games with Scott, game designer and publisher Alan Ernstein joins me to talk about his game, Tahuantinsuyu. This game is set in the Inca empire and many of [...]
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BGWS 026 – GiftTRAP
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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