Top 5 Game Boards

Board Game Hot Takes

In Episode 183 we each discuss our top 5 game boards as well as discussing a listener poll about what makes a great game board.

We conclude the conversation discussing a couple of game boards that have some very confounding choices in their design.

Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction

00:50 Poll: What makes a great game board?

12:19 Nunami and Raas: A Dance of Love

16:39 Barcelona

20:22 Pax Pamir 2nd Edition

21:42 Pan Am

25:05 Godspeed

27:31 Smartphone, Inc.

28:50 The Great Wall

32:00 Viscounts of the West Kingdom

36:11 Scythe

37:55 Merchants of the Dark Road

40:58 Evacuation

45:27 Tzolk'in the Mayan Calendar

48:18 Trickerion: Legends of Illusion

51:33 Empires of the Void II

54:22 Windward

56:31 Underwater Cities

57:55 Beyond the Sun

1:00:42 Listener Shoutout