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Episode 188 - Top 10 Games of the '90s
In this episode 3 copilots take on a tall task - rank the top 10 best euro-style board games of the '90s. We try out a wacky new format, it is kind of confusing, but don't worry beca...
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Episode 187 - EGO
On this historic day, the Decision Space co-pilots have finally been talked into accepting a review copy of EGO from Bitewing games. While we couldn't play as many times as we normally do for a game deep...
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Episode 186 - What We Talk About When We Talk About the Sweet Spot Mechanic
In this game we talk about the sweet spot mechanic, which is kind of but not quite a jackpot mechanic and an efficiency puzzle! We try to define ...
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Episode 185 - Five Tribes
We return to a classic deep dive, covering Bruno Cathala's Five Tribes, a 2014 hit by Days of Wonder that remains on the BGG top 100. Five Tribes features unique, mancala style worker "displaceme...
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Episode 184 - What We Think About When We Think About Playtesting with Paul Salomon
In this episode Jake and Paul reflect on Stonemaier Design Day 2024, recording just one day after the event. Using that frame, we give 5...
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Episode 183 - Oops, We Played the Hotness (Stamp Swap, Wilmot's Warehouse and other Recent Plays)
In this interlude episode, Jake and Brendan quickly discuss some games that have hit our tables lately and never previously...
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Episode 182 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Playing on Hard Mode
This week, we discuss Dr. Richard Garfield's (Magic: The Gathering, Bunny Kingdom) blog post about playing games on hard mode. Consider reading it h...
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Episode 181 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Games We Love To Lose
It's our first WWTA episode since April! In this one, we discuss the games we love to lose but then go deeper as we think about what characteristic...
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Episode 180 - Azul Summer Pavillion
We discuss Azul Summer Pavillion and make the obvious comparison to the original Azul. We also consider board game implementations and ask the question if this one succeeds. Enjoy, frie...
Episode 18 of Decision Space, originally published May 26, 2021. Join us in the Discord community for the re-listening club discussion.
"In this "What We Talk About Episode" Jake and Brendan discuss signposts in board games. We ask important questions like what are they even? And further, what do they do? To this end, Jake becomes increasingly more confused. Fortunately, we eventually come to some steady footing and draw conclusio...
Episode 22 of Decision Space, originally published June 23, 2021. Join us in the Discord community for the re-listening club discussion. "Today, friends, feast your ears on one of tastiest point-salad morsels ever served up by the master chef himself, Mr. Stefan Feld. The Castles of Burgundy is a great, great game. Quite possibly the best board game ever made by the tastes of one of our hosts. But why is it so good? What is it ab...
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Episode 179 - The Ultimate Stefan Feld Tier List with Tyler Hackmann
This week we undertake a voyage that we have never dared to attempt before -- to create an ultimate, near-comprehensive tier list of Stefan Feld Games. ...
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Episode 178 - More Design Problems and Games that Solve Them with Jamey Stegmaier
We bring back the design problems and games that solve 'em format, and we've brought in a ringer to help us with the topic. We welcome Ston...
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Episode 177 - Tikal
Tikal, designed by Decision Space favorites Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling, is back on the menu. Boosted by a great implementation on Board Game Arena, we have gotten enough plays to give this gr...
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Episode 176 - Recent Plays Arcs, Food Chain, and the $%@! List
It's a what we talk about episode on progression and the two ways it shows up in board games -- progression through games and progression in games. Decisionau...
Episode 10 of Decision Space, originally published in April 7, 2021. Join us in the Discord community for the re-listening club discussion. "Welcome to... episode eleven! (See what I did there?) Today, we talk about the famous roll and write/Roland Wright/flip and write board game Welcome To... designed by Benoit Turpin and published by Blue Cocker Games. Hop on into our interdecisional spaceship as we go deep into the variants, ...
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Episode 175 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Progression
It's a what we talk about episode on progression and the two ways it shows up in board games -- progression through games and progression in games. Decisiona...
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Episode 174 - Art Awards
Stop! Attention! Before you go any further, you must know that we have outlawed talking about decision spaces on board the Interdecisional Spaceship. This is not a drill. Today we talk about and g...
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Episode 173 - Captain Flip
Ahoy! We are not on ye old Interdecisional Spaceship this here be the Interdecisional Pirate Ship! Today we cover Captain Flip a game featuring many of our crewmates like the cook, the monkey, a...
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Episode 172 - Hidden Gem Connections
Welcome to Hidden Gem Connections, a new game show right here on the Decision Space podcast. In this episode, joined by designer Paul Salomon (Honey Buzz, Genotype), the three hosts wi...
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