Board All The Time Episode 20

Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome back to another main episode of the pod. This week, since we're on a five, we've got a guest with us as we do our Top Ten Games that We Enjoy Teaching! It's a bit of an askew topic to go with, but it was selected by our guest (Erik!) and it was a fun list to go through. This did end up taking two passes to fully record as the first version of it was lost in the flood (boo!). At this point though, that should be the last time you see/hear that as an excuse because we're well beyond everything that was effected by it now. So we hope you enjoy the list and be sure to hit us up and tell us what your favourite games to teach are! 

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This episode's segments:

00:00:00 - Intro / How We Met

00:01:56 - List Selection Criteria

00:03:28 - Scott's 10

00:05:01 - Erik's 10

00:06:14 - Mark's 10

00:10:18 - Scott's 9

00:11:58 - Erik's 9

00:13:23 - Mark's 9

00:15:26 - Scott's 8

00:18:13 - Erik's 8

00:19:56 - Mark's 8

00:22:10 - Scott's 7

00:24:27 - Erik's 7

00:26:17 - Mark's 7

00:27:58 - Scott's 6

00:29:27 - Erik's 6

00:32:46 - Mark's 6

00:34:54 - Scott's 5

00:37:09 - Erik's 5

00:39:02 - Mark's 5

00:43:47 - Scott's 4

00:49:08 - Erik's 4

00:52:04 - Mark's 4

00:53:10 - Scott's 3

00:55:09 - Erik's 3

00:57:30 - Mark's 3

00:59:51 - Scott's 2

01:01:59 - Erik's 2

01:03:36 - Mark's 2

01:05:38 - Scott's 1

01:06:47 - Erik's 1

01:09:26 - Mark's 1

01:12:18 - Contact Info / Sponsors

01:13:40 - Outro

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Notes!

1) Sorry for the all of a sudden laughing at the intro of Erik's number 10. There was a great bit that just derailed the conversation we were all laughing at right before. You'll likely hear that in the next Odds and Ends episode.

2) Ironically, I had a conversation with my brother this past weekend where he told me he's never played Yahtzee. Whoops.

3) I have to now admit that Amun-Re is my favourite Reiner Knizia game. Whoops again! That said, I do enjoy the teach of High Society more, so I stand by it's inclusion in the list. And we did end up playing it after recording!

4) If it sounds like you may have missed part of the conversation during the Hogwarts Battle segment - that's because you did. The guys got distracted by comparing it to other games in it's series and it became a fairly convoluted conversation where even I had to ask which game we were talking about. So hopefully the segment comes across more naturally than I'm thinking it did because it's really late as I'm editing and I was very confused the second time around too.

5) I left the thing about gaming meta jokes in because we're in the process of recording our Board Gaming 101 episode to help you understand all of our terminology! If you have anything you're questioning or don't know the answer to, hit us up on any of our contact methods and let us know which ones we should define! (Also my exasperation is largely because we're all in this space, it seems wild they'd never heard of a point salad before.)

6) If it feels like there's not a ton of conversation about Werewolf in Erik's number 2, that's because MOST of what was there got cut for future Odds and Ends episodes. We tangented hard by just telling crazy stories.

7) This was recorded about 6 weeks before MacWagCon so it's entertaining to me that Captain Sonar showed up for two episodes in (what became) a row. Also, I meant to say First Mate instead of Navigator.  ---

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