Pub Meeple Podcast

Welcome to Episode 45 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Gary, Shuck, Just Bryan and Proper Brian as they talk about one of Shuck's great passions - creating a collection of travel games. But, of course, we first have to define our terms. What constitutes a travel game anyway?<br />
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TIME - TOPIC:<br />
0:00 - Intro and brew talk<br />
4:02 - What we've been playing<br />
9:52 - MAIN TOPIC - Travel Games

Welcome to Episode 44 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Gary, Shuck, Just Bryan and Proper Brian as they talk about collecting games. Is collecting games as much a part of the hobby as playing them? Or is it a hobby unto itself?<br />
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TIME - TOPIC:<br />
0:00 - Intro and brew talk<br />
4:58 - What we've been playing<br />
17:56 - MAIN TOPIC - Collecting as part of the hobby

Welcome to Episode 43 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Gary, Shuck, Just Bryan and Proper Brian as they look forward to all things 2021 - playing our games with people, new games, revisiting old games, events, and much more.<br />
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TIME - TOPIC:<br />
0:00 - Intro and Our Brews<br />
2:15 - Project Triangle Strategy and Tactics Games discussion<br />
13:00 - Shuck's travel games<br />
17:56 - MAIN TOPIC - 2021 Look Forward

Welcome to Episode 42 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Gary, Shuck, Just Bryan and Proper Brian as they talk about what makes dungeon crawlers great. Or, in some cases not so great. But first we try to define what a dungeon crawler actually is.<br />
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Time-Topic<br />
0:00 - Intro and Our Brews<br />
4:14 - What we've been playing<br />
16:41 - MAIN TOPIC - What's So Great About Dungeon Crawlers?

Welcome to Episode 41 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Gary, Shuck, Just Bryan and Proper Brian as they talk about luck in games. How much is too much? When is luck a good thing? How does luck best serve a game.<br />
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TIME - TOPIC:<br />
0:00 - Intro and what we've been playing<br />
13:45 - MAIN TOPIC - How much luck is too much luck?

Welcome to Episode 40 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Gary, Shuck, Just Bryan and Proper Brian as they talk through the things they hate about the games they love. Every game has its warts and the guys do their best to forgive these games.<br />
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TIME - TOPIC:<br />
0:00 - Intro and our Brews<br />
3:10 - WandaVision!!<br />
9:20 - MAIN TOPIC - The things we don't like about games we love

Welcome to Episode 39 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Gary, Shuck, Just Bryan and Proper Brian as they go through the Board Game Ranking Engine 2020 top 10 and announce the 2020 Game of the Year. This is the game published in 2020 that was the highest ranked by the people who use the Ranking Engine. What game will sit on top of the heap of 2020? Listen and find out. We then go through some interesting ranking stats from the year to close out the episode.<br />
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TIME - TOPIC:<br />
0:00 - Intro/What we've been playing<br />
6:15 - MAIN TOPIC - BGRE Rankings Intro<br />
8:10 - BGRE Top 10 2020<br />
25:45 - BGRE Game of the Year 2020<br />
36:30 - Some fun ranking stats

Welcome to Episode 38 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Gary, Shuck, Just Bryan and Proper Brian as they go through their personal top 5 games as well as the groups combined top 5. Shifts in these lists are inevitable each year as more games are played but which will come out on top?<br />
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TIME - TOPIC:<br />
0:00 - Intro/Our Brews<br />
2:31 - Game Spotlight - Parks<br />
12:47 - MAIN TOPIC - Top 5s Intro<br />
13:10 - Pub Top 5<br />
32:34 - Our Personal Top 5s

Welcome to Episode 37 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Gary, Shuck, Just Bryan and Proper Brian as they discuss games that are worth a deep dive - games (or types of games) we would like to spend more time with to see all they have to offer.<br />
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0:00 - Intro/What we've been playing<br />
9:54 - MAIN TOPIC - Deep Dives

Welcome to Episode 36 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Gary, Shuck, Just Bryan and Proper Brian as they pick their only nine. If you could only have nine games, which would they be? And these aren't just our top 9 games. It's a harder exercise than you think.<br />
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0:00 - Intro/Brew Talk<br />
3:30 - What have we been up to?<br />
14:34 - MAIN TOPIC - Only Nine 2020

Welcome to Episode 35 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Gary, Shuck, Just Bryan and Proper Brian as they talk about games they have changed their minds about. Maybe its a game that has grown on us or one that we have slowly discovered aren't as great as we once thought.<br />
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Time - Topic<br />
0:00 - Intro/Brew Talk<br />
5:53 - What We've Been Playing<br />
18:50 - MAIN TOPIC - Long Term Shifts

Welcome to a Microbrew entry of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Gary, Proper Brian, Just Bryan, and Shuck as they talk about some upcoming games that they are excited to play.<br />
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Welcome to Episode 34 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Gary, Shuck and Proper Brian as they try to convince Just Bryan that multiplayer soliaire games aren't as bad as he thinks they are.<br />
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0:00 - Intro/Brew Talk<br />
4:30 - What We've Been Playing<br />
14:30 - MAIN TOPIC - What's so great about multiplayer solitaire games?

Welcome to a Microbrew entry of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Gary, Proper Brian, and Just Bryan, and Shuck as they try out a new game show podcast format - It's the Game Dating Game! Just Bryan is our "Bachelorette" asking questions of the other guys who have each picked a game to be. By the end of the questions, Just Bryan will have (hopefully) figured out which game each of us are.<br />
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Welcome to Episode 33 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Gary, and Proper Brian as they invite Hannah and Scott Garbacz on the podcast to talk about being a good board game concierge. Whether you are introducing a new game to players or introducing new players to games, if you like board games, you know how important a task that is. Hannah and Scott have put a lot of thought into how to do this well to ensure a fun game right now and many fun game nights in the future.<br />
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TIME - TOPIC:<br />
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0:00 - Intro/Brew Talk<br />
7:36 - What We've Been Playing<br />
11:06 - Being a Board Game Concierge<br />
14:57 - Dealing with Differing Tastes<br />
20:01 - Picking Games<br />
25:58 - Teaching Games<br />
31:28 - Good Teachers Lose<br />
36:11 - The Long Con<br />
38:30 - Curating your Collection<br />
48:21 - Listener Question: Rescuing a Game Night

Welcome to a Microbrew entry of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Gary, Proper Brian, and Just Bryan as they review the new Riot Games release Tellstones: Kings Gambit - a quick-playing bluffing game with perfect information.

Welcome to Episode 32 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Just Bryan, Shuck, Gary, and Proper Brian as they take on Part 2 of Play This, Not That. There are times to play games like Jenga or Hearts but if the opportunity arises to play something more on the hobby side of things, what do you suggest instead of the classic or mass market games? The aim of this series is to give you a list of games to suggest when the time is right.<br />
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0:00 - Intro/Brew Talk<br />
3:15 - What we’ve been playing<br />
10:17 - MAIN TOPIC - Play This, Not That<br />
12:33 - Trivial Pursuit<br />
15:07 - Scrabble<br />
19:05 - Clue<br />
21:17 - Apples to Apples<br />
24:08 - Dominos<br />
27:17 - Mastermind<br />
30:05 - SkipBo/Uno/Phase 10<br />
34:51 - Don't Break the Ice / Cooties<br />
38:45 - Candyland / Chutes and Ladders<br />
42:39 - Sorry<br />
46:20 - Yahtzee<br />
48:59 - Risk

Welcome to a Microbrew entry of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Shuck, Gary, Proper Brian, and Just Bryan as they discuss components. First we talk about our favorite components and then we get into a discussion about minis in games. <br />
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We are putting out the call for listener questions! If you have a question you'd like us to answer on the podcast please email it to pubmeeple@gmail.com.<br />
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Welcome to Episode 31 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Just Bryan, Shuck, Gary, and Proper Brian as they talk about games to play instead of some older classics or mass market games. There are times to play games like Jenga or Hearts but if the opportunity arises to play something more on the hobby side of things, what do you suggest? We take each classic game and offer hobby game suggestions that match the feel or mechanisms of the classic.<br />
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TIME - TOPIC:<br />
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0:00 - Intro/Brew Talk<br />
4:23 - What we’ve been playing<br />
15:40 - MAIN TOPIC - Play this, not that<br />
17:30 - Hearts/Spades<br />
19:43 - Jenga<br />
25:35 - Pictionary<br />
29:24 - Stratego<br />
32:50 - Operation<br />
35:26 - Battleship<br />
39:50 - Guess Who<br />
42:58 - Backgammon<br />
45:55 - Rummy<br />
48:48 - Chess/Checkers<br />
54:03 - Life<br />
56:42 - Monopoly

Welcome to a Microbrew entry of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Shuck, Gary, Proper Brian, and Just Bryan as they discuss gaming flops - from botched game nights to teaching fails. We also offer some advice on how to avoid and recover from these unfortunate events.<br />
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Welcome to Episode 30 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Just Bryan, Shuck, Gary, and Proper Brian as they ask the question: are we in a golden age of board gaming? What does that even mean? Can we even know? Take a listen and then let us know what you think at pubmeeple@gmail.com.<br />
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TIME - TOPIC:<br />
0:00 - Intro/Brew Talk<br />
5:10 - What we’ve been playing<br />
13:42 - MAIN TOPIC - The Golden Age of Board Games?

Welcome to a Microbrew entry of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Shuck, Gary, Proper Brian, and Just Bryan as they talk through the Pub's top 5 bluffing and deduction games.<br />
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Welcome to Episode 29 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Just Bryan, Shuck, Gary, and Proper Brian as they discuss instabuys and impulse buys and maybe a little regret as well. We've all had the moments of weakness, seen a great deal, or just known that a game would be right for us. Listen to our stories and share yours with us at pubmeeple@gmail.com.<br />
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TIME - TOPIC:<br />
0:00 - Intro/Brew Talk<br />
4:03 - What we’ve been playing<br />
11:20 - MAIN TOPIC - Instabuys<br />
30:35 - Impulse Buys

Welcome to Episode 28 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Just Bryan, Shuck, Gary, and Proper Brian as they discuss long-distance gaming - gaming using online platforms, apps and video chat. This is an especially relevant topic during these times of staying in our homes as much as possible. If you are looking for ways to play board games without being together in person, this is the episode for you.<br />
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We are putting out the call for listener questions! If you have a question you'd like us to answer on the podcast please email it to pubmeeple@gmail.com.<br />
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0:00 - Intro/Brew Talk<br />
5:20 - What we’ve been playing<br />
15:20 - MAIN TOPIC - Long-distance Gaming<br />
18:18 - Apps for playing and learning<br />
28:09 - Companion apps<br />
39:23 - Online Platforms<br />
50:20 - Video Chat Gaming

Welcome to a Microbrew entry of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Shuck, Gary, Proper Brian, and guest host Jeff as they talk through some intellectual properties they would like to see made into board games. <br />
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Welcome to a Microbrew entry of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Shuck, Gary, Just Bryan and Proper Brian as they go back in time to the very beginnings of Pub Meeple. We take you through our history and reminisce about all the good times.<br />
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Welcome to Episode 26 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Get to know your hosts a bit better as they discuss their personal gaming histories. They try to trace back into their early years to discover where their love of board gaming came from. This episode is a little bit memory lane, a little bit counseling session, and a lot of fun.<br />
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Time-topic:<br />
0:00 - Intro and Brew Talk<br />
4:06 - What we’ve been playing<br />
12:29 - MAIN TOPIC - Our Gaming Roots<br />
14:40 - Seeds - formative gaming experiences<br />
29:05 - Sparks - when we joined the hobby<br />
45:22 - Shifts - maturity in our gaming tastes

Welcome to a Microbrew entry of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Shuck, Gary, Just Bryan and Proper Brian for some Ranking Engine stats and then a discussion about the deluxe effect. The stats show that deluxe editions of games are ranked significantly higher than their counterparts. Why is that? We attempt to answer that question.

Welcome to Episode 25 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Just Bryan, Shuck, Gary, and Proper Brian as they crown the Board Game Ranking Engine Game of the Year for 2019. This award is based on all of the rankings done via the BGRE in 2019. Out of all the games published in 2019 the winner was ranked the highest.<br />
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We also talk through all the other top 5s – our collective and individual top 5s as well as the BGRE top 5. Lots of great games are discussed.<br />
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TIME-TOPIC<br />
0:00 – Intro and Brew Talk<br />
2:52 – The Pub and BGRE Top 5s<br />
23:10 – 2019 BGRE Game of the Year<br />
33:50 – Our Personal Top 5s

Welcome to Episode 24 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Just Bryan, Shuck, Gary, and Proper Brian as they take a look back at 2019. We discuss our favorite moments of the year - games, podcasting, family, and more. Then we take a look forward to 2020 and what we are excited for in the new year.<br />
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0:00 - Intro and Brew Talk<br />
3:05 - What we’ve been playing<br />
14:02 - A Musical Interlude<br />
14:50 - MAIN TOPIC - 2019 Year In Review<br />
45:32 - 2020 Look Forward

Welcome to Episode 23 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Just Bryan, Shuck, and Proper Brian as they discuss other ways to enjoy the hobby. While playing games is the obvious way, there are so many other ways to interact with the hobby and we discuss those.<br />
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But before that, queue up game four of Name the Game - Shuck is our clue giver this round. This our final Name the Game game since we will be debuting a new podcast game next year. Stay tuned for details!<br />
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0:00 - Intro and Brew Talk<br />
3:08 - What we've been playing<br />
12:30 - Name the Game<br />
16:55 - MAIN TOPIC - Other Ways to Enjoy the Hobby

Welcome to Episode 22 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Shuck, Gary, and Proper Brian as they discuss their Only Nine. If we could only keep nine games in our collections, which games would they be? Lots of hard decisions ahead.<br />
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But before that, queue up a game of Name the Game - where one of us gives a series of 5 clues about a game and the others try to guess what it is. Points are scored depending on when or if the game is guessed. Since Gary won last episode he is our clue giver.<br />
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TIME-TOPIC<br />
0:00 - Intro<br />
0:54 - Brew Talk<br />
1:49 - What we’ve been playing<br />
11:36 - Name the Game<br />
16:20 - Top Nine Feature<br />
19:35 - MAIN TOPIC - Only Nine<br />
20:36 - Nine<br />
23:24 - Eight<br />
28:28 - Seven<br />
34:46 - Six<br />
40:07 - Five<br />
45:44 - Four<br />
50:00 - Three<br />
55:22 - Two<br />
1:02:08 - One<br />
1:07:32 - Wrap up

Welcome to Episode 21 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Just Bryan, Shuck, Gary and our first guest host Ned as they discuss games games they would play anytime, anywhere. These are the games that, no matter what time it is or where you are, you would play at the drop of a hat.<br />
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But before that, queue up game two of Name the Game - where one of us gives a series of clues about a game and the others try to guess what it is. Just Bryan is in the clue giver position this time and puts a Dr. Seuss spin on them.<br />
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Time-topic<br />
0:00 - Intro<br />
1:58 - Brew Talk<br />
6:30 - Name the Game<br />
11:30 - What we’ve been playing<br />
28:53 - MAIN TOPIC - Anytime-Anywhere games

Welcome to Episode 20 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join us as we discuss all of the facets of "classics". What is a classic? What does it take to become a classic? Vintage and modern classics. If it has to do with classics, we cover it here.<br />
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Before that we try out a new segment - a podcast game called Name the Game. It's our first time trying it out. We will let you be the judge of how it goes. <br />
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Time-topic<br />
0:00 - Intro<br />
1:00 - Ranking Engine Update<br />
3:05 - Brew Talk<br />
6:27 - What we've been playing<br />
22:34 - Name the Game<br />
28:50 - MAIN TOPIC - What Makes a Classic?

Welcome to Episode 19 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join us as we lament games that are are no longer in print - but should be! We hit on some older classics and some newer games that didn't last long. Of course, Shuck has to close us out with one we weren't expecting. Should these games be reprinted? Email us and tell us your thoughts.<br />
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After that we try out a new segment - unpopular opinions. In this segment we each state an unpopular opinion then sit back and let the others run with it.<br />
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Time-topic<br />
0:00 - Intro<br />
0:49 - Brew Talk<br />
4:49 - Recent Plays<br />
13:56 - MAIN TOPIC - Games that Deserve a Reprint<br />
36:48 - Unpopular Opinions

Welcome to a Microbrew entry of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Gary and Proper Brian for a special versus episode as - Theme versus Mechanics. In the mechanism corner is Gary and in the theme corner is Proper Brian. Ring the bell, start the podcast and let the battle begin. <br />
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Welcome to Episode 18 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join us as we attempt to civilly discuss house rules. We start off by asking the question, "Do we like house rules?" but quickly find that this question is far too simple. We talk through games we have house ruled, games we would like to, and games we would never attempt to touch. Where we all finally land on house rules was up in the air all the way to the end. <br />
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After that we dive into another of Shuck's Board Game Mechanics segments - this time all about Tile Laying games.<br />
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0:00 - Introduction<br />
1:00 - Our Brews<br />
2:55 - Recent Plays<br />
12:49 - MAIN TOPIC - House Rules<br />
47:44 - Board Game Mechanics - Tile Laying

Welcome to Episode 17 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join us as we take a deep dive down the Kickstarter rabbit hole. We cover everything from the first games we Kickstarted, how we decide what to back, all the way to the ones we are excited about in the future (and lots more in between). We then wrap up with our overall thoughts on Kickstarter and where we think it is headed.<br />
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Time-topic<br />
0:00 - Introduction<br />
2:32 - Our Brews<br />
5:50 - Stuff we are into<br />
17:15 - MAIN TOPIC - Kickstarter<br />
18:08 - What is the first Kickstarter game(s) we backed?<br />
26:55 - How many Kickstarter games have we kept?<br />
33:50 - What is the last game we Kickstarted?<br />
35:02 - What is our best Kickstarter purchase?<br />
44:42 - What Kickstarters do we feel we missed out on?<br />
57:30 - What Kickstarter have we played the most?<br />
63:20 - Upcoming Kickstarters we are excited about<br />
71:10 - Final Kickstarter thoughts

Hello, and welcome to the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join us as we discuss "keeping up with the board gaming Joneses". It is quite easy to look around and see what others are buying, playing, and doing in the hobby and then wanting to keep up. What is a board gamer to do? This topic has something for everyone but especially for those who feel a restriction on their time, money, or space.<br />
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Time/Topic:<br />
0:00 - Introduction<br />
0:50 - Our Brews<br />
4:56 - Some recent favorite games<br />
MAIN TOPIC<br />
21:46 - Keeping up with the board gaming Jonses<br />
29:55 - When to stop buying games<br />
35:31 - The Shuck Method of buying<br />
43:00 - How to Stop or Slow game-buying<br />
45:35 - The phases and cycles of life and hobby<br />
51:50 - Finding contentment where you are

It's another Microbrew episode - this time a year end review for the Board Game Ranking Engine. We cover the top 10 from 2018 and hand out some Pub Meeple Awards.

Hello, and welcome to the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join us as we provide some tips for teaching games. Teaching is such an important part of the hobby and we are always learning how to do it better. We also dive into a few stories of teaching failures so stick around until the end.

Hello, and welcome to the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join us as we discuss the heavy topic of elitism in board gaming - how it manifests and what we can do about it. We also introduce a new segment - The Gaming Lexicon - where we define a board gaming term and discuss it. This time we tackle the term fiddly. That's right. Fiddly.

Hello, and welcome to the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join us as we talk about how we store our board games from shelves to sleeves, boxes to baggies, and everything in between. We also bring back our board game mechanism rankings segment - this time with Area Control games.

Hello, and welcome to the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join us as we talk about some game design experiences. Proper Brian and Just Bryan head back to school and the four of us talk about our experience at Criticon.

Hello, and welcome to the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join us as we discuss board game expansions - our favorites and why we buy them (or don't). We also talk about our all new Board Game Ranking Engine (data is fun, right?).

Hello, and welcome to the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join us as we reveal some of our fallen favorites, get into fights about set collection games, and discuss some of our interests outside of board games.

Welcome to the Pub Meeple Podcast! In this episode we discuss the Board Game Geek top 100 list and its relevancy. Then we introduce a new segment all about ranking very specific lists of games and reporting the results. This time we cover Worker Placement games.