Pick Up & Deliver 179: The Alpha Gamer Problem

Brendan shares his recent experience and thinking about the problem of “quarterbacking” or “alpha gaming” in cooperative board games.

• Hindsight: 2020
• Stonemaier Design Day 2019
• On Board Games, “Argument Hour”
• Limited Communication
  • Pandemic
  • Hanabi
  • Beyond Baker Street
  • Magic Maze
• The Time Crunch
  • Captain Sonar
• Dexterity or Luck Elements
  • Space Cadets
  • Escape: Curse of the Temple

Have you encountered this play experience before? How did you address it? Let us know over in the boardgamegeek guild #3269.