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Welcome to Pick Up and Deliver: the podcast where

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I pick up my audio recorder as I step out for a walk and deliver an episode to you while

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I stroll around.

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I'm Brendan Riley.

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Welcome! Morning, listeners.

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It's a lovely day here in suburban Chicago.

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I'm out for a stroll and hoping it doesn't rain.

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I have an umbrella with me just in case.

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It's in the high fifties but it feels like the low fifties.

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I hope I'm not going to get too chilly on the walk today.

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As I came out I saw we have some neighborhood ducks who have built a nest nearby and they

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come by and have some of the food that falls out of our bird feeder when the other birds

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are feeding.

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So it's kind of fun to have these local ducks come hang out.

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The lady duck quacked at me when I came out the door and I said 'sorry' and went on my way.

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She was giving me the stink eye as I walked away though 

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so I should be more careful about that.

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Well I was looking back and I realized that it's been almost 25 episodes since I did one of

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these and I'm enjoying the progress on them.

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So today I'm going to do another look back to the best games.

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For those of you who are relatively new to the podcast, I, each year I do a best games

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of the last year episode although I'm always a year behind.

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So if you go back to January or February I did a best games of 2022 episode.

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I won't do a best games of 2023 episode until the beginning of 2025 because I like to give

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myself an extra year to try the different games.

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I don't know how the reviewers do it.

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I guess people who like are actively reviewing and getting review copies and whatnot they have

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the ability to do a best games of right away when the year is over but I don't.

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So I like to give it a year to percolate and I've been doing that since 2019 I think but

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I realized that every year before 2019 also has games I've played and I haven't ever

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talked about them in that perspective.

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So what I've been doing is going back and looking up games by the year they were published

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in boardgamegeek and writing down all of the games that I've played from that year and

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then doing a bit of a best games award show of those games.

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So today I'm going to do best games of 2013.

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To start with I always pick out the games that have been in my top 50 previously and exclude

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those from our conversation.

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Obviously if they're in my top 50 there if they were ever in my top 50 their games I think

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are pretty good and if they're currently in my top 50 they would go at the top of the

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list so it doesn't seem it just seems a silly to include those.

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I don't have any games from 2013 in my current top 50 but I do have two games that have been

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in my top 50 before both of these were in 2017 and 2019 in my top 50.

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A study in Emerald was number two in 2017 and number 30 in 2019 and Euphoria build a better dystopia

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 was number 26 in 2017 and number 24 in 2019.

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So I'd exclude both those games from this list although they were published in 2013 and

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are both great games.

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So I'll start with my top five.

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These are my favorite games from 2013 that haven't been in my top 50 before and I'll

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count backwards.

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Number five is Tosh Kalar.

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This is an abstract game from Vlaada Chvatil which has a really interesting card play and

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it requires a lot of spatial thinking that I find very satisfying.

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It's a really fun game to play in person but I also enjoyed playing it online.

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I played it on board game arena from time to time.

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I am not very good at it but I really enjoy it.

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There is something very satisfying about it.

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That said it is incredibly head to head and most of the time you make progress by undoing

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the progress someone else your opponent has made.

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So it's not gentle at all but really good.

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That's Tash-Kalar, the arena of legends.

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The downside and I did get rid of it eventually just because I don't play it that often at

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home and they can't have everything.

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The big downside to it is it is incredibly abstract.

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There's cool art on the cards but the game itself is just these pieces with little swords

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on them and little antlers and stuff.

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So it's not, it's very abstracted and I'm generally not going to play that many kinds

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of games like that although this is a fun one.

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Number four is Kings of Air and Steam.

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This might be a familiarity breeds love kind of situation.

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This is the game I played a lot when it was on my top 50.

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I like the art style.

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It's got a kind of quirky art style.

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It's from Designer Scott Almes.

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It is a pickup and deliver game where you're flying around in blimps and you're trying

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to maximize your efficiency.

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Now it does have a downside in that it is pretty samey but that means that you can try to

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get like really good at anticipating what your opponent is going to do.

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There is some really interesting efficiency choices about do you upgrade your blimp or

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do you upgrade your delivery system?

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And it's just a pretty enjoyable pickup and deliver game.

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One of my favorites from that genre and that's why it's on my list.

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Kings of the Air and Steam.

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It also plays 8 pretty well which is unusual for a game like that.

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It does take a little longer at 8 than it does at 4 but not dramatically longer because

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the game all involves planning and so you plan what you're doing all at the same time

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and then when you execute your plans you do them bit by bit.

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That's great.

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Next up is Sushi Go.

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My number 3, this is from Phil Walker Harding and I think Gamewright is the publisher.

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Sushi Go is a must have introductory game.

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It is a demonstration of the drafting mechanism, the pick and pass game.

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It actually calls itself the pick and pass game.

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Players get a hand of cards, they pick a card they want to keep, they pass the rest to

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the next player and so on.

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You play three rounds.

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It's very accessible, really easy to play, also really fun.

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I understand the gold standard for that game now is Sushi Go party which I don't have but

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I've been playing online a little bit and I can see why.

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It has more variety so you get a little bit more out of it.

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If there's one thing regular Sushi Go suffers from, it's pretty samey.

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Since it's got the same cards in it every time you fall into these habits which get disrupted

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if you're playing Sushi Go party where there's a bunch of different kinds of Sushi and

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you don't use the same ones in every game.

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So if you haven't played Sushi Go, I recommend it, especially if you can get a hold of the

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party edition.

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My number two game from 2013 is Castle Dice.

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This is published by the now defunct or retired or closed up publisher Fun to Eleven Games.

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It has a huge pile of dice that come in the box and it is a dice allocation game where

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you are building up your castle and doing your best to game points by building things.

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As a game by itself in its initial version is pretty good but then they released a expansion

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for it that gives each player a little bit of their personalization and I think that makes

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the game significantly better.

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So if you get a chance to try Castle Dice with the siblings expansion, it's really good.

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The game comes with a big pile of dice.

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One of the things I like about it is that it is pretty unique is each game you are going

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to pick which dice you put in.

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There is a certain automatic set and then you get to choose some.

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And what's fun is you rolled the dice and everyone takes turns drawing from the large pool

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that everyone has made.

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So somebody might choose to put in a couple of gold dice and then let's say all but one

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of the dice come up not gold to come up with other things.

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So there is only one dice that has gold.

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Then someone else might take that gold dice even though you are the one who put it in.

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That is kind of amusing.

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But it makes for a really interesting play.

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So that is Castle Dice really worth checking out if you can find it anywhere.

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I also really liked it.

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This game was in production or in kickstarting when Hurricane Sandy hit New York and the

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designers published some really nice things about that and 

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donated some money to Hurricane Sandy.

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Finally my top game from 2013 that isn't a study in Emerald or euphoria is Concordia.

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Concordia is a game I played a lot of times online and only a few times in person actually only

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once in person I think.

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It's a very compelling game in which you are managing a network of trading resources and

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you're trying to maximize your points.

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You buy these cards and the cards let you do things but the cards also become scoring

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multipliers.

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It's a really effective system and is really fun.

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I'm sad I used to play it on Boiteajeux and that website has shut down and as far as I know

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that's the only place you could play it so I haven't played Concordia in a while and I

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miss it.

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It's a really good game and I would love to play it some more.

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I'm not sure if it's a game I'd play on the tabletop all that much just because it's

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hard to get a hold of or hard to get to the table but it's really great.

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So those are my top five games from 2013.

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I'm going to buzz through a few honorable mentions.

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Other games that I like from 2013 for various reasons are honorable mentions and then some

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superlatives.

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So the honorable mentions are other games that almost made my top five.

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These are in no particular order in Glass Road, the Uwe Rosenberg game.

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This one probably deserves to be in the top five but I've only played it once.

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I liked it but I didn't play it enough to really grasp it.

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So honorable mentions it goes.

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Russian Railroads is really interesting but really fun online.

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I'm not sure I'd want to play it in person.

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There's a lot of math to do on that one.

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So that is like the epitome of the tracks on tracks game.

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It is just tracks.

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Forbidden Desert, for my money one of the best co-ops ever made.

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I really love the way that the desert sands flow around in that game and if you get a chance

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to play it you definitely should.

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It's great.

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Gravwell is an excellent little sort of predict your opponent game where you're trying to

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decide when to play specific cards in order to maximize your points and you're trying

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to read your opponents because it's all about, did your card trigger before theirs and if

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so you go flying forward.

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If not maybe you go flying backward.

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It's a really interesting push pull mechanism in it that's well worth a chance.

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They did a second edition that's pretty snazzy.

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It has some nice ships.

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That's from Renegade Games I believe.

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If you can get a hold of Gravwell or try it out you definitely should.

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Then finally SOS Titanic.

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I got this as a, I got the German language copy of the original game.

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It was out of print for a very long time.

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Sadly it came back in print but it was from the gaming goat publisher, TGG publishers and

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the owner of that company is pretty toxic and I think that the game itself got overshadowed

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by the recent publication.

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The Art on it looked really nice.

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I did not buy a copy though because I already had a copy.

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In SOS Titanic it's basically a sort of gamified version of Klondike solitaire and your goal

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is to get as many passengers off the ship as you can but you have to respect their social

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standing, the rich people don't want to go in the ship with the poors so that's weird

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but makes for a really interesting version of Klondike solitaire.

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I played in multiplayer it's fun but it's much better just as a solo game.

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That's SOS Titanic the last of my honorable mentions.

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Again those are not in any particular order.

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Next I have a couple superlatives.

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These are games that are from 2013.

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They did not make my best list or honorable mentions but I think they deserve a nod.

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The first of these is Ladies and Gentlemen as best satire.

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Ladies and Gentlemen is a really weird goofy game about acting out Victorian roles.

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The players are divided up into married pairs and one player plays the gentleman who is

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going to go to the stock market and try to make money in the stock market and it's this ridiculous

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luck game.

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The other player is going to play the lady and they are going to go to shops and try to

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buy the best dress or best outfit for the ball that they can.

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There is an interesting element where the husbands and the wives aren't allowed to communicate

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about money.

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All it is is the wife presents the husband with the things she's picked out to buy and

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the husband decides whether or not to buy them or can put them on hold or just say no

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we can't afford that.

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It's a weird game.

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It's very funny the art is cute and we had a good time when we played it but it really

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can only bear a couple plays with the same group.

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It's a game that's amusing for its discovery not for its longevity.

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So if you had chance to play ladies and gentlemen it's worth it just to see the kind of the

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way that a game might make satire.

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Next up we have Best Push Your Luck Game of 2013.

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This is Welcome to the Dungeon.

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Welcome to Dungeon is nice little bluffing game where all the players are sitting around

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there.

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The characters boasting, fantasy characters boasting about how well you do fighting

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away through a dungeon and so they take turns boasting all I could get further than you

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until everybody has said no I can't do it and then the person who still said they could

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has to successfully navigate the dungeon and get a point or if they fail to successfully

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navigate the dungeon they lose a point and either you win if you've gained two points

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or lose two points or you know gain two points or gain two damage.

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You win or lose and the game goes until somebody wins.

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So that's Welcome to the Dungeon I think Antoine Bauza is our designer there.

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Next up this operative is a game I would likely enjoy more than I actually do.

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This is a game where I really like the theme of the game but the I don't know if it was

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the play of it or if it's just what it was when I finally got to play it I thought it

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was just fine.

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It's probably a matter that it was innovative in 2013 but at this point it is no longer

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innovative it the things that are in it have been done in other games and so when I played

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it it felt like just another euro.

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I mean it's got a great theme which is that you're building your dress maker making dresses

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for an elaborate ball and you get points for where those dresses end up in the courtyard

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and so on.

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I will say I played the revised version released by Eagle Gryphon Games a few years ago with

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the Ian O'Toole art.

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It was beautiful.

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I'm really enjoyed my play of it but I feel like I should have enjoyed it more than

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I did which is why I got that award.

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Next up is a cool weird game.

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This is the Agents.

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The Agents is an independent card game that has a really neat push pull mechanism in which

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you can you're manipulating your opponents on either side of you and trying to get points.

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The art is really nice and it was one of the first kicksters I participated in that was

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like fully independent and it turned out really great.

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I like the game a lot.

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I haven't played it in a while but it's due for a revision or a return.

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That's the Agents.

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Next up is the best storytelling game.

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This is the quiet year.

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This is an indie storytelling game in which players have a map and a deck of cards and

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each player is going to flip over a card and something will happen and you draw on the

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map and basically it's about a post-apocalyptic civilization where you have 52 weeks, hence

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52 cards and at the end of that time something happens, the bad guys come or whatever.

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You end of the quiet year.

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That's a really interesting game that tells a really interesting story and I encourage you

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to play it if you get a chance.

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It's a lot of fun.

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It's a very much a storytelling game kind of an indie thing rather than a board game

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with a winner and a loser.

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Finally the best party game with 2013, clearly two rooms and a boom.

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This is a game that I enjoy playing but I almost more enjoy running.

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I really enjoy watching people play two rooms in a boom trying to figure out who's winning

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and how they're going to win and I run it quite regularly in my classes in different

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when I have an excuse to do so and it's a lot of fun.

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Two rooms and a boom is a great game as you can get a hold of it.

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Unfortunately it's been out of print for a while, I don't understand why they don't reprint

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it, I'm sure it would sell very well but nobody asked me.

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I have two games that popped up in the 2013 that are definitely on my to play list.

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I actually have more than that, I have several games that are in my collection that are

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on my to be played list but the main two that I felt bad that I hadn't played are Bora Bora

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and Freedom the Underground Railroad.

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These are both important games.

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Freedom is more important than Bora bora.

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It's just an interesting stuff and a failed game but they're both games I would like to

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have played and I think my survey of 2013 games would be better if I had done so.

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So finally I just wanted to read to you quickly the list of other 2013 games that I have played

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that did not make any other awards just so you get a sense of the context I'm in.

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I would love it if you head over to boardgamegeek guild 3269 and let me know other 2013

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games that you think I should have played or you think I should play or you think would

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I'd love to hear from you.

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Okay so here are the other 2013 games that I've played but did not make it on to those other

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Impulse that's Carl Chudyk, Caverna, that's Uwe Rosenberg, Eldritch Horror I believe

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that is Corey Kenetska but I'm not sure on that one.

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Bruges that's Stefan Feld, Spyrium I don't know who designed that. Concept.

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Terror in Meeple City is Antoine Bausa, Eight Minute Empire Legends is Ryan Lawket,

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Blueprints, Boss Monster, FunEmployed, City of Remnants, Carnival Zombie, 

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Bioshock Infinite The Siege of Columbia, Council of Verona, Bomb Squad, Dread Curse, Pocket Imperium,

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Quarantine, Superfight, Pelican Bay and Risk: Plants versus Zombies.

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So I'm keen to hear what other 2013 games you think I should play.

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I already said that but I'm saying it again.

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Over to Board Game Geek Guild 3269, let me know.

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You can send me a message on Board Game Geek.

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My username there is wombat929

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I'd love to hear from you.

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Until next time, thanks for joining me.

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I hope you're next walk is as pleasant as mine was

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Bye bye.

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Where's your other duck?

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Where's your other duck?

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Are you guys taking turns watching the nest now?

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