Board Games with Scott - High Quality
BGWS 039 - Yspahan
Yspahan is a clever and short strategy game. Where there is a theme, it doesn't really match up with the gameplay, but is still fun. Players place cubes in shops in the city of Yspahan, and if they can occupy all the shops of a color in a district ...
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BGWS 038 - Lifeboats
In Lifeboats, players have escaped a sinking ship onto a series of lifeboats. These lifeboats have not been well-maintained, so have sprung leaks. Players are maneuvering for the best boats and try to avoid being tossed overboard when the boat spring...
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BGWS 037 - Rum & Pirates
In Rum & Pirates, players control a group a pirates. On your turn, you control the movement of your pirate leader, following along with members of your group. Based upon where the leader goes, you can get a few victory points easily or have to ...
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BGWS 036 - Shear Panic (with the Lamont Brothers)
This week on Board Games with Scott, host Scott Nicholson discusses Shear Panic - The Best Game Ewe Ever Heard and interviews the designers, Gordon and Fraser Lamont. In this 2-4 player light strategy game (with really nice components), players are m...
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BGWS 035 - BattleLore
This week on Board Games with Scott, host Scott Nicholson discusses BattleLore. This game is in the lineage of Battle Cry, Memoir ‘44, and Command and Colors: Ancients. It is a card-driven war game where two players fight it out for dominance of th...
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BGWS 034 - Wits & Wagers
Wits & Wagers is a party game that combines trivia, knowledge of other players, and gambling. (10:46) This week on Board Games with Scott, host Scott Nicholson ...
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BGWS 033 - Blue Moon City
Blue Moon City is a strategy racing game about making clever card combinations more effectively than opponents. (20:09) This week on Board Games with Scott, host Scott Nicholson explores Blue Moon City. This game is set in the the world of Blue Mo...
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BGWS 032 - Carcassonne: The Discovery
Carcassonne is a tile-laying game, highly recommended for families and new players to Eurogames. (14:04) This week on Board Games with Scott, host Scott Nicholson explores Carcassonne: The Discovery. Carcassonne is a series of games; the original ...
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BGWS 031 - Du Balai
Du Balai is a fantasy-themed puzzle game where players all play at the same time trying to find one of two solutions. (15:29) Note - I'm posting this a week early, as I'm heading to Essen soon. The next episode of BGWS will be posted Nov...
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BGWS 030 - Ad Acta with designer Andrea Meyer
Ad Acta is a game about being a civil servant involving card and queue management and a good dose of humor. (25:20) This week on Board Games with Scott, designer ...
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BGWS 029 - Easter Island
This week on Board Games with Scott, Scott Nicholson explores Easter Island. In this two-player abstract(ish) strategy game, players move pieces that can reflect beams of light. Players can also shoot beams of light from off the board, reflecting the...
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BGWS 028 - Timbuktu / Tombouctou
In this episode of Board Games with Scott, Scott Nicholson presents the light deduction Eurogame, Timbuktu. Players have to attempt to keep their camels safe from dastardly deeds as they carry goods through the dangerous desert. In this deduction gam...
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BGWS 027 - Tahuantinsuyu
Tahuantinsuyu is a medium-weight strategy game where players build roads, cities, and temples in a historical setting based on the Inca empire. (27:22) This week on Board Games with Scott, game designer and publisher Alan Ernstein joins me to talk...
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BGWS 026 - GiftTRAP
GiftTRAP is party game focused on selecting the best gift for your other players. (16:06) This week on Board Games with Scott, I'm taking a look at GiftTRAP. This is a new party game by a new publisher. It's lavishly produced, as yo...
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BGWS 025 - Aqua Romana
Aqua Romana is a light strategy tile-laying game about digging aquaducts, cutting off your opponents and avoiding being cut off yourself. (11:01) This week on Board Games with Scott, I'm taking a look at Aqua Romana. This game is in the ...
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BGWS 024 - Die Macher
Die Macher is a 5 hour heavy strategy game about German Politics. It is, however, one of the classic euro-style games. (56:35) This week on Board Games with Scott, I'm looking at the granddaddy eurogame, Die Macher. Die Macher is a heav...
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BGWS 023 - Masons
This week on Board Games with Scott, I'm looking at the strategy game, Masons (a.k.a. Mauer Bauer). Masons is a fairly abstract strategy game with a good balance of luck and skill. In Masons, you have a hand full of scoring opportunity cards....
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BGWS 022 - Apples to Apples and Attribute
Apples to Apples and Attribute are both party games based on the mechanic of matching a descriptive word from your hand of word cards to a main concept. (12:45) This week on Board Games with Scott, I’m looking at two lighter party games - Apples...
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BGWS 021 - Cleopatra and the Society of Architects
Cleoptra and the Society of Architects is a light strategy game about collecting sets of cards and placing buildings strategically for the most points. (24:14) On this week’s episode, Scott Nicholson talks about the Days of Wonder game, Cleopat...
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BGWS 020 - Power Grid
Power Grid is a medium-weight strategy game with auctions, markets, and connetions of cities. (26:41) On this week’s episode, Scott Nicholson is joined by designer Friedemann Friese to talk about Power Grid. Power Grid is a top-rated medium-weight...
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BGWS 019 - Thurn and Taxis
This week on Board Games with Scott, I'm taking a look at Thurn and Taxis, which is the newest game by Andreas and Karen Seyfarth. This is a light strategy game that is about delivering the mail! It's a game about collecting cards that represent citi...
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BGWS 018 - Poker Chips
Announcement: Board Games with Scott is going Biweekly. When I started it, I had hopes that I would be able to significantly reduce the time to edit an episode. While I’ve gotten better, I’ve chosen to make a higher-quality production rather than cut...
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BGWS 017 - Um Krone und Kragen
This is a dice game that is similar to Yahtzee with more strategy and special abilities. This week on Board Games with Scott, I’m going to talk about Um Krone und Kragen, which is a 2006 dice game where your goal is to impress royalty by rolling d...
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BGWS 016 - The Fury of Dracula
The Fury of Dracula is a deduction/roleplaying game where one player is Dracula attempting to hide and ambush the other players, who form a team. This week, Board Games with Scott is an exploration of The Fury of Dracula, a 2006 remake of...
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BGWS 015 - The Big Idea
The Big Idea is a party/light strategy game about pitching and investing in ideas. This week, I'm going to talk about The Big Idea. This is a game by Cheapass Games that starts like a party game with everyone coming up with a Big Idea, then moves ...
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BGWS 014 - Ticket to Ride Europe, Switzerland and Marklin
TTR Europe, Switzerland and Marklin are all different games based on the TTR base game. Welcome to Board Games with Scott! This is a weekly show where I take a different board game each week, review it, and lightly review it. This week, I'm lookin...
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BGWS 013 - Pizza Box Football
Board Games with Scott is a weekly show where Scott Nicholson takes a board game, explains it, and briefly reviews it. This week, Scott takes a look at Pizza Box Football, a 2-player dice-rolling football simulation where each player takes on the rol...
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BGWS 012 - Antike
Antike is a German empire-building/logistics game that plays in under two hours. (24 min.) Greetings! Welcome to Board Games with Scott, a weekly show where I take a board game, explains it, and briefly reviews it. This week, I'm going to look at ...
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BGWS 011 - Ticket to Ride
Ticket to Ride is a light strategy game great for those new to modern board games. It's about collecting sets of train cards to travel from city to city with the goal of fulfilling hidden routes. This week in Board Games with Scott, I'm looking at...
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BGWS 009 - Santiago
Santiago is a medium-weight stratgy eurogame about irrigating crops through bidding and temporary alliances. ...
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BGWS 010 - Indonesia
Indonesia is a heavy strategy game focused on logistics (balancing production and delivery) and making mergers. ...
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BGWS 008 - Why did the Chicken...?
Why Did the Chicken... is a light party game about making up the punchlines to jokes. When is Coffee like a Bear? When it's a-brewin'! (a bruin? get it? har har.) Why Did the Chicken... is a party game based upon jokes. This week, I take a loo...
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BGWS 007 - Lost Cities
Lost Cities - A light two-player card-based game of exploration. Lost Cities is one of the most popular small-box two player games by Kosmos (imported by Rio Grande). These games have the flavor of a more complex Eurogame, but are easier to play a...
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BGWS 006 - Mah Jong
Mah Jong is a traditional tile-based game similar to Rummy, good for all ages. This week, Scott takes a look at Mah Jong, which is not the pair-matching game that many have played on the computer. Instead, it's a game similar to rummy....
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BGWS 005 - Heroscape
Heroscape - A light miniatures battle game that is good for kids and adults. This week, Scott takes a look at Heroscape, which is a commercial available miniature battle game. Two teams of players battle it out with figures from many different tim...
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BGWS 004 - Adel Verpflichtet / Hoity Toity
Adel Verplichtet is a classic eurogame about choosing actions secretly based upon what you think the others will pick. This week is Adel Verpflichtet, which is currently available as Hoity Toity. It's a game focused on selecting actions secretly b...
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BGWS 003 - Friedrich
Friedrich - a heavy euro/wargame hybrid where one strong player takes on the others using a card-driven combat system. This week is Friedrich, which is a heavy Eurogame/light wargame with 4 players fighting for territory. It's a card-driven battle...
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BGWS 002 - Hoopla
Hoopla - a cooporative party game made by the Cranium people. The neat thing about this game is that everyone is on one team working together against a timer. ...
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BGWS - Overview
Class is in session! In response to a request, I've created a half-hour tutorial talking about the current landscape of boardgames. In this vlog, I first discuss the four major weights of boardgames and then address game mechanics through brief di...
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BGWS 001 - Vegas Showdown
Vegas Showdown - a light euro/family auction-based game about building properties in Vegas. This is the first episode of Board Games with Scott and focuses on Vegas Showdown, which is a light strategy game. In this game, each player runs a hotel/cas...
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