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Five Contributors, Five Reviews, Five Minutes Each. Bringing you a monthly dose of rapid-fire board game reviews. Every four Wednesdays our five contributors will talk about a game on their radar that week. Follow us on Facebook (https://facebook.com/FiveByGames), Twitter (https://twitter.com/FiveByGames), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/FiveByGames/), or support us on Patreon (http://Patreon.com/FiveByGames).
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Welcome to our Board Game Basics podcast. We are a Father and son combo who love playing board games and wanted to talk a little about some older games that families may be familiar with and enjoy playing together. There are also some newer games we would like to talk about.
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Hello friends and welcome to The Five By. Your quatriweekly source of rapid-fire board game reviews. 00:00 Sarah - Introduction 00:39 Meeple Lady - The Fox Experiment 06:11 Ruel - Star Wars: The Deckbuilding Game 11:07 Aaron - Romi Rami 17:09 Justin - Raising Robots 22:09 Sarah - Let's Go! To Japan 27:40 John - Outro…
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Send us a Text Message. Thanks for joining us for another episode of Board With Each Other! In this episode we take our first foray into puzzle games, with the visual puzzle that is MicroMacro: Crime City. We talk about games that are 'one and done', wax lyrical about the exceptional art design and answer our usual question of how it fares as a sha…
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Please join us on the Boardgames To Go discord server where you can chat online with other podcast listeners. In my last episode's Closer I asked for feedback. Really, all podcasters ask for feedback in every episode. I'm no different. Well, I'm only different in that I've been podcasting forever, and many of my listeners have given me feedback ove…
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On a misty morning off the Yemeni coast, the jewel of the Mughal Emperor's treasure fleet sails slowly eastwards. She is carrying a full cargo of solid gold bullion and jewels from Mecca to Surat..With its complement of 500 elite marines and crew of 250 seasoned sailors, the captain feels entirely secure. On the horizon he has noticed the puny west…
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Send us a Text Message. Welcome to our second special episode, where we look at niche, small or out of print games to sit alongside our regular content. In this episode we look back on one of our formative boardgames, the modern classic dungeon crawler that is Descent 2nd Edition. We appraise it in our usual fashion, chat about expansions, rules an…
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Hello friends and welcome to The Five By. Your quatriweekly source of rapid-fire board game reviews. 00:00 Justin - Introduction 00:49 Sarah - Dorfromantik The Board Game 06:34 Ruel - The Golden Ticket Game 11:29 John - DroPolter/Rafter Five 16:19 Jose - Fractured Sky 22:02 Justin - The White Castle (The Red Cathedral) 27:07 Aaron - Outro…
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode Al and Hannah examine the app driven dungeon crawler / co-op adventure Mansions of Madness. As big fans of the Arkham Horror universe and Call of Cthulhu TTRPG we were very excited to get to grips with this one. We look a the game itself and how it plays, the integration with the app and as always how well it…
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Opener: The final winners for Mark Madness! Castles of Burgundy and eryn roston @baditude Closer: A specific call for feedback to the podcast. Tell me what you like me to do more of, or do less. Session Report & Feedback episodes, like the old days? All About shows (more old days)? Something else? Over the years I've been to many game conventions, …
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In a factory in Homestead Pennsylvania, thousands of steel workers have downed tools and striking - their boss Andrew Carnegie is about to lower their wages and they have had enough. Then down the river the workers see three barges coming towards them - bristling with agents of the Pinkerton Detective Agency. Hired by Carnegie, they are here to bre…
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Please join us on the Boardgames To Go discord server where you can chat online with other podcast listeners. Play along and predict the winners at https://challonge.com/3abpsej6 Predictions must be submitted by March 12 to be in the contest Mark Johnson @MarkEJohnson Patrick Pence @Farsol Last year I ran my first "March Madness" style, 64-game, si…
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Hello friends and welcome to The Five By. Your quatriweekly source of rapid-fire board game reviews. 00:00 Aaron - Introduction 01:11 Justin - Challengers! Beach Cup 06:14 Meeple Lady - Boop 11:02 Geraldine - Tag City 15:59 Ben - Castle Itter: The Strangest Battle of WWII 21:16 Aaron - Trio (Episode 139) 26:08 John - Outro Special Guests: Ben O'Ste…
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Send us a Text Message. In this Episode of Board With Each Other we appraise the 2-player card based duel that is Radlands. Set in a vibrant post-apocalyptic environ, this is a classic card battler with a number of interesting twists that plays relatively quickly. But how good is it? Does the substance live up to the style? And where does it stand …
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In the misty dawn of a March morning in 1829 a duel is about to take place in Battersea. Whilst duels were still fairly common at the time, they were frowned upon by most and especially by army generals like the Duke of Wellington. Wellington had outlawed duelling during the Napoleonic wars because he kept losing good officers to duels. And yet, it…
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Hello friends and welcome to The Five By. Your quatriweekly source of rapid-fire board game reviews. 00:00 Ruel - Introduction 00:33 Jose - The Mirroring of Mary King 05:24 Sarah - Food Chain Island 10:51 Meeple Lady - Chicken 15:29 Ruel - My Shelfie 20:29 John - Scholars of the South Tigris 26:17 Justin - Outro…
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Send us a Text Message. In this bumper episode of Board With Each Other, Al & Hannah review the smash hit semi co-op survival horror Nemesis through our normal lens - namely how well does it play with 2? We discuss its ability to tell an immersive story, the difference between playing it co-operatively or semi co-op and wax lyrical about a pretty s…
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Please join us on the Boardgames To Go discord server where you can chat online with other podcast listeners. Opener: Daybreak Last year was a great year of boardgaming for me. Apparently I played more games than ever, whether you include online plays or not. In this episode I go over the ones I played the most, the ones I liked the most, and some …
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A pirate, a president and a Dutchman are the last things a humble fisherman on the shores of Iceland might expect to see sailing in on the evening tide. But on one fateful night in 1627, all three rolled in in a single pair of boots. And the tale of the man that filled those boots, is a tale worth telling… The Cloak & Dagger Podcast is back with a …
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Hello friends and welcome to The Five By. Your quatriweekly source of rapid-fire board game reviews. 00:00 Meeple Lady - Introduction 00:40 Ruel - Rebuilding Seattle 05:45 Jose - Obsession 11:20 Aaron - Alice's Garden 16:30 Justin - The Princes of Florence 22:12 Meeple Lady - Voidfall 27:19 John - Outro…
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Please join us on the Boardgames To Go discord server where you can chat online with other podcast listeners. Opener: Welcome to Season 20(!!!) of this little podcast I didn't make it to BGGcon last November, but several of my buddies did. Two of them, Greg Pettit and Dave O'Connor, join me on the podcast to talk about their experience there. For a…
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Send us a Text Message. Welcome back to our tenth full episode! This month we review Planted, the houseplant collection game by Sushi Go designer Phil Walker-Harding. We talk about Hannah's excitement at combining two of her hobbies, wax lyrical about some components and apply our usual scoring criteria. As always we round off at addressing how wel…
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Hello friends and welcome to The Five By. Your favorite source of fast and friendly board game reviews, in this episode reviewing board game cafes and bars. 00:00 Meeple Lady - Introduction 00:52 Ruel - Snakes & Lattes: Chicago 05.45 Jose - Guildhall 10:44 Sarah - Atomic Empire 16:00 Meeple Lady - Silver Key Lounge 21:30 John - Game Haus 25:51 Aaro…
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Send us a Text Message. Welcome to another episode of Board With Each Other! In this month's episode we discuss the exceptional worker placement / deck builder with a pinch of engine building that is Dune: Imperium. We appraise it using our usual criteria, talk about how it functions as a game, what it does well and whether it's worth your time as …
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Please join us on the Boardgames To Go discord server where you can chat online with other podcast listeners. Opener: Sea Salt & Paper eryn roston @baditude Darryl Boone @booned I'm a pretty positive guy, and I hope that normally comes through on my podcast. While I have distinct preferences for the kinds of games I play, I try to be willing to pla…
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Hello friends and welcome to The Five By. Your quatriweekly source of rapid-fire board game reviews. 00:00 Justin - Introduction 00:47 Jose - Power Rangers: Deck-Building Game 06:24 Geraldine - Race to the Raft 11:46 Aaron - Artifacts Inc. 17:20 Meeple Lady - Revive 22:57 Justin - Inheritors 27:43 Ruel - Outro Special Guest: Geraldine S..…
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Send us a Text Message. Welcome to episode 8 of Board With Each Other! In this episode we look at a slightly less well known proposition in the form of AEG's card crafting deck builder Mystic Vale. The gameplay is definitely a unique proposition in comparison to standard deck builder fare, but is it any good, does it play well with two and can we e…
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Please join us on the Boardgames To Go discord server where you can chat online with other podcast listeners. Openers: • Mark: Basketboss • Dave: Istanbul David Arnott @Arnott After hearing Ken Tidwell in last month’s podcast, both Dave Arnott and I were impressed with his enthusiastic, optimistic, and forward-looking perspective on the boardgame h…
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Hello friends and welcome to The Five By. Your quatriweekly source of rapid-fire board game reviews. 00:00 Aaron - Introduction 00:58 John - Legacy of Yu 06:40 Aaron - Sea Salt & Paper 11:55 Meeple Lady - Fit to Print 17:26 Ruel - Flamecraft 22:31 Jose - Rise 27:56 Justin - OutroOleh The Five By
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Send us a Text Message. Welcome to another episode of Board With Each Other! In this episode Al & Hannah take on a true classic of modern boardgaming, the tile laying, worker placement monolith that is Carcassonne. We talk about its role as a gateway game, some of its many expansions, and discuss the topic of playing without your gaming buddy on ap…
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Please join us on the Boardgames To Go discord server where you can chat online with other podcast listeners. Opener: Hammer of the Scots Ken Tidwell @Ken Tidwell If you entered the hobby as I did pre-2000, you didn't have BGG, podcasts, YouTube, or even a good way to buy games online. You often didn't have English rules in the box for what games y…
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Hello friends and welcome to The Five By. Your quatriweekly source of rapid-fire board game reviews. 00:00 Ruel - Introduction 00:35 Aaron - GAP 05:48 Sarah - Meeting Memos for the Modern Mage 11:05 Ruel - nana/Trio 15:59 John - 3 Ring Circus 22:11 Justin - Sky Team 26:57 Meeple Lady - OutroOleh The Five By
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Send us a Text Message. Alongside our usual monthly content, we will occasionally put out special episodes which either double up some smaller, lighter games, or look at things slightly outside the norm of our usual content (for example old out of print games, board gaming adjacent topics). In this first of our special bonus episodes, Hannah takes …
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After reading the histories of civilisation (or just by listening to this podcast) you may get the idea that war is humanity’s natural state. But the truth is that we fight just as hard to forge peace as we do to start a war. And while we have racked up a shockingly small number of years where no one has been at war (268, or just 8 percent of recor…
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Send us a Text Message. Do you have a lot of time on your hands? Do you think that marriage is not quite enough of a commitment between two people? Then do we have a recommendation for you! In our biggest episode to date and after an epic 3 year journey, we offer our final thoughts on Isaac Childres' game-changing, sprawling dungeon crawler / RPG G…
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Patrick Pence @Farsol Eric Brosius @Eric Brosius Joe Huber @huber Opener: Britannia Once again, I've been fortunate to gather a panel of smart gamers from my Discord server to chat on this episode. Patrick, Eric, and Joe joined me to discuss game conventions. We talk about large ones, small ones, and how I think "invitationals" and games days are s…
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Will and Patrick delve deep into the purge of the Cathar faith in Southern France. Sanctioned by the Pope and supported by the King of France, crusading knights and templars threw themselves against the walls of Cathar Carcassonne - attempting to crush the so-called heretics. But killing an idea is much harder than the destruction of a city. Tune i…
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Hello friends and welcome to The Five By. Your quatriweekly source of rapid-fire board game reviews. 00:00 Sarah - Introduction 00:39 Sarah - Carcassonne Big Box (Episode 100) 06:16 Meeple Lady - Akropolis 11:32 Jose - The Quiet Year 16:41 John - Mille Fiori 22:04 Justin - Union Stockyards 27:11 Aaron - Outro…
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How far would you go to live up to a family name? If your ancestry included not one but two founders of empires, do you really have much choice in what life you are destined for? Afghanistan has seen the rise of dozens of empires over the course of the thousands of years people have called it home. And at the dawn of the 16th century, one of these …
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War is hell. Unfortunately however, when an empire grows large enough it starts to forget that fact. Which makes it all the more horrifying when that harsh reality comes crashing down upon the poor foot soldiers of said empire. By the mid 19th century, Britain was rapidly growing into the largest empire in history, so conquering one small city in C…
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Hello friends and welcome to The Five By. Your quatriweekly source of rapid-fire board game reviews. 00:00 Justin - Introduction 00:41 Meeple Lady - Golem 06:01 Ruel - Books of Time 10:28 Jose - Eleven: Football Manager Board Game 16:11 Aaron - Mystic Vale 21:41 Justin - Sabika 26:40 John - OutroOleh The Five By
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Joe Berger @arnodestang Adam Brocker @abrocker @Gregarius Opener: Stockpile Closer: Ennui about the SdJ, which is surprising/disappointing Solo boardgaming is big, and getting bigger. At least, that’s my impression. It’s not something I know a bunch about myself. I’ve dabbled in solo boardgames for many years, and I’ve done solo wargames extensivel…
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Send us a Text Message. Welcome back to another episode of Board with Each Other - the board gaming podcast where we discuss games through the lens of playing as a pair. On this episode, we discuss the spell chucking deck builder Aeon's End. A firm staple in our collection, and one that adds some truly tasty mechanics to the standard deck builder t…
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Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Or that's at least how the saying goes. And a cursory glance at the last 12,000 years of human history would seem to confirm this rather bleak outlook. But is it always true? Can one hold absolute power and still maintain a modicum of civic virtue? Ask a Roman this question, and they might jus…
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Are Science and Religion perhaps the oldest of rivals? Reason vs faith. Scripture vs hypothesise. Maybe, or maybe it’s just the power-hungry people who live their life by one or the other who perpetuate this eternal rivalry. This week’s episode follows a man who epitomises this rivalry. A man of science whose flagrant disregard for ecclesiastical t…
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Hello friends and welcome to The Five By. Your quatriweekly source of rapid-fire board game reviews. 00:00 John - Introduction 00:35 John - Troyes Dice 06:23 Sarah - Sleeping Gods 11:32 Meeple Lady - Stonewall Uprising 17:07 Ruel - Challengers! 22:17 Jose - Wormholes 28:13 Justin - OutroOleh The Five By
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