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Week 2 of our March Gamer Madness bracket features 32 games across four regions representing different historical eras. We have Ancient, Medieval, Early Modern, and Late Modern era games duking it out. This week’s contest winner is Evan. Congratulations to Evan! And if you want to get in on the Patreon contest fun, check out patreon.com/bga. Round 2 Games Remaining Ancient Era: 7 Wonders Concordia Trajan Inis Teotihuacan Command & Colors: Ancients Hannibal and Hamilcar The Great Zimbabwe Medieval Era: The Voyages of Marco Polo The Castles of Burgundy A Feast for Odin Troyes Shogun Raiders of the North Sea…

We’re double dipping this week – preview and regular episode content! We welcome back Liz from Beyond Solitaire and Wendy from the Singlehandedly blog to help Jason preview newest series of Graphic Novel Adventures. Season Two is currently live on Kickstarter! Along with a preview, the gang also gives opinions and analysis of the existing Season One of the Graphic Novel Adventures. If you are curious at all about the series, we have you covered. Kickstarter Link – https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vanrydergames/graphic-novel-adventures-season-2?ref=nav_search&result=project&term=graphic%20novel%20adventures Beyond Solitaire – http://www.beyondsolitaire.net/blog/kickstarter-preview-mystery-graphic-novel-adventures Singlehandedly – https://singlehandedlydotblog.wordpress.com/2019/03/11/become-the-worlds-most-famous-superhero/ Listen to Episode Bonus Interview

It’s that time of year again – BGA is back with our March Gamer Madness bracket. This time around, we’re looking at the top board games by historical era, featuring Ancient, Medieval, Early Modern, and Late Modern. This is the first of three episodes and features us going through all the first round matchups – all 64 games in the bracket. Read the full list of games included below: Ancient Era: 7 Wonders Concordia Trajan Tigris & Euphrates Glory to Rome Amun-Re Inis Zhanguo Teotihuacan Imhotep Command & Colors: Ancients Hannibal and Hamilcar The Great Zimbabwe Antike II Colosseum Roll…

We move on with our thirteen easy steps to teach a board game. Please check out the show notes for the Episode 126 to check out the first five steps to teach a board game. Most of those were about prep and proper introduction. Now we’re starting to get into it. Steps Five, Six, and Seven all have to do with laying a proper foundation for players so that everything else about the game makes sense. They are: 5) “In this game, you are a _____ trying to do ____” (covered last episode) 6) Demonstrate general game flow 7) Describe…

So many contests! If you haven’t yet, check out the BGA Patreon (patreon.com/bga). We’ve unlocked weekly game giveaways that you’re automatically entered into as a backer of the show. We’ve also launched the annual Board Game Bracket contest, now live on our website (http://www.boardgamersanonymous.com/2019-board-game-bracket-contest/). For the show this week, we kick things off with our question of the week, asking the listeners “What’s your favorite non-playing part of your board game collection (e.g. punching, sorting, painting, etc.)?” For acquisition disorders, Anthony looks at the new expansion for Teotihuacan, Late Classical Period, and Chris looks at the expansion for Feudum, Rudders…

It’s that time of year again – when we pit 64 games in a category of our choosing for your entertainment. This year, the theme is Historical Eras – and our regions are Ancient (pre-500 CE), Medieval (500-1500 CE), Early Modern (1500-1700 CE) and Late Modern 1700-1880 CE). More importantly, you have an opportunity to join in the fun and fill out your own bracket. Like last year, we’ll be giving away a game to the player whose bracket closest matches our final bracket on Episode 214. The rules? Simple – just complete the bracket below or on Facebook and…

Anthony and Jason are always showing off new games for folks and playing as much of the hottest stuff as possible. Practice makes perfect, as they say, so this episode is about sharing all the tips for good teaching that have been picked up along the way. We all know what bad teaching looks like, so let’s help folks… uh, stop doing that! Jason has organized his teaching method into thirteen easy steps that involve everything from learning the game initially, to gathering a table of people to play, all the way through the end. In this episode, after we…

Hey everyone, we’re back with another look at the BGG Hotness, this time for February 2019. First up, we name the winner of this week’s Patreon contest – congratulations Adrienne! If you haven’t yet and want to be part of our weekly giveaways, signup at https://patreon.com/bga. For our question of the week, we asked the listeners, “What game in your collection is the biggest headache to teach to new players?” In acquisition disorders this week, Anthony looks at Terramara, a new game from Quined featuring the designers of Coimbra and part of Lorenzo il Magnifico. Chris looks at Tiny Epic…

Last week, you heard about the best from 2018 in a wide variety of categories. For this episode, we get down to brass tacks and present the absolute best games of 2018. Once again, we thank all of the presenters who helped us out with this episode. Please go follow them on social media and check out their channels! Best Short Game (2:10), presented by Travis Hill of Low Player Count – @travisdhill Best Family/ Gateway Game (9:50), presented by Jason and Anthony Best Adventure Game (13:15), presented by Tristan Hall from the Board Chitless Podcast – @ninjadorg Best Advanced…

This week, we’re revisiting a past topic through 2019 with the best female characterization in gaming. We’re also excited to have launched our Patreon contests last week – congratulations to our first winner, Jon who took home Root, and this week’s winner Jeremy. For our question of the week, we asked the listeners “What’s your favorite video game that feels and plays like a board game (not a board game app)?” For our acquisition disorders, Anthony looked at Newdale, the new Oh My Goods universe game from Alexander Pfister coming out soon, and Chris looked at the Kickstarter campaign for…