Author: Anthony
Anthony
Anthony cofounded Board Gamers Anonymous in 2013 and has been on (almost) every episode. Today, he lives in Philadelphia with his family and teaches first year writing at Thomas Jefferson University.
Chris is back from Pax Unplugged 2019 and had a chance to see or try a whole bunch of games. Join us as he runs through these and the con as a whole to learn what you should keep your eyes out for. First up, make sure you complete our Game of the Year poll on www.boardgamersanonymous.com/ and help us narrow down the nominations for this year's awards. For the question of the week this episode, we asked everyone: If you could change how you collected when you first got into board games, what would you change?" Anthony shares his…
Welcome to part two of our mini-series of episodes. Following up on the Top 200 Solo Games People’s Choice list that is now live on BGG, we are taking a closer look at different genres represented within that list, and also enjoyed by gamers everywhere. Anthony and Jason shift over to talk about one of their personal favorites – strategic card games. First, we get into some of the reason why folks love the genre so much. After that, Anthony gets into his Top Ten Strategic Card Games. If you are a regular listener, you know what landed at number…
It’s time for the BGA Awards! On this page you’ll find 7(!) polls featuring our nominations for the games of the year for 2019. Please vote and help us narrow down to finalists. Submit additional nominations if you think anything important is missing. [socialpoll id=”2588886″] [socialpoll id=”2588887″] [socialpoll id=”2588888″] [socialpoll id=”2588889″] [socialpoll id=”2588890″] [socialpoll id=”2588892″] [socialpoll id=”2588893″]
Still looking for holiday gifts for the gamers in your life? Below is a writeup of the holiday gift guide we presented in episode 248. Links to Amazon are affiliate links, so any purchases made will net us a small percentage, which helps us run the site and podcast. Happy Holidays! Family Games Just One Review: Episode 224 2019 Spiel des Jahre winner Just One reimagines the “guess that word” genre as a fully cooperative experience. Players provide a single word clue to the guesser each round and attempt to get as many of the 13 available clues as they…
Welcome to a new mini-series of episodes that we are starting here on ENGN. Following up on the Top 200 Solo Games People’s Choice list that is now live on BGG, we are taking a closer look at different genres represented within that list, and also enjoyed by gamers everywhere. To kick things off, Anthony and Jason chat about the worker placement genre of games. First, we get into some of the reason why folks love the genre so much. After that, Anthony gets into his Top Ten Worker Placement games that really bring the strategic thunder, followed up by…
Another year, another 50 episodes, and another top 100 list! That’s right folks, and for the first time ever, Anthony and Chris both present their entire top 100 lists on the podcast, with notes on what rose, what fell, and what is new to the list. Enjoy the rundown of the best games of all time (in our opinion) and see how many you’ve played. If you haven’t yet, be sure to connect with us on Facebook (www.facebook.com/boardgamersanonymous), Twitter (http://twitter.com/bgapodcast), and on our website (www.www.boardgamersanonymous.com). You can support the show as well by donating on Patreon (www.patreon.com/bga) or using our Amazon…
BLACK FRIDAY SALE! Listen to one episode, get one Patron episode for FREE!! Enjoy this special episode we recorded for the Patreon feed – first time released at large. This was done by request from our backers in the Patreon Slack group. Check out our rundown of games from overseas (but not Europe) worth checking out. Some are available in NA/EU, some are not – but all are a bit off the beaten path.
Congratulations to Joshua for winning our Listeners’ Top 20 contest this year. He’ll be getting a game of his choice from the list! No new reviews this week, but we do look at dozens of responses to the question, “What’s your #1 game of all time”, and then we dig into the Listener Top 20, our annual look at the best of the best according to you, the listeners, with some commentary on why they likely made the list. If you haven’t yet, be sure to connect with us on Facebook (www.facebook.com/boardgamersanonymous), Twitter (http://twitter.com/bgapodcast), and on our website (www.www.boardgamersanonymous.com). You…
The second part of ENGN’s biggest episode is here, the fourth annual! Kevin Erskine once again joins Jason and Liz for commentary on the Top 200 Solo Games list, currently unfolding on BGG. For this episode, we chat about the cluster of games that has truly emerged as the canon of solo gaming. Many of the games are the same, but there were also a few surprise debuts as well. This list is the very best resource for solo gamers to find out which games are actually getting played and which games are great for our community. We are happy…
ENGN’s biggest episode is here, the fourth annual! Kevin Erskine joins Jason and Liz for commentary to break for the Top 200 Solo Games list, currently unfolding on BGG. Which games rose and fell, what were big surprises and debuts, we get into all of that and more for the first 150 games on the big list. This list is the very best resource for solo gamers to find out which games are actually getting played and which games are great for our community, so we are happy to do cover it every year. This list is also ENGN’s gift…