Ep. 101: My Shelfie & gimmicks in games

We’re reviewing My Shelfie, the new gravity-assisted tile layer that brings Connect 4 style-play to new levels of inspiration. Then, we discuss gimmicks in board games; what gimmicks we love, what gimmicks we don’t love, and what gimmicks bring something new to the board game world.

1:14 Innovation, Living Forest, Palaces of Carrara, La Granja, Equinox
1:24 Space Empires 4X, Space Base, Memoir 44
1:33 Fleet, Dice Theme Park, Chocolate Factory, Llama, Wingspan, It’s a Wonderful World
2:00 Sea Salt & Paper
2:11 7 Wonders Architects
4:29 It’s a Wonderful World
5:26 Planet Unknown
6:20 Beyond the Sun
6:50 Enchanted Plumes
7:58 Merchants of the Dark Road
9:40 Endless Winter
9:56 FEATURE REVIEW – My Shelfie
10:51 Barrage
11:16 Living Forest
11:36 Carnegie
12:58 Connect Four
17:33 Fairy Tail Inn
23:29 Calico
25:44 Race for the Galaxy
30:44 Bang, Catan
32:09 Project L
33:06 Point salad
33:25 FEATURE TOPIC – Gimmicks & Gimmicky Games
40:30 My Shelfie
40:58 Tzolkin
42:14 Gloomholdin’
42:58 Planet Unknown
43:52 Coloma
44:21 Foundations of Rome
44:34 So Clover!
44:47 Great Western Trail 2nd Edition
44:57 New York Slice, Piece of Cake
45:28 Food Chain Magnate
46:17 Wingspan
46:30 Tekhenu
47:36 Everdell
48:52 Mystic Vale, Dice Forge, Dice Realms
50:16 Micro Macro: Crime City, My Shelfie, Tasty Humans
50:46 Potion Explosion, Masters of Renaissance: Lorenzo il Magnifico – The Card Game, Golem
52:09 Caesar: Seize Rome in 20 Minutes
52:32 The Dark Tower, Return to Dark Tower
53:43 Pandemic, Pandemic: Fall of Rome
55:31 Ice Cool
56:10 Seal Team Flix
56:26 Men at Work
57:39 Legacy of Dragonholt, Tainted Grail
57:48 Tales of the Arabian Nights
58:19 Dune, Dune: House Secrets, Dune Imperium, Dune: A War for Arrakis
1:00:28 dude
1:01:38 Happy Salmon
1:03:24 Resurgence, Planet Unknown

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