Yeah, as a librarian, I buy a LOT less books. As a board gamer, I'm the primary person getting games for our group, so I end up getting a lot of them.

DogFogB He forgot to mention Skull (& Roses), but it’s sitting in the top of his small shelf. ;)

what's in the brown untitled box on his middle-shelf i don't believe they said what it was?

Thank you for listing these, it's going to make it way easier to add them all to my wish list! 😀

@@Jamestone1616 They didn't say, so I have no idea :-)

There’s Pandemic, and Pandemic In The Lab, and he mentions he has all the expansions. The first two expansions and the original game all fit in to a single In The Lab box, but I think the third expansion is likely his outlier to needing two boxes. But... who knows. Pointless detail in the end. I’d love these guys to do a review of Spirit Island and an expansion to get their thoughts. Coop got me in to board gaming, and appreciate their thoughts if they had a keen interest in Pandemic as well over the years.

Does anyone know some website where you can meet people and play thousands of board games for hours.

That's my shelf.... gf does not like euro games. I love em

​@@Killercreek Same, alas... No one likes euro games... Except you and I apparently >.

@@ostrava8958 sounds like you need to hit up your local game store :}

@@ostrava8958 I'm sure Matt wouldn't mind you sitting down, as long as you kept quiet

@@ostrava8958 game store employees would be happy to talk to you! it's their job and they can tell you about their events

Why do you think he's cool and why do you like him?

Matt is cool when he isn't being a cringe male feminist.

It's in the Warhammer universe if that that helps put you off... or... on.

It also has the best combat system you'll probably see in a board game right now, which... oh, that probably doesn't help

@@Messengus totally agree

Not just out of print, it was an FFG game and they lost all of the Warhammer license, and given the current issues, I can't imagine them getting it back...

It also went out of print pretty quickly after it came to exist. Soo.... Not a lot out there.

Same. I got the kickstarter bit this year for my wife for Christmas. It was a real treat playing it with her family.

We loved having a slightly more family friendly version to play (with 9 and 12 year olds as well as 70 year olds) that was new to us too

@M A Speaking as a native British English speaker, I've never met anyone who says it as in "fife".

I figured it might have been a regional variation, but both Oxford and Cambridge English Dictionaries give it as /fiːf/ “feef”, not /faɪf/ “fife”, in BrE Fief actually has a really neat etymology: not only did French descend it from (a variation of) Lt _feudum,_ but Latin borrowed the word from French! Frankish _*fehu,_ meaning “livestock”, gave Old French _feu,_ which was borrowed into Latin as _feum_ or _*feuum_ > _fevum,_ which in turn descended back into Old French as _fief,_ devoicing the /v/ to /f/ and diphthongising /ε/ into /jε/ (which is how it’s still pronounced in French) The “d” in standard Lt _feudum_ (whence English “feudal”, but not English “feud”, which is related to the word “foe”) comes from the Frankish word _*ôd_ (whence also the “od” in “allodial”; there was probably a Frankish word _*fehu-ôd_ that influenced it), meaning “goods, possessions, livestock”, from Proto-Germanic _*audaz,_ whence Old English _ēad,_ which is the “Ed” in names like “Edward” and “Edgar” To complete the etymology, Frankish _*fehu_ is from Proto-Germanic _*fehu_ “livestock, property” (whence Old English _feoh_ “money” and, influenced by French _fief,_ Modern English “fee”), which is in turn from PIE _*péku_ (that “k” should be a palatovelar, but I don’t have access to that character rn; it becomes /s/ in satem languages like Sanskrit and /k/ in centum languages like Latin) whence Sanskrit _páśu_ “livestock”, Kurdish _pez_ “sheep”, and Latin _pecū_ “cattle” and _pecūnia_ “money”

They filmed that before Christmas. I forget which game, but Matt mentions wanting to bring something to play with his inlaws.

@@bodybagbilly I... wasn't being... never mind.

haha same here! It was published by Rio Grande so it makes sense

hahah same thought.

yes, it is

Oh! It's somewhere?! I probably lent it to someone. -Matt

​@@shutupandsitdown it's on your small box game shelf. I also bought it on your recommendation and i love it! Thanks! Keep the great work. Cheers from Chile

so how did it go?

How else are we going to practice for the "right moment"?

@@23ReivaX Hopefully its a better presentation than from Matt :D

you should make a video!

@@volatiledawn5888 gosh I think I would be pretty rubbish!

Same here, love both board games and badminton.

Mixture! Bunch of these were bought.

My favorite game. The expansion brings it to 11.

I was actually gonna ask about that one. I've seen some components and it looks beautiful, but I wonder if it's good or how weight-y it is to teach.

@@JohnnyLeyenda it is great! It is not really hard to learn. The mechanics aren't that complicated. But the desicions are fun :) The game isnt that long either. When you print your first theory, you probably dont even know if it is correct, but you do it anyway because you dont want to miss out^^

I love Alchemists. If you’ve ever worked in Academia it is an excellent and accurate parody.

I'm pretty sure they already covered Alchemists.

I didn’t think I would see you here, Shaun! You got me started programming, I’m glad you are enjoying yourselves board games as well

I think the difference is for the job he has to play a bunch of different board games a number of times to determine what should be reviewed, rather than spending that time playing games that he knows he loves to play. Similarly, I spend all day on a computer at work, but I still want to be playing games on my computer at home, even though I've been looking at a computer all day.

Depending on the game selection, that is an amazing sale!

Daggerstorm - yeah, they mentioned the podcast but I haven’t seen one in my feed for months now.

Paul was always closest to my ways, broken heart.

I mean it's no Blue Box 2.

what kinds of games do you find to be like that?

BludRayp - Twixt; Sheriff of Nottingham; Citadels; Sushi-Go; Settlers of Catan; Love Letter; Guillotine; Ticket to Ride; Small World; Exploding Kittens; Two Rooms and a Boom. Just to name a few that friends, family and I enjoy.