Podcasts by Best Plays Board Game Royale
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May 2018: Fox in the Forest / Last One Standing / Murder Mystery from 2018-05-21T20:28:20
Take a trip into the deep, multi-sensory experience of the Best Play Podcast.
Smell that? That's the stench of Glenn's unemployment, seeping into every porous surface as he hunts do...
35: Vast / Small World / Clank / Neural Networks from 2018-04-29T10:00:05
In this episode, we recount a wonderful day of board gaming we spent together earlier this month.
We talk Small Word Listen
34: Home of the Brave / Advice / Tesselation from 2018-03-03T15:10:55
Sometimes it's easy to feel like you don't fit in.
Like you take up too much space, or you're the wrong size for everyone else around you.
Later on in this episode of the Best Play...
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33: Junk Art / A Tale of Pirates / Toy Fair from 2018-01-31T22:02:06
Out with the old, in with the new.
At Best Play, we never like to keep things the same for too long. We're always moving to new cities, firing staff at random and ritualistically setting ...
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32: Pandemic Legacy / Tales of Arabian Nights from 2017-11-15T03:00
In honour of the blockbuster release of Murder on the Orient Express, we've crammed our podcast with gripping stories and haun...
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31: Machi Koro / Suburbia from 2017-11-08T03:00
Warning: it's now officially chilly season, which means our twenty-minute banter-fest is about...
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30: Rhino Hero / Flick 'em Up! from 2017-11-01T03:00
Somebody pour out a cup of KY for all your fallen homies - it's the spookiest, sexiest episode yet.
Usually Best Play's Board Game Royale is a total sausagefest. There's more sti...
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29: The Networks / Power Grid from 2017-10-25T03:00
Walt Disney didn't make a damn dime until 1937 - seventeen years into his career as a cartoonist.
Sometimes, my heating doesn't work.
These two facts prove that you don't need be f...
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28: Monopoly: Gamer Edition / Obama Llama from 2017-10-11T03:00
Hey - you heard we got that hot new thing?
That's right, we've got a switch on our hands. New hosts, new types of games,...
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27: Codenames Duet / The Chameleon from 2017-10-03T23:00
We were busy playing games, for you. It's all for you listener. Or is it? This week, we're getting a...
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26: Kingdomino / Agricola from 2017-08-23T07:00
These fields have an lot in their time.
See, back in the glory days we'd grow fields and fields of hemp - the miracle fibre. But then dirty old Harry Anslinger and William Randolf Hearst ...
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25: Incan Gold / Ponzi Scheme from 2017-08-17T20:46:02
Neeeaaawwwww!!!!!
That's the sound of Garth whistling back into your ears, through your body and directly to your heart. After a week of Board Game Royale: duo edition, we're hap...
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24: The Metagame / Diplomacy [Ignorance Edition] from 2017-08-10T20:25:58
There's only two of us about this week.
To honour the dramatic change in form, we've decided to totally mix up the format of Board Game Royale. Instead of talking about games we love<...
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23: Vast / Dead of Winter from 2017-07-27T20:37:13
No, I think you're watching too many smooth jazz covers of pop songs by emo kid bands.
Besides, jazz is cool now, remem...
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22: Emergence / Broom Service from 2017-07-21T03:00
It's time to negotiate.
Thanks to our extensive R&D budget at Best Play, we don't have to do the leg work ourselves. No lies, no half-truths, no subtle misdirection. Both games this week ...
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21: Snake Oil / Funemployed from 2017-07-05T03:00
Somebody call the hustle police - we've got some non-stop grinders over here!
If you're the kind of person who loves to call yourself an entrepreneur just because you've flogged a few ch...
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20: The Grizzled / The Bloody Inn from 2017-06-28T03:00
Would it better if board games were less fun?
Years ago, that might have seemed like facetious questions, but now it's pretty deep. This week, we explore two games with a suprisi...
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19: Raptor / Hive from 2017-06-21T02:00
It's the bug episode.
In this newest edition of Board Game Royale - Best Play's premiere podcast - we discuss two game crawling with critters you'd probably like to exterminate.
18: Deer Lord / Monikers from 2017-06-06T23:30
Party time! Excellent!
The streamers are up in Best Play towers, and we've invited dozens of people we know quite well but not-quite-well-enough. Party rings are out, and so are two bound...
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17: Deep Sea Adventure / Survive! Escape from Atlantis from 2017-05-30T22:30
There's no worries under the sea. It's just singing clams and dancing jellyfish as far as the eye can see.
That's what I thought before today, at least. On the podcast this week I found o...
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16: Tides of Time / 7 Wonders: Duel from 2017-05-17T00:00
This episode has been generated by the artificially intelligent Clockbot3000: made with real wood.
It seems you like conflict. We have many things to satisfy your thirst for conf...
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15: Saboteur / Archipelago from 2017-05-10T20:27:57
Welcome to today's lesson on backstabbing.
Step 1: be a swashbuckling pirate.
Step 2: be about four foot tall.
Step 3: play both our games this week.
Check back on be...
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14: Jaipur / Splendour from 2017-04-26T13:30
Hey, kid, want to trade?
I've got two board game experts, one novice, a selection of questionable microphones and 20 minutes of high quality audio content.
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13: Space Attack / Galaxy Trucker from 2017-04-19T02:00
In space, no-one can hear you call a snap election.
This week, Best Play towers faces political upheaval as one member of the team attempts to outlaw all dice and random number-generating...
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12: Go Cuckoo / Beasts of Balance from 2017-04-12T00:00
What kind of cuck keeps his eggs right out there in the open?
How much of a cuck do you have to be to let your wife's son play with a bunch of plastic, angular toys?
All these ques...
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11: Patchwork / Karuba from 2017-04-04T23:30
It's a little late for April Fools isn't it?
Good thing too, because we're not feeling too silly in this episode. It's all about order. It's about patterns. It's about finding something t...
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10: King of Tokyo / Deep Forest from 2017-03-28T23:00
Who would have thought our experimental podcast would have made it 10 whole episodes?
It seems like only yesterday we found some microphones down the back of the sofa and thought, "yeah, ...
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9: Ticket to Ride / Colt Express from 2017-03-21T16:30
Have you heard the legend of John Henry?
He worked on railroads his entire life, and he was damned good at it too. 8 fee...
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8: Beyond Baker Street / Fuse from 2017-03-15T16:00
We all like co-operation right? It's like Operation but with a Co and less made-up body parts. The thing is, some of us, we like to make a lot of noise and the rest of us like peace and quiet. Listen
7: Spyfall / Captain Sonar from 2017-03-08T03:00
The name's Beard. Marcus Beard. I like my mechanics simple and my rules to fit on a single side of A5. I'm not a spy - or a master tactician - but if I spend long enough playing these two games,...
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6: Loony Quest / Pictomania from 2017-03-01T00:00
Get your pens at the ready, this week is all about drawing. Just a hint of insanity flows through the discussion, as Marcus learns why Listen
5: Spartacus / Battlestar Galactica from 2017-02-22T02:00
Haven't you heard? TV is dead.
Want to wind back the clock and simulate your favourite Spartacus moment on the t...
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4: Mysterium / Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective from 2017-02-15T16:41:30
Mystery, murder and deduction is on the menu. One of our games hands the responsibility of criminal investigation to a ghost...
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3: Camel Up / Lords of Vegas from 2017-02-09T21:32:52
So many times I've asked myself the question: what's more valuable, casino chips or camels? I lie awake and agonise nearly every night, but I'll never find an answer.
This week in our one...
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2: Imhotep / Dominion from 2017-02-01T17:00
One board game ships players to exotic places against their will. The other makes point-scoring machines of kings of queens. Join us at Best Play HQ, where even Marcus can't get inside.
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1: Secret Hitler / One Night Ultimate Werewolf from 2017-01-25T11:00
What does 'hidden role' actually mean? Why would you ever call your friends Hitler? Why are games fighting each other? Answers to all these and more in Best Play's first ever episode of Board Ga...
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