Anna Kipnis joins us this week! As a former designer/programmer at Double Fine Productions (Broken Age), she brings a fresh perspective to all things tabletop gaming.

Our four new topics:

1. Nick: Small, easy-to-play games that are great for a night out at the bar.
2. Christina: What playing board games reveals about our friends' personalities.
3. Anna: How our personalities intertwine (or conflict with) with game rules.
4. Shoe: How working in the video game industry has affected how we play board games.

See a full list of games mentioned on the show below

Intro

• Orleans
• Yokohama
• Scoville
• Crusaders: Thy Will Be Done
• Small World

Nick's topic: Great pub games

• Skull
• Liar's Dice
• Kobayakawa
• Lie
• The Mind
• Illusion
• A Fake Artist Goes to New York
• Dead Last
• Just One
• A Game of Thrones: Hand of the King

Christina's topic: Games that reveal people's personalities

• Pandemic Legacy
• Pandemic
• Ascension
• Lost Cities
• Werewolf
• Shadows Over Camelot
• Coup
• Battlestar Galactica
• Secret Hitler
• The Thing: Infection at Outpost 31

Anna's topic: Human nature intersecting with game rules

• Codenames
• Dead of Winter

Shoe's topic: The influence of video games on board gaming preferences

• Gloomhaven
• TIME Stories
• Puerto Rico

Final thoughts

• Hanabi
• Rising Sun
• Doro-Doko

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