Timm Metivier of Meepleville (both a board game cafe and a channel for board game content) jumps on the podcast to tell us all about the world of running a nin-person social business...when everyone's social distancing. Here are everyone's topics for this episode:

1. Timm (guest): What are the top three games we're dying to play? (2:48)
2. Shoe (producer) and Christina (host): How do you discover the games you want to play or order for a board game cafe? What is it like running a cafe during COVID? (We kinda got our topics mixed up and jumbled together.) (16:12)
3. Mike (editor): What does the board game cafe business model look like, between cover fees, rentals, sales, food and beverage, etc.? (37:00)

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Here are the games covered on the show:

Timm’s topic: The top three games we can’t wait to get to the table

• Food Chain Magnate
• Trickerion
• Pax Porfiriana
• Telestrations: Upside Drawn
• Tekhenu: Obelisk of the Sun
• Tzok’in: The Mayan Calendar
• Teotihuacan: City of Gods
• Master Word
• Anachrony
• Barrage
• The Gallerist
• City of the Big Shoulders
• 18XX
• Escape Plan
• Vinhos
• On Mars
• Viscounts of the West Kingdom
• Sleeping Gods

Shoe’s/Christina’s topic: Running a board game cafe during COVID + how we discover games

• Bridge
• Pinochle
• Backgammon
• Catan
• Ticket to Ride
• Life
• Connect Four
• Tekhenu: Obelisk of the Sun
• Scooby-Doo: Betrayal at Mystery Mansion
• Pendulum
• Trois 
• Ginkgopolis

Mike’s topic: What does a board game cafe’s business model look like?

• Cards Against Humanity
• Monopoly
• Sorry
• Risk
• Ticket to Ride
• Pandemic
• Battleship
• Lorenzo il Magnifico
• Hansa Teutonica

Final thoughts: 

• Fingabol 
• Crokinole

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