32 - Patrick and Eric in the Morning - Wolfgang Kramer / Michael Kiesling

Recorded 11/22/2020

Patrick

• El Grande - Wolfgang Kramer, Richard Ulrich

• Colosseum - Wolfgang Kramer, Markus Lübke

• 6 nimmt - Wolfgang Kramer

• Seeland - Günter Burkhardt, Wolfgang Kramer

• Azul - Michael Kiesling

• Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra - Michael Kiesling

• Azul: Summer Pavilion - Michael Kiesling

• Azul: Crystal Mosaics

• Vikings - Michael Kiesling

• Downforce - Rob Daviau, Justin D. Jacobson, Wolfgang Kramer

• The Palaces of Carrara - Michael Kiesling, Wolfgang Kramer

Eric

Michael Kiesling:

• Azul

• Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra

• Azul: Summer Pavilion

• Vikings

Wolfgang Kramer:

• 6 nimmt

• Seeland

• El Grande

• Downforce (restored from Tempo, Kramer’s first published game, which was updated as Top Race, Daytona 500, etc.)

Co-designs:

• Tikal (Mask Trilogy) Java and Mexica

• Torres 

• The Palaces of Carrara

Haven’t played:

• Colosseum, Java/Mexica (Kramer)

• Heaven & Ale (Kieling)

• Paris (co-design)

Website you can play online:

http://www.boiteajeux.net/

• Torres 

http://yucata.de/

• El Grande

• The Palaces of Carrara

• Torres

• Vikings

Boardgamearena.com

• 6nimmt,

• Palaces of Carara 

Awards:

Kramer

• Palaces was a SDJ nominee in 2012

• El Grande DSJ 1996

Kesiling 

• Azul 2018

• Heaven and Ale nominee 2018

Shared

• Tikal 1999

• Torres 2000

Patrick & Eric catch up after not recording for a while. This episode was recorded on 9/3/2020 and the last episode on 8/8/2020.  Since the last episode they have been meeting up and playing games virtually such as:

• Super-Skill Pinball: 4-Cade
• Clever hoch drei (AKA Ganz schön clever three)
• Marco Polo (Patrick Won)

Topic - House Rules:

• Sagrada
• Marrakesh 
• Isle of Cats
• Copenhagen Dice
• Nova Luna

Start Player Rules - Patrick's geetlist

Who chooses what games to play?

@ericbuscemi

@ovethehillier

www.punchboardmedia.com

Patrick and Eric return to their designer spotlight series - Reiner Knizia

Reiner Knizia

• Recent Plays
  • My City
  • Tutankhamun
• Auction Games
  • Ra 
  • Modern Art
• "Numbers on Art"
  • En Garde
  • Shotten Totten
  • Lost Cities
  • Llama

“Reiner Knizia is also criticized that his games are all dry, mathematical affairs, and unfortunately, he can't dodge the bullet completely on this one.” - Some person on BGG

How does theme impact his games?

• Abstracts
  • Ingenious
  • Tigris and Euphrates

"Kenizia scoring" i.e. lowest track scores.

Misc games

• Star Trek Expeditions
• Through The Desert (or Dessert if you eat the camels)
• Quest of El Dorado
• Age of War/Risk Express
• En Garde in detail

Awards and nominations -

• Kinder - Who Was It?
• Speil - Keltis

Co-operative games

• Lord of the Rings

"Remember: When playing a game, the goal is to win, but it is the goal that is important, not the winning..."

Recorded 7/26/2020

Patrick and Eric discuss Storytelling Games

They start off discussing the many different kinds of storytelling games:

• RPGs 
• Escape room games 
• Detective games 
• Graphic Novel Adventures and Choose Your Own Adventures 
• Board games with story elements
• • Tales of the Arabian Nights - Agents of Smersh
  • Rory’s Story Cubes
  • Above and Below
  • Near and Far
  • Dead of Winter (the original Crossroads game)
  • Forgotten Waters
• Games that are so thematic they lend themselves to the players telling stories without overtly having storytelling mechanisms (e.g. Fortune and Glory) - Colosseum

Recorded 6/14/2020

Patrick and Eric reiterate their Black Lives Matter stance

The go on to discuss recent news in the board gaming community.

Cards Against Humanity #CAHisOver

Reddit r/boardgames moderators all quit

New location is https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgamediscussion/

Boardgamegeek RSP (Religion Sex Politics)

Moved to a guild - "harder to find"

GAMA / Origins Online / Origins

@ericbuscemi

@overthehillier

Recorded 5/24/2020

Holiday weekend plans

Quickbread recipe

Ingredients:

1/2 cup butter

1/2 cup sugar

2 eggs

2 cups flour

2 tsp baking powder

1/2 cup milk

1 cup chocolate chips 

Directions:

Cream together butter and sugar, then add eggs one at a time. 

Mix flour and baking powder, then mix with butter-sugar-egg mix alternating with milk. Stir in chocolate chips.

Bake in greased and floured loaf pan or crock at 350F for one hour.

Canceled conventions (as of 6/7/20)

• Essen Speil
• Gencon
• Geekway
• BBG at Sea
• BBG November?
• Origins (November?)
• PAX

Virtual Conventions

• Renegade
• Portal
• Origins
• BGG

Online gaming

• Terraforming Mars
• Scythe

Recorded 5/2/2020

Patrick and Eric discuss recent on line plays

• Hawiaii
• Pompei
• Tobago
• Targi 

Main show topic is a recent play of Fiasco with Chris Whitpan @gameallniteshow

Module: Murder on the Disorent Express

Guests: Us, Pep McDonald, BJ of Boardgame Gumbo, Victor Schwartzmiller.

Also mentioned is a game of Just one about to be played with other Punch Board Media creators.

Fiasco capture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx4K89gNzzA

Fiasco https://bullypulpitgames.com/games/fiasco/

Just One Game - https://youtu.be/B8ZlAUv1BFA

In lieu of playing games lately Patrick & Eric do an Ask Me Anything episode:

Music

• Rolling Stone article on Playing for Change: 
• Playing for Change website

Cooking

• Instapot
• Sous Vide
• Slow Cooker

Puzzles 

• Ravensburger Escape Puzzle - “The Forbidden Basement”

LEGO 

• LEGO Hidden Side - “The Lighthouse of Darkness”

Movies/TV

• Star Wars
• Twilight Zone/Outer Limits
• Star Trek: Picard
• Mindhunter
• Tiger King
• Hunters
• The Boys

Comics

• Iron Man
• Watchmen
• The Boys

Magic 

• Penn and Teller: Fool Us
• Richard Turner
• Shen Lim
• Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed
• 101 Easy to Learn Magic Tricks

Recorded a Granite Game sumit with special guests Daniel Newman, Brandon Rojas, Jason Lees, Christ Michaud, and Jared Hunnefeld.

General discussion topic was top 10ish things to do at a convention.

Patrick and Eric in the Morning: Episode 23 - Culling

This episode Patrick and Eric discuss latest news and how they chose and cull games from their collection.

Recorded 2/29/2020

Getting ready for Granite Game Summit

Plaid Hat News

What inspires you to cull?

What do you cull?

How do you cull?

• Give it away to charity
• Give it to friends 
• Math trade
• Selling at a VFM

Do you pay BGG?

This episode Patrick and Eric discuss favorite games played in 2019.  Recorded 2/2/2020

Dedication

• Patrick - 2019 and new to me
• Illusion - 2018
• Circle the Wagons (2017) NTM
• Jamaica (NTM)
• Quacks (2018)
• Mall Madness (1989)
• Slide Quest (2019)
• Era (2019)
• Just One (2018)
• Horrified (2019) Patrick’s Game of the Year

Honorable Mention

• Snail Sprint
• Wingspan

Eric

• Copenhagen
• Exceed: Street Fighter
• Silver and Gold
• Point Salad
• Escape Plan
• Roam
• Taverns of Tiefenthal
• SHŌBU
• Tiny Towns 
• Cartographers

Honorable Mention

• Lockup: A Roll Player Tale
• Quirky Circuits
• Megacity Oceania

Granite Game Summit https://www.granitegamesummit.com/

@ericbuscemi

@overthehillier

www.punchboardmedia.com

Episode 21 - Patrick and Eric discuss their favorite games beyond 500 in the BGG rankings.

Christmas Gifts

Villainous

Parks / Trekking the National Parks

Patrick and Eric Hidden gems over 500 on the BGG listing

Game Rank

Get Bit! 2159

Crystal Clans 2210

Pastiche 1364

Longhorn 2077

La Boca 1200

Custom Heroes 1681

The Great Heartland Hauling Co. 1170

Artifacts Inc. 1135

Arctic Scavengers 1127

Odin’s Ravens (2nd ed) 1076

The Golden Ages 849

Ulm   929

Sid Meier's Civilization: A New Dawn 670 2017

Dice Town 796

Honshu 792

The Pursuit of Happiness 646

Hawaii 630

Adrenaline 617

Ex Libris 613

Scott Nicolson Pillars of the Earth bit https://youtu.be/Lv-Q1S_ToaE

Granite Game Summit https://www.granitegamesummit.com/

@ericbuscemi

@overthehillier

www.punchboardmedia.com

Patrick and Eric in the Morning Episode 20 - Dexterity Games

Recorded 12/1/19

Knives Out banter

Classic

• Operation
• Topple

Flicking/Throwing

• PitchCar
• Coconuts
• Ice Cool
• Crokinole
• Flip Ships
• Table is Lava
• Flick Em Up
• Mars Open

Stacking/Balancing/Building

• Junk Art
• Rhino Hero / Rhino Hero: Super Battle
• Riff Raff
• Hamsterole
• Rock me Archimedes
• Catch the Moon
• Meeple Circus
• Brick Party

Removing

• Jenga
• Tok Tok Woodman

Manipulating

• Fold It
• Slide Quest
• Shaky Manor
• Chopstick Mega Dexterity Challenge 3000
• Flying Sushi Kitchen
• Maze Racers
• Loopin Chewie
• KLASK
• Drop It

Drawing

• Looney Quest/Doodle Quest
• Obligatory: Carcassonne Catapult mention, Coaster Park