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Weight
In this episode, Jacques and Fayyaad address the complex and controversial topic of board game weight — a tricksy term board gamers use to explain how difficult a game is to learn and to play. They go into the different...
Time in board games, part 2: Phases and reactions
Actions, reactions, phases, rounds, turns… Have you ever found yourself turned around by too many terms that sound like they all mean the same thing? Fear not! If time gets all wibbly-wobbly on you, you can always look up the...
Board game themes
At Nerdverse, we love board games with fun, well-designed themes, and themes that are well integrated into our board games. We also love board games that have no theme at all! Perhaps a board game’s theme is one of your...
Worker placement
Ever heard a bunch of board game fanatics express strong opinions about something called worker placement games and wishing you knew what they were going on about? In this episode, Jacques and Fayyaad get all worked up about worker placement....
BoardGameGeek, part one
In this episode, Jacques and Fayyaad introduce the encyclopedia of board games, the board gamer’s bible, the wiki of all things hobby related: BoardGameGeek. This amazing website holds many secrets and surprises – so many that it’s going to take...
Play modes
Board games are competitive, right? Well, actually… they don’t need to be. You have a whole spectrum of options when it comes to the number of players and what “winning” looks like. To celebrate the diversity of board gamers and...
Time in board games, part 1: Actions, turns, & rounds
Time flies when you’re having fun; even if you’re not enjoying the board game you’re playing, board games do weird things to the passage of time. But have you ever wondered how to make sense of all the different words...
Board game creators
Board games don’t magically appear just because you want to play a new game. (Trust us, we’ve tried.) In this episode, Fayyaad and Jacques look at game designers, artists, and publishers and how each contributes to taking a board game...
Components
For our third episode, we take you on a whirlwind tour of as many components as we could think of. Partly because there are many interesting and fun components that exist, and partly because it’s impossible to talk about board...
