Welcome to Episode 40 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Gary, Shuck, Just Bryan and Proper Brian as they talk through the things they hate about the games they love. Every game has its warts and the guys do their best to forgive these games. As always, thanks so much for listening. If you like our show please share it with someone else or leave a review on iTunes or your platform of choice. There are lots of other ways to support us including a small contribution via Paypal. If you want new episodes whenever they drop, please subscribe. TIME - TOPIC: 0:00 - Intro and our Brews 3:10 - WandaVision!! 9:20 - MAIN TOPIC - The things we don't like about games we love Source: Pub Meeple

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Episode 40 – This Goes Out to the Games We Love

Welcome to Episode 39 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Gary, Shuck, Just Bryan and Proper Brian as they go through the Board Game Ranking Engine 2020 top 10 and announce the 2020 Game of the Year. This is the game published in 2020 that was the highest ranked by the people who use the Ranking Engine. What game will sit on top of the heap of 2020? Listen and find out. We then go through some interesting ranking stats from the year to close out the episode. As always, thanks so much for listening. If you like our show please share it with someone else or leave a review on iTunes or your platform of choice. There are lots of other ways to support us including a small contribution via Paypal. TIME - TOPIC: 0:00 - Intro/What we've been playing 6:15 - MAIN TOPIC - BGRE Rankings Intro 8:10 - BGRE Top 10 2020 25:45 - BGRE Game of the Year 2020 36:30 - Some fun ranking stats Source: Pub Meeple

Episode 39 – BGRE Game of the Year 2020

Welcome to Episode 38 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Gary, Shuck, Just Bryan and Proper Brian as they go through their personal top 5 games as well as the groups combined top 5. Shifts in these lists are inevitable each year as more games are played but which will come out on top? As always, thanks so much for listening. If you like our show please share it with someone else or leave a review on iTunes or your platform of choice. There are lots of other ways to support us including a small contribution via Paypal. TIME - TOPIC: 0:00 - Intro/Our Brews 2:31 - Game Spotlight - Parks 12:47 - MAIN TOPIC - Top 5s Intro 13:10 - Pub Top 5 32:34 - Our Personal Top 5s Source: Pub Meeple

Episode 38 – 2020 Pub Top 5s

Welcome to Episode 37 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Gary, Shuck, Just Bryan and Proper Brian as they discuss games that are worth a deep dive - games (or types of games) we would like to spend more time with to see all they have to offer. As always, thanks so much for listening. If you like our show please share it with someone else or leave a review on iTunes or your platform of choice. There are lots of other ways to support us including a small contribution via Paypal. If you want new episodes whenever they drop, please subscribe. 0:00 - Intro/What we've been playing 9:54 - MAIN TOPIC - Deep Dives Source: Pub Meeple

Episode 37 – Deep Dives

Welcome to Episode 36 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Gary, Shuck, Just Bryan and Proper Brian as they pick their only nine. If you could only have nine games, which would they be? And these aren't just our top 9 games. It's a harder exercise than you think. As always, thanks so much for listening. If you like our show please share it with someone else or leave a review on iTunes or your platform of choice. There are lots of other ways to support us including a small contribution via Paypal. If you want new episodes whenever they drop, please subscribe. 0:00 - Intro/Brew Talk 3:30 - What have we been up to? 14:34 - MAIN TOPIC - Only Nine 2020 Source: Pub Meeple

Episode 36 – Only Nine 2020

Welcome to a Microbrew entry of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Gary, Proper Brian, Just Bryan, and Shuck as they go through the current top 25 games on the Board Game Ranking Engine to see what game they should try next. If you have used the Ranking Engine then you have voted for this list. If you want to see the current rankings head on over to https://rankingengine.pubmeeple.com/rankings to see them! As always, thanks so much for listening. If you like our show please leave a review on iTunes or your platform of choice. There are lots of other ways to support us including a small contribution via Paypal. Source: Pub Meeple

Microbrew 15 – Ranking Engine Recommendations

Welcome to Episode 35 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Gary, Shuck, Just Bryan and Proper Brian as they talk about games they have changed their minds about. Maybe its a game that has grown on us or one that we have slowly discovered aren't as great as we once thought. As always, thanks so much for listening. If you like our show please share it with someone else or leave a review on iTunes or your platform of choice. There are lots of other ways to support us including a small contribution via Paypal. Time - Topic 0:00 - Intro/Brew Talk 5:53 - What We've Been Playing 18:50 - MAIN TOPIC - Long Term Shifts Source: Pub Meeple

Episode 35 – Long Term Shifts

Welcome to a Microbrew entry of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Gary, Proper Brian, Just Bryan, and Shuck as they talk about some upcoming games that they are excited to play. We are putting out the call for listener questions! If you have a question you'd like us to answer on the podcast please email it to pubmeeple@gmail.com. As always, thanks so much for listening. If you like our show please leave a review on iTunes or your platform of choice. There are lots of other ways to support us including a small contribution via Paypal.  Source: Pub Meeple

Microbrew 14 – Games We Are Excited About

Welcome to Episode 34 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Gary, Shuck and Proper Brian as they try to convince Just Bryan that multiplayer soliaire games aren't as bad as he thinks they are. As always, thanks so much for listening. If you like our show please share it with someone else or leave a review on iTunes or your platform of choice. There are lots of other ways to support us including a small contribution via Paypal. 0:00 - Intro/Brew Talk 4:30 - What We've Been Playing 14:30 - MAIN TOPIC - What's so great about multiplayer solitaire games? Source: Pub Meeple

Episode 34: What’s So Great About Multiplayer Solitaire Games?

Welcome to a Microbrew entry of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Gary, Proper Brian, and Just Bryan, and Shuck as they try out a new game show podcast format - It's the Game Dating Game! Just Bryan is our "Bachelorette" asking questions of the other guys who have each picked a game to be. By the end of the questions, Just Bryan will have (hopefully) figured out which game each of us are. We are putting out the call for listener questions! If you have a question you'd like us to answer on the podcast please email it to pubmeeple@gmail.com. As always, thanks so much for listening. If you like our show please leave a review on iTunes or your platform of choice. There are lots of other ways to support us including a small contribution via Paypal. If you want new episodes whenever they drop, please subscribe! Source: Pub Meeple

Microbrew 13 – The Game Dating Game

Welcome to Episode 33 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Gary, and Proper Brian as they invite Hannah and Scott Garbacz on the podcast to talk about being a good board game concierge. Whether you are introducing a new game to players or introducing new players to games, if you like board games, you know how important a task that is. Hannah and Scott have put a lot of thought into how to do this well to ensure a fun game right now and many fun game nights in the future. TIME - TOPIC: 0:00 - Intro/Brew Talk 7:36 - What We've Been Playing 11:06 - Being a Board Game Concierge 14:57 - Dealing with Differing Tastes 20:01 - Picking Games 25:58 - Teaching Games 31:28 - Good Teachers Lose 36:11 - The Long Con 38:30 - Curating your Collection 48:21 - Listener Question: Rescuing a Game Night Source: Pub Meeple

Episode 33 – Being a Board Game Concierge

Welcome to a Microbrew entry of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Gary, Proper Brian, and Just Bryan as they review the new Riot Games release Tellstones: Kings Gambit - a quick-playing bluffing game with perfect information. Source: Pub Meeple

Microbrew 12 – Tellstones: Kings Gambit Review

Welcome to Episode 32 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Just Bryan, Shuck, Gary, and Proper Brian as they take on Part 2 of Play This, Not That. There are times to play games like Jenga or Hearts but if the opportunity arises to play something more on the hobby side of things, what do you suggest instead of the classic or mass market games? The aim of this series is to give you a list of games to suggest when the time is right. As always, thanks so much for listening. If you like our show please share it with someone else or leave a review on iTunes or your platform of choice. There are lots of other ways to support us including a small contribution via Paypal. 0:00 - Intro/Brew Talk 3:15 - What we’ve been playing 10:17 - MAIN TOPIC - Play This, Not That 12:33 - Trivial Pursuit 15:07 - Scrabble 19:05 - Clue 21:17 - Apples to Apples 24:08 - Dominos 27:17 - Mastermind 30:05 - SkipBo/Uno/Phase 10 34:51 - Don't Break the Ice / Cooties 38:45 - Candyland / Chutes and Ladders 42:39 - Sorry 46:20 - Yahtzee 48:59 - Risk Source: Pub Meeple

Episode 32 – Play This Not That – Part 2

Welcome to a Microbrew entry of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Shuck, Gary, Proper Brian, and Just Bryan as they discuss components. First we talk about our favorite components and then we get into a discussion about minis in games.  We are putting out the call for listener questions! If you have a question you'd like us to answer on the podcast please email it to pubmeeple@gmail.com. As always, thanks so much for listening. Source: Pub Meeple

Microbrew 11 – Components

Welcome to Episode 31 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Just Bryan, Shuck, Gary, and Proper Brian as they talk about games to play instead of some older classics or mass market games. There are times to play games like Jenga or Hearts but if the opportunity arises to play something more on the hobby side of things, what do you suggest? We take each classic game and offer hobby game suggestions that match the feel or mechanisms of the classic. TIME - TOPIC: 0:00 - Intro/Brew Talk 4:23 - What we’ve been playing 15:40 - MAIN TOPIC - Play this, not that 17:30 - Hearts/Spades 19:43 - Jenga 25:35 - Pictionary 29:24 - Stratego 32:50 - Operation 35:26 - Battleship 39:50 - Guess Who 42:58 - Backgammon 45:55 - Rummy 48:48 - Chess/Checkers 54:03 - Life 56:42 - Monopoly Source: Pub Meeple

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