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This week, we talk probability, CMON financial reports, and the game everyone's clamoring for this holiday season.

 

TOP STORIES:

  • "Queen's Gambit" leads to a run on chess sets.
  • Scott Almes' "The Ugly Gryphon Inn" coming soon.
  • First edition Pokemon set sales for $360,000.
  • Penguin Random House acquires Simon & Schuster.
  • "Assassin's Creed: Valhalla" dice game becoming reality.
  • Free "Catan: First Adventure" available now.
  • "Root: Militants" expansion teased.
  • Revisit the Labyrinth with "Ready, Steady, Worm!"
  • "Kids on Bikes" gets a board game.
  • "Dune: Adventures in the Imperium" RPG coming in 2021.
  • Build your civ with dice in "Origins: First Builders."
  • "Nemo's War" expansion now on Kickstarter.
  • Construct ziggurats in pre-Columbian Oaxaca in "Zapotec."
  • Zenobia Award hopes to get more underrepresented designers into historical games.
  • "Terraforming Mars: The Dice Game" appears on BGG.

 

SPECIAL REPORT:

  • Jesse takes a look at CMON's long-awaited 2019 financial results.

 

NEW & UPCOMING RELEASES:

  • Paris
  • Unmatched: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  • Patchwork: Christmas Edition
  • Paleo
  • Aquatica
  • Spyfest

 

KICKSTARTER:

 

OUTPUT RANDOMNESS:

  • Corey talks probability and what those percentages look like in reality.

 

CONNECT:

This week, we talk probability, CMON financial reports, and the game everyone's clamoring for this holiday season.

 

TOP STORIES:

  • "Queen's Gambit" leads to a run on chess sets.
  • Scott Almes' "The Ugly Gryphon Inn" coming soon.
  • First edition Pokemon set sales for $360,000.
  • Penguin Random House acquires Simon & Schuster.
  • "Assassin's Creed: Valhalla" dice game becoming reality.
  • Free "Catan: First Adventure" available now.
  • "Root: Militants" expansion teased.
  • Revisit the Labyrinth with "Ready, Steady, Worm!"
  • "Kids on Bikes" gets a board game.
  • "Dune: Adventures in the Imperium" RPG coming in 2021.
  • Build your civ with dice in "Origins: First Builders."
  • "Nemo's War" expansion now on Kickstarter.
  • Construct ziggurats in pre-Columbian Oaxaca in "Zapotec."
  • Zenobia Award hopes to get more underrepresented designers into historical games.
  • "Terraforming Mars: The Dice Game" appears on BGG.

 

SPECIAL REPORT:

  • Jesse takes a look at CMON's long-awaited 2019 financial results.

 

NEW & UPCOMING RELEASES:

  • Paris
  • Unmatched: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  • Patchwork: Christmas Edition
  • Paleo
  • Aquatica
  • Spyfest

 

KICKSTARTER:

 

OUTPUT RANDOMNESS:

  • Corey talks probability and what those percentages look like in reality.

 

CONNECT:

Tom Vasel
Jeremy Howard

In this show, Tom is joined by Jeremy Howard as Eric is away. We talk about Paris, Almanac, and Whistle Mountain. Geoff brings some insight that's for the birds and we dive into a slew of questions. Do we get Kickstarter regret? Are there any one-vs-many games that play well with two players? How do we deal with someone who is attached to their phone during a game day? And more! Finally, we end the show talking about our favorite hybrid games - games that combine two or more mechanics.

This week, The Crew goes underwater, we try fair-trade cat poo coffee, and the worlds of baking, television, and gaming cross-pollinate.

 

TOP STORIES:

  • Brew up some complex fun with "Coffee Traders."
  • "The Crew: Tiefsee" delivers a trick-taking deep sea sequel.
  • "Oh, Brother," there's a new expansion to "Stuffed Fables."
  • GAMA Expo 2021 goes virtual.
  • AEG announces "Mighty Micros" mini expansions for its most popular games.
  • Adapt to more "Oceans" with the "Legends of the Deep" expansion.
  • "Kim Joy's Magic Bakery" cooks up sweet co-op card cakes.
  • Food Network airs "Candy Land" cooking competition.
  • "Uno" makes a play for its own game show.
  • "Gloria Mundi" finds glorious new life.
  • Atomic Mass takes over Asmodee's Star Wars miniatures games.
  • Asmodee gives its MAP policy a holiday.

 

THE HOTNESS:

  • Eclipse: Second Dawn for the Galaxy
  • Etherfields
  • Beyond the Sun
  • Altar Quest
  • USS Freedom

 

KICKSTARTER:

 

NEW & UPCOMING RELEASES:

  • Sidereal Confluence: Remastered Edition
  • Century: Golem Edition - An Endless World
  • Wingspan: Oceania Expansion
  • Glasgow

 

CONNECT:

This week, The Crew goes underwater, we try fair-trade cat poo coffee, and the worlds of baking, television, and gaming cross-pollinate.

 

TOP STORIES:

  • Brew up some complex fun with "Coffee Traders."
  • "The Crew: Tiefsee" delivers a trick-taking deep sea sequel.
  • "Oh, Brother," there's a new expansion to "Stuffed Fables."
  • GAMA Expo 2021 goes virtual.
  • AEG announces "Mighty Micros" mini expansions for its most popular games.
  • Adapt to more "Oceans" with the "Legends of the Deep" expansion.
  • "Kim Joy's Magic Bakery" cooks up sweet co-op card cakes.
  • Food Network airs "Candy Land" cooking competition.
  • "Uno" makes a play for its own game show.
  • "Gloria Mundi" finds glorious new life.
  • Atomic Mass takes over Asmodee's Star Wars miniatures games.
  • Asmodee gives its MAP policy a holiday.

 

THE HOTNESS:

  • Eclipse: Second Dawn for the Galaxy
  • Etherfields
  • Beyond the Sun
  • Altar Quest
  • USS Freedom

 

KICKSTARTER:

 

NEW & UPCOMING RELEASES:

  • Sidereal Confluence: Remastered Edition
  • Century: Golem Edition - An Endless World
  • Wingspan: Oceania Expansion
  • Glasgow

 

CONNECT:

This episode, we catch up on crowdfunding, poke our noses in the Pokemon secondary market, and take a look at just how random those dice rolls and card shuffles really are.

 

HEADLINES:

  • Gamefound to take on Kickstarter for tabletop crowdfunding.
  • Pledge managers BackerKit and Crowd Ox merge.
  • BoardGameTables.com to publish Cwali games.
  • CMON's next Kickstarter gets animated.
  • Build a hotel in Nemo's anemone with "PIXAR Monopoly."
  • Upcoming auction set to break Pokemon record.
  • Explore the seas with "Dive!"
  • Jacob Fryxelius' "Star Scrappers: Orbital" live on Kickstarter.
  • Make challenging moral choices with "Agemonia."

 

THE HOTNESS:

  • burncycle
  • Etherfields
  • Hallertau
  • Dune: Imperium
  • Lost Ruins of Arnak
  • Pax Pamir (Second Edition)
  • Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion

 

KICKSTARTER:

 

NEW & UPCOMING RELEASES:

  • Viscounts of the West Kingdom
  • Kitara
  • Chronicles of Crime: 1400
  • Whistle Mountain
  • Tiny Towns: Villagers

 

OUTPUT RANDOMNESS:

  • Corey shares some random thoughts about the random nature of randomness.

 

CONNECT:

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