Episode 381 – Top 5(ish) Beautiful Family Games

0:00 Hello and welcome! This week, we’re talking about beautiful games – ones you would leave out on a coffee table – that are great for families to play.

Fact for 381

We’re back to the Guinness Book of World Records, friends.

The largest hand-held video game console party was on 12 October 2007, at the Parramatta mall in Sydney Australia, where 381 people gathered together, each one brandishing their own Nintendo DS.

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02:43 What We’ve Been Playing

Nekojima – review coming soon. We love that it can be cooperative or competitive.
Mojo – review coming soon.
Mundus Novus
Captain Flip (our review)
Sky Team – we talked about playing this on Board Game Arena, but now we’ve played it in person. Looking forward to playing a lot more.
Dice Throne – as recommended in our Games for Teens. We don’t love king-of-the-hill with our boys.
Agueda: City of Umbrellas – review coming soon
Fire Tower
Football Feud! – very simple. Review coming soon.

18:20 September Monthly Report!

Andrew: 20 plays of 15 games. H-index: 2. Most played: Chrono-Trek (3 times) & Mojo (3 times). Also Trio (2 times).

Anitra: 29 plays of 18 games. H-index: 2. Most played: Chrono-Trek (6 times) & Mojo (4 times).

19:50 Welcome Facebook Community Members

Lots of new members this week! Stop in and tell us which animal pictured represents you.

21:30 Backtalk

Listeners tell us about games they wish they still had. See responses on Discord and Facebook.

26:25 SNAP Review – Super Kawaii Pets

This super-cute game is great for pet lovers. It’s really simple and light, best for kids or very light family play.

Watch the video to see our grumpy cat Romeo “help” with this one.

31:00 Top 5(ish) Beautiful Games

This is a very subjective topic. And we have a ton of games which we love for their art. But we’re thinking about coffee table games or “eye candy” games – not games with good art, but games that you could leave set up and would look good in and of themselves. Maybe one you could expect to see in the background in a design magazine. Usually this means abstract games made with natural materials.

• Shobu
• Deblockle
• The Gigamic abstract series: our favorite is Quarto, but there’s also Quoridor, Qawale, Pylos, Quixo, Squadro, and Quantik.
• Catch the Moon
• Suspend (or Suspend Junior) – this reminds us of the bead maze toys that used to be in the pediatrician’s waiting room.
• Azul

49:40 New Backtalk Question

What are your favorite looking games? What games are absolutely gorgeous to you – and do you think they’d work in this coffee table kind of setting?

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