It is October, the month of Fat Bear Week, Decorative Gourd Season, Halloween, and Arkhipov Day! Sure, it has less candy than some of those other celebrations, but I'll wager neither a corpulent bear nor a kid dressed as a pirate has ever saved the entire human race. 

01:00 AYURIS: IKI (Koota Yamada, Sorry We Are French, 2015)

Games Played Last Week:

03:38 -Valka (Brooke Penrose, Terrible Games, 2024)

07:16 -Bus (Jeroen Doumen and Joris Wiersinga, Capstone Games, 2019)

09:47 -Warpgate: Beyond (Artyom Nichipurov, Wolff Designa, 2022)

12:33 -Dinosaur World (Brian Lewis, David McGregor, & Marissa Misura, Pandasaurus Games, 2021)

16:02 -SCOUT (Kei Kajino, Oink Games, 2019)

18:18 -Jekyll & Hyde vs Scotland Yard (Gaëtan Beaujannot, Olivier Cipière, and Geonil, Mandoo Games, 2023)

20:11 -Cthulhu: Death May Die--Fear of the Unknown (Rob Daviau, Eric M. Lang, and Marco Portugal, CMON, 2024)

22:57 -Set a Watch (Mike Gnade and Todd Walsh, Rock Manor Games, 2019)

25:04 -Hamster Roll (Jacques Zeimet, Zoch Verlag, 2000)

27:02 -Federation (Dimitri Perrier and Matthieu Verdier, Explor8, 2022)

28:22 -R (Seiji Kanai, Kanai Factory, 2011)

31:03 -Lost Cities: The Board Game (Reiner Knizia, Rio Grande, 2008)

35:21 -Vengeance: Roll & Fight (Gordon Calleja, Noralie Lubbers, & Dávid Turczi, Mighty Boards, 2022)

 

News (and why it doesn't matter):

38:57 Friedemann Friese's Fishing: trick-taking

39:37 Mac Gerdts' 7 Empires

40:40 Reiner Knizia's Cosmolancer: Kingdoms, again

41:48 Burned relaunches on crowdfunding October 23 from Jon Moffat and Stone Circle Games

42:15 Daniele Tascini's Transgalactica

42:29 Chonkers Party: phat animals

42:50 Walker on Boards and Brews

43:14 Join us in celebrating Arkhipov Day on October 27th

44:22 Topic: Our Favourite Factions

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