The Spiel #172 - Game, Set, Match

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The Spiel #172 - Game, Set, Match

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Mar 18, 2013

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Rummy revisions. We review A Fool's Fortune and Morels two set collecting card games that breathe new life into this well known and time tested genre, plus the first in a series of interviews with Major Fun, Bernie DeKoven.

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Mar 18, 2013

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The Spiel #6 - Monkey Pirates: Two bargains, one steal. From the high seas to ancient jungle temples, we fight our way through Tortuga and strike gold with Monkey Mission. by The Spiel
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The Spiel #20 - Lore & Ladders: Chock full of goobery goodness! We click with Lexio, a Korean tile game with Chinese roots, and charge head long into Battle Lore, waging table top fantasy battles with hundreds of miniatures. by The Spiel
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The Spiel #13 - Expand-o-Matic: But wait, there's more! Our first all expansion edition. We play cards with green haired punk hobbits in Blue Moon and take on a weather changing beaver in Spirits of Niagara. by The Spiel
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The Spiel #15 - Mmm... Brains!: George Romero would be proud. First we hack our way through waves of the living dead in Zombies Widescreen Edition and then we play poker as zombies in Dead Money. Just remember to aim for the head! by The Spiel
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The Spiel #8 - Whodunnit?!: Put on your Deerstalker and massage those grey cells, we dive into three mystery games: Inkognito, Mystery on the Nile, and 221 B Baker St. by The Spiel
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The Spiel #1 - Second Pilot: The original pilot for the Spiel was lost, so this is our fresh start! You'll find out who's behind the Spiel and why we're doing this. We discuss/review Trias & King of the Beasts, the two latest games off The List, our list of unplayed games. by The Spiel
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The Spiel #4 - Cheese Canister: We circle the wagons to play Go West and then head for Sid Sackson's Bazaar. The title, you ask? Dave has a Lactaid moment discussing dice games. by The Spiel
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The Spiel #14 - Nosferatu: Grab your garlic and wooden stakes, we take a trip through Transylvania to play Vampire Hunter and Dawn Under. Who says the undead are no fun? by The Spiel
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The Spiel #18 - Wrap It Up! 2006 Holiday Gift Guide: A special holiday game gift guide! Over 50 game recommendations for gamers of all ages and games of all flavors. by The Spiel
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The Spiel #3 - Cry Havoc: Let slip the dogs of war. We play a card game that combines an early Renaissance war with poker. Seriously. We're not kidding. We also play Clippers. Be glad it was us and not you! by The Spiel
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The Spiel #9 - Myth & Match: Release the Kraken! We take an in-depth look at Mare Nostrum with the Mythology Expansion and go for a short cruise with Reiner Knizia's Loot. by The Spiel
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The Spiel #7 - Power to the Meeples!: Serfs up! Get ready for guild power struggles and try to keep your farmers our of prison. We take on Flandern 1302 and Carcassonne: The Tower, two medieval themed games where the peasants, the meeples, take center stage. by The Spiel
71 min listen
The Spiel #11 - Gen Con Part 2 - Rio Grande: A Rio Grande Games extravaganza! Listen for a play test report on five new games from Rio and then our interview with Jay Tummelson, the founder of the company and architect of the euro game revolution. by The Spiel
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The Spiel #36 - Gen Con 2007 Part 2: This time it's personal! You've heard the interviews (well most of them!), now hear from us. We give our report on our event, the Spiel-a-thon, panel discussions, Dealer's room hits and misses, and a game book that is not to be missed! by The Spiel
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The Spiel #2 - King Me: Crack open that bottle of Cabernet and pass the Camembert! We play and discuss Louis XIV, an influence based, tile-flipping game from Alea/Rio Grande Games. Truckloads of Goober makes its debut with a look at Britannia. by The Spiel
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The Spiel #12 - Going Postal: Strap on the mailbag and hitch up the wagon! We deliver our verdict on Thurn & Taxis, the 2006 Spiel de Jahres winner, and Big Top, a circus themed variant of a card game classic. by The Spiel
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The Spiel #19 - Cold Fusion: Recycle, reuse, replay! We warm up with a Mah Jongg variant called Forbidden and then tap into Power Grid, a game where garbage and wind can lead to vitctory. by The Spiel
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The Spiel #41 - Boo!: Everything's better with Zombies. From a shooting gallery with garlic grenades to our very own zombie baseball team, we shamble our way through Vampire and Zombie Fluxx, two games that include a festival of undeadly delights. by The Spiel
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The Spiel #5 - Renaissance Rockets: We play our way from the past to the future, covering Klaus Teuber's Anno 1503 and Richard Garfield's Rocketville. Two great designers, but alas, only one great game. by The Spiel
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The Spiel #16 - In the Cards: Shuffle up, and deal! We look back 400 years to play Scopa, a classic card game that feels modern and then play Parlay, the secret love-child of Scrabble and Poker. by The Spiel
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The Spiel #25 - You Look Marbleous!: Driven to abstraction. From archaeology to pachinko in less than two hours, we play Mykerinos and Marvin Marvel's Marvelous Marble Machine, two fast fun abstract strategy games. by The Spiel
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The Spiel #26 - Machiavelli's Mullet: Business in the front, party in the back. We plot and scheme to elect the Pope in The Prince, spaz out combining cornrows in Wig Out, and nibble our way from plankton to sharks in Chomp. by The Spiel
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The Spiel #22 - You Bet Your Asp: Bet like an Egyptian. We get a good dose of corruption, cash, and deadly crocodile gods playing Wits & Wagers and Cleopatra & the Society of Architects. by The Spiel
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The Spiel #32 - Spiel des Schpiel: And the winner is... We play all five games nominated for the Spiel des Jahres (German Game of the Year) and then we try to predict the winner! by The Spiel
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The Spiel #42 - Yo! Hemp Chicken: Baby needs a new pair of shoes. We build a casino empire in Vegas Showdown and climb the long ladder from Hemp Chicken to Dragon in the modern card classic Tichu. by The Spiel
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The Spiel #30 - The Golden Hippo: Skullduggery! Sometimes sneaky is better than strong. We fight over carcasses in Scavenger Hunt and pilfer treasure from lost tombs in Incan Gold. by The Spiel
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The Spiel #23 - Tony Danza & Co.: Cue the laugh track. We play Conquistadors in Pizarro & Co. and Capitalist pigs in I'm the Boss, two games that lead to big deals and big piles of cashola. by The Spiel
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The Spiel #21 - Ewe Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry: Lou Ferrigno, eat your heart out! It doesn't take gamma rays to make us see green, just two sets of horribly organized rules. We play Shear Panic and Marvel Heroes. One's a keeper, the other's a dud. by The Spiel
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The Spiel #48 - Worker Bees: Roll up your sleeves. Time to get your hands dirty. We chop wood and cut stone to build Kingsbridge Catehdral in Pillars of the Earth and send our swarms out to surround Queen bees in the strategy classic Hive. by The Spiel
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The Spiel #172 - Game, Set, Match

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