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In this episode Mandi and Suzanne review Paladins of the West Kingdom, Four Senses, On The Underground, Piece of Pie, Vindication, and Qwixx The Card Game. We also review the Yellow and Yangtze app and serve up a Game Pie segment all about board games we prefer in digital form.

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TDT # 657 - "O" My Goodness

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In this episode, we review Marvel Infinity Gauntlet, Rise of Queensdale, Monumental, Legend of Zelda: Clockwork Realm, Pathfinder card game, and Traintopia.  Geoff looks at the science behind solving jigsaw puzzles, and Tom reviews 25 games as fast as he can.  We answer a few questions, and then we take a look at our ten favorite games that start with the letter "O".

2019
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In the two-player game Watergate, one player represents the Nixon administration and tries not to resign before the end of the game while the other player represents The Washington Post and tries to show the connections between Nixon and some of his informers.

Year Published: 2019
Designers: Matthias Cramer
Publishers: Frosted Games
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Year Published: 2019
Designers: Eduardo Baraf
Publishers: Pencil First Games, LLC
Year Published: 2019
Designers: Trevor Benjamin
Publishers: Osprey Games
Year Published: 2019
Designers: Rob Daviau
Publishers: Mondo Games
Year Published: 2019
Designers: Prospero Hall
Publishers: Funko Games
Year Published: 2019
Designers: Matthias Cramer
Publishers: Frosted Games
2019
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PARKS is a celebration of the US National Parks featuring illustrious art from Fifty-Nine Parks.

In PARKS, players will take on the role of two hikers as they trek through different trails across four seasons of the year. While on the trail, these hikers will take actions and collect memories of the places your hikers visit. These memories are represented by various resource tokens like mountains and forests. Collecting these memories in sets will allow players to trade them in to visit a National Park at the end of each hike.

Each trail represents one season of the year, and each season, the trails will change and grow steadily longer. The trails, represented by tiles, get shuffled in between each season and laid out anew for the next round. Resources can be tough to come by especially when someone is at the place you’re trying to reach! Campfires allow you to share a space and time with other hikers. Canteens and Gear can also be used to improve your access to resources through the game. It’ll be tough to manage building up your engine versus spending resources on parks, but we bet you’re up to the challenge. Welcome to PARKS!

—description from the publisher

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Year Published: 2019
Designers: Henry Audubon
Publishers: Keymaster Games
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Year Published: 2010
Designers: Piotr Haraszczak
Publishers: Portal Games
Year Published: 2019
Designers: Galen Ciscell
Publishers: Elf Creek Games
Year Published: 2019
Designers: Elizabeth Hargrave
Publishers: Stonemaier Games
Year Published: 2019
Designers: Rob Daviau
Publishers: Mondo Games
Year Published: 2019
Designers: Henry Audubon
Publishers: Keymaster Games
2019
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The stakes have been raised. Imagine living in a place so wretched that it's not plagued by one, two, or even three monsters — but seven of the most horrifying fiends!

In this game, you'll come face to face with them all as you work together to rid the town of the maniacal or misunderstood creatures…before it's too late.

Horrified includes high-quality sculpted miniatures (Frankenstein, The Bride of Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, Dracula, The Mummy, The Invisible Man, Creature from the Black Lagoon). Its innovative, easy-to-learn, cooperative gameplay has players working together against the monsters with varying levels of difficulty. Just as each monster is unique, they require different strategies and tactics to be defeated.

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Year Published: 2019
Designers: Prospero Hall
Publishers: Ravensburger
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Year Published: 2019
Designers: Nathan I. Hajek
Publishers: Fantasy Flight Games
Year Published: 2019
Designers: Nikki Valens
Publishers: Plaid Hat Games
Year Published: 2019
Designers: Prospero Hall
Publishers: Ravensburger
Year Published: 2019
Designers: Michael Boggs
Publishers: Fantasy Flight Games
Year Published: 2019
Designers: Ondra Skoupý
Publishers: Czech Games Edition
2019
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The Quacks of Quedlinburg: The Herb Witches expands the town of Quedlinburg with four new sets of items:

The Witches - new characters with special abilities that players may use once per game
Locoweed - a new ingredient whose value is determined by its ability rather than being fixed
New ingredient books for each existing ingredient type, increasing variety even further
Player components in black color - increasing the number of players to 5


Year Published: 2019
Designers: Wolfgang Warsch
Publishers: Schmidt Spiele
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Year Published: 2018
Designers: Antoine Bauza
Publishers: Repos Production
Year Published: 2019
Designers: John D. Clair
Publishers: Alderac Entertainment Group
Year Published: 2019
Designers: Jacob Fryxelius
Publishers: FryxGames
Year Published: 2019
Designers: Wolfgang Warsch
Publishers: Schmidt Spiele
Year Published: 2019
Designers: Vladimír Suchý
Publishers: Delicious Games
2019
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Point Salad is a fast and fun card drafting game for the whole family. There are over 100 ways to score points. Players may use a variety of strategies and every game of Point Salad is unique!

Cards come in six different types of veggies, and the back of each card has a different scoring method. So for instance, one scoring method may award 2 points for every carrot you have, but deduct a point for every onion. By drafting combinations of veggies and point cards that work for your strategy, you can amass the most points and win.

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Year Published: 2019
Designers: Molly Johnson
Publishers: Alderac Entertainment Group
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Year Published: 2019
Designers: Elizabeth Hargrave
Publishers: Stonemaier Games
Year Published: 2019
Designers: Peter McPherson
Publishers: Alderac Entertainment Group
Year Published: 2019
Designers: Molly Johnson
Publishers: Alderac Entertainment Group
Year Published: 2019
Designers: Prospero Hall
Publishers: Ravensburger
Year Published: 2019
Designers: Henry Audubon
Publishers: Keymaster Games
2019
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Wingspan is a competitive, medium-weight, card-driven, engine-building board game from Stonemaier Games. It's designed by Elizabeth Hargrave and features over 170 birds illustrated by Beth Sobel, Natalia Rojas, and Ana Maria Martinez.

You are bird enthusiasts—researchers, bird watchers, ornithologists, and collectors—seeking to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves. Each bird extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your habitats (actions). These habitats focus on several key aspects of growth:


Gain food tokens via custom dice in a birdfeeder dice tower
Lay eggs using egg miniatures in a variety of colors
Draw from hundreds of unique bird cards and play them


The winner is the player with the most points after 4 rounds.

If you enjoy Terraforming Mars and Gizmos, we think this game will take flight at your table.

—description from the publisher

From the 7th printing on, the base game box includes Wingspan: Swift-Start Promo Pack.

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Year Published: 2019
Designers: Elizabeth Hargrave
Publishers: Stonemaier Games
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Year Published: 2019
Designers: Evan Derrick
Publishers: Van Ryder Games
Year Published: 2019
Designers: Krzysztof Piskorski
Publishers: Awaken Realms
Year Published: 2019
Designers: Shem Phillips
Publishers: Garphill Games
Year Published: 2019
Designers: Nathan I. Hajek
Publishers: Fantasy Flight Games
Year Published: 2019
Designers: Andy Clautice
Publishers: Dire Wolf
Year Published: 2019
Designers: Joanna Kijanka
Publishers: Portal Games
Year Published: 2019
Designers: Prospero Hall
Publishers: Ravensburger
Year Published: 2019
Designers: Matthias Cramer
Publishers: Frosted Games
Year Published: 2019
Designers: Alexander Pfister
Publishers: Game's Up
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