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This Board Game Life Episode #016 – Descent2, SkyTraders, Glen More, St Petersburg Exp, & More!

Both winners of our Zooloretto Wurfelspiel Contest are announced! (1:40) and Jeff reviews Descent Second Edition at length after more than 10 plays! (3:55). Other Games discussed this episode are FFG’s Fortress America (48:05), King of Tokyo (58:56), Various Haba Games (1:11:28), Macao (1:27:17), Airlines Europe & Glen More (1:35:50), St Petersburg Expansion (1:52:39), Maharani from Queen Games (1:54:24), FFG’s new Sky Traders (1:59:12), and Summoner Wars (2:18:15).  The show is then concluded with information on whats coming next. (2:25:06).

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By |2013-09-11T21:09:32-05:00July 16th, 2012|2 Comments

This Board Game Life Episode #015 – Wandering Dragons & Quarmageddons

In this episode Jeff shares his favorite game store experience along with some discussion on two new board game stores that opened up at the same time just blocks away! (1:23)  Jeff then gets a bit pissed off at Sedition Wars (20:43) and reviews the new Quarriors! Quarmageddon expansion along with the base game. (30:06)

Rob talks about Monza (50:38) and the hosts then discuss Lost Cities (53:05), Zooloretto (59:11), and Saint Petersburg (1:04:41).  Rob and Jeff both share separate rants about Yucata.de (1:17:23) and then cover several games in the Game Lust segment including The Hunters: German U-Boats at War (1:23:25), World at War America Conquered (1:24:54), Conflict of Heroes 2nd Edition (1:26:00), Bloody Crossroads (1:26:25), Macao (1:27:08), Vegas (1:31:00) and Victory Point Games (1:31:55).  The hosts then conclude the show. (1:35:20)

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By |2014-03-10T23:04:30-05:00July 4th, 2012|9 Comments

This Board Game Life Episode #014 – Infiltration, Tooth & Nail, and Listener Feedback

In this episode Jeff gives out a suggestion for the next big Board Gaming mobile application (1:46), Rob talks about Neuroshima Hex for Android (6:13), the whole Urbion thing (8:03), and how he has still been missing out on Trajan…which prompts Jeff to discuss how he uses BGG and other tools to track thoughts on games and so forth (9:24).

Jeff discusses Infiltration at length (22:35), also Tooth & Nail: Factions Lite (52:07), and then Railways of the World (1:07:39).  Misc. other games played by Jeff and Rob are then discussed (1:19:02) including a brief 3 player session report after Rob takes Zooloretto Wurfelspiel to work (1:19:52).  A contest reminder for 2 Copies of Zooloretto Wurfelspiel follows (1:25:40).

In the Game Lust segment, Jeff mentions The Duke (1:28:46), Sleuth/Venture/Monad (1:32:00), and Rob regurgitates some old lusts (1:34:30).

During Listener Feedback, the hosts answer questions about favorite game mechanics, favorite fillers, favorite dice games, game stores, interviews, online gaming, kickstarter, culling games and more in response to 6 listener emails and 1 voicemail shared on-air (1:36:42).  The hosts then conclude the show (2:23:16).

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By |2013-09-11T21:10:16-05:00June 20th, 2012|0 Comments

ThisBoardGameLife.Com – Zooloretto Wurfelspiel x2 – Contest Entry Rules

We are giving away two brand new Abacusspiele German import copies of Zooloretto Wurfelspiel provided by the shows hosts, Jeff and Rob. (Each copy is part of a separate drawing).

The first requirement just to qualify for contest entry is to join our BoardGameGeek.com guild found at:

This Board Game Life BGG Guild

To then be entered into both drawings, call our voicemail at (754)444.TBGL or (754)444.8245 (Or you can email us a pre-recorded .mp3 file of your voice message).

To be entered into a single drawing, send us an email at contact@thisboardgamelife.com.

Your voicemail message or email could contain:

  • Comments on our show
  • Your opposing view on anything we’ve rendered our opinion on
  • Thoughts on a game you’ve recently played
  • Your brief boardgame related rant
  • A request for us to review or comment on a specific game
  • Anything else you can think of

Your Voicemail and/or Email entries may be aired on a future episode of This Board Game Life and we may also choose to quote you on this very website.

The reason we would like you to join our BGG guild is so we have another way to contact you should you not leave us your email on the voicemail, so we can include where your from should you not mention it, and just because we are curious about our listeners in general.

Thanks and good luck!!!

By |2013-09-11T21:13:16-05:00June 16th, 2012|0 Comments
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