Draft Mechanic

I promise, this episode is made with only 100% the finest, realest, and bestest of ingredients! No filler here - that’s what you get with today’s feature review of The Quacks of Quedlinburg from North Star Games. We’re even putting it on tap, what a deal! We’ve got a helping of games news, kickstarters, Junk Orbit, and a Safari expedition into the CarcaZone! Don’t miss out on the cure for what ails ya, here in this episode of Draft Mechanic!

It’s the first episode of the year - and you know what that means! It’s time for our fourth-annual-recap-of-last-year! We’re bringing back the usual superlative categories, plus our six favorite beers, top six games and a huge final round of everyone’s most memorable gaming moments. Thanks so much for joining us for another year, we look forward to gaming with you in 2019!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! For our final show of 2018, we’re checking out City of Gears, and we’ve got some mechanical beer pairings as well! We also talk about the new Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra, build an engine with Gizmos, and find the loudest bird in Songbirds. Our slack shares their 2019 gaming resolutions, and Danielle gets us ready for New Year’s with a beer primer on Biere de Champagne! Enjoy and we’ll see you back next year for our 2018 In Review!

Convention season is finally over! In this episode, Jake & Danielle are joined by Eric Buscemi of the Cardboard Hoard and Eric & Jake recap their visit to Philly for the year’s last big board gaming convention. We cover three new games that Jake picked up, including beer pairings for Trellis plus The Stars Align and Drop It! Danielle discusses how different breweries date their packaged offerings, and Jake makes a graph in the final round.

Welcome, shoppers! On today’s episode, we hit the retail sector with a review of Pasaraya: Supermarket Manager! Don’t pass up great savings on recent plays: we’ve got a three-pack of them featuring Impact, War Chest and an installment of the CarcaZone with the South Seas standalone! Danielle has you set with a beer primer on the Winter Warmer style, and we poll our Slack channel for their opinions on deck builders. Enjoy!

Episode eight is our most divisive yet. As such, the segments are presented out of order - our recap with Team Beta is the first segment, then we go back for two ending recordings from Alpha. Alpha and Beta teams share secrets. Tamara has a shark-related meet & greet. Kyle has all his stats for the first time. Daniel creates a new hit song.

In today’s episode, we’ve gamed for 24 hours straight and, well, that’s a lot of games to talk about! So here’s our recap of what we played at the Gamers for Cures marathon, plus a Kickstarter preview of Atlantis Rising, and a look back at Burial Beer’s Burnpile Harvest Festival. I hope you brought some snacks, let’s marathon!

Today’s featured game will require your full attention and a little bit of reasoning: it’s Cryptid, the new logic deduction game from Osprey Games! Are our brains up to the task? If not, we’ve gone full CarcaZone with a look at the fabled Catapult expansion, plus newly released Orbis and the Digital Edition of Terraforming Mars. We round it out with a look at breweries we visited in Seattle, discussion about finding friendly game stores while traveling, and more! Enjoy!

Hello again! We’ve been adventuring, and we’re back with tales from the Legacy of Dragonholt. We’re also checking out the upcoming Dreams of Tomorrow from Weird Giraffe Games (on kickstarter now!), we play River Dragons, and we put Catch the Moon on tap. Danielle rounds this one out with a beer primer of the Rauchbier style. Smoky!

In today’s episode, we’re going west with North Star Games’ new poker-based game Most Wanted! We’ve got a kickstarter preview of Homebrewers, recent plays of Istanbul: The Dice Game and Bandido, plus a recap of the 2018 Great American Beer Festival. In our final round, we talk about games that either succeeded - or failed spectacularly - at their advertised player count. Enjoy!

Hello there! I hope you’ll allow us a bit of celebration as we start our fourth season off with a bang - the biggest CarcaZone ever! We’re going to go through all of the major expansions and share our reviews of each. We’ve got a kickstarter preview of Green Couch Games’ Into the Black Forest, talk about Spirits of the Wild, and share the biggest on-tap beer pairing ever with beers for each feature across all ten Carcassonne expansions. Thanks for listening!

Hello again! Today we’re spacing out with the tableau engine builder Space Base. We’ve got a Kickstarter preview of Bad Maps coming from Floodgate Games, the pallet-building Team UP! on tap, Scarabya, and we return to the CarcaZone with Carcassonne: The Dice Game. Danielle talks about brewing beers with tea, and Jake confesses his Noch Mal addiction. All this, plus our favorite Viking Leader leaves us for the red planet. Enjoy!

Whether you prefer to roll or flip, the latest craze in board gaming involves a randomizing element and writing on your score sheet. We tackle eight of these ‘randowriters’ in today’s episode that cover a wide spectrum of possibilities. From the 15-minute Qwinto to the longer No Siesta! and Welcome to…, the category is growing fast and we find some interesting connections in this jam-packed episode. Plus, the usual kickstarter updates, beer info, and chatter from our Slack channel in the final round

Welcome to our yearly Gen Con recap episode! We’ve got two hours of new games, demos and news from publishers to cover, so this one will be structured differently than the usual (no on tap or featured review). Check below for timestamps for what we thought of the show. Thanks so much for tuning in, and we’ll be back in two weeks with a regular episode!

It’s time to hop on the HYPE train! We’re days away from Gen Con 2018, our fifth time at the show and this is our third annual Hype List episode where we dig into the upcoming releases and games for demo at the biggest games convention (at least in the states) of the year! We’ve also got talk about three hyped releases that are making their big debuts at Gen Con: Disney’s Villainous, Star Realms: Frontiers, and Downforce: Danger Circuit! All aboard!!!