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#124: Return of the Randowriters
Draft Mechanic - September 07, 2020 15:41 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDraft Mechanic Episode #124: Return of the Randowriters Roll ‘em! It’s time for another round-up of Randowriters, still the hottest craze in lil’ games with pencils, pens, dice and cards. We’ve got four of ‘em (one is an app). Oh, and just in case you don’t want to be random, we’re also talkin...
#123: Bargain Quest
Draft Mechanic - August 24, 2020 02:57 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDraft Mechanic Episode #123: Bargain Quest I sure hope you like value! In this episode of Draft Mechanic, you get not just ONE game in the feature segment, but ONE and a half! An expansion too! That’s such a steal! But don’t steal Bargain Quest. But if you want to steal, your dexterity is prob...
#122: Hats & Chai
Draft Mechanic - August 10, 2020 02:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDraft Mechanic Episode #122: Hats, Chai, Traintopia, Arkadia, Sabro hops Hope you’re thirsty, because it’s tea time! We’re maneuvering hat cards in teams or individually in Hats, we’re opening our own tea shops in Chai, and… ok, that’s where the tea metaphors run dry. In other recent plays, we...
#121: High Rise
Draft Mechanic - July 27, 2020 01:19 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDraft Mechanic Episode #121: High Rise; Roar & Write; Stay Cool; Carcassonne: Wheel of Fortune; Black is Beautiful beer initiative Your eyes don’t deceive you, it is for sure a new episode of Draft Mechanic! Thanks so much for sticking with us, and we’re glad to bring you a feature review of H...
#120: Mystery House
Draft Mechanic - April 21, 2020 04:08 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDraft Mechanic Episode #120: Mystery House; CYOA: House of Danger; Captive; Crusoe Crew; Summit Hops #stayhome and play some of these mysterious games about houses! It wasn’t intentional, we swear. Mystery House, CYOA: House of Danger and Captive all take place in houses. And the Crusoe Crew -...
#119: In the Hall of the Mountain King
Draft Mechanic - April 07, 2020 03:43 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDraft Mechanic Episode #119: In the Hall of the Mountain King, Lions of Lydia KS preview, Zoned Out, Felix the Cat in the Sack, Mosaic Hops, House Rules Hello again! In this new era of staying at home, why not make that home in a mountain? We’re excavating a mountain cave in our feature review...
#118: Mechanica
Draft Mechanic - March 05, 2020 04:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDraft Mechanic Episode #117: Mechanica; Draw Your Own Conclusions; Ecos; Thunder Alley; Galaxy Hops; Culling It’s episode beep, beep boop! Or rather, 118, in which we talk about Mechanica, and the bots we make along the way. Plus: Drawing in Draw Your Own Conclusions, Continenting in Ecos: Fir...
#117: Atlantis Rising
Draft Mechanic - February 20, 2020 04:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDraft Mechanic Episode #117: Atlantis Rising, Gorinto, Tumble Town, The Isle of Cats, Huell Melon hop primer Do you think you have what it takes to save the people of Atlantis from the wrath of the Gods? No? Well, how about in a co-operative worker placement game? We sure hope so because we’re...
#116: The Taverns of Tiefenthal
Draft Mechanic - February 06, 2020 04:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDraft Mechanic Episode #116: The Taverns of Tiefenthal; Azul: Summer Pavilion; Dizzle; Carcassonne: Hunters & Gatherers; Strata Hop Primer; Convention ‘Must Haves’ It’s an early episode of the year, and that apparently means a Wolfgang Warsch game! Today we sidle up to the Taverns of Tiefentha...
#115: PAX Unplugged & 2020 Convention Outlook!
Draft Mechanic - January 23, 2020 06:12 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDraft Mechanic Episode #115: PAX Unplugged & 2020 Convention Outlook Hey, we promised a PAX episode and here it is! There’s a big ol’ list of games we played, and we just got some of them in this episode. Look for more as we work into some reviews in the next few episodes! Danielle also contin...
#114: 2019 In Review
Draft Mechanic - January 06, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDraft Mechanic Episode #114: 2019 In Review Oh hi there! Good to see you again! We’re back from our 2019 Winter Break and ready to talk about our favorites of the year. We’ve got our usual superlative categories, our favorite beers of 2019, and our six favorite games of last year to serve up f...
Draft Mechanic's 2019 Winter Break!
Draft Mechanic - December 02, 2019 04:09 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDraft Mechanic Episode #113 and a half: Draft Mechanic’s Winter Break Hey all, just dropping in a quick note to share what we’re up to in December. See you at PAX Unplugged! 00:10 What’s a Winter Break 04:35 “Superpower of Choice” by The Liberation Jumpsuit We hope you enjoyed today's ep...
SPOILER EPISODE OMEGA: T.I.M.E Stories, Madame
Draft Mechanic - November 19, 2019 03:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDraft Mechanic Spoiler Episode Omega In this spoiler-filled episode of Draft Mechanic, we look back on the final TIME Stories scenario of the “White Cycle,” Madame. If you listened to our review/discussion in Episode 100, you might know how this one turns out. We have mostly everyone from Team...
#113: Fantastic Factories
Draft Mechanic - November 04, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDraft Mechanic Episode #113: Fantastic Factories, Haven, Cartographers, Trapwords, Cascade Hops Factories are all about efficiency, and this episode is gonna be an efficient punch of board game info! We’re reviewing Fantastic Factories in the feature segment, we’ve got the beer pairings as we ...
#112: Tapestry review & on tap; Escape Tales: The Awakening
Draft Mechanic - October 21, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDraft Mechanic Episode #112: Tapestry, Escape Tales: Low Memory, Quacks of Quedlinburg expansion We’ve got three heavy hitters in this episode! First, the hottest of the hot with Jamey Stegmaier’s new civilization game Tapestry as our lead feature. Second, the follow-up to our number one game ...
#111: Welcome To... Thematic Neighborhoods; The Search for Planet X preview
Draft Mechanic - October 08, 2019 01:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDraft Mechanic Episode #111: Welcome to Thematic Neighborhoods; The Search for Planet X; Slyville It’s all about the future on Draft Mechanic 111! We’ve got a Kickstarter preview of The Search for Planet X, plus a look at Slyville coming at Essen from Hexy Studio. Our main feature is five (fiv...
#110: Letter Jam review & on-tap
Draft Mechanic - September 23, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDraft Mechanic Episode #110: Letter Jam, Las Vegas Royale, Lanterns Dice, Keyforge Blue Happy birthday, us! It’s the start of Season Five and our fourth anniversary, and we’ve decided to be pretty business-as-usual about this one. Especially after that Episode 100 blowout! So we’re reviewing L...
#109: Sessionable Games Six-Pack; LOTS & Calico
Draft Mechanic - September 10, 2019 03:43 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDraft Mechanic Episode #109: Sessionable Games Six-Pack; LOTS & Calico We’re dressed to the nines! Episode 109, that is. Releasing on 9-9-19! It’s a coincidence I’m sure. Anyway! On with the show. We’ve got a double six-pack of sessionable games (30 minutes or you’re play’s free!), a double Ki...
#108: Imhotep The Duel
Draft Mechanic - August 26, 2019 04:43 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDraft Mechanic Episode #108: Imhotep: The Duel Hello there! It’s been a minute, but we’re back and ready to board game podcast. This one has games for all: one player, two player, three and four player, old, young, really that covers everything I think. But yeah! We’re talking about Imhotep: T...
#107: The Gen Con 2019 Recap!
Draft Mechanic - August 05, 2019 22:11 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDraft Mechanic Episode #107: Gen Con 2019 Recaps That was Gen Con - and this is the Gen Con recap! Look, I’m sorry, I’m not getting more specific with the timestamps below because then I’d have 100,000 entries. Wait - you actually look at those? Well. I guess. But you asked for it - we talk ab...
#106: The Hype List 2019! Gen Con Preview
Draft Mechanic - July 29, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDraft Mechanic Episode #106: The Hype List 2019! Gen Con 52 Preview IT’S TIME, DEAR LISTENER. TIME TO EMBRACE THE HYPE. LET IT WASH OVER YOU. GEN CON IS HERE. 01:00 Show Intro, News & Updates 03:05 Gen Con Meetup Plans 07:02 Games News: Raiders of the North Sea digital! 08:10 Kickstart...
#105: Blue Lagoon review; Proving Grounds & Aerion
Draft Mechanic - July 22, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDraft Mechanic Episode #105: Blue Lagoon Ahh, hear that? The relaxing waves, the ocean crashing, yes, you’ve found yourself at a review of Blue Lagoon. It’ll be nice to relax a minute before we fall into the rapids of Gen Con! We’ve got Blue Lagoon on tap and in the review zone. We’ve got solo...
#104: The 2018 Redux!
Draft Mechanic - July 08, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDraft Mechanic Episode #104: 2018 Redux There’s no better time to look back on a year than halfway through the next one! In our mid-year tradition, we take a second look at our Top Games lists of the previous year and discuss how they’ve changed since January. There’s new games, moved games an...
#103: We're Doomed! six-pack review; Dust in the Wings on tap; Our Favorite Taprooms
Draft Mechanic - June 24, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDraft Mechanic Episode #103: We’re Doomed, Favorite Taprooms, Origins Recap Today’s episode comes right from the source! Jake went to Origins, we talk up our favorite brewery taprooms, and there’s a selection of fresh new games! We pair beers with Board & Dice’s new butterfly-fluttering abstra...
#102: Variants: Uwe Rosenberg's Puzzle Trilogy
Draft Mechanic - June 10, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDraft Mechanic Episode #102: Variants: Uwe Rosenberg’s Puzzle Trilogy Today we’re taking a look at not one, not two but three polyomino-based games from Uwe Rosenberg as we compare his Puzzle Trilogy: Cottage Garden, Indian Summer and Spring Meadow! Plus, we’ve got a few recent plays from year...
#101: Geekway 2019 Recap!
Draft Mechanic - May 27, 2019 10:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDraft Mechanic Episode #101: The Geekway Experience I! Hope! You! Are! Ready! To! Hear! About! Some! Games! We’re back from Geekway and fully recovered and comin’atcha with over two hours of Geekway recap. It was a whirlwind of cardboard and wooden bits with a stop or two for a brew. Ok, maybe...
#100: Episode One Hundred! Our Top Tens & Listener Q&A
Draft Mechanic - May 06, 2019 06:39 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDraft Mechanic Episode #100: Our Top Tens & Listener Q&A Now we’re really old! In this centennial episode of Draft Mechanic, we’re looking at our Top 10s, we have a Listener Q&A segment, Danielle tackles the biggest Beer Primer to date, Jake talks about going to Chicago for the Gaming Hoopla, ...
#99: Variants: Hero Realms v. Star Realms
Draft Mechanic - April 22, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDraft Mechanic Episode #99: Hero Realms v Star Realms It’s the last two-digit episode of Draft Mechanic, and we’re sizing up a pair of deck builders in our Variants feature of Hero Realms and Star Realms! We talk about Bosk, the latest from Floodgate Games, go 15 years back to St. Petersburg, ...
#98: Otys review; Freshwater Fly preview
Draft Mechanic - April 01, 2019 10:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDraft Mechanic Episode #98: Otys Sometimes, you’re able to dig up a gem - and we’ve gone sea-floor salvaging to pull up today’s review of Otys. The Kickstarter wave continues to crest and we’ve got a preview of Freshwater Fly; and in recent plays it’s Pikoko, plus an odd detour into the CarcaZ...
#97: Coimbra review; Deep Space D-6 on tap
Draft Mechanic - March 18, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDraft Mechanic Episode #97: Coimbra Today on Draft Mechanic, Jake gets to play his most-wanted game from 2018, Coimbra! Does it live up to the hype, or will it fall short of expectations? We also look at the new rondel-icious Winterborne from Brian Suhre and Talon Strikes Studios, plus a pair ...
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