#016 - Ropecon 2025: Board Games We Played Together
Joonas and Luis go through the board games they played together at Ropecon 2025.
00:44 Ropecon 2025
05:36 Tigris & Euphrates
11:43 Bomb Busters
17:51 Combo Up
23:09 Ethnos
31:48 Capital Lux 2: Generations
36:22 Samurai
43:15 Friedrich
51:41 Battle Line
01:03:01 Lata + Lure + Chinatown + PUSH + FTW?!
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#015 - Winning and Friendship
Do competitive games strain friendships?
Luis and Joonas will also talk about Regicide, The Anarchy, and Skara Brae.
The research papers referred to in the episode are:
Gaining a competitive edge: Longitudinal associations between children’s competitive video game playing, conduct problems, peer relations, and prosocial behavior
https://awspntest.apa.org/record/2017-36453-001\
The influence of competitive and cooperative video games on behavior during play and friendship quality in adolescence
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0747563218305132
Timestamps:
00:33 Regicide
12:02 The Anarchy + Skara Brae
14:34 The Anarchy
24:18 Skara Brae
28:41 Winning and Friendship
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#014 - Top 10 of 2025/H1
Joonas and Luis rank their favorite games from the past six months.
04:58 Faraway
05:23 Misfits: The Tactical Stacking Game
06:24 Nusfjord: Big Box
08:19 Pandemic Legacy: Season 1
10:44 All Bridges Burning: Red Revolt and White Guard in Finland, 1917-1918
12:37 John Company: Second Edition
14:58 Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Thames Murders & Other Cases
17:14 Zoo Vadis
19:09 The Bottle Imp
21:24 Food Chain Magnet
24:18 EXIT: The Game – Kidnapped in Fortune City
26:39 Biblios
29:19 Ra
31:18 MicroMacro: Crime City
34:00 7 Empires
35:34 The Quest for El Dorado
38:52 Sidereal Confluence
42:04 Scrawl
44:33 Brass: Lancashire
47:04 Regicide
49:17 Guilty: Monaco 1955
52:18 Splendor Duel
55:12 Joonas's top 10
55:40 Luis's top 10
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#013 - Who Gets to Be a Critic?
What do you need to do to get a permit to start a board game podcast?
Joonas and Luis will also talk about Pax Pamir: Second Edition, John Company: Second Edition and Molly House.
02:23 Pax Pamir: Second Edition
08:57 John Company: Second Edition
21:55 Molly House
29:05 Who Gets to Be a Critic?
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#012 - Perfect Board Game Cafe
How to run a successful board game cafe according to the two non-experts, Joonas and Luis.
We will also talk about The Bottle Imp, Harmonies, and Hanamikoji.
00:45 The Bottle Imp
10:18 Harmonies
19:22 Hanamikoji
27:22 Perfect Board Game Cafe
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