Game Brain: A Board Game Podcast About Our Gaming Group

Round 4, Turn 6: "Detective" with Jesse

Nov 11, 2019

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0:00:00 - Introduction
- Chronicles of Crime
0:01:42 - This Week’s Game Night
- Trismegistus (0:02:30)
- Age of Steam (0:07:00)
- Tzolkien (0:10:09)
- Marakaibo (0:12:39)
- Ricochet Robots (0:14:55)
0:18:55 - This Week's News
- Geek Buzz 2019 Essen Top Ten (0:19:08)
  - Terramara
  - Ethos: First Continent
  - Glenmore 2
    - Watergate
  - Cooper Island
  - Brussels 1897
    - Brussels 1893
  - It's a Wonderful World
    - Seven Wonders
    - Terraforming Mars
    - Agricola
  - Barrage
  - Trismegistus
  - Aquatica
  - The Magnificent
    - Big Top
    - Show Manager
    - Trickerion
    - Santa Maria
    - Meeple Circus
  - Imperial Settlers Roll and Write (0:29:10)
  - Marco Polo 2: In Service of the Khan (0:30:30)
  - Teotihuacan: Shadow of Xitle (0:32:28)
  - Spielworks + Karl Heinz Shmiel (0:34:19)
    - Die Macher
    - Tribune
  - Food Chain Magnate Expansion: Ketchup Mechanism (0:40:21)
    - Bus
    - Roads and Boats
    - Antiquity
    - Indonesia
    - Greed, Inc.
  - Detective: Season One (0:46:32)
0:47:30 - Games on the Brain
- Blood on the Clocktower (0:49:06)
- Imperial Struggle (0:49:40)
  - Twilight Struggle
- The Current Multiplayer Solitaire Trend (0:50:59)
  - Trismegistus
0:55:35 - Review of Detective
- Sherlock Holmes, Consulting Detective
- Chronicles of Crime
- Imperial Settlers
- Robinson’s Crusoe
- Pret a Porter
- Fifty First State
- Concordia
1:29:30 - Old School with Jesse: My Dad's Game Collection
- Campaign for North Africa
- Monopoly
- Life
  - Marvelous Mrs. Maisel edition
- Risk
- Clue
- Scotland Yard
- Crossbows and Catapults
- Broadsides and Boarding Parties
- Dark Tower
- Dungeons and Dragons
- Camelot
- Fireball Island
- Grass
- Hero Quest
- Acquire
- Civilization
- Backgammon
- Chess
- Diplomacy
- Gettysburg
- Tubruck
- Source of the Nile
- Flat Top
- Storm over Arnheim
- Field Command
- Empire
- War in Russia
- Silent Service
- Decision in the Desert
- Computer Ambush
- Computer Quarterback
- Colonial Conquest
- Nam
- Stock Market Game
- The Stock Market Game
- Stocks and Bonds
- Mr President
- Speed Circuit
- Win, Place and Show
- Win, Place, Show
- Winner Circle
- Wizard’s Crown
- Avalon Hill
- 3M
- Strategic Simulations, Inc.
- CoIn Games (Counter Insurrection)
  - Cuba Libre
  - Fire in the Lake
  - Block Games
1:51:51 Board Game Sommelier
- Board Games similar to Car Wars and Battletech
  - Warhammer
  - Gloomhaven
  - Space Hulk
  - Descent: Journeys into the Dark
  - Gas Lands
  - Kingdom Death Monster
- 1:57:31 - Sign Off