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Decision Space

Jacob Frydman, Brendan Hansen, Pete Wissinger, Paul Salomon

Decision Space is a board game podcast about the decisions in games.

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01:00:47

Tempo in Board Games and What It Isn’t (What We Talk...

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2022/02/01

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games! Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community! Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon) Episode 53 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Tempo in Board Games and What It Isn't This game has a great tempo! That move just gained you so much tempo! I have tempo in this situation! All of these phrases can say a lot about a game, a game state, and a game's decision space. The challenge is that in each phrase,

01:10:02

Evolution: Climate - Keep Your Politics in My...

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2022/01/26

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games! Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community! Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon) Episode 52 - Evolution: Climate This week we begin with a brief "What's on Your Mind" discussion. Brendan has been playing Calico, and Jake recaps an epic birthday game day. After that, we hop right into our signature deep dive discussion of the Evolution system with a focus on Evolution: Climate, designed by Dominic

01:08:27

Palaces of Carrara - Can You Grok the Block?

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2022/01/19

Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community! Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon) Episode 51 - Palaces of Carrara Jake and Brendan are back in the interdecisional spaceship and - look out! - we're heading straight for Kramer and Kiesling's 2012 game Palaces of Carrara -- a decision space some call ungrokable. Find out what we say as wee discuss this sleek design that's oddly hard to talk about in this week;s episode of Decision Space, the podcast about decisions

59:34

Episode 50! (Mission Planning 10 Games We Want to...

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2022/01/12

Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community! Episode 50 - Mission Planning 10 Games We Want to Explore in 2022, Podcast Aspiration, Book Club, and a Big Announcement Our biggest milestone yet -- episode 50! In this episode, we do a little pre-planning of our own and discuss 10 we want to cover imminently in 2022. We also share our podcast aspirations for 2022. If that wasn't enough, we have two announcements. For one, we will be starting the first ever Decision Space book

01:12:02

Splendor - The Little Engine That Could (Not Be Killed?)

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2022/01/05

Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community! Episode 49 - Splendor The week we change things up. No, really! It's the return of the "What's on Your Mind" segment where Jake and Brendan each share one game that we've been playing lately. Then we take off for Splendor's decision space in our interdecisional spaceship. We ask if this mega-hit is truly an engine building game, and, returning to Splendor after some time away, we ask if these gems still shine as brightly as

01:24:20

We Rank EVERY Game - 2021 End of Year Special

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2021/12/29

Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community! Episode 48 - End of Year Special where We Rank Every Game Featured on Decision Space in 2021 In the end of year special edition of Decision Space, we rank every game featured on the show this year from 30 to 1. Thank you for making this first year of Decision Space such a wonderful experience. Here's to even bigger things in 2022. Games Featured in this Episode Kanagawa, Carpe Diem, Res Arcana, Underwater Cities, The Fox in

01:06:30

Azul - Clones The Castles of Burgundy‘s Decision Space?!

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2021/12/22

Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community! Click on this link to participate in our end of the year community top 10 poll. Episode 47 - Azul 2018 Spiel Des Jahres winner, the 58th best game of all time on Board Game Geek, and designed by the esteemed Michael Kiesling, you don't need our podcast to tell you that Azul is a good game. So today on Decision Space, we dive deep into the decision space that emerges from Azul's simple set of mechanisms as players tussle over

01:05:02

Raiders of the North Sea - A Raid to Remember

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2021/12/15

Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community! Episode 46 - Raiders of the North Sea If you've been playing hobby board games over the past six years, then you likely have at least a passing awareness of the output of Garphill games and designer Shem Phillips. (If you are new to hobby board games, then welcome!) In today's episode we cover the Garphill Game that first put Shem on ther radar for many of us, Raiders of the North Sea. Raiders is a worker placement game, with

01:01:15

Irrational Actors (What We Talk About with Tony Faber)

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2021/12/08

Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community! Episode 45 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Irrational Actors with Special Guest Tony Faber Is a new player pretty much the same thing as a drunk player? This is just one of the many hard-hitting questions we'll dig into (seriously) on this week's episode of Decision Space. The topic of irrational actors at the board game table, an unwieldy topic that spans social contracts, sobriety, siding with spies, and so much more

01:03:18

Kingdom Builder - We‘re Gonna Need A Bigger Decision...

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2021/12/01

Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community! Episode 44 - Kingdom Builder Back with yet another classic game and yet another Spiel De Jahres winner, this week on Decision Space it is Kingdom Builder. We bring out our magnifying glasses to explore the decisions in this game, and it is a good thing we did because is the smallest decision space we've come across yet. But perhaps a small decision space is all you need to have a great time and, after all, this game did win the

01:01:56

Patchwork - Buttons Rule Everything Around Me

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2021/11/24

Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community! Episode 43 - Patchwork We may have topped ourselves and put out our giggliest episode ever! It's true, we laughed a lot and had a great time exploring the decisions in Uwe Rosenberg's classic Patchwork. This is a game that hides a lot (of negative points) under its adorable (or gruesome - hello Halloween edition) exterior. Don't get it twisted. The game's cute, but to become the Button Master, you'll hash it out in a strategic,

58:26

Objective Vs. Subjective Decision Space (What We Talk...

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2021/11/17

Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community! Episode 42 - Objective Versus Subjective Decision Space (WWTA) For the first time, we revisit a topic discussed on our 3rd ever episode, decision space. (Yeah, like the name of the show.) Specifically, we try to add nuance to the original discussion with something that has been coming up a lot in our game discussions, the subjective nature of decision space. We look at what parts of a decision space are objective, what parts

01:01:58

7 Wonders Duel with Special Guest Jamey Stegmaier

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2021/11/10

Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community! Episode 41 - 7 Wonders Duel Jake, Brendan, and Jamey Stegmaier hop in the Interdecisional Spaceship to talk 7 Wonders Duel on this week's episode. We talk about the way that three truly viable win conditions and the many simultaneous games of tug-of-war shape the decision space in this powerhouse Bauza and Cathala team-up design. You won't want to miss it. And if you can spare a moment to like and review this podcast, then that

01:05:53

Race for the Galaxy - Phases Set To Fun

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2021/11/03

Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community! Episode 40 - Race for the Galaxy Race for the Galaxy, designed by Tom Lehman. Enough said. Get in here! Preplan Your Next Turn Next time on Decision Space we explore the decisions in Seven Wonders: Duel! Music Credits Thank you to Hembree for our intro and outro music from their song Reach Out. You can listen to the full song on YouTube here:

01:00:48

10 Decision Spaces We Want To Explore ASAP - Mission...

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2021/10/27

Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community! Episode 39 - 10 Decision Spaces We Want To Explore ASAP (Mission Planning #1) For the first time, we discuss games we haven't played. That's right. We are trying out a brand new type of episode that we are tentatively titling Mission Planning. In this episode, we discuss 10 games (5 each) that we can't wait to get to play. This includes new games, hotness, and it wouldn't be Decision Space if it didn't include some old games

01:13:10

Spirit Island - Imposing Depths of Indomitable Board...

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2021/10/20

Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community! Episode 38 - Spirit Island This week is Spirit Island by designer R. Eric Reuss. A serious game for serious gamers that defies expectations in the best possible way. Here's an admission, we were a bit nervous to cover this game and its mammoth decision space. As we explored the game in preparation for this episode, t felt as if no amount of plays would be enough, but perhaps more than anything else that is a testament to the

01:04:00

Praga Caput Regni - The Actions on the Wheel Go Round...

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2021/10/13

Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community! Episode 37 - Praga Caput Regni We discuss designer Vladimir Suchý's follow-up to Underwater Cities, Praga Caput Regni, where instead of building underwater cities, players will build one on land city! This is a heavy euro game with tons of decisions centered around an innovative action selection mechanic that encourages players not to put all of their eggs in one basket. In our discussion, we won't walk on eggshells as we the

01:16:31

A New Way To Talk About Theme (What We Talk About)

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2021/10/06

Click on the link to join our brand new Discord community! Episode 36 - What We Talk About When We Talk About A New Way To Talk About Theme In this week's episode, we go old-school Decision Space and hit you with a new framework for discussing themes in board games. There is an environmental theme, a mechanical theme, and, of course, a decision space theme! We explain the framework and then put it through its paces trying to fill out the entire gaming theme matrix from high, high, high (high

01:03:34

Kingdomino - What‘s Hiding Beneath This Quirky Art?

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2021/09/29

Click on the link to join our brand new Discord community! Episode 35 - Kingdomino Zany kingdoms, quirky art, and dominos make Kingdomino one of the warmest welcomes to the board game hobby we've ever come across, but could there be a demanding competitive experience hidden beneath this apparently simple game? You'll have to hop in to find out, the Interdecisional Space ship takes off in 3... 2... 1! Music Credits Thank you to Hembree for our intro and outro music from their song Reach Out. You

01:04:05

Imhotep - The Perfect Poached Egg?

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2021/09/22

Click on the link to join our brand new Discord community! Episode 34 - Imhotep This week on Decision Space, Imhotep! Designed by Phil Walker-Harding and a 2016 Spiel Des Jahres Nominee is a game about placing rocks, sailing boats, and getting in each other's way all the while. There isn't much more to it than that in this incredibly simple poached egg. I mean game. Will Jake and Brendan find this poached egg of a game to be bland, or will a perfectly runny yolk, fluffy texture, and pinch of salt

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