PODCAST

Decision Space

Jacob Frydman, Brendan Hansen

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

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All Episodes

01:01:38

Action Points in Board Games (What We Talk About)

Decision Space ·

2025/02/12

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games.Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 201 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Action Point Systems It's a throwback to the early days of Decision Space. Jake and Brendan have a wide-ranging, loosely planned conversation about a topic in board games. Today that topic is action point systems, which we've explored

01:15:42

Episode 200! Our Favorite Decisions in Board Games

Decision Space ·

2025/02/05

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games.Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 200 - Our Favorite Board Game Decisions The big 200! We take the opportunity to share our favorite decisions in board games with all 4 hosts! Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 5:59 - Our Favorite Decisions Games Mentioned Briefly Race for the Galaxy, Avalon, The Resistance, Skull, Coup,

01:20:48

Shedding in Board Games (What We Talk About) and a...

Decision Space ·

2025/01/29

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games.Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 199 - Shedding Games and Haggis It's Pete, Paul, and Brendan this week discussing the shedding mechanism in board games before pivoting into a review of one of the most notable of these card games, Haggis! Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 3:38 - Shedding Games WWTA 34:45 - Scout 43:20 -

01:07:54

The Best 2024 Board Game Decisions and Games We Look...

Decision Space ·

2025/01/22

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games.Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 198 - The Best 2024 Board Game Decisions and Games We Look Forward to in 2025 Award season isn't over, at least not yet on Decision Space. Today, we welcome the 'Naughts to a gala event, where Paul, Pete, and Jake will each award bronze, silver, and gold medals for best decisions in

01:06:18

Our Top 5 Kramer & Kiesling Games and Mexica Deep Dive

Decision Space ·

2025/01/15

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games.Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 197 - Our Top 5 Kramer & Kiesling Games and Mexica Deep Dive It's Jake and Brendan again this week. We start off be each sharing our top 5 Kramer and Kiesling games. Then we get into the long promised Mexica deep dive. We are trying out the new deep dive format with a short

56:32

The State of Decision Space - Big News, Reflections,...

Decision Space ·

2025/01/08

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games.Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 196 - The State of Decision Space We like to start the new year by reflecting on the show, what we are doing here, and where we want to go from here. In this episode, you will hear our honest thoughts about the last year of our show, some big news and ideas about the show moving

01:18:08

RANKING ALL THE GAMES 2024: Year End Rank-A-Thon

Decision Space ·

2024/12/25

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games.Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 195 - 2024 Year End Rank-a-thon It's the last episode of 2024, so that means it is time to rank all the games featured on Decision Space in 2024. This is a great opportunity both as a chance to pit the games against each other and see which ones really rose to the top and as a

01:13:26

Quintessential Brendan Games

Decision Space ·

2024/12/18

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games.Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 194 - Quintessential Brendan Games Back after a short baby-hiatus, Decision Space returns with the one about Quintessential Brendan Games. We get to pull out the entire Decision Space lexicon and see how Brendan's taste in games fit into what we do here. Enjoy! Timestamps Message

01:03

Quick Show Update

Decision Space ·

2024/12/12

Jake's family welcomed a baby, which is why the show was on a brief hiatus for last week and this week. Next week you can look forward to an episode on quintessential Brendan games, and following that, our year end ranking all the games episode. -Jake

59:29

Double Feature! Dracula vs Van Helsing / Castle Combo

Decision Space ·

2024/11/27

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games.Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 193 - Dracula vs Van Helsing, Castle Combo Double Feature This double feature episode includes deep-dive reviews of Dracula vs Van Helsing and Castle Combo! We've never attempted to cram two full-on decision space explorations into a single episode, so we hope you enjoy this

01:19:03

The 5 Types of Rules (What We Talk About)

Decision Space ·

2024/11/20

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games.Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 192 - What We Talk About When We Talk About the Five Types of Rules In this podcast, we've talked a lot about games, mechanisms, and the rules that call these things forth from the page and bring the game to life on our table. We haven't, however, talked a lot about rules

01:01:45

Quintessential Jake Games

Decision Space ·

2024/11/14

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games.Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 191 - Quintessential Jake Games What is a game that is quintessential to a person's taste? With Jake as the guinea pig, we try to answer that question and determine what defines Jake's taste in this week's episode. Timestamps Intro and Updates - 0:00 Main Topic - 6:57 The

01:01:09

Burgle Bros - Is This Pac-Man the Board Game?

Decision Space ·

2024/11/06

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games.Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 190 - Burgle Bros In this week's episode, we deep dive Burgle Bros, Tim Fower's self-published 2015 game that casts players as the cast of a heist movie! The theme rocks, but do the decisions and maze-game style play succeed? We'll talk about it. Timestamps Intro - 0:00 Ratings -

01:00:06

Play at Work (Business Casual Dress Code Strictly...

Decision Space ·

2024/10/31

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games.Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 189 - Play at Work In this unique episode, Jake makes the case to Brendan for play at work based on the slides from an upcoming presentation. Business casual dress will be strictly enforced for all Interdecisional Spaceship travellers listening in. Happy Halloween If you are

01:03:46

TOP 10 Games of the '90s with Jared Ingersoll

Decision Space ·

2024/10/23

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games.Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 188 - Top 10 Games of the '90s In this episode 3 copilots take on a tall task - rank the top 10 best euro-style board games of the '90s. We try out a wacky new format, it is kind of confusing, but don't worry because Brendan catches on eventually. This episode may be best enjoyed

01:09:32

EGO - Does this New Knizia Game Come in Peace?

Decision Space ·

2024/10/16

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games.Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 187 - EGO On this historic day, the Decision Space co-pilots have finally been talked into accepting a review copy of EGO from Bitewing games. While we couldn't play as many times as we normally do for a game deep dive, we did our darndest to give this game the full Decision Space

59:59

The Sweet Spot Mechanic (WWTA)

Decision Space ·

2024/10/09

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 186 - What We Talk About When We Talk About the Sweet Spot Mechanic In this game we talk about the sweet spot mechanic, which is kind of but not quite a jackpot mechanic and an efficiency puzzle! We try to define this term and discuss the games that fit, a conversation that takes

01:02:59

Five Tribes - Still Hanging Tough on the BGG Top 100?!

Decision Space ·

2024/10/02

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games.Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 185 - Five Tribes We return to a classic deep dive, covering Bruno Cathala's Five Tribes, a 2014 hit by Days of Wonder that remains on the BGG top 100. Five Tribes features unique, mancala style worker "displacement" mechanic, so you know we can't wait to sink our teeth in. Enjoy

52:39

What We Think About When We Think About Playtesting...

Decision Space ·

2024/09/25

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 184 - What We Think About When We Think About Playtesting with Paul Salomon In this episode Jake and Paul reflect on Stonemaier Design Day 2024, recording just one day after the event. Using that frame, we give 5ish tips to think about when playtesting your game or someone

47:40

Oops, We Played the Hotness (Stamp Swap, Wilmot's...

Decision Space ·

2024/09/18

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 183 - Oops, We Played the Hotness (Stamp Swap, Wilmot's Warehouse and other Recent Plays) In this interlude episode, Jake and Brendan quickly discuss some games that have hit our tables lately and never previously discussed on the pod. Oops, we played some hot games. (Shut

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