Elegance (What We Talk About)

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Episode 105 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Elegance

We promised an inelegant conversation and oh boy do we ever deliver on that. In this what we talk about episode, we begin with a definition of elegance and then struggle to apply that definition to board games. Brendan thinks it is about being ingenious. Jake thinks it is about style. However, both of our intrepid hosts can agree on some overall trends that tend to make a game more likely to be elegant than not. As we think through and discuss this topic, we also discuss a whole bunch of games. Hope you are up for a bumpy one because the Interdecisional Spaceship is now sailing, elegantly, through space. 

Pre-Planners

Coloretto and Zooloretto coming next week, Barrage coming soon!

Timestamps

Intro - 0:00
Pandemic - 10:41
San Francisco - 14:47
Root - 25:31
Lost Ruins of Arnak - 26:06
Living Forest - 27:06
Castles of Burgundy - 29:09
Castles of Tuscany - 30:52
Cosmic Frog - 34:38
Azul - 36:51
The Fox in the Forest - 39:46
Lost Cities - 43:05
Patchwork - 46:12
Tigris & Euphrates - 48:49
Dominion - 52:35
Jenga - 53:41
El Grande - 55:47
Tiletum - 57:02
Cascadia - 58:28
Carpe Diem - 1:00:23
Bonfire - 1:01:23
In the Year of the Dragon - 1:02:23

Music and Sound 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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQuuRPfOyMw&list=TLGGFNH7VEDPgwgyNTA4MjAyMQ&t=3s

You can find more information about Hembree at https://www.hembreemusic.com/. 

Thank you to Flash Floods for use of their song Palm of Your Hand as a sting from their album Halfway to Anywhere: https://open.spotify.com/album/2fE6LrqzNDKPYWyS5evh3K?si=CCjdAGmeSnOOEui6aV3_nA

Rules Overview Music: 
Way Home by Tokyo Music Walker https://soundcloud.com/user-356546060​ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/tokyo-music-walker-way...​ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/pJThZlOuDtI

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