Episode 19: Great Games for Introducing People to the Hobby, with Erica Bouyouris

Game designer Erica Bouyouris joins Candice to discuss great board games for introducing people to the hobby. Erica also shares some excellent thoughts on how to ease new players in so they keep coming back.

• 00:00:00 Introduction
  • 00:01:02 Dumb Ways to Die Card Game
  • 00:01:34 Candice's Quick BGG.Spring Recap 
    • 00:02:30 Stationfall with Aldie
    • 00:02:39 Tribes of the Wind with Beth
    • 00:02:50 Big Boss & Mind Up! with Eric
    • 00:04:01 Spiel des Jahres Nominees
  • 00:06:31 Erica's Thoughts on Onboarding New Players
• 00:12:41 Fresh Plays
  • 00:13:43 Sky Team
  • 00:19:16 Big Shot
  • 00:28:21 Mists over Carcassonne
  • 00:35:15 Le Plateau
  • 00:39:31 Rebuilding Seattle
• 00:51:41 Great Games for Introducing People to the Hobby
  • 00:53:32 KuZOOka
  • 01:00:48 The Quacks of Quedlinburg
  • 01:06:38 Can’t Stop
  • 01:10:24 Citadels
  • 01:16:33 Horrified
  • 01:21:21 Azul
  • 01:24:15 AMIGO Games
  • 01:27:54 Splendor
  • 01:31:52 Oink Games
  • 01:35:50 Co-operative Games
• 01:41:00 Sign-off

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