Summary: <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> We’re going to talk about Gen Con, Gen Can’t, and virtual conventions in general.<br> <br> <br> <br> Fun Fact: There are exactly 204 ways to place three non-attacking queens on a chessboard!<br> <br> <br> <br> Thanks to our sponsor, First Move Financial. We talk about the sunk-cost fallacy<br> <br> <br> <br> What We’ve Been Playing<br> <br> <br> <br> Concluzio (Puzzling Pixel Games) – a pure deduction game that plays a bit like Hanabi. Hold one card face out and get clues about what your card matches (or not).<br> <br> <br> <br> Adventure Land (HABA) – see our <a href="http://www.thefamilygamers.com/adventure-land/">review</a>.<br> <br> <br> <br> Sparkle*Kingdom (Breaking Games) – get the coloring sheets and rules at <a href="http://sparklekingdom.com/">sparklekingdom.com</a><br> <br> <br> <br> Knot Dice (Black Oak Games) – see our <a href="http://www.thefamilygamers.com/knot-dice/">review</a>.<br> <br> <br> <br> Dragonology – picked up this game from the thrift store. Roll-and-move with set collection; so a lot of random chance and much longer than it needs to be. But not terrible; thematicallly great.<br> <br> <br> <br> Harry Potter: Death Eaters Rising (The OP) – a very frustrating cooperative game. Defeat Voldemort and the Death Eaters, primarily through dice rolls.<br> <br> <br> <br> We discuss the difference between cooperative games that are heavily chance-dependent versus ones that have very little chance.<br> <br> <br> <br> Endangered (Grand Gamers Guild) – in which we find out that Anitra is a terrible breeder of tigers. Listen to our <a href="http://www.thefamilygamers.com/episode-141-joe-hopkins-endangered/">interview with Joe Hopkins</a>, the creator, and keep watch for the expansion (more animal types!) coming soon to Kickstarter.<br> <br> <br> <br> My City (KOSMOS) – we’ve been excited for this since <a href="http://www.thefamilygamers.com/episode-183-ny-toy-fair-with-efg/">Andrew saw it at NY Toy Fair</a>.<br> <br> <br> <br> The Crew (KOSMOS) – trick taking that’s cooperative and with goals. We’re hopeful this will train us to be better at trick-taking!<br> <br> <br> <br> Quirky Circuits (Plaid Hat Games) – our review is linked below.<br> <br> <br> <br> Biblios (IELLO) <br> <br> <br> <br> Qwingo (Gamewright) – we’re reminded why we like it so much and why we gave it such a <a href="http://www.thefamilygamers.com/qwingo-rank-roll-rejoice/">glowing review</a>.<br> <br> <br> <br> Hues and Cues (The OP) – we played over Zoom and it was fun.<br> <br> <br> <br> News<br> <br> <br> <br> There will be a sequel to Cartographers, one of our favorite roll-and-write (flip and writes)! It’s called Heroes.<br> <br> <br> <br> SNAP Review: Quirky Circuits<br> <br> <br> <br> Cooperate to program robots in this game from Plaid Hat Games. Just one catch – you’re not allowed to talk, and you must play at least one card from your hand every round.<br> <br> <br> <br> Find more pictures at our <a href="http://www.thefamilygamers.com/quirky-circuits/">SNAP review.</a><br> <br> <br> <br> For Science!<br> <br> <br> <br> We try the Apple Pie Kit Kat. Very artificial, but not bad!<br> <br> <br> <br> Gen Can’t<br> <br> <br> <br> The original un-convention is still happening too! Oddly, it feels smaller than Gen Con, even though it can theoretically reach more people.<br> <br> <br> <br> There will be a photo contest, a mini-painting contest, and a raffle, along with a few hosted events: Mega Plays hosted by Ruel Gaviola, Mandi Hutchinson, Girls Game Shelf; some fun Quiz Shows with Bruce Voge; Jackbox; karaoke; and interactive story times.<br> <br>
