#11: Teaching Games Well, and Sagrada

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This episode, we’ll be talking about tips and tricks for teaching games well. Tim regrets the pitfalls of judging a book by its cover, and (on an entirely unrelated topic) we also take a look at the popular dice-placement filler, Sagrada!

00:19 – Introduction
01:07 – Teaching Games Well

What games do you pull out to teach newbs? (02:12) – Splendor, Sushi Go Party, Deep Sea Adventure, Skull
What games do you pull out as a midweight recommendation? (05:42) – 7 Wonders, Lords of Waterdeep
How do you teach? (07:45)
Should you use sample turns to teach/do you teach strategy when you teach? (11:35)
Top-down explanation and why we love it (18:22)
Should other players pre-read rules? Should you as a host pre-select the game choices? (24:09)

28:11 – Sagrada Review

Mentioned games: Deception: Murder in Hong Kong, Photosynthesis, Lanterns: the Harvest Festival, Tokaido, Batt’l Kha’os, Patchwork
What we recommend Instead: Tokaido, Century: Spice Road, Hive (read our review)

50:46 – Recent Plays

Andrew: Samurai Spirit
Tim: Aeon’s End

56:34 – Games On Our Radar

Tim: Doomtown: Reloaded, Sekigahara: the Unification of Japan
Andrew: Scharfe Schoten

1:01:19 – Wrapping Up

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