Game Brain: A Board Game Podcast About Our Gaming Group
Jul 20, 2026 · 1 hr 46 min · 12 segments
Trey, Paul, and Ben go deep on World Order, the new geopolitical simulation from the people who brought you Hegemony. We also discuss recent plays of The Staufer Dynasty, Dogs of War, and Come…
Ben MandelkerHost
Trey AlsupHostPaul SatachaHost
Have you been able to play any games over the last, uh, two weeks or so aside from our review game today?
I did get in, uh, w- with friend of the pod, uh, Rob Schager, and his wife, Nancy.
I brought a copy of, uh, Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, the, uh, the card game.
And I figured that would be a fun one to play with three people who are c- are very casual gamers, but I've played things like Wizard with before-
... and other trick takers, so there was some Trick Taker DNA there, and I think we played like the first five missions of Lord of the Rings, and I would say things started off skeptically, but very quickly ...
Like, it's amazing how quickly that game gets into, "Oh, these are difficult decisions about what cards we play," but we're all working together.
Like, uh, I wondered whether it would be a good choice, and it was indeed a good choice for just three people killing 60 minutes in Vancouver.
Have you been able to play any games over the last, uh, two weeks or so aside from our review game today?
I did get in, uh, w- with friend of the pod, uh, Rob Schager, and his wife, Nancy.
I brought a copy of, uh, Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, the, uh, the card game.
And I figured that would be a fun one to play with three people who are c- are very casual gamers, but I've played things like Wizard with before-
... and other trick takers, so there was some Trick Taker DNA there, and I think we played like the first five missions of Lord of the Rings, and I would say things started off skeptically, but very quickly ...
Like, it's amazing how quickly that game gets into, "Oh, these are difficult decisions about what cards we play," but we're all working together.
Like, uh, I wondered whether it would be a good choice, and it was indeed a good choice for just three people killing 60 minutes in Vancouver.
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