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Tonight we’ve got a question that has us sharing our top 10 underused themes in board games. After that we’re reviewing a game with the unique theme of door knockers, Aldabas: Doors of Cartagena from Grand Gamers Guild. Then we finish up with our week in review where we’ve got first thoughts on Mountains out of Molehills, another uniquely themed game, and more.
Episode 189 recorded on September 28th 2022. Join us Wednesday at Nine PM EST at https://www.twitch.tv/tabletopbellhop.
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Underused Board Game Themes
Tonight we’ve got a question that has us sharing our top 10 underused themes in board games. After that we’re reviewing a game with the unique theme of door knockers, Aldabas: Doors of Cartagena from Grand Gamers Guild. Then we finish up with our week in review where we’ve got first thoughts on Mountains out of Molehills, another uniquely themed game, and more.
Episode 189 of the Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast, recorded September 28th, 2022.
Join us as we stream live weekly on Wednesdays at 9:00 PM Eastern on Twitch.
If you’d like to watch the (slightly less edited) video version of this recording you can jump to the bottom of the post.
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–Suggestion Box, Fan Feedback– [00:01:10]
Games for Douglas Adamas Fans
- 13 Great Games for Douglas Adams Fans Podcast Segment
- Grab Your Towel Full Podcast Episode
- Paranoia
- Fiasco
- Sci-fi Playsets for Fiasco
- Cosmic Encounter
- The Captain is Dead
Unfair ABDW
- Unboxing the Unfair ABDW expansion
- Video Review of Unfair ABDW
- Unfair ABDW Written Review
- Buy the Unfair ABDW expansion
Send feedback to moe@tabletopbellhop.com
—Announcements—
We will not be recording a live show on October 5th, which means there will be no new podcast released on the 11th.
—Ask The Bellhop— [00:04:39]
What are some underused board game themes?
Dog Days AMA where we talk about board game theme integration
10 themes we want to see more of and some example games from them:
Insects
Prison Breaks
Music
Fashion
Hard Science
Hacking
Cooking
Photography
Pets
Manzikert 1071
Suggestions from The Lobby
- March of the Ants
- Roger Doger Games
- Vinyl
- Rockband Manager
- The New Science
- Access Denied
- Hacker
- Android Mainframe
- Kim Joy’s Magic Bakery
- Morels
- Hibachi
- Dungeon Petz
- Too Many Poops
- Chocolatiers (the game we are actually describing is King Chocolate, we got the name wrong!)
- Orbit War
Send your questions to questions@tabletopbellhop.com.
—The Game Room: Aldabas Doors of Cartagena— [00:41:33]
A short game that packs a lot of punch with a very unique theme
- Unboxing Aldabas
- Written Review of Aldabas
- Buy Aldabas
—The Bellhop’s Tabletop—
Games we’ve been playing lately:
- Aldabas
- Mountains out of Molehills
- Board Game Arena
- Ticket to Ride on BGA
- Wingspan on BGA
- Point Salad on BGA
- Azul on BGA
- Lost Ruins of Arnak on BGA
- Tapestry on BGA
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