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We talk about out of the box games doing something totally different. To go along with that main topic we preview Once Upon a Line, a game that has you scratching off the board like a lottery ticket. We also review Dice Kingdoms of Valeria and follow that with a look at some birthday gaming and first thoughts on Weather Machine.
Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast Episode 198, Recorded January 18th 2023. Join us Wednesday at 9 PM EST at https://www.twitch.tv/tabletopbellhop
More detailed show notes: [https://tabletopbellhop.com/podcast/ep198/]
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Oddball Games, board games doing something different.
We discuss oddball board games that are doing something totally different. Then we preview Once Upon a Line, a game where you scratch off the board like a lottery ticket. We also review Dice Kingdoms of Valeria, take a look at some birthday gaming and share our first thoughts on Weather Machine.
Episode 197 of the Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast, recorded January 18th, 2023. 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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—Announcements!—
Episode 200 is coming up!
We will be recording this special episode on February 1st and you should join us at: https://www.twitch.tv/tabletopbellhop
—Ask The Bellhop— [00:08:09]
“What games would you consider really “Outside the Box”? Do you know of any that have gone too far and are too weird to be fun?”
Our Top Oddball Games:
- Tzolk’in
- Shadows in the Forest
- Go Cuckoo!
- Pyramid of Pengqueen
- Niagara
- Hamsterolle
- Ghost Blitz
- Hanabi
- Town Center
- Drop It
- Ugg Tect
- Super Motherload
- Survive Escape from Atlantis
- Once Upon a Line
- All Wound Up
- Doodle Quest
- Dark Tower
- The Mind
- Time Stories
- Nyctophobia
- Rattlebones
- Captain Sonar
- Rail Pass
Honourable Mentions
Games That Went Too Far
- Fluxx
- Gloom
- What’s That Smell?
- Aroma
- Carcassonne The Catapult
- Consentacle
- Tales of the Arabian Knights
- Dragon & Flagon
- The Bloody Inn
- Sticky Cthulhu
- Cards Against Humanity
- Donner Dinner Party
- Tower of Madness
- Tragedy Looper
Send your questions to questions@tabletopbellhop.com.
—The Game Room: Once Upon A Line Preview– [01:08:39]
A spoiler free look at the first ever Scratch-Off Adventure!
—The Game Room: Dice Kingdoms of Valeria — [01:29:53]
The first Roll and Write in the Valeria universe.
- Unboxing Dice Kingdoms of Valeria
- Written Review of Dice Kingdoms of Valeria
- Preorder Dice Kingdoms of Valeria
—The Bellhop’s Tabletop— [01:48:16]
- Weather Machine
- Dice Kingdoms of Valeria
- The Quacks of Quedlinburg: Alchemists
- MonsDRAWsity
- Venn
- Thrones of Valeria
- Rack-O
- Once Upon a Line
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