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We try to help someone decide what cooperative game to buy next, including a list of our favourite cooperative board games. We then have three reviews: Trickdraw, a fast flipping card game, Outsmarted!, a modern take on trivia board games, and The Orbital Box x2, a puzzle box you have to build yourself. This is followed by our usual week in review with my first Holiday Hijinx experience, our first play of Aurum, and more.
Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast Episode 212, July 5th, 2023. Join us Wednesdays at 8 PM EST at https://www.twitch.tv/tabletopbellhop.
Detailed show notes: https://tabletopbellhop.com/episode212
(00:00:00) CHECK IN AND SUGGESTION BOX
(00:07:44) ANNOUNCEMENTS – No Show July 12th
(00:06:09) ASK THE BELLHOP
(00:34:08) THE GAME ROOM – Trickdraw
(00:47:00) THE GAME ROOM – Outsmarted!
(01:04:56) THE GAME ROOM – The Orbital Box x2
(01:19:36) BELLHOP’S TABLETOP
(01:34:36) PATREON SHOUT OUT AND CLOSING
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Tonight we try to help someone decide what cooperative game to buy next, including a list of our favourite cooperative board games. We then have three reviews: Trickdraw, a fast flipping card game, Outsmarted!, a modern take on trivia board games, and The Orbital Box x2, a puzzle box you have to build yourself. This is followed by our usual week in review with my first Holiday Hijinx experience, our first play of Aurum, and more.
Episode 212 of the Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast was recorded on July 5th, 2023. Join us as when we record live weekly on Twitch at 8pm Eastern.
If you’d like to watch the (slightly less edited) video version of this recording you can jump to the bottom of the post.
Disclosure: Some links below are affiliate links. Using these links costs you nothing extra and helps us offset the cost of producing this show. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Some of the games mentioned in this podcast were provided by publishers as review copies.
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Castellans of Valeria Preview
- Castellans of Valeria Written Preview
- Video Preview of Castellans of Valeria
- Late Pledge for a copy of Castellans of Valeria
Horizon Zero Dawn the Board Game
- Written Review of Horizon Zero Dawn the Board Game
- Horizon Zero Dawn Board Game Video Review
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- Get the Heart of the Nora Expansion
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Once Upon a Line Preview
Games you keep that you don’t love
- A Collection of Compromises Ep 204 Listen here and Show Notes
- A Collection of Compromises on YouTube
- Journalist
- Splendor
- Carcassonne
- Star Realms
- Dominion
- Catan
Send feedback to moe@tabletopbellhop.com
—Announcements—
Amazon Prime Day is coming and because of this, we won’t be recording on July 12th.
We will be sharing hot tabletop deals here:
- Good Geek Deals Group on Facebook
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- Tabletop Gaming Deals on Dice Camp (Mastodon)
- Our new Tabletop Gaming Deals Subreddit
- And on our Amazon Prime Day Landing Page here on the blog.
—Ask The Bellhop— [00:06:09]
YouTube version of this segment: VIDEO: 19 of The Best Cooperative Board Games for Adults, Our favourite co-op board games
We have a fan trying to decide what new Cooperative game to pick up next.
Previous cooperative game topics:
- We talked about kids’ cooperative games in Child’s Play, our second ever podcast episode.
- The Best Cooperative Kids Games That Are Also Fun for Adults
- Episode 123 Playing Together – Great Cooperative Kids Games for Family Game Night
- What are some less well-known cooperative kids’ board games?
Ammon’s list, in our preferred order from least to most recommended:
- B-Sieged
- Spirit Island
- Too Many Bones
- Forbidden Desert
- Aeon’s End
- Mechs Vs Minions
- Cthulhu Death May Die
- Mansions of Madness
- Mage Knight
- Gloomhaven
- Gloomhaven Jaws of the Lion
16 of our favourite cooperative board games:
- DC Comics Deck-building Card Game
- Gloomhaven, starting with Jaws
- Horrified
- Codenames Duet
- Hanabi
- Chronicles of Crime 1400
- Illiterati
- Legendary Encounters Alien
- Letter Jam
- The Game
- The Crew
- EXIT series
- Roll Camera!
- Rail Pass
- My Little Pony Adventures in Equestria
- Aventuria Adventure Card Game
Honourable Mentions:
From the Chat:
Send your questions to questions@tabletopbellhop.com.
—The Game Room: Trickdraw Review— [00:34:08]
YouTube version of this review: VIDEO: Trickdraw Review, A fast-flipping race to ten points card game for up to five players
A rapid fire, card flipping, race to collect ten coins.
—The Game Room: Outsmarted! Review— [00:47:00]
YouTube version of this review: VIDEO: Review of Outsmarted! A modern take on classic Trivia Board Games, Choose your own categories & more
A modern take on classic trivia based board gaming.
- Written Review of Outsmarted!
- Get Outsmarted! direct from QPlay (use code BELLHOP to save 10% off)
- Or pick up Outsmarted! at Amazon US, or Canada
—The Game Room: The Orbital Box X2 Review— [01:04:56]
YouTube version of this review: VIDEO: EscapeWelt Orbital Box X2 Build + Review, watch me build a wooden puzzle box & then review the kit
A different kind of puzzle box from Escape Welt, one you have to build first before you can solve it.
- Orbital Box X2 Unboxing Video
- Get an Orbital Box X2 direct from Escape Welt (use code BELLHOP to save 10%)
- Or get it on Amazon
—The Bellhop’s Tabletop— [01:19:36]
What we’ve been playing lately:
- Aurum (Preorder)
- Castle Panic Big Box Second Edition
- Birds of a Feather (Preorder)
- Birds of a Feather App on Android
- Birds of a Feather App on iOS
- Holiday Hijinks #2 The Independence Incident
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