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Surprisingly Easy Board Games: Heavy games that are easy to teach and learn, Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast Episode 106

September 15, 2020 by Moe T. Leave a Comment

Surprisingly Easy Board Games - Heavy games that are easy to teach and learn. A follow up to our topic from a few weeks back where we talked about surprisingly complex games. Today we are looking at the flip side of the coin with surprisingly easy games. Once we get to The Game Room we will be looking at Trade & Intrigue, the second expansion for Orleans featuring four optional modules and Flick Wars a dexterity based strategy wargame, plus, of course, we end off with our usual week in review.

Episode 106 of the Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast, recorded September 9th, 2020. Join us as we stream live every week on Wednesdays at 9:00 PM Eastern on Twitch. If you like some video with your audio, you can also watch/listen to individual segments from this show on YouTube. [ READ MORE ]

15 Surprisingly Easy Board Games, Heavy Games that are Easier to Learn and Play than Expected

September 13, 2020 by Moe T. 2 Comments

Some board games can seem intimidating, with a thick rulebook, lots of components, or too many things to learn all at once. Sometimes though a boardgame will surprise you by looking complicated when in reality it isn't.

That's what I'm going to be tackling in this article, board games that are much easier than expected. I'm talking about games that are quicker to learn, simpler to play or overall surprising in how approachable they are compared to what their first impression might be. [ READ MORE ]

Orléans Trade & Intrigue an expansion, for Orléans that offers four new optional modules – Review

September 11, 2020 by Moe T. Leave a Comment

Orléans: Trade & Intrigue is the second expansion for the bag building board game Orléans. This expansion for Orléans does not require the first expansion (Orléans: Invasion) to play. It contains four modules that you can add individually to your games of Orléans.

The expansion modules in Trade & Intrigue include Orders, New Events, New Beneficial Deeds and Intrigue. In this review, I will take a look at each of these optional modules for Orleans. [ READ MORE ]

Unboxing Orleans Trade & Intrigue Expansion. The second expansion for Orléans.

January 6, 2020 by Moe T. Leave a Comment

A live unboxing video of the Trade and Intrigue expansion for the bag building board game Orleans.

This expansion contains a number of different modules for Orleans and was released in 2016 by Tasty Minstrel Games. [ READ MORE ]

What are the best tabletop games you can get for under $50? – Ask The Bellhop

December 26, 2019 by Moe T. Leave a Comment

Charles wants to know what board games should he buy if he had $50 right now. We've got a list of great tabletop games for Charles that he can get for under $50.

Charles Barouch writes:

"Let's say I have a $50 check and the stipulation is that I use it for fun. What are the 10 ten games I should consider?" [ READ MORE ]

Picking Favourites – Episode 10 – Tabletop Bellhop Podcast

October 9, 2018 by Moe T. Leave a Comment

This is the tenth episode of Tabletop Bellhop Live, an edited version of our live show recorded on October 3rd, 2018. Join us as we stream live every week on Wednesday’s at 9:30 Eastern on Twitch. If you like some video with your audio you can also watch/listen to an unedited version of the show over on YouTube.

This episode we walk the Tokaido, visit Gloomhaven, tease our first giveaway and then dive into The Bellhop's top 20 games. [ READ MORE ]

Under the hood – Episode 9 – Tabletop Bellhop Podcast

October 2, 2018 by Moe T. Leave a Comment

This is the ninth episode of Tabletop Bellhop Live, an edited version of our live show recorded on September 26th, 2018. Join us as we stream live every week on Wednesday’s at 9:30 Eastern on Twitch. If you like some video with your audio you can also watch/listen to an unedited version of the show over on YouTube.

This episode we talk about Mermaid Adventures, Terra Mystica, and Gloomhaven before we deep dive into game mechanics. [ READ MORE ]

What are my top 20 games of all time? – Ask The Bellhop

September 29, 2018 by Moe T. Leave a Comment

Pretty much everyone asks,

What are your favourite games?

Since I launched Tabletop Bellhop the question I get asked the most is some variation of this question. What's your favourite deck builder? Do you think Concordia is the best game ever? What's your top 5/10/25? With our 10th episode of Tabletop Bellhop Live coming up this week I thought this would be a good time to finally give an answer to this question.

This is also a follow up to last week, where I talked about my favourite game mechanics. I thought that would lead well into this. [ READ MORE ]

Back to School – Episode 5 – Tabletop Bellhop Podcast

August 28, 2018 by Moe T. Leave a Comment

Welcome to the fifth episode of Tabletop Bellhop Live. This is an edited version of our live show first recorded on August 23rd, 2018. Remember to join us as we stream live every week on Thursdays at 9:30PM ET on Twitch. If you like some video with your audio you can also watch us over on YouTube.

Today's question: How do you approach teaching board games?

In addition to discussing teaching games, we also look back at the last week and talk quite a bit about Board Game Arena. [ READ MORE ]