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A podcast dedicated to solitaire board gaming.
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Sunday Jun 22, 2014
Sunday Jun 22, 2014
In this BIGGEST episode yet, I have a discussion on the 2014 solitaire PnP design contest with Chris Hansen & Todd Sanders. This was originally recorded as a Google Hangounts conversation and the video can be watched on YouTube.
Tuesday Jun 17, 2014
Tuesday Jun 17, 2014
This episode is on a cool deck building/area control game, Asgard's Chosen. This is a really neat hybrid that takes the best of both worlds and combines them into a fun game, albeit hard to learn, game. I also finally, way belatedly, announce the winners of the 1 Player Awards. However, if you follow the 1 Player Guild, and you should, this is all old news.
- Asgard's Chosen on BGG
- Asgard's Chosen on Mayfair Games
- Hostage Negotiator on BGG
- Progress: Evolution of Technology on Kickstarter
- 2014 1 Player Awards on BGG
- 1 Player guild on BGG
Sunday May 25, 2014
Sunday May 25, 2014
In this latest episode, I look at the game of Nations, a card drafting, resource management, worker placement kind of game. I also get to talk to one of the designers, Rustan Håkansson, one of the designers of the game. Nations is a big game and this is a big episode to go along with it!
- Nations on BGG
- Eldritch Horror: Forsaken Lore on FFG
- Thunderstone Advance: Into the Abyss on BGG
Sunday May 11, 2014
Sunday May 11, 2014
Welcome back to the 1 Player podcast. I unexpectedly took a vacation from podcasting for the last few weeks so I've stayed busy and have a lot of fun playing Thunderstone Advance. This is a great dungeon crawling, deck building game for 1 to 4 players The game is a sequel to Thunderstone with streamlined rules, however it is compatible with the original game so you can get even more cards to play with now, if you have the original.
- Thunderstone Advance on AEG's website
- Thunderstone Advance: Towers of Ruin on BGG
- Thunderstone: Starter Set on BGG
- Thunderstone Advance: Caverns of Bane on BGG
Sunday Apr 13, 2014
Sunday Apr 13, 2014
I hate retyping stuff, but here goes...
Sunday Mar 23, 2014
Sunday Mar 23, 2014
Today's episode is all about Hermann Luttman. First I have a great discussion with Hermann about some of his solitaire designs. Then I look at his latest solo game, A Spoiled Victory: Dunkirk 1940. Enough said.. on with the show!
Monday Mar 10, 2014
Monday Mar 10, 2014
The latest episode of the show is on Free Trader, a print and play game about travelling through space and hauling goods. This neat little card game uses a card driven mechanic to control a lot of the flow of the game. I take a brief look at the mechanic and how it is used in a few different games, focusing on the evolving complexity as you go from game to game.
- 1 Player guild on BGG
- Solitaire Games on Your Table subscription thread
Sunday Feb 23, 2014
Sunday Feb 23, 2014
Welcome to the latest episode. This show, I look at the game Robinson Crusoe: Adventure on the Cursed Island by Ignacy Trzewiczek. This is a co-operative worker placement game in which your character is stuck on an island somewhere and have to work to survive. This is a BIG game and there is a lot to say about it... fortunately I keep it brief.
Wednesday Feb 05, 2014
Wednesday Feb 05, 2014
This episode is on the new game by Bruno Cathala & Ludovic Maublanc. The game is a cooperative/solo game on the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912. However, this game is really just a variant of the classic solitaire card game which I just remembered is sometimes called Klondike...doh! Anyway, as I said, it is just a variant, but one that I found made the game MUCH better than the original. The theme and mechanics work very very well together and make this game much more than the sum of its parts.
- S.O.S. Titanic on BGG
- Onirim Twitter feed
- The Hunters on GMT's P500
- Broken Meeple Blog
Wednesday Jan 15, 2014
Wednesday Jan 15, 2014
This is a game I've been wanting to talk about for a long time. I finally got it out and played it solo again, in part because of the relatively new (as of last September) SoloPlay variant. But not only do I play that variant, I also try out three solitaire specific maps and have a lot of fun with it.
Monday Dec 30, 2013
Monday Dec 30, 2013
Welcome to episode 50! It's amazing that I have gotten this far and there seems to be no shortage of games to talk about. This time, I look at Navajo Wars by Joel Toppen. I also talk to Joel about the game. It's a very interesting discussion.
Sunday Dec 08, 2013
Sunday Dec 08, 2013
Once again it's braiiins time here on the 1 Player podcast. This time, we look at Victory Point Games take on the theme with the States of Siege, Dawn of the Zeds, designed by Hermann Luttmann. This is one of the biggest most complex States of Siege game so far. You get tons of options and variety and decisions to make all with fantastic graphic design.
Tuesday Nov 12, 2013
Tuesday Nov 12, 2013
I am in the midst of moving this week. I don't have much time for a show but this one is surprisingly long. I talk to Todd R from French Toast Games about Spell Saga. This is a Tabletop Novel he has on Kickstarter right now. That's a narrative told in the form of a card game. I also look at Dungeon Heroes by Michael Coe of Gamelyn Games. Dungeon Heroes is a neat little dungeon crawler that can be played solo in about 10 or 15 minutes.
Monday Oct 14, 2013
Monday Oct 14, 2013
This month's game is Cuba Libre. This is a game I've been really excited about playing for a long time. If finally came out about a month ago and I've been learning,playing and enjoying it the last few weeks. This is the 2nd or 3rd game in GMT's COIN series and is co-designed by Volko Ruhnke & Jeff Grossman. The game is about the Cuban Revolution of the 1950's.
- Cuba Libre on BGG
- Essen 2013 solitaire games Geeklist
- 1 Player Guild
- Eldritch Horror by Fantasy Flight Games
Sunday Sep 22, 2013
Sunday Sep 22, 2013
This episode is once again mostly about Print and Play games. Specifically, I talk to Chris Hansen about the Solitaire PnP Design Contest going on right now as well as about his new endeavor with White Dog Games. Finally, I l look at the solitaire RPG, Chronicles of Arax.