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Jul 29, 2024 38 min

Weight

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In this episode, Jacques and Fayyaad address the complex and controversial topic of board game weight — a tricksy term board gamers use to explain how difficult a game is to learn and to play. They go into the different kinds of complexity that are included, discuss various examples across the complexity spectrum, and introduce (very briefly) the great resource site for board gamers, BoardGameGeek. As always, the focus is on helping you as a consumer figure out which board games are suitable for your table and your interests. And they finally get some listener feedback from actual listeners! They were very excited. Thank you for listening! Join the Nerdverse Discord to become part of the conversation and let us know what you thought. If you enjoy what we do, consider subscribing to be notified about new episodes. If you’d like access to bonus features, reviews, discussions, affiliate links, and more fun downloads, consider supporting us on Patreon or Ko-Fi if you’re financially able. Otherwise you can always help us get the word out about the show by leaving us a positive review on your favourite podcast app. Looking forward to hearing from you! Unshuffled is a Nerdverse Productions podcast: nerdverse.co.za.

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In this episode, Jacques and Fayyaad address the complex and controversial topic of board game weight — a tricksy term board gamers use to explain how difficult a game is to learn and to play. They go into the different kinds of complexity that are included, discuss various examples across the complexity spectrum, and introduce (very briefly) the great resource site for board gamers, BoardGameGeek. As always, the focus is on helping you as a consumer figure out which board games are suitable ...

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  1. 0:21 Listeners corner
  2. 3:34 A little light reading
  3. 5:02 Types of complexity
  4. 14:00 Examples of lighter games
  5. 16:56 Finding out the weight of a game
  6. 24:31 How does this terminology help us?
  7. 38:00 Conclusion

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