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Perfect Information
by Ben Maddox, Georgios Panagiotidis
The most semi-professional recordings of 2-4 opinionated gamers and their views, thoughts and experiences in the glamorous world of boardgames. And cardgames. And role-playing games, I guess? And general nerdity.Contains adults using adult language. For some reason.
Episodes
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Brettspiel Advent Calendar - 20th Door
Patreon | @Ben | @Georgios Today we open another door in the Brettspiel-Adventskalender 2017 from Frosted Games. What fancy promo awaits us inside? Website | BGG | Stitcher | iTunes
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Brettspiel Advent Calendar - 19th Door
Patreon | @Ben | @Georgios Today we open another door in the Brettspiel-Adventskalender 2017 from Frosted Games. What fancy promo awaits us inside? Website | BGG | Stitcher | iTunes
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Perfect Information Podcast Episode 57 - The End of the Year Bash
Patreon | @Ben | @Georgios It's the most wonderful time of the year With the kids jingle belling And everyone telling you be of good cheer It's the most wonderful time of the year It's the hap-happiest season of all With those holiday greetings and gay happy meetings When friends come to call…
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Brettspiel Advent Calendar - 18th Door
Patreon | @Ben | @Georgios Today we open another door in the Brettspiel-Adventskalender 2017 from Frosted Games. What fancy promo awaits us inside? Website | BGG | Stitcher | iTunes
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Brettspiel Advent Calendar - 17th Door
Patreon | @Ben | @Georgios Today we open another door in the Brettspiel-Adventskalender 2017 from Frosted Games. What fancy promo awaits us inside? Website | BGG | Stitcher | iTunes
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Brettspiel Advent Calendar - 16th Door
Patreon | @Ben | @Georgios Today we open another door in the Brettspiel-Adventskalender 2017 from Frosted Games. What fancy promo awaits us inside? Website | BGG | Stitcher | iTunes
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Brettspiel Advent Calendar - 15th Door
Patreon | @Ben | @Georgios Today we open another door in the Brettspiel-Adventskalender 2017 from Frosted Games. What fancy promo awaits us inside? Website | BGG | Stitcher | iTunes
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Brettspiel Advent Calendar - 14th Door
Patreon | @Ben | @Georgios Today we open another door in the Brettspiel-Adventskalender 2017 from Frosted Games. What fancy promo awaits us inside? Website | BGG | Stitcher | iTunes
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Brettspiel Advent Calendar - 13th Door
Patreon | @Ben | @Georgios Today we open another door in the Brettspiel-Adventskalender 2017 from Frosted Games. What fancy promo awaits us inside? Website | BGG | Stitcher | iTunes
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Brettspiel Advent Calendar - 12th Door
Patreon | @Ben | @Georgios Today we open another door in the Brettspiel-Adventskalender 2017 from Frosted Games. What fancy promo awaits us inside? Website | BGG | Stitcher | iTunes
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Brettspiel Advent Calendar - 11th Door
Patreon | @Ben | @Georgios Today we open another door in the Brettspiel-Adventskalender 2017 from Frosted Games. What fancy promo awaits us inside? Website | BGG | Stitcher | iTunes
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Brettspiel Advent Calendar - 10th Door
Patreon | @Ben | @Georgios Today we open another door in the Brettspiel-Adventskalender 2017 from Frosted Games. What fancy promo awaits us inside? Website | BGG | Stitcher | iTunes
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Brettspiel Advent Calendar - 9th Door
Patreon | @Ben | @Georgios Today we open another door in the Brettspiel-Adventskalender 2017 from Frosted Games. What fancy promo awaits us inside? Website | BGG | Stitcher | iTunes
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Brettspiel Advent Calendar - 8th Door
Patreon | @Ben | @Georgios Today we open another door in the Brettspiel-Adventskalender 2017 from Frosted Games. What fancy promo awaits us inside? Website | BGG | Stitcher | iTunes
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Brettspiel Advent Calendar - 7th Door
Patreon | @Ben | @Georgios Today we open another door in the Brettspiel-Adventskalender 2017 from Frosted Games. What fancy promo awaits us inside? Website | BGG | Stitcher | iTunes
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Brettspiel Advent Calendar - 6th Door
Patreon | @Ben | @Georgios Today we open another door in the Brettspiel-Adventskalender 2017 from Frosted Games. What fancy promo awaits us inside? Website | BGG | Stitcher | iTunes
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Brettspiel Advent Calendar - 5th Door
Patreon | @Ben | @Georgios Today we open another door in the Brettspiel-Adventskalender 2017 from Frosted Games. What fancy promo awaits us inside? Website | BGG | Stitcher | iTunes
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Interview with Uli Blennemann
Patreon | @Ben | @Georgios Ben invited Uli Blennemann to Perfect Information Towers to grill him on the new edition of Die Macher coming your way in the greatest election year of recent election years: 2018. Website | BGG | Stitcher | iTunes
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Brettspiel Advent Calendar - 4th Door
Patreon | @Ben | @Georgios Today we open another door in the Brettspiel-Adventskalender 2017 from Frosted Games. What fancy promo awaits us inside? Website | BGG | Stitcher | iTunes
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Brettspiel Advent Calendar - 3rd Door
Patreon | @Ben | @Georgios Today we open another door in the Brettspiel-Adventskalender 2017 from Frosted Games. What fancy promo awaits us inside? Website | BGG | Stitcher | iTunes
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Brettspiel Advent Calendar - 2nd Door
Patreon | @Ben | @Georgios Today we open another door in the Brettspiel-Adventskalender 2017 from Frosted Games. What fancy promo awaits us inside? Website | BGG | Stitcher | iTunes
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Brettspiel Advent Calendar - 1st Door
Patreon | @Ben | @Georgios Today we open another door in the Brettspiel-Adventskalender 2017 from Frosted Games. What fancy promo awaits us inside? Website | BGG | Stitcher | iTunes
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Perfect Information Podcast Episode 56 - All That You Can't Leave Behind
Patreon | @Ben | @Georgios The end of the year is approaching, and what better time to think about the things that are left once we're gone... our legacy so to speak. What is up with those Legacy games, anyway? Let's get to the bottom of that. What are they, why do they work and how do they do it...
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The Contrarian Part 4 - Intelligence
Patreon | @Ben | @Georgios This is a fairly unusual slice from the Contrarian. In that there isn't one specific event, comment or outburst that prompted this response. Instead it is more of a general observation on one particular movement within the hobby. Namely the ever-present belief that...
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The Perfect RPG Programme (1) - You all meet at an inn
Website | BGG | @Ben | @Georgios Thanks to the ample generosity of our Patreon backers we proudly bring you the first of hopefully many installments of our very own RPG-show. But instead of accosting your ears with fake accents, ludicrous plots or pointless tangents, we talk about roleplaying…
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Perfect Information Podcast Episode 55 - The Circle of Life & Death
Website | BGG | @Ben | @Georgios The slow and much dreaded return to normalcy has left its marks on your hosts this week, and we ponder the question of community. Namely the what, and partly the how. (34:45) We drop by the guild to talk about what it is that kills a game for you. (1:01:51) We…
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The Essen Round-Up
Website | BGG | @Ben | @Georgios Spiel 17 came and went. But like an ex you don't quite want to let go of, we reminisce and opine on what it has brought. Patreon | Stitcher | iTunes
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Perfect Information Podcast Episode 54 - Another live show from Essen
Website | BGG | @Ben | @Georgios A few words with Gloomhaven's supreme deity Isaac Childres. A behind-the-scene peak from the press room of Spiel 17 (11:20). Ben stumbles into Michael Fox at Creativity Hub (15:50). Gamdow Games speaks of their experience with and during Spiel (45:34). An...
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Perfect Information Episode 53 - A Cabin in the Woods
Website | BGG | @Ben | @Georgios Ooh.. it's the spooky time of the year. Which means we will talk about death. Namely, the death of board games or rather the causes that may kill a board game. We pick the winners of our Patreon raffle. (40:45) A quick stop at the guild helps us warm up, as we...
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The Contrarian - Part 3
Bringing the authentic Perfect Information experience to your home, the Contrarian returns to offer disagreements to you, dear listener. This time on the most innocuous of observations: board games aren't political. Support us here: Patreon | Donation Talk to us: Twitter (Ben) | Twitter…
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Interview with Punchboard Media
Ben Maddox trapped Patrick Hillier & Eric Buscemi into a virtual elevator and got them talking about Punchboard Media. What it is, who it punches and why you want to pay attention to what they do. And if that got you chomping at the bits: you want to go here. Support us here: Patreon | Donation...
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Perfect Information News Episode 1
Thanks to the generosity, might and virility of our Patreon backers, we are now able to offer you the first installment of a new series: Perfect Information News! Hear our hot takes - both good and bad - on some news item that's been making the rounds in our hobby. Notice our fancy ability to...
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Perfect Information Podcast Episode 52 - For the Love of the Game
As Spiel approaches surely and inevitably, so does the anticipation of diving into the halls in Essen again. What better time to ask ourselves: what makes us fall in love with a game exactly? We spend some time in the guild to talk about your answers to last week's question: what can the growth…
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Interview with Sarah Erikson
Today Ben interviews Sarah Erikson of Renegade Game Studios about her gamer history, the changes the hobby is facing, being at Spiel in Essen and of course Renegade Game Studios' new games. Support us here: Patreon | Donation Talk to us: Twitter (Ben) | Twitter (Georgios) Tell us what you think:...
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Perfect Information Podcast Episode 51 - What just happened?
The 51st episode of this podcast finds your amicable hosts taking in their surroundings and wondering: why is the hobby where it is right now? The guild opens with an all-too-necessary recap of past events and sheds light on pressing questions. Namely us asking for your favourite moments of...
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The Contrarian - Part 2
Just as the warm lull of consensus threatens to turn the internet into a sea of sharing agreeable opinions with one another, and acknowledging individual experience... the Contrarian valiantly climbs upon the highest horse he can find to loudly declare his edicts of the school of Nuh-uh! Namely,...
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Perfect Information Podcast Episode 50
Put on some Kool & The Gang, turn your stereo up to 11... we have reached episode number 50. And put out all the stops. Literally. This is the longest episodes we've ever released. Naturally, we use this achievement to rest on our laurels and instead of coming up with questions, we spend an...
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Ben's Mission Statement
As this podcast stands at the dawn of its middle-age, Ben Maddox grabs the mic to speak of his vision of the future, and the purpose that drives him to keep talking. Support us here: Patreon | Donation Talk to us: Twitter (Ben) | Twitter (Georgios) Tell us what you think: E-Mail | Website | BGG...
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Perfect Information Podcast Episode 49 - It Won't Be Long
Hurry up, we don't have much time.. this is the schedule for this week's show... don't get left behind! This week's topic is game length: what happens when games last as long as they do? Our shout-outs to Patreon backers start at 35:30. A visit to the Guild at 41:15 to hear us speak about your…
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The Contrarian - Part 1
Whenever there is a gamer voicing his opinion, whenever a hapless player argues a point, he is there to voice his rebuttal. He is... THE CONTRARIAN! Today's overflowing cup of "nuh-uh" comes in response to Meeple Like Us. and the nature of game criticism. Support us here: Patreon | Donation Talk…
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Perfect Information Podcast Episode 48 - Tit for Tat
In today's contentious new episode we talk about punishment. But not the fun kind with whips, clamps and wax candles, but the weird and creepy kind with VP loss, resource denial and blocking. Is it really punishment? Or is thinking of it as punishment just leading us astray? Also, Nietzsche. Ben...
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Interview with Edition Spielwiese
What do you do when a local game cafe answers the call for a new publishing imprint in Germany's capital and scores design giant Uwe Rosenberg's newest smaller offer (Cottage Garden) before following it up with a surprisingly playable take on Memory (Memoarrr!)? You sent Ben Maddox to ask them...
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Perfect Information Podcast Episode 47 - Nature vs Nurture
Have you ever sat down after a successful game night and asked yourself: did the game let us have fun, or did we make the game fun? Well, so did we. And for your enjoyment our thoughts on this question have been recorded here for future reference. New adventures await in the guild as Ben grapples...
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Interview with Juma Al Jou Jou
Never one to fail spotting a star rising, Ben caught up with Juma Al Jou Jou at Berlin-Con and talked about Clans of Caldonia and more. Talk to us: Twitter (Ben) | Twitter (Georgios) Tell us what you think: E-Mail | Website | BGG Like us here: Boardgamelinks | Facebook | Instagram Find us here:...
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Perfect Information Podcast Episode 46 - The One with all the Noise
All the excitement and wild partying you would expect from Berlin. We leave the overtly familiar displays of Perfect Information towers to venture out into the world. But not too far away, as there is a convention to go to and games to test. We talk about Kingdomino, Magic Maze and The Quest for…
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A Small Slice of Perfection - Part 16: The Maddox Diaries 5
Modern life is challenging. It is an everchanging maze of social cues and personal prediclictions. But fear not fellow travellers, for the Maddox Diaries have buried within them the very pages with which you will be guided towards the light of salvation*. * Salvation being your ability to not…
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Perfect Information Podcast Episode 45 - Semiotics, Taxonomy, Dice
Before you outgrabe any uffishness, or worse get gimbled in any of the general frabjousity... make sure to listen to this week's topic all about genre in board games. We will talk about the terms we use, their meaning (ambiguous as it is) and the words that our hobby may or may not still lack to...
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Perfect University 105 - Frustration
Summer is coming. It might not always look that way but the encroaching heat wave is near. What better time to spent thinking about board games! Today's lecture will be about the ever-present F-Word that board games invariably bring out at the table. Talk to us: Twitter (Ben) | Twitter (Georgios)...
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Perfect Information Podcast Episode 44 - A House Divided
Some things in life are bad, they can really make you mad... other things just make you swear and curse. Yes, today we are talking about aggression. That thing that people routinely and often loudly reject exhibiting, and which in turn many people claim will not stand. Like an Ikea shelf made of...
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Interview with Chrysalis Youth Empowerment Network - Uganda
Before you dive into this week's interview with Ben and more guys from the Chrysalis Youth Empowerment Network - Uganda, give this uplifting video a go. It will not only introduce you to the people you'll hear talk, but will also show you a budding board gaming scene getting started in Uganda....
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The most semi-professional recordings of 2-4 opinionated gamers and their views, thoughts and experiences in the glamorous world of boardgames. And cardgames. And role-playing games, I guess? And general nerdity.Contains adults using adult language. For some reason.
HOSTED BY
Ben Maddox, Georgios Panagiotidis
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