Welcome to week two of what I’m affectionately calling, “three weeks of podcasts in which we each talk about our favourite board game mechanics”.

This week it’s Mark’s pick, hand management. Few things are better than seeing a world of possibilities laid out before you, and finding the perfect way to navigate them for maximum positive outcome. Chocolate is one, but there are only a few. Before we reorder the contents of our hand, we talk about Ascending Empires, Funky Chicken, Felicity: The Cat in the Sack, and New Corp Order.

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Timecodes:

01:47 – Ascending Empires

05:41 – Funky Chicken

07:14 – Felicity: The Cat in the Sack

08:25 – New Corp Order

11:34 – Hand Management

12:57 – Terraforming Mars

13:44 – Dominion

14:44 – Candyland

15:25 – Scrabble

19:33 – Gloomhaven

20:40 – Biblios

22:00 – Taj Mahal

23:17 – Biblios Again

25:17 – Red 7

26:15 – Arboretum

27:09 – Twilight Struggle

28:32 – Cuba Libre

30:47 – Glory to Rome

31:59 – Wiz-War

33:24 – Cosmic Encounter

34:35 – Bohnanza

36:19 – Hanabi

36:57 – Mage Knight

Thank you to Heart Society for generously letting us use What’s On Your Mind, Kid? from their album Wake the Queens.