$20 can’t buy you love, but it can buy you Love Letter. And we sure do love the letter that BGB listener Layne sent us to inspire this week’s topic!

What games can you get for $20? Quite a few really good ones, it turns out. While the allure of big box games with tons of components is hard to shake, you don’t have to break the bank to build a really solid collection. Before we hand over our Andrew Jacksons (that’s a thing Americans say, right?), we discuss Scythe, Watson & Holmes, and Mansions of Madness: Second Edition.

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Timecodes:

01:34 – Scythe

10:44 – Watson & Holmes

13:06 – Mansions of Madness: Second Edition

15:25 – The Best Games Under $20

17:12 – For Sale

19:56 – The Resistance

21:55 – Oink Games

24:29 – The Grizzled

26:41 – Krazy Wordz

28:50 – Time’s Up! Title Recall!

30:50 – Sushi Go!

35:18 – Hanabi

37:53 – Innovation

41:19 – Patchwork

43:25 – Notre Dame

46:29 – Coloretto

49:37 – Decrypto

53:00 – Biblios

54:35 – Codenames

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