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Trapped on a desert island and forced to bring only five board games? We’ve all been there. And we’re going back. To the island. The board game island. It’s a question as old as time itself, a favourite philosophical discussion of great minds immemorial; if you had to pare your collection down to just five board games, to play for a very long time, which would they be? Avert your eyes from the timecodes if you want to listen unspoiled, but let’s just say that you might be able to guess one or two.

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Timecodes:

02:25 – Cthulhu Wars

04:29 – A Feast for Odin

07:31 – Cuba Libre

10:19 – Spirit Island

14:12 – Age of Steam

16:21 – Troyes

19:21 – Codenames

23:00 – Arboretum

27:51 – Cosmic Encounter

32:34 – Gloomhaven

36:44 – Innovation

38:50 – The Resistance

42:40 – Biblios

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