#267: Our Listeners' Top 20 Board Games of All-Time 2023

#267: Our Listeners' Top 20 Board Games of All-Time 2023

Author: Board Game Barrage March 9, 2023 Duration: 1:07:18

I always love this one. It's the time of the year where we look at what your favourite games are, and discover whether there are any exciting movers and shakers in what you've been playing! It's the BGB Listener Top 20! Before we check in with all of you, we talk about Tower of Babel, Great Western Trail: Argentina, and Jump Drive.

Timecodes:

02:01 - Tower of Babel ...or why the eighth wonder was never built
11:16 - Great Western Trail: Argentina
18:26 - Jump Drive
29:21 - Listener Top 20
33:44 - Terraforming Mars
34:19 - Food Chain Magnate
34:19 - Cosmic Encounter
36:14 - Wingspan
37:32 - Inis
38:03 - Ark Nova
39:45 - Dune: Imperium
42:32 - Scythe
43:35 - Agricola
44:48 - Great Western Trail
46:12 - Race for the Galaxy
46:52 - Innovation
47:28 - A Feast for Odin
48:08 - The Castles of Burgundy
48:30 - Concordia
49:13 - Gloomhaven
50:05 - Root
50:53 - Hansa Teutonica
52:33 - Spirit Island
53:06 - Brass: Birmingham

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