53: Top 3 games we're dying to play, the board game café business (guest: Meepleville)

Oct 15, 2020

Guest Timm Metivier of Meepleville (a board game cafe in Vegas and a channel for board game content) joins us to discuss the top 3 games we can't wait to get to the table, the business of running a board game cafe (you'd be surprised how he works around COVID), how we discover the games we want to buy, and more.

The games talked about on this episode:

Timm’s topic: The top games we can’t wait to get to the table

• Food Chain Magnate
• Trickerion
• Pax Porfiriana
• Telestrations: Upside Drawn
• Tekhenu: Obelisk of the Sun
• Tzok’in: The Mayan Calendar
• Teotihuacan: City of Gods
• Master Word
• Anachrony
• Barrage
• The Gallerist
• City of the Big Shoulders
• 18XX
• Escape Plan
• Vinhos
• On Mars
• Viscounts of the West Kingdom
• Sleeping Gods

Shoe’s/Christina’s topic: Running a board game cafe during COVID + how we discover games

• Bridge
• Pinochle
• Backgammon
• Catan
• Ticket to Ride
• Life
• Connect Four
• Tekhenu: Obelisk of the Sun
• Scooby-Doo: Betrayal at Mystery Mansion
• Pendulum
• Trois 
• Ginkgopolis

Mike’s topic: What does a board game cafe’s business model look like?

• Cards Against Humanity
• Monopoly
• Sorry
• Risk
• Ticket to Ride
• Pandemic
• Battleship
• Lorenzo il Magnifico
• Hansa Teutonica

Final thoughts: 

• Fingabol 
• Crokinole