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  • Boardgames To Go 241 - Session Report & Feedback

    Boardgames To Go 241 - Session Report & Feedback
    May 1 2025
    Please join us on the Boardgames To Go discord server where you can chat online with other podcast listeners.



    Opener: Join us to play games online together on May 3. We're meeting on the Discord server, as well as the Boardgames To Go Listeners group on BGA


    I set out to give myself a break this month, just talking about some recent games and fielding a few questions sent to me. In fact, I've been doing so much gaming lately that I had to whittle my list down to just these six games to share my impressions about. Then the feedback questions ended up being more fun to dive into than I expected. These kinds of shows are fun & easy to do--I won't do them all the time, but every once in a while should be ok.

    Closer: Message me with any of your questions, and I may use them on a future Session Report & Feedback episode.

    -Mark
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    1 h y 19 m
  • Boardgames To Go 240 - Dice Tower West and the Mark Madness 2025 Champions

    Boardgames To Go 240 - Dice Tower West and the Mark Madness 2025 Champions
    Apr 1 2025

    The annual voting/predicting competition called Mark Madness is now finished. The results are posted with the rest of the updates for episode 239, and here co-host Eryn Roston returns one last time to share the winners. Unconscious Mind was our collective favorite for game cover art, and Adam Brocker is this year's winner. The plan now is for Adam to help me run next year's Mark Madness, in 2026.

    Next, I share my time at Dice Tower West. This is the second year in a row that I've gone to this national boardgame convention. Is it national? I think so. It's certainly big. Held in Las Vegas every March, that's a destination I can reach by car. I join a bunch of friends there and we play most games together. Besides a number of fresh & new ones, the buddies I got to this con with enjoy focusing one entire day on old games. We define that as games more than 25 years old. Last year that went to 1999, and now we included other titles published in 2000.





    -Mark
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    1 h y 2 m
  • Boardgames To Go 239E - Mark Madness 2025 (with Eryn Roston)

    Boardgames To Go 239E - Mark Madness 2025 (with Eryn Roston)
    Mar 28 2025

    The Championship is now set!

    https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/354557/mark-madness-2025-game-cover-art-with-eryn-roston
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    5 m
  • Boardgames To Go 239D - Mark Madness 2025 (with Eryn Roston) Elite Eight

    Boardgames To Go 239D - Mark Madness 2025 (with Eryn Roston) Elite Eight
    Mar 23 2025

    Be sure to go vote at https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/354557/mark-madness-2025-game-cover-art-with-eryn-roston?itemid=11634552#11634552
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    20 m
  • Boardgames To Go 239C - Mark Madness 2025 (with Eryn Roston) Sweet 16

    Boardgames To Go 239C - Mark Madness 2025 (with Eryn Roston) Sweet 16
    Mar 20 2025

    The round of 32 is finished, leaving us now voting on the Sweet 16 of game cover artworks. The choices are getting more difficult.

    And we have a new leader in our prediction contest. #Davecember celebrity loofish is representing his namesakes with a currently-in-first-place position for his guess...but with others on his tail.
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    11 m
  • Boardgames To Go 239B - Mark Madness 2025 (with Eryn Roston) Round of 32

    Boardgames To Go 239B - Mark Madness 2025 (with Eryn Roston) Round of 32
    Mar 17 2025

    Eryn is back to talk with me about the results of the first round voting. Half of our original 64 game cover art entries have now been knocked out of the contest. Now successive voting rounds keep halving the remaining contestants every three days. What have we seen so far? No ties, though a couple matchups were close. A few more were blowouts. Are there common threads? Surprises? Plus...Eryn teaches me how to look at art more critically...by SQUINTING. Achievement unlocked.

    -Mark
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    33 m
  • Boardgames To Go 239 - Reminder for Mark Madness

    Boardgames To Go 239 - Reminder for Mark Madness
    Mar 14 2025

    If you're playing along with Mark Madness this year, the time for predictions is over and you'd better start voting. Whether you've done a prediction or not, the link below takes you to the place where you can choose your favorite game cover art as 64 titles square off against each other in one-on-one matchups.

    https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/354557/mark-madness-2025-game-cover-art-with-eryn-roston
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  • Boardgames To Go 239A - Mark Madness 2025 Kickoff (with Eryn Roston)

    Boardgames To Go 239A - Mark Madness 2025 Kickoff (with Eryn Roston)
    Mar 4 2025
    Play along and predict the winners at https://challonge.com/MarkMadness2025 Predictions must be submitted by March 12 to be in the contest Mark Johnson @MarkEJohnson eryn roston @baditude Once again, the month of March give me a chance to bring back "Mark Madness," my podcast-hosted voting contest. Like its namesake sports tournament, Mark Madness is where 64 games are pitted against each other in successive rounds of single-elimination votes. As before, I took the winner of llast year's contest, Eryn Roston, and asked him to co-host this year's contest. Furthermore, Eryn has helped define the special nature of the contest this year. It's still about boardgames, of course, but it's about boardgame art. Specifically, we're voting on the best boardgame cover art. Eryn picked four groupings, each with 16 titles apiece. Those groupings are called Divisions, and this year there are ones for Fantasy, Historical/Real-World, Nature-themed, and Science Fiction boardgame covers. You will see some you know, and some others you don't. Just by looking at the images alone you can decide which ones to vote for, but you'll have more fun if you also listen to Eryn describe why he picked these particular game covers for Mark Madness. You see, Eryn works professionally in the world of art, went to school for it, and knows more than your average bear about artwork. If you're like me, you'll learn something along the way and appreciate game art (& artists) even more. Follow Eryn's own art creator account on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/chickenscratch.er/ Play along! I hope we get a good number of folks who submit their own official predictions at challonge.com, which is free. Some have already done it. You've until March 12 to submit your brackets, so you need to move quickly. Then the voting rounds will start via Geeklist polling. As you can see from the chart above, the successive rounds of this voting will start happening every three days: On March 15 we'll have the results of the first round, when 64 teams are winnowed down to 32 survivors. Then it proceeds to the Sweet 16, Elite 8, Final 4, and Championship. Who will be the winner? We expect to do "micro-episode" podcasts throughout the month to talk about each round. They'll show up in your regular feed, and I can link them here, too. -Mark Fantasy Division geeklist Historical/Real-World Division geeklist Nature Division geeklist Sci Fi Division geeklist
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    2 h y 10 m
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