Board Game 20 Questions!

Twenty yes-or-no questions sounds like a lot until you start spending them on the wrong things. We put that to the test with a full round of board game 20 questions, and it turns into a surprisingly intense mix of deduction, board game knowledge, and pure table talk chaos. Clayton’s out on assignment, so Travis is joined by Amanda, Mike, and Vic as our guessing panel.

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Transcript

Welcome And House Introductions

SPEAKER_03 0:15

Welcome to the Operation Game Night Podcast. We got a full house in the building. Joining me this week is not Clayton Gable. Clayton is on assignment doing something, God knows what. Uh, but I have the Mama Cita of Meeples here. Amanda Lee, empty nest board mama herself. How are you doing, Amanda?

SPEAKER_05 0:36

I'm good. How are you, Travis?

SPEAKER_03 0:38

I'm doing well. I'm good. Also joining me is the magnanimous Mike. How you doing, Mike? I'm good. How are you? Oh, that's the word.

SPEAKER_01 0:48

I can't say it.

SPEAKER_03 0:49

Magnanimous.

SPEAKER_01 0:50

Magnanimous.

SPEAKER_03 0:51

I like that. I like that. That other sultry voice you hear is the vivacious. Voluptuous Vic. How are you doing, Vic?

SPEAKER_02 0:58

Hey, how's it going? Voluptuous. Dang, that's a lot of you. Okay, hold on. I feel like you used that last time, bro.

Rules For Board Game 20 Questions

SPEAKER_03 1:05

That's why I threw in vivacious. Vic! Victorious. There you go. I don't think they don't think that. I mean he might be victorious today because today we are playing board game 20 questions. These three are my panelists, and I have pre-selected three games. Uh, and they can bounce ideas off one another. They're gonna go around the horn and ask questions like about publishers, about themes, about mechanics. I'm gonna do my best to answer those because I tried to pick games that I'm at least familiar with this time. And uh we will see if they can get these three games correct in 20 questions. Oh, have to be yes or no questions. They cannot be like, does the game start with the letter B or something? You have to like ask yes or no question. Yes or no question. Yeah, well, no cheating. Uh yeah, they're gonna ask yes or no questions, they can ask about art style, they can ask about you know publisher what year kind of span that it came out. Uh and I will just wait.

SPEAKER_02 2:10

He's gotta introduce it, you gotta introduce it first.

SPEAKER_03 2:12

And then uh the last question has to be a guess. So I will try and let you uh do my best to help you keep track of what question you're on. Taking notes. We'll see how you do. Are we ready? Ready to jump in?

SPEAKER_02 2:25

All right, let's do this. Oh, you already started with the questions?

SPEAKER_05 2:27

Oh question is 20 is question 20 the guess, or is it 20 questions and then a guess?

SPEAKER_03 2:35

It is the 20th question has to be the guess. Okay, okay, okay.

SPEAKER_05 2:40

So 19 questions and a guess.

SPEAKER_02 2:42

Okay, okay. Oh, there you go. Man, you got to hold it down because I don't know anything before Jim.

SPEAKER_05 2:46

I got this.

Game One Starts With Big Swings

SPEAKER_02 2:47

Okay, let the questioning begin. All right, over to you. Oh, already. Oh, we don't get like uh oh geez.

SPEAKER_01 2:55

Well, I I if you're good, I got I have a question. Yes, just 50-50. This uh is the designer male or female?

SPEAKER_03 3:04

That's that's not a yes or no question. Oh, is the designer female? Oh there, uh no.

SPEAKER_02 3:11

No, don't make our 19th question the male version. No, I'm not we we know it's not half of this now, okay. Yeah, oh okay.

SPEAKER_05 3:20

Wait, we can was this game a Kickstarter?

SPEAKER_02 3:23

Oh yes, I feel like that's all the games. No, oh man.

SPEAKER_05 3:29

Well we gotta that's gonna uh rule out all Stonemeyer games, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 3:35

A lot of Stonewire Except for like Viticulture, which was his is the okay like oh I go uh geez, I don't know, I don't know. Um uh is this game a Euro game?

SPEAKER_01 3:53

No is this game a a reprint remake of a game?

SPEAKER_03 4:02

No, ask about components, art style, themes. You got all sorts of stuff you could ask.

SPEAKER_05 4:13

Is this a two-player only game?

SPEAKER_03 4:16

No, uh, okay.

SPEAKER_02 4:22

All right, here's here's uh this is uh real quick on the rules of the game. Okay 20 questions is us collective united 20 questions, or like men have 20 collective 20 questions.

SPEAKER_03 4:34

You do not each get 20 questions, okay.

SPEAKER_02 4:37

I'm like, I'm not keeping track, I'm not keeping track of my questions.

SPEAKER_03 4:39

We got a mana for this.

SPEAKER_01 4:40

There we are. Thank you. Uh so theme might be a good place to go here. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I I feel like a big portion of this is is it Cthulhu Lovecraft themed? No, no, okay. That's a big big genre there. How do you spell that?

SPEAKER_05 5:04

Because C H T U L U.

SPEAKER_01 5:09

That's what I put. Okay, that's what I put.

SPEAKER_02 5:15

Is this a cooperative game? Yes.

SPEAKER_04 5:18

Ooh.

SPEAKER_01 5:23

Interesting.

unknown 5:24

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 5:24

What question are we on, Amanda? Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 5:26

Uh this will be number eight. So we've got male designer, Kickstarter, not a euro, not a reprint, not two-player only, not Cthulhu, and it is cooperative.

SPEAKER_02 5:36

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 5:37

So is not Cthulhu would we be ruling out like Horrified then? Because isn't there a Cthulhu in Horrified or no?

SPEAKER_02 5:45

That's a that's like a scenario, but it's not like the main theme of the game.

SPEAKER_01 5:50

Uh when I said that, I was thinking more like the Arkums, yeah, yeah. That kind of stuff. Cthulhu Death May Die at all.

SPEAKER_05 5:56

Yeah, right, right. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 5:58

Um board games right there. Uh we got the staff, Howard. We know what it is.

SPEAKER_05 6:04

So what are some co let's think cooperative? What are some cooperatives? And then we can narrow it.

SPEAKER_01 6:13

No. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 6:14

Nemesis was Nemesis was. But it's also semi-cooperative. Um Zombicide's kind of in there. I was gonna go Zombicide, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 6:24

Oh, what is the one that um Clay plays with his boys? Is it a Marvel game?

SPEAKER_03 6:29

Oh, Marvel United. Uh, it is not a Marvel United.

SPEAKER_05 6:32

Obviously, that's not the answer.

SPEAKER_01 6:34

Oh, it is not Marvel United. That's like good job, Amanda.

SPEAKER_03 6:37

Oh man.

SPEAKER_05 6:38

Amanda, you still have a question. Not Marvel. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 6:41

Uh Marvel, okay.

SPEAKER_05 6:42

Not Marvel related. Okay, what are some other core?

SPEAKER_01 6:47

Does this have a fantasy, high fantasy theme? No.

unknown 6:54

No.

SPEAKER_01 6:54

All right, we're we're running out of themes here.

SPEAKER_02 6:56

Uh I feel like I feel like it's nemesis. I'm gonna I'm um I feel like it's nemesis.

SPEAKER_05 7:02

Okay, so Darren Travis. We still we still got 11 questions.

SPEAKER_01 7:06

So I've never played Nemesis, so I don't know how to pose that question.

SPEAKER_02 7:10

Okay, okay. I'll ask it. Uh, is this a sci-fi theme? Space theme. No, dang it, never mind, it's not nemesis.

SPEAKER_05 7:16

Not sci-fi. Okay. Is this oh, I've got one. Yes, uh, a cooperative. Is it um like a heist theme?

SPEAKER_02 7:27

No, no, not sci-fi, not fantasy.

SPEAKER_05 7:31

That would be, I was thinking like burgo bros, like a heist or um what are some other co-ops?

SPEAKER_02 7:38

It could be zombie side.

SPEAKER_05 7:40

Can I phone a friend?

SPEAKER_02 7:42

I got I got two friends, just friends.

SPEAKER_05 7:45

Okay, so we're uh I want to call Clay 12. So what are other co-ops?

SPEAKER_03 7:53

You asked about weight, playtime.

SPEAKER_01 7:55

Oh is it over a three on BGG for weight?

SPEAKER_03 8:02

For weight, it is not over a three, so it's on the lighter side. Three weight. I feel like zombies side is the game.

SPEAKER_05 8:13

Do I have this game on my shelf?

SPEAKER_03 8:16

That's a great question. I can see approximately 10 games there, and I it's not one of them. Uh no, does not look like it.

SPEAKER_01 8:27

See, I'm at a hindrance here because I don't play a lot of cooperative games.

SPEAKER_02 8:31

Yeah, I I love playing cooperative games, but I don't own a lot of cooperative games. I'm trying to think the main ones that I think are it. Like Travis just shot those in the dark.

SPEAKER_03 8:40

You could ask playtime, you could ask that won't help.

SPEAKER_02 8:45

Or uh number of players. I'm trying to figure out what's the yes or no number of player counts.

SPEAKER_01 8:49

I think you just gotta make a stab, like okay.

SPEAKER_02 8:52

Like what's yeah, I was gonna say, is max player count four?

SPEAKER_03 8:57

No. Oh, so you can play more. Why don't you try and rephrase that question?

SPEAKER_02 9:01

Yeah, I'm trying to figure it out. I try to figure, yeah. Scratch that question, Amanda. That wasn't it. Uh what's a good player count question that's like yes or no?

SPEAKER_03 9:12

Above or below a certain number?

SPEAKER_02 9:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 9:22

I don't know. Um help him out. You guys can do it.

SPEAKER_01 9:26

Is I well, I I don't know where he's going with it.

SPEAKER_02 9:30

I guess I guess can you play more? Is it above four players? I guess. Yes, candy. Oh a lot of cooperative games aren't four plus players.

SPEAKER_05 9:43

Um is this game in the BGG Tap 100?

SPEAKER_03 9:51

Oh, that's a good one. No, it might have been once upon a time, but it is not now.

SPEAKER_05 9:57

Not currently, not currently. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 10:00

Oh, um, what question are we at?

SPEAKER_02 10:02

Minute sorry.

SPEAKER_05 10:03

Uh we're at 16.

SPEAKER_02 10:05

I was gonna ask, does this game use miniatures? Yes. Oh, uses miniatures.

SPEAKER_04 10:16

Uh is it horrified?

SPEAKER_01 10:19

Guys, I was gonna say, I'm kind of wondering now.

SPEAKER_05 10:21

Like, is it horrified? Horrified. Okay, so let's talk it out. Uh, male designer was a Kickstarter. That one I'm not sure of.

SPEAKER_01 10:31

Wasn't the DD one a Kickstarter, though?

SPEAKER_05 10:33

Well, the DD one was just a Kickstarter, not a Euro, not a reprint, but that's is that that's not considered a reprint. When you asked the question, I thought you were thinking like the Kenitsia that they're redoing right now, right?

SPEAKER_01 10:45

I thought he was going magical athlete in originally. That's where that's the route I was on.

SPEAKER_05 10:50

So I was like not two player only, not Jihulu. It is cooperative, it is not Marvel, not fantasy, not sci-fi, no heist, and not a over a three weights, not on my shelf, which if it's horrified, the original isn't, but I do have others. Uh four plus players, not in the top ten, uses mini minis.

SPEAKER_01 11:11

I was gonna say the only one I can think of, and I'm not even sure if the DD was, but I know the other one, but the first few weren't. So the first work? The first one was a horrified work Kickstarters? Yeah, yeah. Oh, I don't know. I don't know. So um, does this game have multiple versions? It does. So there we go. Um, I think we're gonna go.

SPEAKER_05 11:39

So we got two more questions, and then the two more questions and then we could ask a specific version that we've been talking about.

SPEAKER_02 11:49

Yeah, do I okay. Um we could go like super specific and go like the first one.

SPEAKER_05 11:56

Do we have to guess the version? Do you think?

SPEAKER_02 11:59

Uh I don't know. I don't know if Travis would throw a curveball on that one.

SPEAKER_03 12:01

No, like no. Okay. You want to go back to the base version of this line of game.

SPEAKER_05 12:08

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 12:09

Oh, so there's okay, okay, okay.

SPEAKER_05 12:11

Um I think it's horrified.

SPEAKER_02 12:13

Uh what is there? Well, we have that one question we could ask like specifically, like, is it classic monster? Yeah, classic monster. That's a universal monster.

SPEAKER_05 12:22

Yeah, who's the um who's the um distributor who who does horrifying?

SPEAKER_01 12:28

I think it's Asmode. No, it's uh Ravensburg. Ravens, uh yeah, Ravensburg. Ravensburg, Ravensburg.

SPEAKER_05 12:33

Is this a Ravensburger game?

SPEAKER_03 12:36

No. Oh no! We're so close.

SPEAKER_05 12:39

Oh, the plots one question, one guess. We got one question left to figure it out, gentlemen. Oh, I don't like it. The original, I oh boy. Okay, was that wait, was there in the other thought was Spirit Island, but yeah, but I yeah, I don't think that's more like fantasy, isn't it like a fantasy uh no fantasy fantasy, but that's more like uh Islander uh mythology kind of thing.

SPEAKER_01 13:10

Spirits spirits, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 13:12

Okay, so that's and that's a 4.0 weight.

SPEAKER_01 13:15

So Spirit Island is that's why I started from that. Uh I I weirdly because I uh what about the initiative?

SPEAKER_02 13:27

The initiative?

SPEAKER_05 13:29

Initiative, it's um it's a co-op game. Uh it's like you're it's basically like these kids found a comic book and they're trying to like do all these riddles and stuff.

SPEAKER_03 13:41

Can I um can I give you a hack here for a sec? No, yeah, that you can try. No? Oh yeah, Matthews is no.

SPEAKER_02 13:49

All right. Uh uh, I need help. I need help. No, you got us! There's also the gang.

SPEAKER_05 13:57

The gang. See, I thought that that, but that is like a heist.

SPEAKER_02 14:00

Yeah, you oh you're right. You're right, you're right, you're right, you're right, you're right. The crew is a good thing. Yeah. There's also the crew, but that's also I don't know the crew. The crew is space, though, space theme. So well, or underwater, like there's the deep sea.

SPEAKER_05 14:17

Okay, so here's here's what we got again: male designer, kickstarter, not a euro, not a reprint, not two-player only, not Cthulhu, cooperative, not Marvel, not fantasy, not sci-fi, no heist, not over three-weight, not on my shelf, can play more than four players, not in the top 100, uses minis, has multiple versions, and not Ravensburger.

SPEAKER_02 14:47

Is it zombicide? Yeah, is that no no no? I don't want to ask that question. I'm just trying to think. Thinking out loud, thinking loud, sorry, sorry. You have a question, it uses mini, it uses minis. It does, and it's cooperative. There's multiple versions of it, but I think I think Zombicide is four, but it is, isn't it like uh no?

SPEAKER_01 15:12

You can go to six and zombieside, it's a 2.53, and it is a male designer.

SPEAKER_05 15:18

But wasn't it like something else?

SPEAKER_01 15:22

What do you mean? And it is Kickstarter. It is Kickstarter, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 15:26

Definitely Kickstarter.

unknown 15:28

Crap.

SPEAKER_02 15:30

And there's minis.

SPEAKER_05 15:32

Should we just ask? Should we ask if it's a C Mond game?

SPEAKER_02 15:37

Or should we just add? I was one kind of ask if it is this game, and if not, then give us one more question. We can kind of figure out.

SPEAKER_05 15:42

I mean, you you got it, you got a guess, and then that's your guess. Oh, is it one guess? That's all you get. One guess.

SPEAKER_01 15:50

You can do it. You can do it. I feel like this is I I really thought it was horrified. That's but yeah, I think this is the next closest thing, honestly.

SPEAKER_05 15:58

So, should we ask, is it a C mod game?

Zombicide Revealed At The Buzzer

SPEAKER_01 16:00

Yeah, yeah. Okay, that's it. Yes, yes, okay. It's gotta be Zombicide then. All right, so is it Zombicide? Yeah, it is Zombicide, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 16:12

Let's buzzer.

SPEAKER_05 16:16

At the buzzer, jeez, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 16:19

Uh Zombicide published in 2012, published by Simon. Designer is Rafael Gaetan. Well done. All right, was uh a little nervous for you there for a sec. Yeah, I thought it would be you have any adjustments in strategy before we uh go to the next game.

SPEAKER_02 16:37

Um we gotta ask more specific ish more theme questions, theme questions that might be real help, like that, like asking like publisher, like gender's I like the player card that we figured out.

SPEAKER_01 16:51

Well, I I was thinking if it was woman that really closed it in, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 16:55

That's where my part went.

SPEAKER_05 17:00

Um uh yeah, well, we asked we found out it was co-op, so then I guess that kind of down there down.

SPEAKER_03 17:06

Yeah, you could have been like based on an IP, like intellectual property that would have left Marvel that would have done probably some of the horrified.

SPEAKER_02 17:15

Wait, zombie side has Marvel though, they have a Marvel version, they do, but the base, but he's not the best diet character, too. Could have asked like a zombie theme, zombie theme would have killed it right there.

SPEAKER_03 17:27

That's also half of games, yeah. Yeah, you can eliminate like space, zombies, and love crafty and horror. That's like half of all board games.

SPEAKER_00 17:35

Yeah, yeah, true.

Game Two Turns Into Publisher Hunting

SPEAKER_03 17:37

All right, are we ready to rock for number two? Okay, yeah, all right. Let's go. All right, let the questioning begin. All right.

SPEAKER_02 17:44

Um, oh yeah, we go straight into it. Um go ahead, Vic. What the okay? Let's start off with something generic, something big. Broad, broad, yeah. Um I mean, I like the I like the the Euro and Ameritrash question.

SPEAKER_01 18:02

Yeah, I think that's a fair one.

SPEAKER_02 18:04

So I think instead of going Euro, I'll go, is this an Ameritrash game?

SPEAKER_03 18:10

I don't know if you would really classify it as Ameritrash or Euro. So abstract, maybe now we're gonna is it abstract?

SPEAKER_05 18:20

Is it Euro?

SPEAKER_03 18:21

Is it here?

SPEAKER_01 18:22

Just notice the game and we'll talk about it.

SPEAKER_03 18:24

I'll give you I'll give you that one for free, just because that's kind of a I don't know good answer.

SPEAKER_02 18:30

You know, yeah. We got him, we got him, we got him stumped. Um yeah.

SPEAKER_05 18:39

Okay, so that's not a question.

SPEAKER_02 18:41

Not a question. No, okay. Should we go theme? Should we ask if you have a theme?

SPEAKER_01 18:46

Um this is not a question, I'm just bringing it up as an option. Uh if there are animal creatures in the game.

SPEAKER_05 18:55

I feel like there's a lot of like the roots, critter kitchen, like oh, or if it's what if it's what if we ask the other thing, like is it anapomorphic?

SPEAKER_01 19:06

Oh, animal anapomorphic animals, animals animals that do jobs. Great show, yeah. Great books. Is that the question?

SPEAKER_05 19:15

Oh is that a question?

SPEAKER_02 19:16

Oh no, but where are we thinking? O c or we're O C right now, out of character, like in D. OOC.

SPEAKER_05 19:22

It's above the table.

SPEAKER_02 19:23

That's right. Uh but under the table, Mr. Weep. Okay. Um, I'm scared to ask questions now.

SPEAKER_05 19:32

Animal theme or animal, what what do we want to say?

SPEAKER_01 19:35

Well, I'm talking like like Gale Crest or Everdale or Amber Leaf, like they have those anamorphic animal uh animals. That's what I was thinking. That's a question. Go, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 19:47

Does it have anthropomorphic animals? Yes, yes, no. Good thing we started off strong. All right, we're off, we're off to a roll.

SPEAKER_05 19:59

Um so it's not Andrew Bosley.

SPEAKER_02 20:02

Should we go? Should we go mechanic? Maybe like uh yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm thinking I'm thinking of three basic things. I'm thinking uh again, OC here. Yeah, uh, I would I'm thinking like worker placement, like builder, or tile placement. Tile placement.

SPEAKER_05 20:16

So we got an worker placement. Worker placement's a good one. If we can if we can knock that out, if it's that's a no, that would be a big deal.

SPEAKER_02 20:24

Okay, let's uh that'll be a question. So is this a worker placement game? No, okay.

SPEAKER_05 20:28

Ooh, good job, Vic.

SPEAKER_02 20:32

Okay, that's not a worker placement game. Interesting. That knocks half my show.

SPEAKER_01 20:39

Yeah, I was gonna say that's a majority of mine, too.

SPEAKER_05 20:42

Yeah, so no worker placement, no animals. Dare you not have one animals?

SPEAKER_02 20:46

Worker placements are great.

SPEAKER_01 20:48

Um who doesn't have one?

SPEAKER_02 20:50

What? I mean, Travis says no on this one, and you know, this this obviously has to be one of the 20 question board games. But he said no. Okay. Uh okay. Um no worker placement.

SPEAKER_03 21:05

You guys had some great questions last time that I think would have like helped you out. Oh now you say that.

SPEAKER_01 21:11

Well, should we ask there's the Lovecraft Cthulhu thing again? Because that's another that's another one, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 21:18

Yeah, should we ask if it's cooperative or or competitive like is it cooperative?

SPEAKER_01 21:22

Yeah, uh, we can't.

SPEAKER_03 21:23

Yeah, I I feel like that's a decent one. Yeah, it is not cooperative. Okay. Not cooperative. All right.

SPEAKER_02 21:30

So I guess it's not zombieside then. That's good. Marvel Zombicide. Yeah. Okay, so it's competitive and it's working.

SPEAKER_05 21:42

Can we uh should we ask him, is it Beijing boring or colorful and cozy? That's a good question.

SPEAKER_03 21:48

That's a good question. Get rolling. Is that the question you want to ask?

SPEAKER_02 21:54

What do you think? Uh Beige and boring usually alludes to Euros, so let's go with it. Good.

SPEAKER_03 22:00

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 22:01

Is it Beijing boring?

SPEAKER_03 22:03

I think people would describe this as pretty Bayesian boring.

SPEAKER_05 22:06

Oh get Raul on the phone, Vic.

SPEAKER_01 22:11

Well, I love me some Beige and boring. Um what you got, Mike? And well, what I think of that, that's pop chemistry. Chemistry. Beige. Uh no, I think Castles of Burgundy. Uh where I'm going.

SPEAKER_05 22:31

So that's Ravensburger, isn't it?

SPEAKER_01 22:33

Yes, and it's not workers. Well, Aliyah, Ravensburger depends on the version. I work in realms. Um could ask if it's a dice selection game. I think it was Z-Man at 1.2.

SPEAKER_05 22:45

Um Yeah, because it's not worker placement. So that I mean, yeah, that could be a good pass. That's definitely we know that that's an OGN favorite.

SPEAKER_01 22:53

So I was gonna say step, we can ask if it's Stefan Feld because that's oh yeah, a lot that narrows it down.

SPEAKER_05 23:00

I want to talk about Druids of a Door with you afterwards.

SPEAKER_01 23:03

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 23:03

That yeah, I like uh I like that uh so yeah.

SPEAKER_05 23:07

Um let's go with uh is it a oh Kickstarter's another good one too.

SPEAKER_01 23:10

Is it Stefan Feld?

SPEAKER_05 23:12

Yeah, let's ask him that.

SPEAKER_01 23:13

Okay, Stefan Feld is not so that got rid of a lot of trajan and all that kind of stuff. Cool games I haven't played, so phase euros, phasure, phasure.

SPEAKER_05 23:26

So it's not a worker placement, it is your what question are we on? Uh six. This will be number six, so we're good.

SPEAKER_01 23:37

Um keeping track. I I do like the Kickstarter question. Yeah, let's let's go ahead and ask. Is it a Kickstarter?

SPEAKER_03 23:46

Um was it on Kickstarter? Or was it on Kickstarter? Not when it first came out.

SPEAKER_01 23:52

Not when it first came out, maybe so does that um it could be an open expansions, maybe of uh The House of the Burgundy, but that's it's a Steffen Feld, so that's how um but also Puerto Rico, they just did that.

SPEAKER_05 24:09

Ra was Bajan boring originally, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:15

I'm trying to think of other ones. We could ask them if it's a Raken Realms production. We could, yes.

SPEAKER_02 24:24

I think that's fair. That's a fair question.

SPEAKER_05 24:26

Yeah, that's good.

SPEAKER_03 24:27

No, it is not no, not an Awakened Realms production interesting.

SPEAKER_02 24:34

Well, there goes my nemesis guess. Lords of Ragnarok.

SPEAKER_05 24:39

Okay, what about mechanic?

SPEAKER_03 24:42

You could do well.

SPEAKER_05 24:43

Yes, we know it's not a it's not a worker placement, it's not cooperative, so it could be like Orleans is a bag builder that's pretty popular. They do like bag builders at OGN, also, so that's probably a solid question.

SPEAKER_02 24:56

We could ask if it's a bag builder, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:58

Is it a bag builder?

SPEAKER_03 24:59

No, oh but it is grouped with bag building on uh mechanics.

SPEAKER_01 25:05

So deck building, bag building. Okay, okay. Oh, so maybe like a great western trail. The original was kind of gray and a uh not gray, yeah, Asian boring, Asian boring, thank you.

SPEAKER_05 25:16

Age and boring, but like but that that just had a Kickstarter, but the original was not, correct?

SPEAKER_00 25:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 25:24

So that's let's let's lean in that to that way then. So, like, should we ask is it a Western theme?

SPEAKER_02 25:31

Yeah, or should we or should we ask player account also with the theme first? Okay, okay, go ahead.

SPEAKER_05 25:39

Is it uh cowboy western theme?

SPEAKER_03 25:43

Uh no. Quite the opposite, actually.

SPEAKER_02 25:48

It's sci-fi! Oh they're space cowboys. The space cowboys are the cowboy bebop. Come on.

SPEAKER_01 25:55

When we said that, I uh I went, I was like, maybe they're talking about Western Legends. Oh, they do like some Western Legends over there, too.

SPEAKER_02 26:02

Western Legends is Legends. Oddly enough, only play that game once.

SPEAKER_05 26:05

See, they like themes too, Vic. FaceTime Friday, we're gonna dress up.

SPEAKER_02 26:10

Hey, there we go.

SPEAKER_05 26:15

Okay, so no animal, no anathropomorphic animals, not worker placement, not cooperative. Yes, it's beige and boring, not Steffen Feld, not originally Kickstarter, not Awakened Realms, not a bag builder, and not a western.

SPEAKER_03 26:30

You got eight questions, mate, Amanda?

SPEAKER_05 26:33

Nine.

SPEAKER_03 26:34

I got nine. Okay, nine. Should we ask the player count question?

SPEAKER_01 26:40

Like, is it most Beijing boring are four to five players?

SPEAKER_02 26:45

Yeah. Competitively, though, it's like four. Cooperative games are higher player count games sometimes. Um we could ask if there's an actual like board, you know. Sometimes you use tiles.

SPEAKER_04 26:58

Oh yeah, sometimes is there a board?

SPEAKER_03 27:01

Is there an actual board?

SPEAKER_05 27:04

Oh board. Good question. So is it so it's a card game? Bayesian boring card game?

SPEAKER_02 27:13

It could also be tile placement game. But a Bayesian boring game that doesn't have a board? That's interesting.

SPEAKER_05 27:21

Does it what if could we uh above the table, could could it be like each player has their own player board?

SPEAKER_02 27:29

Yeah, that's true. Is that that's a thing too? Do you think that would be I feel like it's a card game, but I feel like I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 27:37

Okay, let's ask. Well, just ask. Is it a card game?

SPEAKER_03 27:41

It is a card game.

SPEAKER_05 27:42

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 27:43

Yes to card game.

SPEAKER_05 27:49

So let's now we got seven questions left to narrow it down.

SPEAKER_01 27:54

So the game that I was thinking of once we went that route is Alexander Pfister, who did uh Great Western Trail, but he also did Port Royal, and that I've I'm only saying this because I've seen this all over Instagram lately, too. And that one is just a card game. Um Great Western Trail? Yeah, no, um Port Royal. Port Royal. But I don't think, yeah, I don't think it's it's on I don't know either one of those.

SPEAKER_02 28:23

We should ask the weight, the weight question I'm oh that's a good one. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 28:26

Oh yeah, like is it above a three? That's what we asked last time.

SPEAKER_03 28:31

Yeah, it is not above a three.

SPEAKER_02 28:33

Why don't I feel like it's Dominion?

SPEAKER_05 28:36

Oh, that is beige boring and uh yeah, that's that's a good uh so that's what Rio Grande?

SPEAKER_01 28:45

Yeah, Rio Grande, yeah. But did we ask the Kickstarter question?

SPEAKER_05 28:49

Yeah, I said not originally a Kickstarter.

SPEAKER_02 28:52

Was Dominion ever on Kickstarter? I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 28:55

Well, let's ask, is it uh is it a Rio Grande game?

SPEAKER_02 28:59

Yes. Oh is it Dominion? Oh my gosh. And it's the weight the weight is 2.3 on it. 2.34.

SPEAKER_05 29:11

Okay, so we got one, two, three, four, five, six questions. We could just narrow it down, or we just want to go straight for the kill. Uh but then if it's not Dominion, then I'm like, right, because we were we were certain the first one was horrified. Yeah, that was real solid.

SPEAKER_02 29:27

And then that publisher thing threw us off.

SPEAKER_05 29:29

Okay, so what else could it be a Rio Grande game that's made a boring card game?

SPEAKER_02 29:35

Well, I was gonna say since Dominion is two to four players, so we could ask if it's above four player count. If not, then okay, yeah, that narrows it down. That sounds good. So is this game a uh above four player count game? No, okay, nope, okay. Do you acquire the most valuable lands by building your treasure?

SPEAKER_01 29:59

Uh how many questions we got?

SPEAKER_05 30:01

Uh one, two, three, four, five, and a guess.

SPEAKER_01 30:05

We can ask if it's Moon Colony, the designer of Moon Colony Bloodbath, because it's the same.

SPEAKER_05 30:10

Same designer.

SPEAKER_01 30:11

Okay. Yeah. Without mainly because I just don't know how to pronounce that guy's name.

SPEAKER_03 30:16

Yeah. Is that the question? The design of the yeah. Uh yes, it shares a designer with Moon Colony Bloodbath. Who's the design?

SPEAKER_01 30:27

The Donald X or yeah, Donald Vaccarino, I think, or something like that. Vacation Reno.

SPEAKER_04 30:34

How dare you disrespect him? Donald, man.

SPEAKER_01 30:36

I've never played Dominion. With some respect on his name. Yeah, whatever second.

SPEAKER_05 30:40

Okay. And I wasn't a fan of Don Colony. I I I think we're I think we're good.

Dominion Locked In With Confidence

SPEAKER_02 30:46

Should we just pull the trigger on it and say, I think so. I think we're good. Travis, is this game Dominion?

SPEAKER_03 30:52

It is Dominion. Yeah, let's go. Congratulations.

SPEAKER_05 31:00

15 questions. Donald Xacorino.

SPEAKER_02 31:02

Two for two.

SPEAKER_01 31:04

Donald X. Well done. Also, not a huge fan of Moon Golly about Bloodbath. Really? Ooh, I like coming in hot. I like this. I never played it yet. Sold it after one play.

SPEAKER_02 31:16

Really? Ooh, interesting. He made that a yard sale game.

SPEAKER_03 31:20

I think uh Clay and Sheridan like that one pretty good.

SPEAKER_02 31:23

I did not play with them, but I like it, but I can see that it could get stale pretty quick.

SPEAKER_03 31:28

Okay, well, nice job, Dominion. Published in 2008 by Rio Grande Games. Designer is uh Donald X Vaccarino and a whole slew of artists, probably the original deck builder. So nice job, guys.

SPEAKER_01 31:42

Oh credited, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 31:44

Changed your line of questioning a little bit. You switched it up, but still got to the same result.

SPEAKER_02 31:50

Are you ready? We in your mind, Travis.

SPEAKER_03 31:52

We in there now.

SPEAKER_02 31:53

We're in there now.

SPEAKER_03 31:54

Well, the first round, Vic was mentioning Zombicide, probably three questions in. This time you guys dropped Dominion, probably eight questions in. So you guys are on to it, man.

SPEAKER_02 32:04

I'm in there right there.

Game Three Speed Run To Wingspan

SPEAKER_03 32:05

Vic's hacked my computer a long time ago. I'm already I'm looking at your screen already. I'm already looking at that. That's all right. Okay, are we ready for the last game? In questions? Give us a challenge. But the questioning begins. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 32:20

I'm hoping that we could get some anthropomorphic animals in one of the three games. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 32:26

It's the sexy animals from Agent Avenue. That's what it is. Oh yeah. Call that how it is. Come on.

SPEAKER_05 32:33

So I'm gonna ask are there anthropomorphic animals? Animals.

SPEAKER_03 32:39

There are not. Anals. Animals. Animals?

SPEAKER_05 32:42

No animals.

SPEAKER_03 32:43

No animals. No anthropomorphic aminals. Animals.

SPEAKER_05 32:47

Aminous. David wrote it. No aminals.

SPEAKER_03 32:51

I did not say that. You said no anthropomorphic animals.

SPEAKER_05 32:55

No anthro animals. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 32:58

I want you to write it out. Anthropomorphic. Anthropomorphic. Spell it out.

SPEAKER_05 33:04

Morph.

SPEAKER_03 33:07

Alright, Mike, what you got? Close enough.

SPEAKER_01 33:14

Is it in the top hundred? That's a good question. Yes. Oh. So we have 100 to guess from. Got it.

SPEAKER_02 33:24

Yeah, nice, nice. All right. 20 questions to ask.

SPEAKER_03 33:27

Got 17 questions left.

SPEAKER_01 33:30

100 games to choose from. I was gonna say you got in the top 100, Stonewire's got a bunch of games, Cole Worthy's got a bunch of games, John Declare. Um John Declare. We should hit the wait question again. Yeah, that's a good one. I let's go. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 33:48

Yeah, but but but but but but but uh the everything on like the top 100 is like over 3.0. Like seriously, isn't it? Pretty damn close.

SPEAKER_01 34:01

Uh no, you got like Lords of the Rings duel from Middle Earth. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02 34:08

So we can go we can go instead of going, is it higher than three? We can go is it higher than four?

SPEAKER_05 34:11

Kind of no, just say three is fine.

SPEAKER_02 34:13

Yeah, keep it a three. Okay. All right, is the weight higher than three? No, it is not right.

SPEAKER_01 34:19

Oh, yeah, because I guess is also in there.

SPEAKER_02 34:26

Um could ask if it's an abstract type of game. But is there an abstract in the yeah? I don't even know how to get to the top here.

SPEAKER_05 34:38

I know, I can't even find it.

SPEAKER_01 34:39

Usually it's I go to browse all games. Oh god.

SPEAKER_02 34:45

Um you said below three.

SPEAKER_05 34:58

Oh, these are ratings, not I was trying to filter it.

SPEAKER_03 35:02

Come on.

SPEAKER_05 35:03

Is it a space theme?

SPEAKER_03 35:05

No. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 35:09

Is it uh not space theme?

SPEAKER_02 35:17

Okay, the cooperative game again question.

SPEAKER_01 35:19

Yeah, cooperative. Go for that.

SPEAKER_02 35:21

It is not cooperative. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 35:24

Is it a Stonemeyer game?

SPEAKER_03 35:26

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 35:27

Um, we got scythe, we got wingspan, um eight, I think eight. No, well, don't hold it.

SPEAKER_05 35:35

No anthropomorphic ammo.

SPEAKER_02 35:37

Yeah. Well, scythe, okay. Well, scythe is 3.45. So I don't know if Travis is accounting like decimal points. It said above three point above three inches. That is above three. 3.45 is greater than or equal to three. So then we can roll out scythe because you said it was below three.

SPEAKER_05 35:54

Should we just ask, like, is it wing span to 2.48? Is it a bird theme? Should that be our question?

SPEAKER_02 36:01

Well, you said the animal question, though.

SPEAKER_05 36:03

No, that's notamorphic animals. That's that's like animals with jobs, like animals that walk around walk around to wear clothes. Okay, uh, yeah, we can ask that question.

SPEAKER_01 36:12

Yeah, I think that's a good one.

SPEAKER_05 36:14

Yeah, is it a bird theme?

SPEAKER_01 36:16

Yes, I saw right. It is obviously scythe. So probably tapestry.

SPEAKER_02 36:25

I don't know. I feel like I feel like we're we're going back to zombie side. I think we should go back to zombie side. I'm feeling zombies with you.

SPEAKER_05 36:31

Okay, bird theme.

SPEAKER_02 36:34

Is that does that literally kill it to just this one?

SPEAKER_05 36:36

Yeah, pretty sure that means it's wing span.

SPEAKER_02 36:39

Yeah, that's the other one. It could be screwed. Let's go up to your question.

SPEAKER_05 36:43

Just run it. Yeah, is it wingspan?

SPEAKER_03 36:46

You are correct. It is wingspan. Yeah, man. You guys got faster and faster. Every time we got that in eight.

SPEAKER_05 36:52

Seven questions.

SPEAKER_03 36:53

Seven questions of a guess.

SPEAKER_01 36:55

Let's go. Hold on. I'm not gonna lie. Right before here, I was watching some YouTube videos all about the top 100. So I had this list pretty well in my head.

Final Laughs And Listener Challenge

SPEAKER_03 37:03

So I thought that was the biggest thing. Next time we do this, I'm gonna like maybe restrict some computer access. Lots of clicking going around. I need to get I think you could have got that without the computers. I think you could have got all of them without the computers, but well done. Uh, that has been board game 20 questions. Thank you to my three competitors. You guys make a great team. What are we waiting for? Uh the internet's praises. Everybody on the internet, give them some love, give them a high five.

SPEAKER_00 37:34

And high five, yep.

SPEAKER_03 37:36

Yeah, and if you have uh if you have a game that you would like to recommend for board game 20 questions, you can hit us up on Instagram at the Operation Game Night Podcast, or you know, just wherever. We're we're on the internet, so let us know, and uh I will pick randomly some board games, and we should do this again. Uh, this is fun. This is great.

SPEAKER_00 37:55

Oh, it's fun. Thanks for having us. A lot of fun.

SPEAKER_03 37:57

I had a blast. Awesome. Well, uh, standby for the end credits, but uh, thank you guys for joining us.

SPEAKER_05 38:03

Yeah, did we do it?

SPEAKER_03 38:05

We did it. We did it. Oh, wow. She got me so good. I'm turning red. I'm wondering. You'll be there. Wow. Wow, wow, wow. All right. Well, you clean. I have been Travis Smith. He has been Vic. He has been Mike. He has been she has been Amanda.

SPEAKER_05 38:25

Animals.

SPEAKER_03 38:26

Animals, and we are out.