papajens.bsky.social
@papajens.bsky.social
Owner of Papas Papbar and host of the podcast Papas Papcast. Mostly about board games.
Played another game of Curious Cargo! Still a very underappreciated gem imo. Perhaps the complexity to depth ratio is a bit off (it has a lot of small rules that are easy to forget and the scoring is super weird 😂 ) and maybe that's the reason it never became popular? 🤷🏻

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March 23, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Ticks all the right boxes 😅

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March 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
If you really need ANOTHER variation on Azul, you don't mind it being less clean and with more options for the sake of more options and if you don't mind buying an Azul game that ONLY plays two, even if the original worked perfectly at that player count, then Azul Duel might work for you #boardgames
February 16, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Yes, that sounds absolutely fantastic Jaysen. But let me ask you: How many games for, and about, book lovers exist and how many have you tried? 🙄

#boardgames #whyidontkickstart #marketingBS #aplaceforallmybooks
February 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I'm not sure the Escape the Dark series needed a big box format with more complex gameplay and in a much narrower setting like The Last of Us. As other people have said, the lack of content in the box really hurts the replay value of the game 🤔

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February 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
"The whole purpose of reviewing is to stop people from buying things, rather than encourage people to buy things. The marketing dickheads do the encouragement, the reviewers should promote restraint"

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In this bumper episode of the 5G4D news show Ben and Steve give some patreon backers their official names, answer questions and ben talks to Talia Rosen about First Monday in October from @fortcircle.bsky.social and David Harding from @grailgames.bsky.social. Get on it!

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January 18, 2025 at 9:54 AM
New games for the café that need to be tested before they go on the shelves. I've mostly heard bad things about The Last of Us though 😅. Faraway and Flip 7 are no brainers I think 😉
January 17, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Wow! Possibly one of the biggest disapointments of 2024!
Keep the Heroes Out is extremely basic, samey and with a very shallow decision space. The perfect example of form over function. 🙄

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January 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM