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Caption: hey everyone my name is Ben and you&#39;re listening to a daily dose of English this is a short simple podcast that you can listen to every single day to improve your English you can find the transcripts for all episodes and more on Ben language.com I&#39;m glad you could make it today in this episode we&#39;re going to be talking about board games one of my favorite uh pastimes with people is to play board games board games are not not Bor as in b o r e d like somebody is Bored oh this is so boring but Bor as in like a physical board that&#39;s not very descriptive uh you know like a board how do you describe a board it&#39;s like a thing that you put on the on a table to like put other stuff on top of but also like in the ground you have like boards that are planks of wood that&#39;s a hard word to describe anyways a board game is actually refers to sort of any game that is played with physical like objects U usually on a table they&#39;re also called tabletop games sometimes although that usually refers to something else um and yeah that&#39;s what a board game is like a things think about like Monopoly or Settlers of Katon or Ticket to Ride those are some big famous games going back a little further well actually yeah let me get into this so in the US everybody knows Monopoly sorry chess uh games like that uh uh Candy Land Snakes and Ladders everybody knows those games those are very famous board games however in the last what like 20 years like the last two decades real board games like really good board games have exploded because Monopoly is not a good game it is very slow it is not very interesting and the person that gets ahead early is going to win uh risk also is not a very interesting game there it is very again very slow not very well designed there&#39;s lots of issues same with pretty much all those other games that I listed out there are plenty of things that make them not good games the best one that I mentioned is chess but chess actually has plenty of problems it&#39;s just really really popular it&#39;s just not a very good casual game because you have to just basically know how to be good um that&#39;s a whole other other thing we could talk about actually why don&#39;t I put chess on the list chess here we go we&#39;ll talk about Chess later on this month or next month actually um but there are so many really good well-designed board games that anybody can play um there&#39;s board games for young people for old people for everybody in between whole families competitive board games there&#39;s so many great board games out there and I&#39;ve been playing board games especially with my family pretty much my whole life because yeah we started playing things like def I mean we definitely played things like Monopoly and and whatever but we also played things like settlers of Katon like I mentioned which has gotten really popular in the last couple decades when did that come out Settlers of Katon Settlers of Katan Katon um uh when did it come out published in oh 1995 wow that&#39;s way older than I thought the first edition came out in 1995 um and I don&#39;t know I don&#39;t know when yeah I mean so I definitely started playing somewhere in the 2000s maybe 2010ish somewhere around there but it is very popular because it&#39;s been around a long time and it&#39;s also a good game it&#39;s a really good game it is about strategy and negotiation and control and like making good decisions and things it is not too difficult to understand pretty much uh everybody that I&#39;ve played with has been able to understand it and get it but it is not super easy either there&#39;s a lot of depth in it um and I think that&#39;s a great example of a modern board game it is not the best modern board game but it&#39;s definitely really good one because of how popular it is another great one that I played a lot growing up is Ticket to Ride which is also um relatively easy but also really fun and engaging and with that one you have to build like train lines between cities to connect them together and gain points that way by my by having your you the your secret tickets that you have that like okay you have to connect these two cities and so your goal is to secretly do that without losing that good connection and yada y y it&#39;s a very fun game definitely recommend it um but there are plenty more another one that I played a lot growing up is Dominion which is doesn&#39;t have a board it&#39;s a more of a a trade built card card or deck building game deck building was what it&#39;s called but we still call them board games um Dominion is fantastic because you basically you start with a little deck and then you buy some cards and over the course of the game you buy buy more cards to put in your deck which helps you buy more cards which helps you buy points and the points help you win the game and it&#39;s really it&#39;s really fun that one I played a lot with my with my family and they would play it with like their friends like it was it&#39;s a very good game um I actually want to play play it more again now cuz it&#39;s it is um a lot of fun it&#39;s again pretty easy to learn and understand but also very difficult to get good at U there are just yeah there&#39;s lots and lots of games out there if you are at all interested in like strategy or anything like that or you have to like find a good way to do something board games I you should definitely try to get into recently I haven&#39;t been playing as many physical board games because I don&#39;t have um as many people to play with in um the real world but there is a really cool website called board game arena which where they basically just build real life board games in the real world in the Digital World online that you can play with your friends and so I&#39;ve been playing a couple of different games with a friends of mine to like just on online like that but you&#39;re still playing like a physical board game and so like what I want to do is also get those games I found a couple of of awesome ones um um that recently I played um oh what&#39;s it called uh ha it&#39;s it&#39;s it&#39;s like kind of making habitat but like habitation oh no what&#39;s it called um harmonies harmonies is what it&#39;s called harmonies um I I this is actually one of the reasons I wanted to record this episode because I&#39;ve been it&#39;s so fun it&#39;s a really really cool game where you get these little there&#39;s these little um tiles these little tokens that are colored and they they represent water um leaves uh bark like wood building um just like a Plains or rocks or whatever it is like things in the real world and you have to build in a very small area you have to build basically a little habitat like a little place for animals to live and you get these cards four different animals that you&#39;re trying to build for right so if you grab a specific card right you go okay I want to build habitat for the U frogs or whatever it is and the really cool part of the game is that to build the habitat for the Frog you have to make a specific like uh pattern of um like of the of some of those little thingies little tokens that you you grab and so a frog for example lives on a single water and a single like leaves to represent like lily pads right and they have to be in a specific uh order right so you have one here one here but the really thing is that you can combine them together and stack them right so frogs can share lily pads but they can&#39;t share the water and so you have to have a bunch of water around like lily pads or a bunch of the green which creates enough space to put like five or six frogs or whatever it is but then you also want to have habitat space for your peacock which uses um water two waters and a building because it needs a place to live right it&#39;s it&#39;s really really cool I&#39;m probably not explaining it very well but it makes this really neat like pattern matching game where you&#39;re trying to build out these these simple little patterns that also go 3D right it&#39;s not just in um like you can make stacks of things and then it&#39;s yeah I don&#39;t know it&#39;s it&#39;s really fun and it&#39;s also got really cool art and it&#39;s yeah it&#39;s it&#39;s I definitely recommend looking at that game another fun one that I played is called Sky Team where you and you&#39;re it&#39;s you and you&#39;re working with a friend and you have to try to land an airplane is the idea but you can&#39;t communicate with what dice you rolled but the dice that you rolled matter because you have to like put them on how fast you&#39;re going or how much you&#39;re turning and all these things and so since you can&#39;t talk about your numbers you have to be like okay I really hope that this person isn&#39;t going to make us just crash cuz I have a six here we&#39;re going to go really really fast um and things like that you have to like plan ahead um and that one&#39;s a really fun one it&#39;s sort of hard it to took me and my friend like seven tries to to get the first one cuz we were like still learning how it worked and all these things um but we definitely crashed lots of times but very fun there&#39;s also tons of different like scenarios so depending on like you can keep playing with the same person um because like I&#39;m I&#39;m pulled up the the thing but there&#39;s like uh there&#39;s a bunch of like really hard ones some they&#39;re a little bit easier there&#39;s a bunch of easy ones a bunch of medium ones it looks like there&#39;s like 20 different ones in here which is really cool like different scenarios different airports that are slightly different um but there&#39;s so many great games out there let&#39;s see if I can just I can name a couple more that I really like um as board games Sushi go fantastic drafting game um skull is a very simple bluffing game skull is really fun Splendor is a nice little um uh like Resource Management game that I play that with my parents fairly often love letter is a a fantastic quick game um it&#39;s where it&#39;s basically where everybody has a secret identity and you&#39;re trying to guess others while not get gotten but also like find who yeah it&#39;s it&#39;s that&#39;s really simple and fun um Seven Wonders is really cool that one I enjoy haven&#39;t played a ton of it I&#39;ve played more Seven Wonders duel which is 1 V one but that&#39;s also really fun um I mentioned Katon already uh let&#39;s see is there any more that I can name quickly I mentioned Ticket to Ride oh Patchwork is another fun two-player game again very simple where you&#39;re just trying to match tiles and like Cool Shapes to make the most points very simple I like to play this game when I&#39;m like hanging out with somebody and like we&#39;re just having a drink or something because it&#39;s very it doesn&#39;t take very much brain power but it is fun um there I also played one relatively recently sort of called the Euro game um which is oh was like brute no that&#39;s not right industry something like that that was a really fun one where you have to like build up your factories to make more stuff um but yeah terrible description but you know here we are oh lost cities is also really fun lost cities is another 1V one game where you have to um you&#39;re like an you&#39;re trying to go on like an expedition and uncover the ruins of um some ancient city whatever a lost city right um but your opponent is also looking for the exact same ones and so you&#39;re sort of competing for different the the same cards but in different colors and it&#39;s like as soon as you lay down a card you can&#39;t go back right you can&#39;t go to a lower number and you have to reach a certain number of points to get to score or else you lose a bunch of points there&#39;s a lot of it&#39;s it&#39;s really fun that&#39;s a great one for playing um 1 V one several times in a day um I remember a year that I went on vacation with my parents to Mexico they brought that game and they played every day like four or five games together just by the pool just hanging out um but there are yeah there&#39;s just lots of really good games to play um I&#39;m going long on this episode but I really do like board games there there&#39;s just so much creativity as well now nowadays that there&#39;s a game for everybody even if you don&#39;t think that you&#39;re like a gamer or anything try to go like play some games and and see what you like there things there&#39;s games that take five hours to play I I I played a game with a couple of friends who are really big Gamers really big like like hardcore Gamers like board gamers not like video Gamers um called like Eclipse I don&#39;t know I don&#39;t remember but it it&#39;s humongous right you lay out this massive board they have to get like an a huge table for it but you lay out all of these spaceships and aliens and everybody has like their entire like race to control and you&#39;re trying to race for for control here or War like there&#39;s all these cool things it&#39;s like this huge um uh tactical simulator sort of thing so yeah there&#39;s I what&#39;s I feel like it&#39;s called eclipse eclipse board game maybe um let me see Eclipse board game yeah this looks like it&#39;s it um yeah yeah that&#39;s it this looks like a slightly older version than the one that I the one the one that I played yeah I think I played the second edition yeah that&#39;s what it is eclip second edition yeah here&#39;s a picture of it if you Google Eclipse second Dawn um you should see the a thumbnail like of a video of a guy holding the game and it&#39;s massive you can see it&#39;s it&#39;s on his entire table he&#39;s like spreading out his arms to to even reach the both sides of it but um that&#39;s definitely a fun uh big time gamer game I would I would definitely play it and it&#39;s really complicated it&#39;s really fun but then there&#39;s also really simple ones that you can play in 5 minutes I have some board games that are not even board games that is like tiny little card games that fit into a pocket but yeah anyways I&#39;m going off Off Script on not Off Script there&#39;s no script here I&#39;m going off on tangents but I really like board games and especially if you go to a new city in that&#39;s English speaking and you want to practice speaking with people going to play board games is a great way to just meet people without having to be social because you have to talk to them in order to play the game um but yeah that is everything for me today I&#39;m going to let you go thank you so much for being here and listening I hope that you enjoyed if you like board games leave me a comment below with what your favorite game is and I&#39;ll check it out but that&#39;s everything for today have a fantastic rest of it bye
Title: Daily Dose of English 212 - Board Games
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