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Episode 174: How To Get Your Non-Gaming Spouse Into Board Games or Katie Gets Way Up High on Her Soapbox to Throw Jason Under the Bus

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Boardgame Mechanics
Published
Fri 18 Jun 2021
Episode Link
https://genericshow.podbean.com/e/episode-174-how-to-get-your-non-gaming-spouse-into-board-games-or-katie-gets-way-up-high-on-her-soapbox-to-throw-jason-under-the-bus/

Episode 174 - How To Get a Non-Gaming Significant Other Into Gaming


Introduction: 


  • Fickle Favorite: Scott Christley


News: 


  • Enigma: Crime Scene - 4 days, $70

  • Pisces - 12 days, $45

  • Fossil Canyon - 13 days, $20


Games Played: 


  • Red Rising

  • Tidal Blades

  • Lions of Lydia


How to Get A Non-Gaming Significant Other Into Gaming:  


  • Jason - Know the game before trying to teach the game

  • Katie - Mitigate some of the mental clutter (child care, food prep, etc)

  • Jason - Don’t start with a super heavy/deep game because YOU enjoy it

  • Katie - Let them pick the game/dictate the theme

  • Jason - Let them make the decisions of the game and don’t play for them

  • Katie - Plan/convenient time for them 


Closing:

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