Mad props to both of you! Awesome video, please share it also on boardgamegeek.com :D Good call starting with a lighter game (it's faster to explain, easier to talk while playing and an experienced player has less of an advantage), Lorenzo can be a future rematch tho. Your guests always have so much to share... You sure they're not time travellers? :P
I know,what an awesome contributor, right? Doing a game of Lorenzo on a second video is exactly what I was thinking! I am hoping to travel to Oxford and play it in person. Never done that before though 🤔 Wondering if I need to buy some gear. Thanks so much, your encouragement has been great!
I tried to post a comment, but it seems to not have gone through. Great video, as always. If you're interested in Splendor nobles, you can find a list of the promos on boardgamegeek.com/thread/2489029/list-promo-tiles, made by myself, and a list of the nobles in the base game on boardgamegeek.com/thread/1147213/who-are-these-nobles .
I'm amazed by this! How funny that you organised a search for the identities of those historical figures all those years ago. And now I just blunder into it in this video 😂 I suppose it shows how you always had an interest in the themes behind games and perhaps it's no surprise you have been a supporter of the channel. It still seems like a coincidence that you were one of the first people to find the channel though! 😄 BTW Maths Professor, Have you seen the Stand Up Maths video about Dobble?
@@UnfussyBoardGames I am a closet historian, so I am intrigued by games with a historical theme. On the other hand, I often find "simulation games" to be too rules heavy, so I really like light games with a light historical flavor. Splendor is a good example of that. I must confess that I have never played Lorenzo. I don't really like the art, and as mentioned under another video, my main play group is my kids, so I prefer games without too much rules. Dobble is an interesting game, but the math is in a sense purely cosmetic. It is a nice math exercise to explain the theory behind the game, but it has nothing to do with how you play the game. There are however many games where knowing probability helps you. Like what to bet in the tea shop in Istanbul, or how to play in Legends of Andor. I give a lot of lectures on using games in teaching mathematics. What subjects do you teach, by the way?
By the way, maybe you could give some hints about what videos you are planning to do in the future? Maybe some of us have questions that we might want you to ask your guests?
@@HelmerAslaksen ua-cam.com/video/VTDKqW_GLkw/v-deo.html. This is the Dobble video I was referring to btw. I am a Maths teacher! However I am not really a natural mathematician, I actually studied physics ...and I'm not really a scientist either! What I like, is teaching itself. I like how you said, "hints". That's a good idea, let's try it. I will tag you in a tweet. You will have to look at Twitter sometime though 😂
@@UnfussyBoardGames Let me toss out some suggestions for you. This reflects my personal taste in games, but hopefully it may give you some ideas. There are of course lots of historical and war games that could be used, too, but many of them may only appeal to a small audience. I have listed some that I hope might have a broader appeal. 1. Secret Hitler. It would be great to have a historian or political scientist talk about the game. 2. I would love to hear a psychologist talk about The Mind. My son is diagnosed with autism, but we still managed to beat the game! 3. I believe that Tigris & Euphrates is a thematic game, and would love to hear a historian talk about it. Same with Yellow & Yangtze. It is for instance interesting to see the change between the two games, where black governors replace the red priests, which reflects the strong role of the state in China instead of religion. 4. Evolution was designed for teaching science. 5. 1775 6. Concordia. 7. Freedom: The Underground Railroad 8. Ecosystem 9. Gandhi 10. Inis 11. Lancaster 12. Memoir ’44. 13. Tammany Hall 14. Three Kingdoms Redux 15. Thunder & Ligthning (Or Hera & Zeus) 16. Tokaido 17. Twilight Struggle 18. Yin Yang 19. Wir Sind das Wolk! 20. Let me also mention some games that pretty only I know about, but that I think deserve more attention. I use the game Borel for teaching probability. It is sold out, but the new edition is also good. 21. Belaad is a gorgeous game about the history of Islamic science! 22. 15 days is about Chinese astronomy and calendar.
Whoa this makes Lorenzo so thematic for me now!
Just what I was hoping for so this is a great comment, thanks :-)
Mad props to both of you! Awesome video, please share it also on boardgamegeek.com :D
Good call starting with a lighter game (it's faster to explain, easier to talk while playing and an experienced player has less of an advantage), Lorenzo can be a future rematch tho. Your guests always have so much to share... You sure they're not time travellers? :P
I know,what an awesome contributor, right? Doing a game of Lorenzo on a second video is exactly what I was thinking! I am hoping to travel to Oxford and play it in person. Never done that before though 🤔 Wondering if I need to buy some gear. Thanks so much, your encouragement has been great!
I tried to post a comment, but it seems to not have gone through. Great video, as always. If you're interested in Splendor nobles, you can find a list of the promos on boardgamegeek.com/thread/2489029/list-promo-tiles, made by myself, and a list of the nobles in the base game on boardgamegeek.com/thread/1147213/who-are-these-nobles .
I'm amazed by this! How funny that you organised a search for the identities of those historical figures all those years ago. And now I just blunder into it in this video 😂 I suppose it shows how you always had an interest in the themes behind games and perhaps it's no surprise you have been a supporter of the channel. It still seems like a coincidence that you were one of the first people to find the channel though! 😄 BTW Maths Professor, Have you seen the Stand Up Maths video about Dobble?
@@UnfussyBoardGames I am a closet historian, so I am intrigued by games with a historical theme. On the other hand, I often find "simulation games" to be too rules heavy, so I really like light games with a light historical flavor. Splendor is a good example of that. I must confess that I have never played Lorenzo. I don't really like the art, and as mentioned under another video, my main play group is my kids, so I prefer games without too much rules.
Dobble is an interesting game, but the math is in a sense purely cosmetic. It is a nice math exercise to explain the theory behind the game, but it has nothing to do with how you play the game. There are however many games where knowing probability helps you. Like what to bet in the tea shop in Istanbul, or how to play in Legends of Andor. I give a lot of lectures on using games in teaching mathematics.
What subjects do you teach, by the way?
By the way, maybe you could give some hints about what videos you are planning to do in the future? Maybe some of us have questions that we might want you to ask your guests?
@@HelmerAslaksen ua-cam.com/video/VTDKqW_GLkw/v-deo.html. This is the Dobble video I was referring to btw. I am a Maths teacher! However I am not really a natural mathematician, I actually studied physics ...and I'm not really a scientist either! What I like, is teaching itself. I like how you said, "hints". That's a good idea, let's try it. I will tag you in a tweet. You will have to look at Twitter sometime though 😂
@@UnfussyBoardGames Let me toss out some suggestions for you. This reflects my personal taste in games, but hopefully it may give you some ideas. There are of course lots of historical and war games that could be used, too, but many of them may only appeal to a small audience. I have listed some that I hope might have a broader appeal.
1. Secret Hitler. It would be great to have a historian or political scientist talk about the game.
2. I would love to hear a psychologist talk about The Mind. My son is diagnosed with autism, but we still managed to beat the game!
3. I believe that Tigris & Euphrates is a thematic game, and would love to hear a historian talk about it. Same with Yellow & Yangtze. It is for instance interesting to see the change between the two games, where black governors replace the red priests, which reflects the strong role of the state in China instead of religion.
4. Evolution was designed for teaching science.
5. 1775
6. Concordia.
7. Freedom: The Underground Railroad
8. Ecosystem
9. Gandhi
10. Inis
11. Lancaster
12. Memoir ’44.
13. Tammany Hall
14. Three Kingdoms Redux
15. Thunder & Ligthning (Or Hera & Zeus)
16. Tokaido
17. Twilight Struggle
18. Yin Yang
19. Wir Sind das Wolk!
20. Let me also mention some games that pretty only I know about, but that I think deserve more attention. I use the game Borel for teaching probability. It is sold out, but the new edition is also good.
21. Belaad is a gorgeous game about the history of Islamic science!
22. 15 days is about Chinese astronomy and calendar.