Marc, Orion, and Matt talk about “hindered communication” games, where you’re trying to communicate something to another person with an arbitrary barrier in the way. Word association games like Taboo or Codenames are the most well-known types of these games, but we discover that the genre we kind of made up is a lot bigger than that.
Also in this episode, Marc pitches his million dollar invention idea, and everyone marvels over the word “algorithm”.
2:11 – Defining Our Terms
3:58 – The Classics
9:55 – The Apples To Apples Continuum
13:45 – Word Association Games
30:23 – Beyond Word Association
35:55 – Idea Association
46:04 – How These Games Succeed
1:03:08 – Oddities And The Hanabi Problem
1:15:31 – Metagaming
Music: Sailing The Solar Wind by Abstraction
Like the podcast? Want to watch it being recorded, live? Consider supporting it on Patreon.
Please join the discussion below. Stay in touch by subscribing, joining our BoardGameGeek Guild, or by following The Thoughtful Gamer on facebook or twitter.
