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Encore: Ready, set, roll! Finding the right game amid a board game renaissance

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"Ticket To Ride" is among the new board games offering unique cooperative and competitive opportunities. This hour, we talk to board game experts about finding the right game.

Encore broadcast: Today’s board games are anything but boring � with objectives like getting back to Earth in one piece or saving the world from a pandemic. This hour, we’re listening back to a show from earlier this year all about board games.

Our guests are:

  • Kerry Winger, owner of  in Burlington
  • Anna Vann, founder of 
  • Dave Goodwin, gamer and volunteer game teacher

Some of the games that the guests and listeners recommended:

Crokinole
Everdell
Forbidden Desert
Forbidden Island
Forbidden Sky
Human Era
Kabuto Sumo
Mariposa
Masterpiece
Nemesis
One Night series
Paleo
Pandemic
Pantone
Root
Secret Hitler
Settlers of Catan
Splendor
Terraforming Mars
The Mind
The Mind Extreme
Ticket to Ride
Wingspan
Werewolf

And for more on board games, the guests recommend .

Broadcast at noon on Friday, Nov. 25, 2022.

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Connor Cyrus was co-host and senior producer of Vermont Edition from 2021-2023.
Matt Smith worked for ¿ªÔÆÌåÓý from 2017 to 2023 as managing editor and senior producer of Vermont Edition.