"Spiel" is german for "Game", but this is a podcast by a couple of guys in Indiana. It's going to take me a little while to catch up on this one, each episode is around an hour long, but it's got so many great segments it needs to be that long in order to go into any depth about individual games.
- News and Notes
- Discussion of upcoming games.
- Backshelf Spotlight
- Classic games (first episode was Cribbage and RoboRally – that's when I decided that I was hooked).
- The List
- They keep a list of all the games that they own but haven't played (70+ games). Before each show they play a game or two off "The List", these are recent games, no more than 3-5 years old. While not the well rounded review of someone who's played a game many times, they're great first impressions.
- Truckloads of Goober
- "Goober" is evidently southern slang for peanut and in this case refers to The Bits, this is a segment for those of us nerds who are fans of game components.
- Game Sommelier
- One of them comes up with a theoretical group of people, and the other has to name 5 games that those people would like to play.
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