Can't have enough of these episodes. So insightful and interesting. Wonderful job and please keep 'em coming oh great tangent man!

I paid big time bucks back in the day to buy a copy of Fluch der Mumie after seeing you talk about it either in person or on a video. Still own it! Can't remember the name of the game store in Germany I contacted to have them send it to me. Back then, it wasn't going to be sold in the US because the magnet was too small and was a child hazard. Thanks for the trip down memory lane Scott

I never did pick up the Scotland Yard game, but now I wish I had. I think my kid would enjoy the Mumie one enough to get to the table more. Great episode!

This is a fascinating introspective! I've designed a 2-player asymmetrical hide-and-seek game called Kelp, which is coming later this year from Wonderbow, and I solved the information problem with a stratego-like mechanism that one player manipulates with one-sided blocks that they can move around and mix up (kind of like a shell-game). As the hunted avatar in the game is an octopus, and they have the hidden information, that player is granted power over the shark player (the hunter obviously), so can feel like a cunning and sneaky octopus, but they also experience a lot of tension as they try to survive. Scott, I'd love to hear what you think of it, if you ever try it.

City of the Great Machine is another hide-and-seek asymmetrical game. Just like Nuns on the Run, in City of the Great Machine the "many" are trying to escape the "one". One player is trying to catch the other players, who are working cooperatively.

That's excellent! I wonder if anybody's tried this style of hidden movement game with more conventional game pieces, but I guess the live movement effect isn't quite the same :)

I own Pyramid of Pengqueen but I sure wish the mummy version was easier to track down. I would enjoy that theme a fair bit more although my kids don’t really mind. But either way watching you video has given me the urge to break out our copy this weekend to get a few plays in since it’s been awhile.

I was watching this and was thinking the whole time I should ask you: Scott, do you know Nuns on the Run? We played this so often in seminary, had a good laugh, too! And then at the end, it turned out, you were thinking of Nuns too! :)