Welcome to the eighth episode of Under the Lid, a biweekly HippoCampus Games podcast!

In today's episode, Adam and Gimo will begin discussing games from the BoardGameGeek top 100 all time! Starting with our favorites and games we want to play from 51-60.

For today's main topic, we will be discussing the dice worker placement mechanic as implemented in four hand-picked games: Kingsburg by Andrea Chiarvesio and Luca Iennaco (Fantasy Flight Games, 2007), Alien Frontiers by Troy Niemann (Game Salute, 2010), Troyes by Sébastien Dujardin, Xavier Georges and Alain Orban (Pearl Games, 2010), and Bora Bora by Stefan Feld (Ravensburger, 2013).

Stay tuned to the end for our final thoughts and overall comparisons of these four games and the dice worker placement mechanic in general.

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BGG Top 100 (51-60):

03:01 (Adam) Lords of Waterdeep by Peter Lee and Rodney Thompson (Wizards of the Coast, 2012, #51)

09:11 (Gimo) Patchwork by Uwe Rosenberg (Mayfair Games, 2014, #58)

14:52 (Both) Five Tribes by Bruno Cathala (Days of Wonder, 2014, #52)

24:16 (Gimo) Clans of Caledonia by Juma Al-JouJou (Karma Games, 2017, #57)

26:38 (Adam) Roll for the Galaxy by Wei-Hwa Huang and Thomas Lehmann (Rio Grande Games, 2014, #60)

Main Topic:

31:07 Dice Worker Placement Mechanic Overview

32:18 Kingsburg 

40:18 Alien Frontiers

47:15 Troyes

56:32 Bora Bora

01:06:05 Final Thoughts

Theme music composed by Kyle Billings.