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Assistance! I won't be back on a desktop until Monday, can't post it up front.

Michael Barnes wrote:
Can we get this on the front page?

Is that a rhetorical question or a request for assistance?

It's back to Knizia golden age again with both T&E and Samurai reprinted!

DW Tripp just sent me a text and said the Kickstarter discussion was excellent.

That was really kind of the ice breaker moment...I'm pretty sure he meant "antithesis", but he rolled with it.

I honestly had no idea that he had read that article...let alone put it on his website.

Can we get this on the front page?

Player elimination is the Anti-Christ of games. Brilliant stuff. Love it.

You did a great job Michael , your points were brilliant. I was nervous at first also, I had to laugh when my voice cracked at the beginning, that's the first time that has ever happened. The fact that he posted your article on his website was a total surprise, people will think we planned to talk about that but we didn't. I had no idea about it.

This was absolutely the high point of my career as a games writer and commentator. To hear someone that I deeply admire and respect say "you got it right" just completely blew me away. For the first five minutes, I was literally thunderstruck and couldn't even think of anything to say. But once we got talking- and Weeks' gift of gab kicked in- I was really surprised at how conversational, charitable and easy going Dr. Knizia was. Yet also very wise and very assured. This is a man that I think still has a lot to teach game designers, game players and the games business. And we all should listen.

Weeks and I both failed to bring up Beowulf, which was one of our main agendas. But Weeks did bring up Clash of the Gladiators, which may be the first time anyone's asked him about that.

My work here is done

Great interview.

I'm really proud of this Interview. This is the favorite of all the Podcasts I have done in the past.
While entertainment is my primary goal, I did not expect to be enlightened so much in this interview.
Knizia is truly no game hack, a brilliant man who was also super nice. Michael Barnes was also
brilliant here and what a great time we had with this project. Any fans of my old podcast should enjoy this
video.

Did Knizia really playtest a game at Stonehenge? Find out!

Thanks for the thought-provoking article Michael! I guess even a stopped clock is right twice a day

I'm not seeing the comparison between High Society and Raj. The main mechanic in Raj is simultaneous bidding, and the around-the-table auction has a very different feel. Plus the whole 'fewest remaining dollars auto-loses' really sets it apart.

High Society is very similar to Hols Der Geir/Raj...a little more to it though. The IOS version is a pretty good barometer of whether you will like it or not

i thought this was a solid episode. Whats the deal with High Society? Should i pick it up?