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In Episode 297 we discuss how board games trigger dopamine and name our top 5 games loaded with dopamine hits.

Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction

Top 5 Dopamine Loaded Board Games

05:57 Endeavor: Deep Sea

9:02 No Thanks

11:43 Champions of Midgard, Batman: Gotham City Chronicles, Eclipse: 2nd Dawn for The Galaxy, Arcs, Star Wars Rebellion

16:00 Nippon: Zaibatsu

19:48 Sol: Last Days of a Star

22:32 Kanban EV, Barrage, Tapestry

26:18 Slay the Spire: The Board Game

28:15 Tycoon: India 1981

30:53 Can't Stop, Quacks, Wonderland's War

35:35 Grand Austria Hotel

37:38 Dune, Fractal, Glory to Rome, Blood Rage

43:45 Rebirth

45:25 Brass: Birmingham, Steam Power

49:06 Motor City, Darwin's Journey, Rajas of the Ganges: The Dice Charmers, Cribbage

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