Welcome to the second part of the roll and write series, where we'll be exploring some stand-out games that led us to the current explosion of the genre. Do you know which game is widely attributed with starting that modern explosion? Listen in to find out!

Credits

Intro and Outro Music: Comedy Detective by Onoychenko Music via Pixabay

Time Stamps

(1:03) - Can't Stop Express

(1:09) - Criss-Cross

(2:47) - Farkle and Dix Mille

(3:37) - The Roll and Write Word Game

(4:24) - Ghoulash

(5:02) - Reiner Knizia's Decathlon

(5:50) - Catan Dice Game

(6:14) - Wurfel Bingo

(6:35) - Roll Through the Ages: The Bronze Age

(7:56) - Agricola Express

(8:37) - Saint Malo

(9:15) - Qwixx

(10:36) - That's Pretty Clever

(11:57) - Railroad Ink

(12:13) - Fleet The Dice Game

(12:33) - Welcome To...

Get in Touch

Jaina - gamenerdstorian@gmail.com

Sources (in order of appearance/use in episode)

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/217547/cant-stop-express

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/322832/criss-cross/images

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/220988/criss-cross

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2104152/variant-criss-cross-1992-also-knizia

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/10973/dice-games-properly-explained

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3181/farkle

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/25149/roll-write-word-game

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2402/ghoulash

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/6955/reiner-knizias-decathlon

https://knizia.de/wp-content/uploads/reiner/pdfs/Knizia-Website-Decathlon.pdf

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/27710/catan-dice-game

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/29355/wurfel-bingo

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/37380/roll-through-ages-bronze-age

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/45020/agricola-express

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/117960/saint-malo

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/131260/qwixx

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/244522/s-pretty-clever

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/245654/railroad-ink-deep-blue-edition

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/245961/fleet-dice-game

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/233867/welcome

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