Race for the Galaxy—some of the best value for time in gaming

0:00 You know, we've talked about this game year after year, and I think we've had some plays of it in the last few years. You know, obviously we don't get to play games a ton together, but there's been moments, especially cuz I mean, this game at this point is just comfort food for us. You know, you whip out Race for the Galaxy, and we can get right into it. And I think just my appreciation of how good this game is has almost grown over the over the years recently to just see this is just an absolute blast. Um it this I it does just such an incredible job of in a really short amount of time giving you just this interesting strategy of, you know, getting the hand and figuring out, "Okay, what do I want to play, and what do I want to use for my hand to pay for what I'm playing?" And then you're constantly trying to keep this like engine going of, "Okay, well, I'm going to play this, and then that's going to give me a good that I can then trade to get more car- like you always got to You never want to get in a bottleneck where like you don't have enough cards, and you're just having to like blindly explore. You're kind of trying to get this get this engine going, but it's a race against the other person. And what's interesting is there's different strategies in this game. There's And you kind of have to really be in tune to what your opponent's doing, especially in a two- play- that's how we, you know, almost always play is just head-to-head.

1:18 And if you're pushing military, I don't know if I can pull off a a long-term production, you know, type of thing. So, um I just am amazed that a game that we can play 300 plus times, and I still today in 2026, I don't own this game. You know, and that's cuz I'm you know, when I play it, I play it with you. But I can still say, "Man, this is just one of my favorite games to play." It's just It's one that I If you If we were together, and you said, "Hey, well, let's play Race for the Galaxy," I'd say, "Absolutely," cuz um it's it's a game that the more you play it, I think your appreciation of it even grows cuz it does have a bit of a learning curve, you know, getting into it. But when you really start to understand the strategy of it and you And I think what was fun is we did that together, right?

2:08 We like grew in knowing it together. So, number 19, two classics to start it off, right?

2:15 Yeah. But then I think we more and more have appreciation for just the games that are the bang for your buck in terms of like time cuz it's like Race for the Galaxy we can in under an hour play it three times. Like if we were to sit down and play and like you just think of what you've gotten out, you know, that it's just like such good value

2:33 Very good value.

2:34 of gaming for the time.

2:35 have held up great. Shout out those linen cards. Like no sleeves and 314 plays later and they are still doing great.