Hey folks, hoping the hive mind can help me out. I would like to know about some board games at least 10 years old that we could cover on a future cast designed by women. They would need to be reasonably big titles/influential to be considered for inclusion. - ThreadSky

giantbrain.co.uk • 8 days ago

Hey folks, hoping the hive mind can help me out. I would like to know about some board games at least 10 years old that we could cover on a future cast designed by women. They would need to be reasonably big titles/influential to be considered for inclusion.

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towerguardgames.bsky.social•8 days ago

Jenga

giantbrain.co.uk•8 days ago

Jenga would be a really interesting one to cover. I will put that on the list for sure. Not sure how much we would have to talk about but still a massively influential game.

towerguardgames.bsky.social•8 days ago

It's the first game I think of when discussing dexterity board games, let alone one of the most known board games globally. I personally think that it being a game about losing, not winning, is a concept not explored enough. There can be multiple 'winners', but the highlight, the climax, is losing.

giantbrain.co.uk•8 days ago

Very well put

arthursmid.bsky.social•7 days ago

Katharine Chapman's Monopoly Deal https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/40398/monopoly-deal-card-game

giantbrain.co.uk•7 days ago

Ah interesting but unlikely to be one we would cover. We really need games with a big impact or a place in the culture that we can talk about. Mainstream games as well as hobby. We don't mind.

cardboardrepublic.com•8 days ago

We did a list like this a number of years back for international women's day. Let me see if I can dig it up.

cardboardrepublic.com•8 days ago

No particular order or fully comprehensive:

Nikki Valens
Susan McKinley Ross
Inka Brand
Elizabeth Magie
Dorothy Garrels
Karen Seyfarth
Christina Ng Zhen Wei
Marsha Falco
Mary Flanagan
Leslie Scott
Maureen Hiron
Carol Wisely

cardboardrepublic.com•8 days ago

Correction (and apologies) but since that list was made in 2016 Valens now identifies as non-binary and likely would not be appropriate for them for such a list. Accordingly you can add Amabel Holland who now does.

(Copy and pasted from old notes)

giantbrain.co.uk•8 days ago

Cheers for the correction!

giantbrain.co.uk•8 days ago

Cheers!