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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RodneyThompson" data-source="post: 4770395" data-attributes="member: 3594">You know, Merric, you and I have pretty similar tastes in board games, but I think I might have to disagree with you here. While I love Agricola, I think it actually might not deserve to beat Pandemic. Pandemic is challenging, but easy to learn, and fast, making it easy to introduce to new people. It's just so damn elegant, and I hate when that word gets tossed around too casually. Yet, the game is so simple in its fundamentals, but every game is a challenge, and every game is different. It hits both of my big high notes: straightforward mechanics, and replayability. I also am a big fan of cooperative games, so that may be coloring my glasses a bit.That said, if Agricola wins, I'll be the first one to cheer. It's a fantastic game, but (I know, cry heretic) I think the family version of the game is the better version. When the occupations and minor improvements get added in it makes it that much harder for a new player to jump into the game, and I'm still not sold that they add anything significant....On an unrelated note, I just want to say I'm honored to be involved in four of the nominated books. I'm just disappointed I'm competing with myself three ways in one category. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-P" title="Stick out tongue    :-P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":-P" /></blockquote>

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