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Jun 2024

45m 7s

407: Duck Detective: The Secret Salami

About this episode

Sure, this game about a duck detective solving an office lunch theft is cute, but did you know it’s also an introduction to Cold-war era Berlin for children?

Duck Detective is a deducktion/adventure game that plays like an introduction to the Obra Dinn/Golden Idol style of mystery solving game. It’s only about 2 hours long, and would be great to play with a kid.

(00:00) - Duck Detective
(30:32) - What's Making Us Happy This Week?
(30:41) - Laura: Ball of Fire
(36:14) - Raygan: SPQR
(43:28) - Outro

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