Most people know Zach Barth as the founder of Zachtronics, purveyor of digital playthings such as SpaceChem, Opus Magnum, and EXAPUNKS. But we are not most people. Instead, we’re here to speak with Zach about his analog games: The Lucky Seven (with the Depot expansion), Chemistry Set, and the scratch-off puzzle pack Zach Attack! That’s right. We’ve got the good stuff.

Listen here or download here. Timestamps can be found after the jump.

TIMESTAMPS

00:30 — Zach Barth, the greatest puzzle maker alive? and the terminology of puzzles vs. games
9:10 — actually introducing Zach Barth
23:25 — getting into tabletop games via The Lucky Seven
48:30 — Chemistry Set
1:01:45 — at last, Zach Attack!
1:58:25 — can Dan fix Zach? (No. He is perfect just the way he is.)

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