Weekly, episodes about board games and the board game hobby.
We dive in to a wide selection of game mechanics, themes, and reviews. We discuss game news, gaming highlights, and the people who make our games amazing.
Come join us at the game table.
Hosted by Nathan Howard, Andy Holliday, Douglas Stewart, David Holliday, and Logan Howard.
This week we discuss the Mariucci J Designs, LLC game, HEXplore it.
Designed by: Kat Kimoundri, Nathan Loos, and Jonathan Mariucci.
This is a fully cooperative game where players must gain enough exp…
This week we each talk about four different games with modular boards.
The Reckoners Descent Mage Knight Cities Skylines
This week we discuss a wide list of games that all have modular boards, such as Catan, The Quest for El Dorado, Takenoko, Nemesis, Clank! In! Space!, HeroQuest, and many others.
This week we discuss march news and recap our experience at SaltCon Spring 2020
This week we discuss It's a Wonderful World, designed by Frederic Guerard.
It’s a Wonderful World is a cards drafting and engine building game from 1 to 5 players. Each round, players will draft 7 ca…
This week we discuss Bunny Kingdom, a game designed by Richard Garfield.
In Bunny Kingdom, you draft cards, many of which represent a space on the board where you place one of your bunnies. As you co…
This week we discuss some of our favorite card drafting games. Each game uses the card drafting mechanic in a different way. Each game we discuss we think is awesome.
Agricola Fairy Tale El Grande Tr…
This week we discuss the card drafting mechanic. It was a little surprising to find non-card games in this episode, but they fit the mold. We include games with trade rows like Clank! or markets like…
This week we announce our contest winners from episode 300. We sprinkle in some news and all this before the computer runs out of power.
This week we talk about the board game The Menace Among Us by Jeff Gum, published by Smirk and Dagger Games. Hidden roles, space theme, and asymmetrical setup.
This week we talk about all things Legendary, from Marvel to James Bond. Legendary was one the first game to use the semi-cooperative mechanic. We even suggest some new properties for Upper Deck. Who…
This week we share our thoughts Semi-Cooperative games. We're a little loose on the definition of this mechanic a bit. Okay, maybe more than a bit.
This week we talk recap and review the year 2019 as far as the board game hobby. None of that other stuff. We talk about our game of the year. We talk about some of our greatest game memories.
Oh, a…
This week we discuss the changes we have seen in the board gaming hobby over the last 5 and a half years, since our first episode.
Also there are some free games to win. Not two or three contests, b…
This week we discuss Marvel Champions, the new game from Fantasy Flight. This is a 1-4 player, fully cooperative game where players take on the role of one of the five heroes in the core box, Spider-…
Last month, Brent and Nathan got to spend the week in Dallas Texas to attend Board Game Geek Con 2019. We talk about the experience of the con, the people of the con, and of course the games we playe…
We continue our discussion of fully cooperative games by focusing on one games each. We discuss three very different games that appeal to us and highlight the mechanic.
Spirit Island, City of Kings, …
We talk about a bunch of cooperative games, not team, or semi-cooperative games. We are only talking fully cooperative games. Marvel Legendary, you don't count. No one winner, secret winner, secret g…
Christmas shopping got you geared up to buy more board games? We feel the same. We put our stocking caps on and came up with a bunch of awesome suggestions to get the gamer in your life or to gift to…
In this episode we discuss Elizabeth Hargrave's widely popular game Wingspan. You play birds, place eggs, gather food, and create engines for fame and glory of the birding world.
If that doesn't soun…