Meeple Nation Board Game Podcast
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.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 41 minutes
- Episodes
- 613
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2025
MN 0093 Pandemic Everything
This week, we discuss all things Pandemic, including spoiler free talk of Pandemic Legacy. Luckily, we have Barb and Matt back to keep things from getting too hostile. Everyone seems to like this gam…
MN 0092 Five Tribes and Artisans of Naqala Expansion
MN 0091 Mysterium
We finally review Mysterium! For this seance, we all put on our Medium caps and find meaning in our dreams, conveniently provided by the ghost player in the form of full art cards. Mysterium was desi…
MN 0090 Goals and Gaming Highlights of 2015
In this episode we talk about our gaming year, including a review of what goals we completed from those we set back in Episode 33. What were our gaming highlights? Can Brent's highlight be Ryan's low…
MN 0089 Favor of the Pharaoh
This week, we travel to ancient Egypt and try to win over the big guy, the Pharaoh, with dice. Favor of the Pharaoh,by Tom Lehmann and Bezier Games, is a re-implementation and re-theme of To Court th…
MN 0088 Takenoko & Takenoko: Chibis
MN 0087 Dark Moon
Surviving on a deep space mining expedition on Titan is hard enough without Nathan always trying to kill you. Sure he's infected, but he doesn't have to be such a jerk about it. Join Meeple Nation as…
MN 0086 November Gaming - BGGcon 2015 Report
This week we continue our discussion of November gaming, concentrating on Brent's report of BGG.con in Dallas. He talks about his work in the game library, hot games, Codenames LARP, the Puzzle Hunt,…
MN 0085 November Gaming - Extra Life & International Game Day
MN 0084 Holiday Gift Guide 2015
This episode we offer up advice during this gift giving season. Here are our suggestions. Let us know what you suggest!
Party Games
- Codenames
- Spyfall
- One Night Series (Ultimate Werewolf, Ultimate We…
MN 0083 Arctic Scavengers with HQ and Recon
This week we discuss a deckbuilder initially released on 2009 from Rio Grande Games. Nathan has embraced and enjoyed this game with his 20 plays so far. 1-5 players compete for scarce resources and t…
MN 0082 Richard and Emily Gibbs from 64 Ounce Games
We interview Richard and Emily Gibbs about their game company which makes accessories and kits to make games blind accessible.
Support their Kickstarter at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/64ounc…
MN 0081 Star Trek: Five Year Mission
These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. With dice. Lots of beautiful dice. Yellow, blue, and the unfortunate red-shirt 6-sided dice.
In this podcast, we delve into this light dice fest. We …
MN 0080 Catching Up with Meeple Nation
In this podcast, we discuss the awesome games that are currently hitting our game tables including Arctic Scavengers, Legendary Encounters: A Predator Deckbuilding Game, Liar's Dice, Space Alert, and…
MN 0079 Halloween Games
This week we discuss board games with a horror theme that would make for an excellent time at your next Halloween party. The games discussed range from King Of Tokyo and Betrayal at House on the Hill…
MN 0078 Tile Connection Games - Tsuro, Fresh Fish and More
Tile Placement games are a little too prolific to cover in a single cast, so we limited the games we cover to tile placement games where you are connecting lines from tile to tile. The games discusse…
MN 0077 Smash Up
Ninja Ghosts and Killer Plants of Cthulhu don't measure up to the Alien Shapeshifters who took home the prize. We discuss Smash Up by Paul Peterson. In Smash Up, you combine two factions into one dec…
MN 0076 Specter Ops
We discuss Specter Ops by Emerson Matsuuchi and Plaid Hat Games. In this deduction game, you play as Hunters guarding a secret base or as the Agent sent in to discover the secrets. The Agent tracks h…
MN 0075 Party On, Gamers
This week we talk Party Games. First we speculate on what defines a party game. Honestly, who knows? Should it play more than 6? Should it involve teams? Should it be 'light'? Then we ta…