On this episode of On Board Games, Erik talks with Rob Searing from Board Games with Rob and Insert Here about games (and other things) they've played including:

• Merchants of Andromeda
• Samurai / Hanami
• Lightning Train
• Stroop
• Bouba/Kiki
• Koi
• Nemesis: Retaliation

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(24:01) Then, the two talk about length of game play and is playing mulitple short games better than one long one or vice versa.

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This week Peter, & Mike have a design discussion about designing abstract games. Can cooperative games truly be abstract? _________________________ YouTube - www.youtube.com/channel/UCrOtGhui_jdLdoQNI7PU4Pg X - @onestopcoopshop Discord - discord.gg/p4jX8AF Merch: one-stop-co-op-shop.creator-spring.com/ Donate to One Stop Co-op Shop - www.patreon.com/onestop Email - onestopcoopshop@gmail.com

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This week on Garrett's Games: Shelley and I head into the North with our mechs to deal with corruption and save previous explorers in

Expeditions by Jamey Stegmaier from Stonemaier Games

Then we head East and make a journey with our trusty yaks to

Kathmandu by Stefan Feld from Queen Games

Thanks as always to our sponsor Bezier Games

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In this audio version of Ben's Top 100 he tells you what's best!

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Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including Ghost Stories and The Great Evening Banquet. Then, inspired by Game Night Picks, Crystal makes Ambie play a trivia game about her board games!

0:00-Intro
0:42-Recent Games-Ghost Stories
6:42-The Great Evening Banquet
11:13-Game Show
15:12-Number 1
15:59-Number 2
17:32-Number 3
18:25-Number 4
19:25-Number 5
20:05-Number 6
20:52-Number 7
22:28-Number 8
24:14-Number 9
24:55-Number 10
26:30-Number 11
27:42-Number 12
29:29-Outro
30:33-Bloopers

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There's any number of subtle innuendoes we could've gone with, but this is what we're doing I guess. If you haven't got there yet, we're talking about games that aren't just slow rides, but instead leave you gasping for more right as they climax. Before we finish, we talk about No Loose Ends, Eselsbrücke, and The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship. 01:24 - No Loose Ends 09:08 - Eselsbrücke 19:33 - The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship 33:52 - Comings and Goings 37:44 - Games that finish strong 40:17 - Agricola 40:44 - Splendor 41:14 - Voyages of Marco Polo 44:03 - Terraforming Mars 45:28 - Blood on the Clocktower 46:57 - Innovation 47:49 - Rumble Nation 49:50 - Moon Colony Bloodbath 52:12 - Dominion

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Welcome, Cabalists, to another Wednesday packed with games and shenanigans with the Founders! Today we dive into Raising Robots, Here Lies, Flock Together, Everdell Silverfrost, Hot Streak, and feature Jamey Stegmaier’s newest creation, Vantage! Then, after Steve steps in to fill Tony T’s big shoes for the news segment, we tackle a couple of listener questions including what to do when you know you’re going to lose, and which games we’d choose to guarantee victory over our fellow Founders. Raising Robots: 00:05:48, Here Lies: 00:14:22, Flock Together: 00:24:12, Everdell Silverfrost: 00:39:40, Hot Streak: 00:51:16, Vantage: 01:06:59, News with Stevie S: 01:44:33, Short Topic Extravaganza: 02:36:16. Check out our sponsors Restoration Games at https://restorationgames.com/. Game Toppers at https://www.gametoppersllc.com/. And Game Night Picks at http://gamenightpicks.com/cabal.

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Nick hosts this week with some devious, ddeevviiouus trivia. 

This Game is Broken is a comedy board game panel show with Matthew Jude, Dave Luza, Paula Deming, Nick Murphy and Mike Murphy. We play a lot of nonsense games full of role playing and trivia as well as other fun stuff which can be found at the links below.

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Following up from our UK Games Expo meet and greets we've got another belter of an expansion pack with another special guest.  This time Jakub the CEO of Glass Cannon Unplugged joins Adrian & JP for a chat around "Engineering Adaptations" of IP's into board games and more about the upcoming title Don't Starve.

GUEST PLAYER: Jakub Wiśniewski
PLAYERS: Adrian & JP

In this episode you'll learn:
- how Jakub got into the tabletop space and how Glass Cannon Unplugged began
- more about the collaborations between GCU & their partners and how they make it a continuing success
- more about Don't Starve, their upcoming title launching on Kickstarter in September 2025
- more about their other titles including Apex Legends, Dying Light, Frostpunk and more.

LINKS REFERENCED IN THE SHOW
Glass Cannon Unplugged website - https://glasscannonunplugged.com/
Don't Starve Kickstarter Page - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glasscannonunplugged/dont-starve-the-board-game/

EPISODE CHAPTERS

0:00 - TURN 1 - Player Count

0:33 - TURN 2 - Introducing Jakub & GCU

1:03 - How did you get into the hobby?

12:19 - TURN 3 - Glass Cannon Unplugged

12:35 - How GCU approached Don't Starve as a design?

21:36 - How have you approached turning 2D into 3D this time around?

25:57 - Working with IP's and openness that GCU have experienced

27:30 - How has GCU approached the rogue-like mechanics?

32:49 - Who are the characters in Don't Starve?

36:02 - How do the dice and monster interactions work?

40:44 - Some Don't Starve teasers

43:18 - Expanding GCU collaborations and working with more Studios

51:49 - An aside on Apex Legends

1:06:28 - Respecting backers

1:07:51 - Chatting about Dying Light

1:14:25 - TURN 4 - What's Coming Up

1:19:09 - Thanking Jakub

1:20:09 - TURN 5 - The Final Turn

You can check out JP's new podcast called Just Play right here https://www.justplaypod.co.uk we'd love to have you and also on the new YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@JustPlayPodcast

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On this day of Labour, we offer our solidarity to you. We also offer our labour, because we don't take many days off. No union for us in the opinion mines! I'd complain to my manager, but since that's me, I guess I'd be inclined to ignore it. Classic conflict on interest. The gibbons only complicate the org chart in unhelpful ways.

Games Played Last Week:

01:01 -Hot Streak (Jon Perry, CMYK, 2025)

04:13 -High Tide (Marceline Leiman, Underdog Games, 2024)

09:23 -Hyperborea (Andrea Chiarvesio & Pierluca Zizzi, Asterion, 2014)

12:55 -Tianxia (Antonio Petrelli & Daniele Tascini, Board&Dice, 2025)

20:37 -Federation (Dimitri Perrier and Matthieu Verdier, Explor8, 2022)

27:49 -Through the Desert (Reiner Knizia, Allplay, 2024)

29:43 -So Clover! (François Romain, Repos Production, 2021)

34:24 -Figment (Wolfgang Warsch, CMYK, 2025)

News (and why it doesn't matter):

39:42 Kasper Lapp's INK

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41:22 Adam and Brady Sadler's The Malice of Light Adventures from Twintale Studios

42:51 Suna Valo by Andreas Odendahl

43:14 Part of the Pickaxe Network! Join us Thursday, September 25th at 17:00-18:30 BST for Pickaxe week on the Yogscast feed.

43:40 Feature Game: Light Speed: Arena (Leonardo Alese, James Ernest, Tom Jolly, and Emanuele Santellani, Tablescope, 2025)

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Please join us on the Boardgames To Go discord server where you can chat online with other podcast listeners.

Reminder! Please join other podcast listeners for the next online BGTG Mini-Con, scheduled for September 6. I plan to be online from 9am-9pm Pacific time, including the Boardgames To Go discord server for voice & video. The games will mostly be played on BoardgameArena, but adventurous gamers can also use Yucata, Brettspielwelt, Boardgames.io, Steam, apps, or whatever. It's free, and no RSVP or signup is necessary. Openers: Mark: Vantage Greg: Rock Hard 1977

Closers: Greg: "I don't know" ❤️ Mark: Finding my city on a game map

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Over two decades I've enjoyed having a lot of people join me on the podcast, most of them my friends from local game groups. Greg Pettit has been there from the beginning, and quite a few times. Especially in some earlier years of the podcast, Greg was one who was willing to tackle some deep topics, meta-topics around the hobby. Instead of talking about a specific game, we'd talk about the possible longevity of our hobby, artistic merit of some designs, the different types of thematic resonance in games, or how to be contemplative with our boardgames. He initiated several of those topics. (To be fair, some of my other friends do that, too. That's why they're my friends...they like dissecting our hobby with me.) With more & more years behind us, Greg suggested we revisit some of those subjects, at least at a high level. The hobby has grown & grown. Distribution is much wider and boardgames now come up conversations at work or your neighborhood. Game mechanisms and styles of play have changed. And...we've all gotten older. Greg has questions relating to all of these, and it's fun to talk about. -Mark

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My guest this week is the head of IGN Germany and host of the Spiel des Jahres Manuel Fritsch. We talk about legacy media, the use of the Spiel des Jahres and why Civ games are the best...but which games did he choose?

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This week Peter & Mike review Santorini: Riddle of the Sphinx. Next week we will have a related design discussion about abstract games. _________________________ YouTube - www.youtube.com/channel/UCrOtGhui_jdLdoQNI7PU4Pg X - @onestopcoopshop Discord - discord.gg/p4jX8AF Merch: one-stop-co-op-shop.creator-spring.com/ Donate to One Stop Co-op Shop - www.patreon.com/onestop Email - onestopcoopshop@gmail.com

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On Garrett's Games this week, Shelley and I attempt to kill Hitler, and then build the universe!

First off it's Valkyrie: A Black Orchestra Game by Philip duBarry from Tabletop Tycoon

Then we head out into the void of space and collect atoms to build nebulae in Crafting the Cosmos by David Gordon and TAM from Office Dog

Thanks as always to Bezier Games for their support.

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It’s just little old Tom this week on the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, and he’s taking you through a bunch of odds and ends that might otherwise slip through the metaphorical cracks of the metaphorical floorboards. They wouldn’t fit through the real floorboards. That’d be silly. And we don’t do silly, here.

Let us know what you think of these episodes! They’re a little unusual, but quite fun to make in a pinch!

Timestamps: 

02:21 - Joraku

07:33 - Calimala

12:35 - Tofu Shifu

16:52 - March of the Ants

23:34 - Beaver House

26:24 - Naishi

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There are episodes where we bring as much knowledge as we can about whatever board game we are talking about. And then there are episodes where we just want to share why something didn't click so much that we didn't want to go beyond game one. Apropos of nothing, today we'll be chatting about Brink, a "trading cubes in space" game that conceptually riffs on Catan but in execution whiffs on us.

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On to the time stamps:

00:00 Cold Open & Intro

Work in Progress: 

2:08 Tenby

7:26 Railroad Tiles

10:42 Rumble Nation

18:53 Winter Rabbit

Audience Correspondence:

25:05 Vantage, Neurodivergence in Board Games

Main Feature:

31:23 Brink

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Two segments with two amazing Canadians - Matt Robertson and Roger Leroux. Plus a GenCon recap with Erwin and Gubbins.

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In Express episode 111, Don, Tony, and Jamie are inspired by a listener question and discuss patterns and fads in game design and try and answer the question - is there truly anything original out there?

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Adrian is back in the chair for his foray of board gaming podcasts and this time we explore when two games eye each other for the space in your kallax and bring some key struggles that we've had to face.

FIRST PLAYER: Adrian
OTHER PLAYERS: JP, Kerley & Tambo

In this episode you'll learn:
- how Tambo keeps calm deactivating explosive devices in Bomb Busters by Pegasus Spiele
- whether people with low moral fibre (pirates) makes for a fun Tiny Epic game in Tiny Epic Pirates by Gamelyn Games
- how Kerley is still talking himself around with the Ark Nova 3Dition
- what it's like to experience a heavy "something" and write game with The Anarchy by Garphill Games
- about 8 specific space invasions where two games go head to head for the justified position on our shelves.

LINKS REFERENCED IN THE SHOW
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EPISODE CHAPTERS
0:00 - TURN 1 - Player Count

3:38 - TURN 2 - Let's Talk About Hex

4:21 - Kerley: Too Many Bones & Ark Nova 3Dition

7:41 - Tambo: Bomb Busters

14:55 - JP: The Anarchy

26:36 - Adrian: Tiny Epic Pirates

35:49 - TURN 3 - Main Event: Space Invaders

36:34 - Invasion 1: Furnance & It's a Wonderful World

42:03 - Invasion 2: Dice Throne & Kapow!

46:15 - Invasion 3: Star Trek Captains Chair vs Imperium

51:57 - Invasion 4: Eclipse & Twilight Imperium (4 Player)

59:11 - Invasion 5: Great Western Trail vs Lacromosa

1:06:00 - Invasion 6: Zombicide 2nd Edition vs Marvel Zombies

1:09:29 - Invasion 7: Taverns of Tiefenthal & Cubitos

1:12:56 - Invasion 8: Too Many Bones vs Elder Scrolls BOTSE

1:22:17 - TURN 4 - Receive, Sleeve, or Leave

1:28:18 - TURN 5 - Penultimate Turn: What's Coming Up?

1:37:55 - TURN 6 - The Final Turn

You can check out JP's new podcast called Just Play right here https://www.justplaypod.co.uk we'd love to have you and also on the new YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@JustPlayPodcast

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Eric starts the show by sharing tales of his European adventures, which leads Tom to share some of our plans for Spiel in October. Then, we discuss the process for adding art to your game. How do you find an artist? How long does it take to draw a picture of a horse? What if the horse is holding a corn dog? Later, we share a tale of horror and a question, and move on to our Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops.

00:48 - Middle of the Year? - School Starting

02:23 - Eric's European Adventure

09:25 - Spiel Plans

12:14 - Art in Games

34:56 - Tale of Boardgaming Horror/Question

46:32 - Sancturary

48:42 - Vantage

56:21 - Bomb Busters

58:37 - Menagerie

1:01:44 - This Game is Killer: Frozen Horror

1:05:12 - Potion Explosion: The 6th Student

Questions? Tales of Horror? tom@dicetower.com

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