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I think it's fair to say that we crushed this last year (although some of us better than others), so it's only correct and right that we should return to do it again. What are the best games of 2026 going to be? Well, only we know, but we're willing to part with that information. Get your fat stacks ready. Before we set ourselves up for failure, we talk about Alibis, Mosaic: A Story of Civilization, and Cyclades: Legendary Edition.

03:02 - Alibis 09:18 - Mosaic: A Story of Civilization 23:25 - Cyclades: Legendary Edition 36:27 - Anticipation Auction 2026 41:18 - The Game Makers 44:25 - Cozy Stickerville 46:39 - Brass: Pittsburgh 50:35 - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - Trick-taking Game 54:04 - Revenant 56:21 - World Order 59:31 - Dark Pact 1:02:28 - The Great Library 1:03:56 - Spirited 1:05:25 - Realm of Reckoning 1:08:55 - Avalon: The Riven Veil 1:12:57 - La Pâtisserie Rococo 1:14:24 - Nippon: Zaibatsu 1:17:24 - Rewild: South America 1:18:44 - Movers & Shakers Submit your games for the Listener Top 20 at: https://boardgamebarrage.com/top20

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In Volume 1 of The Best of The Secret Cabal Gaming Podcast, we’re cracking open the vault and revisiting some of the wildest, weirdest, and most unforgettable moments from the show’s history. We’re talking chicken wing sauce on the cards, Catwoman miniatures, Turkey Man, the Wood Booger, anal beads, Chris playing with a pig, Steve Dice Clay, Tony’s bathroom habits and night terrors, and almost getting kicked out of Origins Game Fair. It's wild, crazy, bananas, boombastic, brilliant, magnificent, monumental and meshugenah - it's The Secret Cabal Gaming Podcast.

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Hang on a minute, where's Davey? Well he's moving house so Dan has moved up his run a little earlier than expected but in this episode he invites a load of guests onto the show, well guests being workers or characters in board games where we have to guess what game they're a part of.  Does it make sense? If not don't worry just listen and play along.

FIRST PLAYER: Dan
OTHER PLAYERS: JP, Becky & Rob

In this episode you'll learn:
- how Dan has been returning to the moon in Shackleton Base by Sorry We're French
- Rob has played the latest Stonemaier Games game of Vantage and lets us know what he thinks
- that Becky has been going through the Flatout Games care package with the latest game Nocturne 
- that JP's all in pledge of Ashes Ascendancy has arrived and tells us all about it
- which "guests" have joined us on this episode in the guise of board game workers that we all have to guess, so join in at home

LINKS REFERENCED IN THE SHOW
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EPISODE CHAPTERS

0:00 - TURN 1 - Player Count

4:04 - TURN 2 - Let's Talk About Hex

4:17 - Becky - Nocturne

8:53 - Rob - Vantage

17:21 - JP - Ashes Ascendancy

24:21 - Dan - Shackleton Base

31:50 - TURN 3 - Guest Who?

34:59 - Guests One to Five

50:06 - Guests Six to Ten

1:06:51 - Guests Eleven to Fifthteen

1:21:59 - Guests Sixteen to Twenty

1:38:54 - TURN 4 - The Penultimate Turn: What's Coming Up?

1:47:52 - TURN 5 - The Final Turn

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Julie's out this time, so Tom and Eric spend time looking back at Epic Game Events that they've been involved with at conventions over the years. What worked well, and what did not? Plus, a question from the mailbag about digital vs. in-person gaming, and Tom and Eric each present a full set of Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops.

00:47 - No Julie, February Lull

01:35 - Live Show at Dice Tower West (Friday 3pm)

02:42 - Groundhogs and Polka Interlude

03:21 - Dice Tower East and Curling

06:14 - Epic Game Events

36:37 - Question: Live vs. BGA?

42:33 - Age of Galaxy

46:05 - A Message from the Stars

50:06 - Trasteros/Storeroom Inc.

52:56 - Nuns on the Run (2nd Edition)

56:05 - Suds and Malone

1:00:49 - Lords of Worlds

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This weeks special guest Efka from No Pun Included

https://www.youtube.com/c/NoPunIncluded/videos

00:00 Intro

Games we played last week

01:11 Cena (A.I. Lab 2025)

04:40 Wine Cellar (Andrew Stiles 25th Century Games 2025)

05:29 Movie Tricks (Vegard Eliassen Stillerud, Eilif Svensson, Åsmund Svensson Chilifox Games 2025)

08:09 Sweet Takes (Hisashi Hayashi Hasbro 2023)

10:40 Inis: Nemed (Christian Martinez Matagot 2026)

16:31 Star Trek: Ascendancy – Borg Assimilation (Aaron Dill, John Kovaleski, Sean Sweigart Gale Force Nine 2017)

19:50 Speakeasy (Vital Lacerda Eagle-Gryphon Games 2025)

26:46 Black Forest (Tido Lorenz, Uwe Rosenberg Feuerland Spiele 2024)

32:49 The Presence (Sam Gullman Purple Lantern Games 2025)

38:46 Duplik (William Jacobson, Amanda Kohout Braincog, Inc.2005)

News 41:28

Galactic Cruise (T.K. King, Dennis Northcott, Koltin Thompson Kinson Key Games 2025)

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00:00:30 Intro
00:03:30 GMT Camden Game Convention
00:11:00 Timeline: Games and Leisure
00:13:00 LOTR: Two Towers Trick Taking Game
00:15:00 Portal Games
00:16:30 Thebai
00:41:30 3 Witches
00:50:30 Miniature Market
00:51:30 WunderWaffen
01:11:30 Muppet Show Reimplement
01:16:30 Outro

We finally got Thebai, the newest release from Boards & Dice, to the table. After seeing it at Gen Con, the production immediately caught our eye, and the designers hinted at the kind of tough, timing‑sensitive decisions players would face. That promise absolutely shows up in play. Turns are wonderfully clean—place your die, resolve the action, then move your Archon for a bonus action—but the simplicity hides a surprising amount of depth. Positioning is everything. The strongest move in the moment can easily create problems down the line, and the board state shifts just enough each round to keep you second‑guessing your priorities. On top of that, the looming battles add a steady undercurrent of tension. You can’t ignore them, even when you’re tempted to chase a clever combo elsewhere. Thebai ultimately becomes a race for victory points, and the endgame accelerates fast. Points pour in quickly, so timing your big plays matters just as much as choosing the right ones. It’s a sharp, elegant design—easy to teach, but full of those delicious “oh no, that changes everything” moments that make Boards & Dice titles so satisfying.

We love historical games that look beyond the familiar battles and instead explore the lesser‑told moments—especially those late‑war pivots where everything hangs by a thread. WunderWaffen fits that niche perfectly. The Allies are closing in on Germany, and the German player is scrambling for a last‑ditch path to victory through experimental research. It’s a tense, asymmetrical setup, but not a simple 3‑versus‑1 scenario; only one player can win, so everyone has to keep each other in check, even if that occasionally means helping Germany to prevent someone else from running away with the game. One of the standout mechanics is the turn structure. Each round, you choose two of your three action tokens to use and must hand the third to another player. That single decision point creates delicious pressure—what you keep, what you give away, and who you empower all shape the board in subtle ways. It’s a small rule with big strategic consequences. The game moves quickly, and for groups that enjoy negotiation, table talk becomes an extra layer of strategy. Deals, promises, and threats can shift the momentum just as much as the research tracks or battlefield positioning. WunderWaffen ends up being a fast, interactive contest of timing, leverage, and opportunism—exactly the kind of historical “what‑if” experience that keeps us coming back.

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Join Banana, Conor and Joe as they discuss what has been hitting the table. Joe is mixing Tinder and board games in an effort to get through his shelf of shame.  Conor is living his best life in Sydney with his brother from another mother and building arrays in Civolution. Banana is more fascinated by Joe’s love life than any games, although she’s excited about getting another fix of Ark Nova vibes in Sanctuary.  There’s lots of gaming goodness here, so join us for the chat!

 

Sizzling Games:

Quacks of Quedlinburg [44.11]

Civolution [50.14]

Sanctuary [59.55]

Question of the Pod Recap [1.10.28]

New Question of the Pod: What’s a great game to play on a date, and why?

 

 

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Has this episode left you with a thirst for more? Here are all of the games that we discussed:

 

Castles in the Air RPG (with internal artwork by Samara Jethra):

https://storybrewersroleplaying.com/castles-in-the-air/?v=8bcc25c96aa5

Check out Samara’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/samarajethwa/

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Emberleaf: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/426513/emberleaf

Curses and Covens: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/370837/curses-and-covens

Hot Streak: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/446497/hot-streak

Brick Like This: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/439310/brick-like-this

Kittin: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/302477/kittin

Sea Salt and Paper: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/367220/sea-salt-and-paper

Lost Cities: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/50/lost-cities

Gaia Project: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/220308/gaia-project

Wingspan Americas: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/461932/wingspan-americas-expansion

Argent: The Consortium: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/144797/argent-the-consortium

Quacks of Quedlinburg: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/244521/quacks

Civolution: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/244521/quacks

Sanctuary: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/441696/sanctuary

 

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On this episode of On Board Games, Erik talks with Steve Hatherley of Freeform Games all about games (and other things) they've played including:

• Forest Shuffle Dartmoor
• Obsession
• London
• Puerto Rico
• Traveller
• Origin Story
• Nemesis: Retaliation

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(15:16) Then, the two talk about what makes a good murder mystery game and how to host a murder.

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Ben is joined by Malachi Ray Rempen to discuss Almighty.



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This week Peter & Mike have a design discussion about cards with numbers, and what we want to see more of. _________________________ 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 Shelley and I check out two 2025 releases, as well as looking back 11 years to a games that had been gathering dust on our shelf:

Take Time (2025) by Alexi Piovesan and Julien Prothiere from Libellud - a co-op game with 40 challenges in the box for 2-4 players.

Pergola (2025) by Michal Golab Golebiowski and Przemek Wojtkowiak from Rebel Studio

Trambahn (2015) by Helmut Ohley from Mayfair and Lookout Games

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On this slippy ol’ episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are chatting about Emberleaf; a game of woodland creatures amassing honey and battering bandits! “Like Pooh gone all vigilante on them asses”.

Our dynamic duo then seek to area control eachother in a WORTH WRESTLE! Whose critical opinion on this luminous box will come out on top? Neither, really. They’re both pretty chill about the whole thing. Everyone’s allowed opinions - even YOU!

Have a great week, everybody!

Timestamps:

01:19 - Emberleaf

16:20 - Wroth

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Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including Trajan, The Gang, and Clank! Legacy: Acquisitions Incorporated. Then we talk about what we would put in our board game go bags (if we had them) to take to gatherings that aren't necessarily about board games.

0:00-Intro
0:39-Announcements
2:10-Recent Games - Trajan
10:38-The Gang
18:42-Clank! Legacy: Acquisitions Incorporated
20:08-BG Go Bags
28:58-Outro
30:02-Bloopers

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In Episode 339, Don and Jamie kick things off by talking about their upcoming trip to TotalCon in Massachusetts. Then the gang dives into the games they’ve been playing, including Troyes, The Voynich Puzzle, 12 Rivers, On Mars, Toy Battle, 3 Tricky Pigs, and a feature review of Xenology by Dan Manfredini, published by Play to Z. After Tony T delivers his news segment, the fellas wrap things up with a discussion about how players interface with board games. Troyes: 00:05:45, The Voynich Puzzle: 00:11:07, 12 Rivers: 00:22:22, On Mars: 00:32:36, Toy Battle: 00:39:48, 3 Tricky Pigs: 00:53:50, Xenology Review: 00:56:47, News with Tony T: 01:25:09, Board Game User Interface: 02:26:17. Check out our sponsors Restoration Games at https://restorationgames.com/ and Game Toppers at https://www.gametoppersllc.com/.

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In this episode Ben amd Uli talk about the problems board game publishers have with communicating to the wider cultural world. 

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Paula is here to lead the gang in some highly fashionable rounds this week!

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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This week's guest Don from The Secret Cabal Gaming Podcast

00:00 INTRO

Games We Played Last Week

01:52 Soothsayers (Jeff Grisenthwaite, Play to Z 2026)

05:45 Orléans (Reiner Stockhausen, DLP games 2014)

08:56 Xenology (Dan Manfredini, Play to Z 2025)

13:16 XenoShyft: Onslaught (Keren Philosophales, Michael Shinall, Cool Mini Or Not 2015)

16:30 Puerto Rico 1897: Special Edition (Andreas Seyfarth, Awaken Realms 2025)

23:17 Flip Pick Towers (Rob Fisher, Adam Porter Osprey Games 2026)

26:53 Tapestry (Jamey Stegmaier, Stonemaier Games 2019)

31:29 Gods & Mortals (William Borg Barthet, Artyom Nichipurov, Wolff Designa 2026)

News and why it doesent matter.

35:53 NEWS

Gods and Mortals -crowdfunding starts end of March

Dark Pact (2026)

Viva La Dirt League Presents: NPC Rivals!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vldl/viva-la-dirt-league-presents-npc-rivals

Main Review

39:58 Sweet Lands

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Clef and Tim return to the normal scheduled programming of disc golf and baseball before talking a bunch of board games. We talk recent plays of Memoir '44, Duel for Cardia, Catan, Dracula vs Van Helsing, Wooden Shoes & Iron Monsters, and Atlantis Exodus! We also discuss our motivations for buying games (trading not included). Board game talk starts at 23:33! Join the discord at discord.gg/s8hYtWkMS3 and visit punchboardparadise.com for more info on PPCon 2026!

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Reviews of Reavers of Midgard: The Card Game, Marco Polo II, Age of Galaxy, Botswana and so much more. All the pegs deep dive La Patisserie Rococo. Game discussion starts at {00:37:04}.

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