Celebrate the holiday season with me and a board game! Let's solve Day 16 of the EXIT Advent Calendar together. This is not sponsored but thanks Kosmos for sending me the game to play!
See y'all tomorrow for DAY 17
Board games are fun to play, but did you also know you could turn a profit through 7 easy steps? Follow this satirical guide to make some real cash, and maybe even run a company of your own one day! Works for Ameritrash OR Euro games, FFG is best.
Games mentioned: Battlestar Galactica, Campaign for North Africa, Tigris and Euphrates, Star Wars: Queens’ Gambit, Twilight Imperium, Thunder’s Edge, Prophecy of Kings, Grimcoven, Catacombs, Winds of Numa Sera, Brass Birmingham, Nemesis: Retaliation, Monopoly, Taboo, Catan, Cosmic Encounter, Sid Meier’s Civilization (2010), Descent, Mansions of Madness, Throw Throw Burrito
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Hey friends! Today I am so excited to finally be able to share the finished board game room makeover with you all! I can't express just how happy I am with how it turned out! This is the board game room and filming space of my dreams! This along with the cozy corner in my office and I am so pumped for videos in 2026! Hope you all enjoy!
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Game Table - The Jasper Table by Allplay in Natural
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In Take Time, you and your team are placing numbered cards around a six-segment clock, trying to keep the totals climbing without going over 24—all while obeying weird scenario rules and not talking during the crucial placement phase. You’ll discuss a plan, go silent, place cards, then reveal everything and see whether your beautiful strategy survived contact with reality.
In this review, I walk through how Take Time works, what makes the 40-scenario campaign feel so compelling, and why the “talk, then silence, then reveal” structure creates some of the most tense cooperative moments I’ve had in a puzzle game.
If you enjoy cooperative puzzles, quiet tension, and those “we were SO CLOSE!” table groans, Take Time might be one to add to your list.
00:00 Intro
00:24 Complexity & Play Count
01:20 How It Plays
07:26 Skills
10:09 Final Thoughts
17:15 contact & Socials
Celebrate the holiday season with me and a board game! Let's solve Day 15 of the EXIT Advent Calendar together. This is not sponsored but thanks Kosmos for sending me the game to play!
See y'all tomorrow for DAY 16
The countdown continues! In this video, we reveal board games ranked 40 to 31 in the Top 100 Board Games of All Time (2025 rankings). From modern classics to deep strategy favourites, these games have stood the test of time and earned their place among the best tabletop experiences ever made.
Whether you’re into eurogames, thematic adventures, competitive strategy, or all-time classics, this list is packed with essential board games every gamer should know. Perfect for discovering new favourites, settling debates, or seeing how your own rankings compare.
👉 Which games made your list? Let us know in the comments!
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NB: Some snowflake complained about the thumbnail. Had to change.
Game Designer Adam Porter (Emberheart, Pikoko, Kompromat, Flip Pick Towers) discusses the year 2025 - his favourite games (including a heavily compromised Top 10), a designer that impressed him, achievements in game design and YouTube, and a wish list for the coming year.
'Adam in Wales: Legacy' is available worldwide, via Amazon's print on demand service, and as an ebook.
Use the links below, or IF NOT LISTED BELOW, search on your local Amazon for Adam in Wales: Legacy.
For five thousand years, people have gathered together to play games. Each of those games has something to teach us; not just about rules, mechanisms, and themes, but also about the business of games, publishing, and achieving lasting success.
Award-winning designer Adam Porter explores the 100 most influential tabletop games in history, from timeless classics like Chess, Go, and Mancala, through mass-market icons such as Monopoly, Connect 4, and The Game of Life, to modern strategy hits like Terraforming Mars, Gloomhaven, and Wingspan.
Each chapter examines a landmark title, uncovering the design choices behind its impact and the lessons today’s creators can draw from it. Whether you’re a designer, player, or student of game design, this book offers inspiration, insight, and actionable advice, derived from the games that shaped the hobby.
About the author
Adam Porter is an award winning game designer from the United Kingdom, known for making accessible games suitable for families, and for his popular YouTube channel Adam in Wales where Adam talks candidly about his experiences pitching and licensing games to publishers. Many new designers have looked to Adam for guidance when taking their first steps in the board game industry. Adam's published games include Pikoko, Doodle Rush, Kompromat, Qwuzzle, Zooligans, Thrown, Big Bazar, Happy Hoppers, Ballot Battle, and Zing-a-Zam.
Adam's four previous books are available from Amazon worldwide.
- Adam in Wales: Board Game Designer Journal
- Adam in Wales: Playtesting
- Adam in Wales: Product Design
- Adam in Wales: Getting Published as a Board Game Designer
0:00 Introduction
2:03 Top 10 of the past 5 years
5:23 Designer Spotlight
6:30 Game Design Update
11:09 Youtube Round-up
13:25 Top 10 Board Games of 2025
29:19 2026 Wishlist
Celebrate the holiday season with me and a board game! Let's solve Day 14 of the EXIT Advent Calendar together. This is not sponsored but thanks Kosmos for sending me the game to play!
See y'all tomorrow for DAY 15
Cowabunga! 🐢
Is Unmatched Adventures: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2025) the best TMNT board game ever made? In today’s video we dive deep into this brand-new heroes-vs-villain skirmish experience that brings Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo into the Unmatched system — and pits them against iconic enemies like Shredder and Krang.
In this video:
0:00 Intro
0:16 Overview
1:22 3 Best Things
4:12 Not For You?
7:06 For Who?
7:28 Rating
8:18 Alternative
9:06 Outro
Board Game Hangover is your go-to channel for everything board games! From the best board game reviews, playthroughs, and top 10 lists to board game upgrades, house rules, and gameplay tips — we help you discover the best board games, improve your board gaming experience, and have a good laugh along the way. Whether you're into strategy board games, party games, solo board gaming, or family board games, you're in the right place.
This 6min video barely deserves timestamps, so I'm just going to leave the description as this - I love this new daily puzzle by Playte. It's giving mindfulness 2026.
Celebrate the holiday season with me and a board game! Let's solve Day 13 of the EXIT Advent Calendar together. This is not sponsored but thanks Kosmos for sending me the game to play!
See y'all tomorrow for DAY 14
Welcome back to the countdown! 🎲 In this episode of Top 100 Board Games of All Time, we reveal games ranked 50 to 41 for 2025. These modern classics and fan favourites span strategy, eurogames, thematic epics and gateway hits, earning their place among the greatest board games ever made.
Whether you’re building your collection, looking for your next game night hit, or just love board game rankings, this list is packed with essential titles, honest opinions and a few surprises along the way.
👉 Which game do you think should be higher? Let us know in the comments
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The rise and fall of civilisations can be seen in Philippe Keyaerts's board games Vinci (1999 Descartes) and Small World (2009 Days of Wonder). They differ in important ways. Let's take a look!
Board Gems highlights older board and card games that are still great games today, and deserve to not be forgotten!
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For our North American friends, we highly recommend grabbing your board games from Game Nerdz - who we've happily partnered with to create our Board Game Library for our upcoming cruise: https://www.gamenerdz.com/
Our gorgeous board game table was custom built by GeekNSon. Check out their store using our affiliate link and get a FREE Dice Tower with each purchase of a table: https://bit.ly/NoRollsBarredXGeeknson_online_store_sm
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Can you build a mystery shape out of LEGO bricks… using only your teammate’s words? In Brick Like This!, one player describes, one player builds, and everyone races to shout “DONE!” before their opponents.
In this short, you’ll see how fast this game turns from “easy party game” into pure real-time LEGO panic, with teams scrambling to stack bricks, follow the rules, and actually recognize what they just built.
Celebrate the holiday season with me and a board game! Let's solve Day 12 of the EXIT Advent Calendar together. This is not sponsored but thanks Kosmos for sending me the game to play!
See y'all tomorrow for DAY 13
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