Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including the My First Adventure series (Journey to Ochre Land, Discovering Atlantis, and Finding the Dragon) and Okanagan: Valley of the Lakes. Then, we talk about games that we love but that we don't hear other people talk about much.
Listen to Stolen: Season 2: Surviving St. Michael’s
Watch my video overview of My First Adventure: Finding the Dragon

0:00-Intro
0:52-Recent Games - My First Adventure: Journey to Ochre Land, Discovering Atlantis, Finding the Dragon
8:02-Okanagan: Valley of the Lakes
15:35-Overlooked Games
31:24-Outro
32:19-Bloopers

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Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including Illiterati, Artisans of Splendent Vale, and Challengers!. Then, we talk about electronic components in board games and some games that use electronics in creative ways.

0:00-Intro
0:36-Announcements
1:34-Recent Games - Illiterati
7:25-Artisans of Splendent Vale
13:00-Challengers!
14:35-Electronics
26:39-Outro
27:44-Bloopers

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Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including Mahjong and Blueprints. Then, we talk about board game tournaments - which ones we've competed in, our experiences with them, and why we like or dislike them.
You can try out Mahjong with Mahjong Soul!
Tournaments/events mentioned:
Double Exposure Envoy
World Series of Board Gaming
World Boardgaming Championships

0:00-Intro
2:13-Recent Games - Mahjong
8:46-Blueprints
13:57-Tournaments
30:54-Outro
32:06-Bloopers

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Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including Challengers! and Sagani. Then, we talk about what we think about when bringing games on vacation, and examples of what games we recently brought while we traveled.

0:00-Intro
0:37-Recent Games - Challengers!
6:45-Sagani
13:42-Travel Games
28:12-Outro
29:25-Bloopers

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Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including Dog Park: New Tricks, Blitzschnell!, and My First Escape Game: The Magical Forest. Then, we talk about real life escape rooms games and what we love and don't love about them (and how that's similar to our board game interests).
Watch the playthrough of Dog Park: New Tricks (now on Kickstarter)

0:00-Intro
0:45-Recent Games - Dog Park: New Tricks
4:52-Blitzschnell!
7:25-My First Escape Game: The Magical Forest
10:45-Escape Rooms
33:18-Outro
34:31-Bloopers

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Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including Shikoku 1889 and First Ascent. Then, we talk about times when we really don't feel like getting together to play board games (but then we usually still do).

0:00-Intro
0:43-Announcements
1:38-Recent Games - Shikoku 1889
6:24-First Ascent
12:10-Dreading Gaming
25:45-Outro

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Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including In the Palm of Your Hand, Codex Naturalis, and Kingdomino. Then, we talk about the tactile nature of board games and what components we like physically handling.

0:00-Intro
0:48-Recent Games - In the Palm of Your Hand
5:37-Codex Naturalis
9:33-Kingdomino
12:12-Components
25:25-Outro
26:20-Bloopers

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Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including Phantom Ink, Fiction, and My City: Roll & Build. Then, we celebrate our 7 year podcast anniversary by taking you on a behind the scenes tour of how an episode of Board Game Blitz gets made!!
Follow us on Twitch for the anniversary stream!

0:00-Intro
0:43-Announcements
2:24-Recent Games - Phantom Ink
8:17-Fiction
11:01-My City: Roll & Build
14:12-Behind the Scenes
19:10-How BGB is Made
37:21-Outro
38:16-Bloopers

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Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including The LOOP, Exit: The Game - The Lord of the Rings: Shadows over Middle-earth, and Exit: The Game - The Professor's Last Riddle. Then, we celebrate Star Wars Day by talking about all the Star Wars board games!
Thanks so much for the nomination - please vote for us for the Board Game Geek Golden Geek Awards!
Follow Amanda Panda's channel for Saturday's stream, and our channel for the anniversary stream!

0:00-Intro
0:41-Announcements
3:10-Recent Games - The LOOP
9:11-Exit: The Game - The Lord of the Rings: Shadows over Middle-earth
10:04-Exit: The Game - The Professor's Last Riddle
15:43-Star Wars
33:01-Outro

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Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including Kites, Agent Decker, and Descent: Legends of the Dark. Then, we talk about what factors go into making your own perfect board game collection.
Please nominate us for a Board Game Geek Golden Geek Award!

Intro: 0:00
Announcements: 0:43
Recent Games: 1:50
Perfect Collection: 15:31
Outro: 33:23

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Kites: 1:59
Agent Decker: 5:05
Descent: Legends of the Dark: 8:00

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Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including Escape the Room: Murder in the Mafia, Suspects: The MacGuffin Affair, and The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era. Then, we talk about our time at Dice Tower West last month!
Watch Ambie's (and her kids') Dice Tower West Recap video!
Please nominate us for a Board Game Geek Golden Geek Award!

Announcements: 0:46
Recent Games: 1:18
Dice Tower West: 13:18
Outro: 34:22
Bloopers: 35:17

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Escape the Room: Murder in the Mafia: 1:26
Suspects: The MacGuffin Affair: 4:30
The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era: 7:18

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Ambie and Crystal have their annual awards show about the best games of the year in the 2022 Blitzies!

The 2022 Blitzies: 0:40
--Best Party Game: 1:49
--Best Card Game: 2:58
--Best Trick Taker: 4:38
--Best Family Game: 6:07
--Best Cooperative Game: 8:19
--Best Roll & Write: 9:54
--Best Theming: 11:38
--Biggest Surprise: 13:49
--Most Innovative: 16:14
--Best New to Us Not 2022: 19:42
--Best Game We Haven't Played Yet: 22:33
--Best Game of 2022: 23:51
--2022 Looking Forward to Recap: 25:58
--Looking Forward to in 2023: 27:40
--Best Podcast: 32:04
Outro: 32:12
Bloopers: 33:16

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Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including El Grande and Marvel SNAP. Then, we stop talking about board games for a bit as we talk about our five favorite video games of all time!

Announcements: 0:37
Recent Games: 2:04
Top 5 Video Games: 12:16
Outro: 36:26

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El Grande: 2:04
Marvel Snap: 7:37

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Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including Tiny Turbo Cars and The Great Split. Then, we talk about house rules and when might be a good time to implement them.

Announcements: 0:40
Recent Games: 2:24
House Rules: 14:28
Outro: 31:24
Bloopers: 32:27

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Tiny Turbo Cars: 2:24
The Great Split: 7:34

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Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including Weather Machine and Wicked & Wise. Then, special guest Pam joins us to catch up and talk about a bunch of things related to gaming - gaming groups, gaming online, and gaming at conventions!

Announcements: 0:39
Recent Games: 1:40
Gaming Potpourri: 12:44
Outro: 33:31
Bloopers: 34:44

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Weather Machine: 1:40
Wicked & Wise: 7:20

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Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including Hunt a Killer: Body on the Boardwalk and Artisans of Splendent Vale. We then talk about gaming remotely, but with physical board games, not digital games! Make sure to check out our new Ko-Fi page!

Announcements: 0:41
Recent Games: 2:17
Gaming Remotely: 12:07
Outro: 22:12
Bloopers: 23:42

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Hunt a Killer: Body on the Boardwalk: 2:17
Artisans of Splendent Vale: 7:16

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Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including Sleuth, MANTIS, and Color Brain: Disney Edition. We then talk about some gaming resolutions and goals we may or may not have made for 2023.

Recent Games: 0:36
Gaming Resolutions: 12:24
Outro: 29:29
Bloopers: 30:29

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Sleuth: 0:36
MANTIS: 4:36
Color Brain: Disney Edition: 8:51

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In this now annual special bonus episode, Ambie facilitates while her two guests talk about some of their favorite games they've played recently, including Stuffed Fables and Teddy's Colors & Shapes. They then talk about some more of their favorite games and why they like them. For a video version of the podcast with subtitles, click here.

Recent Games: 0:32
More Favorite Games: 1:10
Outro: 5:18

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Stuffed Fables: 0:33
Teddy's Colors & Shapes: 0:43

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More games discussed this episode: The Nightmare Before Christmas: Merry Madness: 1:16 First Orchard: 3:13 Tidy up!: 4:00

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Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including Break the Cube, the Key Enigma escape room games (Wizcape Academy, Kalinasu, and The Butterfly Curse), and My Father's Work. We then talk about some holiday traditions we have and how gaming factors into our holidays. Happy holidays to everyone!

Announcements: 0:41
Recent Games: 1:48
Holiday Happenings: 17:35
Outro: 31:24
Bloopers: 32:37

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Break the Cube: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/354669/break-cube
Key Enigma games: https://keyenigma.com/
My Father's Work: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/328866/my-fathers-work

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This episode was sponsored by Grey Fox Games. Use the code 'GFGBLITZ2022' for 20% off non-exclusive items from their site: http://www.greyfoxgames.com/

Games discussed this episode: Break the Cube: 1:48 Key Enigma: 4:26 Wizcape Academy: 5:16 Kalinasu: 5:18 The Butterfly Curse: 5:42 My Father's Work: 13:02 Rumble in the Dungeon: 20:27 Just One: 20:56 So Clover!: 20:59 Just One: 22:01 Fox in the Forest Duet: 29:06 Codenames: 29:47 Kingdomino: 30:12

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Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including Décorum and FORK. We then talk about organizing our game collection, or theoretical ways we would organize our collection if it were organized!

Recent Games: 0:37
Organizing the Collection: 11:18
Outro: 27:44
Bloopers: 28:48

Watch our Décorum playthrough on YouTube: https://youtu.be/RcFfns7UfbU
Check out Foster the Meeple: https://www.youtube.com/@FostertheMeeple

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Décorum: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/344554/decorum
FORK: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/370095/fork

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