Welcome to another episode of The Board Boys Podcast! This time around we are live from BGGCon and introducing a couple of new voices with a suprise guest swap in the middle of the episode! We talk about a slew of new hotness played at the convention and we do a main review of The Hobbit: There and Back Again from Office Dog and Reiner Knizia! Also…

On this episode of The Board Boys Podcast we till into Tend from IV Studio! Rob also talks about a couple of new banger expansions as well as some hyped up Predator movies. We also talk about the current season of The Floor and Cam drops a joke that totall bombs. We also look back at Andromeda's Edge in this episodes Bump or Dump and there was a lo…

Hey, everybody on this episode of The Board Boys Podcast we discuss Moon Colony Bloodbath from Donald X Vaccarino and Rio Grande Games! On this episode we also try to get Cam to flex his Monopoly knowledge, talk about a LOAD of games played at Capital City Gaming Con as well as some upcoming Essen Spiel releases! Also Jake has a proud parent moment…

Happy Spooktober to all the listeners out there! On this episode we do a mini-deep dive review of Spooktacular from Level 99 Games and our feature review is Terrorscape from ICE Makes. We also get a chance to talk to Alex Wolf from Spielcraft Games about their current and future projects! We also take a look back as we Bump or Dump Inferno from Red…

Board Boys are back with the latest HUGE game from Mr. Stefan Feld - Civolution from Deep Print Games and Pegasus Spiele. Where you are take an exam about creating the best civilizations with your proctor Agera. Place dice, play cards, and so many strategies exist to victory in this one! Also in this episode Cam almost died, Rob talks about a lot o…

It is time for a new episode of The Board Boys Podcast - in this installment we are joined by Board Boy Jeremy again and we are live from our remote studio at Dungeons Gate. In this one we play Shackleton Base from Pandasaurus Games and Sorry We Are French. We also guess how many games Cam is in on BGA - also if you remember Aqua Teen Hunger Force …

Welcome to another episode of The Board Boys Podcast. In this episode, we take on Daitoshi, part of the Kemushi Saga, from Dani Garcia and Devir Games! In this one we also take a look at a log jam of games we have played and you get a minor look behind the scenes at Dungeon's Gate as The Board Boys try to recommend a proper Dune Imperium expansion.…

Hey everybody! We had a tough decision so we didn't make one in typical Board Boys fashion! We have not 1 but 2 main reviews in this episode both released by Capstone Games in the US and both are by Tomáš Holek! We are also joined by special guest Board Boy Jared as we are once again live from Dungeons Gate in Ankeny, IA! Also in this episode, we t…

Hey Everybody! In this episode of The Board Boys Podcast we take an actual deep dive into Endeavor Deep Sea from Grand Gamers Guild and Burnt Island Games! We are joined by a guest host Bryce Bickham from Bickham Games and we talk about their upcoming game Dreyfall coming to Kickstarter on September 23rd! We also have some submarine talk, Jeremy2 p…

In this episode we explore Alma Mater from some companies that dont exist anymore. Also a visit from BB Joe and Cam gives us a Latin Lesson. We are also LIVE from Dungeon's Gate once again and I hope Cam doesn't mind the use of exclamation points in this blurb! Joe also shows us that he can't remember what games he plays. Cam also flexes at how goo…

Day 0 - Wednesday 0:00 - Intro and Traveling 1:00 - Asmodee Media Event - Battle for Hoth, Brick Like This - Two Tower Tricking taking Game - Clash of Clans 3:10 - All Play Event - Soda Jerk - Tearable Quest Day 1 - Thursday 6:25 - Ace of Spades 7:10 - Tianxia 9:30 - Star Wars Super Teams 11:30 - Thebai 12:15 - Good Dog Bad Zombie 12:40 - Moose Gam…

Hey welcome to another episode of The Board Boys Podcast and thanks joining in Season 17! This time we main review Wroth from Chip Theory Games. We also talk about what would happen if this game had a finance theme! Rob also talks about his vacation and work trip and all the games played. We take a sneak peak at the expansion for Civolution and we …

Welcome to the Season 16 finale! Our feature review this week is Corp of Discovery: A Game Set in the World of Manifest Destiny from Off The Page Games. Also, in this one we talk about Rob not finishing his challenges. We record live from Dungeon's Gate in Ankeny, IA and we deep dive into Trickerion with all the fixins from Mindclash Games. There i…

It is another episode of The Board Boys Podcast and on the docket for this one was Transgalactica from Devir Games and our boy Daniele Tascini! We also have some new official music from Marcelo F(@resetcubestudio)! Join us as we tackle the tracks on tracks as well as some errata as well as some video game talk and some smaller box games from All Pl…

Board Boys are back to play a Robin Hood game, but it's not your father's Robin Hood, or so they say. Warning, A Gest of Robin Hood is gritty and dark and real and raw, if you have an excellent imagination. If you don't, (like Cam), it's basically carriage pushin: the game. 0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 2:30 Spaceballs and Game Show talk…

Board Boys travel through all the realm in search of adventure in Tales of the Arthurian Knights, an exciting narrative light rpg adventure and reimplementation of the classic Tales of the Arabian Nights. 0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 5:00 Spiel des Jahres talk 10:00 Scooby Doo the Board Game 12:00 Bloomchasers 16:15 Meeple Circus 21:00 …

Board Boys are back with two giant spreadsheets and a set of small blocks in the Anarchy, from Garphill Games and designer Bobby Hill. If you like Hadrian's Wall, you'll probably love this one. 0:00 Intro, E.V.A - Jean Jacques Perrey 18:00 Apiary 21:30 Gentle Rain 24:30 Corps of Discovery: A Game Set in the World of Manifest Destiny 29:00 Karvi 32:…

Board Boys are back in Ancient Egypt yet again for Men-Nefer, which is a board game and not a celebrity couple c. 2002. Speaking of 2002, prepare for a lot of millennial talk in this episode. 0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 19:30 YRO 23:00 Skara Brae 25:45 Jubako 30:00 Kronologic: Paris 1920 33:30 Calimala 37:00 Men-Nefer: Overview 41:00 Y…

Board Boys blast off into outer space with a bunch of tourists on board in Galactic Cruise, a game about assembling recreational spacecraft and visiting chilled out planets with them. 0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 16:00 The Taverns of Tiefenthal 22:50 Duck & Cover 24:30 Sardegna 27:00 Iwari 29:30 Automania 31:45 Endeavor: Deep Sea 43:45 …

Board Boys are back with another span for ya, man, in Finspan from Stonemaier Games, a game about free range fish raising all the way down to the nightmare zone. 0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 18:00 Lowlands 20:30 Black Forest 26:00 Azul Duel 28:15 R-ECO+ 32:00 Potions of Azerland 35:45 Rebel Princesses 43:30 Finspan: Overview 46:15 Looki…

Join us for a slightly irregular version of The Board Boys Podcast where Board Boy Rob is joined by Board Boy Beau and Jeremy to go over a bunch of 2 player games! Featuring Duel for Middle Earth from Repos Productions, King of Tokyo Duel from Iello, and Star Wars The Deckbuilding Game from Fantasy Flight Games! Beau also goes over a recent Christm…

Board Boys are playing yet another game about windmills (turbines I guess) on this episode, Pampero from Julian Pombo. Uruguay has all this wind evidently, each player will be trying to exploit that. The winner is the player who can harness the most wimpy, clean wind energy and become the king of hippies. 0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 8:…

On this episode, we our feature review is SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence from Czech Games Edition and new designer Tomáš Holek. Also we dive into Cam's dreams and what they could mean, Cam accidentally orders our food delivery to the wrong house. We also talk about Little Alchemists also by CGE! Other games include, Mandalorian Adve…

Board Boys are back for an arbitrarily new season in Resafa (aka Refasa) from Delicious Games. Who will stack the most stuff on his camel? Find out after our long 2024 board gaming recap, where we talk top 5 games, BGA awards, surprises, and all the games we played last season. 0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 4:45 2024 Review 47:00 Resafa:…

Board Boys are ready to shrink heads in Unconscious Mind, a game about defreuding people experiencing bad dreams until you have all their money and they are in love with their moms. 0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 16:00 Monkey Palace 20:15 Tales of Arthurian Knights 29:15 Clank! Expeditions: Temple of the Ape Lords 34:00 Dinosaur Island: R…

Board Boys are back to get all the cheese in Fromage, a game about making all the cheese by Ben Rosset and Michael O'Malley. 0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 8:00 Pirates of Maracaibo: Commanders 14:00 Welcome to the Moon 22:45 Planta Nubo 29:30 Hamster Roll 31:15 Harmonies 35:00 Fromage: Overview 40:00 MMM Cheese - Freddy 4X 41:00 Fromage:…

Board Boys boooooost down some tracks and pick up some cards in Explorers of Navoria, a game by Meng Chunlin. Also in this episode we talk with local designers GLiB games about their awesome new game, The Best Medicine. 0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 13:30 The Best Medicine w GLiB Games 29:30 Middle Ages 31:30 Only Murders in the Building…

In this special BGGCon episode Rob is joined by BJ from Board Game Gumbo and honorary Board Boys, Dave and Jeremy! In this episode we talk about all the hotness we played at BGGCon including a giant game of War of the Ring! We also feature Mesos from Cranio Creations and are favorite Simone Luciani! We hope you like boardgames! 0:00 Intro, When The…

Board Boys strike back in Andromeda's Edge from Cardboard Alchemy, a game about rolling five dice but losing to a guy who only rolled two. We hope you like Board Games! 0:00 - Intro 3:50 - Favorite Sci Fi Stuff 10:45 - Two Game Called Halloween 15:50 - We're Sinking 18:20 - Auntie Mildred's List of Random Tasks 20:40 - Monsters on Board 22:35 - Sha…

Board Boys are back to the old gardening chestnut in Botanicus from Hans im Glück , a game about growing very specific rows of plants for very particular old-timey (for some reason) visitors Also in this episode we talk about games with large decks of cards, Rob steals Jakes intro...again and we take a visit to Sesame Street...oh yea and we talk ab…

Board Boys bounce into Des Moines' own Capital City Gaming Con (formerly Cardboard Caucus) to rip a ton of games, especially the creepy and scary Inferno, a "soul management" game very loosely about Dante's travels in heck. Also in this episode, Rob has a discussion with Jaime Brown, designer of Amoebunnies for a chat about the upcoming Kickstarter…

Board Boys are back to cave paint underneath the English Channel in Doggerland, a game about sending a bunch of your friends out of their warm huts to try to gank a mammoth in the middle of winter. 0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 6:15 Inferno 12:00 Weirdwood Manor 19:00 Doggerland: Overview 23:00 Snoopafella - Snoop Doggy Dogg 24:30 Dogger…

Board Boys bounce back from the First Tulip Financial Crisis in Windmill Valley from Board and Dice, a game about spinning the water wheel as hard as you can to until you have more black tulips than even the Smiths would think is cool 0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 6:00 Mycelia 12:30 18 Holes 20:45 Creature Caravan 27:45 Stonespine Archit…

Board Boys are back, baby, to play Evenfall from new dev Stefano de Silva as well as chat with pal David Kuntz about this year's Capital City Gaming Con (formerly Cardboard Caucus) coming up Oct 11-13 0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 12:00 Capital City Gaming Con Preview w/David Kuntz 23:30 Ziggurat 26:45 Arcs 29:45 Cats and Quilts of Calic…

Board Boys rock out as hard as humanly possible for a dork hobby podcast with Rock Hard: 1977, a sick game about becoming a rockstar by designer/rock legend Jackie Fox. Also in this episode, a long lookback on Barcelona, plus naming all the Beastie Boys and their DJ. Cam's Rock Hard: 1977 playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1DpICN2f9sqhbVQ4…

Board Boys are back with "oldie" but goldie, Coimbra from Eggertspiel: a game about patrons and influence and merchants or something in the Renaissance Era which is basically the greatest theme of all time. So grab your floppy hats and join us at the table for this and more! 0:00 - Intro 4:00 - Peru and Weather Talk 6:00 - Finders Creepers 7:40 - T…

In this Beau-Nuss episodes of The Board Boys Podcast, Rob and Beau attend GenCon 2024! We see and do lots of cool stuff including things from CGE, Renegade Game Studios, Devir Games, Hachette Games, and we participated in the Rolling Dice and Taking Names Strike tournament lots of fun to be had! We were super tired for some of the recording especia…

Today on The Board Boys we check out Inventions: Evolution of Ideas by Mr. Lacerda himself from Eagle Gryphon Games. Also on this episode we take a look back on Season 14. We also have a discussion about games we have played a bunch but never won. Intro - 0:00 Nocturne - 2:00 5 Towers - 6:30 Season 14 Lookback - 10:30 - Evacuation - 11:28 - Djinn -…

In this episode we deep dive Beyond the Sun from Rio Grande Games! We also pontificate space travel, talk some older games, and Rob gives his Game Challenge update! 0:00 - Intro 5:35 - BGA Chat with Cam 7:30 - Video Game Chat 14:25 - Jake Game Speed Run - Whistle Mountain, Isle of Cats, Castles of Burgandy, Wind the Film, MLEM, Faraway 15:25 - Coim…

Join Board Boys for a twofer in: Skyrise - one of those games that has nice looking molded buildings with a fun auction wrinkle and cool scoring Cascadero - a game about surrounding the villages to talk about how nice you are while going up tracks on tracks on tracksبقلم The Board Boys

Hey everyone welcome to another Beau-nuss episode of The Board Boys Podcast. In this one Beau and I discuss what we thought of our first time at BGGCon Spring in Dallas, TX! Intro - 0:00 1:45 - Cosmoctopus 2:30 - Everdell: Farshore 3:00 - Kabuto Sumo w/ Expansions 3:55 - MLEM Space Agency 5:00 - The Same Game 7:15 - Kitty Paw 8:25 - Captain Flip (S…

Board Boys are back and polite enough to listen to Cam talk for large chunks of the episode about some of his favorite books of the Bible in conjunction with a play of Ezra and Nehemiah, a game about rebuilding the temple, teaching the Torah, and making the walls around the city kino l33t again. 0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 5:30 Faraway…

Board Boys get goofy with some big brain alien superpowers in Annunaki, a Looch joint (w/Danilo Sabia). 0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 12:45 An Age Contrived 16:45 Patzcuaro 21:00 Fromage 27:30 Anarchy Pancakes 31:45 Kabuto Sumo: Total Mayhem 36:00 Next Station: Paris 41:15 Anunnaki: Overview 45:15 Rapture - Blondie 46:45 Anunnaki: Review…

Board Boys are back with another Camless episode (minus editor's notes) to play a game about fancy society, Obsession (Kayenta Games). Who will be the most posh? Stick around and find out. 0:00 Intro, Obsession - Animotion 4:00 Camp Refresh recap 10:00 Glory to Rome 12:30 Lords of Baseball 21:30 Cascadero/Cascadito 25:45 Nucleum: Australia 29:00 Fo…

0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 13:15 Salton Sea 16:30 Glass Road 19:15 Draft & Write Records 25:15 Matches 27:30 Slings 29:00 Skyrise 35:45 Honeydew Farmer ver 1.6 38:15 El Grande: Overview 41:45 Magazine 60 - Don Quichotte 42:45 El Grande: Review 1:09:00 El Grande: Verdict 1:20:15 Board Boys Bump: Atiwa 1:26:30 Thank You, Patrons 1:27:30…

Board Boys are back, baby, to check out Kutna Hora from CGE, a game about collecting cold, hard silver and fiddling around with a cardboard computer. Also in this episode, we reveal our all-time top ten lists (not legally binding) and that takes up a LOT of the episode. 0:00 - Intro 4:50 - The Boardboys Official Top 10 List 1:07:35 - Kutna Hora Int…

Board Boys are back for another one, this time playing 2019's (ancient history) Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula, technically a T game, from Daniele Tascini and Frederico Pierlorenzi. Who can make straw into gold first? Not Cam, he missed this episode. 0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 5:00 Dark Ages: Holy Roman Empire 9:30 Gloomhaven: But…

www.camprefresh.com Board Boys are back to make birds out of dragons in Wyrmspan from Stonemaier Games. Also in this episode, Joe Roth of the Dealt Hand shares his thoughts on the game and talks about upcoming (late April '24) Camp Refresh, a sleepaway camp/gaming retreat in the Des Moines area- check out his segment for a coupon code! 0:00 Intro, …

On this episode of the podcast we dig into Ticket To Ride Legacy: Legends of the West from Days of Wonder. We give a high level overview and then after some warnings dive right into spoiler territory. Check the timestamps for this episode for specifics. Also in this episode we talk about Legacy Games in general. Cam suprises us with a return of Bee…