Episodes
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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: The Game
37:00 Explorers of Navoria: Overview
40:30 Ms. Jackson - Outkast
41:30 Explorers of Navoria: Review
1:04:00 Explorers of Navoria: Verdict
1:10:00 Board Boys Bump: Nucleum
1:17:15 Thank You, Patrons
1:18:00 Children Go Where I Send Thee - The Roches
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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 Saints Go Marching In - Louis Armstrong
3:00 Giant War of the Ring
9:30 Terrorscape
15:45 Hamlet expansion
19:00 Resafa
22:45 Rebel Princesses
25:45 Iron Forest
28:00 Civolution
31:30 Flip 7
35:00 Slay the Spire: The Board Game
40:30 MESOS: Overview
44:45 Caveman - Mike Oldfield
45:45 MESOS: Review
1:03:00 MESOS: Verdict
1:06:00 Top 3 Games of BGG
1:17:00 Board Boys Bump: Last Light
1:22:30 Thank You, Patrons
1:23:00 Walk the Dinosaur - Was not Was
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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 - Shadow House Masquerade
24:45 - Getting Old and Family Talk
27:30 - Andromeda's Edge - Intro
30:25 - Interlude - Beastie Boys - Intergalactic
32:00 - Beastie Boys Chat
34:00 - Andromeda's Edge - Intitial Thoughts
37:35 - Andromeda's Edge - Pros
51:00 - Andromeda's Edge - Cons
1:09:30 - Andromeda's Edge - Final Thoughts
1:20:00 - Bump or Dump - The White Castle
1:23:45 - Outro - Patron Thanks
1:24:50 - Phoenix - Holding on Together
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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 about board games!
0:00 - Ice Cube Bop Gun (One Nation)
0:05 - Intro
4:30 - Large decks of Cards
9:00 - Robs Weird Rating Scale
12:45 - Sesame Street Characters
16:45 - Gnome Hollow
21:45 - King of Tokyo Duel
25:50 - Cities
29:30 - Septima
35:40 - Botanicus Intro
39:35 - Interlude - Simon and Garfunkel - Scarborough Far / Canticle
40:50 - Botanicus Initial Thoughts
43:00 - Botanicus Pros
55:30 - Botanicus Cons
1:03:20 - Botanicus Final Thoughts
1:13:30 - BB Bump or Dump - Pirates of Maracaibo
1:21:00 - Outro and Patreon Thanks
1:22:20 - Earth Wind and Fire - Where Have All The Flowers Gone
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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.
Amoebunnies KS Link - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wrongcauldron/amoebunnies
BoardBoy Video Review Link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjERH_f0MT8&t
0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey
4:00 Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle Earth
9:00 Wizards & Co.
10:30 Amoebunnies with Jaime Brown
26:00 Altered
29:15 Kavango
32:15 Inferno: Overview
37:00 I'm on Fire - Bruce Springsteen
38:30 Inferno: Review
1:03:00 Inferno: Verdict
1:09:15 Board Boys Bump: Carnival Zombie
1:13:15 Thank You, Patrons
1:14:00 Through the Fire: Chaka Khan
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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 Doggerland: Review
55:00 Doggerland: Verdict
58:00 Board Boys Bump: Blitzkreig!, Dogfight, Caesar!, and BOOoop.
1:05:15 Thank You, Patrons
1:05:30 Vapors - Snoop Doggy Dogg
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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 Architects
31:30 Reef Project
36:00 Windmill Valley: Overview
39:00 The Wind - Cat Stevens
40:00 Windmill Valley: Review
1:09:15 Windmill Valley: Verdict
1:15:30 Board Boys Bump: Thunder Road: Vendetta
1:23:45 Thank You, Patrons
1:25:00 Summer Breeze - Isley Brothers
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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 Calico
36:45 Bomb Busters
40:15 Evenfall: Overview
44:15 Bring Me To Life - Evanescence (karaoke from Bob and Bev)
45:15 Evenfall: Review
1:13:00 Evenfall: Verdict
1:19:30 Board Boys Bump: The Wolves
1:26:15 Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now - DJ Steve Walsh
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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/1DpICN2f9sqhbVQ4VNISKP?si=8bb2e0dcbdd6425a
0:00 - Intro: E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey
2:00 - Music Chat
19:00 - CDSK
21:25 - Lifeboats: Planks of Carneades
25:10 - Harvest
29:25 - Cities
31:30 - Jorvik
34:30 - Bomb Busters
38:35 - Rock Hard 1977 - Intro
43:10 - Interlude: Cherry Bomb - The Runaways
44:50 - Rock Hard 1977 - Initial Thoughts
48:00 - Rock Hard 1977 - Pros
1:01:30 - Rock Hard 1977 - Prawns
1:07:30 - Rock Hard 1977 - Cons
1:18:50 - Rock Hard 1977 - Final Thoughts
1:28:15 - Bump or Dump - Barcelona
1:38:15 - Wrap up and Patron Thanks
1:39:45 - Outro: Success - Iggy Pop
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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 - Things in Rings
12:35 - Wrath of Fire Mountain
15:30 - Race to the Raft
18:20 - Coop QB Discussion
21:00 - Azul Summer Pavilion
23:00 - Age of Innovation
25:30 - Botanicus
31:25 - Coimbra Stats and Intro
34:16 - Informer - MC Shan and Snow
35:15 - Coimbra Initial Thoughts
38:35 - Coimbra Pros
50:00 - Coimbra Cons
1:08:00 - Coimbra Final Thoughts
1:10:00 - Bump or Dump - Sabika
1:14:00 - Outro, BGA, Patreon, and Discord
1:15:08 - Red Red Wine - UB40
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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 especially Beau but he was a trooper - which was awesome... We hope you like board games!
0:00 - Intro and Day 0
8:17 - Day 1
8:45 - Catchables
10:20 - CGE Room
11:00 - Lifeboats
11:45 - Allplay
13:15 - Mandolorian Adventures
13:45 - Marvel Crisis Protocol
15:50 - RDTN Strike Event
18:35 - Day 3 and 4
19:35 - Rock Hard 1977
20:00 - AllPlay Small Card Games and Kabuto Sumo Tournament
23:40 - Tales of Arthurian Knights
25:00 - TNMT Unmatched
27:00 - Dabba Walla
28:00 - Lord of the Rings Duel for Middle-Earth
29:45 - Spotlight from Horrible Guild
30:45 - Lucas Oil Stadium and Boop The Halls
32:10 - Marvel Multiverse Roleplaying Game
32:35 - Doomlings and the pinata
32:55 - Magic Maze Tower and Octocube
34:35 - King of Tokyo Duel
35:55 - Heroscape from Renegade Game Studios
36:50 - Blood on the Clocktower
38:20 - After the Empire with Evan
39:11 - Hewns
39:50 - Rumbleslam
40:40 - Ziggurat
41:12 - Civolution
41:54 - Crossbows and Catapults vs Catapult Feud
42:48 - Madcala
44:25 - Kill Team Laser Tag
44:45 - S.E.T.I.
46:35 - Adas Dream and Tinderblox
47:10 - Quoridor Pacman, CDSK, Doggerland, Nekojima
49:22 - Keep The Heroes Out
50:20 - Everdell Duo
50:30 - Trick or Treat Studios
50:20 - The OP
55:00 - Heroscape again
55:30 - Wrath of Fire Mountain
57:15 - Bomb Busters
57:50 - Witness
58:20 - Capstone Games
1:00:00 - Top 3 Experiences
1:01:43 - Top 3 Games to Play Next
1:02:30 - Outro
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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 - 12:40
- Voidfall - 14:25
- Ticket to Ride Legacy - 17:15
- Wyrmspan - 18:00
- Trismegistus - 20:00
- Kutna Hora - 20:10
- El Grande - 23:10
- Obsession - 24:00
- Anunnaki - 25:30
- Ezra and Nehemiah - 26:50
- Skyrise - 28:00
- Cascadero - 29:00
- Beyond the Sun - 30:20
Games We Have Played The Most and Never Won - 31:30
Favorite/Least Favorite Game From Last Season - 33:20
Inventions - Intro - 35:40
Interlude - I Love Technology - Kip
Inventions - Initial Thoughts - 39:20
Inventions - Pros/Cons/Prawns - 42:00
Inventions - Final Thoughts - 1:03:30
Bump or Dump - Expeditions - 1:07:20
Outro - Patron Thanks/BGA/Discord Talk - 1:13:15
Oingo Boingo - Weird Science - 1:14:48
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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 - Coimbra
20:00 - Ponzi Scheme
23:25 - Five Tribes
26:30 - KingDomino
28:35 - Rob Game Challenge Update
29:25 - Megaland
32:35 - Beyond the Sun - Intro
35:15 - 2001: A Space Odyssey
36:30 - Beyond the Sun - Initial Thoughts 40:30 - Beyond the Sun - Pros 51:20 - Beyond the Sun - Cons 58:45 - Beyond the Sun - Final Thoughts 1:04:15 - Bump or Dump - Newton 1:08:30 - Outro, Patron Thanks, Website Plugs 1:09:10 - Kate Bush - Hello Earth -
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 tracks
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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 (SdJ Nominee)
9:45 - Tumblin' Dice
10:55 - Dodos Riding Dinos
13:15 - Indiana Jones Sands of Adventure
15:30 - Cascadero
17:00 - Beaument with Mo - Werewolf
18:30 - Little Alchemists
22:50 - Amoebunnies
27:10 - RA and Skyrise Auction Games
28:00 - Star Wars Bounty Hunters w/ Tom Vasel from The Dice Tower
31:30 - The Lord of the Rings: Adventure to Mount Doom
32:50 - Djinn
32:30 - Marvel United Spidergeddon
33:52 - Emerge
36:10 - Anunnaki: Dawn of the Gods
37:00 - Thunder Road Vendetta
39:30 - Top Convention Activities
41:00 - Top 3 Games of the Con
42:40 - Looking forward to Gen Con
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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
9:00 Hegemony
13:15 Emerge
16:15 Everdell Farshore
21:15 Ezra and Nehemiah: Overview
27:30 Rivers of Babylon - The Melodians
28:45 Ezra and Nehemiah: Review
57:00 Ezra and Nehemiah: Verdict
1:02:45 Board Boys Bump: Challengers!
1:07:00 Thank You, Patrons
1:09:15 Israelites - Desmond Dekker
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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
1:17:45 Anunnaki: Verdict
1:26:45 Board Boys Bump: Darwin's Journey
1:33:00 Thank You, Patrons
1:33:30 Attack of the Name Game - Stacey Lattisaw
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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 Foundations of Rome: Roads of Fortune
31:00 Necromolds: Monster Battles
33:30 Obsession: Overview
38:00 A New England - Kirsty MacColl
39:30 Obsession - Review
58:15 Obession - Verdict
1:03:15 Board Boys Bump: Earth
1:12:30 Thank You, Patrons
1:13:15 A New England - Billy Bragg
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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 "Weird Al" Yankovic - Taco Grande
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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 Intro
1:11:10 - Silver Dollar by Teresa Brewer
1:12:05 - Kutna Hora Initial Thoughts
1:14:30 - Kutna Hora Pros
1:29:35 - Kutna Hora Cons
1:42:05 - Kutna Hora Final Thoughts and Ratings
1:47:30 - Bump or Dump - Beast
1:50:55 - Outro - Discord - BGA - Patreon - Visit theboardboys.com and leave us iTune Reviews!
1:51:55 - White Silver Sands - Don Rondo
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