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#351: Combined Top 50 Games of All-Time 2025 Draft: 30-11
New Jan 08, 2026 45 min

#351: Combined Top 50 Games of All-Time 2025 Draft: 30-11

Happy new year! We're back to continue the very peaceful, collaborative, kind endeavour that is coming together to harmoniously assemble our top 50 games. It's been nothing but chill, friendly vibe...

#350: Combined Top 50 Games of All-Time 2025 Draft: 50-31
Dec 18, 2025 1h 13m

#350: Combined Top 50 Games of All-Time 2025 Draft: 50-31

Okay, things are a bit different this year. In honour of our 350th episode (a very important milestone), we're going to combine forces, like ... Voltron. I'm the head, and my left and right feet ar...

#349: Anticipation Auction 2025 - And the Winner Is…
Dec 11, 2025 50 min

#349: Anticipation Auction 2025 - And the Winner Is…

Remember way back at the beginning of the year when we took some bets on what we thought the games of the year were gonna be? Well, all those good and bad decisions are back to help or haunt us, as...

#348: Got 'Em, Ghost Turkey
Nov 27, 2025 22 min

#348: Got 'Em, Ghost Turkey

Somehow Ghost Turkey returned. And you never saw it coming! That might be because we forgot to remind people that it's Thanksgiving, but never mind that, the important thing is you're fools. Not us...

#347: Bob's Design
Nov 13, 2025 1h 11m

#347: Bob's Design

BGBBOB is back, and it's been long enough that you might need a reminder. Ten game designers enter the ring, and through the arduous process of one vs one battles, we arrive at our (and not just ou...

#346: It's One Bananagrams, How Much Could It Cost?
Oct 30, 2025 50 min

#346: It's One Bananagrams, How Much Could It Cost?

This episode is not about Bananagrams (at least, I don't think so), but it is about the price of things (though not Bananagrams specifically, shut up about Bananagrams). In a world where everything...

#345: Essen SPIEL 2025 Hype List
Oct 16, 2025 58 min

#345: Essen SPIEL 2025 Hype List

Not perturbed by Kellen's trip to Germany, we're all daydreaming about the motherlode of board game conventions, Essen SPIEL. There's a lot of games coming to the show, and because we're not going,...

#344: ... But the Second Leaves a Mark
Oct 02, 2025 1h 1m

#344: ... But the Second Leaves a Mark

Dreaded continuity! We're following up Episode 41 from seven years ago about the games that started our love for board games! After those first loves, what really got our hearts aflutter with ...

#343: Fantasy Draft: Card Games
Sep 18, 2025 50 min

#343: Fantasy Draft: Card Games

The draft's back! This time it's card games, and we're picking the bestof what ought to be a staple of any good collection. We love card games, we love drafting games, and you love winning money, s...

#342: Oops! All Foreplay
Sep 04, 2025 55 min

#342: Oops! All Foreplay

There's any number of subtle innuendoes we could've gone with, but this is what we're doing I guess. If you haven't got there yet, we're talking about games that aren't just slow rides, but instead...

#341: A Little Bit of Mailbag
Aug 21, 2025 57 min

#341: A Little Bit of Mailbag

One, two, three, four, five, everybody in the car so come on let's ride ... to the mailbag! We're answering your pressing questions - and oh how they press - about all manner of things: Crowdfundin...

#340: All by Myself
Aug 07, 2025 1h 8m

#340: All by Myself

Are board games best played multiplayer? Who can say, but whether it's because you can't get people together at the appropriate time, or you're just itching to play something on your lonesome, ther...

#339: One and Done
Jul 24, 2025 55 min

#339: One and Done

Sometimes once is enough, you know? Doesn't mean it was bad, but it might just be that you can have too much of a good thing. We're talking about board games that we'd recommend everyone play once,...

#338: Gen Con 2025 Preview
Jul 10, 2025 56 min

#338: Gen Con 2025 Preview

Gen Con! Where all the cool games are, before you even know they're cool. Or hot! We've got you covered, if you want to know what all the best stuff coming out of Indianapolis is going to before be...

#337: Our Listeners' Top 20 Board Games of All-Time 2025
Jun 26, 2025 57 min

#337: Our Listeners' Top 20 Board Games of All-Time 2025

It's time again to turn the tables and get your take, to feel out the collective tastes of you, the listeners of the show. It's the annual Listener Top 20! You've been sending in all of your lists ...

#336: Happy Little Accidents
Jun 12, 2025 55 min

#336: Happy Little Accidents

When playing games it's easy to fall into the trap of over-anaylsing turns, or questioning whether the move we made was the right one, or even allowing people to roll back whole turns - so we're as...

#335: A Cole New Wehrle
May 29, 2025 1h 8m

#335: A Cole New Wehrle

A dazzling place you never knew ... until now that is! We're diving deep on beloved designer Cole Wehrle in another designer spotlight. We dig back into his Roots, and explore the many Arcs that le...

#334: Nothing's Done It Better
May 15, 2025 51 min

#334: Nothing's Done It Better

Well, we finally did it. We played CATAN, and it was ... good! And then we started wondering, is there anything that's done quite the same thing that that game is doing? And then that got us wonder...

#333: Gold3n G33ks
May 01, 2025 59 min

#333: Gold3n G33ks

Happy 333! In honour of our three hundred and thirty third episode, BoardGameGeek has decided to host an emergency session of the Golden Geek Awards, and we're here to tell you about all the nomine...

#332: Hard Pass!
Apr 17, 2025 50 min

#332: Hard Pass!

I would say that, for the most part, there's very little we won't play - but we also know what we like, and especially what we don't like. Every so often a game gets suggested that we have to say "...