The Board Boys Podcast

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 16:30 Anachrony 21:45 Money! 26:00 A Beaument with Mo 36:15 A Gest of Robin Hood: Overview 40:30 Spaceballs Main Theme - John Morris 41:30 A Gest of Robin Hood: Review 59:00 A Gest of Robin Hood: Verdict 1:03:00 Board Boys Bump: Ezra and Nehemiah 1:07:15 Thank You, Patrons 1:07:45 Yoda - "Weird Al" Yankovic

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 Cretaceous Rails 23:50 Kinfire Delve 29:00 Mind the Gap 32:00 Tales of the Arthurian Knights: Overview 34:45 The Wizard - Uriah Heep 36:15 Tales of the Arthurian Knights: Review 1:14:00 Tales of the Arthurian Knights: Verdict 1:26:30 Board Boys Bump: Anunnaki: Dawn of the Gods 1:29:00 Thank You, Patrons 1:30:00 Lady Fantasy - Camel

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 32:00 Forest Shuffle 35:00 Old Salt 38:15 The Anarchy: Overview 41:00 Firestarter: The Prodigy 42:00 The Anarchy: Review 1:12:30 The Anarchy: Verdict 1:27:00 Board Boys Bump: Obsession 1:31:30 Thank You, Patrons 1:32:30 Praise You - Fatboy Slim

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 Young Folks- Peter, Bjorn, & John 43:00 Men-Nefer: Review 1:09:00 Men-Nefer: Verdict 1:16:30 Board Boys Bump: El Grande 1:21:00 Thank You, Patrons 1:22:00 Burning - The Whitest Boy Alive

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 Galactic Cruise: Overview 47:00 Space Cowboy - Jonzun Crew 48:00 Galactic Cruise: Review 1:22:45 Galactic Cruise: Verdict 1:29:00 Board Boys Bump: Kutna Hora 1:34:00 Thank You, Patrons 1:34:30 Fantastic Voyage - Lakeside

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 of Roleplayer Universe games from Thunderworks Games, Jake talks about Power Vacuum which has a hilarious theme and then we have monumental review and rating of Civolution as well as a crazy Cam boing rating theorum. 0:00 - Intro 3:00 - Random Banter about Aerosmith and AOL 5:00 - Cam Almost Died from a Frozen Pizza 9:25 - Lockup and Lockup: Breakout 13:15 - Goblin Vaults 15:25 - Emerald Skulls 19:35 - Stalk Exchange 22:30 - Azul Duel 23:45 - Pax Games 26:35 - Power Vacuum 30:30 - Civolution Intro 33:30 - Music Break - Sweet Emotion - Aerosmith 34:50 - Civolution Initial Thoughts 40:00 - Civolution Pros and Cons 1:20:00 - Final Thoughts on Civolution 1:29:35 - Bump or Dump - Trismegistus 1:33:10 - Outro and Patron Thanks 1:34:00 - Steely Dan - The Caves of Altamira    

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 Looking for Atlantis - Prefab Sprout 48:00 Finspan: Review 1:11:30 Finspan: Verdict 1:18:00 Board Boys Bump: Wyrmspan 1:26:00 Thank You, Patrons 1:27:00 Ocean Rain - Echo & The Bunnymen 

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 Christmas preset the ChessUp 2 board! 0:00 - Lord of the Rings Intro Music 4:20 - Plug or Beef with Beau 8:25 - Stamp Swap 12:25 - Eclipse Second Dawn for the Galaxy 15:30 - Lifeboats: Plank of Carneades 21:35 - ChessUp 2 25:10 - Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle Earth 37:45 - King of Tokyo Duel 48:55 - Star Wars The Deck Building Game 59:20 - Bump or Dump - Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West 1:06:00 - Outro and Patron Thanks

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 8:30 Sundae Split 11:15 Isle of Cats: Duel 15:00 Little Alchemists again: Cam explains soup better than anyone ever, ever 20:30 Ito 22:00 Fellowship of the Ring: Trick-taking Game 25:45 Pampero: Overview 28:45 The Windmills of your Mind - Dusty Springfield 32:15 Pampero: Review 1:01:00 Pampero: Verdict 1:08:00 Board Boys Bump: Voidfall 1:14:30 Thank You, Patrons 1:15:00 Against the Wind - Bog Seger & The Silver Bullet Band

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 Adventures, Rebirth, Zenith, Dead Cells, and Sky Team.  We also look back at Djinn for our bump or dump!   0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 12:30 The Mandalorian: Adventures 15:45 Rebirth 21:00 Zenith 25:15 Dead Cells: The Rogue-Lite Board Game 18:30 Sky Team 36:45 Little Alchemists 43:00 SETI: Overview 47:00 No Doubt About It - Hot Chocolate 48:15 SETI: Review 1:20:30 SETI: Verdict 1:28:00 Board Boys Bump: Djinn 1:33:30 Thank You, Patrons 1:34:15 Here Come the Martian Martians - Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers

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: Overview 49:15 A Horse with no Name - America 50:30 Resafa: Review 1:17:15 Resafa: Verdict 1:21:45 Board Boys Bump: Evacuation 1:27:45 Thank You, Patrons 1:30:30 Rock the Casbah - The Clash

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: Rawr and Write/ Draftosaurs Aerial Show and Marina expansions 41:00 Unconscious Mind: Overview 44:00 The Ballad of Sigmund Freud - The Chad Mitchell Trio 46:00 Unconscious Mind: Review 1:16:30 Unconscious Mind: Verdict 1:21:00 Board Boys Bump: Federation 1:25:15 Thank You, Patrons 1:26:15 Talking In Your Sleep - The Romantics

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: Review 1:08:00 Fromage: Verdict 1:14:00 Board Boys Bump: Rats of Wistar 1:20:00 Thank You, Patrons 1:20:30 This Will Be Our Year - The Zombies

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

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

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      

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

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.  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

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

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

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  

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

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  

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

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  

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

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    

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

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  

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  

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

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          

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: Buttons and Bugs 12:30 Daybreak 15:45 Fliptown 19:00 Balatro 21:30 Trismegistus: Overview 25:15 You Can Do Magic - America 26:15 Trismegistus: Review 50:00 Trismegistus: Verdict 59:45 Board Boys Bump: Marrakesh 1:08:00 Thank You, Patrons 1:09:45 Sister Golden Hair - America

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, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 10:30 Trellis 11:45 Knight 19:00 Amalfi: Renaissance  26:30 Dune Imperium (the app) 35:45 Turing Machine 40:15 Wyrmspan: Overview 43:00 The Dragon - Biz Markie 44:15 Wyrmspan: Review 1:09:00 Camp Refresh Preview with Joe from the Dealt Hand 1:31:45 Wyrmspan: Verdict 1:42:45 Board Boys Bump: Revive 1:49:30 Thank You, Patrons 1:50:00 Time out of Mind - Steely Dan

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 Beef Watch (TM).     TimeStamps 0:00 - Words of apology from Board Boy Rob :30 - Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 3:30 - Legacy Game Talk 11:50 - MLEM Space Agency 18:15 - Karvi 22:00 - Neuroriders 25:30 - 7 Wonders Architects: Medals Expansion 26:35 - Star Wars - Unlimited CCG 30:00 - Mercurial 32:45 - Splendor Duel 35:15 - Return of the Beef Watch 40:30 - Ticket to Ride Legacy Intro (Spoiler Free) 42:26 - Sheena East - Morning Train 44:05 - Ticket to Ride Legacy Initial Thoughts (Spoiler Free) 48:00 - Ticket to Ride Legacy Game Conversation (Spoiler Free) 1:00:00 - Ticket to Ride Legacy Final Thoughts (Spoiler Free) 1:07:45 - Ticket to Ride Legacy SPOILERS! 1:33:35 - Bump or Dump - Deal With The Devil  1:39:08 - Outro, Patreon, Discord, Website Info 1:40:08 - Roger Miller - King of the Road

Board Boys blast off into outer space yet again to play the big, bad game of Voidfall from Mindclash Games, but can the TI4 fans at the table cope with a spacefaring 4x that doesn't involve threat-laced, hour-long trade discussions that end with hurt feelings all around? Maybe.

Board Boys cork the bottle and get on the no no train to no no ville in Djinn, by Benjamin Schwer. Also in this episode, TV talk, more BGA reviews, and Cam beats Rob on a movie quote, chew on that, Rob. 0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 3:15: Game Show Review Minute with Rob and Cam 16:00 Ten More BGA mini reviews 26:30 20 Strong 32:00 The Search for the Lost Species 33:45 Unlock!: Extraordinary Adventures 36:30 My Island 42:45 Djinn: Overview 47:30 We Genie - Shaquille O'Neal and Wade Robson 48:30 Djinn: Review 1:12:15 Djinn: Verdict 1:23:30 Board Boys Bump: Bonfire 1:29:15 Thank You, Patrons 1:31:00 I Wish - Skee-Lo

Board Boys are back to kick of season 14, probably time to stop counting, with Evacuation, the new Suchy joint from Delicious games. Also in this episode: Cam's BGA advent speed review and Super Board Boys Bump: Season 13 lookback 0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 6:00 Cam's Spectacular BGA Advent Calendar Microreview 17:45 Pokemon Splendor 21:30 Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion 25:30 Evacuation: Overview 28:30 We Gotta Get out of This Place - The Animals 29:30 Evacuation: Review 1:05:00 Evacuation: Verdict 1:17:30 Board Boys Bump: Season 13 Lookback 1:33:15 Thank You, Patrons 1:34:00 Leaving on a Jet Plane - John Denver and Cass Elliot

Board Boys are back (minus Cam so skip to next), baby, to play Federation from Eagle-Gryphon Games. Also in this episode, Jake, Tim, and Rob talk their top games of 2023.  0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 2:45 Pies 4:00 Amsterdam 5:45 Santa's Workshop 8:45 Tricky Dicks (This is a game about pictures of Richard Nixon) 10:15 Without Fail 13:00 Flip Town 16:15 Federation: Overview 19:00 Anus of Uranus - Klaatu 20:15 Federation: Review 45:30 Federation: Verdict 49:30 Board Boys Bump Special - Year in Review 1:13:00 Thank You, Patrons 1:13:45 Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft (The Recognized Anthem of World Contact Day) - The Carpenters (but written by Klaatu)

Board Boys are back with another Cranio Creation, Rats of Wistar by Danilo Sabia and Simone Luciani, a game about lab rats bustin loose. Is the rat game to end all rat games? Find out more just following the 45 minute intro to this episode (my bad).   0:00 Intro, E.V.A. and The Rose and the Cross - Jean Jacque Perrey 8:15 Scholars of the South Tigris 11:45 Halloween (A Hidden Movement Game) 17:30 The Stifling Dark 22:30 Hollywood 1946 26:45 Rats of Wistar: Overview 29:30 Rat Race - Bob Marley and the Wailers 31:00 Rats of Wistar: Review 1:01:00 Rats of Wistar: Verdict 1:09:00 Board Boys Bump: Woodcraft 1:15:00 Thank You, Patrons 1:15:30 Rat in Mi Kitchen - UB40

All the Board Boys are back together again (thanks to a little Christmas magic) to play Nucleum, a game about slamming little green cubes against a big green cube to power your retrofuturistic city. Also in this episode, first impressions on TTR Legacy, Cam admits he likes a game everyone hates, and we take a look back at Autonahn.

Welcome to another episode of the podcast this time LIVE from BGGCon 2023.  Boardboy Rob is joined by BJ from Boardgame Gumbo and a couple of our friends and lovely patrons Bayou Dave and my roomie Jeremy.  Lots of con shenanigans come get your Board Boy Shirts and think about coming to the con next year!  Rob gets an opportunity to read BJs Tiletum Bump or Dump thoughts post and boy was it flowery.  Until next time we hope you like Boardgames! 2:45 - The Perfect Wave 4:40 - Cathedral of Orleans 8:20 - After Us 12:50 - 3 Ring Circus 15:00 - Newton 17:00 - Challenders Beach Cup 19:00 - Kolaches 20:50 - Rats of Wistar 24:00 - Top Rat Games 25:15 - Sea Salt and Paper 28:30 - Top 3 New to You Games 38:15 - Can't Stop and Lil Wreckers Workshop 47:00 - Last Light Introduction 54:30 - Last Light Main Review 1:21:30 - Last Light Final Thoughts 1:28:05 - Board Boys Bump or Dump - Tiletum 1:37:00 - Patron Thanks and Outro  

Thanks for checking out another episode of The Board Boys Podcast!  In this episode we check out The White Castle from Devir Games.  Also in this episode we make like Harold and Kumar and wish we made it to the actual White Castle.  This episode might as well been brought to you by Devir games as we also mention 2 more of their games as well.  Cam became a padre so was out but you can still hear his editing prowess from beyond.  Stay tuned until next episode live from BGGCon!  We hope you like Board Games!   2:00 - White Castle and Uber Banter 6:00 - 3 Ring Circus 11:15 - Savernake Forest 12:20 - Red Cathedral Expansion 15:30 - World Wonders 20:00 - High Season: Grand Austria Hotel Roll and Write 22:15 - Humblebrag by CUT Games 25:30 - Main Review - The White Castle Overview 30:15 - Interlude 31:15 - Initial Thoughts - The White Castle 34:00 - Pros and Cons - The White Castle 53:09 - Final Thoughts - The White Castle 59:35 - Board Boys Bump or Dump - Virtu 1:03:25 - Patron Thanks, Shirts, and BGA Tournaments 1:06:11 - Outro      

Board Boys are live at Cardboard Caucus 2023, Des Moines' premier board game convention, playing Pirates of Maracaibo with designer Ryan Hendrickson. 

Boo-ard Boys are back just in time for Halloween with the bone chilling, spine tingling, water contaminating Carnival Zombie, a game about six best friends zombie battling their way through Venice in an attempt to escape the wrath of an undead lagoon monster. Beware the order of operations! 0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 5:30 City of Horror 13:15 That Time You Killed Me 16:30 Sky Team 20:30 Timeline Twist 23:15 Witchstone expansion 25:45 Wind the Film! 32:15 Indiana Jones: Cryptic - A Puzzles & Pathways Adventure 38:45 Carnival Zombie: Overview 41:15 The Great Pumpkin Waltz - Vince Guaraldi 42:45 Carnival Zombie: Review 1:15:00 Carnival Zombie: Verdict 1:22:30 Board Boys Bump: Flamecraft 1:30:45 Thank You, Patrons 1:32:45 Zombie - Fela Kuti

Board Boy Rob is back with special guest Joe!  We hammer through all the  2 player games Blitzkrieg!, Ceasar!, and Dogfight! from PSC and Floodgate Games plus we get a little on the spooky side with BOOoop from Smirk and Dagger Games.  Also in this episode we talk about the upcoming Spooktacular holiday, Point Salad and we get even scarier with a little Orthodontic work.  Thanks for joining us for another episode and we hope you like boardgames! 0:00 - Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 2:35 - Intro to BB Joe 6:00 - Halloween  9:30 - Point City  14:05 - Scout and Orthodontics 16:30 - My Fathers Work 17:45 - App Based Games 20:05 - Barrage Nile Affair Expansion 24:30 - Blitzkrieg! 24:30 36:36 - Caesar! - 36:36 51:47 - Dogfight!   1:01:52 - PSC ! Final Thoughts 1:05:50 - BOOoop 1:14:15 - Bump or Dump - Twilight Inscription  1:18:30 - Wrap Up 1:20:00 - Bill Withers - Just the Two of Us

Board Boys are back for another Rob's-coworker-Jack-guested, high octane, high voltage thriller as we take a look at Thunder Road: Vendetta from Restoration Games. Also in this episode- Finance Blurb with Cam (from Pyramid Ponzi Advisory Group), Rob rates a game twice, and several more minutes of Kazoo that Tune than anybody ever wanted. 0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 2:30 Business Name/Shady Annuity Cam 6:00 Taylor Swift 4 Hour Performance/Dream Concert 13:15 Fit to Print 18:00 Blacksmiths of Steinheimer 22:45 CULTivate 26:00 Thunder Road: Overview 30:00 Vehicle - Ides of March 31:00 Thunder Road: Review 53:30 Thunder Road: Verdict 1:05:30 Board Boys Bump: My Father's Work 1:11:00 Thank You, Patrons 1:11:15 Kazoo That Tune: Vendetta 1:24:45 I Don't Want to Miss a Thing - Aerosmith  

Den Daddies are back by which I mean to say Board Boys are back, here to alpha wolf dom out all the little soy boy baby dawgs in THE WOLVES, a game about growling and howling at your enemies to DOM THEM OUT. Who will snarl the meanest and win the wolf trophy? 0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 5:30 Lords of Waterdeep 8:15 Cretaceous Rails Kickstarter preview and mini review with Alex from Spielcraft Games Kickstarter Link - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spielcraftgames/cretaceous-rails?ref=73dnqp&token=427fe60d - early peek at the KS page 24:00 After Us 31:30 Zoo Vadis, Ra revisited 36:00 Wild Tiled West 41:00 Baldur's Gate 3 commentary 47:00 Thanks Antofadude from Lil Wreckers Workshop 50:00 The Wolves: Overview 53:00 I am a Wolf, You are the Moon - Craig Wedren 54:30 The Wolves: Review 1:19:45 The Wolves: Verdict 1:24:15 Board Boys Bump: Carnegie 1:28:45 Thank You, Patrons 1:29:45 Dancing in the Moonlight - Thin Lizzy (The completely different song of the same name by King Harvest is worth listening to as well if you're reading this)      

0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 5:45 Deep Dive 9:30 The Wolves 12:00 Moon River 16:15 Ra 20:00 Zoo Vadis 24:30 Rome in a Day 27:00 Forest Shuffle 32:15 Barcelona: Overview 36:00 We're From Barcelona - I'm From Barcelona 37:30 Barcelona: Review 1:08:30 Barcelona: Verdict 1:15:15 Board Boys Bump: Hansa Teutonica 1:20:00 Thank You, Patrons 1:23:00 Cantares (Caminante, No Hay Camino) - Joan Manuel Serrat (de Barcelona)

Board Boy Bill is back in the saddle for a repeat appearance in Sabika, a game about balancing the lightning bolt with the infinity sign. Also, car fires, PP Rain, Chilling With My Pepsi Like Sheesh, Bowser's Back Door, and many other one episode catchphrases.  0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 2:30 Cam's Top 2 Car Fires 11:15 Anomaly 15:30 The Logo Game 17:00 Frosthaven 25:30 Whistle Mountain 30:00 Burgle Bros 38:30 Sabika: Overview 43:45 I've Been Hurt - Bill Deal and the Rhondels 45:30 A Beaument with Mo: Unmatched 52:45 Sabika: Review 1:21:45 Sabika: Verdict 1:28:15 Board Boys Bump: Bitoku 1:33:15 Thank You, Patrons 1:34:30 The Ronettes - Be My Baby