The BoardGameGeek Podcast

The BoardGameGeek Podcast

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Bi-weekly casual conversations with passionate gamers who geek out about board games, the mechanisms behind them, and the people who create them.

2 hours 31 minutes

Episode 53: SPIEL Essen '24 Discoveries, with Jay from Cardboard East
Jay Bernardo (Cardboard East YouTube channel + Marketing Manager at Bézier Games) joins Candice to discuss their SPIEL Essen '24 highlights and discoveries.
- 00:00:00 Introduction
  - 00:03:29 Cardboard East
  - 00:13:06 Corrupt Parliament
- 00:14:53 Fresh Plays
  - 00:15:26 Shinjuku
  - 00:19:23 Inheritors
    00:28:32 Age of Civilization, Age of Galaxy, Eila and Something Shiny
  - 00:29:48 Nukumi Onsen Kaitakuki (Nukumi Onsen Hanjouki)
  - 00:37:17 Aqua ROVE
- 00:45:14 SPIEL Essen '24 Highlights & Discoveries
  - 00:58:08 Tomáš Holek (SETI, Galileo Galilei, Tea Garden)
  - 00:59:10 Giant Monkey Palace
  - 01:00:07 Andromeda's Edge
  - 01:01:46 Speakeasy
  - 01:08:23 Xylotar, Sandbag, Seers Catalog
  - 01:09:21 "Baby Shark" Games
  - 01:10:53 Last Penguin
  - 01:12:45 Stella Quest
  - 01:27:49 Snow Planner
    01:35:28 Grand Austria Hotel
  - 01:38:13 Dirt and Glory
  - 01:47:20 Formosa Tea
  - 01:58:06 Jay's Asian Publisher Map
  - 01:58:55 Thaloria Quest
  - 02:02:12 Gibberers
  - 02:11:16 Fishing
  - 02:20:22 The Scepter of Zavandor
  - 02:22:32 YUBIBO
  - 02:25:41 Beatz'n'Catz
- 02:30:24 Sign-off
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11 October 2024, 3:00 pm
1 hour 39 minutes

Episode 52: 2nd Anniversary + SPIEL Essen '24 Anticipation, with Aldie
Huzzah! It's the second anniversary of the BoardGameGeek Podcast! BGG Owner Scott Alden (aka Aldie) joins Candice to discuss the SPIEL Essen '24 releases they're most excited to play.
- 00:00:00 Introduction
  - 00:02:24 Pinball Happenings
  - 00:07:10 BGG Updates
    00:07:24 BGG Booth 5F111 + Geek Buzz
    00:08:42 Upcoming Conventions
  - 00:16:41 Reflecting on our Top 5 SPIEL '23 Anticipation Games
- 00:25:42 Fresh Plays
  - 00:27:07 Tamashi: Chronicle of Ascend
  - 00:35:48 Revisiting Unsettled + Pagan: Fate of Roanoke
  - 00:40:39 Joyride: Survival of the Fastest
  - 00:44:27 Fateforge: Chronicles of Kaan
  - 00:52:10 Duck & Cover
- 00:59:46 SPIEL Essen '24 Releases We're Most Excited to Play
  - 01:00:40 Candice's Honorable Mentions (Pirates of Maracaibo: Commanders, Evenfall: The Crystal Path, Deep Sea Adventure Boost, Roads & Boats: Book of Scenarios Volume 1 , AI 100% Human, Kraftwagen: Age of Engineering)
  - 01:04:38 Aldie's Honorable Mentions (Perspectives Blue, Nassau, Kathmandu, The Gang, Minecart Town, Tonga Bonga, War Story: Occupied France, Happy Home, Dead Cells: The Rogue-Lite Board Game, Ada's Dream, Endeavor: Deep Sea)
  - 01:12:07 Thorgal: The Board Game
  - 01:14:26 Intent to Kill
    01:15:52 Mantis Falls
  - 01:17:41 Battle Dentale
  - 01:19:53 The Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle-earth
  - 01:21:28 SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
  - 01:23:35 Rebirth
  - 01:25:12 Altay: Dawn of Civilization
  - 01:33:48 Civolution
- 01:38:26 Sign-off
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27 September 2024, 1:00 pm
1 hour 50 minutes

Episode 51: City-Building Games We Love, with Sunniva from Board Gaming Ramblings
Sunniva from Board Gaming Ramblings joins Candice to discuss their favorite city-building games.
- 00:00:00 Introduction
  - 00:04:38 Lone Wolves, Chu Han, and Game Shows with Mama Harris
  - 00:06:50 TeaForge Martian Civil War Episode
- 00:10:30 Fresh Plays
  - 00:10:48 Shackleton Base: A Journey to the Moon
  - 00:14:53 Unsettled
  - 00:24:36 Phoenix New Horizon
    00:30:43 Concilium Urbis
  - 00:31:44 Gaia Project: The Lost Fleet
- 00:44:35 City-Building Games We Love
  - 00:50:40 Electropolis
  - 00:54:36 Discordia
  - 01:01:32 My City
  - 01:06:33 Carson City
  - 01:10:09 Oranienburger Kanal
  - 01:16:16 Magnate: The First City
  - 01:20:37 Quadropolis
    01:26:33 Gateway Island
  - 01:27:44 Kutná Hora
  - 01:34:32 Small City
  - 01:41:20 Underwater Cities
  - 01:45:33 Honorable Mentions (Suburbia, Ginkgopolis, Roads & Boats, Metropolys, Dilluvia Project, Lisboa)
- 01:50:02 Sign-off
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13 September 2024, 10:00 am
1 hour 4 minutes

Episode 50: Board Games That Make Us Feel Creative, with Matt Leacock
Game designer Matt Leacock joins Candice to discuss board games that make them feel creative.
- 00:00:00 Introduction
  - 00:02:08 Flickering Stars
- 00:05:11 Fresh Plays
  - 00:05:27 Heat: Pedal to the Metal
  - 00:07:30 Pagan: Fate of Roanoke
  - 00:15:16 Quartermaster General: East Front
  - 00:18:43 Call of Kilforth
- 00:28:17 Board Games That Make Us Feel Creative
  - 00:29:33 Poetry for Neanderthals
  - 00:31:35 Canvas Critters
  - 00:34:11 Wilmot's Warehouse
  - 00:39:54 Too Many Bones/The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era
  - 00:43:22 CATAN
  - 00:45:49 For the Queen
  - 00:50:55 Telestrations
  - 00:54:47 Dixit
    00:58:00 Barbarossa
  - 00:58:42 Once Upon a Time
  - 01:01:10 Bonus Mentions (Till the last Gasp, I Guess This Is It, Thousand Year Old Vampire)
- 01:04:11 Sign-off
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30 August 2024, 9:00 am
2 hours 9 minutes

Episode 49: Extended Fresh Plays: Gen Con '24, with Amy from ThinkerThemer
Amy from ThinkerThemer joins Candice for a recap of Gen Con '24 and to highlight some special games they played.
- 00:00:00 Introduction
  - 00:06:38 Gen Con '24 Recap
- 00:18:12 Extended Fresh Plays: Gen Con '24
  - 00:18:50 Intarsia
  - 00:24:00 Spectacular
  - 00:33:40 MESOS
  - 00:38:46 Altay: Dawn of Civilization
  - 00:48:43 The Gang
  - 01:00:12 Middle Ages
  - 01:06:46 Comic Hunters
  - 01:20:01 Castle Combo
  - 01:25:21 Chandigarh
  - 01:29:54 Tower Up
  - 01:38:24 NOW!
  - 01:43:13 Seaside
  - 01:48:09 DroPolter
  - 01:52:02 The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era
  - 01:58:48 Lone Wolves
- 02:09:16 Sign-off
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16 August 2024, 9:00 am
1 hour 42 minutes

Episode 48: Gen Con '24 Releases We're Most Excited to Play, with Grant Lyon
Comedian and game designer Grant Lyon joins Candice to discuss Gen Con '24 releases they're most excited to play.
- 00:00:00 Introduction
  - 00:03:56 Curmudgeon
  - 00:04:46 I'm Kind of a Big Dill
  - 00:08:00 Candice's 10x10 Games (The Great Zimbabwe, Concordia, Gaia Project, Spirit Island, Root, War Chest, Paupers' Ladder, Too Many Bones, HUANG, Kreel Manor)
- 00:16:27 Fresh Plays
  - 00:16:58 River of Gold
  - 00:20:36 Too Many Bones: Unbreakable
    00:28:24 Champions of Midguard
  - 00:31:29 Evenfall
  - 00:37:50 Banners
    00:41:33 Dawn of Ulos
    00:47:28 Dungeon Degenerates: Hand of Doom
- 00:52:50 Gen Con '24 Releases We're Most Excited to Play
  - 00:54:11 Grant's Honorable Mentions (The Cat Mitt Game, Gateway Island, Jewels for the Emperor Penguin, Café Baras)
  - 00:59:17 Candice's Honorable Mentions (Rock Hard: 1977, Battle Dentale, Fateforge, Rebel Princess Deluxe Edition, Wilmot's Warehouse, Pirates of Maracaibo, Galactic Renaissance, Undaunted 2200: Callisto, Arcs)
  - 01:06:16 Nestlings
  - 01:08:38 Cities
  - 01:11:39 Reef Project
  - 01:15:22 Stalk Exchange
  - 01:17:04 Rock Hard: 1977
  - 01:20:45 Card Games! (Murray the A**hole Frog, Xylotar, Seers Catalog, The Gang, Lone Wolves)
  - 01:27:42 The Gang
  - 01:30:46 Pagan: Fate of Roanoke
  - 01:33:18 Arcs
  - 01:37:43 Gaia Project: The Lost Fleet
    01:39:25 War Chest: Night Fall & War of the Ring: The Card Game Fire and Swords
- 01:47:25 Sign-off
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2 August 2024, 8:00 am
1 hour 48 minutes

Episode 47: Exploring Music Through Board Games + Rockin' Hard, with Jackie Fox
Rock bassist and game designer Jackie Fox joins Candice to discuss music-themed board games and Jackie's debut board game release, Rock Hard: 1977.
- 00:00:00 Introduction
  - 00:03:17 Rock Hard: 1977
  - 00:07:05 TeaForge Debut
  - 00:10:05 GameNight! DateNight!
- 00:13:09 Fresh Plays
  - 00:13:22 Blood on the Clocktower
  - 00:20:43 A Gest of Robin Hood
  - 00:35:31 Twilight Struggle
  - 00:37:11 Dune: Imperium – Uprising
  - 00:44:56 Railways of the Lost Atlas
- 00:53:38 Exploring Music Through Board Games
  - 00:54:46 On Tour
  - 00:57:13 Symphony No.9
  - 01:06:13 Rockband Manager
  - 01:08:25 Lacrimosa
  - 01:13:43 DropMix
  - 01:15:42 Wingspan
  - 01:19:51 Lisboa
  - 01:28:25 Vinyl
  - 01:29:13 Rap Godz
  - 01:31:31 Big Easy Busking, Draft & Write Records
  - 01:36:05 Come Together
  - 01:40:30 HiFi, Luthier, Monster Rock, PhilharmoniX
  - 01:42:17 Lord of the Chords, Symphony, Upstaged
- 01:47:25 Sign-off
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19 July 2024, 9:00 am
2 hours 6 minutes

Episode 46: The Best Board Games Based on Movies, with Eleni/Cardboard Rhino from CGE
Eleni (Cardboard Rhino) from CGE joins Candice to discuss their favorite board games based on or inspired by movies.
- 00:00:00 Introduction
- 00:05:12 Fresh Plays
  - 00:05:28 Faraway
  - 00:10:26 Undaunted: 2200 Callisto
  - 00:21:28 For the Queen
  - 00:27:08 Mini Rogue
    00:28:14 Mythic Mischief, Caper Europe, The Dungeon Dive
    00:37:53 RPG & Adventure Game Experiences
    00:40:54 Paupers' Ladder
- 00:43:03 The Best Board Games Based on Movies
  - 00:44:41 Vengeance
    00:49:39 Vengeance: Roll & Fight
  - 00:51:15 The Godfather: Corleone's Empire
  - 01:03:56 Final Girl
  - 01:13:20 Star Wars: Rebellion
    01:16:30 Star Wars: Outer Rim
  - 01:20:19 Horrified
  - 01:25:05 Dune: Imperium - Uprising + Dune: Imperium
  - 01:40:03 War of the Ring
    01:45:24 War of the Ring: The Card Game
  - 01:48:21 Nemesis
  - 01:56:11 Dune: War for Arrakis
  - 02:00:55 Candice's Honorable Mentions (Dune, Legendary Encounters: An Alien Deck Building Game, Legendary Encounters: The Matrix, Dawn of the Zeds, Plum Island Horror)
- 02:06:22 Sign-off
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5 July 2024, 10:00 am
2 hours 7 minutes

Episode 45: Filler Games We Love, with Matthew Jude
Matthew Jude from This Game is Broken and Watch It Played joins Candice to discuss their favorite filler games.
- 00:00:00 Introduction
  - 00:01:55 YesLand
- 00:05:42 Fresh Plays
  - 00:06:11 Skate Summer
  - 00:12:17 Merlin
    00:27:06 Some of Matthew's favorite Feld games (Trajan, Castles of Burgundy, Carpe Diem, Bora Bora, Macao, Amerigo, The Oracle of Delphi)
    00:29:04 Civolution
  - 00:31:02 Camino a Xibalba: Pitz
    00:40:06 Mythic Mischief, That Time You Killed Me
  - 00:41:21 Tragedy Looper: New Tragedies
    00:49:30 Alchemists
- 00:56:20 Filler Games We Love
  - 00:58:15 No Thanks!
  - 01:03:40 For Sale
  - 01:09:16 Qin
    01:14:36 Bullet♥︎
  - 01:15:16 Sea Salt & Paper
    01:20:19 Pixies
  - 01:21:58 Cabanga!
    01:26:32 Abandon All Artichokes
  - 01:27:59 Arboretum
    01:31:29 Lost Cities
  - 01:36:10 Null & Nichtig
    01:40:24 Stick 'Em
  - 01:41:25 Schadenfreude
  - 01:46:16 Too Many Cooks (Foodie Forest)
  - 01:54:44 Biblios
  - 02:01:48 Matthew's Honorable Mentions (Fuji Flush, Newsboys, Captain Flip, Drop It)
  - 02:02:40 Biblios: Quill and Parchment
  - 02:02:58 Candice's Honorable Mentions (Trick and Trade, Little Tavern, Spicy, Potato Man, Faraway, Eggs & Empires)
- 02:07:18 Sign-off
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21 June 2024, 10:00 am
1 hour 24 minutes

Episode 44: Board Game Hobby Pet Peeves, with Alan Moon
Ticket to Ride designer Alan Moon joins Candice to discuss what they've been playing recently and their board game hobby pet peeves.
- 00:00:00 Introduction
  - 00:04:46 My Island
  - 00:05:33 Union Pacific
  - 00:08:46 Candice's BGG.Spring Recap
    00:09:14 Arcs
    00:09:38 KeyForge with Roy
    00:10:05 Border Reivers
    00:11:18 Ryan Courtney's New Light Puzzle Game Series (Five Boroughs)
    00:12:44 Gems of Iridescia
    00:15:15 Turnip
    00:17:22 Forum Trajanum
- 00:20:40 Fresh Plays
  - 00:21:04 Path of Civilization
  - 00:23:55 Little Tavern
  - 00:28:24 Ancient Knowledge
  - 00:31:44 La Famiglia
  - 00:44:38 The Adventures of Robin Hood
  - 00:49:11 Garden Guests
- 00:55:20 Our Board Game Hobby Pet Peeves
  - 00:55:56 Alan's Pet Peeve #1
  - 01:02:09 Candice's Pet Peeve #1
  - 01:03:51 Alan's Pet Peeve #2
  - 01:08:50 Candice's Pet Peeve #2
  - 01:11:43 Alan's Pet Peeve #3
  - 01:17:17 Candice's Pet Peeve #3
- 01:23:33 Sign-off
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7 June 2024, 10:00 am
2 hours 12 minutes

Episode 43: Our Most Played Board Games, with Ian O'Toole
Ian O'Toole joins Candice to discuss the board games they've played the most.
- 00:00:00 Introduction
  - 00:02:14 Speakeasy
  - 00:03:19 Sausage Sizzle!
- 00:06:54 Fresh Plays
  - 00:07:08 Oathsworn
  - 00:14:30 Arcs
  - 00:16:16 By Stealth and Sea
  - 00:26:13 Nemo's War
    00:26:58 The Hunters
  - 00:30:55 Age of Innovation
  - 00:38:20 Attack on Titan: Deck-Building Game
    00:48:40 Attack on Titan The Last Stand
- 00:50:40 Our Most Played Board Games
  - 00:51:17 Most Played Card Games + Bonus Mentions
  - 00:55:25 Newton
  - 00:59:05 Arctic Scavengers
  - 01:00:24 Spyfall + One Night Ultimate Werewolf
  - 01:04:36 Viticulture
  - 01:07:48 Race for the Galaxy
  - 01:11:11 Quacks of Quedlinburg
  - 01:13:20 Battle Line
  - 01:16:55 Wingspan
  - 01:19:29 Forum Trajanum
  - 01:24:39 Santiago
  - 01:28:09 The Voyages of Marco Polo + Marco Polo II
  - 01:31:34 Gaia Project
  - 01:33:20 Pax Pamir
  - 01:38:47 Castles of Burgundy
  - 01:41:40 Great Western Trail
  - 01:46:50 Azul: Queen's Garden
  - 01:50:09 Clank!
  - 01:51:57 Glory to Rome (Innovation, Impulse, Red7, Uchronicle, Uchronia, Mottainai, Aegean Sea)
  - 02:02:03 Citadels
  - 02:09:17 Maybe Next Time... (The Great Zimbabwe + Concordia)
- 02:12:06 Sign-off
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24 May 2024, 10:00 am
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