On this episode of On Board Games, Erik is joined by Chris and Casey from Solid Roots game company to talk about games (and other things) they've played including:

• Root
• Beyond the Sun
• Skip Bo
• Grand Austria Hotel
• Ma's Deep Shinola
• Momo's Shanghai Rummy
• Firefly
• Star Wars Outer Rim
• Aquanauts
• One Night Ultimate Werewolf
• Blood on the Clocktower

You can get a discount on Zencastr.com using this link.

(29:31) Then, they discuss a recent "Make your own board game" event that they hosted.

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Reviews of Pergola and Finspan. All the pegs play a round of Buy, Borrow, Burn. Game discussion starts at {00:28:13}.

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For our last episode before we hit FOUR digits of episode releases, we take on TWO BIG GAMES that both use version of Action Points to do your turns!

In Bone Wars, by Wim Goossens from Game Brewer and Cranio Creations, we become palentologists, publish about new dinosaurs, and compete to earn the favor of two famous scientists.

In Ezra and Nehemiah, by Shem Phillips and SJ MacDonald from Renegade Game Studios and Garphil Games, we work to rebuild ancient Judah and its community.

Thanks as always to our sponsor Bezier Games!

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This week Peter, & Mike have a design discussion about open world games. _________________________ YouTube - www.youtube.com/channel/UCrOtGhui_jdLdoQNI7PU4Pg X - @onestopcoopshop Discord - discord.gg/p4jX8AF Merch: one-stop-co-op-shop.creator-spring.com/ Donate to One Stop Co-op Shop - www.patreon.com/onestop Email - onestopcoopshop@gmail.com

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A con report, a solo game about coming out, and big news brewing in the Spielaverse.

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Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including Rescuing Robin Hood, Tiwanaku, and Holiday Hijinks: The Independence Incident. Then, we talk about our top 5 games that we've played that are currently in the top 100 ranked games on BoardGameGeek.com. Use our affiliate link to get Rescuing Robin Hood (or other things)!

0:00-Intro
0:46-Recent Games - Rescuing Robin Hood
9:22-Tiwanaku
15:35-Holiday Hijinks #2: The Independence Incident
16:45-Top 5 of BGG Top 100
28:51-Outro
29:46-Bloopers

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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 (thank you!), I've been compiling all of the data (you're welcome!) - and here it is, in a convenient list format. Before we ask the audience, we talk about Flip 7, Hot Streak, and Kolejka.

02:37 - Flip 7 10:40 - Hot Streak 19:47 - Kolejka 27:42 - Listener Top 20 29:05 - Agricola 29:55 - Gloomhaven 31:26 - Guards of Atlantis II 32:20 - Blood on the Clocktower 33:20 - Arcs 34:40 - Tigris & Euphrates 35:21 - Terraforming Mars 35:54 - Marvel Champions: The Card Game 36:42 - Inis 37:24 - Innovation 38:13 - Race for the Galaxy 39:02 - Root 40:04 - Concordia 41:00 - The Castles of Burgundy 41:41 - Ark Nova 42:03 - Dune: Imperium 43:19 - Ra 43:35 - Brass: Birmingham 45:11 - Spirit Island 46:27 - Hansa Teutonica

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Nick has his own unique style as host. Is it good? Who could say? 

This Game is Broken is a comedy board game panel show with Matthew Jude, Dave Luza, Paula Deming, Nick Murphy and Mike Murphy. We play a lot of nonsense games full of role playing and trivia as well as other fun stuff which can be found at the links below.

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In our previous episode, we explored what makes a board game a true masterpiece—a creation that showcases a designer’s greatest achievement, marked by exceptional craftsmanship, originality, and lasting impact. This time, we’re taking the conversation even deeper. In Masterpieces 2, the Founders shift the spotlight to the brilliant minds behind the games themselves. We’ll be celebrating the visionary game designers whose work has shaped the hobby - and welcoming four Honorary Founders as guest hosts, each presenting their favorite designer and the game they consider to be that designer’s crowning achievement.

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After the business of the UK Games Expo we managed to carve out some time for on our our good friends in the industry and chat to Lee Miller the founder of Molinarius Games to talk about him, the company and their upcoming game Time Troopers which is available on Gamefound right now.

GUEST PLAYER: Lee Miller from Molinarius Games
PLAYER: JP

In this episode you'll learn:
- all about Lee's entry into the tabletop gaming space and his favourite games he likes to unwind with
- about how Molinarius Games got started and how it's developing and growing each year as a publisher
- more about the latest game live on Gamefound right now which is Time Troopers.  Check out the Gamefound link below
- how composed music is playing more of an important role in board games and how the team at Molinarius are leaning into this more and more

LINKS REFERENCED IN THE SHOW
Molinarius Games Website - https://www.molinariusgames.com/
Time Troopers Gamefound Link Launches 27th June 2025 - https://gamefound.com/en/projects/time-troopers/time-troopers

EPISODE CHAPTERS
0:00 - TURN 1 - Player Count

0:47 - TURN 2 - Lee Millers Turn (Molinarius Games)

1:55 -Introducing Lee & Molinarius Games

5:29 - How did Lee get into the hobby

8:16 - What is Lee's favourite game?

10:44 - What's hitting Lee's table lately?

12:38 - TURN 3 - Molinarius Games & Time Troopers

19:12 - What is Time Troopers?

24:05 - Is Molinarius Games heading into more grand productions moving forward?

26:11 - What led you to drive a solo only experience?

33:28 - How does the mechanics of Time Troopers work?

42:23 - Adding immersion through soundtracks

50:18 - What's included in Time Troopers and when is it being fulfilled?

55:04 - What are you looking forward to?

57:36 - TURN 4 - The Final Turn

You can check out JP's new podcast called Just Play right here https://www.justplaypod.co.uk we'd love to have you and also on the new YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@JustPlayPodcast

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Walker's approach to parenting eschews what he sees as the coddling endemic in other families. He believes in competition above all else, where newbs must be pwned and even babies must git gud. "L2P" is his family motto. Some appalled anthropologists tried making a documentary about the Walker household, but they were forced to tone it down and release it as Squid Game.

01:21 AYURIS: Through the Desert (Reiner Knizia, KOSMOS, 1998)

Games Played Last Week:

02:56 -Pocket Paladin (Joe Klipfel, Mythfield Games, 2025)

09:44 -7 Empires (Mac Gerdts, PD-Verlag, 2024)

21:10 -A Gentle Rain (Kevin Wilson, Incredible Dream Studios, 2024)

24:37 -Flip 7 (Eric Olsen, The Op Games, 2024)

25:31 -NMBR 9 (Peter Wichmann, ABACUSSPIELE, 2017)

27:44 -Earthborne Rangers (Andrew Fischer, Brooks Flugaur-Leavitt, Andrew Navaro, Adam Sadler, and Brady Sadler, Earthborne Games, 2023)

31:23 -Everdell (James A. Wilson, Starling Games, 2018)

35:12 -Shackleton Base: A Journey to the Moon (Fabio Lopiano & Nestore Mangone, Sorry We Are French, 2024)

40:47 -Animal Upon Animal (Klaus Miltenberger, HABA, 2005)

News (and why it doesn't matter):

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47:38 Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/svwag

48:12 Law 96 threatens hobby game stores: 

https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/hobby-shops-say-it-will-be-game-over-for-their-businesses-due-to-quebecs-language-law/

49:49 Topic: Small Box, Big Game

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• Welcome to Jon, Chris, and Eric
• Thank you to James S, Gary L, Bert D, Mike W.
• Announcement
• Retro Preview - Redhorn Gate
• Deck Spotlight - Council of the Wise
  • https://ringsdb.com/decklist/view/25903/eventrecyclingcouncilofthewise-1.0
  • https://ringsdb.com/decklist/view/46083/councilofthewiseinmusic-1.0
  • https://ringsdb.com/decklist/view/29534/thewhitecouncildoom-silvanscotwcontract-1.0
• Top and Bottom cards of Oaths
• AMA
• Soliloquy

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In this episode Ben and Steve introduce a new section, The View from the Shop Floor and we discuss how the pandemic changed gaming.

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Clef and Tim are back at it again with a special guest! Or are we the guests? We are back to our normally scheduled programming with some disc golf, baseball, board games and then some movie talk. We talk Pax Pamir Second Edition, Hot Streak, and Cash-a-Catch before we talk about when we feel like it's time to move on from some games. Timestamps: Disc Golf pretty much from the beginning Baseball Talk starts at 16:33 Board Game talk at 31:33 Movie Time at 54:51

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This week Peter, & Mike review Vantage. Next week we will have a related design discussion about open world games. _________________________ YouTube - www.youtube.com/channel/UCrOtGhui_jdLdoQNI7PU4Pg X - @onestopcoopshop Discord - discord.gg/p4jX8AF Merch: one-stop-co-op-shop.creator-spring.com/ Donate to One Stop Co-op Shop - www.patreon.com/onestop Email - onestopcoopshop@gmail.com

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This week Shelley and I check out the cute and the beautiful

Alpaca by Christian Giove from Pegasus Spiel and GateOnGames includes VERY cute alpacas in an introductory-level deck-building game

River of Gold by Keith Piggott from Office Dog finds players meandering down a river board with spot gloss gold, gathering resources and money, building buildings, and delivering to customers.

Thanks as always to our sponsor Bezier Games

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Come come, hungry diners - take a seat at the big table and have a little gander at this spread of delectable games!

Oops, all good games on this one! This podcast features chat about a space tourism simulator (Galactic Cruise), a light-and-breezy turtle-based engine builder (Australis), and TWO entire TWO PLAYER games about being Greek and In Trouble (Iliad and Ichor).

Have a great weekend, everybody!

Timestamps: 

01:46 Galactic Cruise 

22:12 Australis

31:04 Illiad

40:41 Ichor

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Ben and Steve encourage you to get some 5G4D merch before the merch store closes down. 

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In today's episode, the guys discuss their recent plays and revisit one of their first drafts. Help support the podcast on Patreon! www.patreon.com/punchboardparadise Join our Discord! discord.gg/4FrZ8S3yCv Check out the Website! punchboardparadise.com Need a new shirt? www.punchboardparadise.threadless.com Music by HookSounds

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In this episode Ben and Uli talk about the decline in crowdfunding, its distortion of the industry and if it's dying.

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