On this episode of On Board Games, Erik talks with Grandpa Beck from Grandpa Beck's Games all about games (and other things) they've played including:

• Flip 7
• Age of the Moon
• Bomb Busters

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(17:56) Then, the two talk about the connections games can make between people.

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In this episode of the 5G4D Advent Calendar 2025 we're talking about the daddy of all mechanisms, Roll and Move.

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I know I said this episode would be my Feedback (or "mail bag") focused epsiode. And some may remember that previously I'd used the December 1st episode for my grinch-like Curmudgeon Show. In the end, I decided to push the Feedback episode back one month, to start the year with it on January 1st, 2026. You've got some more time to submit any questions or topics for me. While I'm not bringing back the Curmudgeon Show (just enjoy the grumbling on our special Discord channel!), I did bring back another old-timer who always joins me this time of year to talk about BGGcon. Greg Pettit is an "every-timer" to this wonderful event, and I've always had him back on the podcast to talk about his experiences & games played there. I wasn't able to join this year, but that's because I went to a different game convention the same month: San Diego History Con, or SDHistCon. So...I decided to blend our experiences and discussions into a combined episode about both conventions. Greg & I both intended to be more concise in this episode...but that didn't really happen. :-) Even after trimming our lists of some games, only talking about an interesting subset of them, we managed to have as much to say as ever. It's another big episode that will keep you going the entire holiday season. Is it a gift buying guide? Not really! We don't approach things that way, a little curmudgeon-ness leaks through sometimes, but we do gush about a few games. So perhaps it inspires some gift-giving, who knows? When you listen to this episode, you may find it helpful to follow along with our geeklist. That way you can track what games we've talked about, which are coming next, and what are 5-star ratings are. I've also inserted the game boxes here in the order discussed, which will also appear in the shownotes.

We both had good experiences at our respective cons, and I look forward to next year when I expect we'll get to sit across the same game table together in Dallas. As much as I'd like to go to all the good conventions, I can't. As it is, I'm at a point in my life (empty nester, nearing retirement) when I can go to more than ever before. In a month I'll return to the regional EsCon event, and in the spring I think I'll be back in Las Vegas for Dice Tower West.

-Mark

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This week's guest is owner of Frosted Games and co-owner of Deep Print Games, Matthias Nagy. We talk about CCGs, advent calendars and how to run a business...but which games did he choose?

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Codenames Duet
13 Days
Spirit Island
Finished!

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In this relaunced update podcast I take you through a week in 5G4D.

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This week we make a quick correction of our review last week because we missed a rule in

Dragonarium by Wei Chang and Kuan Chen from Wonderful World Board Games

then we discuss our highlight game from BGG.con

Up or Down by Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling from Capstone Games

and end with a BIG title from Essen

Orloj: The Prague Astronomincal Clock by Paloma Pascual and Abraham Sanchez from Perro Loko Games and Devir

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Rick Hammerle and Katherine Rosland join the show to chat about our experiences at the world's largest game fair, plus a side quest to Scotland.

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Website Copy: On this free-flowing episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are chatting about competitive marble-pilfering simulator 12 Rivers, as well as a double-bill of absurd racing games in Hot Streak and Magical Athlete!

You may be expecting that this podcast thumbnail would show the promised board of 12 Rivers (which you can find here) and instead shows a picture of Hurley - the not-a-hotdog from Hot Streak. This is intentional, and important.

Have a great weekend, everybody!

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01:14 - 12 Rivers

12:43 - Hot Streak

26:41 - Magical Athlete

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Now these are getting good. 

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Ambie and Crystal interview Blaž Urban Gracar, the designer of All is Bomb, LOK, Abdec, LOK Digital, Workworkwork, and Herd! Check out all his games on his website Letibus Design. Herd figurines designed by Vojta Karen.

0:00-Intro
0:36-Interview with Blaž
31:08-Outro
32:03-Bloopers

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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 though, we're back with yet another juicy, cranberry soaked list of bird gaming goodness. Gobble gobble!

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In today's episode, the guys talk about their recent plays and review Lightning Train! 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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Jamie and Don, freshly back from PAX Unplugged 2025 in Philadelphia, have been getting into some board, card, and dice rumbles lately, and they wanted to dig into the many styles of combat systems in board games. Deterministic versus random, complex versus streamlined, dice versus cards - there’s a lot of ground to cover. Also, our yearly fundraiser is currently running on Kickstarter! Support us now at https://www.thesecretcabal.com/kickstarter

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Mike is in the host seat this week and he's all befuddled...

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Your ears don't deceive you...three years has passed since Rob has secured the first player and he's back to talk all about solo gaming, why we do it, why some of us don't and everything in between.

FIRST PLAYER: Rob
OTHER PLAYERS: JP & Kerley

In this episode you'll learn:
- JP likes to go "off road" in Restoration Games' version of Thunder Road Vendetta
- Kerley's latest adventures into Dungeons and Dragons having been away for a long long time
- Rob is collecting all the Hall or Nothing Games with the latest purchase of Kreel Manor
- about our experiences with solo gaming, whether we enjoy it, why we don't do it and a chin wag about the subject

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EPISODE CHAPTERS

0:00 - TURN 1 - Player Count

2:37 - TURN 2 - Let's Talk About Hex

3:00 - Kerley - Dungeons & Dragons

12:08 - JP - Thunder Road Vendetta

19:05 - Rob - Kreel Manor

23:16 - TURN 3 - Main Event: Playing with yourself

25:38 - Kerley's flirtation with solo gaming

33:59 - JP's deep delve into solo gaming

41:54 - Using solo modes to help learn games for multiplayer sessions

50:54 - How solo play aligns nicely to campaign style games

1:04:37 - The fulfilment factor has to be worth the payoff

1:11:29 - TURN 4 - Konn4ct F4ur

1:19:08 - TURN 5 - The Penultimate Turn: What's Coming Next?

1:29:06 - TURN 6 - The Final Turn

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Before Dr. Reiner Knizia invented areas, everyone and everything was simultaneously co-located and yet distant all at the same time. It was primordial chaos. Movement was effectively impossible, as Xeno demonstrated; then Knizia did don his Bow-Tie of Delineation of Time and Space and constrained and liberated us all at once with his invention of areas.

Games Played Last Week:

00:53 -Dungeons & Dragons: Builders of Baldur's Gate (Matthew Dunstan, WizKids, 2025)

11:40 -Keyflower (Sebastien Bleasdale & Richard Breese, R&D Games, 2012)

15:36 -I'm Out (Masato Uesugi, CMYK, 2025)

20:01 -No Thanks! (Thorsten Gimmler, CMYK, 2025)

25:18 -My Very First Games: Let's Be Veterinarians (Kristin Mückel, HABA, 2024)

27:30 -The Quest for El Dorado: The Golden Temples (Reiner Knizia, Ravensburger, 2019)

31:55 -Peloponnes (Bernd Eisenstein, Irongames, 2009)

News (and why it doesn't matter):

37:48 Renegade reprint of Lords of Waterdeep (with expansion)

39:29 Renegade G.I. Joe Heroscape

43:06 Render unto us your questions! Ask us anything for Omnibus Questions

43:26 Feature Game: The Hobbit: There and Back Again (Reiner Knizia, Office Dog, 2025)

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This week Peter & Mike review The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - Trick Taking Game. In 3 weeks we will have a related design discussion about being too close to an IP. _________________________ 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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Clef and Tim talk about Clef's big disc golf weekend trip and a bit of baseball and music before getting into some awesome board games such as People Power, Food Chain Magnate, and White Castle Duel. We also talk about if we ever lose games on purpose. Board games start at 35:32 Join the discord at discord.gg/s8hYtWkMS3 and visit punchboardparadise.com for more info on PPCon 2026!

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