This time, Tom crows about another victory for Vasel's Law with the announcement of The King's Gambit. Then, Julie pens her own Tale of Boardgaming Horror (but she makes Eric read it), and we move on to a field of Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops.
00:47 - Back from Dice Tower West
02:20 - Dice Tower East and Cruise
06:37 - The King's Gambit and Vasel's Law
26:57 - Julie's Tale of Boardgaming Horror
37:43 - Pirate Borg
43:06 - Finspan
45:52 - First Giants
49:41 - Art Decko
52:49 - The Winds of Numa Sera
57:12 - Catan on the Road
Questions? Tales of Horror? tom@dicetower.com
00:01:30 Intro
00:05:30 TCG Storage Solutions
00:09:30 SWU Progressive Tournament
00:13:00 Red Pill or Blue Pill
00:16:00 King’s Gambit – Restoration Games
00:20:45 The Rant
00:29:30 Arkham Horror LCG Demos
00:32:00 Taste Buds
00:34:45 Portal Games
00:35:45 DC Breakout: Arkham Asylum
00:43:30 Compania
01:03:45 Miniature Market
01:05:15 Flip 7 with a Vengeance
01:09:00 Ewin Racing Desk
01:12:00 Outro
Compania, Flip 7 With a Vengeance, and DC Breakout each scratch a very different itch, but together they paint a fun snapshot of where modern tabletop design is heading. Compania leans into the current wave of streamlined games, that incorporate two types of mechanics, worker placement and area majority. It’s the kind of design where every turn feels consequential—don’t plan accordingly and be challenged to catch up to the other players. The game’s charm comes from how accessible it feels despite its core; turns are quick, the iconography is clean, and the tension ramps steadily as players jockey for position on a board that never quite seems to have enough to go around.
Flip 7 With a Vengeance takes the opposite approach, embracing chaotic, push‑your‑luck energy with a theatrical flair. It builds on the original Flip 7 formula but adds a layer of “gotcha” cards and combo‑driven moments that make the table erupt. It’s fast, loud, and intentionally swingy—the kind of filler that shines when you want to reset the mood or get a group laughing.
DC Breakout, meanwhile, provides quick, fun experience in a racing game where random dice roll meets strategic position that allows for some tense situations as players jockey for the finish line.
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Join Dana, Lauren and Jules as they have a very unserious time chatting about everything hitting their tables. Jules is getting into argy-bargy playing a game that he guarantees gives you Eclipse in a smaller box and time with March of the Ants. Dana has been playing a game named after a Welsh town - no not Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, it's Tenby! Lauren has been ... wait for it ... enjoying the coop deduction puzzle in Take Time!
Question of the Pod: Come up with a great name for a board game and tell us how it plays.
Timestamps:
Games we’ve been playing [0:13:48]
March of the Ants [0:46:06]
Take Time [0:53:22]
Tenby [0:58:41]
Question of the Pod [1:11:36]
Fired Up [1:20:23]
Here's all the games we spoke about:
Tenby: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/407233/tenby
March of the Ants: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/156496/march-of-the-ants
Take Time: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/440540/take-time
The Number: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/307450/the-number
Thing Thing: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/426162/thing-thing
Raas: A Dance of Love: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/358912/raas-a-dance-of-love
Railway Boom: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/448159/railway-boom
Waddle: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/435360/waddle
Storyfold: Wildwoods: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/425505/storyfold-wildwoods
Shadow Moon Syndicates: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/421872/shadow-moon-syndicates
Mountain Goats: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/63975/mountain-goats
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On this episode of On Board Games, Erik talks with Steve Chivvers all about the recent BGG@Sea cruise they took down under. After that, they dive into one of the largest Review-a-palooza's they've ever done.
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(33:14) Then, the reviews continue.
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This week it's two very different Arcane Wonders titles - one co-op for up to 10 players, and the other strategy game with awesome bits:
Ito by Mitsuru Nakamura
and
World Wonders by Ze Mendes
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On this VIOLENT episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Matt and Tom engage in gladiatorial combat to finally decide who is the ULTIMATE BOARD-BOY!
We begin our gauntlet with a bout of ‘Neko Syndicate’ - a BLOODY game of cats making sushi deliveries in a sort of tableau-building pyramid! It’s nasty stuff.
Round 2 threatens an EXPLOSIVE END in ‘Bombusters’ - a co-operative family game where various anthropomorphised rabbits deal with increasingly complicated explosives. Red wire? Yellow wire? Either way? Prepare for an absolutely brutal listening experience.
Then, the knockout punch! ‘Off With Their Heads!’ is our grand finale, and has you rolling* (punches), writing (wills)... and playing (cards)? Sounds peaceful, yeah? Well it’s only got a flippin’ GUILLOTINE in the title!! It’s going to be an utter casserole.
Have a great week, everybody!
Timestamps:
02:06 - Neko Syndicate
14:34 - Bombusters
24:12 - Off With Their Heads!
*There’s no actual rolling, but that can be our little secret.
My annual Mark Madness contest is over, and co-host Adam Brocker joins me to wrap it up. Adam won the prediction contest last year, and this was his prize...a side job to work with me! Now we have a new winner, Mark363, who I am working to locate. If he's willing, in 2027 he will join me to run the next version of this contest.
In 2026 Adam had suggested we take a closer look at games that were designed by pairs or teams of designers, in contrast with their solo work. With that in mind, we set up four divisions of sixteen game titles apiece. One division was centered around Wolfgang Kramer's solo and partnered design work, then another with Alan R. Moon, one more with Bruno Cathala, and a final centered around the mostly-Italian designer collaborations.
After everyone made their predictions, we started voting for the games we liked best, wanted to win, or for any other reason. Gradually games were knocked out in a series of 1v1 matchups, leaving Azul, Ticket to Ride, 7 Wonders Duel, and Grand Austria Hotel as our Final Four. In the end, Ticket To Ride was the ultimate winner, which meant Mark363 had done the bes with his predictions.
Ambie and Crystal discuss Escape Comics: The Alien Ship. Then Ambie interviews Heather Newton, the lead organizer of Protospiel Online, and we learn a bunch about Protospiel and Protospiel Online!
0:00-Intro
0:44-Recent Games - Escape Comics: The Alien Ship
6:34-Interview with Heather Newton
44:55-Outro
45:59-Bloopers
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THIS WAS RECORDED LIVE ON 1ST APRIL SO IF YOU WANT TO WATCH THE BATTLEGROUND PLEASE CHECK OUT THE LINKS BELOW
As the players gather around for their 4th year of podcasting they begin with some news that was announced on the recent live stream. We'll be taking a podcasting break for the time being so we can rest, re-coup and assess the next steps
THE BIRTHDAY ATTENDEES - JP, Rob, Adrian, Davey & Kerley
In this episode you'll learn:
- more about the recent news as JP and team discuss more about it
- 32 games played in 2025 enter the ring and we'll see which ones make it through 5 knockout rounds for best game played.
OUR 2025 PLAYED LEGENDS ENTERING THE BATTLEGROUND (32 GAMES)
Star Trek Captains Chair, Earthborne Rangers, Cloudspire, Ada's Dream, Slay the Spire: The Board Game, Galactic Cruise, Twilight Imperium 4, Nucleum, Perseverance Ep3, Shackleton Base, Nemesis Retaliation, Company of Heroes 2nd Edition, Endeavour Deep Sea, Primal The Awakening, Flip 7, Ants, Deckers, Kinfire Council, Tiny Epic Game of Thrones, Sidereal Confluence, Elder Scrolls Betrayal of the Second Era, Lisboa, Hegemony, Kreel Manor, Furnace, Apex Legends, Pandemic Legacy: Season 0, Trickerion, Tenby, Cascadia, Ark Nova, Rebirth
LINKS
YouTube Livestream - https://www.youtube.com/live/CtFNqp509U0?si=fX1YVvHTq760yN-h
EPISODE CHAPTERS
0:00 - TURN 1 - Player Count
1:44 - We have some news!!!!
12:26 - Lets recall some stats of the podcast
16:07 - TURN 2 - Favourite moments of the podcast
27:40 - TURN 3 - Boardgame Battleground 2025 Farewell Edition
37:00 - ROUND 1 FIGHT!!!
1:16:12 - ROUND 2 FIGHT!!!
1:26:33 - ROUND 3 FIGHT!!!
1:29:42 - SEMI FINAL ROUND FIGHT!!!
1:31:39 - FINAL ROUND FIGHT!!!
1:35:15 - 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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For the third year in a row I made it to Dice Tower West. Not only that, I enjoyed that convention with DaveO and other buddies. Not only that, but once again DaveO was my partner-in-crime for insisting we dedicate one day of our convention to focus on older boardgames. By "old" we mean games that are at least 25 years old. When we started this tradition that mean games published in in the last century, last millenium--1999 or earlier. Now, however, we can include games published all the way up to the year...2001 or earlier! That still leaves plenty of old favorites and dim memories we want to rediscover. We give a quick rundown about the games we played, then spend the rest of the time talking about our favorites from the weekend, as well as fielding some listener questions (posted in advance on the Discord server!) about OG games. -Mark
Nick takes the host seat this week in a show all about stats, toast and the dumbest Higher or Lower yet
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What's that smell?
This weeks guest Dan Thurot from Space-Biff
00:00 Intro
00:45 WENDYBUXXX (Jo Kelly Miasma Corp Games 2026)
02:58 Compania (Yog Akase, Level 99 Games 2025)
05:45 Inkwell (Jasper Beatrix, Lewis Graye, Joey Palluconi DVC Games 2026)
07:35 Eternal Decks (Hiroken Tricktakers Games 2025)
11:20 Dark Pact (Thomas Lehmann Trick or Treat Studios 2026)
14:15 Fearless (Friedemann Friese 2F-Spiele 2025)
16:24 Cthulhu: Dark Providence (Travis R. Chance, Martin Wallace CMON Global Limited 2025)
21:28 Railroad Tiles (Hjalmar Hach, Lorenzo Silva Horrible Guild 2025)
26:16 Cozy Stickerville (DesignerCorey Konieczka Unexpected Games 2026)
29:35 Lands of Galzyr (Seppo Kuukasjärvi, Sami Laakso Snowdale Design 2022)
35:15 News
45:07 Main Review:Night Soil
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