No reviews this week, but please do check out The Game Cabinet and the wealth of information that Ken provided that preceded BGG:
On this constantly revolving episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are perusing a gargantuan grocery store of games. This one stocks four whole games! Can you believe it?
First up is Market Fresh - a Kramer and Kiesling reimplementation that Matt’s played, and Tom is chomping to. We follow that with a quick spritz of Echoes of Emperors - a game that crunches the computer strategy genre into cardboard form, and close out the podcast with a double bill of flippers; Fliptoons and Flip Pick Towers.
Have a great week, everybody!
Timestamps:
01:03 - Market Fresh
11:20 - Echoes of Emperors
17:46 - Fliptoons
26:39 - Flip Pick Towers
It's long been said that we're the foremost experts in knowing which way the awards winds blow, so we're putting our talents to use guessing, nay, predicting, nay, deciding who the winners in the Golden Geeks are going to be. Before we geek out, we talk about Chronicles of Crime: 2400, Quarto, and Shackleton Base: A Journey to the Moon.
04:07 - Chronicles of Crime: 2400 12:00 - Quarto 16:13 - Shackleton Base: A Journey to the Moon 30:16 - Golden Geeks 2025
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00:01:00 Intro
00:05:00 Let’s Get to the Picks
01:03:00 Draft Time
01:13:00 Outro
Summer 2026 is shaping up to be one of the most exciting movie seasons in years, with big‑name directors, long‑awaited sequels, and the triumphant return of theatrical event‑going. And to celebrate that return, we’ve brought in some familiar voices to help us break down the upcoming releases.
For those new to the show, here’s how we do things. Every movie gets one of three calls. First, if it’s worth your hard‑earned dollars and absolutely demands the full theatrical experience, we’ll tell you to go SCREEN it. If it’s a solid watch but doesn’t need the booming speakers and giant screen, then it’s better to STREAM it at home. And finally, there are those unfortunate titles that miss the mark so badly they’re nothing more than a big, old pile of STEAM — and those should be avoided altogether.
Either way, it’s clear the studios are making a serious push to get us back into theaters, and this summer’s lineup shows they’re not holding anything back.
We’d love to hear from you. So, tell us which movies we missed and what should be on our radar. Jump into the conversation over in our Discord and let us know what you’re planning to SCREEN, STREAM, or is a pile of STEAMing stuff.
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00:01:15 Intro
00:05:15 Ascension: LOTR
00:07:45 Straight to LOTR Stuff
00:11:30 Intro to Harder Games
00:17:15 Round Up Error
00:20:30 New Contest
00:21:30 Taste Buds
00:37:30 Portal Games
00:38:45 Frenzy Falls
00:44:30 Rising Cultures
01:04:00 Miniature Market
01:05:15 Got Five
00:11:15 E-Win Desk
01:15:45 SWU Report Out
Whether you’re in the mood for the high-stakes chaos of a spilling pool, the grand strategy of rising civilizations, or the quiet tension of a deduction puzzle, we got it covered in this lineup of games for this episode. First up is Frenzy Falls where players play cards face-down into “Pools,” trying to raise the water level. Once a pool hits a value of 10, it “spills over.” The player with the most influence in that pool at that exact moment snags the points.
Rising Cultures is next on the table and this asymmetric “Civ-in-a-box” experience is designed specifically for two players. You pick from four civilizations either Rome, Egypt, Persia, or the Abbasid Caliphate. The thing we love in this game is the multi-use cards: every card in your hand can be used for resources, military power, building structures, or deploying leaders. You have to decide which path is worth sacrificing the others in order to gain victory over your opponent. Since each civilization has its own unique deck, the game feels completely different every time you swap roles. It’s a tight, 45-minute battle of wits.
Finally, we got a game that shows the strengths and weaknesses of the RDTN crew. You have five tiles on a rack facing away from you. You can see everyone else’s tiles, but not your own. By asking questions like “Where would this tile fit in my sequence?” or “Do I have a tile with this many dots?”, you narrow down the possibilities. The tension is high because you can guess at any time, but if you’re wrong once, you’re out. It’s incredibly satisfying when the logic finally clicks and you can confidently shout, “Got Five!”, which I never got to experience
Thanks for listening and don’t forget about the contest over in the Discord server.
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Julie shares more news about her new position, after which we discuss the finer points of Hype. How does one manage excitement about a product when it's not necessarily playable yet? Then, we have both a question from the mailbag and a Tale of Boardgaming Horror, and we close the show with some new Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops.
00:00 - Introduction
01:18 - Summer Approaching - Hot Games at Dice Tower East
03:00 - Gamefound Pledge Manager - www.supportdicetower.com
03:55 - Julie's News Continued
06:25 - Hype
28:57 - Tale of Boardgaming Horror
34:14 - Question: Card Sizes
37:56 - The Emerald Flame
42:28 - Rollie
46:27 - The Cat Between Us
49:43 - Tag Team
53:08 - "Normal" Human
55:28 - Star Trek Space Hunt
Questions? Tales of Horror? tom@dicetower.com
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00:00 INTRO
00:47 Euphoria Essential Edition (Morten Monrad Pedersen, Jamey Stegmaier, David J. Studley Stonemaier Games 2026)
05:56 The Waste of Parts (Evan Duda Sky Kingdom Games 2026)
10:57 Aquaria (Tomáš Holek Delicious Games 2025)
16:19 No Loose Ends (Taiki Shinzawa GameHead 2025)
18:33 Reforest (Sébastien Bernier-Wong Board Game Circus 2024)
24:05 Marshmallow Test (Reiner Knizia Gamewright 2020)
25:50 Nature (Dominic Crapuchettes NorthStar Game Studio 2025)
30:45 Flip 7: With A Vengeance (Eric Olsen, Alyssa Swatek The Op Games 2026)
33:58 Medici: The Dice Game (Reiner Knizia Grail Games 2020)
37:52 Subjective (Andrew Wolf Spin Master Ltd. 2023)
40:40 NEWS
46:05 Moon Colony Bloodbath (Donald X. Vaccarino Rio Grande Games 2025)
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It's a revolution!! Join Dana, Jules and Conor on Episode 360 of the Board Game BBQ Podcast.
On this episode Conor finally gets his epic game of Bitoku played and makes the hottest of hot sauce in Scoville, Dana reminds Conor of his favourite cake when she discusses Black Forest and Jules ventures back into the depths with Aquatica and looks to ruin peoples day in 5 Towers!
Don't forget this weeks Question of the Pod; 'What's your favourite boardgame component and why?
On this episode of On Board Games, Erik talks with Bruce about games (and other things) they've played lately.
Games discussed are:
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(46:16) Then, the two talk about game balance and is it important?
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This week Shelley and I make patterns with porcelain pottery and build computers while dealing with 19 th Century society.
First up is Gzhel by Nikita Sorokin from Hobby World
followed by Ada's Dream by Toni Lopez from Alley Cat Games
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Opener: I encourage listeners to join me at the OG guild's online game convention, OG Fest: Maispiele Within the last month I turned 60. Does that make me old? Officially? Whether it does or not, I'm still playing games. Which is what I discuss in this episode--what it's like to turn 60 in this hobby, as well as reflecting on what it was like when I turned 50, 40, 30, 20, 10...and even 0! Those were all personal milestones in some way--what did it mean for me as a gamer? In getting ready for this episode, I realized I kept thinking about time in three major ways: • When I turned another milestone age (60, 30, whatever, and how old my kids were then) • How long I'd been in the hobby at that point • What the calendar date was, and what important things were happening in the hobby then (game releases, websites, the larger culture, etc.) It was an interesting exercise, thinking about all those things. Is my journey through life as a gamer anything like yours? Finally, I thought a little into the future--what will things be like for me as a gamer when I turn 70? I'm sure I'll still be playing, but it will be when I'm retired, living a thousand miles away from here. Will I be playing the same games? Going to some of the same conventions? Meeting new people or still focusing on my longtime gamer friends? -Mark
Join Cardboard of the Rings past and present for a celebration of 15 years of the game and the podcast! Interviews and games ahead!
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