Season 14, Episode 13 - Beyond the Sun
The Board Boys Podcast
In this episode we deep dive Beyond the Sun from Rio Grande Games! We also pontificate space travel, talk some older games, and Rob gives his Game Challenge update! 0:00 - Intro 5:35 - BGA Chat with Cam 7:30 - Video Game Chat 14:25 - Jake Game Speed Run - Whistle Mountain, Isle of Cats, Castles of Burgandy, Wind the Film, MLEM, Faraway 15:25 - Coimbra 20:00 - Ponzi Scheme 23:25 - Five Tribes 26:30 - KingDomino 28:35 - Rob Game Challenge Update 29:25 - Megaland 32:35 - Beyond the Sun - Intro 35:15 - 2001: A Space Odyssey 36:30 - Beyond the Sun - Initial Thoughts 40:30 - Beyond the...
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Season 14, Episode 12 - Skyrise/Cascadero
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Join Board Boys for a twofer in: Skyrise - one of those games that has nice looking molded buildings with a fun auction wrinkle and cool scoring Cascadero - a game about surrounding the villages to talk about how nice you are while going up tracks on tracks on tracks
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Season 14 - Beau-nuss Episode 1: BGGCon Spring Recap!
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Hey everyone welcome to another Beau-nuss episode of The Board Boys Podcast. In this one Beau and I discuss what we thought of our first time at BGGCon Spring in Dallas, TX! Intro - 0:00 1:45 - Cosmoctopus 2:30 - Everdell: Farshore 3:00 - Kabuto Sumo w/ Expansions 3:55 - MLEM Space Agency 5:00 - The Same Game 7:15 - Kitty Paw 8:25 - Captain Flip (SdJ Nominee) 9:45 - Tumblin' Dice 10:55 - Dodos Riding Dinos 13:15 - Indiana Jones Sands of Adventure 15:30 - Cascadero 17:00 - Beaument with Mo - Werewolf 18:30 - Little Alchemists 22:50 - Amoebunnies 27:10 - RA and Skyrise Auction Games 28:00...
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Season 14, Episode 11 - Ezra and Nehemiah
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Board Boys are back and polite enough to listen to Cam talk for large chunks of the episode about some of his favorite books of the Bible in conjunction with a play of Ezra and Nehemiah, a game about rebuilding the temple, teaching the Torah, and making the walls around the city kino l33t again. 0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 5:30 Faraway 9:00 Hegemony 13:15 Emerge 16:15 Everdell Farshore 21:15 Ezra and Nehemiah: Overview 27:30 Rivers of Babylon - The Melodians 28:45 Ezra and Nehemiah: Review 57:00 Ezra and Nehemiah: Verdict 1:02:45 Board Boys Bump: Challengers! 1:07:00 Thank...
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Season 14, Episode 10 - Anunnaki: Dawn of the gods
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Board Boys get goofy with some big brain alien superpowers in Annunaki, a Looch joint (w/Danilo Sabia). 0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 12:45 An Age Contrived 16:45 Patzcuaro 21:00 Fromage 27:30 Anarchy Pancakes 31:45 Kabuto Sumo: Total Mayhem 36:00 Next Station: Paris 41:15 Anunnaki: Overview 45:15 Rapture - Blondie 46:45 Anunnaki: Review 1:17:45 Anunnaki: Verdict 1:26:45 Board Boys Bump: Darwin's Journey 1:33:00 Thank You, Patrons 1:33:30 Attack of the Name Game - Stacey Lattisaw
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Season 14, Episode 9 - Obsession
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Board Boys are back with another Camless episode (minus editor's notes) to play a game about fancy society, Obsession (Kayenta Games). Who will be the most posh? Stick around and find out. 0:00 Intro, Obsession - Animotion 4:00 Camp Refresh recap 10:00 Glory to Rome 12:30 Lords of Baseball 21:30 Cascadero/Cascadito 25:45 Nucleum: Australia 29:00 Foundations of Rome: Roads of Fortune 31:00 Necromolds: Monster Battles 33:30 Obsession: Overview 38:00 A New England - Kirsty MacColl 39:30 Obsession - Review 58:15 Obession - Verdict 1:03:15 Board Boys Bump: Earth 1:12:30 Thank You, Patrons...
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Season 14, Episode 8 - El Grande
The Board Boys Podcast
0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 13:15 Salton Sea 16:30 Glass Road 19:15 Draft & Write Records 25:15 Matches 27:30 Slings 29:00 Skyrise 35:45 Honeydew Farmer ver 1.6 38:15 El Grande: Overview 41:45 Magazine 60 - Don Quichotte 42:45 El Grande: Review 1:09:00 El Grande: Verdict 1:20:15 Board Boys Bump: Atiwa 1:26:30 Thank You, Patrons 1:27:30 "Weird Al" Yankovic - Taco Grande
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Season 14, Episode 7 - Kutna Hora
The Board Boys Podcast
Board Boys are back, baby, to check out Kutna Hora from CGE, a game about collecting cold, hard silver and fiddling around with a cardboard computer. Also in this episode, we reveal our all-time top ten lists (not legally binding) and that takes up a LOT of the episode. 0:00 - Intro 4:50 - The Boardboys Official Top 10 List 1:07:35 - Kutna Hora Intro 1:11:10 - Silver Dollar by Teresa Brewer 1:12:05 - Kutna Hora Initial Thoughts 1:14:30 - Kutna Hora Pros 1:29:35 - Kutna Hora Cons 1:42:05 - Kutna Hora Final Thoughts and Ratings 1:47:30 - Bump or Dump - Beast 1:50:55 - Outro - Discord - BGA -...
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Season 14, Episode 6 - Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula
The Board Boys Podcast
Board Boys are back for another one, this time playing 2019's (ancient history) Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula, technically a T game, from Daniele Tascini and Frederico Pierlorenzi. Who can make straw into gold first? Not Cam, he missed this episode. 0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 5:00 Dark Ages: Holy Roman Empire 9:30 Gloomhaven: Buttons and Bugs 12:30 Daybreak 15:45 Fliptown 19:00 Balatro 21:30 Trismegistus: Overview 25:15 You Can Do Magic - America 26:15 Trismegistus: Review 50:00 Trismegistus: Verdict 59:45 Board Boys Bump: Marrakesh 1:08:00 Thank You, Patrons 1:09:45 Sister...
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Season 14, Episode 5 - Wyrmspan ft. Camp Refresh preview
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Board Boys are back to make birds out of dragons in Wyrmspan from Stonemaier Games. Also in this episode, Joe Roth of the Dealt Hand shares his thoughts on the game and talks about upcoming (late April '24) Camp Refresh, a sleepaway camp/gaming retreat in the Des Moines area- check out his segment for a coupon code! 0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 10:30 Trellis 11:45 Knight 19:00 Amalfi: Renaissance 26:30 Dune Imperium (the app) 35:45 Turing Machine 40:15 Wyrmspan: Overview 43:00 The Dragon - Biz Markie 44:15 Wyrmspan: Review 1:09:00 Camp Refresh Preview with Joe from the...
info_outlineBoard Boys are back, baby, to kick off a new season with Delicious Games' Woodcraft, a game where the dice are wood and the wood is dice. Also in this episode, we explore the deepest Star Wars trivia of all time (confirmed) and talk about Mysterium for five straight minutes, or at least it seems like that.
Music: E.V.A., by Jean Jacques Perrey - If I Had a Hammer, Peter, Paul and Mary - Knock on Wood, Murder Squad