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by Travis, Clay, & Jared
Travis Smith, Jared Erickson, and Clayton Gable get together to discuss the latest and greatest in board games. What's hot, what's hitting the table, featured discussions about board games and the board gaming culture, and the primary mission objective— to play more board games!
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- 1 weeks ago1h 9m
Put Your Board Games On A Diet
Heavy board games are awesome. They’re also the easiest games to love in theory and never actually play. So we try something different: we put our biggest boxes and brain-burners on a diet and draft lighter replacement games that still scratch the same itch. We even keep score using the BoardGameGeek weight scale, because nothing says “game night” like competitive math. We start with a quick debrief on what’s been hitting the table lately, from tiny dexterity games like Grabble and Dro Polte...
- 2 weeks ago1h 27m
A Local Game Store Gets A Second Life
We go from cooperative poker boss fights to instant-teach party games, then zoom out to the real work of keeping a friendly local game store alive. CJ joins to tell the story behind Let’s Play Games and Hobbies in Hanover, Pennsylvania - and he has managed taking over a game store with his full time job. • Hell Of A Deal as a cooperative poker-style boss battler with action-based betting chips • Managing souls, folding decisions, and the temptation track as the core tension • Wor...
- 3 weeks ago1h 20m
The Benevolent Board Game Dictator Method
Twenty people show up for game night, dinner ends, and everyone looks at the game shelf like it’s a bomb that might go off. We’ve lived that nightmare, so we lay out a real, tested blueprint for running a big board game night with multiple tables without letting it turn into chaos. We start with quick debriefs on two small-box wins: Collect! by CMON, a light card game with slick powers and shifting displays, and Grabble by CMYK, a ridiculous handful of trinkets that somehow turns into three ...
- 4 weeks ago58 min
Barn Boy Games Turns Family Play Into A Business
How do you turn a goofy argument like “Is a stop sign taller than an emu?” into a party game people can learn in seconds and replay for years? We sit down with Kerry and Ryan from Barn Boy Games out of Lancaster, PA to talk about their first Kickstarter board game, Height Fight, and the long, messy, surprisingly thoughtful road from homemade prototypes to a retail-ready product. We start with quick hits from our own tables, from the relaxing solo puzzle of Enchanted Ivy to a conversation-spa...
- Oct 1, 202648 min
An OGN Reunion Debrief!
A board game weekend can go one of two ways: the table clicks and everyone rides the momentum, or you bog down in rules, downtime, and “maybe next time.” We just got back from a Colorado Springs hang, and we’re sharing the exact mix that worked, plus the honest reactions when a game is clever but your brain still bounces off it. We start with Reforest, a small box tableau builder that packs a surprisingly puzzly decision space. From there we sprint into lighter, faster wins like Tiny Mountai...
- Sep 24, 20261h 20m
We Stress-Test Game Night Scenarios (ft. Tim from Board Game Hot Takes)
A Golden Geek Award winner joins us, and we do what any responsible board game podcast would do: we immediately test whether he can actually host a great game night. Tim from Board Game Hot Takes stops by for a full debrief plus a rapid-fire hosting quiz built around real life situations that every board gamer runs into sooner or later. We start at the table with Misfit Heroes and its card crafting style setup that creates hilarious hybrid characters while keeping the gameplay in quick, sati...
- Sep 17, 20261h 23m
Betting On Betting Games
We had a question stuck in our heads: can you make a board game betting episode that actually feels like a bet? So we built a weird little experiment where we “bet on betting games” by turning five racing betting games into one meta race, powered by our own head-to-head choices. Think pub meeple-style matchups, but the results move games forward on a track while we sweat our $100 bet slips. We put Hot Streak, Camel Up, Ready Set Bet, Downforce, and Long Shot The Dice Game on the starting lin...
- Sep 10, 20261h 21m
The Great Board Game Cull
Your board game shelf can either fuel game night or quietly smother it. We sit down to talk about the messy, satisfying work of board game culling: how we decide what stays, what gets sold, and what gets donated when our collections start feeling heavier than our actual playtime. We start with a bright spot: Wingspan Pocket, a streamlined card version that delivers the engine-building fun in a quick 25 to 30 minutes. From there, we get into the real-world logistics of offloading games, inclu...
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