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Season 14, Episode 13 – Beyond the Sun
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 Thoughts40:30 – Beyond the Sun – Pros51:20 – Beyond the Sun – Cons58:45 – Beyond the Sun – Final Thoughts1:04:15 – Bump or Dump – Newton1:08:30 – Outro, Patron Thanks, Website Plugs1:09:10 – Kate Bush – Hello Earth -
Season 14, Episode 12 – Skyrise/Cascadero
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!
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 – Star Wars Bounty Hunters w/ Tom Vasel from The Dice Tower
31:30 – The Lord of the Rings: Adventure to Mount Doom
32:50 – Djinn
32:30 – Marvel United Spidergeddon
33:52 – Emerge
36:10 – Anunnaki: Dawn of the Gods
37:00 – Thunder Road Vendetta
39:30 – Top Convention Activities
41:00 – Top 3 Games of the Con
42:40 – Looking forward to Gen Con
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Season 14, Episode 11 – Ezra and Nehemiah
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 You, Patrons
1:09:15 Israelites – Desmond Dekker
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Season 14, Episode 10 – Anunnaki: Dawn of the gods
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
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
1:13:15 A New England – Billy Bragg
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Season 14, Episode 8 – El Grande
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
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 – Patreon – Visit theboardboys.com and leave us iTune Reviews!
1:51:55 – White Silver Sands – Don Rondo
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Season 14, Episode 6 – Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula
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 Golden Hair – America
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Season 14, Episode 5 – Wyrmspan ft. Camp Refresh preview
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 Dealt Hand
1:31:45 Wyrmspan: Verdict
1:42:45 Board Boys Bump: Revive
1:49:30 Thank You, Patrons
1:50:00 Time out of Mind – Steely Dan
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Season 14, Episode 4 – Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West
On this episode of the podcast we dig into Ticket To Ride Legacy: Legends of the West from Days of Wonder. We give a high level overview and then after some warnings dive right into spoiler territory. Check the timestamps for this episode for specifics. Also in this episode we talk about Legacy Games in general. Cam suprises us with a return of Beef Watch (TM).
TimeStamps
0:00 – Words of apology from Board Boy Rob
:30 – Intro, E.V.A. – Jean Jacques Perrey
3:30 – Legacy Game Talk
11:50 – MLEM Space Agency
18:15 – Karvi
22:00 – Neuroriders
25:30 – 7 Wonders Architects: Medals Expansion
26:35 – Star Wars – Unlimited CCG
30:00 – Mercurial
32:45 – Splendor Duel
35:15 – Return of the Beef Watch
40:30 – Ticket to Ride Legacy Intro (Spoiler Free)
42:26 – Sheena East – Morning Train
44:05 – Ticket to Ride Legacy Initial Thoughts (Spoiler Free)
48:00 – Ticket to Ride Legacy Game Conversation (Spoiler Free)
1:00:00 – Ticket to Ride Legacy Final Thoughts (Spoiler Free)
1:07:45 – Ticket to Ride Legacy SPOILERS!
1:33:35 – Bump or Dump – Deal With The Devil
1:39:08 – Outro, Patreon, Discord, Website Info
1:40:08 – Roger Miller – King of the Road
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Season 14, Episode 3 – Voidfall
Board Boys blast off into outer space yet again to play the big, bad game of Voidfall from Mindclash Games, but can the TI4 fans at the table cope with a spacefaring 4x that doesn’t involve threat-laced, hour-long trade discussions that end with hurt feelings all around? Maybe.
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Season 14, Episode 2 – Djinn
Board Boys cork the bottle and get on the no no train to no no ville in Djinn, by Benjamin Schwer. Also in this episode, TV talk, more BGA reviews, and Cam beats Rob on a movie quote, chew on that, Rob.
0:00 Intro, E.V.A. – Jean Jacques Perrey
3:15: Game Show Review Minute with Rob and Cam
16:00 Ten More BGA mini reviews
26:30 20 Strong
32:00 The Search for the Lost Species
33:45 Unlock!: Extraordinary Adventures
36:30 My Island
42:45 Djinn: Overview
47:30 We Genie – Shaquille O’Neal and Wade Robson
48:30 Djinn: Review
1:12:15 Djinn: Verdict
1:23:30 Board Boys Bump: Bonfire
1:29:15 Thank You, Patrons
1:31:00 I Wish – Skee-Lo
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Season 14, Episode 1 – Evacuation
Board Boys are back to kick of season 14, probably time to stop counting, with Evacuation, the new Suchy joint from Delicious games. Also in this episode: Cam’s BGA advent speed review and Super Board Boys Bump: Season 13 lookback
0:00 Intro, E.V.A. – Jean Jacques Perrey
6:00 Cam’s Spectacular BGA Advent Calendar Microreview
17:45 Pokemon Splendor
21:30 Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion
25:30 Evacuation: Overview
28:30 We Gotta Get out of This Place – The Animals
29:30 Evacuation: Review
1:05:00 Evacuation: Verdict
1:17:30 Board Boys Bump: Season 13 Lookback
1:33:15 Thank You, Patrons
1:34:00 Leaving on a Jet Plane – John Denver and Cass Elliot