Episode 194 - Healthy Gaming

October 19, 2023

Ambie and Crystal discuss a game they played recently, including Ariana Trench: The Ultimate Puzzle Book for Pirates, Head Trip, and Eye My Favorite Things. Then, we talk about our top 5 favorite games that have fruits and/or vegetables in them!

Episode 156 - Top 5 Worker Placement Games

May 5, 2022

Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including Scooby-Doo: Escape from the Haunted Mansion and Planet Unknown. We then talk about worker placement games and our top 5 board games with worker placement.

Episode 139 - The Expansion of Expansions

September 9, 2021

Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they've played recently, including Wok and Roll, Kopi King, and Chope. We then talk about board game expansions and what makes us like or dislike them.

Episode 127 - Savor the Flavor

March 25, 2021

Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they've played recently, including Horrified and The Castles of Tuscany. We then talk about flavor text in board games. In the return of the Board Game Etymology segment, Crystal discusses the origins of the word "flavor."

Episode 124 - Alphabetical Part 3

February 11, 2021

Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they've played recently, including The Shores of Tripoli and Calico. We then finish our list of our favorite game from each letter of the alphabet with part 3 of 3.

Ambie's Top 100 Games: 10-1

February 4, 2020

Ambie's revisiting her top 100 games as of the end of 2019! This video is numbers 10-1.


Top 100 Games: Our Top 10

June 6, 2018

For our two year podcast anniversary, we decided to put together our top 100 board games of all time! In this video, Ambie and Crystal go over their (and Cassadi's) top 10 games.


MeepleCon 2018 Recap

March 19, 2018

by Ambie Valdés
Last weekend I went to my second MeepleCon, a board game convention in Las Vegas! The convention was three days, but we ended up getting a flight early Sunday morning to go home (other flights were a lot more expensive), so we were only there on Friday and Saturday. But we still had tons of fun playing games!

The Games
I played 22 plays of 15 different games at the convention (plus some Craps), 8 of which were new to me. The most played and my favorite new game was The Mind, a new cooperative card game where you have to play the cards in order without talking! Jess had a copy that she borrowed from Scott Alden and was bringing it around to everyone at the convention to try out. It was really hard and a lot of fun, and I really want to get it. Unfortunately, it's currently only available in Germany, but I heard that it will be coming over soon.

Episode 44 - The 2017 Blitzies

January 18, 2018

Ambie, Cassadi, and Crystal discuss some games they've played recently, including Dungeon Petz, The Downfall of Pompeii, and Majesty: For the Realm. We then talk about 2017 in board gaming, have our 2017 Blitzies, and tell you our top 10 games of 2017 in this double length episode!

Episode 37 - The Art of Gaming

September 28, 2017

Ambie, Cassadi, and Crystal discuss some games they've played recently, including The Pyramid's Deadline, Kobayakawa, Russian Railroads, and BONK. We then talk about art and graphic design in board games. In this week's "Board Game Etymology" segment, Crystal discusses the origins of the word "art."

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