Episode 196 - Trends in Gaming

November 16, 2023

Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played (or books they read) recently, including Around the World in 80 Games, Keep it 100, and Castles of Mad King Ludwig: Renovations. Then, we talk about some past, present, and our hopes for future trends in board gaming!

Episode 168 - 15 Min or Less

October 20, 2022

Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including Venn, Disney Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas: Merry Madness, and Ready Set Bet. We then talk about games that take less than 15 minutes to play!

Episode 167 - Great Gateways

October 6, 2022

Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including Pocket Book Adventures, The Mysterious Case of Dancing Mania, Connected Clues, and Gutenberg. We then talk about what "gateway games" are and some games we like using to show people what's out there in the board gaming hobby! Finally, Crystal goes over the origins of the word 'Clue.'

Episode 165 - Think Inside The Box

September 8, 2022

Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including Desktop HEBOCON Battle Kit and The Cupid Crisis. We then talk about board game.... boxes! And other containers, receptacles, or holders that board games can come in.

Episode 135 - Top 5 Polyomino Games

July 15, 2021

Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they've played recently, including Escape from the Science Lab of Shifting Rules, Escape from the Two Base Stations, Escape from Lockdown: The Demon Fortress, Webscapade Season 0: Welcome to Argenia, and Nidavellir. We then list off our top 5 favorite polyomino board games!

Ambie's Top 100 Games: 80-71

January 28, 2020

Ambie's revisiting her top 100 games as of the end of 2019! This video is numbers 80-71.


Episode 75 - Boring? More Theme!

March 28, 2019

Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they've played recently, including 18MEX and Heroes of Land, Air & Sea. We then have a top 5 list of our favorite games with boring themes. In this week's "Board Game Etymology" segment, Crystal discusses the origins of the word "travel."

Top 100 Games: Ambie's 40-31

June 1, 2018

For our two year podcast anniversary, we decided to put together our top 100 board games of all time! In this video, Ambie goes over her top 40-31 games.


Episode 21 - Puttin' On the Blitz

March 2, 2017

Ambie, Cassadi, and Crystal discuss some games they've played recently, including Witness, Suburbia, and Santorini. We then introduce a new category of board games, blitz games! We also talk about Blitz Con 2017, and announce a contest! In this week's "Board Game Etymology" segment, Crystal discusses the origins of the word "grok."

Episode 20 - It Takes Two

February 16, 2017

Ambie, Cassadi, and Crystal discuss some games they've played recently, including Rolling Stock, Power Grid: Deluxe, and Lotus. We then talk about some good two-player board games. In this week's "Board Game Etymology" segment, Crystal discusses the origins of the word "alliance."

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