Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they've played recently, including Dinosaur Island, Castell, and GROWL. We then talk all about social deduction games. In this week's "Board Game Etymology" segment, Crystal discusses the origins of the word "deduce."

by Ambie Valdés

We hosted our second annual Blitz Con this year over President’s Day weekend again. Last year we had 50 people, but this year we grew to a little over 100 people! We had a much bigger space and there was always plenty of room to play games.

Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they've played recently, including 18CLE and Keyper. We then talk all about cooperative games. In this week's "Board Game Etymology" segment, Crystal discusses the origins of the word "cooperation."

Ambie, Cassadi, and Crystal discuss some games they've played recently, including The Ravens of Thri Sahashri, Seikatsu, and Muse. We then talk about culling our collections. In this week's "Board Game Etymology" segment, Crystal discusses the origins of the word "cull."

by Ambie Valdés

I hadn’t heard much about Cursed Court before getting a review copy of it, but I read the rules and it seemed interesting enough. Cursed Court is a bidding, betting, and bluffing game, with both hidden and public information. Think Poker without the gambling real money part, and with more theme. It plays 2-6 players in about 30 minutes.

A couple weeks ago, Crystal decided to recap her first ever play of Twilight Imperium live on Twitch! This is the podcast version (you can see the video version here).

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!