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."

by Ambie Valdés

Over President's Day this year, we decided to host our own board game convention in the Bay Area! My friends and I had been discussing starting our own convention for a while, since we had some difficult times at KublaCon with finding table space to play games. We decided to brand it with Board Game Blitz, since we could! This year, we were able to get a small conference room at a Holiday Inn in San Mateo, and we capped registration at 50 people. I had a really great time playing games all weekend and meeting a bunch of new friends!

Over the weekend, I had 33 game plays of 26 unique games. I got to play with over 20 different people, a lot of whom I had never played a game with before!

One of the awesome things about Blitz Con was that I was able to play a game with Crystal for the first time in person! Crystal flew in for the weekend, and we got to hang out for the whole convention!

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."

by Ambie Valdés

Some of my favorite games are social deduction games (like The Resistance: Avalon and Deception: Murder in Hong Kong), so I was excited to try out Rebels Unite! when I got a review copy for it.

Ambie, Cassadi, and Crystal discuss some games they've played recently, including Rebels Unite!, Happy Pigs, and Rex: Final Days of an Empire. We then talk about board games that have a cold theme. In this week's "Board Game Etymology" segment, Crystal discusses the origins of the word "analysis."