Board Game Gumbo Live!

The 2024 season of Gumbo Live! opens with a dragon fang! Err...bang! We welcome in Connie Vogelmann, designer of APIARY and WYRMSPAN, into the Gumbo Pot to chat about games, games, games! We also get her thoughts on her recent plays of SKY TEAM Finally, we end the night with a rousing game of THE BOUDIN BOWL with Connie, Verla, Steve, and BJ participating with the Chat Krewe!   Laissez les bon tem...

It's the return of The Jay Bell to the Gumbo Pot! Steve, Verla, BJ and Jay gave a list of their favorite games to give friends and family during the holidays! Tipperary Akropolis Pictomania World Wonders Crokinole Plus, Jay recounts his trip to Pax U and gives an update on some of the hot games he played. -- Disney Lorcana -- Sky Team -- Gnome Hollow and Twinkle, Twinkle -- Nocturne Finally, we en...

Jeremy D is back in the Gumbo Pot! BJ and Jeremy talk about NOCTURNE, the newest game from Flatout Games out on Kickstarter right now:   https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/flatoutgames/nocturne-board-game?ref=profile_saved_projects_live Plus, there is some chatter about potential games for the 2023 Game Of The Year list. Who will win the coveted Fleur de Ludo awards?  

Jack and BJ are in the road after a special trip to BGG CON 2023 in Dallas! Time to recap the highlights of the games played at the con, people we games and chatted with, and a couple of lagniappe experiences!

BJ and Steve welcome in a content creator who is also deep diving into the world of designing board games on Episode 144!  This time, The NameFather has invited Liz Davidson, reviewer with Beyond Solitaire's YouTube Channel and podcast, and the co-designer (with David Thompson) of the upcoming game, Night Witches, from Fort Circle Games to talk about some spicy hot board games!  In the banter, we...

BJ and Jerod chat with co-host, The Jay Bell, in the Gumbo Pot about Jay's big new move, plus give their post-game thoughts on Castles By The Sea from Brotherwise Games.  Shout out to Burky from GameToppers LLC for the awesome new game mat, and make sure to check out the brand new Kickstarter 4.0! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/burky/game-toppers-40-the-young-sherlock-and-more?ref=section-ho...

BJ is back from Southern Board Game Fest 2023!  Mitchell from the Beans & Dice Podcast and Jerod from the Board Game Gumbo Twitch Channel join in to recap everything SoBo 2023.  Shout outs to Burky from GameToppers LLC for being our Very Special Guest at SoBo, but also thanks to all the gamers and publishers (like Hutchu Games! Weird Giraffe Games!) and designers (like The Jay Bell! Carla Kopp...

BJ and Steve welcome in a double dose of awesome guests on Episode 143! This time, it's Mike Grade, founder of Rock Manor Games (and designer of Lawyer Up!) and Clarence Simpson, designer of the hit game amongst the Gumbo Krewe, The Wolves!  We reviewed: The Quacks of Quedlinberg Wander Towers And there is a heaping helping of Southern Board Game Fest advertise---errr---news sprinkled all over the...

Mitchell from the Beans & Dice Podcast, who heads up our Play to Win and Guided Playthroughs sections at Southern Board Game Fest, joined BJ on a very special episode of Gumbo Live! to chat all things SoBo2023 and to GIVEAWAY SOME PRIZES!  See you at Southern Board Game Fest and THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU Burky from GameToppersLLC! www.southerngamefest.com https://www.gametoppersllc.com/ La...

Hey board gamers, we are back with more Twitch Tuesday game talk just for you! It's the return of The Jay Bell, who regales us with stories of his trip to Louisville, Kentucky!  Then, we chat about recent plays of: Forests of Pangaia, Earth, Hero Realms, and Set a Watch Plus, Barnes is back in the Gumbo Pot, and it's time for him to sit on the witness stand in Gumbo Court. We put him under cross e...

Hey board gamers, we are back with more Twitch Tuesday game talk just for you! And super excited to have THE JAY BELL and Mitchell from the Beans & Dice Podcast back in the Gumbo Pot! In this episode, we grill Jay on his recent Kickstarter backings, including Kraken Skulls from Chris Couch Games, Shards of Infinity, the Our Family Plays Games project, and Dungeon Kart.  Then Mitchell regales u...

Hey board gamers, we are back with more Twitch Tuesday game talk just for you! And super excited to have THE JAY BELL back in the Gumbo Pot! In this episode, we wish the Gumbo Overlord a happy birthday, chat about our favorite things from CHUCKCON, and then Jay teaches COSMOCTOPUS before both Jay and BJ give their post-game analysis of our play!  ** Some of the games discussed may have been provid...

Hey board gamers, we are back with more Twitch Tuesday game talk just for you! BJ was up first with some news on Southern Board Game Fest (Oct 14-15 in Lafayette, LA). Get your badges at www.southerngamefest.com Our topic du jour in the Gumbo Pot was chatting about our first impressions and post-game analysis of our play of EVERDELL: FARSHORE, with our review copy provided courtesy of Starling Gam...

Hey board gamers, we are back from our July hiatus with more Twitch Tuesday game talk just for you! BJ   welcomed back to the Gumbo Pot, Mitchell from the Beans & Dice podcast. Our topic du jour in the Gumbo Pot was chatting about a great new board game experience we had in July. Then some talk about an anticipated game at GENCON. And finally, we wrapped up our fresh thoughts of playing Trekki...

Two Tuesdays in a row, it's another Twitch Tuesday!  BJ and Jerod welcomed back to the Gumbo Pot their buddies, Mitchell from the Beans & Dice podcast and Logan from the Louisiana Board Gamers Facebook Group and a regular gamer at our FLGS, Anubis Game & Hobby.   Our topic du jour in the Gumbo Pot was all about ENVIE. What games are we excited to check out that are either on some crowdfund...

It's another Twitch Tuesday, this time actually on a Tuesday, and BJ welcomed to the Gumbo Pot a new voice: Logan from the Louisiana Board Gamers Facebook Group and a regular gamer at our FLGS, Anubis Game & Hobby.   Logan tells us his cardboard hero origin story, and then we get down to business. Time to talk about some spicy hot games! What are our favorite games played over the last month?...

BJ welcomes back to the Gumbo Pot a great krewe. We enlisted Mitchell from the Beans & Dice Podcast, Jeremy from the Louisiana Board Gamers Facebook Group, and the inimitable Dave Doooooogahhhh, the commissioner for life of the Board Boys Legacy League to chat about the top games of 2022. In typical Gumbo Pot fashion, things went off the rails pretty quickly as the gents had a little trouble w...

The Dobster made his triumphant return to the Gumbo Pot! Jeremy Dobler and BJ chatted about Jeremy's recent plays of In The Hall of The Mountain King, why his group likes campaign games like Descent and Oathsworn, and their thoughts on Three Sisters and the French Quarter crowdfunding project.  A complimentary copy of Three Sisters and French Quarter were provided by the publisher.  Thanks for lis...

After a month of Gumbo Live! interview shows, it was time to get back to the table in the Gumbo Pot!   Mitchell from the Beans & Dice Podcast and playthrough coordinator at the Southern Board Game Fest joins BJ chatting about this year's upcoming festival, board game sales, and convention talk. Plus, you'll get their very fresh thoughts on their playthrough of ROLL CAMERA: The Filmmaking Board...

BJ, Steve and Verla welcomes in Keith Law, board game blogger and reviewer for Paste Magazine, to chat about board games! We reviewed: Earth Iki Plus, Steve and I may have met our match in the Jambalaya game. You have to hear Keith to believe it! Keith's info:  Keith Law, the author of The Inside Game and Smart Baseball and senior baseball writer for The Athletic AND more particularly for our show...

BJ and Verla and Steve were hoping to get Keith Law in this week (spoiler alert -- Keith's appeared on May 30 for the #142 show) so while waiting, they talked about some of their recent plays of a few spicy hot games, plus their thoughts on the Spiel nominees:  Spots (on BGA) Akropolis Planet Unknown Ike Challengers Next episode: Keith Law!  Laissez les bon temps rouler!    Get your Board Game Gum...

BJ and Verla and Steve welcome in Rob, Cam and TK from The Board Boys Podcast all the way from beautiful Iowa for their first appearance on Gumbo Live!  BJ, Rob, Cam and Verla are no strangers to each other, hanging out at BGG Con and playing games. The Board Boys Podcast is one of the best podcast crews out there, with lots of recurring jokes, deep insight into the top 100 games, and reviews of t...

BJ and Steve welcome in The Brandt for his first appearance on Gumbo Live!  BJ and The Brandt are no strangers to each other, hanging out at conventions and playing games since way back in 2017 at Dice Tower East. The Brandt is an amazing games teacher, and is the behind the scenes coordinator for the Dice Tower Awards nominations, so it was a perfect time to chat with him about spicy hot games an...

BJ, Steve, and Verla were thrilled to chat with Tory Brown, designer of Votes for Women, and Kevin Bertram from Fort Circle Games!   Tory talked about the initial design, development, and history behind Votes for Women and why she is so excited that Kevin is the publisher! Kevin talked about his recent stint as a host of his own mini-con and gave tips on planning a successful event!  Plus, we talk...

BJ, Steve, Jay and Verla were thrilled to interview Heather O'Neill, a board game designer (Schrödinger’s Cats, Meeple Party) and publisher who also volunteers on the board of UnPub.   Heather has a new microgram with Weird Giraffe Games called Dreams of Yesterday, and we were excited to chat with her about the project and watch it hit its goal live on stream!  Plus, we talk about a lot of spicy h...