Board Gamers Anonymous

It's that time of year again - Chris and Anthony delve into our 2018 Board Game Bracket, pitting 64 games against each other in an epic, three part showdown to determine which has the best use of components.  This year, the theme is Components – and our regions are Cards, Cardboard, Wood and Plastic.   In this week's episode, we're going through all 64 games in Round 1, with 32 unique matchups. Jo...

This week, Chris and Anthony are diving into the growing world of Fantasy Flight's LCGs and other similar customizable card games with our newest top 10.  Make sure you enter our March Board Game Bracket challenge as well for a chance to win a free game: http://boardgamersanonymous.com/2018-board-game-bracket-contest/ First up, we share answers from our question of the week, "What game has the bes...

Another month, another recap of the BGG Hotness. Find out why these games are atop the hot list for February.  To kick things off this week, Anthony and Chris look at answers to our question of the week, "What game have you played the most...ever?"  We also announce the newest version of our annual Board Game Bracket contest. You can learn more and enter directly here: http://boardgamersanonymous....

This week, we're looking at games you might like if you like video games (or more likely, if your stubborn video gaming friends are hesitant to try board games!) First up, we ask our question of the week, "what one piece of advice would you give to someone brand new to gaming?" For our acquisition disorders this week Anthony is looking at Xia: Embers of a Forsaken Star (and trolling himself in the...

This week, we're revisiting a classic episode (#85) and looking at games that do especially well in representing female characters.  First up, we look at our question of the week. We asked the listeners what games thoroughly blew away their expectations, and share some of our own big surprises.  Next up, we look at CO2, the revamped edition of the classic Vital Lacerda game, now on Kickstarter in...

This week's episode is sponsored by Academy Games, whose new game, Agents of Mayhem: Pride of Babylon is on Kickstarter now.  We also want to thank all of our new Patreon backers this week: Finn, Eric, Barry, Suppiluliuma, and Jim. This week, we have an all new Top 10 list, featuring the best deck building games out there.  First up, Chris and Anthony dive into our question of the week, looking at...

What's hot on BGG right now? Join us for our monthly BGG Hotness review. Chris and Anthony delve into the 15 games atop the hotness this week, along with a pair of new reviews and much more.  To kick things off, we asked the listeners for the most important things a FLGS can do to earn their patronage.  In our acquisition disorder this week, Anthony digs into UBOOT and Chris looks at the lighter,...

It's time for another If You Like episode. This week, we're digging into the biggest of them all - Twilight Imperium 4th Edition and six games you might like (at varying weights) if you're a fan of this epic experience. Before we dive into that, however, we asked our question of the week - your favorite asymmetrical implementation of player powers or starting conditions. Next up, we dove into our...

It's that time of year again - time for us to run wild with our acquisition disorders and list off 25+ games that we're excited to play in 2018. This year, the list was extra long so we had to do some pruning to make it manageable.  Before we dive into our most anticipated, we asked the listeners what their most anticipated were and the answers were extremely varied. We then dove into our recent p...

2017 is finally over and before we look too far into the future for 2018, we wanted to take a moment and review the year that was. This week, Chris and Anthony dive into 2017 in review, including a look at our most anticipated games of last year and how they performed.  First up, we asked the listeners which game they would like to see have a campaign-style expansion added to.  Next up we dive int...

Episode 150! It's a big one for us, so we wanted to do something extra special. Join Chris and Anthony as they revisit and rework the BGA Top 100 games of all time, in a brand new, very-euro heavy list.  Listen to hear if your favorites made it, and where they fell. And if they didn't, let us know which games SHOULD have made it.  If you haven’t yet, be sure to connect with us on Facebook (www.fac...

A belated Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year to everyone out there! We're a day late in getting this week's episode up, but know you'll appreciate having some extra content to listen to mid-week with the holiday break upon us.  Kicking things off this week, we asked you, the listeners, what games they had spent the most hours playing this year.  Next up, we dive into our biggest a...

Another year, another batch of amazing board games. Chris and Anthony pored over a huge list of 2017 releases (hundreds, you guys!) and chose 25 games they liked above all the rest as the top releases of the last year - some big names and a handful of hidden gems.  At the top of the list, each of us chose two games to be our best of the best for the year, with a couple of no brainers and some surp...

Chris and Anthony share their top ten 3 player games this week, diving into the board games that play best (or only) with three players.  First up, though, we dive into the question of the week, asking everyone out there (including you!), with TI4 released and Eclipse 2E coming next year, what other massive game do you think is due for a major design refresh? Then we dive into this week's acquisit...

Chris and Anthony are going old school this week with a rundown of 25 classic board games and their modern, gateway alternatives if you're trying to convert your friends to something newer.  First up, we look at our question of the week, asking you the listeners what game you have equal fun losing as winning.  Next up, we hit the acquisition disorders. Anthony talks about Mac Gerdts' Transatlantic...

It's that time year again - gift giving! Chris and Anthony share their 24 games of the holiday season, with an epic list of board games you should check out for gift ideas. These games are all currently available in one form or another and came out or were first available in their current form in 2017. Don't miss out holiday themed questions of the week as well. We ask about what everyone is thank...

Chris and Anthony recorded from Pax Unplugged 2017, the very first board game only convention run by Pax, and they have a bunch to talk about.  Join us for our question of the week asking about the most anticipated releases of next year, our acquisition disorders, including Chronicles of Crime and Meeple Circus, and our At the Table reviews of Nusfjord and Majesty: For the Realm. Finally we give o...

This week on BGA, Chris and Anthony look at games you can introduce to your non-gamer friends if they've started to dip their toe in the water with games like Exploding Kittens.  Before diving into our feature, we look at our question of the week. Listeners answered what they do with their old board games they no longer want or need in their collection.  Next up, with our acquisition disorders, An...

It's that time of year again - sports are everywhere. From the recent conclusion of an all time great World Series to the midst of Football season and the onset of both Basketball and Hockey seasons (yes, I know, we're very American), it's time to talk sports with our top 10 sports games.  First on the episode, we look at common mechanics or tropes in video games listeners want to see in board gam...

We're a little late this week due to some technical difficulties, but we have a bunch of new games to talk about, so the show must go on! We may not have made it to Essen last week, but we sure watched the hot games as they hit the show. This week we have a rundown of which games were hottest and which ones we're most excited to have in hand in the future.  First up is our question of the week, in...

This week we feature part two of our conversation about the BGG.com Top 100 games of all time and our quick take reviews on each of them. Find out which of these are plays and buys, and what one game made it to the dodge list (for one of us).  Before that, dive into our question of the week. Anthony asks the listeners how they handle next play selection in their game groups. Some interesting answe...

Chris and Anthony are back this week to discuss the BGG.com top 100 board games. We get asked a lot which of these we've played and which we haven't, and whether we'd recommend one particular hot game or another. So, we figured, why not do them all! To kick things off, we ask everyone our question of the week, "What game has been sitting on your shelf unplayed the longest?" We got dozens of respon...

Chris and Anthony are talking about word games this week! Check out our top 10 games all about words and wordplay, plus reviews of recent plays and our question of the week.  We kick things off by asking the listeners how many times they play a game before they feel comfortable remembering the rules in our question of the week.  For acquisition disorders this week, Anthony digs into the new game f...

Chris and Anthony are back this week with another if you like... episode. This week, we're looking at Stefan Feld's The Castles of Burgundy - one of the highest rated point salad games every made!  Specifically, we're going to dive into six games you might like if you also like Castles of Burgundy, with two lighter games, two medium games, and two slightly heavier games.  In addition, we have our...

Chris and Anthony are back with another BGG Hotness review, giving you a rundown of the 15 hottest games on BGG right now, why they're there, and whether we're equally hyped about them.  To kick this week's episode off, we announced a brand new contest. If you haven't yet, make sure to check out our Fix My Game! Contest, sponsored by Geeks 1st. You can win a gift certificate to Geeks 1st for modul...