The Board Boys Podcast

Boo-ard Boys are back just in time for Halloween with the bone chilling, spine tingling, water contaminating Carnival Zombie, a game about six best friends zombie battling their way through Venice in an attempt to escape the wrath of an undead lagoon monster. Beware the order of operations! 0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 5:30 City of Horror 13:15 That Time You Killed Me 16:30 Sky Team 20...

Board Boy Rob is back with special guest Joe!  We hammer through all the  2 player games Blitzkrieg!, Ceasar!, and Dogfight! from PSC and Floodgate Games plus we get a little on the spooky side with BOOoop from Smirk and Dagger Games.  Also in this episode we talk about the upcoming Spooktacular holiday, Point Salad and we get even scarier with a little Orthodontic work.  Thanks for joining us for...

Board Boys are back for another Rob's-coworker-Jack-guested, high octane, high voltage thriller as we take a look at Thunder Road: Vendetta from Restoration Games. Also in this episode- Finance Blurb with Cam (from Pyramid Ponzi Advisory Group), Rob rates a game twice, and several more minutes of Kazoo that Tune than anybody ever wanted. 0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 2:30 Business Name/...

Den Daddies are back by which I mean to say Board Boys are back, here to alpha wolf dom out all the little soy boy baby dawgs in THE WOLVES, a game about growling and howling at your enemies to DOM THEM OUT. Who will snarl the meanest and win the wolf trophy? 0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 5:30 Lords of Waterdeep 8:15 Cretaceous Rails Kickstarter preview and mini review with Alex from Sp...

0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 5:45 Deep Dive 9:30 The Wolves 12:00 Moon River 16:15 Ra 20:00 Zoo Vadis 24:30 Rome in a Day 27:00 Forest Shuffle 32:15 Barcelona: Overview 36:00 We're From Barcelona - I'm From Barcelona 37:30 Barcelona: Review 1:08:30 Barcelona: Verdict 1:15:15 Board Boys Bump: Hansa Teutonica 1:20:00 Thank You, Patrons 1:23:00 Cantares (Caminante, No Hay Camino) - Joan M...

Board Boy Bill is back in the saddle for a repeat appearance in Sabika, a game about balancing the lightning bolt with the infinity sign. Also, car fires, PP Rain, Chilling With My Pepsi Like Sheesh, Bowser's Back Door, and many other one episode catchphrases.  0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 2:30 Cam's Top 2 Car Fires 11:15 Anomaly 15:30 The Logo Game 17:00 Frosthaven 25:30 Whistle Mount...

Board Boys are back with a brand new season (for catalogue purposes) and playing the sequel to Scythe, Expeditions (Stonemaier Games). Also in this Episode, Board Boy Bill joins us for the first half of a Board Boy Bill double feature, Cam gets the podcast canceled again if anyone was listening, and Rob stands in his truth for the first time ever. (This is the first episode in about six months whe...

Board Boys are back for the season 12 finale, finally talking about Newton (Simone Luciani, Nestore Mangione) 5 years late. Also in this episode, 2GG or 2notGG?, plenty of mini reviews, and a little bit of restaurant talk, because of course there is.

We recently went to an event The Dealt Hand hosted at The Twisted Vine Brewery.  To help support Eat Greater Des Moines.  In this episode Beau keeps us on track and we talk about our favorite games to take to a bar/pub/coffee shop/Dealt Hand event - you get the picture.  Beau helps host for the first time and Tim's son Remy makes a special guest spot!  What games will make our lists?  Come listen...

Board Boys put the balls to the walls and the rubber to the road in Heat: Pedal to the Metal by Days of Wonder. Also in this episode, a middling resolution to airline woes, thoughts on the end of King's Dilemma many years later, and a reward is offered to anyone who can name that arcade game. 0:00 Intro, The Distance - Cake 4:00 Airplane Talk: Finale 15:15 King's Dilemma: Finale 28:15 Reykholt 35:...

Hey everyone hope you are ready for a new Beau-nuss Episode!  In this one we talk about our experience playing Jurassic World: The Legacy of Isla Nublar a legacy style cooperative game from Funko Games.  In this game you play over 11 total games and get to totally build your own dino theme park!  What did Board Boys Rob and Beau have to think about it?  Listen and find out!  The second half of the...

Welcome to the Challenge Family in Challengers!, a game of building a sick deck of zany athletes and seeing how it fares against your opponents when none of you have any control over the order in which cards are played. Also in this episode, Spiel des Jahres contenders 2023 and a little bit of talk about GWT: Rails to the North 2nd Ed. 0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 2:00 Capture the Flag...

Time to go sailing, Christopher Cross style, in Darwin's Journey, a game that I think should have been named "Galapoly" - who will publish information on species and fossils and stuff the best, Board Boys, Darwin, or the handsome sailor, Esteban? Find out today on another episode of the world's first board game podcast except it's about flying. 0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 1:45 Standin...

Board Boys cover seeds with crud and grow beautiful, life giving flora in Earth, a tasty lil jam by from Maxime Tardif. Also, Rob thinks Jane Lynch was on 3rd Rock from the Sun and Cam talks about his youth as a server and bartender for way too long. 0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 1:45 Who was on 3rd Rock from the Sun? 3:00 Many, many thoughts on waiting tables 11:30 Awkward Guests 14:15...

Board Boys take an educational trip to Ghana, courtesy of celebrated nonfiction author Uwe Rosenberg in Atiwa, by celebrated board game designer Uwe Rosenberg. Will they repopulate the land with a plethora of succulent fruit-bearing trees or will they eat bat? 0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jaques Perrey 2:15 Atiwa: The Informational Booklet  7:00 Barrage 13:15 Ark Nova changed scoring methods 19:45 Ni...

Board Boys kill the bad guys in Beast, baby, the brand new first release from Studio Midhall. Is it Rob's new fave hidden movement game? That would be crazy because he LOVES hidden movement games. 0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 4:00 Kabuto Sumo 14:00 Cat in the Box 23:45 Cryptid 29:00 Luxor 34:00 Karuba 38:30 Beast: Overview 41:15 I Will Follow Him - Little Peggy March 42:15 Beast: Revie...

Board Boys are back in business, baby, and playing Stefan Feld's new joint from Queen Games, Marrakesh. Is it the best game out there that has a Stefan Feld first player marker (and postcard and challenge coin)?  0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 3:30 Shifting Stones 5:00 Escape the Dark Sector 9:00 Amsterdam 11:00 East India Companies 17:15 Nidavellir 21:15 Dice Manor 24:00 Marrakesh: Over...

Board Boys are out the bunker 5000 years later for Revive (Aporta Games), a game about building a utopian society out of the rubble of ancient times by having fun with your super cool player board. 0:00  Intro, E.V.A. - Jean-Jacques Perrey 4:30 Stack'n Stuff: A Patchwork Game 5:45 Motor City 7:45 Consumption: Food and Choices 9:00 Bot Factory 12:30 Slim Goodbody, Richard Simmons 15:00 A Beaument w...

Board Boys are back in full force to play Deal With the Devil, a new jam from Czech Games Edition about secret dealing, hosing the peasants, and avoiding inquisition. 0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean-Jacques Perrey 6:00 Monumental Consequence 11:30 Fun Facts 15:30 Millennium Blades 23:30 Decorum 25:45 Disney's Gargoyles Awakening 28:45 Brass: Birmingham 39:45 Deal With the Devil: Overview 43:00 Christine...

Board Boys are back, alright, to play Oak, a worker placement game about druids trying to see who can scramble to the top of a huge oak the most reverently, and the third game in a row on this podcast to feature TREES. I guess next time we're going to have to play Atiwa or something chock full of more big trees. Music: E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey, Tie a Yellow Ribbon - organist Mike Reed, Brujeri...

Board Boys are back again for Bonfire with the Trees and Creatures expansion, a Stefan Feld joint. Also in this episode, a Beaument with Mo, Rob is obsessed with Marvel Snap, and Cam underestimates the backbone of the gaming world. Music: E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey, Fire - Ohio Players, Keep the Fire - Kenny Loggins

Board Boys are back, baby, to kick off a new season with Delicious Games' Woodcraft, a game where the dice are wood and the wood is dice. Also in this episode, we explore the deepest Star Wars trivia of all time (confirmed) and talk about Mysterium for five straight minutes, or at least it seems like that. Music: E.V.A., by Jean Jacques Perrey - If I Had a Hammer, Peter, Paul and Mary - Knock on W...

Board Boys are back with a bowl of gas station chili and .375 liters of beer in Autobahn, by Fabio Lopiano and Nestor Mangone. Also in this episode, tons of BGA talk and an argument about why Cam's ratings for each game are so so so correct (Cam didn't write this.) Music E.V.A. by Jean-Jacques Perrey  Holiday Road by Lindsey Buckingham Seasons Change by Exposé  

Before closing out another season of the podcast we were able to sneak in a 2nd Beau-nuss episode back by popular demand!  We talk all about Disney Sorcerer's Arena: Epic Alliances game from The OP.  We dig into the Core Set and the two expansions for the game.  We also get to sit down with Sean Fletcher the designer of the game for an interview about the game and the design.  He also announces Th...

On this installment of The Board Boys, we visit Europe and use some "Unique Abilities" in the game Tiletum from Board & Dice from Simone Luciani and Daniele Tascini.  Cam also takes a different sort of trip to Peru again.  We also compare rappers to game designers and revisit 2022 with our year in review segment and go over some BGStats as well.  Beau stops by for a quick Plug or Beef Hotseat. We...