Ian Mansfield and Jared Snyder

The Game Table Podcast

Leisure EN ↓ 165 episodes

Here at The Game Table Podcast, we explore a wide variety of tabletop games, including board games, card games, role-playing games, and more. We give you a brief overview of each game, explain the basics of how to play, and share our opinions to help you decide if it’s a good fit for your gaming table. Whether you’re a casual gamer or a tabletop game enthusiast, we’re here to help guide you through the exciting world of tabletop gaming.

Author

Ian Mansfield and Jared Snyder

Category

Leisure

Podcast website

www.thegametablepodcast.com

Latest episode

Jul 8, 2026

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Episodes

Nana – A Kid’s/Family Table Review 19.02.2025

Jared, Faith, and Joy sit down at the Kid's table and take a look at the tricky memory and set collection game Nana from Mob Plus. Links for Nana Game Interested in purchasing? Nana / Trio Note: As an Amazon Associate, we earn commission from qualifying purchases. Publisher: Mob Plus Designer: 宮野 華也 (Kaya Miyano) Artists:  別府さい (Sai Beppu) BGG Game Lin k How to Play: Ruel Gaviola / Tableto...

Marvel Champions Expansions Discussion 13.02.2025

Ian and Jared sit down at the featured table to discuss the many expansions in the Marvel Champions lineup by Fantasy Flight Games. They discuss each campaign box, each hero, and discuss some of their favorites. Links for Marvel Champions Expansions Interested in purchasing? Rise of Red Skull (close to out of print - will need to possibly search 2nd hand) Galaxy's Most Wanted Mad Titan's Shadow Si...

Obsession – A Two Top Review 05.02.2025

Anna and Jared sit down at the two top table to discuss the social climbing, estate building, open drafting, and hand management game Obsession by Kayenta Games. Links for Obsession Publisher: Kayenta Games Designer: Dan Hallagan Artists: Dan Hallagan BGG Game Link Links for The Game Table Podcast Intro Victorian Gothic Piano Music "One Thousand Years Ago" Music by Joel Fazhari from Pixabay 'How t...

Fort – A Featured Table Review 29.01.2025

Ian and Jared sit down at the Featured table to discuss the deck building, fort constructing, friend-making game, Fort by Leder Games. Links for Fort Interested in purchasing? https://amzn.to/40Lbg98 Note: As an Amazon Associate, we earn commission from qualifying purchases. Publisher: Leder Games Designer: Grant Rodiek Artists: Kyle Ferrin BGG Game Link How to Play: Watch It Played Links for The...

Nosy Bear / Dragon’s Breath – Two Quick Kid’s Table Reviews 22.01.2025

Jared and Hope sit down at the Kid's table and take a look at the color identifying game, Nosy Bear, and the dexterity, set collection game Dragon's Breath from HABA games. Links for Nosy Bear Board Game Interested in purchasing? https://amzn.to/4hqW3PW Note: As an Amazon Associate, we earn commission from qualifying purchases. Publisher: HABA Designer: Christian Tiggemann Artists:  Anna-Lena Kühl...

Nunatak: Temple of Ice – A Featured Table Review 15.01.2025

Ian and Jared sit down at the Featured table to discuss the competitive ice temple building game, Nunatak by Kosmos. Links for Nunatak: Temple of Ice Interested in purchasing? https://amzn.to/3PwIPVY Note: As an Amazon Associate, we earn commission from qualifying purchases. Publisher: Kosmos Designer: Kane Klenko Artists: Kwanchai Moriya BGG Game Link How to Play: Thames & Kosmos UK Links for...

Fateforge: Chronicles of Kaan – A Two Top Review 08.01.2025

Anna and Jared sit down at the Two Top table to discuss the app driven, epic story telling adventure dungeon crawling tabletop game, Fateforge: Chronicles of Kaan. A very special thank you to Mighty Boards for providing a review copy. It was a fantastic surprise (one of the biggest of our year) and one of Jared's top game of 2024! Links for Fateforge: Chronicles of Kaan Interested in purchasing? M...

End of Year Review and Looking Ahead to 2025 01.01.2025

Happy New Year Everyone!!! Ian and Jared give an end of year review of 2024, discuss their successes and failures, and look ahead to 2025. We hope your New Year is a blast and that 2025 is incredible! Games Looked at in End of Year Review Disney Villainous Apiary Heat: Pedal to the Medal Ticket to Ride: Legacy Let's Go to Japan Star Wars: X-Wing Akropolis Sea Salt & Paper Cat in the Box: Delux...

The Game Night Around Christmas – A Game Table Podcast Christmas Parody 24.12.2024

Joyful Game Night, Merry Christmas, and Happy Holidays from The Game Table Podcast! We hope you have a wonderful time with friends, family, and loved ones. May this Christmas parody bring you a little joy as you gather round your own gaming table for game night during the holiday season. Links for The Game Table Podcast Background Music: Song: T'was the Night Before Christmas Artist: Steve Oxen Ha...

Hues and Cues – A Kid’s Table Review 18.12.2024

Faith, Joy, and Anna sit down at the Kid's table and take a look at the color communication deduction game, Hues & Cues from the OP games. Links for Hues and Cues Board Game Interested in purchasing?  https://amzn.to/4gluDea Note: As an Amazon Associate, we earn commission from qualifying purchases. Publisher: The OP Games Designer: Scott Brady Artists:  BGG Game Lin k How to Play: W...

Sandbag – A Week of Bezier Card Game Reviews 14.12.2024

Jared wraps up the week of celebrating Bezier's Year of the Card Game by taking a look at the trick avoiding, hand manipulating game, Sandbag. Links for Sandbag Interested in purchasing? https://amzn.to/4gdUFjD Note: As an Amazon Associate, we earn commission from qualifying purchases. Publisher:  Bezier Games Designer: Ted Alspach Artists: Greg Bartlett BGG Game Link How to Play: Before You Play...

Scram! – A Week of Bezier Card Game Reviews 13.12.2024

Jared jumps back into the Bezier card game celebration and begins an attempt to clean up the leftover mess with the campground clearing game, Scram! Links for Scram! Catalog Interested in purchasing? https://amzn.to/4gt1hKt Note: As an Amazon Associate, we earn commission from qualifying purchases. Publisher:  Bezier Games Designer: Ted Alspach Artists: Agus Muqith BGG Game Link How to Play: Befor...

Rebel Princess Deluxe Edition – A Week of Bezier Card Game Reviews 12.12.2024

It's Anna's turn to jump into the fray of The Week of Bezier Card Game Reviews as she sits down at the Featured Table to review Rebel Princess Deluxe Edition - the somewhat sassy reimplementation of the classic trick taking game of Hearts. Links for Rebel Princess Deluxe Edition Catalog Interested in purchasing? https://amzn.to/4gt1hKt Note: As an Amazon Associate, we earn commission from qualifyi...

Seers Catalog – A Week of Bezier Card Game Reviews 11.12.2024

The celebration continues with Seers Catalog - the next card game on the list of our week of Bezier card game reviews. Ian sits down at the Featured Table to discuss all of the latest and greatest items that you NEED to protect yourselves against the werewolves in this ALMOST card shedding game. Links for Seers Catalog Interested in purchasing? https://amzn.to/4 1qCd2I Note: As an Amazon Associate...

Xylotar – A Week of Bezier Card Game Reviews 10.12.2024

Next on the list of our week of Bezier card game reviews is the deductive trick tacking game, Xylotar! Jared sits down at the featured table to take a look. Links for Xylotar Interested in purchasing? https://amzn.to/41qCd2I Note: As an Amazon Associate, we earn commission from qualifying purchases. Publisher:  Bezier Games Designer: Christopher Wray Artists: Davi Comodo BGG Game Link How to Play:...

Silver – A Week of Bezier Card Game Reviews 09.12.2024

Ian kicks off our week of Bezier Card Game Reviews with the social deduction, memory, and hand management game, Silver! Links for Silver Interested in purchasing one of the games in the Silver lineup? Silver: https://amzn.to/3Zuirk6 Coin: https://amzn.to/4fbFPc7 Dagger: https://amzn.to/3D70Sz6 Bullet: https://amzn.to/4g5tQ0L Note: As an Amazon Associate, we earn commission from qualifying purchase...

Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle Earth – A Two-Top Review 04.12.2024

Guest hosts, Josh and Kelli, sit down at the two-top table and take a look at the 2 player card drafting game, Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle Earth, published by Repos Productions. Links for Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle Earth Interested in purchasing? https://amzn.to/3Zuirk6 Note: As an Amazon Associate, we earn commission from qualifying purchases. Publisher:  Repos Productions Des...

Classic & Gateway Games I’m Thankful For – A Featured Table Review 27.11.2024

Jared sits down at the Featured Table without a co-host to discuss some of the classic and gateway games in the board gaming hobby that he is thankful for. Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Links of Classic & Gateway Games from the Discussion Monopoly Canasta Heroscape Catan Ticket to Ride King of Tokyo Pandemic For Sale Resistance / Coup / Werewolf Lords of Waterdeep Sushi Go / 7 Wonders Takenoko...

Fortify – A Kid’s Table Review 20.11.2024

Faith and Jared sit down at the Kid's table and take a look at the real time head to head dice placement push your luck water balloon chucking board game, Fortify, by Barrel Aged Games. Links for Fortify Board Game Interested in purchasing?  https://amzn.to/49zBU7F Note: As an Amazon Associate, we earn commission from qualifying purchases. Publisher: Barrel Aged Games Designer: Jason Mack and Cale...

Age of Comics: The Golden Years – A Featured Table Review 13.11.2024

Ian and Jared sit down at the Featured table and take a look at the worker placement comic book publishing game, Age of Comics: The Golden Years, published by Lirius Games. Links for Age of Comics: The Golden Years Board Game Publisher:  Lirius Games Designer: Giacomo Cimini and  Sónia Gonçalves Artists:  Laura Guglielmo BGG Game Lin k How to Play: Board Game Teacher Links for The G...

Neodreams – A Two Top Review 06.11.2024

Anna and Jared sit down at the two-top table and take a look at the economic worker placement, tableau building, dream creating game, Neodreams, published by Hobby World. Links for Neodreams Board Game Publisher:  Hobby World Designer:  Ivan Lashin Artists:  Nick Gerts and  Evgeny Zubkov BGG Game Lin k How to Play: N/A Links for The Game Table Podcast 'How to Play' Music Backgr...

Zombicide – A Featured Table Review 30.10.2024

Jared and Ian take a look at the quick action zombie fighting horde swarming survival game, Zombicide by CMON Games Limited. Links for Zombicide Interested in purchasing?  https://amzn.to/3ZG1iVU Note: As an Amazon Associate, we earn commission from qualifying purchases. Publisher:  CMON Games Limited Designer: Raphaël Guiton ,  Jean-Baptiste Lullien , and  Nicolas Raoult Artists:  James Churchill...

Donut Shop – A Kid’s Table Review 23.10.2024

Faith and Jared take a look at the tile laying and set collection board game, Donut Shop, published by 25th Century Games. Links for Donut Shop Board Game Interested in purchasing? https://amzn.to/3Duk8qh Note: As an Amazon Associate, we earn commission from qualifying purchases. Publisher:  25th Century Games Designer:  Jeffrey D. Allers Artists:  James Churchill and  Nick Joh...

Redwood – A Featured Table Review 16.10.2024

Ian and Jared take a look at the photography board game, Redwood, published by Sit Down!. Redwood Board Game Description from the Publisher Redwood  is a board game of movement estimations and angle of view where players have to take pictures of wild animals to compose the most beautiful panorama. The game is for 1 to 4 players, ages 10+ and the games last about 45-60 min. During their turn,...

Wild Gardens – A Two Top Review 09.10.2024

Anna and Jared sit down at the Two Top Table to look at the foraging and friend making game, Wild Gardens by Rose Gauntlet Entertainment. Links for Wild Gardens Interested in purchasing? https://amzn.to/3ZWlYZQ Note: As an Amazon Associate, we earn commission from qualifying purchases. Publisher:  Rose Gauntlet Entertainment Designer:  Isaac Vega Artists:  Lyss Menold BGG Game Lin k How to Play: B...

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