Board Game Homies

In episode 52, we walk through our annual board game weekend vacation and discuss our planning, the things we ate, and all of the games we played (and didn’t play.)
22 games with 33 plays over the course of 5 days-PART 1!

Games in this episode:
Castles of Burgundy
Brass Birmingham
Goblin Vaults
Clank! Catacombs with the Underworld expansion
Sea Salt & Paper
Botswana
Shackleton Base

PS! Board game convention with a World Series of Board Game qualifier in Bozeman, Montana this May: https://www.rooks-con.com/

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In episode 51, we review Galileo Galilei published by Pink Troubadour and Captstone Games. But first! We chat about what is bringing us joy: Bottle Imp, Wondrous Creatures, Evacuation, and Board Game Homie weekend at the beach.

Galileo Galilei is a Euro-style game for 1-4 players where players take on the role of historical astronomers looking to the night sky for celestial objects while navigating the Inquisition as their suspicions rise with each astronomer’s discovery, lecture, and written work. The science, history, and mechanics blend elegantly in this game, and all four homies agree it is worthy of space on the shelf (especially if you’re a science nerd.)

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In episode 50, we review Wondrous Creatures by Bad Comet Games. But first! We chat about what is bringing us joy: Eternal Decks, Reed’s new board game shelf, and Irish Gauge.

Wondrous Creatures is a whimsical and adorable game for 1-4 players. Each player manages a crew to explore the uncharted island in order to gather resources to attract the many wondrous creatures to their own reserve. This is a big deck game with many tags and various card types that all work together to help players complete achievements and, ultimately, score the most points.

Three of the four homies have mixed feelings about this game especially due to the length of the game play, but one homie was enchanted enough (and convinced) to buy this game from Gillean during the recording of this episode.
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In episode 49, we look back on our 2025 board game resolutions and look forward to the year ahead with new resolutions and 2026 predictions and by reflecting on lessons learned, surprises, and disappointments.

In 2025…
…we all thought we would play more games with our partners,
…most of us planned to spend less money on board games (someone said no purchasing for the whole year!!),
…two of us hoped to play 100 percent of our collection,
…one of us vowed to create a trick taker collection.

In 2026…
New goals.
New games.
Bold predictions.
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Board game shelf design created by Jenna Rose from The Board Game Garden. Check out "My 2026 Board Game Journal! | Goals, challenges, statistic tracking & more!" on YouTube!

Bird Game Homies poster created by HummingBelle!

For episode 48, Angela secretly analyzed, ranked, and combined our individual top 10 lists to create our cumulative TOP 10 New-to-Us Games We Played in 2025. We react to and chat about each game in our top 10, and then we move into rapid-fire questions to share our favorite themes, our biggest game surprises, games we’re ready to toss out the window while on the freeway, and much, much more. This episode is then wrapped up by visiting our listeners', followers' and friends’ favorite games of 2025!
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