September 23, 2025

Episode 344: Aquatica Cold Waters, Ruins

1 hour 28 minutes

This week, join Lauren, Conor and Jules as they chat about the games hitting their table. Jules is used to laying waste to his opponents, and now he can literally leave them - in Ruins. Conor is hot for this game but she's cold for him, in the expansion Aquatica: Cold Waters. Lauren has been playing some small little card games but is mostly just along for the ride.

This plus our Question of the Pod recap and finally ending with what has us fired up! (yee-haw)

Timestamps:

What we've been playing [0:02:19]

Aquatica: Cold Waters [0:46:17]

Ruins [1:00:47]

Question of the Pod [1:14:17]

Fired Up [1:25:16]

New Question of the Pod: What games did you miss on release, but are hanging out to play and why?

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Has this episode left you with a thirst for more? Here are all of the games that we discussed:

Scoville - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/145659/scoville

Forest Shuffle - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/391163/forest-shuffle

Cryptrick - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/391829/cryptrick

Farm Hand - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/386860/farm-hand

Pixies: Flower Power - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/441707/pixies-flower-power

Paper World - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/429020/paper-world

Nunatak: Temple of Ice - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/383158/nunatak-temple-of-ice

Ruins - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/428635/ruins

Aquatica: Cold Waters - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgameexpansion/300872/aquatica-cold-waters

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