In anticipation of the reprint, the boys (of tile laying with fame) are playing the 1999 hidden gem Rheinländer!

Mechanic Mechanic Matt also helps them to dissect the history of pre-Reiner Knizia tile layers.

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00:00 Intro

1:36 Gaming History: Tile Laying Games

16:58 World Series of Board Gaming Trivia Game

23:04 Rheinländer Discussion

26:00 Matt’s aha Moment

35:39 Chris and Luke’s aha Moments

46:06 Rerelease Discussion

46:57 BGG Germany Trivia Game

52:52 Rheinländer Final Thoughts

55:34 Next Week Teaser

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Hosted & Edited by Chris Lemieux & Luke O'Grady

Produced by Sophie Shin

Socials by Matt Winquist

Art by Samm Ruppersberger

Chris and Luke gloriously return to the circus to talk about Spectaculum and how circuses are the same as trains!

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00:00 - Intro

01:17 - What We Played This Week - Unmatched Adventures TMNT

08:34 - Spectaculum Discussion

17:20 - aha! (and Oh My!) Moments

21:52 - BGG Trivia Game

29:31 - Gold Country Discussion and Spectaculum Final Thoughts

34:05 - Next Week Teaser

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Hosted & Edited by Chris Lemieux & Luke O'Grady

Produced by Sophie Shin

Socials by Matt Winquist

Art by Samm Ruppersberger

Chris and Luke are joined by special guest Alisha Giroux, artist and graphic designer of Gazebo, to chat about the game and the work that goes into board game art.

Later, they dig deep about nooks, patios, gazebos and dominos and how they all work within the world of Gazebo.

Alisha can be found at https://www.instagram.com/_asmeesh

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00:00 Intro

01:03 Interview and discussion with Alisha Giroux

18:43 Alisha's Upcoming projects

21:20 Tile Placement guessing game

33:01 Gazebo rules overview

46:00 aha! moments

01:02:00 Next week teaser

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Hosted & Edited by Chris Lemieux & Luke O'Grady

Produced by Sophie Shin

Socials by Matt Winquist

Art by Samm Ruppersberger

Chris, Luke and Mechanic Mechanic Matt look at and place their votes for the 5 awards and twenty nominated games for the upcoming boardgamearena.com awards!

Check it out and vote here: https://bga.li/awards2026

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0:00 - Intro

7:15 - Best Casual Game

17:20 - Best Regular Game

27:57 - Best Expert Game

41:28 - Best 2-Player Game

54:00 - Best Brain Teaser

1:03:45 - Overall Favourite

1:08:00 - Next Week Teaser

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Hosted & Edited by Chris Lemieux & Luke O'Grady

Produced by Sophie Shin

Socials by Matt Winquist

Art by Samm Ruppersberger

Wrapping up our Anniversaries trilogy (until our first 2026 play!), we talk Khan of Khans - a very light card game set in the world of Glorantha.

Luke also waxes loquacious about a trilogy of games - Nova Luna, Sanagi, and Framework.

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00:00 - Intro

00:52 - What We (Luke) Played This Week (Nova Luna, Sanagi, Framework)

13:39 - Khan of Khans discussion

25:31 - aha! moments

36:13 - How Has it Aged?

39:41 - Minigame (Top 5 Crowdfunded games on BGG)

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Hosted & Edited by Chris Lemieux & Luke O'Grady

Produced by Sophie Shin

Socials by Matt Winquist

Art by Samm Ruppersberger

Whose chateau will the king visit? Which nightclub will attract the most famous guests?? How are these connected???

All of your most burning questions answered on this week's episode.

Hosted by: Luke O'Grady & Chris Lemieux

Produced by: Sophie Shin

Socials: Matt Winquist

Artwork by: Samm Ruppersberger

Debuting a concise new series to kick off our 2026 run, the lads are covering Classic Art to commemorate the 30th anniversary of its original 1996 release.

We also chat French Toast, a recent release by AllPlay and the ever-magnanimous Peter C. Hayward.

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01:01 - French Toast discussion (What We Played This Week)

06:56 - Classic Art Discussion

17:26 - Aha! Moments

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Hosted & Edited by Luke O'Grady & Chris Lemieux

Produced by Sophie Shin

Socials by Matthew Winquist

Art by Samm Ruppersberger

Happy new year! 🎉Another year around the sun, another retrospective episode where we get the whole crew together to discuss the games we played, the challenges most of us catastrophically failed, and what we're looking forward to in 2026.

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Hosted & Edited by Luke O'Grady, Chris Lemieux, Sophie Shin, & Matthew Winquist

Produced by Sophie Shin

Socials by Matthew Winquist

Art by Samm Ruppersberger

🚀Our final lap around the SILOS system takes the lads through a high-stakes galactic race that's fun for the whole family!

Includes amicable chatting about 12 Chip Trick, as well as comparisons of ORBIT to other race & racing games.

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00:00 - Intro

01:26 - 12 Chip Trick discussion (What We Played This Week)

07:43 - ORBIT discussion

22:29 - aha! moments

29:31 - Game of Games: top 5 SciFi boardgames

Hosted & Edited by Luke O'Grady & Chris Lemieux

Produced by Sophie Shin

Socials by Matthew Winquist

Art by Samm Ruppersberger

👽 The lads wax enthusiastically about EGO, the exciting, interactive, and tough-to-categorize 2nd entry in the Cosmic Silos Trilogy from Bitewing Games about being better at making friends than your friends.

Featuring banter about 'Waddle', a clever little penguin posturing game from Allplay & Corné van Moorsel.

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00:00 - Intro

00:36 - Waddle Discussion

05:37 - EGO Rules & Discussion

21:08 - Aha! Moments

40:08 - Game of games