Episode 177 - Rules of the House

February 23, 2023

Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including Tiny Turbo Cars and The Great Split. Then, we talk about house rules and when might be a good time to implement them.

Episode 167 - Great Gateways

October 6, 2022

Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including Pocket Book Adventures, The Mysterious Case of Dancing Mania, Connected Clues, and Gutenberg. We then talk about what "gateway games" are and some games we like using to show people what's out there in the board gaming hobby! Finally, Crystal goes over the origins of the word 'Clue.'

Episode 123 - Alphabetical Part 2

January 28, 2021

Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they've played recently, including The Enigma Emporium Puzzle Postcards Series 2: Cycle of Learning and 5er Finden. We then countinue talking about our favorite game from each letter of the alphabet with part 2 of 3.

Episode 114 - One in A Hundred Part 2A

September 24, 2020

Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they've played recently, including Gridopolis and Battlestar Galactica. We then continue our one in a hundred games list with our top game from each set of 100 in the top 1001-1500 ranked games on BoardGameGeek!

Episode 109 - My Game Wants to Party All the Time

July 16, 2020

Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they've played recently, including LEGACY: Quest for a Family Treasure and Bites. We then talk about party games with special guest and patron of the show Pam.

Ambie's Top 100 Games: 40-31

February 1, 2020

Ambie's revisiting her top 100 games as of the end of 2019! This video is numbers 40-31.


Top 100 Games: Ambie's 40-31

June 1, 2018

For our two year podcast anniversary, we decided to put together our top 100 board games of all time! In this video, Ambie goes over her top 40-31 games.


Episode 16 - Party Time

December 8, 2016

Ambie, Cassadi, and Crystal discuss some games they've played recently, including Paris Connection, Istanbul, and Deception: Murder in Hong Kong. We then talk about board games that are great for parties. In this week's "Board Game Etymology" segment, Crystal discusses the origins of the word "party."

BGG.CON 2016 Recap

November 21, 2016

by Ambie Valdés
This year was my husband (Toby) and my first year at BGG.CON, and it was amazing. I tried out 53 distinct games, 49 of which were new to me (some were really quick dexterity games). I'm obviously not going to go over every game I played (you can see what I played here, but here are some highlights of the convention for me.

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One of the best things at BGG.CON is the library. The library is HUGE. A whole conference room is filled with board games on all the walls, a lot of which are brand new games from Essen! There was also a section in the main hall with a lot of the hot games set up so that people could play them. Because BGG.CON is right after Essen, it was great for trying out all those games I've been hearing about the past month.

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