Episode 201 - The Perfect Game Day

January 25, 2024

Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including Almost Innocent and Vaalbara. Then, we talk about what our perfect board game day/night would be like!

Episode 158 - Gaming at Weddings

June 2, 2022

Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-Earth and Colt Express. We then are joined by Matt, a patron of the show, to talk about what board games might be good to play at a wedding reception for people who don't want to dance!

Episode 99 - Top 5 Kickstarter Games

February 27, 2020

Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they've played recently, including Detective Stories: Case 1 - The Fire in Adlerstein and Betrayal Legacy. We then talk about the role of Kickstarter in board games and then share our top 5 Kickstarter games!

Ambie's Top 100 Games: 30-21

February 2, 2020

Ambie's revisiting her top 100 games as of the end of 2019! This video is numbers 30-21.


Episode 65 - Top 10 Convention Games

November 8, 2018

Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they've played recently, including Cryptid, Hansa Teutonica, and Illusion. We then talk about our top 10 games to play at board game conventions.

Episode 63 - A Variety of Victories

October 11, 2018

Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they've played recently, including The Enigma Emporium Presents: Wish You Were Here and the Stockpile app. We then talk about unique victory conditions in board games. In this week's "Board Game Etymology" segment, Crystal discusses the origins of the word "unique."

Top 100 Games: Ambie's 80-71

May 28, 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 80-71 games.


Episode 47 - The Fun & Function of Social Deduction

March 1, 2018

Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they've played recently, including Dinosaur Island, Castell, and GROWL. We then talk all about social deduction games. In this week's "Board Game Etymology" segment, Crystal discusses the origins of the word "deduce."

Episode 21 - Puttin' On the Blitz

March 2, 2017

Ambie, Cassadi, and Crystal discuss some games they've played recently, including Witness, Suburbia, and Santorini. We then introduce a new category of board games, blitz games! We also talk about Blitz Con 2017, and announce a contest! In this week's "Board Game Etymology" segment, Crystal discusses the origins of the word "grok."

Blitz Con 2017 Recap

February 24, 2017

by Ambie Valdés
Over President's Day this year, we decided to host our own board game convention in the Bay Area! My friends and I had been discussing starting our own convention for a while, since we had some difficult times at KublaCon with finding table space to play games. We decided to brand it with Board Game Blitz, since we could! This year, we were able to get a small conference room at a Holiday Inn in San Mateo, and we capped registration at 50 people. I had a really great time playing games all weekend and meeting a bunch of new friends!

Over the weekend, I had 33 game plays of 26 unique games. I got to play with over 20 different people, a lot of whom I had never played a game with before!

One of the awesome things about Blitz Con was that I was able to play a game with Crystal for the first time in person! Crystal flew in for the weekend, and we got to hang out for the whole convention!
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