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Season 11 - Blue Orange Games Bonus Episode Nov 18, 2022

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Hey everyone! I special bonus episode is dropping that has Board Boy Rob and Board Boy Beau talking about some of the new games from Blue Orange Games! Getting an 8 year old to hold still and talk into the mic is fun so don't mind a little bit of rustling noise in the recording! See which games Beau gives his biggest ratings to!

Games discussed: Museum Suspects, Next Station London, Bag of Chips, Pop The Box, and Ice Hoppers. With a special look at Surgery Masters!

Season 11, Episode 8 - Twilight Inscription Nov 10, 2022

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Board Boys are back to play the fattest blank and write since Hadrian's Wall, the Twilight Imperium-themed Twilight Inscription. Can a dice chucker with a bright orange pen feel like TI, even with four sheets for each player to mark?

Other games discussed: Twilight Imperium 4th Ed. (Again), Meadow, The Great American Mail Race, Hadrian's Wall, Ultimate Railroads, Flamecraft, Pandemic Rapid Response, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Memoir '44, Tower of Madness, Broom Service.

Music: E.V.A. - Jean-Jacques Perrey, Happy Birthday, Tony! - Woosh from Mars (The Birthday Boys), Anus of Uranus - Klaatu

Season 11, Episode 7 - My Father's Work Oct 27, 2022

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Happy Halloween from Board Boys, we're tackling My Father's Work by T.C. Petty III and Renegade Game Studios, a mad scientist worker placement game with branching storylines. Who will honor their forefathers and who will fail and die peniless?

Other games discussed: Dominion, Chakra, Sea Salt and Paper, Manic Mages, Dungeons and Dragons, Birdwatcher, Root (at 5p), Goetia- The Nine Kingdoms of Solomon, Betrayal at House on the Hill 3rd Ed., Fearsome Floors

Music: He's So Shy - The Pointer Sisters, Aaa - They Might Be Giants

Season 11, Episode 6 - Carnegie Oct 13, 2022

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Board Boys swear allegiance to the steel industry as well as public libraries during a game of Carnegie from Quined Games and designer Xavier Georges. Cam edits out 95 percent of the episode, Kersting starts tracking his plays, and Rob does a great impression of his cinematic hero.

Other games discussed: Caverna, Twilight Inscription, A Study in Emerald, Dark Moon

Board Boys Bump: Chronicles of Crime

Music: E.V.A. - Jean-Jacques Perrey, Tinseltown in the Rain - The Blue Nile, In a Big Country - Big Country (this episode's nasty jams are brought to you by Scottish born innovators, just like Andrew Carnegie himself)

Season 11, Episode 5 - Hansa Teutonica Sep 29, 2022

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Board Boys are back and finally ready to review Hansa Teutonica (Andreas Steding, Pegasus Spiele) wayyyyy after it came out, but hey, there's a Big Box now.

Other games discussed: (warning, the podcast starts talking about games 17 min in this time) Look at the Stars, Ticket to Ride, Bitoku (again), Unearth, Space Station Phoenix (again), Dulce, 1960: The Making of the President, Kites, Next Station: London (Flip and write? Flippin' right!), Regicide.

Board Boys Bump: Dice Hospital

Music: E.V.A. - Jean-Jacques Perrey, Da da da, ich lieb dich nicht du liebst mich nicht aha aha aha - Trio, Naturträne - Nina Hagen

Season 11, Episode 4 - Bitoku Sep 15, 2022

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Board Boys are back and respecting the spirit of the forest for Bitoku, a game about having many rivers to cross. Also in this episode: Wormholes, Canvas, Space Station Phoenix, Shadows Over Camelot, Cosmic Encounter, Museum Suspects, Hansa Teutonica, Dice Throne, Marvel United. Board Boys Bump: Cascadia

Season 11, Episode 3 - Agricola Sep 01, 2022

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Board Boys Podcast is finally reviewing Agricola just in time for the game to be old enough to drive. Also in this episode, we discuss our respective entries into gaming, introduce a new segment in which listeners share their opinions on games we review, and spend too long comparing the titular Agricola to the legends of classic rock.

Season 11, Episode 2 - Foundations of Rome Aug 18, 2022

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In this episode, we play a short(ish) game in a huge box, Foundations of Rome, from Emerson Matsuuchi and Arcane Wonders. Also in this episode, Cardboard Caucus recap, Game of Thrones talk, and Board Boy Cam keeps critically missing the landing on tired jokes.

Season 11, Episode 1 - First Rat Aug 04, 2022

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Board Boys are back, baby, for the season 11 opener, First Rat, by Gabriele Ausiello and Virginio Gigli. Board Boys Tim and Jake make their first appearance as regular hosts and good sport Dealt Hand Joe joins us for the episode after a very long game of Twilight Imperium. Also, we take a look back at several previous episodes in an extended Board Boys Bump, Cam talks Tetris music, and Rob introduces the homies to a game about psychics, pizza, and spooky ghosts.

Season X Finale - Great Western Trail 2nd Edition Jul 26, 2022

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Although we've come to the end of the road - still I can't let go. It's unnatural - you belong to me, I belong to you. Although we've come to the end of the road - still I can't let go. It's unnatural - you belong to me, I belong to you.

Your favorite boys are back as Board Boy Josh and Board Boy Ben officially ride off into the sunset in Great Western Trail Second Edition. This episode the boys look back on the games they've played over the past five years and dust off an old faorite, kazoo that tune.

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