Roux Dat: Game day recaps of recent plays of Luthier, Tag Team and Legions of Kadmon

BJ reviews the solo option of playing DIRT & DUST, the new deck building rally race game from Albi.

BJ from Board Game Gumbo discusses twenty new games to check out at SPIEL ESSEN 2025 coming up in October!

Inside the new Lost Ruins of Arnak: Adventure Chest. Is it needed? Define "need"!

Josh Ballagh (designer of Coalition: Councils of the Republic) journeyed to PROTOSPIEL CHICAGO and gave us a wrap up of the visit! boardgamegumbo.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/m...

What is an abstract? What are our favorite abstracts? Does ATHENA add anything that's necessary to AKROPOLIS? Find out the answers as BJ ponders the questions further.

BJ lists Top 10 Favorite Board Games of 2024 youtu.be/8DruebNj4eE

Are expansions essential to add to the gameplay on the very first play of the game? Or should the teacher wait for the players to become more familiar? BJ explores the topic through the lens of IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF DARWIN: CORRESPONDENCE

Top Ten Favorite Games of 2024! BJ lists out his favorite game experiences and the games that will stay in his collection, games like SETI and Duck & Cover and River Valley Glassworks and Shackleton Base are all covered

Vantage is for gamers with a sense of adventure, who want to recapture the days of turning on a computer or opening up a game box with no clue what to expect from this particular session. Here's BJ deeper thoughts after playing it solo.

Small box games that we enjoyed on our recent trip to Europe: Uno, Duck & Cover, and Finished!

New information about the Garden Trilogy (AQUA GARDEN, SKY GARDEN, DINO GARDEN) Kickstarter launch in September from uchibacoya!

Roux Dat #68: recent plays of Rebel Princess Deluxe Edition (HAPPILY NEVER AFTER expansion) and READY SET BET

Can’t wait to try these new promo pieces for Hamster Roll from @25thcentury.games !

Jeremy’s Gaming Gratons: DRACULA’S CURSE, which Jeremy says is Betrayal at House on the Hill meets Castlevania without player elimination

Roux Dat #67: recent plays of ENDEAVOR DEEP SEA and GALILEO GALILEI

Logan is back with mini reviews of some of the many games that the Acadiana Board Gamers discord group has been playing, including Galileo Galilei, Sail, Nature and Tabletop Inc.

Board Game Gumbo is pleased to present another game night recap with Jeremy Dobler. This time, we have a two-fer! Jeremy looks at RAILROAD INK: BLAZING RED and COLDWATER CROWN!

Jay from Cardboard East & Bezier Games – The Game Makers It’s another “lagniappe” episode of the Gumbo podcast, this time with Jay from Cardboard East! Jay is the marketing manager for Bezier Games, and he’s here to chat about The Game Makers!  First, Jay gives us his two ENVIE games from Asian…

Hey hey we are enjoying Endeavor Deep Sea — yes that Kennerspiel winner from @burntislandgames.bsky.social ! Come join us in the l chat Krewe twitch.tv/BoardGameGumbo

BJ looks at two dozen games that he would have wanted to try or buy at GEN CON 2025, including games from Paverson Games, Portal Games, and NorthStar Games. Lots of games to look forward to playing soon!

Chuck Con IV Recap – Salt of the Earth We took the month off of June from podcasting to play some games! We’re back with a special episode of Gumbo Live! this time with Steve “The Name Father” O’Rourke dishing on his recent adventures at Chuck Con IV in Salt Lake City.  But Steve’s not alone —…

Roux Dat #65: recent plays of ORBIT, Everdell Farshore, and Res Arcana

BJ posts his predictions for all of the nominations for the Jury awards for Spiel, Kennerspiel, and Kinderspiel. Can you beat his predictions?

All The Stars Above Our Heads: SHACKLETON BASE review Shackleton Base: A Journey To The Moon is a contender for BJ’s game of the year for 2024. Find out why!

BJ reviews the WALLZAP system for hanging up your board games!

BJ looks at MOON COLONY BLOODBATH, the new tableau-building-and-destroying game from Donald X and Rio Grande Games.

BJ and Jerod are back in the Gumbo Pot, this time hanging out with SneauxBunny, Mitchell and Doug. Time to get Merchants Cove on the table, with all of the new content (still can’t believe we actually got our pledge in) plus breezy games of River Valley Glassworks and Nations: The Dice Game!

First play of Emberleaf from @cityofgameshq.bsky.social went great. Awesome teach from Jeremy, and the card dancing created a lot of combos to puzzle out during the game. Our playthrough should be up soon. Looking forward to another play.

Board Game Gumbo is pleased to present another game night recap with Jeremy Dobler. This time, we have a two-fer! Jeremy looks at HOW TO SAVE A WORLD from Yuval Grinspun and publisher Burnt Island Games and EMBERLEAF from The City of Games and designers James Tomblin and Frank West.

BJ walks you through the new(ish) edition of TOKAIDO, published by Stonemaier Games.

The Dark Quarter app is out! Here’s a short blog about our tiny little involvement in the project.

Spiel des Jahres Nominations (2025) chat with Doug and Jeremy It’s another Twitch Tuesday in the Gumbo Pot! This time, Jeremy and Doug stop by to play Pirates of Maracaibo and Schrodinger’s Cat, which you can find on our Twitch and YouTube channels. But before they get to playing the games, they…

BJ looks at CONSERVAS, a new solo fishing game from Scott Almes and 25th Century Games

Restoration Games Announces New Game: BattleMonsters out on Kickstarter right now

Jeremy’s Gaming Gratons — RUNE: DEN OF INSTINCTS is a fox-themed worker placement euro game

Episode 170 with Josh Ballagh (Coalition: Councils of the Republic) Gumbo Live! welcomed in Josh Ballagh, designer and publisher of Coalition: Councils of the Republic, which is hitting Kickstarter this summer! Josh is also one of the co-heads of our awesome GEAUXPUB section at Southern Board Game…

Episode 170: Josh Ballagh and COALITION: COUNCILS OF THE REPUBLIC!

BJ laments the fact that he didn’t play CARNEGIE in 2022 — because it just might have made his games of the year list

Jeremy’s Gaming Gratons: MONKEY PALACE first impressions

In this news flash, Ben talks to Jamey Stegmaier of Stonemaier Games @stonemaiergames.com about the impact of tariffs on board games and his decision to sue the president of the united states. www.spreaker.com/episode/news...

Ben did terrific interviews on tariffs (with Jamey Stegmaier, Frank West, C D Hunter, Jonny Pac, Marc Specter, Daniel Newman) - you´ll find them (plus much more) over here: www.spreaker.com/podcast/five... @5g4d.bsky.social

Vampire Queen is a subtle twist on ladder climbing, card shedding games, that was perfect for a relaxing Easter weekend of gaming.

Penguin Party - playthrough (3p) youtu.be/RAqJTmXMKgo @25thcentury.games

Jeremy’s Gaming Gratons returns with a game night recap of WONDROUS CREATURES

River Valley Glassworks has been one of the best puzzle games we’ve played in a while, right up there with Azul and Sagrada.

Jeremy’s Gaming Gratons: Jeremy returns to GALACTIC CRUISE (finally!) with a full three player playthrough, and gives us his first impressions!

Top Games Played at SoBo 2025 (with Jerod) Jerod and I opened up a new box on Twitch — the kickstarter preview copy of The Pirate Code — and once we finished, we started chatting about our top games played at Southern Board Game Fest 2025 in beautiful downtown Lafayette, Louisiana!   Laissez les…

Setting up a learning game of The Pirate Code from Final Frontier Games for our Euro Mondays stream!

Southern Board Game Fest 2025 recap! All the games played including thoughts on Shackleton Base, Creature Caravan, Longboard, and The Fellowship of the Ring: Trick-Taking Game