🚨 New Video! Sharing our first impressions for the wonderful tile laying game Dorfromantik, published by @pegasusspiele.bsky.social 🌲 youtu.be/0VoTFJwDD00 #BoardGames

Waypoints Map 5 is here, and we’re off to the North Alpine Foothills! Fill your whisky flask, venture into the great lochs, and grab your bike to make use of one of the many biking trails.

A great board game to take to the beach! We have the Mini version. This one plays well even if it's windy, thanks to the design of the player boards ☺️ #boardgames #azul

🚨 New Video! We're discussing the games we played over the summer period 🌞 Hopefully we'll be back to a more regular video schedule too 🤞 youtu.be/bR8bC9fVdXk #BoardGames

We're finally going to have a game night!! Woohooooo!!! 🥳 Just the two of us, but we are going to bring to the table 1 hour and a half of games each. I already know the ones I'm bringing, and Christian is going to decide later. Anyone else got board game plans this evening? ☺️ - J #boardgames

🚨 New Video! We tried out the head to head, card-driven tactical game Ironwood. Some really nice components in this one, and a fun dueling experience! youtu.be/bSYCvtsuPwU #BoardGames

We love chunky metal tokens 🤩 +15 VP if you know what game these are from. #BoardGames

We were so happy to go and pick this up from the post office today! Also, This game has some HEFT, We did not expect that when picking it up 😅 Not sure when we will be able to table it, but hoping soon 🤞 #BoardGames

🚨 New Video! We tried the new roll and write game, Isla 🏝️🎲 It's got a cool dice exhaustion mechanic, which makes traversing around the island and trying to get research conducted a bit tricky, but fun. youtu.be/5ht3unE5Cs8 #BoardGames

Our official response:

I’m doing victory laps in my kitchen right now!!!! 💃🏼 CGE just announced they are going to be giving away 100% of the profit from their Harry Potter game to pro-trans charities!! www.instagram.com/p/DNG48n-IVP...

How this made it to production is baffling. Didn't expect to see a publisher put out a game in 2025 with racist imagery. Devir has promptly put out a response: boardgamegeek.com/thread/35556...

#BlockCollective is a volunteer-run community with the united goal of sharing resources and information, disrupting bigoted spaces, and serious engagement on the topic of trans rights. Please join us as we help shape the boardgame industry into a safer and inclusive space. 🎲✂️ discord.gg/D7E6gqwrRF

Just had our first game of Tiny Towns on Board Game Arena, To see if we would like the game and think about the physical copy one day. Safe to say we both enjoyed it a lot! and it's gone straight onto our wishlist 🥳 #BoardGames

I wanted to share a few thoughts recent discussions around CGE’s decision to partner with JKR for their upcoming @codenamesgame.bsky.social game have prompted. Thankful to those who spoke early to this issue (Marceline, Tiffany, @nopunincluded.com et al) for helping this get the needed attention.

Since Codenames (/publisher Czech Games Edition) has decided to side with money and against human rights, im going to make a thread of five board games you could play instead of Codenames

Not a great look to start blocking (trans games designers included) on top of everything. Here are links for a rough timeline of events 🔗

So Codenames (and thus CGE) has blocked me, a Trans developer and designer, because I had the nerves to send them the two replies you find below. Judge for yourself if these are worth a ban. This is their way of dealing with empathy and care in this ongoing conversation.

How disappointing that CGE would choose to collab with JK Rowling, a bigot working to erode trans rights. It was an easy decision for us to make. We will not be buying anymore CGE board games going forward, nor covering the CGE games we already own. Trans rights are human rights, simple as that.

52 Realms: Adventures has made it to the final of the Board Game Revolution awards in the best print and play category. If you're headed that way, we'd love to get some votes! tr.ee/LNvsbn8Fuy

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A little birthday board gaming 🎂 Wingspan was so nice to play again 🤩 It had been a while since we last opened up the physical copy. Next time we'll add in an expansion! Pandemic was fun too! Though we got absolutely obliterated with outbreak chain reactions 😅 #BoardGames

We just played Isla! It's one we backed on Kickstarter and we're both happy to say they (Ocean City Games) really delivered a cool game experience 🏝️ Roll dice, explore the island, get exhausted, run into threats, possibly get lost on the island? It's a good time 😊 #BoardGames

🚨 New Video! We finally got around to playing Forest Shuffle by @lookoutgames.bsky.social ! We share an overview and our thoughts on this fun nature themed card game. 🌲🦌 youtu.be/XzBvC2KAv_k #BoardGames

It's been a while since our last video, so it's good to be back in the editing seat for our upcoming video 🎞️ This one is for our first Impressions of Forest Shuffle, by @lookoutgames.bsky.social (Spoiler, we do be loving the game) 🥳 #BoardGames

Village Green! A very cute game from @ospreygames.bsky.social that comes in a small box. Have you played it? www.tiktok.com/@boardgamebe... #boardgames

When projects & nerdy interests collide; we end up with our board game collection in Obsidian 😊 A local first note-taking app we're using instead of Google Sheets.

A friend just sent me this screenshot from the front page of Board Game Arena. Undergrove is ready to play! boardgamearena.com

We just played our first game of Forest Shuffle 🌲 We both loved it! Rules light, with lots of cards and effects to try and get the highest score with. Gorgeous illustrations too 🤩 #BoardGames

Out and about at Feira do Livro de Lisboa 2025 (Lisbon Book Fair)! That day was not for the books, but for the board games. @devirportugal.bsky.social #FeiraDoLivro2025 #FeiraDoLivro #boardgames #jogosdetabuleiro

Fliptown this morning! We both beat our previous high scores! 🤠 #BoardGames

🚨 New Video! We tried the card game Clash of Corgis! 😊 Nice cute corgi artwork, and 3 games in one box. Sharing an overview for how they play and our first impressions. 🐾 youtu.be/IElTv6bkBmA

🚨 New Video! We open up Morgan's Magic Map, and share our first impressions on this treasure hunting board game for 2-4 players, that takes place over a shifting island map 🗺️🪙 youtu.be/kSFjTugW-g8 #BoardGames

We just got done learning the rules for Ironwood, We'll have to save playing it until tomorrow as it's getting a bit too late; but we love what we're seeing so far! The production on this one is really good too, with satisfying metal and wood tokens for the respective sides 👌 #BoardGames

Such a gorgeous box! We didn't expect the inside to be looking like this 🤩 #BoardGames

Just found this plugin which is great for any board game Obsidian users : github.com/Marlon154/bo... 👌 We'll be having our entire collection brought into Obsidian! Then we can display it all nice with Dataview or the new Bases feature (currently in beta). Simple, local, markdown files 🥳

Yesterday we visited the oldest (236yr) and largest cork tree in the world! The Whistler Tree / Sobreiro Monumental, Portugal. It reminded us of the cork-themed worker placement card game, Cortiça. We've yet to print our copy, but when we do, maybe we should revisit this tree for the first play!

Back with RUN for our board game breakfast! 🥣 Today we played on a new map, and Joana managed to get the win as I made some not-so-clever moves towards the end. This is easily one of our favorite hidden movement games, with a nice increasing difficulty 👌 #BoardGames

It finally arrived! 😊 Deep Regrets + Exp, and Hideous Abominations from @tettix.bsky.social We were getting worried this one would be lost, as it initially got refused and sent back to the UK from Portugal before it even reached us! (Long story) So happy, it looks amazing 🦑 #BoardGames

Yesterday we sleeved Virus! into the official deck box from @tranjisgames.bsky.social 🥳 We were wondering though, what do you normally do with the empty boxes when combining games like this? #BoardGames

We now have a Discord 🥳 Invite link for anyone that's interested to join: discord.gg/YkW68nv7 #BoardGames

Please don't send us games to review that use AI generated images, or art without the artists' permission. If we spot it, we will seek out the artist to inform them.

Poll time! Do you have a favorite publisher(s) or are you indifferent to who publishes the board games you play or buy? Comments may be read on next episode. #boardgames

🚨 New Video! We play and share our thoughts on the self-contained card game, The Vale of Eternity from @mandoogames.bsky.social 🐉🐦‍🔥 youtu.be/ztPm7mUTRBk #BoardGames #YouTube #Dragon

We finally got an advert on YouTube that was adequately targeted for us, for some card sleeves from Dragon Shield 👀 We'd not heard of them before, but we feel compelled to check them out some time - the advert was fun! If all adverts were like this we'd be happy. Bravo @dragonshield.bsky.social 👏

Just got done taking some photos for an upcoming video. +10 vp to anyone who knows which game this is from. #BoardGames

Really chuffed to have won a Golden Geek for 52 Realms: Adventures. To be honest, I’m just pleased people like the game. When Matt and I started making it, we weren’t sure if it would resonate with folks, so seeing it win an award is a great confidence boost. A huge thanks to everyone that voted!

Looks like we have a copycat in this game of Captain Flip! It was me (Christian) 👀 #BoardGames #BoardGameArena

Happy to share that we've just done a bit of a rebranding and come out of it with a logo and more! Board Game Beans has leant fully into the best kind of beans - toe beans! Our logo is an illustration of the best beans we knew, our late cat Nanina 🐈 #AffinityDesigner #BoardGames