The Board Boys Podcast

Hey everyone hope you are ready for a new Beau-nuss Episode! In this one we talk about our experience playing Jurassic World: The Legacy of Isla Nublar a legacy style cooperative game from Funko Games. In this game you play over 11 total games and get to totally build your own dino theme park! What did Board Boys Rob and Beau have to think about it? Listen and find out! The second half of the episode is full of spoilers so if you want to hear all the little secrets keep on listening to the 2nd half!

Welcome to the Challenge Family in Challengers!, a game of building a sick deck of zany athletes and seeing how it fares against your opponents when none of you have any control over the order in which cards are played. Also in this episode, Spiel des Jahres contenders 2023 and a little bit of talk about GWT: Rails to the North 2nd Ed. 0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 2:00 Capture the Flag and other camp games 6:30 The King's Dilemma 14:30 Dealmaking ettiquete 19:30 Oranienburger Kanal 24:30 Cascadia 29:45 Awkward Guests 33:34 Challengers!: Overview 37:30 Wrestling promo taunting Razor Ramone and Ric Flair - Ultimate Warrior and "Macho Man" Randy Savage 38:30 Challengers!: Review 59:00 Challengers!: Verdict 1:08:30 Spiel des Jahres 2023 nominees 1:24:00 Board Boys Bump: Great Western Trail 2nd Edtion + mini review Rails to the North 1:38:30 Thank You, Patrons 1:39:15 Challenge Song - I have no idea how to really credit this- Apparently it's the theme song for Half Challenge Barcelona 2013?

Time to go sailing, Christopher Cross style, in Darwin's Journey, a game that I think should have been named "Galapoly" - who will publish information on species and fossils and stuff the best, Board Boys, Darwin, or the handsome sailor, Esteban? Find out today on another episode of the world's first board game podcast except it's about flying. 0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 1:45 Standing In My Truth (the probably one time only segment): Airplane seating 17:30 Board Game discussion begins 17:45 Bamboo 19:45 Akropolis (again) 22:15 Silo (Rob talks about TV) 27:00 Darwin's Journey: Overview 29:00 Galapagos - Slawa Przybylska 30:30 Darwin's Journey: Review 1:16:15 Darwin's Journey: Verdict 1:22:00 Top 5 Luciani games 1:27:30 Board Boys Bump: Perseverance 1:32:00 Thank You, Patrons 1:32:45 Sailing- Christopher Cross

Board Boys cover seeds with crud and grow beautiful, life giving flora in Earth, a tasty lil jam by from Maxime Tardif. Also, Rob thinks Jane Lynch was on 3rd Rock from the Sun and Cam talks about his youth as a server and bartender for way too long. 0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 1:45 Who was on 3rd Rock from the Sun? 3:00 Many, many thoughts on waiting tables 11:30 Awkward Guests 14:15 Middle Earth Quest 16:00 Star Wars: Rivals 19:45 Akropolis 26:00 Distilled 33:00 Pirates of Maracaibo 47:00 Earth: Overview 50:15 Symphony for a Spider Plant - Mort Garson - Mother Earth's Plantasia (warm earth music for plants... and the people who love them) 51:30 Earth: Review 1:24:45 Earth: Verdict 1:34:00 Board Boys Bump: The Battle of Five Armies 1:38:30 Thank You, Patrons 1:41:00 Power Flower - Stevie Wonder - Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants

Board Boys take an educational trip to Ghana, courtesy of celebrated nonfiction author Uwe Rosenberg in Atiwa, by celebrated board game designer Uwe Rosenberg. Will they repopulate the land with a plethora of succulent fruit-bearing trees or will they eat bat? 0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jaques Perrey 2:15 Atiwa: The Informational Booklet 7:00 Barrage 13:15 Ark Nova changed scoring methods 19:45 Nintendo Switch Sports- playing golf online 22:30 Quickity Pickity 27:15 Brew 29:30 Dungeons and Dragons: The Yawning Portal 38:45 Atiwa: Overview 40:45 Batty Rap- Robin Williams (Fern Gully) 41:45 Atiwa: Review 1:08:00 Atiwa: Verdict 1:14:00 Board Boys Bump: Return to Dark Tower 1:21:30 Fa Wakoma Ma Me - C.K. Mann (Ghana)

Board Boys kill the bad guys in Beast, baby, the brand new first release from Studio Midhall. Is it Rob's new fave hidden movement game? That would be crazy because he LOVES hidden movement games. 0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 4:00 Kabuto Sumo 14:00 Cat in the Box 23:45 Cryptid 29:00 Luxor 34:00 Karuba 38:30 Beast: Overview 41:15 I Will Follow Him - Little Peggy March 42:15 Beast: Review 1:18:30 Beast: Verdict 1:26:45 Board Boys Bump: Wonderlands War 1:31:30 Thank You, Patrons 1:32:15 Hunter - Bjork 1:36:15 ???

Board Boys are back in business, baby, and playing Stefan Feld's new joint from Queen Games, Marrakesh. Is it the best game out there that has a Stefan Feld first player marker (and postcard and challenge coin)? 0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 3:30 Shifting Stones 5:00 Escape the Dark Sector 9:00 Amsterdam 11:00 East India Companies 17:15 Nidavellir 21:15 Dice Manor 24:00 Marrakesh: Overview 31:00 Marrakesh Express - Crosby, Stills, and Nash 32:00 Marrakesh: Review 1:08:30 Marrakesh: Verdict 1:16:15 Top 5 Felds 1:18:30 Board Boys Bump: Ark Nova 1:23:45 Thank You, Patrons 1:24:45 Aicha - Khaled (Khaled is from Algeria, not Morocco, but they're neighbors and both speak French please lay off)

Board Boys are out the bunker 5000 years later for Revive (Aporta Games), a game about building a utopian society out of the rubble of ancient times by having fun with your super cool player board. 0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean-Jacques Perrey 4:30 Stack'n Stuff: A Patchwork Game 5:45 Motor City 7:45 Consumption: Food and Choices 9:00 Bot Factory 12:30 Slim Goodbody, Richard Simmons 15:00 A Beaument with Mo- The Adventurers: The Temple of Chac, Dungeons & Dragons: Onslaught, Beau's Lego guys 23:30 Steam Up: A Feast of Dim Sum 28:00 Brass: Birmingham (again) 29:30 Sidereal Confluence: Bifurcation 36:00 Revive: Overview 39:30 Everytime - Boy Pablo (Norway) 41:00 Revive: Review 1:26:45 Revive: Verdict 1:36:00 Board Boys Bump: Dinogenics 1:42:15 Thank You, Patrons 1:44:30 Rocky Trail - Kings of Convenience (Norway)

Board Boys are back in full force to play Deal With the Devil, a new jam from Czech Games Edition about secret dealing, hosing the peasants, and avoiding inquisition. 0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean-Jacques Perrey 6:00 Monumental Consequence 11:30 Fun Facts 15:30 Millennium Blades 23:30 Decorum 25:45 Disney's Gargoyles Awakening 28:45 Brass: Birmingham 39:45 Deal With the Devil: Overview 43:00 Christine's Tune - The Flying Burrito Brothers 44:00 Deal With the Devil: Review 1:24:45 Deal With the Devil: Verdict 1:33:45 Board Boys Bump: Golem 1:40:15 Thank You, Patrons 1:41:00 Friend of the Devil - The Grateful Dead

Board Boys are back, alright, to play Oak, a worker placement game about druids trying to see who can scramble to the top of a huge oak the most reverently, and the third game in a row on this podcast to feature TREES. I guess next time we're going to have to play Atiwa or something chock full of more big trees. Music: E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey, Tie a Yellow Ribbon - organist Mike Reed, Brujeria - El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico