Sagan Says: Chai

Sagan gives us a deep look inside the cup of a beautiful game all about tea called Chai.

Roam with Spencer & Lara Williams

BJ chats with Lara & Spencer Williams on a recent Gumbo Live! about Roam out on Kickstarter right now from Red Raven Games

Gumbo Live! talking Cosmic Run: Mining Colony

BJ chats with Dr Steve Finn of Dr Finn's Games on a recent Gumbo Live! about his newest project, Cosmic Run: Mining Colony.

Spice it up with Tiny Towns

BJ loves spatial puzzles and town building games -- what if someone put the two together?

Kickstarter News

Kickstarter suspended three projects from two different companies this week, including one project, Papillon, that had already closed its campaign. Over 1500 backers supported the successful funding campaign for Papillon, designed by JB Howell, but were notified on Friday, April 19, 2019 that the campaign was "suspended" by Kickstarter and that their pledge money had...

Terraforming Mars: Turmoil — interview with Stephen Buonocore of Stronghold Games

BJ chatted with Stephen Buonocore about the latest expansion to Terraforming Mars called Turmoil out on Kickstarter right now.

Gumbo Live! Pioneers

BJ chats with Dom Crapuchettes of North Star Games about recent plays of Pioneers, named by Dice Hate Me as one of the games of the year for 2018. https://youtu.be/V_xtv_WtoEY Catch Gumbo Live! each Tuesday night at 8:30 PM CST at http://www.facebook.com/boardgamegumbo

Lagniappe: A Preview of Coimbra: Royal Treatment

BJ gives Coimbra the Royal Treatment, as he opens up the new mini-expansion from Eggertspiele / Plan B Games

Gumbo Live! Freshwater Fly with designer Bryan Suhre

BJ chats with Brian Suhre, designer of Freshwater Fly

Spice it up! with Viticulture: Visit from the Rhine Valley

Euro style games, and especially worker placement games, are my jam. That’s a fact most readers would recognize from the reviews I post and my annual top tens. I especially love if a euro game combines a unique mechanism with something that catches my eyes -- maybe an interesting theme (19th century whaling? Beer making...