10 New Light Games │ BOARD GAMES DIRECT #5

The One Where Matt Joins The Merchants

In today’s episode of Board Games Direct, Matt and Tom are excited to present you with TEN games – all of which are on the lighter side! Explore the luscious landscapes of Parks, push a planet into a friend in ORBIT, or explore the megagame-in-a-box stylings of Coalition? Plenty here we’ll be wanting to see more of – keep an eye out in the coming months!

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8 Games For Just Two Players! │ BOARD GAMES DIRECT #4

The One Where A Game Contains ‘Prominent Frog Butt’

“A DUEL TO THE DEATH, THEN!” I scream aloud in the cafe, as I throw a handful of playing cards at my bewildered partner. She’ll never beat me. I’m the master of my craft – The Schotten Totten World Wide Champion Supreme. You can retrieve my title from my corpse; an impossible feat, as I will never die so long as I bask in the radiant glow of victory.

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NEXT WEEK: BOARD GAMES DIRECT!

So Many Games, Seriously, It’s So Many Games, Too Many Games, AAAahhh

We could not be more excited to announce Board Games Direct – a lively series of previews that covers a whole bunch of games coming out in 2025 and beyond! Tom and Matt went slightly bananas learning, playing, filming and editing over 50 different board and card games for this bonkers preview event.

Tune in next week! We cannot wait to show you these games…

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Podcast #280 – The Firefighters of the Rainforest

Rhino Strategy, Hot Rubble, Beavopolis (Home of the Humble Beaver)

Three kinds of wood, all alike in dignity. Except one of them is on fire, and one of them has a lot of toothy rodents in it. I’m really straining to find some way of making a kind of beaver ratatouille joke, but it’s not coming naturally. ‘Beavertouille, he only does Dams this time?’. I don’t know. Get out of my restaurant.

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Tom’s Game Shelf

Takes Both Hot And Cold, No Horrible Card Disasters This Time, A Refined Selection

It’s been over THREE YEARS since we uploaded a collection video, so we thought that a tour through Tom’s newer, shinier, more exciting selection of boardgames was due! What’s changed after several more years playing game after game, big and small? You’ll have to watch to find out…

Or just scroll on down through this big list of all the games! But we do think that the first option is at least a little bit more entertaining.

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