Shane and Steve discuss their top 5 2 player head to head games

Episode 28: Our top 5 head to head games

Steve and Shane have both been spending time at the table, but it appears they haven't played many of the nominated games.

Episode 27: Games and awards predictions

Join us as Steve lists off the myriad of games he got played while on board the BGG at Sea cruise.

Shane gets the number one game of all time to the table twice, just to break up the barrage of Steve talking.

Episode 26: Steve's tales of games on the ocean

Welcome back for 2026! However Steve is en route to BGG @ Sea and has no editing gear, so it won’t sound as crisp or professional (ha!) as usual.

Have great year of board gaming!

Episode 25: We’re back, but without editing 

Shane is absent due to recovering from sickness, so Steve signs off the pod for the year with his top 12 games to play in the holidays.

Have a great holiday everyone, we will be back in late January 2026.

Episode 24: Top 12 games for the Holidays

Ingrid joins us to count down the greatest games of all time!

Episode 23: Top 10 games of All Time with Ingrid

Shane and Steve take a break from their regular format to bring you their top 20 games of all time. In this episode they count down 20-11, with a few surprises in the countdown already.

Episode 22: Our top 20-11 of all time

Shane (finally) falls in love with Heat: Pedal to the Metal, and Steve rekindles an old flame in Return to Dark Tower.

The boys discuss the year 2020, with some interesting choices made in the annual top 10.

Episode 21: 2020 was a good year, and Heat is amazing

Steve discusses the Star Wars branded version of Memoir '44 - Battle of Hoth. Spoilers, he likes it a little.

Shane's been getting his sheep herding gear on again for GWT New Zealand, and Steve reminds Shane about how great Obsession is, to which he disagrees.

Then it's on to 2019 games - another outstanding year of games!

Episode 20: Steve froths over Battle of Hoth, and we check out 2019 games

Shane and Steve have had a full plate recently, which has led to a long hiatus. The good news is, a lot of games were played during that time. Hear them chat about big, small and all games in between. There's even a horror story in there.

Steve has gone a bit nuts on Kickstarter, and there's a bit of other news, including our standard Garphil games mention.

Finally, we sew it all up with there results from the 2017 BGG challenge and get straight into our 2018.

Episode 19: Games, new version of a classic party game and the 2018 challenge

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