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174: Big deck energy, Let's Go! To France (guest: designer Josh Wood)
May 14, 2026
52m 42s
173: A bunch of light/party games we wanna tell you about
Apr 30, 2026
57m 35s
172: Time to get HEAVY...with these new heavy games (guest: The Game Table)
Apr 16, 2026
1h 02m 00s
171: The educational value of board games (guest: Fort Circle Games)
Apr 2, 2026
41m 53s
170: The best board games we played at Dice Tower West 2026
Mar 19, 2026
51m 01s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 5/14/26 |  174: Big deck energy, Let's Go! To France (guest: designer Josh Wood) | Our industry guests pick the topic that they want to discuss on our show, and Josh Wood, designer of Let's Go! To Japan (and the upcoming Let's Go! To France), asked us if he can talk about "big decks." That was an immediate "yes" from us, without even knowing what he meant (Hey, "big decks" makes for a great headline). What it's really about: the recent trend of huge decks of cards that supply most of the replayability for a board game. Josh gives us his POV as a designer of games with sizable...um, decks. We also ask him a million questions about Let's Go! To France as it gets ready to go live on Kickstarter, go over our respective "Game Picks," and more. Chapters: Going Analog's Game Pick: Bloodstone. Josh Wood's Game Pick: Yeti in the House. Let's Go! To Japan. Big deck energy (and how it affects replayability). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 52m 42s | ||||||
| 4/30/26 | 173: A bunch of light/party games we wanna tell you about✨ | light gamesparty games+3 | — | Vantage | — | light gamesparty games+4 | — | 57m 35s | |
| 4/16/26 | 172: Time to get HEAVY...with these new heavy games (guest: The Game Table)✨ | heavy gamesboard games+3 | Daniel | Brass: PittsburgSpeakeasy+7 | — | heavy gamesboard game reviews+3 | — | 1h 02m 00s | |
| 4/2/26 | 171: The educational value of board games (guest: Fort Circle Games)✨ | educational board gameshistory in games+4 | Kevin Bertram | Fort Circle GamesVotes for Women+3 | — | board gameseducation+6 | — | 41m 53s | |
| 3/19/26 | 170: The best board games we played at Dice Tower West 2026✨ | board gamesDice Tower West+3 | — | PantheauctionBullseye+1 | — | board gamesDice Tower West+4 | — | 51m 01s | |
| 3/5/26 |  169: Board games bringing people together (guest: Grandpa Beck)✨ | board gamescommunity+3 | Brent Beck | Pandora's LegacyMille Bornes+1 | — | board gamesBrent Beck+5 | — | 50m 43s | |
| 2/5/26 |  168: 2026 board games we've played...and are excited about (guest: Andrew Stiles, designer)✨ | board gamesgame design+3 | Andrew Stiles | Wine CellarSnow Colony+1 | — | board gamesWine Cellar+5 | — | 46m 50s | |
| 1/22/26 |  167: The 2025 Games of the Year episode (guest: Candice Harris)✨ | board gamesgame awards+3 | Candice Harris | BoardGameGeekKickin' It Creative | — | 2025 Games of the Yearparty games+3 | — | 1h 10m 00s | |
| 1/8/26 |  166: The new age of great 2-player games, part 2 (guest: Grant's Game Recs)✨ | 2-player gamesgame recommendations+3 | Grant Lyon | Mistborn: The Deckbuilding GameHow to Save a World+6 | — | 2-player gamesboard games+8 | — | 50m 46s | |
| 12/18/25 |  165: The new age of great 2-player games, part 1 (guest: Grant's Game Recs)✨ | 2-player gamesboard games+3 | Grant Lyon | Grant's Game RecsOrigin Story+7 | — | 2-player gamesboard game recommendations+5 | — | 45m 40s | |
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| 12/4/25 |  164: The best games we played at BGG.CON 2025 (and what's next for The Board Game Quiz Show)✨ | board gamesconventions+4 | — | BGG.CONBoardGameGeek+2 | — | BGG.CONboard games+3 | — | 32m 12s | |
| 11/20/25 |  163: 6 new drafting games worth checking out | A lot of drafting games have been hitting our table lately, and they're all putting their own twists on the genre. We've been enjoying them so much that we're dedicating this whole episode to our top picks. Plus, the sequel to Yomi, is here. Shoe's played a lot of fighting (video) games, so what does he think about probably the most pure card-game interpretation around? Timeline 0:53 - Going Analog's game pick: Yomi 2. 7:54 - 6 new drafting games worth checking out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 43m 12s | ||||||
| 11/6/25 |  162: Why we can't make board games in the U.S. (guest: James Hudson) | All this business (or loss of) around tariffs has repeated raised a question from the gaming community: Why not just manufacture games in the U.S. instead of, say, China? James Hudson, game designer and owner of Druid City Games, took time out of promoting his Wonderland's War Duel Kickstarter (check out our preview!) to explain why it's so difficult. We've heard the facts from the board game industry before, but James has additional insight worth hearing out. Timeline 1:30 - Going Analog's game pick: Everbloom. 4:58 - James' game pick: Galileo Galilei. 11:35 - Wonderland's War Duel, a new Wonderland's War expansion, Madcala, Off With Their Heads!, and an expansion to Tidal Blades 2. 22:03 - James' topic: Why making board games in America is so difficult. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 40m 20s | ||||||
| 10/23/25 |  161: Autobattlers, card crafting, Mystic Lands (guests: John D Clair, John Zinser) | The OG card-crafting game Mystic Vale is getting a major makeover. Or is it a sequel? Whatever you want to call it, Mystic Lands is taking Vale's original concept of layering clear cards to create powerful combinations and streamling gameplay while beautifying the art. The result is a much better game (from our one play), and now we have to suffer the wait for the November Kickstarter campaign to run and fulfill. Designer John D Clair and CEO of publisher Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG) John Zinser stopped by our home to play a full game of Mystic Lands with us (Shoe would rather we don't discuss the final scores). Before we would let them out of the house, however, we made both sit down to record this podcast. Clair is working on some autobattler game designs, so that was his topic for us this week. Timeline 1:15 - Going Analog's game pick: Fight 5. 3:05 - John D Clair's game pick: Living Forest. 5:13 - John Zinser's game pick: Love Letter. 7:37 - Mystic Lands and card-crafting. 21:38 - John D Clair's topic: The new trend of autobattler board and card games. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 37m 20s | ||||||
| 10/9/25 |  160: Moon cakes + Moon Bunny, push-your-luck dice games | Let's try something new! For some reason (spoiler: the reason is laziness), we don't have a guest this week, so Shoe and Christina decided to feature the seasonally appropriate (for the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival) Moon Bunny and then discuss some exciting new push-your-luck dice games that we've been enjoying. Timeline 1:30 - Game pick: Moon Bunny 7:12 - Topic: push-your-luck dice games Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 36m 03s | ||||||
| 9/25/25 |  159: Board game universes, cultural appropriation (guest: Jane Hoffacker, Incredible Dream) | We've been keeping an eye on the Kinfire series (which includes the cooperative campaign Kinfire Chronicles and tactical card game Kinfire Delve), and we walked away very impressed with our plays of the latest one in the franchise, Kinfire Council, a competitive worker-placement game set in the same world. Publisher Incredible Dream Studios is approaching gaming differently, so we asked CEO and co-founder Jane Hoffacker to discuss the massive amount of work that goes into designing a shared-universe space. And we continued the chat with Jane posing some thoughtful questions about cultural appropriation in gaming. Timeline: 4:08 - Going Analog's game pick: Tea Witches. 8:25 - Jane's game pick: Dungeon Mayhem. 10:38 - Going Analog's topic: board game universes, the Kinfire series. 31:46 - Jane's topic: cultural appropriation in gaming. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 50m 58s | ||||||
| 9/11/25 |  158: Cozy games, what makes a game a good product (guest: Alex Cutler) | Cozy is the new zombie. Or Cthulhu. Seriously -- just keep your eye on those store shelves (especially over the next few months), and you'll likely see so many new board games themed around the art of non-conflict. Maybe you'll be cuddling up with kitties. Or you'll be sitting around, peacefully matching tiles at your own pace. Or you'll be arranging books around your home in ways that please only you, as in our guest's co-designed A Place for All My Books. Alex Cutler joins the podcast this week to talk about what exactly makes a game "cozy." Plus we lean into his experience as a developer (not just designer) to learn what makes for a good product. Sure, great gameplay is a must -- but what else will make gamers want to make that purchase? Timeline: 3:15 - Going Analog's game pick: Black Forest. 6:59 - Alex's game pick: Fishing. 10:33 - Going Analog's topic: cozy games. 22:12 - Alex's topic: what makes a game a good product. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 53m 20s | ||||||
| 8/28/25 |  157: Great 2-player games, final thoughts on Gen Con (guest: Corey Thompson) | We love Gen Con so much, we couldn't fit everything into our Games of the Show episode. And Corey Thompson loves Gen Con so much that he became a part-owner of the giant North American gaming convention. Corey leads Above Board TV, cohosts the Board Games Insider podcast, co-owns Play to Z Games, and...lots more that will just take up way too much space to write all out. So he was the perfect guest to invite on our show to chat about about more Gen Con highlights -- and some of our recent and classic two-player favorites. Timeline: 3:48 - Going Analog's game pick: Panda Spin. 7:30 - Corey's game pick: Giberrers. 10:57 - Going Analog's topic: final Gen Con thoughts and highlights. 29:36 - Corey's topic: great two-player games (classic and new). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 58m 41s | ||||||
| 8/14/25 |  156: The 2025 Gen Con Games of the Show | We're back from North America's giant gaming convention: Gen Con 2025! Did you miss us? Don't answer and don't worry -- we've got the coverage for ya. We sit down and talk about SO MANY GAMES -- over 20 of 'em in this episode alone. Which did we like? Which were the best in show for us? Listen to find out! Timeline: 4:21 - 2025 Party Games of Gen Con. 13:00 - 2025 Light Games of Gen Con. 35:42 - 2025 Medium Games of Gen Con. 53:10 - 2025 Heavy Games of Gen Con. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 05m 57s | ||||||
| 7/24/25 |  155: Games from Asia, great 5/6-player games (guest: Cardboard East) | We love unique gaming experiences, especially from those tough-to-find games in Asia. Why are they so different from Western-made games? And what are the differences between games that originated from Japan, Taiwan, Korea, or other parts of the East? Jay Bernardo, marketing manager at Bezier Games and content creator at Cardboard East (which specializes in covering board games from Asia), was kind enough to join Going Analog to teach us the ways. We also recommend some new games that play best at 5 or 6 players! Timeline: 3:29 - Going Analog's game pick: Finca. 8:35 - Jay's game pick: Dune (1979 version). 18:01 - Jay's topic: East vs. West board games. 41:51 - Going Analog's topic: 5- to 6-player games. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 08m 04s | ||||||
| 7/10/25 |  154: Running a first-time game con, going from content creator to retailer (guest: LFG Con) | Do you enjoy hosting a handful of people for game night? How about a few hundred? That's what these three tried for the first time about a month ago in Burbank, CA: Dustin Staats, content creator and owner of online and brick-and-mortar retailer BGE Tabletop; George Caceres, owner of board game cafe Game N' Grounds; and Dae, owner of board game store Fire & Dice, came together to put on the very first LFG Con this past June. We asked Dustin to join us on the podcast to talk about how their convention dreams started and what it took to make them a reality. Plus, Dustin shares how he made the transition from board game content creator to board game retailer. Listen in! Timeline: 3:53 - Going Analog's game pick: Dark Heists. 8:58 - Dustin's game pick: Scythe. 11:59 - Going Analog's topic: Running a game convention (for the first time). 25:47 - Dustin's topic: From content creator to retailer (how I opened my brick & mortar store) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 40m 15s | ||||||
| 7/3/25 |  144: Spooky games, indie vs. in-house design work (guests: designers Ben Kepner, Dan Stong) | We just finished Halloweeeen! What are your favorite board games for spoopy season? We ask Creepshow: The Suspense-Building Game co-creators Ben Kepner and Dan Stong about what they like to play during this holiday...plus how they feel about designing while working in-house at a publisher compared to working independently. Timeline: 3:45 - Going Analog's game pick: Babylon. 9:46 - Ben & Dan's game pick: Rattus. 21:19 - Ben & Dan's topic: spooky games. 45:40 - Going Analog's topic: indie vs. in-house design work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 01m 13s | ||||||
| 6/26/25 |  153: Reviews! New games! Expansions! | Game time! We catch up on a bunch of reviews for new games and expansions -- tune in to find out how much we liked them! And whether Christina ever found her Pringle. Thanks to the publishers for providing review copies. Timeline: New games: 1:30 - The Architects of Amytis. 6:24 - Medieval Academy. 11:41 - Combo. 15:55 - Star Trek: Star Realms. New expansions: 21:45 - Evergreen: Pines and Cacti. 27:52 - Ancient Knowledge: Heritage. 34:44 - Sky Team: Turbulence. 40:31 - Rebel Princess: Happily Never After. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 51m 37s | ||||||
| 6/5/25 |  152: The 2025 American Tabletop Awards (guest: What's Eric Playing?) | The 2025 American Tabletop Awards were just announced! (Whispers offstage inform us that they were announced back in April....) Well, we're now ready to talk about them after our extended break. With ATTA cofounder and content creator Eric Yurko of What's Eric Playing?, we react to the recently crowned finalists and winners -- and tell you how we each voted as part of the judging panel. Timeline: 7:08 - Early Gamers category. 17:54 - Casual Games category. 30:29 - Strategy Games category. 40:03 - Complex Games category. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 00m 23s | ||||||
| 5/22/25 |  151: We're back! Tariffs, designing science games (guest: Dominic Crapuchettes) | We're back! Again! Tune in to hear all our excuses about why we haven't been podcasting recently, then stay to hear our guest, fabulous designer (Evolution, Wits & Wagers, Oceans) and North Star Games founder Dominic Crapuchettes! We talk about the upcoming Evolution sequel Nature, tariffs (gah), and Dominic's process when designing a science-based game. Timeline: 1:39 - Nature. 8:45 - Going Analog's game pick: Super Boss Monster. 12:26 - Dominic's game pick: The Gang. 17:32 - Going Analog's topic: tariffs impacting the board game industry. 29:42 - Dominic's topic: designing science/real life games. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 45m 12s | ||||||
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9 placements across 9 markets.
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9 placements across 9 markets.