Board Game Gumbo Live!

Gumbo Live! is back with a new season! In our fifth show, we visit with the krewe from Meeple Town, Dean and Deron, long-time friends and now long-time podcasters about board games! We chat about the transition to Deron as the new co-host, with a surprise visit(?), and then get right to the games, games, games!

• Floe
• The Magnificent
• Xylotar
• Exhibition: 20th Century
• Mind Space

Finally, we played a long time favorite game fr...

Gumbo Live! is back with a new season! In our fourth show, we visit with Ben Hammer about his brand new game coming soon to Kickstarter WE ALL TAKE FROM THE RIVER. It's a resource management and social deduction game that also gives insight to keeping a river and its estuary clean from pollution. It's Ben's first design, and he not only designed the game but did all the artwork himself. 

We also talked about a spicy hot game that S...

BJ and Jeremy played Barcelona and Rats of Wistar on a recent Twitch Tuesdays in the Gumbo Pot, but before the euro game goodness started, they took a look at two projects on Kickstarter right now for some first impressions:  

• Logic & Lore from Weird Giraffe Games, a two player card game all about deducing the cards already in your tableau; and
• Cascadia: Rolling Hills from Flatout Games, a multiplayer flip-and-roll-and-writ...

Gumbo Live! is back with a new season! Our third show was a big thrill -- thanks to our friend Carla Kopp at Weird Giraffe Games, we were able to chat with Jason Hager & Darren Reckner (a/k/a "The Durdles") about their new game on Kickstarter right now called LOGIC & LORE! 

We also talked about some spicy hot games we've played recently, including:

• Rumble Nation
• Sweet & Spicy a/k/a Spicy card game
• Unmatched Adventur...

Gumbo Live! is back with a new season! Our second guest is Don Eskridge, the designer of THE RESISTANCE and AVALON and ABANDON PLANET and a bunch of other cool games!

Don came by the Gumbo Pot to chat about his brand new book HAND GAMES 21: NEW GAMES FOR FRIENDS & FAMILIES. It's a hoot with some great family style dexterity games.

We also talked about some spicy hot games we've played recently, including:

• The Wolves
• FTW
• The...

It's the return of The Jay Bell to the Gumbo Pot!

Steve, Verla, BJ and Jay gave a list of their favorite games to give friends and family during the holidays!

Tipperary

Akropolis

Pictomania

World Wonders

Crokinole

Plus, Jay recounts his trip to Pax U and gives an update on some of the hot games he played.

-- Disney Lorcana

-- Sky Team

-- Gnome Hollow and Twinkle, Twinkle

-- Nocturne

Finally, we end the night with a rousing game of ...

BJ and Steve welcome in a content creator who is also deep diving into the world of designing board games on Episode 144!  This time, The NameFather has invited Liz Davidson, reviewer with Beyond Solitaire's YouTube Channel and podcast, and the co-designer (with David Thompson) of the upcoming game, Night Witches, from Fort Circle Games to talk about some spicy hot board games! 

In the banter, we chatted about:

• SDHistCon and th...

BJ and Jerod chat with co-host, The Jay Bell, in the Gumbo Pot about Jay's big new move, plus give their post-game thoughts on Castles By The Sea from Brotherwise Games.  Shout out to Burky from GameToppers LLC for the awesome new game mat, and make sure to check out the brand new Kickstarter 4.0! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/burky/game-toppers-40-the-young-sherlock-and-more?ref=section-homepage-view-more-recommendations-p1...

BJ is back from Southern Board Game Fest 2023!  Mitchell from the Beans & Dice Podcast and Jerod from the Board Game Gumbo Twitch Channel join in to recap everything SoBo 2023.  Shout outs to Burky from GameToppers LLC for being our Very Special Guest at SoBo, but also thanks to all the gamers and publishers (like Hutchu Games! Weird Giraffe Games!) and designers (like The Jay Bell! Carla Kopp!) that came -- and especially to I...

BJ and Steve welcome in a double dose of awesome guests on Episode 143! This time, it's Mike Grade, founder of Rock Manor Games (and designer of Lawyer Up!) and Clarence Simpson, designer of the hit game amongst the Gumbo Krewe, The Wolves! 

We reviewed:

• The Quacks of Quedlinberg
• Wander Towers

And there is a heaping helping of Southern Board Game Fest advertise---errr---news sprinkled all over the show. Lots of inside bas...

Hey board gamers, we are back with more Twitch Tuesday game talk just for you! It's the return of The Jay Bell, who regales us with stories of his trip to Louisville, Kentucky!  Then, we chat about recent plays of: Forests of Pangaia, Earth, Hero Realms, and Set a Watch Plus, Barnes is back in the Gumbo Pot, and it's time for him to sit on the witness stand in Gumbo Court. We put him under cross examination about Oltréé.  ** Some o...

Hey board gamers, we are back with more Twitch Tuesday game talk just for you! And super excited to have THE JAY BELL and Mitchell from the Beans & Dice Podcast back in the Gumbo Pot! In this episode, we grill Jay on his recent Kickstarter backings, including Kraken Skulls from Chris Couch Games, Shards of Infinity, the Our Family Plays Games project, and Dungeon Kart.  Then Mitchell regales us with tales of his recent plays of...

Hey board gamers, we are back with more Twitch Tuesday game talk just for you! And super excited to have THE JAY BELL back in the Gumbo Pot! In this episode, we wish the Gumbo Overlord a happy birthday, chat about our favorite things from CHUCKCON, and then Jay teaches COSMOCTOPUS before both Jay and BJ give their post-game analysis of our play!  ** Some of the games discussed may have been provided by publishers as a promotional c...

Hey board gamers, we are back with more Twitch Tuesday game talk just for you! BJ was up first with some news on Southern Board Game Fest (Oct 14-15 in Lafayette, LA). Get your badges at www.southerngamefest.com Our topic du jour in the Gumbo Pot was chatting about our first impressions and post-game analysis of our play of EVERDELL: FARSHORE, with our review copy provided courtesy of Starling Games. Jerod teaches the new stuff in ...

Hey board gamers, we are back from our July hiatus with more Twitch Tuesday game talk just for you! BJ   welcomed back to the Gumbo Pot, Mitchell from the Beans & Dice podcast. Our topic du jour in the Gumbo Pot was chatting about a great new board game experience we had in July. Then some talk about an anticipated game at GENCON. And finally, we wrapped up our fresh thoughts of playing Trekking Through History right after we p...