Garrett's Games 1061: The Peak Team and Abroad
This week Shelley and I team up as forest rangers to complete missions and discover wildlife in The Peak Team: Rangers by Scott Almes from M...
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Doug Garrett and his wife Shelley discuss and review the strategy/designer board games they play on this weekly podcast. Interviews with notable names in the hobby, along with designers and...
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20 of 938 episodesGarrett's Games 1060: Kano and Cascadia - Alpine Lakes
This week Shelley and I check out a gorgeous game about art, and a wonderful sequel to an already good game. First we play Cascadia: Alpine...
Garrett's Games 1059: Wine & Cheese and Two Button Shy Micro Games!
This week Shelley and I enjoy some of our favorite beverage and food, along with some fun forthcoming micro card games! First we check out t...
Garrett's Games 1058: Duel of Meloch and Rolling Realms Redux
This week it's all about Stonemaier Games! First up is an older title that builds on a game from 2021: Rolling Realms Redux by Jamey Stegmai...
Garrett's Games 1057: Wingspan Pocket and Gulo Gulo
This week Shelley and I check out a little sister to a hugely popular title as we collect food, lay eggs and place birds in our tableau in W...
Garrett's Games 1056: Sandcastles and Entropy
This week Shelley and I check out a fun castle-building little tile-laying game for up to 6 players Sandcastles by Alex Cutler from Pandasau...
Garrett's Games 1055: Dnup and Twisted Trumpets
This week Shelley and I check out two smaller games that work as fun fillers. The first is a shedding game with 2-sided cards dnup by Kei Ka...
Garrett's Games 1054: The Game Makers and 2 Win
This week Shelley and I play two games at the ends of the physical size scale First, we check out a fun card game where you don't want to go...
Garrett's Games 1053: Artistry, Siege Perilous, and Computer Junkyard
This week we preview two upcoming releases, then dive a bit deeper into a gorgeous game of Art and design: Siege Perilous by Ivan Alexiev an...
Garrett's Games 1052: Rival Cities and Lords of Waterdeep + Scoundrels of Skullport Expansion
This week Shelley and I revisits the Dungeons and Dragons universe in 2012's Lords of Waterdeep by Peter Lee and Rodney Thompson from Wizard...
Garrett's Games 1051: KdJ Nominee Moon Colony Bloodbath and Reef & Ruins
This week Shelley and I try (and often fail) to save our lunar colonists from rampant robots and accidents in Moon Colony Bloodbath by Donal...
Garrett's Games 1050: SdJ Nominee Cozy Stickerville and Bloom
This week Shelley and I get a chance to check out one of the three Spiel des Jahres nominees for this year Cozy Stickerville by Corey Koniec...
Garrett's Games 1049: Reef Gardens And Russian, German, American Railroads
Shelley and I get an Essen 2025 release which is a re-themed game from 2013 to the table: Reef Garden by Jeffrey D. Allers from dlp games th...
Garrett's Games 1048: Summer Vacation Games!
This week, rather than reviewing two "new-to-us" games as we usually do, we thought we would gather some games that might work well with occ...
Garrett's Games 1047: Floristry and Vineyard - A Wine Making Game
This week Shelley and I enjoy some flora, playing as rival flowershop owners in Floristry by David Gordon and TAM from UP Games then placati...
Garrett's Games 1046: Movie Tricks and Baghdad: The City of Peace
This week Shelley and I create movies and then travel through Baghdad Movie Tricks by Vegard Eliassen Stillerud, Eilif Svensson and Asmund S...
Garrett's Games 1045: Sanibel and Pulitzer
This week Shelley and I wander the beach collecting shells, then head back to the 1970's as investigative journalists Sanibel by Elizabeth H...
Garrett's Games 1044: Elixirus and Market Fresh
This week Shelley and I check out a couple of family-friendly games and still challenge the gamer in us: Elixirus by Dickie Chapin from Piat...
A Difficult Week + Sad News
No reviews this week, but please do check out The Game Cabinet and the wealth of information that Ken provided that preceded BGG: http://www...
Garrett's Games 1043: Ada's Dream and Gzhel
This week Shelley and I make patterns with porcelain pottery and build computers while dealing with 19 th Century society. First up is Gzhel...