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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...

This week Shelley and I make patterns with porcelain pottery and build computers while dealing with 19 th Century society. First up is Gzhel...

This week Shelley and I check out the 'official game of Essen 2025' Fair Enough by Friedemann Friese from Skellig Games then we cooperativel...

This week we check out THREE games - well, one new version of an older game, along with expansions for two recent card games Merchants of An...

This week Shelley and I check out a wonderful sequel to one of our favorite games Formaggio by Ben Rosset from Road to Infamy Games then we...

This week it's two very different Arcane Wonders titles - one co-op for up to 10 players, and the other strategy game with awesome bits: Ito...

This week on Garrett's Games, Shelley and I check out a family-friendly tile-laying game: Tulikko by Jerome Soleil and Nicolas Melet from Pa...

Shelley and I check out an amazing new sequel to a Spiel des Jahres winner Qwirkle Flex by Susan McKinley Ross and Reiner Knizia from Mindwa...

This week we exploit another planet and send our plants, animals and other goods back home in the draw and draw behemoth Tend by Max Anderso...

This week Shelley and I build fountains, then try to string nubmered cards together in a shedding game: Fountains by Kedric Winks from The O...

This week Shelley and I travel a circular board to pick up and deliver items to specific fantasy shops in Leylines by Daryl Andrews and Wolf...

This week Shelley and I check out two 2025 releases, as well as looking back 11 years to a games that had been gathering dust on our shelf:...

This week Shelley and I explore to very different games that begin with F First we collect resources and attempt to make excellent alcoholic...

This week Shelley and I get a chance to check out games from two game BOOKS published or forthcoming from one of our favorite designers - Dr...

This week Shelley and I chuck dice and fill in rows in Clickety Clack by Ralf zur Linde from NSV then we head to Japan and strategically pla...

This week Shelley and I create our own little ponds and populate them with frogs and insects in Pondscape by Tomas Holek from Pink Troubadou...

Shelley and I are traveling through our games this week, heading first to France to bike around the countryside in Postcards by Eric Dubus a...

Now that it's ACTUALLY 2026, we can look ack on 2025 and run through our Top 10 games that we first played in 2025. If you want to go back a...

Episode 1026! This week Shelley and I work with trees, both logging them and becoming stewards of the forest in Forestry by Michal Peichl fr...

Shelley and I work to help young women come to power and influence in the late 19th and early 20th century in Kartini: From Darkness to Ligh...

GG&G 1024! This week Shelley and I check out two mini-box games from Allplay Llama Llama by Kaya Miyano For the Emperor by Whitney Loraine T...

GG&G 1023! Shelley and I build gardens and bribe dragons this week in two great family-weight games The Hanging Gardens by Gregory Grard and...

This week we bring you a quick review from BGG.con of the building-placement game Dewan by Johannes Goupy and Yoann Levet from Space Cowboys...

This week we make a quick correction of our review last week because we missed a rule in Dragonarium by Wei Chang and Kuan Chen from Wonderf...

UPDATE - WE GOT ONE RULE WRONG ON DRAGONARIUM, MAKING THE GAME HARDER THAN IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN! We SAID that you were supposed to move your...

This week we go exploring! First we head north and take photos of wildlife in Borealis: Arctic Expeditions by Dariusz Mindur from Lucky Duck...

This week Shelley and I build cities and fight to regain our daraven homeland. First we check out the 2-player Timber Town by Ryan Boucher f...

Shelley and I check out two small-box games that provide a much bigger experience than their boxes might suggest. First up is Allplay's tabl...

This week we're coming to you from GERMANY! If you have missed any of our numerous VIDEO posts over on YouTube, be sure to go check them out...

This week on Garrett's Games Shelley and I check out one of the latest heavier titles from Board&Dice Tianxia by Antonio Petrelli and Daniel...

This week we continue our Spiel Essen Preview with a look at March of the Ants: Evolved Edition by Tim Eisner and Ryan Swisher from Weird Ci...

Shelley and I begin our Essen 2025 Preview this week, first checking out one of the new titles that will be available at the fair: Parks and...

This week Shelley and I control rival pirate ships in Nassau by Stefan Feld from Queen Games Join head into the Lord of the Rings mythos and...

This week Shelley and I get into the WAY BACK machine and play a couple of titles from the beginnings of our gaming careers Alhambra and Atl...

This week on Episode 1010 Shelley and I head back to the Everdell universe, and then deal with our social anxiety while settling down to a g...

This week on Garrett's Games: Shelley and I head into the North with our mechs to deal with corruption and save previous explorers in Expedi...

On Garrett's Games this week, Shelley and I attempt to kill Hitler, and then build the universe! First off it's Valkyrie: A Black Orchestra...

This week on Garrett's Games Shelley and I make some booze and admire a garden. First up is Floriferous by Steve Finn and Eduardo Baraf (wit...

Last week on Episode 1005, we made it through the first 6 RULES that Joe ranted about. This week we delve into Rules 7-14 with much discussi...

It's Garrett's Games' Meeplefest Roundtable! This week after a quick discussion of some favorite games played, we take a deep dive into a Ru...

This week Shelley and I spend some time with dragons after playing a couple of cute card games. Wyrmspan by Connie Vogelmann from Stonemaier...

This week on Garrett's Games we check out two fun little card games from Amigo and Piatnik, then plan shrines to lost relatives First up is...

Shelley and I join AWESOME rock bands and attmept to make it big (and not eat too much "candy") in Rock Hard 1977 by Jackie Fox from Devir t...

This week Shelley and I journey down into the ocean's depths, then to the moon! First we check out fish species in various segments of the o...

This week we celebrate making it to EPISODE 1000!!! Thanks to Bezier Games for their support. Thanks to Bezier, AMIGO, and Pandasaurus for t...

For our last episode before we hit FOUR digits of episode releases, we take on TWO BIG GAMES that both use version of Action Points to do yo...

This week Shelley and I check out the cute and the beautiful Alpaca by Christian Giove from Pegasus Spiel and GateOnGames includes VERY cute...

This week Shelley and I check out the THIRD Kennerspiel des Jahres nominee, the Viking-themed resource collection game Looot (yes, it's THRE...

This week Shelley and I check out the SECOND of the Kennerspiel des Jahres nominees: Endeavor: Deep Sea by Carl de Visser and Jarratt Gray f...

This week it's a Pandasaurus Games extravaganza! First, Shelley and I check out the fun 'draw and draw' in which we explore various maps and...

Shelley and I check out a cute little card game that's reminicent of Liar's Dice or Perudo Schrodinger's Cats by Heather and Christopher O'N...