The Family Gamers Podcast
Kids & Family Podcasts
Enjoy playing board games with your family at any age, skill level, or player count.
Enjoy playing board games with your family at any age, skill level, or player count.
Location:
United States
Description:
Enjoy playing board games with your family at any age, skill level, or player count.
Twitter:
@amilygamersAA
Language:
English
Website:
http://thefamilygamers.com/
Episodes
319 – Beyond Board Games: Pro Bowling with Diandra Asbaty
11/28/2022
This week's Beyond Board Games guest is Diandra Asbaty, a professional bowler - and mom.
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Duration:00:55:20
318 – Board Game Terms: Draft, Dexterity, Roll-and-Write
11/21/2022
What is a "draft" and what's the difference between open and closed? What makes a dexterity game? And what on earth does "roll-and-write" mean?
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Duration:00:51:51
317 – Derek Bruff, First Player Token Podcast
11/14/2022
Welcome Derek Bruff to the podcast! Derek is active in our Family Gamers Community and also hosts his own podcast, First Player Token.
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Duration:01:11:12
316 – The Board Game Holiday Gift Guide
11/7/2022
It's time for holiday gifts! We review our 2022 guide for board game gifts. Plus a fan-submitted review of 12 Rivers.
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Duration:01:03:44
315 – The Video Game Holiday Gift Guide with Stephen Duetzmann
10/31/2022
It's that time of year again. We are joined by the "unmitigated hype monster", Stephen Duetzmann, to learn about recommendations for (mostly) family-friendly video games this holiday season.
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Duration:01:25:41
314 – Games under $20 – The Family Gamers Podcast
10/24/2022
A top 10, or 12, or possibly 13 list of great games you can find for under $20.
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Duration:00:55:11
313 – Essen Post-Mortem!
10/17/2022
It's an odd numbered show and Andrew is our guest (hah!) We're going to talk about his very first Essen Spiel experience.
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Duration:00:59:15
312 – ESSEN Excitement!
10/5/2022
Andrew's going to Essen for Spiel '22! We pick 15 games that we're really excited to see.
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311 – Flat River Group with Colin Young
9/26/2022
Colin Young is a friend of The Family Gamers, and part of Flat River Group. What's FRG? ""
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Duration:00:54:29
310 – Top-Rated Games – The Family Gamers Podcast
9/19/2022
We've been reviewing games for a long time, and have rated about a dozen games as "perfect" and about twice as many as "almost perfect". Do those ratings hold up?
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Duration:01:09:20
309 – Unmatched Digital with Suzanne Sheldon – The Family Gamers Podcast
9/12/2022
Welcome Suz! Restoration Games is releasing a digital version of their hit game Unmatched, and we'll talk about it today.
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Duration:01:07:44
308 – Different Ways to Adventure with Board Games
9/5/2022
This week, we're talking about adventure! What games make you feel like you're going on an adventure? There are more ways to accomplish this feeling than you might think.
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Duration:01:07:53
307 – Jon Manker and Pax Viking – The Family Gamers Podcast
8/29/2022
Jon is the co-founder of Ion Game Design, making board games "based on reality". Although most are quite complex (Pax Viking, Sammu-ramat), there are some family-oriented games just around the corner...
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Duration:01:03:37
306 – Room to Grow: Dice Set Collection – The Family Gamers Podcast
8/22/2022
What is dice set collection? Think Yahtzee. You're rolling dice, usually with some re-rolls allowed, trying to get a certain result spread out among many dice (a straight, two/three/four of a kind, etc.)
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Duration:00:52:48
305 – GenCon 2022 with Nick – The Family Gamers Podcast
8/15/2022
It's time for GenCon! Nick went for just one day this year, and shares with us the highlights from his whirlwind tour.
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Duration:01:03:16
304 – Computational Thinking – The Family Gamers Podcast
8/8/2022
Andrew & Anitra are programmers by training. Can we tease apart some of the skills that build a programming mindset, and hone them through games?
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Duration:00:58:18
303 – Beyond Board Games: Open Roading
7/25/2022
This podcast has almost nothing to do with board games! Four years ago Joe and Kalyn sold their house and bought an RV. It requires a lot of planning...
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Duration:00:52:29
302 – How to Raise Little Gamers – The Family Gamers Podcast
7/18/2022
"One of the best ways to get your kids excited about doing something is by being excited about doing something." Can you get your kids to love games the way you do?
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Duration:00:39:29
301 – Board Game Day with Ambie Valdés – The Family Gamers Podcast
7/11/2022
Welcome Ambie Valdés to the podcast! How did she get from writing song parodies to a children's board book?
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Duration:00:55:41
300 – EPISODE 300! – The Family Gamers Podcast
7/3/2022
Can you believe we have done 300 podcast episodes?
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Duration:01:10:39