Hosted by Douglas Garrett · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 922 episodes
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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 publishers, are part of the show.
Douglas Garrett hosts Garrett's Games and Geekiness, a leisure show with 922 episodes published.
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 Konieczka from Unexpected Games (1-6 players, 8+, 30-60 minutes) then we check out ano
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 then get one of our "not played in far too long" games to the table, also original
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 occasional and non-gamers on some of the summer vacations you might be taking. Here
This week Shelley and I enjoy some flora, playing as rival flowershop owners in Floristry by David Gordon and TAM from UP Games then placating our oenophile obsession in Vineyard: A Wine Making Game by Roberta Taylor fro
This week Shelley and I create movies and then travel through Baghdad Movie Tricks by Vegard Eliassen Stillerud, Eilif Svensson and Asmund Svensson from Chilifox Baghdad: The City of Peace by Fabio Lopiano and Nestore Ma
This week Shelley and I wander the beach collecting shells, then head back to the 1970's as investigative journalists Sanibel by Elizabeth Hargrave from Avalon Hill/Hasbro Pulitzer by David Vaquero from Tranjis Games and
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 Piatnik Market Fresh by Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling from Avalon Hill You ca
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.gamecabinet.com/
This week Shelley and I make patterns with porcelain pottery and build computers while dealing with 19 th Century society. First up is Gzhel by Nikita Sorokin from Hobby World followed by Ada's Dream by Toni Lopez from A
This week Shelley and I check out the 'official game of Essen 2025' Fair Enough by Friedemann Friese from Skellig Games then we cooperatively work to build a tower for cats (though we could have done it competitively too
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 Andromeda by Reiner Knizia from Allplay Faraway and its Under Starry Skies expansi
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 enjoy a cute trick-taking/deck building game with Charles Schultz artwork Peanut
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 by Mitsuru Nakamura and World Wonders by Ze Mendes Remember to SUBSCRIBE and ch
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 Pandasaurus Games then dive into the DEEP end of heavy games with a theme revolvin
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 Mindware then we try out another interesting twist on the trick-taking genre Onstage b
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 Anderson, Zac Dixon, Austin Harrison, and Toby Sarnelle from IV Studio then we try to p
This week Shelley and I build fountains, then try to string nubmered cards together in a shedding game: Fountains by Kedric Winks from The Op Games and Number Chain by Woojin Yang from Arcane Wonders check out our VIDEOS
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 Wolfgang Kramer from Arcane Wonders Then we head into the land of trick taking once
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: Take Time (2025) by Alexi Piovesan and Julien Prothiere from Libellud - a co-op
This week Shelley and I explore to very different games that begin with F First we collect resources and attempt to make excellent alcoholic drinks in Fantasy Brewers by Michael Schacht from Grail Games then we get card
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Garrett's Games and Geekiness is hosted by Douglas Garrett. The show is categorised under leisure (games) and has published 922 episodes.
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