The Board Game Secret Show

He Interviewed w/ Tom Vasel Before Starting ​⁨@howiroll | BGSS ep_005

Welcome to the Board Game Secret Show!Ryan Guerra from How I Roll had never made a single video — then he cold emailed Dice Tower and Game Boy Geek, and everything changed. In this episode, we talk about his unlikely start in board game content creation, his top 10 games (which I roast), building publisher relationships, the magic of board game community, and my dream to bring games to children's hospitals across America.Find @howiroll here: https://www.youtube.com/@howirollJoin the Secret Club Here: https://www.crdbrd.app/hub/clubs?club=the-board-game-secret-showWant to work together?: https://crdbrd.app/hub/creator/neon_gorillaTime stamps0:00 Intro & Meeting Ryan Gara6:18 Wear or Tear Rapid Fire13:27 Metal Coins, Deluxe Components & Food Chain Magnate20:57 Custom Inserts, Food at the Table & Card Bending35:09 Miniatures, Culling Collections & The T-Series51:36 Board Game Ratings & Why Context Matters59:13 Ryan's Origin Story: No Camera, No Experience1:06:24 Finding His Style & The Pivot to How-To-Plays1:17:56 Building Publisher Relationships & Making Friends1:25:15 The Power of Board Game Community1:35:00 Children's Hospital Dream & Board Game Club1:48:42 Roasting Ryan's Top 10: Dominion to Gaia Project2:05:16 Great Western Trail, Descent & The T-Series Debate2:35:38 Trickerion, Lisboa & Lacerda Games2:46:21 Scythe & Clank Legacy: His #1 Gaming Experience2:59:46 Wrap Up

The Best Mechanic Combinations | BGSS ep_004 | w/ Board Game Apprentice

Board Game Apprentice joins the Board Game Secret Show! We get into his origin story, the state of crowdfunding, solo gaming, horror movies, I roast his top 10, and we share our favorite mechanic combinations.@boardgameapprentice https://www.youtube.com/@boardgameapprentice Join the Secret Club Here: https://www.crdbrd.app/hub/clubs?club=the-board-game-secret-showWant to work together?: https://crdbrd.app/hub/creator/neon_gorilla🎧 TIMESTAMPS:0:00 Intro1:16 Origin Story of Board Game Apprentice4:27 The Game That Started It All6:27 Kickstarter: Has It Gone Too Far?9:04 Games That Got Away15:00 The Future of Crowdfunding21:58 Solo Gaming: Why Play Alone?29:20 Conventions & Wargaming31:52 Life Changes & Channel Future35:25 Long-Form vs Short-Form Content39:28 The Algorithm & Board Game YouTube44:32 Deep Dive Into Horror49:33 Horror Movie Recommendations1:04:35 Defend Your Top 101:46:04 Top 3 Mechanic Combinations2:04:32 Closing & Plugs

Endeavor Deep Sea Deep Dive + More | BGSS ep_003 | w/ OneMikeOneGame

Mike from One Mike One Game joins the Board Game Secret Show to defend his top 10 games against roasts from the Cardboard community. We dig into some unconventional picks, talk about the realities of being a small board game content creator, and then dive deep into Endeavor Deep Sea — a game we've both been obsessed with. Mike gives his first-ever rating live on the show.Join the Secret Club Here: https://www.crdbrd.app/hub/clubs?club=the-board-game-secret-showWant to work together?: https://crdbrd.app/hub/creator/neon_gorilla🎬 One Mike One Game: https://www.youtube.com/@onemikeonegame/featured0:00 Intro0:19 YouTube algorithm struggles & what's changed2:51 The video he almost didn't publish (now at 200K views)4:00 Mike's content creator origin story & the Callin Show5:53 The learning curve of editing — DaVinci Resolve vs Adobe8:42 Advice for new board game content creators12:27 Where is Mike's channel headed?13:49 The Dice Tower West epiphany — gaming vs. content18:02 YouTube Shorts strategy for small creators25:46 Introducing the Top 10 Roast segment27:11 #10 Shogun — "What is this doing on your top ten?"31:16 #9 Draft and Write Records — "Defend."34:42 Rolling & writing games we love36:55 #7 Mansions of Madness — "One roll can end your whole evening"41:13 Luck in board games — when bad beats feel good44:01 The Calico rant45:55 Vindication — "You're a wretched scumbag"50:52 #5 Undaunted Normandy — Best deck builder?54:26 #3 This War of Mine / #2 Federation — "Explain yourself"58:19 Diversity in top 10 lists & why it matters59:24 #1 Tyrants of the Underdark — nobody's heard of it1:07:08 Endeavor Deep Sea — overview & elevator pitch1:09:46 Specialist recruitment & the ramping engine1:15:52 The mid-game despair to late-game combo explosion1:16:40 The conservation board1:19:45 Exploration & discovering ocean tiles1:24:03 Does it scale well at 2 players?1:27:45 Mike's rating reveal1:32:06 David's rating & what would push it higher1:35:17 Cardboard app feedback & BG Stats integration1:40:56 Wrap-up & Seattle game group plans🔗 Find every game on Cardboard:Shogun — https://www.crdbrd.app/hub/game/06efe794-2508-420b-8009-32ad2d0e72b3Draft & Write Records — https://www.crdbrd.app/hub/game/0fac3aa9-882d-4064-8609-fd4b6ebd2a79Mansions of Madness — https://www.crdbrd.app/hub/game/b79ed0bd-c5bb-41dd-ab6d-263abc245776Vindication — https://www.crdbrd.app/hub/game/38127025-a948-4269-9a72-6ff116732255Undaunted: Normandy — https://www.crdbrd.app/hub/game/5ed26062-ceb9-49e6-9e66-e6360e7efd99Endeavor: Deep Sea — https://www.crdbrd.app/hub/game/bcb00fe5-9279-4b91-b933-6cb0d34796e3This War of Mine — https://www.crdbrd.app/hub/game/3c998c7b-7942-4591-854b-e560598bf46aFederation — https://www.crdbrd.app/hub/game/4eda18b1-4466-4ece-982e-38def3895051Tyrants of the Underdark — https://www.crdbrd.app/hub/game/7bca9046-e03a-4d94-958b-1055bede41b4Endeavor: Age of Sail — https://www.crdbrd.app/hub/game/2371dd27-14ca-4687-96a7-e1c90d28f87bToo Many Bones — https://www.crdbrd.app/hub/game/5cc80ba6-47bb-4310-a27e-8bf877b688d4Lords of Vegas — https://www.crdbrd.app/hub/game/c504f244-cd79-48e3-aba4-35c13e054482Calico — https://www.crdbrd.app/hub/game/d84983d0-c82c-4b22-a5fd-26c3b654f66eThree Sisters — https://www.crdbrd.app/hub/game/c012000c-4ba3-4d69-bec1-c8f5a56bf5d0Fleet: The Dice Game — https://www.crdbrd.app/hub/game/6c442fc5-eada-4e7d-ae00-926b5dff33ddLost Ruins of Arnak — https://www.crdbrd.app/hub/game/098b4c16-65a8-4bdf-adfd-8a40580353fbDead Reckoning — https://www.crdbrd.app/hub/game/bdf54f8d-b5d2-4e23-8f75-327abbe31e52Foundations of Rome — https://www.crdbrd.app/hub/game/88664473-10e0-4f39-90b0-ccc651056a8eBrass: Birmingham — https://www.crdbrd.app/hub/game/52101105-bbe3-4b4e-8331-0c86693392e4Slay the Spire — https://www.crdbrd.app/hub/game/341b1e2a-fbc9-4e3d-a477-2fc171535c32Castles of Burgundy — https://www.crdbrd.app/hub/game/e3b9a7d9-308b-4da2-b925-06524c0de67cDominion — https://www.crdbrd.app/hub/game/0b300d7c-f019-4594-8d4b-ef94c0e26585Cosmic Encounter — https://www.crdbrd.app/hub/game/0b642fac-ee89-4a0a-99f5-8c98924fe801PRIMAL — https://www.crdbrd.app/hub/game/716b5f58-922a-4ac7-b295-d101cbc7122f

Do Kids Belong at Board Game Conventions? | BGSS ep_002

Eric and Leo are back fresh off Dice Tower West — and they brought Vlad along to keep things honest. Eric's entire top 10 gets put through the Wear or Tear machine, Vlad pulls no punches. Then all three share their top plays from the convention, Leo drops his top 5 picks for kids, and the crew makes plans to get Lost Ruins of Arnak to the table online.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━TIMESTAMPS━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━0:00 Cold Open0:07 Meet Eric & Leo1:24 Dice Tower West — How They Met3:33 The Ready Set Bet Find5:44 Meeting Vlad8:06 The Game Library9:30 Captain Sonar & Con Goals13:07 Leo's Board Game Origin Story16:31 RPG Tangent19:25 Eric's Flea Market Table23:20 Con Pickups27:21 Wear or Tear — Eric's Top 1028:21 Clank! vs. Survive (the 9.5 bubble)30:27 #9 Lords of Vegas31:35 #8 Captain Sonar32:34 #7 Telestrations35:46 #6 Blood Rage37:37 #5 Colt Express40:39 #4 Viticulture43:22 #3 Secret Hitler45:41 #2 Stone Age48:32 #1 Santorini51:49 Top Plays of the Con52:14 Secret Hitler (Leo #5 / Eric #4)57:18 Captain Sonar (Eric #5)1:01:07 Project: ELITE — #1 Play of the Con1:09:12 Thunder Road: Vendetta1:12:18 Coup: Rebellion (Leo #3)1:13:50 Lords of Vegas (Eric #2)1:22:52 Coup (Leo #1)1:27:05 Vlad's Favorite: Mindbug1:28:43 Leo's Top 5 Games for Kids1:29:19 #5 Catapult Kingdoms1:31:24 #4 King of Tokyo1:32:27 #3 Kitchen Rush1:33:41 #2 Fireball Island1:36:33 #1 Exploding Kittens1:38:48 What's Next — Lost Ruins of Arnak1:40:33 Wrap Up━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━GAMES REFERENCED━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ERIC'S TOP 10Survive: Escape from Atlantis! — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-363a32dc-9309-47c2-a56d-1d1de640a2d5Clank! — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-704ddf39-3c4c-4381-9d9b-841d790fe61fLords of Vegas — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-c504f244-cd79-48e3-aba4-35c13e054482Captain Sonar — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-aeb1cc8f-b7ed-4a44-af3b-3be80b2e57dbTelestrations — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-e35dcc67-e926-4e7c-a186-82176ca375e9Blood Rage — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-6f5f7600-ade4-4f2a-b2d9-87ddb08ada46Colt Express — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-ecb98991-88bf-4afc-92de-05424a63562eViticulture — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-1ab341e9-2c42-4935-99f3-88eb0618ee4aSecret Hitler — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-52da0500-f4d8-4360-8391-be6506c39300Stone Age — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-f00d8eb9-1020-4518-9909-c884aa5830e9Santorini — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-ec3ff3bc-43de-40a0-b196-adf1286f2c14TOP PLAYS OF THE CONProject: ELITE — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-2b368ce8-023d-47ae-8005-a55f0313099cLords of Vegas — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-c504f244-cd79-48e3-aba4-35c13e054482Thunder Road: Vendetta — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-c7cb62f8-3842-4eb4-8022-22c0a073bce4Captain Sonar — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-aeb1cc8f-b7ed-4a44-af3b-3be80b2e57dbSecret Hitler — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-52da0500-f4d8-4360-8391-be6506c39300Coup: Rebellion G54 — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-58eef8bd-90b3-4ade-8682-a0da71acb735Coup — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-abb29ee9-be1c-4b19-8531-a4887ea29b76LEO'S TOP 5 FOR KIDSCatapult Kingdoms — (not yet in Cardboard)King of Tokyo — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-fafd0872-98a9-4dc4-889f-2e0f916e468fKitchen Rush — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-6e942f08-f88f-482b-babd-1fd2d285fc0fFireball Island: The Curse of Vul-Kar — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-ec35dbd5-aa40-4f3e-92b2-b687133631bdExploding Kittens — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-e87ef4de-f54d-4883-8829-5a7c8e882316ALSO MENTIONEDThe Chameleon — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-34f3c3b3-9cb6-4beb-a7dd-06bf066da585Ticket to Ride — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-845dd5f5-8f31-47ca-951d-671775b0ac88Ready Set Bet — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-c44c7132-825f-4bd8-924a-c3087e9dea5bOne Night Ultimate Werewolf — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-105e9a53-a7ab-4119-9fd8-8fe1b502cbc4The 7th Continent — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-dd234178-0e2e-43da-9d4b-77bd8df2e51bPuerto Rico — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-56da2c71-3253-4b8d-92ee-a0d83596a1aeFood Chain Magnate — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-48ff082e-8d1a-48cb-83d6-fc9e83218f98Mindbug: First Contact — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-4efd73de-43a8-4982-9627-ed7a15976310Lost Ruins of Arnak — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-098b4c16-65a8-4bdf-adfd-8a40580353fbArkham Horror: The Card Game — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-5039850d-42dd-4a02-b7c0-e83caaddae8cMarvel Champions: The Card Game — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-77acff14-8e25-4bad-9200-2aca9cc13b05

The Old Board Game Fantasy Draft | BGSS ep_001

Welcome to the Board Game Secret ShowReggie from the Board States podcast and Rolling Reggie sits down for an episode unlike anything else. First he has to DEFEND his entire top 10 against real criticism from users on the Cardboard platform. Then we run a board game draft, picking only games from 2015 and older, and the stakes are real: YOU vote on whose list wins:David's List: https://www.crdbrd.app/hub/scroll/eed372a2-373a-4224-89de-4ad36285a0e2Reggie's List: https://www.crdbrd.app/hub/scroll/6322198e-02d9-450a-85d7-bf86260c165cVote Here: https://www.crdbrd.app/hub/clubs/threads/04d7a580-db8f-4d56-88f1-ab0d2bd7667dBoard States Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/2NfMCQAv4DagXgVyostysX?si=x80KPuYUT_-Ax6tY_rSAcA&nd=1&dlsi=b7ee52425c7e4400@rolling.reggie https://www.youtube.com/@rolling.reggieJoin the Secret Club Here: https://www.crdbrd.app/hub/clubs?club=the-board-game-secret-showWant to work together?: https://crdbrd.app/hub/creator/neon_gorilla━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━TIMESTAMPS━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━00:00 Cold Open00:32 Meet Reggie08:52 Show Format Explained13:40 Defend Your Top 1014:30 #10 Imhotep17:15 #9 Viticulture20:31 #8 White Castle24:16 #7 Rez Arcana28:34 #6 Challengers!34:06 #5 Castles of Burgundy37:45 #4 Dune Imperium: Uprising42:32 #3 Ark Nova48:09 #2 Marvel Champions52:45 #1 Wingspan1:01:15 The Draft (2015 & Older) 1:43:29 Final Lists + Vote 1:44:45 En La Mesa 1:54:10 Wrap Up ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━GAMES REFERENCED━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━REGGIE'S TOP 10Imhotep — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-3c38d6c3-3cea-48ce-82c3-decab9e5536dViticulture — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-1ab341e9-2c42-4935-99f3-88eb0618ee4aThe White Castle — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-b898df73-526f-4271-8ef1-6cf4f012297bRez Arcana — (not yet in Cardboard)Challengers! — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-9dee450a-dc09-4eaf-b9d9-746f094bf18aThe Castles of Burgundy — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-5df9eaf2-bdb1-4d91-bb2e-a0275d5f6322Dune: Imperium – Uprising — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-4015dea3-f201-46c2-9043-01cebee16fa6Ark Nova — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-17bbbe0a-cc8f-4755-ba6c-3faa958de078Marvel Champions — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-77acff14-8e25-4bad-9200-2aca9cc13b05Wingspan — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-087cbe1f-756f-440a-9388-ae3cdcc86b86dbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-4dd82420-e5a0-4cc4-afaa-3b7d2b60ce97Splendor — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-a6022a6b-fd2b-4c20-83c6-7e14dc7d0475ALSO MENTIONEDBarrage — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-b89c8d5b-b813-42b3-a8bc-50669a98767aRace for the Galaxy — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-36fdeb46-b7e7-4866-a615-a12b97d32c1bFliptoons— https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-4caa7678-7c2a-4b66-8ca0-e8d70834ea35 Dune: Imperium — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-2622c617-cf7e-443c-951a-18ee401959ca7 Wonders — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-2a6c1e18-b28a-42bb-b8e2-d4b79aa82989Ascension — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-077eee6c-9a23-4f10-b72b-776c45514d2aSpace Base — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-484d4441-c8f4-4c70-b67f-34e416ccb14dFantastic Factories — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-d37008ec-f37a-4901-84f0-15f1ae5793a7Tearable Quest — https://crdbrd.app/hub/games?panel=game-01dbfe84-742f-4b6b-bfe0-94caf679d00b

The Big Dice Tower West Show | Top 5 Plays + Recap | BGSS Ep 000

Welcome to the Board Game Secret Show [reboot]Dice Tower West 2026 Recap | Top 5 Plays, Convention Tips & Would You RatherVlad and I sat down (for the second time — RIP first recording) to break down our Dice Tower West 2026 experience at the Westgate in Las Vegas. We talk about how we met, what it's like overcoming social anxiety at your first board game convention, the games that blew us away, and why some of the best board games you'll ever play are already 10+ years old.We each share our Top 5 Plays from the convention, and spoiler alert — we share a #1. We also run through some Would You Rather rapid fire questions and roast the Westgate food options.Games Mentioned:Lords of Vegas | Captain Sonar | Secret Hitler | Colt Express | Telestrations | I'm the Boss | Thunder Road Vendetta | Foundations of Rome | Survive: Escape from Atlantis | Everdell Silver Frost | Cretaceous Rails | Terrorscape | Eternal Decks | Ready Set Bet | Blood on the Clocktower | Coup | Root | Barrage | Brass | Chameleon | Hot Streak | Flip Seven | Zoo Vadis🎲 Go Check out Cardboard: crdbrd.app📋 My full Buy / Try / Sell list from DTW 2026: https://www.crdbrd.app/hub/neon_gorilla?panel=list-381808b8-27e2-4b4e-b555-b430f20cc309Shoutout to Eric, Leo, Vlad, Nixie, David and Courtney for making this the best convention experience of my life. Timestamps0:00 Intro & Re-Recording Backstory1:25 Episode Overview1:53 How David & Vlad Met (Shoutout Eric & Leo)2:20 First Impressions & Shady Strategies3:38 Vlad's Second Dice Tower West Experience3:50 Conquering Social Anxiety & Throwing Plans Aside5:07 Using Cardboard to Remember Game Rules6:17 Games We Wanted to Play But Couldn't7:23 Best Table Presence: Eternal Dex, Cretaceous Rails, Terror Escape9:29 Terror Escape Deep Dive10:43 Learning Cretaceous Rails at the Con11:08 Everdell Silver Frost & Accidentally Selling for Starling11:47 Our Group Bonded Over Take-That Games12:38 Live Gameplay Clip: Stealing Casinos13:28 Group Dynamic: Monsters, Blocking & Chaos14:14 Cerebral Euros vs Interactive Games15:38 Westgate Food Review (It's Bad)16:48 The Nachos Guy Who Ate the Whole Plate17:45 Benihana & the $20 Cake Boss Machine18:48 Vegas Pricing Rant20:10 Venue Layout & World Series of Board Gaming21:33 Friday Night Magic: The Best Convention Moment23:15 Dice Tower at Sea & The Poop Cruise Tangent24:21 Publisher Area Year Over Year26:09 Buy Stuff Convention vs Play Games Convention27:06 Play Stats: 21 Games, 25 Plays, 3.5 Days28:29 Social Anxiety & the Welcoming Vibe30:39 Prototype Area Recap31:58 Demo Area Thoughts32:28 Blood on the Clocktower: Three Tries, Not For Us35:09 Flea Market Finds & Eric's Insane Table38:39 Honorable Mention: Survive Escape from Atlantis41:15 Vlad's #5: Foundations of Rome42:43 David's #5: Telestrations45:43 Vlad's #4: Thunder Road Vendetta48:08 David's #4: Colt Express51:34 Stop Chasing New Hotness, Play Older Games52:02 David's #3: Secret Hitler54:58 Vlad's #3: I'm the Boss58:31 David's #2: Captain Sonar1:02:28 #1 Shared: Lords of Vegas1:07:43 Big Takeaway: The Best Games Already Exist1:09:28 Would You Rather: 10 Games Once or Favorite Game 10 Times1:10:40 Would You Rather: Amazing Strangers or Terrible Friends1:11:13 Would You Rather: Win With No Memories or Lose With Great Stories1:12:14 Would You Rather: Lifetime DTW Pass or One Con With $5K1:13:56 Would You Rather: No Schedule or Every Session Pre-Booked1:14:46 Would You Rather: Lifetime DTW Pass or Essen Spiel Once1:16:06 Outro & Call to Action1:16:50 Post-Show Banter: Tiramisu Confessions