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Welcome to Episode 142 of the Devon Dice Podcast! Joel, Nick, and Lewis are back from UK Games Expo 2025 and are here to share their Top 5 highlights from the event — plus Sam’s thoughts via his notes! Listen in as they dive into their favourite moments, discuss the games they played, and even give a few honest hotel reviews. This episode also features bonus interviews with three creators from the UK board game scene (and slightly beyond): Mark Prentice from Next Dimension Games Chris Priscott of Unfringed Jubson Cowan, game artist extraordinaire (okay, not strictly British — but we’ll claim him anyway!) We still found time to squeeze in a bit of industry news and a roundup of some exciting crowdfunding campaigns currently live. So, sit back, enjoy the Expo wrap-up, and get your wishlist ready! Conventions Fox & Hounds board game weekend – 17th – 19th October Hotel rooms sold out  A few day/weekend tickets are still available. News US Tariffs news: courts put a stop to tariffs CMON sells off IP

Devon Dice Podcast – Episode 141Title: It’s Our UKGE 2025 Preview Episode! Welcome back to another episode of the Devon Dice Podcast! Joel, Nick and Sam are bringing their best list of games they are looking forward to, at UKGE 2025, to try and impress Lewis on what to look out for this year. Convention Chat Looking ahead, don’t forget the Fox & Hounds Board Game Weekend is coming up: 17th–19th October – mark your calendars! Board Game News Tariffs Update: There’s a 90-day pause on tariffs, prompting a mad shipping dash from publishers. Great for getting games out… but it’s driving up shipping costs again. Golden Geek Awards:  announced The winners have been crowned! (Insert dramatic drumroll here.) Crowdfunding Corner Kickstarter Highlights: Age of Steam Volume 5 & 6 expansions– 16 new maps + 2 promo maps? That’s enough to derail our wallets. River Rats – Another co-op poker game, because bluffing with friends never gets old. Gamefound Picks: AVGhost Paranormal Investigation: Sec

Joel, Nick, and Sam are joined this week by Matt Prowes, the Torbay Full Board Gaming Weekend convention organiser. Tune in to hear about the event’s history, what goes into running it, and what exciting things are planned for the future. Also in this episode: the gang catch up on the latest (well, slightly up-to-date!) board gaming news — including the ongoing US tariff situation, current crowdfunded campaigns, and of course, what they’ve been playing recently. Enjoy the show! Conventions Fox & Hounds board game weekend – 17th – 19th October UKGE (game releases preview page on BGG) Just gone by: Baycon Tic-Tac-Tabletop Games Weekend in Tavistock Interview about Full-Board-Gaming Convention MATT and the Torbay Convention Full Board Gaming!   2,3 or 4 nights between 29th Jan – 2nd Feb 2026 (booking here) News Tariffs and more tariffs CMON buckles down; Bordlandia shuts – CMON: pauses all future development; will focus on delivering existing promised games; laying off a lot of the creative team. CM

Hi I am Nick, not the host of the podcast, well, not usually, but just for today, I’m hosting on my lonesome! What happened to Episode 137?…and all about Joel’s laptop’s adventure down the stairs a little sooner then he hoped! Conventions Fox & Hounds board game weekend – This weekend! News The year of the 2-player version of bigger games! Aquatica Duellum Flamecraft Duals Celestia Duo The White Castle Duel Sail Legacy From the ‘lost’ episode 137: Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship: A new game using the Pandemic system, from Matt Leacock and Z-Man Games (pre-release at UKGE; full release soon after). Finspan: The latest Stonemaier announcement: a (simpler-ish) sequel to Wingspan, set in the ocean! Forest Shuffle: Dartmoor: A new stand-alone Forest Shuffle game, based in Dartmoor! Forest Shuffle: Exploration: Making the solo mode official, plus adding asymmetric caves Awaken Realms’ 2025/26 announcements: Agricola: Special Edition – fair enough Agricola: Dead Harvest – what?! Labyrinth: Ch

In this episode of Devon Dice: Board Game Podcast, host Joel is joined by Nick, Lewis, and Sam (while Claire is off to bed and mascot Honey is busy being adorable) to discuss their best board games from 2010, 2015, and 2020! They dive into the latest gaming news, including Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship and Stonemaier’s Finspan, plus updates from UKGE. The team also explores crowdfunding highlights, with big titles like Baghdad: City of Peace and Everdell Silverfrost making waves. Finally, they chat about recently played games, from Return to Dark Tower to Fellowship of the Ring: Trick-Taking Game, before unveiling their top picks from the past three gaming eras. Tune in for all this and more! Conventions Fox & Hounds board game weekend – Tickets are now sold out! News Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship: A new game from Matt Leacock and Z-Man Games using the Pandemic system. Pre-release (purchasable) at UKGE (with Matt Leacock on hand to sign copies!) before its public release. UKGE a

Welcome to the Christmas special podcast Joel, Nick and Lewis were meant to be free-flowing with the show like other Christmas shows in the past, however, Nick still wrote a script. so you will still get news, Kickstarters, played board games, and more. Conventions Fox & Hounds board game weekend – rooms available now (which include weekend tickets). Visitor weekend tickets will be available from our website soon! News Asmodee get a cash injection, goes looking for more companies to acquire The Mandalorian: Adventures to get a sequel Nucleum 3rd expansion announced New BGG feature: Trends Lewis goes off on an Apple TV tangent Why Lewis’ ankle hurts Crowdfunding Kickstarter Alhambra: Family & Friends edition Ascendice 2: Levatating Dice Tiny Crawler – a 3D-printable dungeon crawler (nothing noteworthy on Gamefound) Played Games Nick Pandemic The Crew: The Quest for Planet 9 Apiary + Expansion River of Gold Rebirth Lewis Concordia Lost Ruins of Arnak Side-discussion about Monument

welcome to Episode 134 of the Devon Dice Podcast, host Joel is joined by Nick, Claire, Lewis, and their mascot Honey for a November news and crowdfunding round-up, along with reflections on two recent conventions: the Devon Board Game Weekend and Gridcon 5. While Sam is off in Japan hunting for rare games, the team shares their recent plays, including Hansa Teutonica, Medical Mysteries: NYC ER, Race for the Galaxy, and 7 Wonders. News highlights include new titles like Great Western Trail: El Paso, Cascadia: Junior, and Isle of Cats: Duel. On the crowdfunding front, they spotlight projects like Western Legends Stories and Odana, while upcoming campaigns feature 52 Realms: Adventures and the Tales of the Arabian Nights 40th Anniversary Edition. The team also discusses the games they enjoyed at the conventions, from Creature Caravan and Flamecraft at Devon Board Game Weekend to Hamlet, Forest Shuffle: Woodland Edge, and Thunder Road: Vendetta at Gridcon 5. Join the crew for all the latest gaming news, crowdfund

In Episode 133 of the very late Devon Dice Podcast, Joel is joined by Nick, Claire, and their mascot Honey for a jam-packed episode covering gaming news, crowdfunding (October highlights), and Joel’s Essen Spiel 2023 retrospective. The team discusses upcoming conventions like the Ocean City Games Expo in Plymouth on 26th October, Devon Boardgame Weekend at Fox & Hounds (8th–10th November), and the ever-popular Gridcon (15th–17th November, already sold out). Joel shares his experience with Return to Dark Tower, while Nick dives into Pampero and Foundations of Rome with its Roads of Fortune expansion.  The episode’s main topic sees Joel reflect on his purchases from last year’s Essen Spiel, including titles like Cabanga!, Forest Shuffle, Zoo Tycoon, and Ark Nova: Marine Worlds, scoring their performance over the past year. Tune in for gaming insights, reflections, and plans for the season ahead! Welcome to Episode 133 Upcoming Local Conventions Ocean City Games Expo – gaming convention in Plymouth on 26t

Episode 131 Welcome to Episode 131 of the Devon Dice Podcast, where we serve up a delightful mix of gaming and pop culture chat in our third installment of Topic Tapas!  Joel, is your host, and he is by Nick, our Spiel des Jahres Analyst Extraordinaire, and Sam, putting the “Yo” back in “polyomino”. In this episode, we’ll dive into the games we’ve been playing—Pioneer Rails, Darwin’s Journey, and Terraforming Mars with some exciting custom twists. We’ll also share some rules we got hilariously wrong, chat about holiday board gaming, and explore the non-gaming things we’re currently obsessed with! Topic 1: Played games Joel: Pioneer Rails Sam: Darwin’s Journey Nick: Terraforming Mars with Prelude 2, custom Milestones & Awards, and on the fan-maps Vastitas Borealis and Amazonis Planitia big-map Topic 2: Rules we played incorrectly for ages before…when, where and how Joel: Clank! Crystal Caves  Nick: Borrowing one of Chris M’s: Century: Spice Road Sam: Jamaica Discord:  join in here https://discord.

Episode UKGE 2024 Welcome to the long-awaited podcast all about the UKGE 2024 (NEC). Joel, Nick, Lewis, and Sam go through the thoughts and stories from the event this year and give you their opinions on whether it was the best it has ever been. News Meeples™ Choice Awards winners announced – Nucleum, Earth, Sky Team, White Castle (and runners up: Darwin’s Journey, Forest Shuffle, Faraway, Age of Innovation, Great Western Trail: New Zealand, Apiary, and Hooky) Attendance figures (as mentioned the last pod): 39,306 unique; 65,281 total attendance. UKGE Judges Awards / UKGE People’s Choice Awards £18,000 raised for charity at UKGE 2024 UKGE ’24 review General chat about the event: Tickets, Bring & Buy, Met Craig v87 from our Discord server, live shows Knightmare Live show, The Dark Room, see news games coming: Alley Cat Games’ new games coming, Ada’s Dream, Luthier, WTIIA live show Lewis’s Family Day at UKGE: Family Zone, Getting some family games, Hunting down them bargains, New Diamant: £12, Lost R

Joel, Nick, and Sam bring the latest podcast for all their news, crowdfunding and what they have been playing in the world board games News Holy Grail games Another one bites the dust BGA is doing well in its post-Asmodee-acquisition era Parks is removed from BGA Moon Colony Bloodbath – A new Donald X. Vaccarino deck building + destruction of a shared deck Res Arcana Duo – Yet Another 2-player Redux Stamp Swap – Stonemeier’s next game A couple of notable expansions coming soon: Gaia Project: The Lost Fleet Faraway: Le Peuple du Dessous (“The People Underneath”) Hundred Acre Wood Fluxx Upcoming Local Conventions Ocean City Games Expo – gaming convention in Plymouth on 26th October – run by Andy Bright, from our Monday Night Games Group. Devon Boardgame Weekend @ the Fox & Hounds – 8-10th November (both squeezed in-between Essen (early Oct) and Gridcon (mid Nov) Crowdfunding Kickstarter So You’ve Been Cursed (4 days left) – Followup sequel to So

Welcome to News-a-palooza: Free the Meeple! I’m Joel, your host, and today we’re diving into a whirlwind of board gaming news and exciting updates. Joining me is Nick, our podcast’s very own board game designer. News Segment: 3:16 – Meeple trademark dispute (+ update) 10:50 – Game Brewer shutting down 11:50 – Star Wars: X-Wing game not being developed anymore 14:20 – Dicebreaker, the boardgame news site, appears to be collapsing, 2 weeks after being bought by IGN 15:55 – Figures for UK Games Expo attendance: Uniques: 39,306 Total Attendance: 65,281 Almost 30% growth over 2023 19:39 – Essen Spiel sells out to exhibitors 21:16 – Spiel des Jahres (+ Kennerspiel) nominations announced: SdJ: Sky Team, In the Footsteps of Darwin, and Captain Flip. KSdJ: Daybreak; The Guild of Merchant Explorers; Ticket to Ride Legacy – Legends of the West. Coming Soon: 29:14 – Star Trek: Captain’s Chair: A Star Trek game using the Imperium games’ design 32:55 

Joel, Nick and Sam list the Games they are excited to see at the UKGE in the NEC, Birmingham. And Lewis is here too to mock Sam about his Windmill games. but first off they take a look at the winners of the BoardGameGeek Awards 2023. Enjoy the show! Episode 127 2:04 – Super Quick News: BGG Golden Geek Winners announced 14:40 – Top picks for games to check out at UKGE! 15:15 – Sam’s 11 Honourable Mentions: Courtisans Florilegium Happy Home Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle-Earth Moving Wild Quoridor: Pac Man Sakana Stack Shoal Sand Find Kosmos Games on stand 1-602. Worms: The Board Game 13 Beavers 26:57 – Nick’s Honourable Mentions: Towers of Ra (images) Find Ocean City Games Ltd on stand 2-566. 27:55 – Joel’s Honourable Mentions: Two Thin Coats Paint Range Duncan Rhodes Painting Academy on stand 1-783. 30:09 – #5 30:20 – Joel,  Horrified Greek Monsters Find Ravensburger Ltd on stand 2-854 31:46 – Nick, Shackleton Base Find Hachette Boardgames UK on stand 2-

Joel and Nick bring you a long overdue podcast with sad news, controversial news, and outstanding news, plus Crowdfunding projects, played games, and a little rant from Joel. Episode 126 Sorry for the massive gap between podcasts. New podcast feed host Joel and Claire’s trip to London and Draughts board game café Tucana Builders News Meeples Corner, the lovely FLGS in Crediton, is to close at the end of the month. Wonders of the First, a CCG on Kickstarter using all-AI-art, is made to cancel (by Kickstarter themselves) because of using NFTs. Controversy hits the game Puerto Rico yet again, as Jason Perez, who rethemed the game for its “1897” release to remove cultural insensitivity, has now rejected his 1897 version entirely due to how the publisher(s) – including Awaken Realms who teased a new Deluxe Edition recently but immediately got in trouble for using AI art in the teaser artwork – have treated him. Castles of Burgundy Special Edition makes £2.1m on its 2nd printing on Gamefound, with

Welcome dear listeners! This is Episode 125 of the Devon Dice Podcast. In this podcast, we run down our top 5 new-to-us games on BGA! Joining Joel and Nick as they run through their top 5 games new to them that they played on Boardgame Arena first. Oh and they also read out Sams too.  Top 5 New To Us Games on BGA The Vale of Eternity, Beyond the Sun, Forest Shuffle, Faraway, Welcome To…, Formula D, Sobek,  Challengers!, HUND,  Quetzal,  Eruption,  Eruption Glass Road,  Railroad Ink,  River Valley Glassworks,  Faraway,  Carnegie,  Barrage, Played Games Joel: The Fox Experiment 4-player Nick: Star Trek: The Next Generation – Interactive VCR Board Game – A Klingon Challenge The VCR video: https://youtu.be/3_739DxrMOs Non-Gaming Things We’re Currently Into Nick:  Death and Other Details on Disney+ Holding off watching Star Trek: Discovery Season 5 Joel: Ted Lasso Painting miniature PAL WORLD Here is the link to our discord channel Devon Dice https://discord.gg/ma7Z4Jvv2z Find us on all the