Operation Game Night
de Travis, Clay, & Jared
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Put Your Board Games On A Diet
Put Your Board Games On A Diet
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Travis Smith, Jared Erickson, and Clayton Gable get together to discuss the latest and greatest in board games in this weekly podcast. What's hot, what's hitting the table, featured discussions about board games and the board gaming culture, and the primary mission objective- to play more board games!
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- Put Your Board Games On A Diet · 1 h 10 minHeavy board games are awesome. They’re also the easiest games to love in theory and never actually play. So we try something different: we put our biggest boxes and brain-burners…
- A Local Game Store Gets A Second Life · 1 h 28 minWe go from cooperative poker boss fights to instant-teach party games, then zoom out to the real work of keeping a friendly local game store alive. CJ joins to tell the story…
- The Benevolent Board Game Dictator Method · 1 h 20 minTwenty people show up for game night, dinner ends, and everyone looks at the game shelf like it’s a bomb that might go off. We’ve lived that nightmare, so we lay out a real…
- Barn Boy Games Turns Family Play Into A Business · 59 minHow do you turn a goofy argument like “Is a stop sign taller than an emu?” into a party game people can learn in seconds and replay for years? We sit down with Kerry and Ryan…
- An OGN Reunion Debrief! · 49 minA board game weekend can go one of two ways: the table clicks and everyone rides the momentum, or you bog down in rules, downtime, and “maybe next time.” We just got back from a…
- We Stress-Test Game Night Scenarios (ft. Tim from Board Game Hot Takes) · 1 h 21 minA Golden Geek Award winner joins us, and we do what any responsible board game podcast would do: we immediately test whether he can actually host a great game night. Tim from…
- Betting On Betting Games · 1 h 24 minWe had a question stuck in our heads: can you make a board game betting episode that actually feels like a bet? So we built a weird little experiment where we “bet on betting…
- The Great Board Game Cull · 1 h 22 minYour board game shelf can either fuel game night or quietly smother it. We sit down to talk about the messy, satisfying work of board game culling: how we decide what stays, what…
- Grab Bag: Testing The 8 Kinds Of Fun Against Board Games · 1 h 9 minA single game store run turns into the most relatable tabletop gaming story possible: we drive out for one small box, get hit by the shopping bug, and walk out with expensive…
- Our Current Top 10 Board Games · 1 h 17 minWe celebrate two years of Operation Game Night by ranking our current top 10 board games and owning the messy reality behind how those lists actually get made. We also debrief…
- 2 Years of Operation Game Night: Our Favorite Episodes & What We're Playing Now · 1 h 32 minTwo years, 130+ episodes, and more games than we can count — and we're celebrating with a full roundtable. Amanda Lee (emptynestboardmama) and Mike (TheMeepleThatLoses) join us…
- Peter C. Hayward & Baba Is You Board Game Design · 1 h 35 minWe trade stories about the small games that save a night, from bluffing chaos at a wrestling convention to real-time trading frenzies that only work with the right group. Peter…
- Clearing The Shelf Of Opportunity (ft. Games Y Mas & Peter C. Hayward) · 1 h 7 minYou know that moment when you look at your shelf and realize you’re collecting faster than you’re playing? We start there with Vic from the Games Y Mas podcast, breaking down the…
- GameHead Games Wave 2 Sneak Peek · 1 h 29 minWe catch up with Paul Solomon from GameHead Games, trade notes on recent plays, then dig deep into what Wave 1 taught him about selling small box board games that actually last…
- The Definitive Trick-Taking Game Ranking · 1 h 16 minTrick-taking games are everywhere right now, but not all of them earn a permanent spot on the shelf. We put Clay’s full taste on the record with a ranked list of 35 trick-taking…
- OGN's Game of the Year Watch · 1 h 8 minA lot of games feel fun for one night and then vanish into the shelf. We wanted to figure out the opposite: the board games that keep tugging at your brain weeks later, the ones…
- Travis is Back and Clay Has Opinions About 38 Games | June Deployment Report · 1 h 9 minThey're back. Travis survived the move. Clay survived a month without his leader. The long form format is officially back by popular demand — and to celebrate, Clay drops a full…
- Bärenpark In 30 Minutes · 21 minNew Zealand has no wild bears, which is exactly why we end up talking about building the best bear zoo we can. Clay and Sam dig into Baron Park, the Phil Walker-Harding…
- Convince me Catan is a Good Game · 28 minCatan has a weird superpower: it’s one of the most loved gateway board games and one of the most mocked “I’m too serious for this” targets. We lean into that tension and ask the…
- A 40th Birthday Becomes A 20-Game Challenge · 19 minWe trade the usual birthday expectations for a weeklong board game celebration as Mike turns 40 and brings a list of 20 games he wants on the table. We break down what makes the…
