I tried to get spectacular and missed it. One game I didn't hear about til after was Intarsia. It looks beautiful!

Your family is lovely. Happy birthday to your grandmother! What a wonderful gift for you all to get together and play games for her birthday. That is a memory to treasure. ❤

There's nothing like to have a family willing to play some games, the reunion, the laughs, the fun around a table. It creates such wonderful memories.

Should’ve brought Foundations of Rome. lol, imagine that as your carryon.

CARLY- "I'm not a huge fan of party games." ADDY- "WHAAAAAT?????" I'm dying!!!! 🤣😂😅Honestly, it was the best vacation and a huge part of that was gathering around the table playing games. River Valley Glassworks was perfect though. Probs my new favorite game. Favorite vlog EVER!!! Miss you already!

What a beautiful family :).

I LOVE how your family all gathers around to play! Such an awesome way to make great memories!

What a group of nice and normal people. You have a great family. God bless you all! Btw, your mom is a boss🙂.

The Tabletop Misfits had an exclusive for Tea Witches if you can find their video 😉

can confirm, Tea Witches is ❤‍🔥

Just bought it. Will update after I play this one.

kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3Wog4CZr659p8U some one have "tea witches" board game on her table (the girl with red pink hair)

I think there wasn't much about Tea Witches until recently. I've actually seen the sketches from Sandara a while back (a year plus ago?) on Facebook. Thought it'd be neat if it became a game when I saw it, but she mentioned that it was just her doodling on her own time. Since then, seems like Manny came up with a game that takes place in the wonderful world that Sandara came up with, so it's the same way Flamecraft came about. Anyway, even Sandara just mentioned it being a game for the first time just a couple of weeks ago, and I was like, "I KNEW it was too good to pass up as a theme for a game!." So I'm sure the Op was asking everyone involved to keep mum about it until they were officially releasing info. I'm very much looking forward to it as well.

I think you just missed all! The! Goodness! Of! GenCon! More than 7 games. Poor Board Game Buzzzzzz.

Mom saves the day. It got scary at the end, glad Hero mom could fix Spiderman watch situation. ❤ It was a close call.

Tea Witches is 2025, but got teased. I am super excited. Stella Meeple U, Alex/Meg, Jenna, Kovray, all mentioned it but only in excitement and no details. I am sure there is a moratorium before they can speak.

Mistwind wins the category of best production and why is nobody talking about it. Amazing on both ends.

Tea Witches was an OP Games teaser. They said they hope to have it available at Gen Con 2025, the way Gnome Hollow was available this year. I'm sure the hype train will ramp up closer to next Gen Con. I think the box looked fantastic even if it was just a prototype!

I picked up Spectacular and it’s Great!! Easy rules, fast playing, great decisions, & dice-drafting. Easily replaces Cascadia for me … also, check out “Sparks” from some of the same guys, who are dice-drafting masters. They flew in some copies & I grabbed one before the official Essen release … You and your animal assistants build up your factory & build robots. Excellent family weight game!!

Tea Witches can’t come soon enough! After seeing the board for Spectacular, I was also interested and Pergola. Babylon looked really cool! Oh my pigeons, sausage sizzle, and the Lego game sound silly.I’m also interested in King of Tokyo Duel and the Lord of the Ring Duel for Middle Earth (we play 2 players a lot). So many games!

Curses & Covens had a early release at Gen Con. Thank you for showing it in the video! It will release in retail stores in October.

Idk if you eventually got it, but game found still has late pledges open for the special edition castles of burgundy reprint

My friend and I got Curses and Covens demo'd by the designer. My friend immediately bought it after and got it signed. That was definitely the biggest hit so far that wasn't on our radar at all.

Just here to like and comment. Rebel princess sounds fun and I'm sure my girls will like all the witch themed games.

Artist of Flamecraft is one thing; it's a pretty game but so are so many other board games now. It's to the point where board games are an art piece on a wall rather than something to play. The designer of FC made a very run of the mill worker placement game. It excites me less than playing Waterdeep. My wife outright turns down playing FC any time I bring it up and she loves cute things but because the game play is so bland she can't stand it. A new game by this designer doesn't sound appealing but on the bright side it's good it has left a good impression on others.

Tea Witches has a BGG page now.

I’m pretty sure Jenna talked about your last one, but I can’t remember from which video. It sounds perfect 😍

There are so many games at GenCon, it's easy to miss a few great ones. Spectacular is one I'm definitely interested in.

Me too. Greetings from Serbia. You are going global😊🎉.

I love your videos. Greetings from Türkiye 😊

Sounds fun, but it also sounds like it needs just a bit more dice mitigation. And, obviously, bees. 🐝🐝

The bugs are nice... but when they are crawling on you... well, well. Hahaha.

I have not played Aqua, but I like all of the other games, including Harmonies. Have you played Reef and Neotopia? They also have mechanics that are similar to Harmonies, completing patterns that are on cards.

Radlands Expansion -- yes please, thanks for the info. Need it ASAP. Still sooo many new polyomino tile-laying game. I have yet to get my Plane Unknown special edition. I think I already have too many. Skyrise looks good though - but also expensive!

Harmonies is definitely on my very short list to get asap. I never pulled the trigger on Callico, because of its restrictiveness. Here in Downunder I have not received my Cascadia expansion Landmarks (paid for it over half a year ago.) And I don't think Harmonies is widely available here either yet. Thanks for the video.

Nice short video Carly. I thought the 3-player modus brought some nice and different touch to the game. Granted, the "Cartographer" plays quite different than the other two players. Therefore, I thought that the balance might be out and would have to be taken by a player more familiar with the game. Unfortunately, I have only been able to play this with my wife in a two-player-mode (which I agree is the main/preferred one). BUT you made me intrigued to now try it with three! My problem is that I hardly ever have a play-team of three.

Looks like fun and reminds me of Cascadia in the way you match up topography. I love tile placing games. This one was interesting with being able to benefit the other player. The back and forth play with opponents would be fun. Thanks for the awesome video! I'd love to check this one out.

I love this game, although my wife has a knack for letting me allllllmoooossst close off my area before extending it out and out so I can never finish it. I agree with you, though- after hearing you talk about it, I'm itching to play it again!

vol-cann-o

Land VS Sea is am excellent game. You gotta play with Ships/Caravans and Mountains/Corals. I would never even consider it more than a 2P game.

I think my kids would have enjoyed this game when they were younger. I'll keep this in mind in case they start having kids of their own soon.

This seems really similar to the old Goosebumps game from the 90's or 00's. But the tile elements and dice significantly improve the mechanisms from that game. What a fun share!

The game looks really fun. I love the flipping tile aspect of it and the fact that the box is an element for the game itself. Very clever.

please adopt me 😭

Found your channel recently and with two little kiddos myself I adore the mom life vibe here :) I also love Arnak so much! Thanks for all the work you put into these!

Thank you for such a thorough and detailed review! I always try to carefully watch such reviews and listen to them for a “work on mistakes” in upcoming expansions. By the way, I've finished on the duel version of Aquatica and it will bring a lot of new things to the gameplay. Thanks again! Cheers, Iv.

Oh wow Bosk! 😍🍂

Addie has quite a vocal style :D

The Buzz spoke with the Bozz? So jealous!!!