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315 – The Video Game Holiday Gift Guide with Stephen Duetzmann

October 31, 2022 Anitra Smith Podcast Episodes, The Family Gamers Podcast

It’s that time of year again. We are joined by the “unmitigated hype monster”, Stephen Duetzmann, to learn about recommendations for (mostly) family-friendly video games this holiday season.

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314 – Games under $20 – The Family Gamers Podcast

October 24, 2022 Updated: November 1st, 2022 Anitra Smith Podcast Episodes, The Family Gamers Podcast

A top 10, or 12, or possibly 13 list of great games you can find for under $20.

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Andrew, Anitra, card games, deals, gifts

313 – Essen Post-Mortem!

October 17, 2022 Anitra Smith Podcast Episodes, The Family Gamers Podcast

It’s an odd numbered show and Andrew is our guest (hah!) We’re going to talk about his very first Essen Spiel experience.

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Andrew, Anitra, Essen

312 – ESSEN Excitement!

October 5, 2022 Anitra Smith Podcast Episodes, The Family Gamers Podcast

Andrew’s going to Essen for Spiel ’22! We pick 15 games that we’re really excited to see.

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Andrew, Anitra, Essen

311 – Flat River Group with Colin Young

September 26, 2022 Andrew Smith Podcast Episodes, The Family Gamers Podcast

Colin Young is a friend of The Family Gamers, and part of Flat River Group. What’s FRG? “”

310 – Top-Rated Games – The Family Gamers Podcast

September 19, 2022 Anitra Smith Podcast Episodes, The Family Gamers Podcast

We’ve been reviewing games for a long time, and have rated about a dozen games as “perfect” and about twice as many as “almost perfect”. Do those ratings hold up?

309 – Unmatched Digital with Suzanne Sheldon – The Family Gamers Podcast

September 12, 2022 Anitra Smith Podcast Episodes, The Family Gamers Podcast

Welcome Suz! Restoration Games is releasing a digital version of their hit game Unmatched, and we’ll talk about it today.

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308 – Different Ways to Adventure with Board Games

September 5, 2022 Andrew Smith Podcast Episodes, The Family Gamers Podcast

This week, we’re talking about adventure! What games make you feel like you’re going on an adventure? There are more ways to accomplish this feeling than you might think.

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adventure, Andrew, Anitra, dungeon crawl, Family Gaming, Roleplaying, Storytelling

307 – Jon Manker and Pax Viking – The Family Gamers Podcast

August 29, 2022 Andrew Smith Podcast Episodes, The Family Gamers Podcast

Jon is the co-founder of Ion Game Design, making board games “based on reality”. Although most are quite complex (Pax Viking, Sammu-ramat), there are some family-oriented games just around the corner…

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306 – Room to Grow: Dice Set Collection – The Family Gamers Podcast

August 22, 2022 Updated: August 30th, 2022 Anitra Smith Podcast Episodes, The Family Gamers Podcast

What is dice set collection? Think Yahtzee. You’re rolling dice, usually with some re-rolls allowed, trying to get a certain result spread out among many dice (a straight, two/three/four of a kind, etc.)

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Andrew, Anitra, dice, Dice Rolling, room to grow, set collection

305 – GenCon 2022 with Nick – The Family Gamers Podcast

August 15, 2022 Updated: August 31st, 2022 Anitra Smith Podcast Episodes, The Family Gamers Podcast

It’s time for GenCon! Nick went for just one day this year, and shares with us the highlights from his whirlwind tour.

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304 – Computational Thinking – The Family Gamers Podcast

August 8, 2022 Anitra Smith Podcast Episodes, The Family Gamers Podcast

Andrew & Anitra are programmers by training. Can we tease apart some of the skills that build a programming mindset, and hone them through games?

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Andrew, Anitra, educational games, Family Gaming, gameschooling

303 – Beyond Board Games: Open Roading

July 25, 2022 Updated: August 4th, 2022 Andrew Smith Podcast Episodes, The Family Gamers Podcast

A man and a woman hanging out the windows of a truck pulling a camper

This podcast has almost nothing to do with board games! Four years ago Joe and Kalyn sold their house and bought an RV. It requires a lot of planning…

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Andrew, Anitra, Art of BoardGaming, beyond board games, travel

302 – How to Raise Little Gamers – The Family Gamers Podcast

July 18, 2022 Anitra Smith Podcast Episodes, The Family Gamers Podcast

“One of the best ways to get your kids excited about doing something is by being excited about doing something.” Can you get your kids to love games the way you do?

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301 – Board Game Day with Ambie Valdés – The Family Gamers Podcast

July 11, 2022 Anitra Smith Podcast Episodes, The Family Gamers Podcast

Welcome Ambie Valdés to the podcast! How did she get from writing song parodies to a children’s board book?

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Andrew, Anitra, Interview, Kickstarter, reading

300 – EPISODE 300! – The Family Gamers Podcast

July 3, 2022 Andrew Smith The Family Gamers Podcast

Can you believe we have done 300 podcast episodes?

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Andrew, Anitra

299 – Dani Effertz, Sovranti – The Family Gamers Podcast

June 27, 2022 Anitra Smith Podcast Episodes, The Family Gamers Podcast

Sovranti is a digital board game app allowing friends to play board games across the world. Dani is the community manager for Sovranti, and she’s going to tell us more about it!

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Andrew, Anitra, Interview, online gaming, Sovranti

298 – Looking Forward to Summer – The Family Gamers Podcast

June 20, 2022 Anitra Smith Podcast Episodes, The Family Gamers Podcast

This week, we’re looking forward to summer, with resources for playing games with kids, and a short discussion of what we’re looking forward to playing with our extra time.

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Andrew, Anitra, summer

297 – Kevin & Melissa Delp, Tantrum House – The Family Gamers Podcast

June 13, 2022 Updated: June 27th, 2022 Anitra Smith Podcast Episodes, The Family Gamers Podcast

Today on the podcast, we welcome Kevin and Melissa Delp, part of the team at Tantrum House. Fact – Clematis is a type of flowering plant – which currently has 297 species. What We’ve Been Playing Skyrise (Roxley)Under Falling Skies (CGE – our review)UNDO: Forbidden Knowledge (Pegasus Spiele – review coming soon)Space Station Phoenix (Rio Grande)Rear Window (Funko Games)Batman: Everybody

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Andrew, Anitra, Tantrum House