While we hate to confirm your most reductive of preconceived notions, snow removal in Canadian cities is no joke. The fleet of vehicles required to allow for daily life in even a small Canadian city after major snowfall is impressive. The balletic dance of some of their formations while in operation calls to mind the precise of mid-air refuelling.

01:03 AYURIS: Ra (Reiner Knizia, alea, 1999)

Games Played Last Week:

04:07 -Mistborn (John D. Clair, Brotherwise Games, 2024)

09:17 -Cerebria: The Inside World (Richard Amann, Viktor Peter, István Pócsi, Frigyes Schőberl, Nick Shaw, & Dávid Turczi, Mindclash Games, 2018)

13:40 -1793: Patriots & Traitors (Jason St.Just, Sound of Drums, 2024)

20:35 -Navegador (Mac Gerdts, PD-Verlag, 2010)

26:43 -Galactic Renaissance (Christian Martinez, Matagot, 2024)

29:25 -Cyclades: Legendary Edition (Bruno Cathala & Ludovic Maublanc, Open Sesame Games, 2024)

39:24 -Whale Riders (Reiner Knizia, Grail Games, 2021)

41:06 -Figment (Wolfgang Warsch, CMYK, 2025)

46:01 -Kabuto Sumo: Sakura Slam (John Brieger, Michael Dunsmore, & Tony Miller, Allplay, 2024)

49:53 -Portmanteau: A Cooperative Game of Linguistic Fusion (Robert Fisk, Doghalla Games, 2025)

54:26 -Dragon Valley (CW Karstens, Diamond K Games, 2012)

News (and why it doesn't matter):

1:01:56 Dragon Valley: Advisors & Quests, 2012

1:02:27 2001: A Space Odyssey 1 vs. all

1:03:13 Paolo Mori and Alessandro Zucchini form Ingenioso Hidalgo for Battlefields of the Napoleonic Wars

1:03:53 Feya's Swamp from Helge and Anselm Ostertag

Colour nouns are essentially arbitrary; how one decides to chop up the visible spectrum of light is a matter of contingent taxonomy. Some languages have one noun for both blue and green, for example. English has a word for light red (pink) where other languages don't. Russian similarly has a word for light blue. And then there's magenta, which we can all agree is a scene and a half.

Games Played Last Week:

02:35 -Fruit Fight (Reiner Knizia, CMYK, 2025)

06:55 -Fives (Taiki Shinzawa, CMYK, 2025)

09:49 -Figment (Wolfgang Warsch, CMYK, 2025)

12:49 -Duos (Johannes Schmidauer-König, CMYK, 2025)

16:17 -Sidereal Confluence (TauCeti Deichmann, Wizkids, 2017)

19:24 -Fishing (Friedemann Friese, 2F-Spiele, 2024)

24:36 -The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era (Josh J. Carlson, Michael Gernes, Logan Giannini, Ryan Howard, Salem Scott, and Josh Wielgus, Chip Theory Games, 2025)

32:24 -Storm Raiders (Shem Phillips, Arkus Games, 2025)

News (and why it doesn't matter):

38:55 Mythic Games in trouble (again), crowdfunding commitments unfulfilled

40:37 Monolith's Reichbusters: Reloaded

41:10 Cardboard Ghosts by Amabel Holland and CRC Press

41:46 Lord of the Rings Pandemic! Fate of the Fellowship

42:06 Crawling Chaos by Mike Hutchinson on Kickstarter

44:15 Endless Winter expansion crowdfunding soon

44:28 Rebel Princess: Happily Ever After

44:44 Feature Game: SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Tomáš Holek, Czech Games Edition, 2024)

Our upcoming convention, July 25th-27th 2025, is in its planning stages! We have a venue but nothing much else yet. Not even a name! Suggestions welcome. Mark quite likes So Very Wrong About Games Fun Times Good Vibes Only Trans Rights Are Human Rights Boardgame Jamboree, but he worries that it might be too pithy. Few things are off the table! Special guests? Maybe! Fabulous prizes? Well, prizes, definitely. More like obligatory prizes.

03:08 AYURIS: Undaunted: Battle of Britain (Trevor Benjamin and David Thompson, Osprey Games, 2023)

Games Played Last Week:

04:49 -Malediction (Leo Cunha, Nicole Lobo, and Daniel Pettersen de Lucena, Loot Studios, 2025)

12:09 -Slay the Spire: The Board Game (Gary Dworetsky, Anthony Giovannetti, and Casey Yano, Contention Games, 2024)

13:43 -Lone Wolves (Yasuyuki Nakamura, Wonderful World Board Games, 2024)

18:51 -Massive Darkness 2: Hellscape (Alex Olteanu & Marco Portugal, CMON, 2022)

24:01 -Critter Kitchen (Alex Cutler & Peter C. Hayward, Carboard Alchemy, 2025)

27:59 -Coloretto (Michael Schacht, ABACUSSPIELE, 2003)

29:26 -The White Castle: Matcha (Israel Cendrero & Sheila Santos, Devir Games, 2024)

32:56 -Planet Unknown: Supermoon (Ryan Lambert & Adam Rehberg, Adam's Apple Games, 2024)

News (and why it doesn't matter):

38:59 Bullet big box

40:03 Benjamin Sperling Persuasion roll and write on Kickstarter

40:32 Champions of Midgard 10th Anniversary Edition

41:15 SVWWAG Convention! July 25th, 26th, 27th. Details to follow!

42:21 Topic: How Expansions Can Fail