Boardgames To Go

Apr 01 2025 280 ep. 60 mins 2.5k

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Mark Johnson's occasional & opinionated podcast about family strategy boardgames

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Boardgames To Go 240 - Dice Tower West and the Mark Madness 2025 Champions

Apr 01 2025 62 mins

The annual voting/predicting competition called Mark Madness is now finished. The results are posted with the rest of the updates for episode 239, and here co-host Eryn Roston returns one last time to share the winners. Unconscious Mind was our collective favorite for game cover art, and Adam Brocker is this year's winner. The plan now is for Adam to help me run next year's Mark Ma

Boardgames To Go 239E - Mark Madness 2025 (with Eryn Roston)

Mar 28 2025 4 mins

The Championship is now set! https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/354557/mark-madness-2025-game-cover-art-with-eryn-roston

Boardgames To Go 239D - Mark Madness 2025 (with Eryn Roston) Elite Eight

Mar 22 2025 20 mins

Be sure to go vote at https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/354557/mark-madness-2025-game-cover-art-with-eryn-roston?itemid=11634552#11634552

Boardgames To Go 239C - Mark Madness 2025 (with Eryn Roston) Sweet 16

Mar 19 2025 11 mins

The round of 32 is finished, leaving us now voting on the Sweet 16 of game cover artworks. The choices are getting more difficult. And we have a new leader in our prediction contest. #Davecember celebrity loofish is representing his namesakes with a currently-in-first-place position for his guess...but with others on his tail.

Boardgames To Go 239B - Mark Madness 2025 (with Eryn Roston) Round of 32

Mar 16 2025 32 mins

Eryn is back to talk with me about the results of the first round voting. Half of our original 64 game cover art entries have now been knocked out of the contest. Now successive voting rounds keep halving the remaining contestants every three days. What have we seen so far? No ties, though a couple matchups were close. A few more were blowouts. Are there common threads? Surprises?

Boardgames To Go 239 - Reminder for Mark Madness

Mar 13 2025 1 mins

If you're playing along with Mark Madness this year, the time for predictions is over and you'd better start voting. Whether you've done a prediction or not, the link below takes you to the place where you can choose your favorite game cover art as 64 titles square off against each other in one-on-one matchups. https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/354557/mark-madness-2025-game-co

Boardgames To Go 239A - Mark Madness 2025 Kickoff (with Eryn Roston)

Mar 03 2025 129 mins

Play along and predict the winners at https://challonge.com/MarkMadness2025 Predictions must be submitted by March 12 to be in the contest Mark Johnson @MarkEJohnson eryn roston @baditude Once again, the month of March give me a chance to bring back "Mark Madness," my podcast-hosted voting contest. Like its namesake sports tournament, Mark Madness is wher

Boardgames To Go 238 - Podcast 20th Anniversay (with Dave Arnott)

Mar 01 2025 64 mins

Please join us on the Boardgames To Go discord server where you can chat online with other podcast listeners. David Arnott @Arnott When did you start listening to podcasts? Do you remember your first ones? For me it was the first one ever about boardgames and the first about movies. That was Geekspeak and Reel Reviews. Even though I'm not so into wine, Grape Radio was

Boardgames To Go 237 - BGG Hall of Fame (with Scott Alden) plus EsCon report

Feb 01 2025 85 mins

Please join us on the Boardgames To Go discord server where you can chat online with other podcast listeners. Scott Alden @Aldie Opener: Everyone knows Aldie, right? Feels like we do. Scott Alden, the man behind BoardGameGeek, is one creative entrepreneur, let me tell ya. Anyone could've thought to make a central website where boardgamers come for information and commun

Boardgames To Go 236 - End of One Year, Beginning of Another

Jan 01 2025 64 mins

Please join us on the Boardgames To Go discord server where you can chat online with other podcast listeners. I've been doing this podcast for twenty years! I never would've guessed this in the beginning. The actual "birthday" for the podcast is March 3rd, so focus on the anniversary then. But for now, this is the start of Season 21. Blackjack! Despite my teasing of Davebo during