Top 10 Hottest Board Games: February 2026 - The Best of BGG

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0:17 What's up everybody? I'm Mike. We are the brothers smurf. It's time to talk about everything board game geek once again uh here in February. So if you're in the depths of winter, it's very cold. I hope that you're cozied up with a fire playing some board games and minding your time until the uh ground thaws out again. Uh so uh yeah, we're here to talk about uh board games. You know, over the holidays things kind of slow down. Obviously, people are are purchasing games and things like that, but now we're kind of back into new games coming out, new games getting announced and stuff for the new year. So, a lot of stuff has changed on the hotness. So, look forward to that. And I think before we do that, let's hop right into the news.

0:58 First up, happy birthday BGG. They just turned 26, which means they now are kicked off their parents' health insurance. They got to get their own. Dang it. Uh, so that's one thing, but also BG just did their hall of fame, which they started doing every year where they pick five games to put in the BGG Hall of Fame. So this year was For sale, Love Letter, U, Memoir 44, Puerto Rico, and Terraforming Mars. They did a little bit of a write up and a little bit of a video on each of these. So, you can go watch those. But, it's very, very cool to have kind of a BG Hall of Fame. Where else would it be other than BG because this is the kind of suppository for all of the board game stuff. So, make sure to check out the Hall of Fame. So, you can usually find a store update on a mostly month-to-month basis here on Board GameGeeek. And, uh, in January, there's a whole slew of promos from the Game Boy Geek. promos uh for STI and Cigrada and uh Unmatched and on and on and on. So, that's just something that's kind of really cool to know is like a lot of your games have made promos for, you know, different folks's uh maybe Kickstarter campaigns and things like that. And uh Board Game Geek has quite a big collection of them. So, if even if you missed uh getting a promo during a certain campaign or a certain moment, always check Board Gamegeeek because they really do have a ton of those kinds of promos still available uh for you to get for all of your favorite games. So, that was a bit of board game geek news.

2:17 Now, let's sit down and let's talk about the hottest games of the month.

2:27 Welcome to the place where we talk about the hottest games. We have our We have our duck, the hottest duck on the planet.

2:32 Absolutely. We got our coffee. It's hot, too. Yeah. Uh that's not that's a lie, actually. Mine's quite cold at this point, but I'm still drinking it, you know. Uh let's talk about the hottest games, everybody.

2:41 Number 10, man, is uh been around. sticking around. SEI.

2:46 Yeah,

2:46 SEI had an expansion in the back half of this last year. Uh, not that it need I think I think SETI is 17th overall rank. It's very high. So, it's not like it needed an expansion to to reach its uh spot on the hotness, but SEI is a game from CG that continues to uh capture our minds and others.

3:06 Uh, and this is a game where you are observing.

3:10 Yeah. Isn't that crazy?

3:11 Wow. I didn't realize it's quite that high. Holy crap. Here you are observing uh the night sky, sending probes out uh to the planets of our solar system looking for signs of life. In this game, we get to go a little sci-fi and that we actually do find aliens.

3:23 You will guaranteed to find them.

3:24 And they are going to, as you would expect, offer you many options to score points, drugs,

3:31 rocks, uh cool rocks,

3:33 and they'll give you things to score points because it's a big old point salad game. Um but it's a fun like action selection game, really a resource management. And if you're familiar with Lost Runes of Arnac, also ICG, this uh study feels similar in that you're trying to extract as much as you can out of every round. Get as much as you can of those resources, which are, you know, fairly tight.

3:53 Um, but you're developing technologies to kind of boost the actions you do. You're sending out probes. Uh, you are landing on planets or going into orbit. There's all sorts of things that can all offer you victory points. A lot of the cards you play give you missions to score extra points and get bonuses on and on and on. Uh, but it's been quite a a popular one from CGE, uh, who's just, you know, always cranking out classics, it seems.

4:18 Next up is going to be Heat Legends. I'm curious of

4:21 I feel like this is going to be a game they kind of perpetually expand, which I'm fine with, by the way. That's not a critique.

4:26 I really really like Heat, which is a good uh cool Formula 1 game. This is going to add more like rivals and more legends to

4:32 Yeah. So, it's like more kind of like opponents to uh play against because one thing that's really a lot of people like about Heat is that uh you know you can well I think with the expansion you can play up to eight players now but in the base game anyway six players but it's easy to run um AI opponents so that you know in a racing game you want to have a lot of cars on the map and and you're kind of jockeying for position and so uh there's kind of these rivals and legends and things that are giving you uh different difficulty levels of opponents even if you don't have uh you know full player account at the table. Uh, and so it seems like this one is really focused on giving you even harder opponents to go against and and these kind of legends.

5:09 They know what their clientele wants, right? A lot of people really like that. A lot of people really like heat, like solo and stuff like that because again, you can run these pretty easily. So they're like, "Okay, we'll give you more of that." Like we want you to keep playing our games. So like I really like when they're kind of like,

5:20 not that every expansion needs to be this, but it's nice when they're like, "Hey, here's an expansion for like this ultimately quite large contingent of people to make that experience even better."

5:30 Yeah. And I think it's really cool that even if you're not playing it solo, you can play it with, you know, two or three players to kind of

5:36 up the ante in the race and stuff. And uh yeah, this is like

5:40 these ones are like more clever. They they're kind of a little bit better and stuff like that. Yeah,

5:43 I think this is like truly like one of the most like highly supported games of late. I mean, they've really come out with so much content. I doubt they're slowing down. So number nine is uh the newest and latest and greatest coming out is Heat Legends. Next up is going to be the old King's Crown. a game I still I don't think I like very much, but I still want to try because I'm very intrigued about it. Uh Mike has got to try the old king's crown.

6:03 Uh this game is kind of like war. Um but it's got like a lot more levers and stuff that you can kind of pull.

6:09 Yeah, it's ultimately you're going to have these different regions that you're fighting over each round to try to score points. Um and everyone is playing a card down uh to these regions to be revealed and then kind of have various actions uh carried out. And so ultimately you want to have the highest value card in in a region. So that's pretty straightforward. That's kind of like war. If you have the highest card, you win. Um but there's all sorts of things you can do to shift uh add to the power of cards, move cards around. Uh there's assassins that can just kill other cards. So now I'm the only one left here, so of course I win. Uh and on and on and on. You're every round bidding on these um like special power cards that are like crazy strong. But if you have one, someone can actually come and like steal your your power later.

6:56 So, it's a lot of high interaction.

6:58 Uh really trying to mess with each other. You're trying to get in each other's way. Uh because that's how you got to win. Everyone else got to lose. So,

7:04 yeah. Exactly. That's why like I think I'm probably not going to love the game because like I'm not really in a super high interaction getting each other's way, really going at each other games. But it's really cool. The concept seem great. A lot of people we know really really like it and it's just gorgeous as well.

7:17 Yeah. Which is the designer is also the artist. So, it just seems like this fully like labor of love like

7:22 uh passion project come to life and I think it's a really cool even if it's not going to be your favorite game. I think you'll appreciate everything that it is.

7:29 Uh there's a ton of other people are loving it as well.

7:31 Yeah,

7:33 man. I love the cover of Thessaloniki. This is a really to the point where I I when I first saw I was like what am I looking at? I was like oh it's like this cool like

7:40 like a almost like a map or no it's it's almost like an al cove kind of.

7:43 Yeah, it's like an al cove. So this is

7:45 very pretty. Yeah, this is another tea game as they are labeled from board and dice from Daniel Tashini as well. So, uh this is a game where uh I think you're in the fourth century tetra tetra

7:57 uh and you are in a lot of these games as you are merchants and things.

8:01 You're doing civ stuff, you know,

8:03 you're doing civ stuff. Uh you're you're going around and and um trying to sell your goods and stuff and at the most valuable times or secure contracts for kind of deliveries to be made, right? Um, you know, this one I think popped up in the hotness, um, because I think there's a lot of folks who are similar to us where, uh, you know, Board and Dice makes a certain level Yes.

8:25 of a Euro game of a certain weight. Uh, a lot of these games that do kind of belong in this, you know, unofficial official T series of games.

8:34 Um, and so I think anytime Bordon Dice kind of announces stuff, you'll see them pop up again here. They kind of announce their slate for the year.

8:40 Uh, I think it's going to garner attention. But, you know, one thing that I feel like Board and Dice has done in the last number of years is really upped the the games their look. You know, they've gotten

8:51 Yeah. better in that department. Uh, and this is one that the the cover is very striking. It's very beautiful. So, I think that's helping add to that kind of anticipation is like, wow, this looks really pretty. I know mechanically from, you know, their track record, it's probably going to be pretty good. Uh, but now I have something really cool to look at as well. So, uh, yeah, we are personally excited for this as well. And it is number seven on the hotness. Number uh six is dice quest. This is a dice uh pool builder uh where you are getting different dice. You can have up to three heroes um as you're kind of going through like three eras of increasing difficulty. So obviously in that first era you're kind of building up your first heroes, getting dice from them, powering them up with abilities and things you can get and going through in the second and third era, you know, tougher and tougher uh challenges. Um, and yeah, so I think this is one that's just kind of popping up because it seems to be a nice like level. I kind of like the looks really nice

9:44 the look of it and stuff. It's kind of I don't want to say cartoony, but like

9:49 I don't know. It's whatever way I would describe it. It's got a nice a nice appealing uh look to it.

9:54 It was the same thing where I I saw it pop up I think in the hot hot images tab. Maybe the cover was in there and I immediately was just like I'm I want to click on this. I want to see what this is. Like it's just it's got that kind of look for and I don't I can't really pinpoint why that is, but it was very much like a I want to look at this.

10:08 Yeah, it's got appeal.

10:09 Whoever did the art and the graph design, good job because it made me want to click on it.

10:13 That's what you got to do these days. Catch people's eyes as you're scrolling by. So yeah, this is one that was in the hotness for a lot of this month. Still there now and uh I imagine it'll stick around uh as it goes because it seems to be not going anywhere.

10:26 I'm I'm really excited for this one, man.

10:28 Yeah. Yeah, you seem to be really excited for it.

10:29 This is Gold Country.

10:31 Riner Canissia. I'm always interested in Kenitzia. It also looks really nice. It's got again a nice

10:35 best soil art, man.

10:36 That's what I'm saying.

10:36 It's about our area.

10:38 Yes. It's like it's Yeah, there's there's a couple games that are kind of from like the NorCal area like Col and stuff like that. So, I'm always

10:45 I guess it's a good point, right? Yeah. It's like the gold rush was out here. So, any kind of pioneering gold kind of games uh tend to be in California.

10:52 Yeah. So, this is this is a redo uh of another Cania game called Spectaculum. uh where you know from what they said like Kitia has really gone in and reworked even the core of this game.

11:04 Is this Bitewing?

11:05 Uh this is by Bitewing who Kenzia and Bitewing have been working together last couple years

11:09 particularly bringing back a lot of older Cania games

11:11 kind of reworkings and stuff like that which is cool. Best art so it's beautiful

11:15 gorgeous.

11:15 Um but yeah this one uh you are kind of um you know trying to arrange yourself on the board to get to these gold veins and get you want to be the richest person. uh get these gold veins uh kind of uh bid on stuff um and everything like that. And these games are typically, you know, this is kind of the I guess the thing of Kitia in general is like rules-wise very simple, easy to get into, but deeper strategy than you would think. So this one you have this kind of board, these different gold veins, and you're trying to get around. Um and then yeah, I think you're auctioning off on um contracts and then selling stuff as well. again, all in the kind of pursuit of money. But it's kind of cool because like we go up to the Yuba River every year to camp and like one of the sax cards is like the Yuba Valley and it was like, "Oh yeah, that's like literally right our whole lives we've been there."

12:05 Yeah.

12:06 Yeah. So that's kind of cool. Um you know, so personally I'm excited just to be like it's where we live. Um which is kind of fun. But um yeah, this one I think is crowdfunding or just started crowdfunding maybe. Um and so it's been popping up. But I again we were talking about like Dice Quest like beautiful cover catches the eye. Obviously, people will see Canitia and they're going to be interested. Uh, and Bitewing's been kind of doing a lot of this lately, so they're they're kind of on a roll.

12:31 Next up is going to be the Danes. Um, which is kind of popping back up on the hotness now. You think it's probably still a ways away from anyone getting their hands on it.

12:40 Oh, yeah. I I think it's because it's crowdfunding. Uh, and I think my guess is the crowdfunding is getting close. Um,

12:46 yeah, this is slate as a 2026 game.

12:48 We'll see. Um, but

12:50 it's actually listed here as 2027. Much more accurate. Fair or not, it used to be 2026. I was like, um, but nonetheless, uh, the Danes is going to be gosh, who even knows? It's by Uve Rosenberg, and it's going to be kind of like a Cop, which I'm probably the name that, but it's a it's a follow-up.

13:08 It's going to be followed up to kind of like a feast for Odin, but it is like like the box apparently is like gloom haven size. Like, it's it's enormous.

13:17 And so, who knows? But it's going to be uh kind of one of those kind of classic Euro games by Uve um and their co-designer and it just we're massive feast for Odin fans. So I'm like if it's anything like that in terms of mechanics or just the way it feels to play d I'm already here. I'm already super hyped. I'm already all in and then you add in just like I'm just curious whatever it is that fills out that box.

13:41 What the heck is in this box? What the heck this game is? Is this an eight hour euro game?

13:46 I don't know. Like I'm just so confused in a good way. Um

13:52 this one I think yeah adds kind of a focus on trading and stuff with other people's in the area.

13:58 Um it's going to have a lot of the DNA of Feast Froin uh in terms of like you know a board that you're kind of covering stuff up with different polyomino shaped pieces and all that stuff. But uh yeah I mean like a fee froin is you know I think 10 years old now um and really kind of like a modern classic. um really well-loved and regarded. Uh and so to see something where it's like, oh, a superersized, I'm just so curious like in what ways is it similar to a feast frozen? In what ways does it differ? What's that percentage look like? Um yeah, so I think it's getting closer to to ramping up uh into production and crow crowdfunding and stuff like that. So very curious about the Danes. Fascinating.

14:38 Uh Feast Run's like literally one of my very favorite games of all time. So uh yeah, we will see. But who knows? I'm excited.

14:45 We talked about uh Bordon Dice earlier and bringing it back now with Entropy.

14:49 Entropy. So this is uh

14:51 you again a beautiful cover. Oh my god.

14:52 Like was immediately like what's this Euro game? Cuz I'm down saw board and dice. I was like well I'll probably like it mechanically.

14:57 Yeah because board and dice seems to make games specifically for Mike and I.

15:01 Yeah. And it's got Toamaso Batista, Simone Luchiani and Nester Mangon. And uh yeah, this is one where you are this is kind of like a theme we've seen. We saw this with crafting with the cosmos uh crafting the cosmos last year

15:14 where in this one you're kind of moving around you know I think maybe in a rondelle like a central board

15:20 um and you are like building out planets and stars and stuff you are populating you know asteroids and stuff with life and kind of growing that life into animals which is kind of what you see on the cover um and you know in this way to score points I think the game ends when there's like two of six main objectives are hit right obviously there's very information so far, but um I just love the theming. Like it's just like I like the idea of like we're just going to craft this

15:46 this universe and stuff as we go and and um I know that as you're moving around those action spaces, you know, so I wonder if it might be a little Teot Wakani in that way where you can move one to three spaces, but there's like an inner

15:59 uh action space and then outer action spaces. So I think you even have more options of like where you're working on your path. And I always enjoy those kinds of games. Like I really like that. and Teotu AON. Yeah.

16:10 Where you're sort of lining up all your stuff.

16:14 I don't know how similar this will be to that, but it does, you know, seem to have a little bit uh overlap, but but yeah, again, Bordon Dice has like stepped up the the look of their game so much. Um, and this one has like a really beautiful cover. So, yeah, I saw the cover, saw the D, like, "Wow." Then I saw Board and Dice. I was like, "Oh, wow." Okay. Expect all of that to be uh together. So, uh, yeah, it's gonna be, I guess, building out your universe. Next up is gonna be uh the Lord of the Rings the two towers tricktaking game. Um got it

16:42 which I'm gonna talk about a little bit later. Uh I've gotten to play a little bit of this. I'll talk about it's my favorite game later. Um but nonetheless, yes, this is the uh the sequel uh to Fellowship of the Ring. Obviously, this is a uh tricktaking game, a cooperative trick taking game uh where you're going through the books. You saw, you know, in Fellowship, you're starting off, you know, with a long expected party in Hobbiton. You're eventually going through you get to Rivendell and you go through the whole story chapter is going to be a chapter or kind of one of the main chapters in the book and you're going to have again different characters that you can choose that are make sense for that chapter. So in fellowship in a long expected party you can't be Arrogord because you haven't met him yet, right? And so

17:21 not in the story yet. Yeah,

17:22 it's really really cool. This is uh one of the most uh the fellowship is one of the most played games of the month because you can kind of play it over and over and the two towers is out now um fully out now and people are playing it and and really liking it seems like.

17:34 I can only imagine. Yeah. Uh I I have not had a chance to play this one yet. You got to play a few different rounds. I'm so excited to continue the story. We loved Fellowship of the Ring Treat. uh we know, you know, a little bit about some of the stuff we're going to see in this uh second installment. And it's just fun to see like, oh, we're in this part of the book, and here's these characters. How do they do with this chapter?

17:55 How do they work? Yeah. What's going to be the little the little gimmick in this part of the of the story? How do they translate that into a trick- taking game of all things? Uh, and they do it quite well. So, uh, yeah, excited to see the second one. Can't wait for the third one whenever that drops. I'm happy they've been so successful. And that is number two. Number one was stuck on the top of the hotness forever. It's Dewan.

18:17 Yeah.

18:17 Uh hopefully I said that right. Um this is

18:20 It looks real pretty.

18:21 Yeah. Yeah, it is. And it's uh I played it on board game Arena. The Dice Tower just gave it a really good uh review as well.

18:28 Uh this is a game uh kind of area controly. Um

18:34 I think they call it like region control, area management maybe is what they call it. Um this is a game. are going to be getting these cards that are going to show different um land types. There's like mountains and deserts and water and stuff like that, grasslands. Uh you're going to be collecting cards on turns or you're going to be playing out cards to kind of move around the board and set out these different camps. Uh and this is going to be important for kind of completing these story cards you have where you're going to need uh you know to be present in a certain number and type of regions. Um there are also some regions that provide you different symbols and things. So, you might need to be in regions that just provide the symbol. Doesn't matter if it's mountain or water or whatever. Uh, and as you kind of go and and move around and you're trying to stay out of other people's way because you might have to give them stuff if you um, you know, step through their space essentially.

19:24 Um, and it's interesting. So, you're really trying to trying to build out something that as you kind of get these story cards through the game, you're hoping to, you know, have it be where uh, you know, on the second card that I collect, I've already actually got a couple of things already done. And then as you go through the game, there are certain moments where you will actually be able to tuck uh cards under your player board and then if a region or a certain symbol is showing, it will you'll have that perpetually no matter if you have a camp or not. So you're also building toward that because some of those story cards

19:55 are literally like, "Oh, you need three mountains and there's only two mountain areas." So it's like you literally can't have three of them, so you need to get it a different way. It's a really interesting game in that way. Looks really cool.

20:07 Um, you know, it's got some good crunch to it, but it's not super long and stuff like that. Um, I found it, yeah, quite intriguing when I played. Uh, fairly easy to get into. Um, but really interesting to try to like maximize cuz I think you're, you know, at most playing maybe nine camps out.

20:24 Um, so it's really not not huge in that way, but there's a lot of fun things to kind of do to try to maximize your score. So yeah, I personally quite enjoyed it for whatever that's worth.

20:34 Um, but it's cool to see like, man, yeah, this thing showed up and it just stayed there at number one. Yeah.

20:39 For so much of the month and it's finally kind of peeled off now, but it's just like, oh, that's a clear number one for the month. It was just uh catching people's interest and stuff which is so cool.

20:48 Um so that is the hotness everybody. Those are the 10 um

20:52 you know most talked about games. We always like to talk about the 10 most played games

20:55 which I got here on my phone

20:56 uh that were logged. Uh so again as a reminder you can log your games on board gamege geek. Uh track your plays. You can use an app called BG stats.

21:04 Uh automatically log them in kind of for yeah log you can pair it up with your board game geek uh profile on and on and on. It's really cool. all that stuff.

21:14 Yeah, it's really cool to kind of look back and stuff like that. So, uh track your plays and they can help with these numbers.

21:19 Indeed. So, um number 10 the most played game of the month. Um was Sky Team at 9,855 then Wingspan at 9,959. Everything's pretty high. I think I think it's been very cold in a lot of places. A lot of people are inside right now.

21:33 The Northeast was like just

21:35 buried

21:36 buried. And so, yeah. So, it's a lot of plays this month.

21:39 Uh so, yeah, wingspan was 9,95059. Ark Nova was uh 12,130. So already up in the 12,000s. The Castle Combo was 12,278. Harmonies was 12,46. Agent Avenue was 13,251. People playing that a lot on BK

21:58 game for sure.

21:59 Then the Lord of the Rings, the Fellowship of the Ring tricktaking game has 13,995. A lot of people playing that a ton.

22:07 Then take time has 16,68. Crazy bomb busters 19,99 and flip 7 has 22,026.

22:20 Oh my gosh, man.

22:21 Crazy amount of places.

22:22 Lot of game playing right now.

22:23 Usually only the top like three, maybe four or over 10,000 and this was like eight was already at 12,000. So like yeah, a lot of people playing some games.

22:31 Like you said, we're coming out of the holidays still. You know, a lot of people are inside uh hunkering down um you know, saving their money after the holidays or whatever. already got a bunch of games over Christmas and so uh here you are. Yeah, that's that's wild. The numbers in general this month were strong. So track your plays everybody. Link them to Board Game Geek because it's really fun to have data like this. See like what people are playing. You can actually see on the main page you can go and scroll through and see the most played games are really cool. Also the bestselling games. Uh it's really really cool. But uh speaking of that, you know what I think I'm hearing?

23:05 I think I hear Geek Bits.

23:35 My mer pick is going to be from a user Kira who uh made a sparkle quiz showing game covers uh from around the world. So, it'll be the same uh game cover that you know and love, but with the titles and everything in a different language, a different uh you know, different written out in different characters and things. So, it's kind of a fun thing where it's just it's like seeing a uh you know how different covers look around the world because they're not always uh exactly the same and then seeing like how well do I know a box cover if I don't have the convenience of being able to read the title uh in the language I'm accustomed to. Uh Sparkle actually has a whole bunch of board game quizzes. I've seen them popping up as people have posted their versions they've made or they've enjoyed right here in Board Game Geek. So, uh, check out Sparkle for quizzes of all sorts, but also test your knowledge on board games. My Murf pick is going to be by a username Brussix. And this is a really cool thing. So, if you ever if you've watched this series, we've done this series now for a couple of years. If you've watched, you know, I tend to talk about three things. I tend to talk about like uh really, really cool 3D printed stuff, um, cribage boards, and then also people making stuff for board games because they're just very passionate about it. And this one is the third one.

24:44 Brussix made a really cool little website for uh Imperium, Imperium Classics, Legends, and Horizons. It has all the stuff in there. This is a game where you're going to take a faction, a nation. It could be like the um like the Kelts or something like that. And um this website basically allow it helps you choose a nation. So, you basically can go on there. It has all of them from all the expansions. It kind of tells you their general difficulty, their complexity, their aggression level, and then any special rules that they have because a lot of the various factions have special rules of things they do. But then they also have suggested matchups if you're playing especially like a solo game. And those are going to be like thematic matchups. So the Kelts might be going against the Romans or something like that. Uh and then it has a little bit of historical info taken from Wikipedia and then a um a link to the Wikipedia page. There's even a map on the website that kind of shows where all the nations are from in the world, which I think is really, really cool. I just really love stuff like this. I love when board gamers are so passionate about a game that they will spend a not insignificant amount of time making something like this just because they want it for a game that they love and then of course they usually share it with other people, which I think is very very cool. So, big big shout out to this Imperium Nation Finder and Chooser. I think it's really cool. And as we like to do at the end of our video here, we talk about what we personally enjoyed playing the most this past month. Uh, and we want to hear from you, of course, in the comments below what your favorite game that you played this month was. For me, it's going to be a game called Carnuda. Carnota.

26:14 Uh, it's a small little kind of tableau building game. I really like, you know, games that aren't super heavy or super long. And it's kind of about building out a synergistic tableau of cards. So, here you have these tiles that show a day or a night side. and and you can play cards out that will often make you spend those tiles or flip them from one side to the other. And the cards are going to be uh things like honey or an egg and and uh berries and stuff like that. And then they will often have a scoring condition at the bottom saying, "Hey, for every mushroom you have, uh you get two points." It's like, "Okay, well, I have this card. Let me try to get some mushrooms." And maybe those will have different scoring conditions. So, you're just trying to build a tableau good

26:52 of like 11 cards uh that really kind of feed into everything else's scoring. I really enjoy those kinds of games like castle combo and stuff like that. Uh and so this is another one that I've played quite a bit on board game arena.

27:04 Nice. Nice. Mine's going to be the the Lord of the Rings the two towers trick taking game I think is the full name for it. Uh yeah, I got to play a couple chapters of this. Uh we loved the Fellowship of the Ring trick taking game. Uh it's one of my favorite experiences in all of board games was playing through it. Um, it was so fun. Got to play a couple different chapters of the Two Towers one and it is uh just as fun, just as weird, just as cool. This again is a trick taking game kind of like the crew where it's cooperative because it's Lord of the Rings. So, we're all on the same team and you're going to have certain goals because you're going through the chapters of the books

27:34 playing as different characters that are appearing in the that part of the book.

27:37 Exactly. So, the first chapter is the departure of Boramir, which is where Bormir dies. And so, Bormir, you have Bormir, Legless, Gimy, and Aragorn are the characters to choose from. No Froto and Sam, no Mary Pippen because they're not in that scene. and Mary and Pippen are taken by the orcs and Froto and Sam are heading um

27:52 they're about to go meet

27:52 head to Mount Doom. Yeah,

27:54 exactly. And so, uh it's really really cool and it changes from chapter to chapter and each character you will have certain things. So, like Legololis needs to win a certain amount of forest cards which is one of the suits. Gimy needs to win a certain amount of the um mountain cards. It's really really cool. Some new changes with the two towers. Uh that is really really nice and really really cool. I'm so excited to play through the whole thing. I love these. I can't wait for the return of the king, which can I only assume is coming. Um, and so very, very excited about that. Was great. But let us know what was your favorite game. Let us know down in the comments below. Hope you've been having some good gaming. Hope you've been staying warm. As Mikey said, if you are in the northern hemisphere, that is. Hopefully you're staying cool if you're in the southern hemisphere. Dead of summer. So, nonetheless, thank you all so much for being here. Uh, my name is Nick. That's Mike. And we will see you all later. Bye.