All You Can Board

This week Carlo and Dylann are discussing which five board games they'd pick to be the only board games they play for the rest of their lives. It's not an easy decision to come to and both have their own criteria and ways of approaching it. Do you agree with their choices? What would your Five Forever Games be?

When a board game is popular, you can be sure there will be follow-ups of some kind, usually in the form of sequels, reimplementations, spinoffs or expansions. Focusing specifically on the first two, Carlo, Dylann and Braiden discuss their thoughts on board game follow-ups, which games they'd love to see follow-ups to, and how they'd expand on loved board games.

Gateway games are some of the most important types of games in our niche hobby. They introduce new people to the wonderful world of board games and help show what this hobby is capable of. What are our gateway games? What makes a good gateway game? And what games have we had success with to bring others into the hobby? All this and more on today's episode!

We continue our conversation from last time and dive deep into the YouTube ecosystem, largely from the perspective of board games, but also in general. We look at some of our own metrics and revenue numbers and discuss what has changed in the space and how we feel about it.

We've been in board game media for over 6 years now and we thought it would be interesting for all of you, but also for us, to do a bit of a dive into our opinions and thoughts on the space, our approach, our thoughts on the landscape, on YouTube, and everything in-between. And in fact, we were having such a thorough discussion, we decided to break this into two parts! But you won't have to wait long for part 2, expect it this weekend!

Practically every entertainment medium goes through fads, or what we're calling here, the Cycles of Hype. Board games are no different, but what are the cycles that the board game hobby has gone through since we've been a part of it? And what are the highs and lows of each one and how do we feel about these cycles overall? All that and more on today's episode!

How much "foreplay" do you engage in before you buy or play a board game? Do you watch playthroughs? Reviews? Look up forum posts, watch trailers? Have you regretted a purchase because of the hype that lead to it? Is there such a thing as "too much foreplay"? All that and more on this week's episode! ✨Official AYCB Discord Community✨https://discord.gg/FdUC8NEU8P 🌟Support us, our channel and our efforts on Patreon🌟https://www.patreon.com/allyoucanboard 🙏Or if you'd prefer, send us a tip!🙏https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=CXLGV558UV98S We're proudly sponsored by VICTORY PINTS, who specialize in board games and are located in our hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba. They aim to have the best board game selection in the city and are also happy to special order you anything they don't have available! Pop in and purchase any board games that have been featured on AYCB in the last year and say the discount code "TOP SHELF BILLING" to receive 10% off the games! https://www.victorypints.ca

What is a blind spot in the context of the board game hobby? How do we view them and which games do we consider to be our blind spots? In this episode we go through the process of narrowing down our blind spots and also talk about the games we aren't so keen to put on the list. ✨Official AYCB Discord Community✨https://discord.gg/FdUC8NEU8P 🌟Support us, our channel and our efforts on Patreon🌟https://www.patreon.com/allyoucanboard 🙏Or if you'd prefer, send us a tip!🙏https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=CXLGV558UV98S We're proudly sponsored by VICTORY PINTS, who specialize in board games and are located in our hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba. They aim to have the best board game selection in the city and are also happy to special order you anything they don't have available! Pop in and purchase any board games that have been featured on AYCB in the last year and say the discount code "TOP SHELF BILLING" to receive 10% off the games! https://www.victorypints.ca

What makes a board game a "Lifestyle Game"? What games in our collections do we wish we could treat as lifestyle games? What games do we wish existed when we were younger so they could have been all-consuming for us? And what games do we see becoming lifestyle games for us in the future? All this and more on today's episode! ✨Official AYCB Discord Community✨https://discord.gg/FdUC8NEU8P 🌟Support us, our channel and our efforts on Patreon🌟https://www.patreon.com/allyoucanboard 🙏Or if you'd prefer, send us a tip!🙏https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=CXLGV558UV98S We're proudly sponsored by VICTORY PINTS, who specialize in board games and are located in our hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba. They aim to have the best board game selection in the city and are also happy to special order you anything they don't have available! Pop in and purchase any board games that have been featured on AYCB in the last year and say the discount code "TOP SHELF BILLING" to receive 10% off the games! https://www.victorypints.ca

This week we talk about each of our individual board game quests/journeys. What does it mean to be on a board game quest? How do ours differ? What do we think the different stages are and how do we think the hobby will look for us in the future? All of that and more! ✨Official AYCB Discord Community✨https://discord.gg/FdUC8NEU8P 🌟Support us, our channel and our efforts on Patreon🌟https://www.patreon.com/allyoucanboard 🙏Or if you'd prefer, send us a tip!🙏https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=CXLGV558UV98S We're proudly sponsored by VICTORY PINTS, who specialize in board games and are located in our hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba. They aim to have the best board game selection in the city and are also happy to special order you anything they don't have available! Pop in and purchase any board games that have been featured on AYCB in the last year and say the discount code "TOP SHELF BILLING" to receive 10% off the games! https://www.victorypints.ca

What does the "spirit of the game" mean to each of us? Is it game dependent? Is it something that is dictated by the designer of the game or the players playing it at the table? Where does "metagaming" fit in? All of this and more on this week's episode! ✨Official AYCB Discord Community✨https://discord.gg/FdUC8NEU8P 🌟Support us, our channel and our efforts on Patreon🌟https://www.patreon.com/allyoucanboard 🙏Or if you'd prefer, send us a tip!🙏https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=CXLGV558UV98S We're proudly sponsored by VICTORY PINTS, who specialize in board games and are located in our hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba. They aim to have the best board game selection in the city and are also happy to special order you anything they don't have available! Pop in and purchase any board games that have been featured on AYCB in the last year and say the discount code "TOP SHELF BILLING" to receive 10% off the games! https://www.victorypints.ca

What makes a game more tactical than strategic? More strategic than tactical? What are the ratios for specific games? And what do we gravitate towards more and why? All of that in more in this week's episode! ✨Official AYCB Discord Community✨https://discord.gg/FdUC8NEU8P 🌟Support us, our channel and our efforts on Patreon🌟https://www.patreon.com/allyoucanboard 🙏Or if you'd prefer, send us a tip!🙏https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=CXLGV558UV98S We're proudly sponsored by VICTORY PINTS, who specialize in board games and are located in our hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba. They aim to have the best board game selection in the city and are also happy to special order you anything they don't have available! Pop in and purchase any board games that have been featured on AYCB in the last year and say the discount code "TOP SHELF BILLING" to receive 10% off the games! https://www.victorypints.ca

When does losing in a board game feel good? When does winning feel bad? And what does "being competitive" mean to us when we play board games? All that and more on today's episode! ✨Official AYCB Discord Community✨https://discord.gg/FdUC8NEU8P 🌟Support us, our channel and our efforts on Patreon🌟https://www.patreon.com/allyoucanboard 🙏Or if you'd prefer, send us a tip!🙏https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=CXLGV558UV98S We're proudly sponsored by VICTORY PINTS, who specialize in board games and are located in our hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba. They aim to have the best board game selection in the city and are also happy to special order you anything they don't have available! Pop in and purchase any board games that have been featured on AYCB in the last year and say the discount code "TOP SHELF BILLING" to receive 10% off the games! https://www.victorypints.ca

When has a game gone too far? We're talking about that very question across a variety of categories to try and better understand what makes a game one that we don't often want to play or recommend to others. ✨Official AYCB Discord Community✨https://discord.gg/FdUC8NEU8P 🌟Support us, our channel and our efforts on Patreon🌟https://www.patreon.com/allyoucanboard 🙏Or if you'd prefer, send us a tip!🙏https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=CXLGV558UV98S We're proudly sponsored by VICTORY PINTS, who specialize in board games and are located in our hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba. They aim to have the best board game selection in the city and are also happy to special order you anything they don't have available! Pop in and purchase any board games that have been featured on AYCB in the last year and say the discount code "TOP SHELF BILLING" to receive 10% off the games! https://www.victorypints.ca

This week, we're talking about 2026 and what the year ahead looks like board games. We'll talk about some anticipated games of ours, some trends we'd like to see start and stop and even each give a bold prediction for our hobby in 2026. ✨Official AYCB Discord Community✨https://discord.gg/FdUC8NEU8P 🌟Support us, our channel and our efforts on Patreon🌟https://www.patreon.com/allyoucanboard 🙏Or if you'd prefer, send us a tip!🙏https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=CXLGV558UV98S We're proudly sponsored by VICTORY PINTS, who specialize in board games and are located in our hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba. They aim to have the best board game selection in the city and are also happy to special order you anything they don't have available! Pop in and purchase any board games that have been featured on AYCB in the last year and say the discount code "TOP SHELF BILLING" to receive 10% off the games! https://www.victorypints.ca

This episode is all about the two-player games that we love, but struggle to find the time to play. A companion piece to our recent two-player YouTube video, we break down our updated Top 10 lists and discuss a bunch of the games on them, while also discussing several topics surrounding two-player games in general. ✨Official AYCB Discord Community✨https://discord.gg/FdUC8NEU8P 🌟Support us, our channel and our efforts on Patreon🌟https://www.patreon.com/allyoucanboard 🙏Or if you'd prefer, send us a tip!🙏https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=CXLGV558UV98S We're proudly sponsored by VICTORY PINTS, who specialize in board games and are located in our hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba. They aim to have the best board game selection in the city and are also happy to special order you anything they don't have available! Pop in and purchase any board games that have been featured on AYCB in the last year and say the discount code "TOP SHELF BILLING" to receive 10% off the games! https://www.victorypints.ca

This week, our main course is Your Favourite Games Are Flawed. We've each picked three games that are favourites of the other person's and we've prepared the aspect of each of these games we think is the worst thing about them. And as will always be the case, each host comes with a little appetizer to talk about ahead of that main course topic. Thank you for listening and being here for the launch of All You Can Board's Podcast! ✨Official AYCB Discord Community✨https://discord.gg/FdUC8NEU8P 🌟Support us, our channel and our efforts on Patreon🌟https://www.patreon.com/allyoucanboard 🙏Or if you'd prefer, send us a tip!🙏https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=CXLGV558UV98S We're proudly sponsored by VICTORY PINTS, who specialize in board games and are located in our hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba. They aim to have the best board game selection in the city and are also happy to special order you anything they don't have available! Pop in and purchase any board games that have been featured on AYCB in the last year and say the discount code "TOP SHELF BILLING" to receive 10% off the games! https://www.victorypints.ca

On the first episode of the All You Can Board podcast, our main course is Our Board Game Laws. We each present three of our board game laws and give the other host a chance to Object, Sustain or request they Elaborate. And as will always be the case, each host comes with a little appetizer to talk about ahead of that main course topic. Thank you for listening and being here for the launch of All You Can Board's Podcast! ✨Official AYCB Discord Community✨https://discord.gg/FdUC8NEU8P 🌟Support us, our channel and our efforts on Patreon🌟https://www.patreon.com/allyoucanboard 🙏Or if you'd prefer, send us a tip!🙏https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=CXLGV558UV98S We're proudly sponsored by VICTORY PINTS, who specialize in board games and are located in our hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba. They aim to have the best board game selection in the city and are also happy to special order you anything they don't have available! Pop in and purchase any board games that have been featured on AYCB in the last year and say the discount code "TOP SHELF BILLING" to receive 10% off the games! https://www.victorypints.ca

Get to know the hosts of All You Can Board, a new podcast spinoff of the ongoing successful YouTube channel of the same name. Support us on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/cw/allyoucanboard Join our DISCORD: https://discord.gg/FdUC8NEU8P Looking for games that will ship to you across Canada, or are available locally in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada? Check out VICTORY PINTS! https://www.victorypints.ca/