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Board Game Beans
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We’re a couple of beans (Joana 🇵🇹 and Christian 🇸🇪) making and sharing board game related content.

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Just wrapped up our first game of Village Rails by the fireplace 🚂🔥

Super nice small box game; Easy to setup, easy to learn, plenty of strategy options to try and get the most points!

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The box lid for the board game Village Rails on a wooden table in front of the fireplace. A few of the small cards for the game are on the table with glass bowls holding the coins for the game. The box features artwork of a steam train going through an English countryside location, with some sheep in a field. End of game state for the board game Village Rails, which we've played on a wooden table in front of the fireplace. Two completed 3x4 tableau can be seen, with a row and column of terminus cards on both, and extra cards from the draw pile and some coins visible.
November 12, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Can't go wrong with some porridge, tea, and The Lost Expedition.

Well, you can. We lost the expedition! 😅 But it was a good way to start the day nonetheless. It's one of our favourite games!

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The board game The Lost Expedition, which features a row of cards acting as the map we need to move our pawn across, and a row of cards under which placed one at a time from our hand, and are about to decide what actions to take on a card by card basis. Two bowls of pear, cinnamon, and blueberry porridge can be seen, along with two mugs of tea. End state for the game The Lost Expedition, showing our pawn two spaces away from winning the game, but unfortunately all three of our adventurer cards are flipped upside down to indicate they didn't make it. A few tokens to represent ammo, food, what time of day it is, and the expedition leader can be seen.
November 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Board game breakfasts are back!

This morning we enjoyed a lovely round of Evergreen to some porridge and tea 🥣

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The board game Evergreen setup for two players on a table with a grey table cloth. Two bowls of porridge and a mug of tea can be seen, ontop of cork coasters to protect the surface underneath. Two yet to be fill player boards, a draw pile for cards, and some containers holding the various wooden components we will be playing with. Joana's player board nearing the end of a game of Evergreen. Her board has lots of tree components and a few cards next to it from this round. In the foreground are two glass bowls, being used to store the wooden components we play with during the game (in the photo, small wooden trees, and small wooden lake components)
November 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Plenty of power cuts today, so what better way to start the day than being cosy in bed with a latte, and a round of Voyages ⛵

We love these single-sheet print and play games, makes it super easy to play in different settings!

( Not our best scores, but we had fun 😊 )

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Two completed games of the print and play board game Voyages, which has been laminated and played using a clipboard. The game sheets show the map on which we play, and the path that each respective player decided to take. As it's the end of the game, we see Christian scored 70, and Joana 59.
October 25, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Just wrapped up our first game of Evergreen!

It's from the same designer as Photosynthesis, and features a familiar sun position/tree scoring system, but this time on our own boards, and with a card drafting step included 😊

We liked it a lot!
Published by @horribleguild.bsky.social

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The board game Evergreen being played, showing two double-layered player boards with a design of the world and its different biomes, with an assortment of wooden components (sapling, small, and large, The box lid for the board game Evergreen, with an illustration of an oversized tree on a world, and some other planet elements around. The 'space' is represented as the white box. In front of the box are five glass bowls holding the wooden components for the game, which consist of, brown sprouts, light green small trees, dark green big trees, blue water, and yellowish bush,
October 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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A great board game to take to the beach!

We have the Mini version. This one plays well even if it's windy, thanks to the design of the player boards ☺️

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A very cute bumblebee picnic mat with two Azul Mini player boards, the shared draw pile for the tiles, and a fabric bag. It's a picture of a few turns in the game, so both player boards already have some tiles on.
October 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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We love chunky metal tokens 🤩
+15 VP if you know what game these are from.

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5 metal tokens from a board game, 1 of them if flipped to depict a factory about to be built, the others all depict the same factory in its completed state, with a number one underneath and a sword/hammer cross.
August 19, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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We were so happy to go and pick this up from the post office today!
Also, This game has some HEFT, We did not expect that when picking it up 😅

Not sure when we will be able to table it, but hoping soon 🤞

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The box for A Wayfarer's Tale board game, inside a cardboard shipping box with white packing peanuts to protect it. The box features a nice illustration of a person walking in the sand towards a city/castle built up on a hillside. There is a cute lizard on a rock in the foreground.
August 19, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Just had our first game of Tiny Towns on Board Game Arena, To see if we would like the game and think about the physical copy one day.

Safe to say we both enjoyed it a lot! and it's gone straight onto our wishlist 🥳

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Screenshot from the game Tiny Towns being played on Board Game Arena. This screenshot is from the end of the game where it shows Joana has won the game. There are a variety of cards on display which have the pattern of cubes needed to build that structure, and then two player grids (4x4) where we are building up these shapes and buildings to try and score the most points at the end.
August 6, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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A little birthday board gaming 🎂

Wingspan was so nice to play again 🤩 It had been a while since we last opened up the physical copy. Next time we'll add in an expansion!

Pandemic was fun too! Though we got absolutely obliterated with outbreak chain reactions 😅

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The board game Wingspan setup on the table, showing the top portion of my player board where I have some bird cards played, (some with eggs placed) and action cubes. In the middle between the two of us playing are the cards we draw from and food tokens. The board game Pandemic setup near the start of play. An epidemic card has already been drawn meaning we need to apply an outbreak to a new city. The game board is a map of the world, with points between various cities. 4 sets of colour cubes (yellow, red, blue, and black) make up different viruses that start to spread, and our goal is to work together to find cures and eradicate them.
July 23, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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We just played Isla! It's one we backed on Kickstarter and we're both happy to say they (Ocean City Games) really delivered a cool game experience 🏝️

Roll dice, explore the island, get exhausted, run into threats, possibly get lost on the island? It's a good time 😊

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The board game Isla, with the map sheets on a clipboard so we can draw on them, the various cards, and the dice needed to play the game End of game for our first play of Isla. The map sheets are filled in showing our explorers path across the island map, with the rulebook now visible as we were checking how to properly total up our scores. Joana's hand can be seen about to pick up one of the tokens from her map sheet.
July 20, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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It's been a while since our last video, so it's good to be back in the editing seat for our upcoming video 🎞️

This one is for our first Impressions of Forest Shuffle, by @lookoutgames.bsky.social

(Spoiler, we do be loving the game) 🥳

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Screenshot of Davinci Resolve on macOS. Davinci Resolve is a video editing tool, and in the window you can see a media panel on the left (showing a folder of images), a timeline at the bottom with multiple tracks for audio and video, video effects, and text, in the center is the viewport showing my current position in the timeline, which is a photo of the Red Fox and Squeaker card from the board game Forest Shuffle; and finally on the right sidebar is the video properties for the clip I have selected.
July 14, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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We just played our first game of Forest Shuffle 🌲

We both loved it!
Rules light, with lots of cards and effects to try and get the highest score with. Gorgeous illustrations too 🤩

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The board game Forest Shuffle, showing a central "Clearing Board" between to two of us, and our forests on either side made up of various tree cards, with fauna and flora cards placed into slots on all four sides of the tree cards. A lush mixture of wildlife, for which we'll try to score the most points by meeting the criteria on the cards we've played.
June 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Out and about at Feira do Livro de Lisboa 2025 (Lisbon Book Fair)!

That day was not for the books, but for the board games.

@devirportugal.bsky.social

#FeiraDoLivro2025 #FeiraDoLivro #boardgames #jogosdetabuleiro
June 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Fliptown this morning! We both beat our previous high scores! 🤠

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The flip and write board game Fliptown being setup for a two player game. There are two player boards with a white board pen each, a deck of cards, and three bounty cards to be used in the game. The box can be seen showing a wild west scene, with the games name.
June 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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We just got done learning the rules for Ironwood,

We'll have to save playing it until tomorrow as it's getting a bit too late; but we love what we're seeing so far!

The production on this one is really good too, with satisfying metal and wood tokens for the respective sides 👌

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The board game Ironwood, setup on the table with the player board in the middle, with a mixture of metal and wooden tokens for each of the two players factions. The map is a circular arrangement of mountain ridges (Ironclad side) and forests in-between (Woodwalker side). Cards and other components can be seen next to the board, along with the games rulebook which features the name of the game and and illustration of two characters from either side, weapons raised, about to battle.
May 27, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Such a gorgeous box! We didn't expect the inside to be looking like this 🤩

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Box cover for the board game Deep Regrets, featuring a nice illustration of a fishing trawler on the sea, with a yellow sky. The word Deep Regrets features in the sea portion (Making up around 3/4 of the box design vertically) with a large tentacle moving through some of of the letters. Below this is the next "An unfortunate fishing game" The inside artwork for the box lid of Deep Regrets, showing a highly detailed illustration of a fisherman standing proud near a fireplace, in a room full of very weird and wonderful looking deep sea catches mounted on the walls. Fish with legs, or eyes on the side of the body, all kinds of oddities.
May 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Yesterday we visited the oldest (236yr) and largest cork tree in the world! The Whistler Tree / Sobreiro Monumental, Portugal.

It reminded us of the cork-themed worker placement card game, Cortiça.

We've yet to print our copy, but when we do, maybe we should revisit this tree for the first play!
A large cork oak tree, the largest and oldest in the world, harvested many times over it's lifetime. It sits fairly isolated on a patch of grass, with huge branches covering the surroundings and making a nice patch of shade.
May 24, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Back with RUN for our board game breakfast! 🥣

Today we played on a new map, and Joana managed to get the win as I made some not-so-clever moves towards the end.

This is easily one of our favorite hidden movement games, with a nice increasing difficulty 👌

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The board game RUN setup on a table with a grey table cloth; a screen is hiding our respective player boards. Visible is the board for the Runner, and a set of action tiles available for them to use. As we played this during breakfast, a bowl of porridge can be seen to the side.
May 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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It finally arrived! 😊 Deep Regrets + Exp, and Hideous Abominations from @tettix.bsky.social

We were getting worried this one would be lost, as it initially got refused and sent back to the UK from Portugal before it even reached us! (Long story)

So happy, it looks amazing 🦑

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The board game Deep Regrets, its expansion Lamentable Tentacles, and another board game Hideous Abominations on a table. The deep regrets game is still wrapped in a paper cover, which looks like an old newspaper sheet with the logo on top.
May 19, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Yesterday we sleeved Virus! into the official deck box from @tranjisgames.bsky.social 🥳

We were wondering though, what do you normally do with the empty boxes when combining games like this?

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Virus! 2 Evolution Expansion, Virus!, and the Virus! deckbox to hold all the cards from the first two boxes.
May 15, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Just got done taking some photos for an upcoming video.

+10 vp to anyone who knows which game this is from.

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A cardboard standee of a yellow and white dragon character on a grey fabric over the table. The dragon has what looks like antlers and a pointy tale.
May 9, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Looks like we have a copycat in this game of Captain Flip!
It was me (Christian) 👀

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Screenshot of the digital implementation of a board game, Captain Flip. Showing our two boards and the tiles on top of them. We had both placed the same type of board in the same location for this point in the game.
May 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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The beans in Board Game Beans had always been a bit of mystery... even to us!

We did try to lean into the beans you eat once, or coffee beans (as shown in this photo from a series that incorporated such beans...)

But nah - It has to be toe beans. 😅
The board game Sail, setup on a wooden table with the box in view. The box for the game features a sailing ship against a colourful yellow and greenish sky. The board game has also been setup with connecting boards and wooden pieces on top. For the photo an assortment of beans (Coffee, chickpea, etc) have been scattered around the place.
May 3, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Happy to share that we've just done a bit of a rebranding and come out of it with a logo and more!

Board Game Beans has leant fully into the best kind of beans - toe beans!

Our logo is an illustration of the best beans we knew, our late cat Nanina 🐈

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Screenshot from the Affinity Designer application with the toolbars hidden, showing 6 artboards for our rebranding. The main things are the logo which are an illustration of our late-cat Nanina, and then a banner design which features a board game filled Kallax shelf (and a silhouette of a sneaky cat passing through a couple of the spaces)
May 3, 2025 at 9:57 PM