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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.

#BoardGames

YouTube: www.youtube.com/@BoardGameBeans
Discord: https://www.discord.gg/m7nkraZNuT
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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November 12, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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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November 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Board game breakfasts are back!

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

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November 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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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October 25, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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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October 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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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October 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
We love chunky metal tokens 🤩
+15 VP if you know what game these are from.

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August 19, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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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August 19, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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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August 6, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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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July 23, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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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July 20, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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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July 14, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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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June 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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
Fliptown this morning! We both beat our previous high scores! 🤠

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June 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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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May 27, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Such a gorgeous box! We didn't expect the inside to be looking like this 🤩

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May 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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!
May 24, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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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May 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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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May 19, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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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May 15, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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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May 9, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Looks like we have a copycat in this game of Captain Flip!
It was me (Christian) 👀

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May 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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. 😅
May 3, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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 🐈

#AffinityDesigner #BoardGames
May 3, 2025 at 9:57 PM