Antsy to Gancy - A Board Game Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

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Antsy to Gancy - A Board Game Podcast

Jaina and Sharon

Leisure

Frequency: 1 episode/8d. Total Eps: 79

Feeling anxious about your board game collection? Not quite sure why you bought yet another new game (okay, five new games...) when you already have an unplayed stack taller than you are? We're here to help! Not help in the sense of encouraging you to thin your collection (where's the fun in that???), we're here to help you feel good about your board game collection, no matter its size! We'll be discussing gaming topics that have caught our interest, share ideas about creating epic game nights, and chat with truly wonderful people in our hobby, along with a special focus on two-player gaming experiences. Happy gaming!

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🇩🇪 Germany - games
11/01/2026
#97
🇩🇪 Germany - games
10/01/2026
#60

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https://boardgamegeek.com/guild/3986
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http://johnbartmann.com
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http://johnbartmann.com/
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https://www.instagram.com/antsytogancy
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A History of Roll and Write Games

Saturday, September 9, 2023 • Duration 13:51

For this inaugural episode, your host Jaina brings you back in time to learn about the history of dice, and how we got from flipping sticks as dice to the first modern roll and write games. Listen in for a short and sweet tour through time from around 2500 BCE through to the 1970s, and make sure to tune in on September 22 to continue the journey through to some of today's most popular games!

Credits

Intro and Outro Music: Comedy Detective by Onoychenko Music via Pixabay

Time machine sound effect: Sci Fi Disappearance by Pixabay

Sources (in order of appearance/use in episode)

Board Game Geek (Roll and Write: Mechanisms, accessed on July 30, 2023): https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamefamily/41222/mechanism-roll-and-write/linkeditems/boardgamefamily?pageid=35&sort=yearpublished

Parlett's History of Board Games (The Updated Edition of The Oxford History of Board Games) by David Parlett (history of dice, pgs. 21-28)

The Complete Book of Games by Clement Wood and Gloria Goddard via Wikipedia (Yacht description and rules, accessed September 2, 2023): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yacht_(dice_game)

Luck (1943 box of games via Board Game Geek, accessed on September 2, 2023): https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/40249/luck

Guffy (1952 game via Board Game Geek, accessed on September 2, 2023): https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/283757/guffy

Thread on Guffy copyright and trademark infringement and personal correspondence (via Board Game Geek, accessed on September 2, 2023): https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/608254/game-called-guffy-yahtzee-copyrighted-1952

The Yahtzee Manifesto (history and development of Yahtzee, accessed on September 2, 2023): https://www.yahtzeemanifesto.com/History/yahtzee-history.php#ancient

Spare Time Bowling (1940 game via Board Game Geek, accessed on September 2, 2023): https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/4165/spare-time-bowling

6 Steps (1965 game via Board Game Geek, accessed on September 2, 2023): https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/35564/6-steps

The Great Races (1974 game via Board Game Geek, accessed on September 2, 2023): https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/43144/great-races

Can't Stop (1980 game via Board Game Geek, accessed on September 2, 2023): https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/41/cant-stop

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A Nerdstorian's Guide to Modern Board Games

Sunday, September 3, 2023 • Duration 02:17

Welcome to A Nerdstorian's Guide to Modern Board Games! I'm your host, Jaina, and I'll be taking you on time travel adventures, looking at the history of modern board game mechanisms to figure out how we got to where we are now. If you love pulling out random facts at inopportune moments to dazzle your friends, then this is the podcast for you!

Music: Comedy Detective by Onoychenkomusic via Pixabay (https://pixabay.com/music/bloopers-comedy-detective-127185/)

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68 - The Girl with the Dumpling Birthmark

Episode 68

Friday, May 12, 2023 • Duration 41:26

Jaina and Sharon stretch the bounds of believability in order to connect three games with incredibly different themes and target audiences together so they could talk about all of them! It's been awhile since the last hot take episode, so they're excited to get back at it with some relatively new games. Tune in to hear their thoughts on these three very different games.

Timestamps
(3:10) Introduction
(4:20) Horseless Carriage
(20:05) Steam Up: A Feast of Dim Sum
(28:43) Final Girl

Find us on:
Instagram: @antsytogancy (https://www.instagram.com/antsytogancy/)
Discord: https://discord.gg/SVMSkw9zpR
BGG Guild 3986: https://boardgamegeek.com/guild/3986
Email: antsytogancy@gmail.com
Intro and Outro Music: Robot Gypsy Jazz by John Bartmann (http://johnbartmann.com)

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67 - Underrated Games

Episode 67

Friday, May 5, 2023 • Duration 41:38

In today's episode, Jaina talks about underrated games while Sharon goes on about underwater games. Really, just a pretty normal episode. Listen in to hear which games the JASCES think deserve to be higher on the Board Game Geek rankings!

Timestamps
(1:12) Introduction
(3:11) Codex Naturalis
(9:40) Dead Men Tell No Tales
(19:08) Habitats
(27:46) Haven
(33:22) Cover Your Assets

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66 - Quilting in the Cascades with Houseplants

Episode 66

Friday, April 28, 2023 • Duration 37:51

In today's episode, Jaina and Sharon take you through the Flatout Games trilogy? Series of games? Three games that share some similarities and box size? No one knows for sure, but the JASCES are are that they're opinions will be unpopular!

Listen in to hear their thoughts on Calico, Cascadia, and Verdant, and please save your rotten tomatoes and other fruits and vegetables until the end.

Timestamps
(2:34) - Introduction
(6:29) - Calico
(13:45) - Cascadia
(18:34) - Verdant
(26:57) - Ranking and Discussion

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65 - The Oros Slide

Episode 65

Friday, April 21, 2023 • Duration 45:17

The episode that made Sharon and Jaina semi-demigods!

Erupting volcanoes, shifting land, and smashing continents are all in a day's work when you're a demigod. Sharon and Jaina dive into this fairly new release as they explore the beautiful world of Oros. General reviews have been a bit mixed, so tune in to hear where the JASCES land.

As well, Jaina and Sharon are shamelessly asking for your support in the Board Game Geek Golden Geek awards, and they would love for JASCES B GANCY to be nominated for Best Podcast (as Most Mediocre Podcast isn't an option). To nominate JASCES B GANCY follow this link: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/3063471/17th-annual-golden-geek-awards-nominations-open and scroll down to find the nomination page.
If you need Geek Gold for an avatar so that you can nominate, head here: https://boardgamegeek.com/user/JainaJ and send Jaina a message, she's happy to hook you up. While you're there, you might as well nominate some games, and maybe even some other podcasts for awards. It really helps brings more awareness to lesser known podcasts and games!

Whether you nominate us or not, we want to thank every single person who has ever downloaded or listened to an episode, we appreciate you all very much!

Timestamps
(1:34) Oros - Introduction
(2:27) Oros - Game Overview
(8:46) Oros - Impressions and Thoughts

64 - The Plaguecast (featuring Stellar and Subastral)

Episode 64

Friday, April 14, 2023 • Duration 54:37

Sharon and Jaina finally succumbed to the plague known as Covid-19 (apologies for the lack of episode last week!). In their questionable wisdom as they recover, they decided to present to you their gaming strategy for getting through the plague.

Listen in to find out what games they played, what games they'd recommend playing while you're sick, and how to set up a perfectly cozy gaming nest for when you want to play, but need to be horizontal.

Also, to make up for the lack of episode last week, the JASCES included a bonus comparison of Stellar and Subastral, two games that deserve more attention!

Timestamps
(3:14) Plague Gaming Set Up
(6:20) Covid Phase 1 Games
(11:30) Covid Phase 2 Games
(20:55) Covid Phase 3 Games
(29:50) Subastral vs Stellar
(31:34) Stellar
(42:17) Subastral

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63 - Still Gobsmacked at GOBfest! - Part II

Episode 63

Friday, March 31, 2023 • Duration 39:23

In this episode, Sharon and Jaina wrap up their GOBfest experience, with 75% less singing. You're welcome.

Timestamps
(2:04) Verdant
(4:50) Mille Fiori
(21:40) Between Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig
(24:51) My Farm Shop

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62 - Gobsmacked at GOBfest Part I

Episode 62

Friday, March 24, 2023 • Duration 44:46

This past weekend Sharon and Jaina attended their local board game convention (GOBfest) and now they're here to tell you all about it! Hear their extremely hot takes of all the new games they tried out, and experience the new and improved Gancy Game Rating System™!

Of course the JASCES talked way too much, so you'll have to tune in next week to hear about convention day 2!

Timestamps
(3:40) The Guild of Merchant Explorers
(10:31) Dune: Imperium
(20:29) Planet Unknown
(26:48) Mystic Vale
(31:47) Flamecraft
(38:33) An Unfortunate Encounter
(42:12) Fave Game Day 1

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61 - Play Fast and Lose Quick

Friday, March 17, 2023 • Duration 42:43

This week Jaina and Sharon are playing fast and loose with the podcast! Astute listeners might notice that this is coming out on Friday instead of Wednesday (not that the JASCES are known for their punctuality), which is going to be the new release day moving forward. And while the podcast release may be slow the games that Jaina and Sharon talk about this week are not. In today's episode they cover their top 5 real-time games, which was a challenge as it isn't their favourite mechanism.

Tune in to see if their opinions are worth a quick listen!

Timestamps:
(2:31) Fit to Print
(7:15) Pendulum
(10:46) Bananagrams
(14:43) Kites
(18:45) Dutch Blitz
(21:22) Nine Tiles Panic
(27:27) Kitchen Rush Revised Ed.
(28:55) Ready Set Bet
(40:33) DropMix PSA

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