Talk Cardboard8 Nov 2025

All the Games We Played at Spiel Essen 2025 Ranked

Just for reference, the population of Klaipėda, the third largest city in Lithuania is approximately 161 000 people. The number of attendees in this year's Spiel Essen was 220 000 people, meaning they managed to cram the entirey of Klaipėda and much more into just eight convention halls and every one of those people were buying board games.

I appreciate that that is maybe not everybody's jam, and aspects of it are not our jam either. But getting our mitts into a jar of Bonne Maman filled with gooey new board game releases - put a bib on me and fire up the toaster!

In this special joint episode of No Pun Included and Talk Cardboard we cover 16 new releases from Spiel Essen 2025, which you can either listen to here or partake in the video version https://youtu.be/NHVLn-ZxVWs

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On to the timestamps:

0:00 Cold Open 2:46 Intro 5:42 Night Soil (Unranked) 9:11 Bouba Kiki 14:14 Nocturnis 17:56 Formidable Farm/Formidabel! 22:00 Tax the Rich 27:44 Echoes of Time 36:30 Fearless 41:30 National Economy 48:23 Thesauros 1:00:34 biD Coin 1:07:20 Kikai/Bricolage Heads 1:16:46 Tag Team 1:26:59 Recall 1:36:14 ??? 1:56:10 ?? 2:03:33 ? 2:14:53 Outro

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