2 Asians 1 Board
2 Asians 1 Board is a board gaming podcast! We are Darren and Ryo, a couple of Asian guys who love playing board games! We talk about all aspects of the board gaming hobby other than reviews. There’s plenty of outlets out there for board game reviews, but if you enjoy in depth discussions about aspects of the hobby, from mechanics, to reasons to play or not, then this is your place!
Episodes

Tuesday Mar 18, 2025
S02E11 - Unboxings
Tuesday Mar 18, 2025
Tuesday Mar 18, 2025
Welcome back everyone! This is Season 2 of our bi-weekly board game podcast! We really appreciate all our listeners and followers! Please feel free to leave us comments or reviews and follow and subscribe! You are super welcome to suggest to us any topics you want us to talk about on the cast!
Follow us on instagram at 2Asians1Board, or email us at 2Asians1Board@gmail.com
This is Season 2 Episode 11. Today we talk about the unboxing experience. Why is it so amazing? why are unboxing videos so popular?
As always, thank you for following and listening, consider subscribing and leaving us a review!
Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!

Monday Feb 24, 2025
S02E10 - Game Length
Monday Feb 24, 2025
Monday Feb 24, 2025
Welcome back everyone! This is Season 2 of our bi-weekly board game podcast! We really appreciate all our listeners and followers! Please feel free to leave us comments or reviews and follow and subscribe! You are super welcome to suggest to us any topics you want us to talk about on the cast!
Follow us on instagram at 2Asians1Board, or email us at 2Asians1Board@gmail.com
This is Season 2 Episode 10. Today we talk about game length. How long should a game be? is there a perfect length? when is a game too long?
As always, thank you for following and listening, consider subscribing and leaving us a review!
Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!

Monday Feb 03, 2025
S02E09 - Strategy vs Luck
Monday Feb 03, 2025
Monday Feb 03, 2025
Welcome back everyone and HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR 2025! This is Season 2 of our bi-weekly board game podcast! We really appreciate all our listeners and followers! Please feel free to leave us comments or reviews and follow and subscribe! You are super welcome to suggest to us any topics you want us to talk about on the cast!
Follow us on instagram at 2Asians1Board, or email us at 2Asians1Board@gmail.com
This is Season 2 Episode 9. We get back to regular programming today, with an super interesting topic that is CORE to board gaming: strategy vs luck in board games. What do we mean by luck? is it good or bad for games? We delve into this in part 2!
As always, thank you for following and listening, consider subscribing and leaving us a review!
Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!

Monday Jan 13, 2025
S02E08 - Happy New Year!
Monday Jan 13, 2025
Monday Jan 13, 2025
Welcome back everyone and HAPPY NEW YEAR 2025! This is Season 2 of our bi-weekly board game podcast! We really appreciate all our listeners and followers! Please feel free to leave us comments or reviews and follow and subscribe! You are super welcome to suggest to us any topics you want us to talk about on the cast!
Follow us on instagram at 2Asians1Board, or email us at 2Asians1Board@gmail.com
This is Season 2 Episode 8. We go over what gaming has been going down over the Christmas break, and also touch on some gaming things we are looking forward to in 2025!
As always, thank you for following and listening, consider subscribing and leaving us a review!
Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!

Monday Dec 23, 2024
S02E07 - Year End Wrap-Up 2024
Monday Dec 23, 2024
Monday Dec 23, 2024
Welcome back everyone to Season 2 of our bi-weekly board game podcast! We really appreciate all our listeners and followers! Please feel free to leave us comments or reviews and follow and subscribe! You are super welcome to suggest to us any topics you want us to talk about on the cast!
Follow us on instagram at 2Asians1Board, or email us at 2Asians1Board@gmail.com
This is Season 2 Episode 7. It's been 1 year since we started the podcast, and we wrap up this first big year of gaming! It has been so great to put out content for our followers and listeners, we really really appreciate everyone listening!
As always, thank you for following and listening, consider subscribing and leaving us a review!
Happy holidays from Ryo and myself!
Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!

Monday Dec 02, 2024
S02E06 - Intercontinental Catch-Up
Monday Dec 02, 2024
Monday Dec 02, 2024
Welcome back everyone to Season 2 of our bi-weekly board game podcast! We really appreciate all our listeners and followers! Please feel free to leave us comments or reviews and follow and subscribe! You are super welcome to suggest to us any topics you want us to talk about on the cast!
Follow us on instagram at 2Asians1Board, or email us at 2Asians1Board@gmail.com
This is Season 2 Episode 6. Ryo has been away in Asia for the past month, and we finally managed to arrange our schedules to have a big trans-planetary catch-up!
As always, thank you for following and listening, consider subscribing and leaving us a review!
Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!

Monday Nov 04, 2024
S02E05 - Pre-Japan Catch-Up!
Monday Nov 04, 2024
Monday Nov 04, 2024
Welcome back everyone to Season 2 of our bi-weekly board game podcast! We really appreciate all our listeners and followers! Please feel free to leave us comments or reviews and follow and subscribe! You are super welcome to suggest to us any topics you want us to talk about on the cast!
Follow us on instagram at 2Asians1Board, or email us at 2Asians1Board@gmail.com
This is Season 2 Episode 5. With Ryo heading to Japan, things have been quite busy over here, but Darren's had plenty of time to play lots of games, so this episode is a simple catch-up on games played!
As always, thank you for following and listening, consider subscribing and leaving us a review!
Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!

Monday Oct 21, 2024
S02E04 - Analysis Paralysis
Monday Oct 21, 2024
Monday Oct 21, 2024
Welcome back everyone to Season 2 of our bi-weekly board game podcast! We really appreciate all our listeners and followers! Please feel free to leave us comments or reviews and follow and subscribe! You are super welcome to suggest to us any topics you want us to talk about on the cast!
Follow us on instagram at 2Asians1Board, or email us at 2Asians1Board@gmail.com
This is Season 2 Episode 4. We have a special guest for this episode, Ryo's wife Camilla! We will be talking all about an important topic in board gaming - Analysis Paralysis! As our resident AP-expert, Camilla will be giving us some personal insights into this "paralyzing" aspect of playing complicated board games. It's a super great episode so be sure to listen!
As always, thank you for following and listening, consider subscribing and leaving us a review!
Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!

Monday Sep 30, 2024
S02E03 - Virtual Gaming
Monday Sep 30, 2024
Monday Sep 30, 2024
Welcome back everyone to Season 2 of our bi-weekly board game podcast! We really appreciate all our listeners and followers! Please feel free to leave us comments or reviews and follow and subscribe! You are super welcome to suggest to us any topics you want us to talk about on the cast!
Follow us on instagram at 2Asians1Board, or email us at 2Asians1Board@gmail.com
This is Season 2 Episode 3. We talk about Virtual Gaming, playing board games online! This is something that has really exploded during the pandemic and become a major part of the hobby. We discuss the history of it, the major online platforms, and pros and cons of enjoying your hobby online! Enjoy!
Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!

Monday Sep 16, 2024
S02E02 - Player Count
Monday Sep 16, 2024
Monday Sep 16, 2024
Welcome back everyone to Season 2 of our bi-weekly board game podcast! We really appreciate all our listeners and followers! Please feel free to leave us comments or reviews and follow and subscribe! You are super welcome to suggest to us any topics you want us to talk about on the cast!
Follow us on instagram at 2Asians1Board, or email us at 2Asians1Board@gmail.com
This is Season 2 Episode 2. We talk about something that is super key to enjoyment of the hobby: player count! What games work best at what player counts? Is there a "BEST" player count? Enjoy!
Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!

Welcome to the podcast! Our cast focuses on many different aspects of the board game hobby. We range in topics from aspects of building games like themes and mechanics, all the way through to distribution, Kickstarter, and more. We want to give our listeners a thoughtful, thorough, fun and insightful show about a wide variety of topics to do with this wonderful hobby!