Overboard

Welcome back to Overboard, Polygon's board game show! Today we're playing Beasts of Balance, a simple but challenging tabletop game where the players attempt to create a tall stack of creatures, without knocking it over. Pat Gill, XTina GG, and Simone de Rochefort are up to the task.

Today on Overboard, Polygon's board game show, we're playing HUES and CUES. It's a color-guessing game that tests everyone's knowledge of jeans. We're joined by Eater's Jaya Saxena, and cartoonist Mattie Lubchansky, for a chaotic and colorful guessing game.

Slay the Spire is such an iconic video game it practically forged a sub genre: the roguelike deck builder. By merging the classic tabletop experience of drafting a deck with wildly rule-altering relics and the ease of a video game handling all the complicated math, Slay the Spire has inspired a litany of imitators. Now the game has come full circle, back to the realm of the physical, with Slay the Spire: The Board Game. Clayton Ashley, Patrick Gill, and Simone de Rochefort take on Act 2 of the game in this episode of Polygon's Overboard, and well... it rules.

This week on Overboard, Polygon's board game show, we're playing a clever subversion of Clue: Kill Doctor Lucky! In this game, players stalk about Dr. Lucky's mansion, hoping for a moment alone with the good doctor... to end his life. But to succeed, you have to do the deed unseen. Watch to find out how we pull off the crime(s) of the century in this episode of Overboard.