
Episode 286: Bunker Board Games
April 27, 2025
Episode 288: Gaming Origins
May 26, 2025
In Episode 287, Blue Peg Pink Peg offers up their Crafting the Cosmos Review as well as discussing their most recent board game plays.
The Pegs also discuss their recent plays, including:
- Santorini Second Edition* - Roxley
- 3 Chapters* - Amigo
- A deep dive Crafting the Cosmos* Review - Office Dog Games
Crafting the Cosmos Board Game
Crafting the Cosmos is designed by David Gordon and TAM and published by Office Dog.
Crafting the Cosmos is a 2-4 player game where you’re a space architect competing to build the coolest galaxy in the universe-one hydrogen token at a time. To win the game, score the most points by completing nebulas, spawning life, and crushing the universal objectives.
Crafting the Cosmos is played over a series of rounds that are composed of two phases. The energy phase and then the craft phase. In the energy phase you move your energy marble and possibly other marbles up to 3 spaces around a central board that are broken into sections (time, gravity, matter or entropy) to collect resources. Depending on how many marbles are in that section will determine how much of that resource you can collect like (hydrogen, helium, carbon and oxygen which are needed to complete nebulas, and you can get power cards, proto-life, more nebulae or TIME CRYSTALS. Where your energy marble lands gives you a little something extra as well. THEN In the craft phase you will spend those collected resources to lay down nebula tiles, drop stars into place, evolve proto-life into advanced life because SCIENCE and play energy cards to buy or activate power cards that give you powerful effects.
Crafting the Cosmos ends if the time crystal tokens in the supply are depleted or if the last universal goal card is scored. If end game is triggered you flip your hidden upgraded advanced life tokens, count your points and whomever has the most points wins. Now let’s head back to the studio to hear which PEG basked in the glory of galactic domination.
Banter
00:01:06 - Golden Geek “Thank you”
00:03:49 - Secret Santa Part Two :Smiles and Tears
00:11:09 - Christina in Philly-Queen & Rook Game Cafe
00:16:49 - Brandon’s daughter is a senior
00:21:22 - Kevin’s midlife-crisis
00:30:04 - Blue Prince
News
00:56:09 - Seti Expansion
01:00:42 - Panda Spin Expansion
01:02:34 - Pandora’s Legacy
01:08:30 - Battle of Hoth
01:11:40 - Stonemaier Sues the President and Tariff Talk article from Stonemaiergames.com
Board Game Review
01:22:32 - Rules Gist Crafting the Cosmos*
01:24:23 - Deep Dive Crafting the Cosmos*
01:47:52 - Crafting the Cosmos* Ratings

























