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Ruel Gaviola 🇺🇸🇵🇭🀄🎲 @ruelgaviola.com · 03/10/2026

Happy MLB playoffs to all who celebrate! (not actually at Dodger Stadium aka Blue Heaven on Earth) Go Dodgers! #dodgers #MLB

Los Angeles Dodgers fans standing in front of two oversized World Series trophies at Dodger Stadium.

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Ruel Gaviola 🇺🇸🇵🇭🀄🎲 @ruelgaviola.com · 29/09/2026

Dodgers have the week off so I'll be playing games on BGA until their postseason begins. :)

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Ruel Gaviola 🇺🇸🇵🇭🀄🎲 @ruelgaviola.com · 21/09/2026

LIVE NOW: Let's play Seashells from @kidstablebg.bsky.social and talk about the games that have hit your tabletop recently! #boardgames Watch on YouTube and Twitch! YouTube: www.youtube.com/@ruelgaviola Twitch: www.twitch.tv/ruelgaviola

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Ruel Gaviola 🇺🇸🇵🇭🀄🎲 @ruelgaviola.com · 14/09/2026

LIVE NOW: Best board games of the month! And a preview of Hi-Voltage Horse Power! #boardgames Watch on YouTube and Twitch! YouTube: www.youtube.com/@ruelgaviola Twitch: www.twitch.tv/ruelgaviola

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Ruel Gaviola 🇺🇸🇵🇭🀄🎲 @ruelgaviola.com · 07/09/2026

LIVE NOW: Michelle joins me for King of Tokyo: Godzilla! And, yes, we are using the Godzilla x Hello Kitty figures! #BoardGames #Godzilla #HelloKitty Watch on YouTube and Twitch! YouTube: www.youtube.com/@ruelgaviola Twitch: www.twitch.tv/ruelgaviola

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Ruel Gaviola 🇺🇸🇵🇭🀄🎲 @ruelgaviola.com · 31/08/2026

LIVE NOW: I'm playing Otter from @dylancoyle.bsky.social! #boardgames Watch on YouTube or Twitch: YouTube: www.youtube.com/@ruelgaviola Twitch: www.twitch.tv/ruelgaviola

A Filipino American man with a beard and wearing glasses is holding the board game box for Otter. The text says, "Solo Teach & Play"

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Ruel Gaviola 🇺🇸🇵🇭🀄🎲 @ruelgaviola.com · 25/08/2026

I joined Kellye for another No Bad Games segment on the @varianthex.com podcast. This time, we checked out overlooked and underappreciated Small Box Games! Click here to listen: player.captivate.fm/episode/1184...

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Ruel Gaviola 🇺🇸🇵🇭🀄🎲 @ruelgaviola.com · 17/08/2026

I joined my friends Kellye and Aaron for a Game of the Month episode of the @varianthex.com podcast! It was fun recording at their home studio and we talked about our favorite games of July and also a bit about Gen Con! Listen/download here: podcast.varianthex.com/episode/206-...

Episode 206 of the Board Games with Variant Hex podcast announcement. Board game boxes of YRO, Tap 4, Orbita, and others are displayed.

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Ruel Gaviola 🇺🇸🇵🇭🀄🎲 @ruelgaviola.com · 10/08/2026

Hi friends, no stream today -- took a few days off after Gen Con to recover from Con Crud and now I'm playing catch up. I'll be back this Wednesday 10am for Good Morning Society! In the meantime, check out Dino Racer, a game that Michelle and I absolutely love: youtu.be/NhCq0DTvn-o?...

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Ruel Gaviola 🇺🇸🇵🇭🀄🎲 @ruelgaviola.com · 13/07/2026

No stream on my channel today, BUT I'll be streaming the R&R Show on Rahdo's channel! Today we're talking about our Top 12 Gen Con Games! Join us at 12pm Pacific: www.twitch.tv/rahdorunsthr...

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Ruel Gaviola 🇺🇸🇵🇭🀄🎲 @ruelgaviola.com · 09/07/2026

First time I've won a tournament on BGA! Went 6-0 in one of my favorite two-player games, Patchwork! #boardgames

Ruel Gaviola wins Patchwork tournament on Board Game Arena

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Ruel Gaviola 🇺🇸🇵🇭🀄🎲 @ruelgaviola.com · 29/06/2026

My back is killing me, so no stream today. :( #boardgames In the meantime, check out Michelle and me playing Tropichaos from @oinkgames.bsky.social! youtu.be/vrwRIV5hFlE?...

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Ruel Gaviola 🇺🇸🇵🇭🀄🎲 @ruelgaviola.com · 26/06/2026

It's been a blast re-learning Filipino mahjong with this 20+ year old set. Fond memories of family parties with multiple tables of mahjong and poker being played by my parents, aunts and uncles, while all of us kids ran around. #boardgames

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Ruel Gaviola 🇺🇸🇵🇭🀄🎲 @ruelgaviola.com · 22/06/2026

No stream today, but I'll be back on Wednesday at 10am for Good Morning Society!

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Ruel Gaviola 🇺🇸🇵🇭🀄🎲 @ruelgaviola.com · 15/06/2026

Attending to a personal matter, so no stream today. I'll be back this Wednesday 10am PT for Good Morning Society! #boardgames In the meantime, check out Michelle and me playing Dino Racer, a card-based racing game being released at Gen Con: youtu.be/NhCq0DTvn-o?...

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Ruel Gaviola 🇺🇸🇵🇭🀄🎲 @ruelgaviola.com · 10/06/2026

Nothing better than betting on your local dinosaur races! Check out Dino Racer, a new card game that captures the thrill of making prehistoric wagers! #boardgames Teach & Play: youtu.be/NhCq0DTvn-o

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Ruel Gaviola 🇺🇸🇵🇭🀄🎲 @ruelgaviola.com · 08/06/2026

No stream today due to a family matter. Join me this Wednesday 10am for Good Morning Society, your weekly dose of board games, beverages, and shenanigans! In the meantime, check out the Top 10 Games of the Month that I did with V aka Gameboardmaster: youtu.be/uz9LPzus0fU?...

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Ruel Gaviola 🇺🇸🇵🇭🀄🎲 @ruelgaviola.com · 05/06/2026

Follow V the Gameboardmaster on Instagram: www.instagram.com/gameboardmas...

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Ruel Gaviola 🇺🇸🇵🇭🀄🎲 @ruelgaviola.com · 03/06/2026

We are LIVE! Join us for Good Morning Society, your weekly source of board games, beverages, and shenanigans! #boardgames @baileymeyers.bsky.social @goodtimesociety.com Watch on Twitch or YouTube: www.twitch.tv/goodtimesoci... or www.youtube.com/@goodtimesoc...

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Ruel Gaviola 🇺🇸🇵🇭🀄🎲 @ruelgaviola.com · 01/06/2026

LIVE NOW: Best Board Games of the Month with special guest V aka Game Board Master #boardgames Watch on YouTube and Twitch! YouTube: www.youtube.com/@ruelgaviola Twitch: www.twitch.tv/ruelgaviola

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Ruel Gaviola 🇺🇸🇵🇭🀄🎲 @ruelgaviola.com · 26/05/2026

LIVE NOW: Virtual Coworking! Let's be productive today! #coworking Watch on Twitch or Facebook: www.twitch.tv/ruelgaviola www.facebook.com/ruelgaviola

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Ruel Gaviola 🇺🇸🇵🇭🀄🎲 @ruelgaviola.com · 25/05/2026

LIVE NOW: I'm playing Maple Valley from @kidstablebg.bsky.social! #boardgames Today's show is sponsored by Game Box Buddies by @futurewolfie.bsky.social: 3dprintsbywolfie.etsy.com?coupon=BUDDI... Watch on YouTube and Twitch! YouTube: www.youtube.com/@ruelgaviola Twitch: www.twitch.tv/ruelgaviola

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Ruel Gaviola 🇺🇸🇵🇭🀄🎲 @ruelgaviola.com · 18/05/2026

LIVE NOW: Let's Go! To France from @sirjoshwood.bsky.social and AEG. On Kickstarter tomorrow! #boardgames Watch on YouTube and Twitch! YouTube: www.youtube.com/@ruelgaviola Twitch: www.twitch.tv/ruelgaviola Campaigh: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ald...

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Ruel Gaviola 🇺🇸🇵🇭🀄🎲 @ruelgaviola.com · 13/05/2026

We are live and celebrating our 100th episode of Good Morning Society, your weekly source of board games, beverages, and shenanigans! #boardgames @goodtimesociety.com Watch on Twitch or YouTube: www.twitch.tv/goodtimesoci... or www.youtube.com/@goodtimesoc...

Ruel Gaviola and Becca Scott host Good Morning Society

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Ruel Gaviola 🇺🇸🇵🇭🀄🎲 @ruelgaviola.com · 07/05/2026

LIVE NOW: It's Pressed Launch Day on BackerKit! Let's learn this beautiful botanical game by Tony Tran with art by Beth Sobel! @playtozgames.bsky.social @backerkit.com #boardgames Watch on YouTube and Twitch! YouTube: www.youtube.com/@ruelgaviola Twitch: www.twitch.tv/ruelgaviola

Ruel Gaviola plays the new card game Pressed

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Ruel Gaviola 🇺🇸🇵🇭🀄🎲 @ruelgaviola.com · 06/05/2026

We are LIVE! Join us for Good Morning Society, your weekly source of board games, beverages, and shenanigans! #boardgames @fantasyflightgames.bsky.social Watch on Twitch or YouTube: www.twitch.tv/goodtimesoci... or www.youtube.com/@goodtimesoc...

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Ruel Gaviola 🇺🇸🇵🇭🀄🎲 @ruelgaviola.com · 04/05/2026

LIVE NOW: Happy Star Wars Day! Today's double header: Star Wars the Deck Building Game Solo and Tabletop Recall! #boardgames Watch on YouTube and Twitch! YouTube: www.youtube.com/@ruelgaviola Twitch: www.twitch.tv/ruelgaviola

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Ruel Gaviola 🇺🇸🇵🇭🀄🎲 @ruelgaviola.com · 04/05/2026

Build your guild of chibi adventurers and set out on your quest in YRO from Play to Z Games! #boardgames Watch: youtu.be/yzmCb4H-x30

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Ruel Gaviola 🇺🇸🇵🇭🀄🎲 @ruelgaviola.com · 02/05/2026

Thrilled to meet @gailsimone.bsky.social at Free Comic Book Day! Always appreciate your board game posts, Gail. Enjoy YRO from @playtozgames.bsky.social! #boardgames

Ruel Gaviola meets Gail Simone at Free Comic Book Day

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Ruel Gaviola 🇺🇸🇵🇭🀄🎲 @ruelgaviola.com · 29/04/2026

We are LIVE! Join us for Good Morning Society, your weekly source of board games, beverages, and shenanigans! #boardgames @baileymeyers.bsky.social Watch on Twitch or YouTube: www.twitch.tv/goodtimesoci... or www.youtube.com/@goodtimesoc...

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Ruel Gaviola 🇺🇸🇵🇭🀄🎲 @ruelgaviola.com · 27/04/2026

LIVE NOW: Let's play Off With Their Heads! This "and Write" game was an insta-hit with me and I can't wait to teach and play it! #boardgames @druidcitygames.bsky.social Watch on YouTube and Twitch! YouTube: www.youtube.com/@ruelgaviola Twitch: www.twitch.tv/ruelgaviola

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Ruel Gaviola 🇺🇸🇵🇭🀄🎲 @ruelgaviola.com · 22/04/2026

Just over 24 hours left to back Concrete Canvas on Kickstarter! Michelle and I had a blast painting the five boroughs in this set collection and area majority game featuring the art of @chrisrwk.bsky.social from @intersectiongames.bsky.social www.kickstarter.com/projects/int...

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Ruel Gaviola 🇺🇸🇵🇭🀄🎲 @ruelgaviola.com · 20/04/2026

LIVE NOW: Doubleheader this morning! Teaching & Playing Pressed and Pack of Penguins! #boardgames #backerkit #kickstarter Watch on Twitch or YouTube: www.twitch.tv/ruelgaviola www.youtube.com/@RuelGaviola

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Ruel Gaviola 🇺🇸🇵🇭🀄🎲 @ruelgaviola.com · 20/04/2026

LIVE NOW: Doubleheader this morning! Teaching & Playing Pressed and Pack of Penguins! #boardgames #backerkit #kickstarter @playtozgames.bsky.social Watch on Twitch or YouTube: www.twitch.tv/ruelgaviola www.youtube.com/@RuelGaviola

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Ruel Gaviola 🇺🇸🇵🇭🀄🎲 @ruelgaviola.com · 16/04/2026

What podcasts are you listening to these days? I've been enjoying Board States with @rollingreggie.bsky.social and Jazz. Fun camaraderie and banter to go with their insights into board games. #boardgames #podcast

Screen shot of Board States podcast information.

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Ruel Gaviola 🇺🇸🇵🇭🀄🎲 @ruelgaviola.com · 15/04/2026

We are LIVE! Join us for Good Morning Society, your weekly source of board games, beverages, and shenanigans! #boardgames Watch on Twitch or YouTube: www.twitch.tv/goodtimesoci... or www.youtube.com/@goodtimesoc...

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Ruel Gaviola 🇺🇸🇵🇭🀄🎲 @ruelgaviola.com · 13/04/2026

Michelle and I channeled our inner Beastie Boys as we played Concrete Canvas! #boardgames #kickstarter Check out the game on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/int...

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Ruel Gaviola 🇺🇸🇵🇭🀄🎲 @ruelgaviola.com · 10/04/2026

Never take for granted that we're watching the Greatest Ball Player Who Ever Lived. (Shohei Ohtani's first hit of 2026 video from Opening Day; statistic from @slangsonsports.bsky.social) #dodgers #baseball

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Ruel Gaviola 🇺🇸🇵🇭🀄🎲 @ruelgaviola.com · 31/03/2026

LIVE NOW: Michelle and I are painting the town in Concrete Canvas! Join us for this set collection, area control game based on the work of street artist Chris RWK! #boardgames Watch on YouTube and Twitch: YouTube: www.youtube.com/@ruelgaviola Twitch: www.twitch.tv/ruelgaviola

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Ruel Gaviola 🇺🇸🇵🇭🀄🎲 @ruelgaviola.com · 30/03/2026

LIVE NOW: Talking board games and playing Panorama from @scorpionmasque.bsky.social! #boardgames Watch on YouTube and Twitch! YouTube: www.youtube.com/@ruelgaviola Twitch: www.twitch.tv/ruelgaviola

Ruel Gaviola holding the Panorama board game box.

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Ruel Gaviola 🇺🇸🇵🇭🀄🎲 @ruelgaviola.com · 23/03/2026

LIVE NOW: Let's talk about games then play Soothsayers and Symbiosis! @playtozgames.bsky.social @hachettebgusa.bsky.social #boardgames Watch on YouTube and Twitch: YouTube: www.youtube.com/@ruelgaviola Twitch: www.twitch.tv/ruelgaviola!

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Ruel Gaviola 🇺🇸🇵🇭🀄🎲 @ruelgaviola.com · 20/03/2026

LIVE NOW: Let's build LEGO with @vampx13.bsky.social! #LEGO Watch: twitch.tv/vampx13 or youtube.com/@vampx13

Ruel Gaviola holds a LEGO Botanicals "Lucky Bamboo"

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Ruel Gaviola 🇺🇸🇵🇭🀄🎲 @ruelgaviola.com · 20/03/2026

Great to see Misfit Heroes now available! I enjoyed this card-crafting game from one of my favorite designers, Phil Walker-Harding (praise be!), and shout-out to AEG for helping me become one of the Misfit Heroes. :) Watch my playthrough: youtu.be/VDvRcXH4DP4?...

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Ruel Gaviola 🇺🇸🇵🇭🀄🎲 @ruelgaviola.com · 17/03/2026

UPDATE: currently trying to justify buying two games 😭😭😭

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Ruel Gaviola 🇺🇸🇵🇭🀄🎲 @ruelgaviola.com · 17/03/2026

Finally got to play Basketball Highlights: Crunch Time from @eaglegryphon.bsky.social and I'm digging it! Quicker than Baseball Highlights: 2045 and I enjoy the hand management. Like 2045 there's a lot of back-and-forth play. Solo game is solid too! Have you played this one? #boardgames

Basketball Highlights: Crunch Time board game. Cards with basketball play diagrams, a board representing the basketball court, and meeples representing basketball players.

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Ruel Gaviola 🇺🇸🇵🇭🀄🎲 @ruelgaviola.com · 16/03/2026

LIVE NOW: Books & basketball today! Let's play Book Club together again, then I'll play through Basketball Highlights: Crunch Time in honor of March Madness! #boardgames #books #basketball Watch on YouTube and Twitch: YouTube: www.youtube.com/@ruelgaviola Twitch: www.twitch.tv/ruelgaviola

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Ruel Gaviola 🇺🇸🇵🇭🀄🎲 @ruelgaviola.com · 16/03/2026

Robo Rally Dice is a reimagined version of the classic programming game! Use dice to program your robot as it races to the checkpoints, often with hilarious results! #boardgames Watch: youtu.be/NFD6ahMpwKo

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