Le Dé Faussé

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Board games judged at table speed.

The gist

Le Dé Faussé treats board games as things to be tested aloud, not admired from a distance. Each episode moves from explanation to play session to immediate debrief, with quick reactions, tactical second-guessing, and plenty of table noise.

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About Le Dé Faussé

Le Dé Faussé is a French-language board-game podcast that keeps the shape of an actual play session in the final edit. It does not simply announce whether a game is good. It walks through the rules, plays the thing, then comes back with the little arguments that only happen once people have pushed cards, rolled dice, hesitated, miscounted, or realized too late what another player was doing. The pace is quick. Someone explains a mechanic, someone else tests the implication, and the conversation is already moving toward whether that moment felt clever, tense, cute, too expert, too thin, or strangely satisfying. Sampled episodes show that range clearly. Noobs in Space becomes a conversation about guided communication, mission structure, and the joy of describing absurd ship controls under pressure. Guilty turns into a more conflicted debrief about card-based investigation, theme, frustration, and the desire to try again with better instincts. Spooky Tower gets attention for its visual appeal, dice-tower pleasure, approachable strategy, and uncertain audience fit. Bas les Pattes brings Maria and Luc into a lively discussion of rapid reactions, scoring, hand choices, and the funny pressure that spreads around the table when everyone wonders whether to act. First Giants leans into timing, engines, collections, majority tokens, and the risk of building quietly while other players fight elsewhere. The show is casual, but its opinions are earned through play. It notices cover art, table presence, family suitability, festival context, theme fatigue, and the difference between a rule that is easy to say and a choice that is hard to make. That makes Le Dé Faussé useful for players who care less about polished buyer-guide summaries and more about how a game actually feels once people start interrupting each other.

Made for: For French-speaking board-game players who like lively debriefs, concrete play examples, and opinionated discussion after the rules have met real people. It suits casual players, hobby gamers, and festival-watchers who care about table feel as much as mechanics.

What sets it apart: Le Dé Faussé stands out by keeping the before-play and after-play conversation close together, so verdicts come from fresh mistakes, surprises, and tactical arguments. The show is especially strong at naming the exact moment when a design either clicks or starts to drag.

In their own words

Le Dé Faussé est un podcast sur les jeux de société et les jeux en général. Alex', Zephiriel, et parfois leurs invité.e.s explorent chaque semaine un jeu choisi par l'un.e d'entre eux.elles. Et pendant 20 minutes iels s'expliquent, jouent, s'affrontent, se serrent les coudes puis règlent leurs comptes. Entre délires et rivalités et dans la passion du jeu de société sous toutes ses formes.

Why you'd press play

First come the rules, then the table chaos, then the debrief you were already conducting in your head.

Press play if you want

  • to hear a game explained, played, and judged while everyone's reactions are still fresh
  • mechanical details tied to the choices you would face around the table
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Episodes

  1. 1

    377 - Harmonies (Pulse)

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  2. 2

    375 - Styx

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  3. 3

    374 - Carnuta

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  4. 4

    373 - Dominion

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  5. 5

    372 - City Tour

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  6. 6

    371 - Alice : De L'autre Côté Du Miroir

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  7. 7

    370 - 62 soleils d'été

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  8. 8

    369 - Ink It !

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  9. 9

    368 - Butterfly Effect Alter Ego

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  10. 10

    367 - Quarto

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  11. 11

    366 - Insurrection

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  12. 12

    365 - Prey Another Day

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  13. 13

    363 - Moonlight - Le Territoire Des Loups

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  14. 14

    362 - Blood on the Clocktower

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  15. 15

    361 - Home Staging

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  16. 16

    360 - Duel Pour Cardia

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  17. 17

    359 - Lutineries

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    358 - La Clef - Astolie

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    357 - Double Seven

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    356 - Rajas of the Ganges

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  21. 21

    355 - NMBR9

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    354 - Kado

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    353 - Ptit Pois

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    352 - Avant Après

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  25. 25

    351 - 7 Wonders Dice

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    350 - Zenith

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  27. 27

    349 - Dobro

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  28. 28

    348 - Le Bon, La Chèvre Et Le Truand

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  29. 29

    347 - Echoes - Le Titanic

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  30. 30

    346 - Codo Berlin 63

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  31. 31

    345 - Cthulhu Death May Die

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  32. 32

    344 - Le tableau des Maquisards

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  33. 33

    343 - Dead Cells

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  34. 34

    342 - SETI

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  35. 35

    341 - Songes

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  36. 36

    340 - Sankoré - La Fierté de Mansa Moussa

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  37. 37

    339 - Clichés Criminels

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  38. 38

    338 - Coffee Rush

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  39. 39

    337 - Danger

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  40. 40

    336 - Présages

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  41. 41

    335 - Tag Team

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  42. 42

    334 - Diluvium

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    333 - Heroes Love to Lie

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  44. 44

    332 - Popcorn

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  45. 45

    331 - Super

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  46. 46

    330 - Panda Spin

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    329 - Daydream

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  48. 48

    328 - Navoria

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  49. 49

    327 - Eternal Decks

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    326 - Flip 7

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    325 - Take Time

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    324 - Toy Battle

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    323 - Yeti Snack

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    322 - Agent Avenue

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    321 - Long Shot The Dice Game

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    320 - Public Enemy Number One

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    318 - Cachamot

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    317 - Duck & Cover

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    316 -Flowers

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    315 - Perspectives

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    314 - MicroMacro Crime City - Showdown

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    313 - Naishi

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    312 - Time Division

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    311 - Les Architectes d'Amytis

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    310 - Orion Duel

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    309 - King Of Tokyo Duel

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    308 - Luz

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    307 - Ascension

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    306 - Umbrella

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    305 - Kitsu

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    304 - Fairy Ring

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    303 - Android Netrunner

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    302 - Tower Up

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    301 - Behind

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    300 - Des anecdotes

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    299 - Escape - Les lauriers de César

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    298 - Marvel Champions

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    297 - Le Cortège

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    296 - Link City

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    295 - Piña Coladice

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    294 - Inside Job

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    293 - Ratjack

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    292 - Captain Flip

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    291 - Fliptown

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    290 - Pikit

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    289 - Le Château Blanc

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    288 - Temple Code

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    287 - Eat Zem All

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    286 - Batman : Tout n'est que Mensonge

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    285 - Robotrick

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    284 - Marvel Zombies

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    283 - Diktat

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    282 - Shackleton Base

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    281 - Kolpa!

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    280 - Bambou

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    364 - Guilty

    Alex and Zéphiriel review 'Guilty Fontainebleau 1543', the third game in the Guilty series of investigative card games.

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    376 - Bas les Pattes

    In this episode of the French board game podcast Le De Fausse, hosts Zephiriel and Alex sit down with Maria and Luc from Disto Studio to preview an unreleased real-time card game about bears slap-fishing along a river, set for release in September.

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    319 - Noobs - Dans L'espace

    Alex and Zephiriel play Noobs in Space, a cooperative card game where players must solve missions with only partial instructions.

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    379 - First Giants

    Hidden gem

    The discussion on Le Dé Faussé 379 centers on First Giant, with Alex, Zéphiriel, and Mathieu Dunstan talking through collection rules, token recovery, and endgame timing.

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    380 - Spooky Tower

    Hidden gem

    Spooky Tower, discussed with Corentin Lombra and Clément from Lab4Game, centers on photographing ghosts in a city and rebuilding a broken amulet from the tower.

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