FTwGP presents Table Top Top Table

In 2018 Wellcome fellow and comic book author Sara Kenney (Surgeon X) asked Mink to help design an ambitious immersive experience that would bring scientific discourse to several hundred comic convention attendees, through the medium of the world of Kieron Gillen & Jamie McKelvie's The Wicked + The Divine. In this special episode Kieron interviews Sara and Mink about Scientists as Oracles to the WicDiv gods, art, comics and escape room puzzles.

This episode we've got something a little bit different going on, can you *guess* what it is? Which is appropriate as this time we're talking about Guessing Games! Keen listeners may be able to whittle down the possibilities to figure out the mystery; at which point you could say, it's a "mystery guessed".

They've won the prizes but have they won Mink and Fish's heart? This episode we're talking about our top 5 Spieles des Jahre winning games plus what games we've played most recently. ant to hear us talk about a specific subject? Send us questions and suggestions to tabletoptoptable@gmail.com or tweet us @TTtoptable

This episode Mink and Fish talk about their top 5 favourite games by prolific designer Reiner Knizia. We also talk about the curiously shaped games 'Here Comes The Dog' and 'Planet' and answer a listener's question about Legacy-style solo games

It's time to put out the bowls of twiglets, cover the light fitting in bacofoil and start listening to firm young melodies, kicking tunes, thumping bass... That's right! We're having a party*

A jam packed episode as Mink and Fish talk dice game and are joined by two of their boardgame buddies, Leo and Rob, for an in-car reflection on the highlights of the 2018 autumn LobsterCon. Warning; this episode contains gratuitous loud giggling of an immature nature. Send us questions to tabletoptoptable@gmail.com or tweet us @TTtoptable

We're back! New year! New games! New us! ok, not new us, we're the same THE SAME GREAT BOARD GAMING PAIR OF TALKING PEOPLE YOU KNOW AND MAYBE LOVE! This time we tackle deckbuilders and realise we maybe bit off more than we can chew this time. Plus Mink goes to IndieCade and talks to Jen Carey of https://twitter.com/Fickle_games, creator of RamPUNctious, about design practice and getting a game to market. (Stick to the end to hear Mink embarrass Fish about his tattoo.)

Like an enigma wrapped in a mystery encased in a box still in its original shrinkwrap, this week we go all exotic by talking about Obscure Games. What do we mean by obscure? Do we even know? Find out this and hear our thoughts on Burgle Bros, Stone Age, Elven Castle & The Mushroom Eaters. ** WARNING THIS EPISODE CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND SEXUAL REFERENCES ** Send us questions to tabletoptoptable@gmail.com or tweet us @TTtoptable

After last episode's foray into the lovely happy world of playing nicely together, this time Mink and Fish get mean! They've picked out their top 5 low down dirty backstabbing games of cruelty and betrayal to entertain you. You big meany! There's also chat about our favourite reviewers and a sing-a-long listeners' question answered. Send us questions to tabletoptoptable@gmail.com or tweet us @TTtoptable

A true head-to-head this time around, as we delve into co-operative games, one of us loves them one of us hates them, can we co-operate long enough to get to the end of the podcast? Tune in to find out the answer to this as well as to our listeners’ questions about boxes and team games. We also get excited about a board gaming holiday and the games we’ve been playing recently. Send us questions to tabletoptoptable@gmail.com or tweet us @TTtoptable

Far more than you'd expect could be crammed into a normal sized pocket, this episode is coincidentally also about pocket sized games which Mink and Fish think give the most fun per square inch. Plus some excellent listeners' questions. Send us questions to tabletoptoptable@gmail.com or tweet us @TTtoptable

Get yourself to exactly the right angle to flick this episode right into your earhole as Fish and Mink line up and knock down their teetering towers of favourite games of dexterity. Plus games gossip about Fog of Love and Callisto, places to buy games and, as always, listeners' questions answered. Send us questions to tabletoptoptable@gmail.com or tweet us @TTtoptable

This episode Mink and Charlie take a misty-eyed look back down memory lane to find the top 5 games they couldn't bear to leave behind in their childhoods. Plus what we've played recently and answering listeners' questions about morality and luring family members into playing games. Send us questions to tabletoptoptable@gmail.com or tweet us @TTtoptable

Charlie and Mink pit their favourite two-player games head-to-head against each other to see whose top table is the tops. Games "news" from ukge, answers to (future)listeners' questions and chat about what games they've been playing recently. Send us questions to tabletoptoptable@gmail.com or tweet us @TTtoptable

Betrayal, cheating, suspicion and double-crossing, Mink and Quintin Smith put all of these things aside for an afternoon in order to discuss their shared love of bamboozling TV game show The Genius. Quinns being of Shut Up and Sit Down fame, we also of course touch on playing board games, plus the merits of cupholders, Yut Nori and the sounds of sunbeams. Oh and listen out for some South London parrots! Parrots! :D www.shutupandsitdown.com twitter.com/ShutUpShow www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpwIgWPfNvc en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Genius_(TV_series)

Game designer Ricky Haggett of Hollow Ponds (Loot Rascals, Wilmot’s Warehouse, Hohokum) kicks back with Mink one sunny afternoon to talk gardens, game design and ghost poison. Listen to the sounds of Ricky’s North London garden while they reminisce about the gardens and beaches of their childhoods, theorise about dinosaur eyeballs and share with you their 100% true animal “facts” which are so definitely true that you should just believe them without question and needn’t ever look them up. www.thehollowponds.com twitter.com/KommanderKlobb https://mastodon.social/@KommanderKlobb

Escape Room designer Nick Moran creator of the celebrated Time Run, chats to Mink about his favourite Escape Rooms in the UK, gets geeky about clue systems before telling his remarkable account of the time he visited North Korea as a tourist and nearly didn’t return. Nick went on holiday, not once, but twice to North Korea and saw firsthand the surreal reality that the DPRK wants to present itself as to the few foreigners they permit across their borders. He tours the grand museums to American lies, vast ghost-town hotels and the facade factories, all the while desperately trying to hide that he doesn’t have the paperwork needed to be allowed to leave. Time-run.com lockedinedinburgh.com thelogicescapesme.co.uk

Creative Director & Theatre maker Annette Mees and RPG publisher Cat Tobin of Pelgrane Press, tell each other and Mink about their different worlds of Experiential Theatre and RPGs and LARPs, and find out where they rub up and overlap. Place yourself at the table as the podcast falls into a dinner party half way through and the host wanders off for a bit to add three more surprise(d) guests to the show and get everyone more wine, in what I would call an ‘experimental immersive format’ and what others are calling ‘unprofessional’. Some of the games discussed contain unsettling imagery regarding mortality and morality. http://site.pelgranepress.com/ http://storytelling.pelgranepress.com/feminism-a-nano-game-anthology/ http://www.andfurthermo.re/ http://mad-about-the-boy-larp.blogspot.co.uk/p/the-larp.html http://cavalrygames.com/ten-candles/

It's the weekend before Halloween, and all through the house, creepy creatures were stirring, some eating a mouse. Mink talks to Laura E Hall about her love of halloween, what it means to be creepy and a little bit about spookiness in Escape Rooms. Eurgh and Possums, we disagree on the merits of possums. Laura is wrong. But she's right about how fascinating these spoopy halloween morsels are: https://tinyletter.com/31daysofhalloween please do follow!

Why start your podcast with a pilot when you can start it with a sailor? Mink interviews Kass Schmitt, a computer games and meteorology programmer, who is about to single-handedly race across the ocean from the UK to the USA. Delving* into her past, Kass recounts the time she was shipwrecked by a rogue wave and had to survive her own boat destroying itself. Support her campaign to win the OSTAR race at her indigogo page https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ostar-with-zest-racing-solo-across-the-atlantic-adventure/ (*don't excuse the pun, never excuse puns)