Invite To Game Night

On today's episode, we need to work together if we are to survive and succeed!...Or do we? What's the worst that could happen if we go rogue and strike out on our own? Where does the value lie in cooperating anyway? This is the at the heart of today's episode, featuring interviews with Hues and Cues, Micro Macro: Crime City, Spirit Island (with the Jagged Earth expansion), and Seikatsu. Plus, join in as we extend an invitation to Sam and Frodo - and any of their friends - to come make our home the furthest away they have ever played board games. Finally, cast your vote on what is your favourite way to encounter chance and randomness in board games.

We ran into a glitch... with our editing software!!! In this episode, long overdue, we attempt to redeem ourselves in a second round of Medium after our previously less than mediocre performance. We briefly touch on the expansiveness of our sound library and discuss what causes thunderstorms. In our Interview with a Board Game segment, we get up close and personal with Merchant's Cove and Battle Bears before gathering our thoughts on what to do when game night goes south. For our final question of the episode: "What is your favourite role to play in a cooperative game?"

Our fifth episode features discussion around creating the game night experience you want for your guests in EBTG (everything but the games)...with a little bit of game selection thrown in for good measure. We interview Marvel United and Whatnot Cabinet, and Gordie carries on from last week with his “craziest experience that no one will believe is true”. Finally, we answer the question: “What is your biggest pet peeve in game night?”

In our fourth episode, we open up a discussion about the ultimate win in game night: creating the kind of experience of that leaves everyone feeling like a winner. For today's icebreaker, Alexis recounts one of her craziest experiences. In our “Interview with a Board Game” segment, we take a look at On Tour, A Fistful of Meeples, Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle Earth, and Great Western Trail. Finally, we wrap up the episode with our “Favourite Things” for the day: What do you like to serve on game night?

For Episode 3, discover our ineptitude with mind-reading as we mix things up in our ice breaker section with a quick round of Medium (Greater Than Games, 2019). Next, we share some of our recently played games: Dune, Canvas, Unmatched, and Super Skill Pinball: 4-Cade. Our discussion for this episode delves into the potentially daunting task of explaining a new game on game night and how to support a range of learners. Finally, we wrap things up with this all-important question: what is one game that you love but CANNOT seem to win?

In this episode, we each recall a time when we were very nearly initiated into Peter Pan's troupe. Abandon All Artichokes, The Crew: Search for Planet Nine, Sleeping Gods, and Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game feature as games recently brought to our table. We delve into a discussion about hosting game night over a video chat platform before leaving you with a difficult question... who is your favourite Hogwart's Professor?

On this, our first full episode, get a glimpse into one of the darkest parts of our lives - our high school lockers! Honey Buzz and Beez feature as games that we have been playing recently. During the main segment, we take a look at welcoming games - what they are supposed to do and what might qualify a game as such. Finally, we finish this episode off with our favourite Zoom backgrounds for escaping a pandemic.

Meet your hosts in this short introductory episode. We chat about our lives and how board games have featured in them. We discuss some of our first games, including Clue, Star Wars Risk, Scotland Yard, Munchkin, Settlers of Catan, Chinatown, Smash Up, and Splendor. We talk about our early days in board gaming and the milestones we have reached. More importantly, we lay out some of our goals for this podcast and upcoming topics. To wrap things up, we give a brief look at some of our favourite welcoming games.