Organised Fun

This week, we've finished the Dragon Staff of Maladoria! Highlights include: - But where did it come from? - It's all about the admin... - I can't walk, but I'm arcane as fuck... - Wait, are we dead? - Fucking hell, Victor, have a chill! - It would have been an alright month if I hadn't died... - This has got trap written all over it... - Bliss Falls... full of shit and stinks of tramps... - Oh, he was downstairs the whole time... - Time to fire a cannon at some slags... - I know there's a war going on, but hey it's Christmas! - Do we need to apologise? - January 3rd, what the fuck is that?  

We've completed another 52 episodes! Highlights include: - Shutterbug counts for 3 losses on its own... - I can guarantee you will not get HPV from this podcast... - It seems I've created a random Season 1... - It's a record breaking year for world domination! - Ooh, what about REDACTED... - Lord of the Rings had a very good year... - John is the king of callbacks... - There's a lot of game names that get forgotten... - Will recorded his highlights from a Wetherspoons, by the sound of it... - It's STILL Riley's turn in Trickerion... - You may not be aware, but I love Legacy games! - You know that game, the one that came in a box? - Magic is not something an IP can fix... - The more goals you set yourself, the more likely you'll fail... - What is Jamaica? - Let's end the year on a brutal takedown!

Stroppy teenage dragons have found their way to Wyrmspan! Highlights include: - Let's go on a dragon walk! - If you can't find the FRAG cards, check what you played last... - One dragon will let you ride it, the other one will fuck your village... - Amanda has no regard for the spreadsheet... 

This week we're photographers trying to capture pictures of some of America's most elusive creatures! Highlights include: - What are the creatures?? Tell us their names! - There's good forest and horrid forest... - 8 rounds just doesn't seem enough... - Everything non-essential to the game looks really pretty... - Does it just not work with two players? - Is there too much smingy beige? - Are you Mike Elliott?

This week, we're back in the Dark Castle, but with three whole new Adventure Packs - will it make escape any easier? Highlights include: - The Giles intro hits harder now... - It's a game of atmospheric adventure, don't you know... - Curses. They're bad. - Shit shuffling strikes again! - Turns out the merchant is just a dickhead. He doesn't care if you have plague... - Everyone's hideous... - The abbot, he say yes!

This week, we're back in Middle Earth, trying to save the world, one trick at a time! Highlights include: - I shouldn't have been so poor last week... - Why say it's for 2 players if it doesn't really work with 2 players? - It's hard to make yourself lose... - Who is Gildor Inglorion? - Featuring non-recyclable gloss!

This week, it's the Fellowship of the Ring versus the forces of Sauron as we duel it out for control of Middle Earth! Highlights include: - Once again there's Elf/Ent confusion... - Roman soldiers? No, no no! - There needs to be more perspex in board games... - I'm like Gollum - I always go for the ring... - It's better than the 1970s...

This week our stars are well out of whack - can we get them back in alignment? Highlights include: - Sound logic, suss lore... - Ok, but why dragons? Why mice? What?? - Some questions are more useful than others... - You have to pay attention... - The tracking tokens are actually a hindrance... - What does an event horizon look like?

This week, we're rival AIs trying to compile our protocols first! Highlights include: - Mark delegates... - Turns out plague is bad... - We were stumped by control... - Mark reads the notes in the wrong order... - Just make it all shiny! - Big thanks to pants!

This week, we push our luck to see if we can flip 7 cards with no duplicates! Highlights include: - The more you say 'bust' the worse it sounds... - We need more butter... - My microphone can't work out who it's listening to... - They've made a second set but you can't combine them?? - I didn't bring the FRAG cards, so... chaos! - It was fun because it was... - And now, it's over to Will for the Replayability Report... - It all depends how quickly you bust... - What about rhinestones? - Kaydien experiences a clock related dilemma...

This week we're off to Zhana... I mean Ghana! Highlights include: - Spin battery, get smacked! - Never forget the importance of fruit bats... - If you invent a game in a different country, does it belong to that country?

This week we're off to Gambia... or is it Zambia? Highlights include: - Actually, it's THE Gambia... - I'm sorry, but WHAT island?? - Everyone knows Gs and Zs are tricky...

This week, a noble, a witch and a huntsman are trying to save a village from a terrible monster - who will meet their destiny first? Highlights include: - It 'might' be the best story driven game I've ever played... - There's no fitties, so I chose based on headwear... - Can you pour salt in somebody's wound? If not, why not? - Why isn't it just a video game? - The three main attributes of any adventurer: Fight, Clever, and... Green...

I'm back with the Americans - watch your dots! Highlights include: - Dinger brings global appeal... - Would you prefer 'that's just the game,' or 'wow you're shit?' - Riley gets bullied a lot... - I didn't eat the pencil... - The Anti-Riley Alliance fails... - The box shows so many rule breaks! - Watch out for natural slippage... - You're such a timesuck! - Do we do giveaways? - No bullshit!

This week, we're off to explore the games of Fiji! Highlights include: - They don't even have mancala! - Don't get your head shrunk!  

This week, we're trying to destroy the one ring in the fires of Mount Doom - that old chestnut! Highlights include: - Three new voices! - Nobody likes being forced to be Hitler... - I could have saved the day with Merry and Pippin... - Gollum is useless... - Watch out for Nazgul! - I forgot the dice tower...  

This week, Riley, Kimmy and I debrief on my week in Utah! Highlights include: - Riley brings sexy back... - Real life sucks after one week of magic... - Surprise surprise, there's rules... - I got to stay at Sir Ian Moss' house! - The main event of Monday was Walmart... - I taught the Americans Shithead... - What the fuck is a mangosteen? - Daybreak ruined the whole week... - Watch out for the mean chicken lady... - My week = Games, Food, Animals... - Kimmy wins the whole week!

This week, you hear the culmination of over two years' worth of Pandemic Legacy! Highlights include: - Is that how you say virologist? - We made the shittiest world imaginable... - It's Ryan or die! - Sarah loves zombies... - We have a Bratz summer! - Why can't people read my writing? - Our biggest issue was the outbreaks (not Jane) - The Babes finally get their Christmas presents! - Which disease is the least racist? - Amanda is already a hard pass on Season 2... - There are 17 different actions you can do...  

This week, the queen is having a banquet with some of the most influential families in the land. Can we use our political manipulations to see the right families in favour, or will they end up in disgrace? Highlights include: - Every good episode starts with an apology... - The best strategy is 'winning...' - I get challenged by a 4 year old... - Is it a butterfly or a moth? - Stag rhymes with slag... - Who wants to join the moth party? - Prepare for negative toadage... - It's shafting, but friendly shafting... - We had to speed run the ending because Florence woke up... - Problemato is the worst flavour of soup... - Wait, is it nobles, or... whores?

This week, we're jetting off to Eswatini! Highlights include: - It used to be Swaziland, don't you know... - Everyone knows there's half as many flags as countries, right? - Can we make a game about AIDS and low life expectancy? - Watch out for lightning! - Eddie Redmayne, and some woman... - Obviously, all game artists know each other... - Save the rhinos!

This week, we are rival magicians competing to be the most famous so we can claim the legendary Trickerion Stone! Highlights include: - Come see the Mechaniker change some oil, live on stage! - Riley takes 84 years. Each turn... - The market does not sell shit... - It's giving workshop... - Who goes to the theatre on a Thursday? - Why would you choose to play without the Dark Alley?

The crew of the AGA-0 were swarmed by Helios soldiers on Colony 9, and now find themselves inside the mysterious white light...

This week, we're checking out Eritrea... and chauvinism. Highlights include: - Let's be honest, were we really expecting anything? - Careful nobody steals your coral... - Does Africa have rainforests? - Bones O'Million years old, you say? - We're designers of Eritrean board games, not Eritrean board game designers... - Mark has been doing his regular searches for 'games with pigs on them...'

The Titan war is over and the world is in ruins - It's up to us to rebuild it, but who will get the world closest to their divine plan? Highlights include: - Pigs On Trampolines sounds cool... - Everyone knows Demeter hates water... - Jane is such a God-blocker... - Hippolyta's blessings upon you all! - Sarah is a locking machine... - I hate it when you kidnap a woman and it starts a whole war... - Have you ever been banjaxed?

This week, we're exploring a dungeon and trying to collect treasure! Highlights include: - Welcome to Ellie! - Level 3 is where the evil things live... - The Rogue: weak and cheap... - Is a hobgoblin better than a regular goblin? - Level 1 is where the sacks of gold are, and Level 2 is where the silver lives... - I get a delivery from a sullen Amazon man... - Level 6? Not worth it! - Why isn't there a cuddle trap? - I really couldn't handle the 'miss a turn' mechanic... - The rainbow dungeon is good for the brain... - Why would you stop in the chambers? - Oh, we got it wrong... - There is an element of maths...

This week, we're off to Equatorial Guinea! Highlights include: - The exact location is classified... - Why is it 400? - Service or disservice?

This week, we're exploring what El Salvador has to offer! Highlights include: - The National Anthem sounds like the William Tell Overture... - Bunty is officially my nemesis... - If you lose, you get sacrificed... - Fuck the trading cards, make a Legendary! - BGA killed Exploding Kittens...

This week, our ship has been impounded and we have to escape! Highlights include: - It's Escape The Dark Castle... IN SPACE!!! - Yeah, but what IS cunning? - Don't get tweaked... - There's lots of positive employment opportunities for women on this station... - Ooh, eggs! - Get your cybernetics out, love... - This is my first drone rodeo... - If only I'd flanked... - Where are the space fitties and the colours? - Jason Derulo!

We're keeping up our yearly tradition of being averagely skilled at puzzles - this time, we've been roped into the Intergalactic Race, where the winner gets to be in charge of Christmas celebrations for ever!

It's the best Christmas gift of all! A trip to The Dominican Republic! Highlights include: - No Santo Domingo for you! - Hope you all had a lovely Nocho Buena! 

This week, we're off to Dominica to for a quick stop! Will there be any games? Highlights include: - Did you mean The Dominican Republic? - Mark gets a parcel... - Listen to us or else we'll make a game about you... - Alicante better get ready for Wetherspoons...

Our heroes have regrouped after their various exploits, when an exciting discovery is announced on the GalaxyNet. Could some mysterious seeds on Colony 9 hold the key to finding another Eternian?

Tired of living a miserable life, ridiculed by everyone and bullied because of your epic loser status? Well get some revenge by turning your life around. With dice. Highlights include: - It's Shut The Box but with cards... - The explanation is hard to say, and hard to listen to... - 2 is not a good roll... - Complicated or convoluted? - It IS a game... - It could have any theme, or indeed, no theme... - All that faff for maybe 2 points...

This week, we're continuing our spurious world tour with a visit to Djibouti! Highlights include: - Mark found the Pokemon game! - Britain: The Board Game... can you put up your racist flags before they get taken down? - The Congo confusion continues...

This week we're jetting off to Cyprus to see what's cracking. Highlights include: - Why is backgammon there? - You know what would make a fun game? That war we had that one time... - Watch out for AI! - Who the fuck is Lorna?

This week, we're off to Cuba! Highlights include: - Prepare for a Congo addendum... - Would you go and live with aliens for a week? - Tabletopia is bad enough without being in a different language... - It's basically just war and crime... - Shh! Don't tell the Yanks...

This week we're taking a quick visit to the Ivory Coast. Highlights include: - Eklan: Important enough for stamps, but not for anyone to remember how to play it... - 10 minutes is the target... - They're all airbenders!

This week we're exploring The Congo - but do they actually have any games? Highlights include: - There is immediately some Congo confusion... - Now you can find ghosts in Leicester... - Did Mark get his cardigan from The Congo? - Tintin was a dick when he was in The Congo...

Our crew is split - while Jack waits on Whitelaw for Brink's mysterious collectors to arrive, Neutron, Meredith and Merlin find themselves guests of the Monotan King...

It's been 84 years, but Teens In Space is back! Our heroes have two more Eternians to collect, but can they bust Onec and Acropho out of Whitelaw before it's too late?

This week, we're sneaky cheaty mages, betting on creatures fighting in an arena - morally questionable? Probably! Highlights include: - Moo takes the reins! - Dispel magic!!!! - I instantly forgot every bet I made... - Surely it's not possible to keep track of everything? - More monsters please... - The art can only be described as 'medieval tapestry.' - It's crumble time!

This week, we found an old board game buried in the mud on a building site. Oh, and it was locked in a chest. No red flags there, right? Highlights include: - Pat only watched Jumanji for the first time scarily recently... - It has all the riddles except the one everyone wants to hear... - You can meet such jungle animals as lion, cheetah, crocodile, monkey, and... bird? - What rhymes with hippos? - There a few potential game breaks...

This week, we're stacking cats to try and build the highest tower without collapse! Highlights include: - There are some discrepancies between the box and the rules... - You can't refer to your wife as a tool... - Does repeated folding make them better or worse? - The tokens don't match, and in fact are a bit rubbish... - There's too many cat games! - Shall we add swans? - Meriel has all the copyrights... 

This week, Bunty and I try to recreate an RPG/Dice rolling situation round London! Highlights include:  - All credit to John! - Nothing deters pickpockets like being a huge nerd... - 20 seconds is not long enough to look at a map... - I chickened out of 'charming' the ice cream girl... - What does basil smell like? - Museum Lady disapproval! - Don't forget, rivers turn corners... - We managed to choose a day when we were both ill or injured... - Luckily, we didn't end up at the airport...

This week, we're testing our extremely limited James Bond knowledge! Highlights include: - No explanation necessary... - I hope you like bad Louis Armstrong impressions... - What do you mean, you've never heard of Fisherman's Wharf? - The strategy is... know stuff.

Exploding Kittens, but with more headgear! Highlights include: - We try to do a Giles... - Who can look the stupidest? - What exactly is a barking kitten? - If it helps, it's wipe clean...

This week, we're back in the Oniverse, trying to balance the good dreams and the bad dreams, so everyone can get a good night's sleep! Highlights include: - Sorry, who exactly am I? - It's census time! - Balancing equations: The game... - Have you accepted chaos into your life? - It's a lot of effort just to look at it... - There's seven expansions, if you fancy it? - What colour is this door?

This week, it's a classic battle of capture the flag! Highlights include: - 200 games! - I accidentally blocked myself in with bombs... - So many tactics! - Face the wrath of Admiral No-Waist! - I have 20/20 eyeshite...

This week, the Doctor battles Missy across time and space and... magic? Highlights include: - I would have loved 'Magic Club...' - You can only play this if you already know how... - Everyone knows the basic elements: Earth, Water... Forest? - Stuck for a strategy? Just drive a tank into them! - It's the harsh reality of space combat... - That is a WIDE hand... - Mark can't fold leaflets... - What's the opposite of 'win?'

This week, we must band together to save Sunnydale from The Master! Highlights include: - Does anybody know Anthony Stewart Head? - There are many Arkham Horror comparisons... - The town is overrun with vampires? Never mind, have a cake... - Xander: 25% more go! - It has an interesting checkanism... - Ah shit, we accidentally traded the Glove of Myhnegon... - Musical interlude! - How to kill literally any boss: Go there. Hit him. - Sorry, I can't help right now, I'm currently evil... - Omg did you see Spike's makeup? Such a bad blend... - We get some last minute technical issues...

This week, we've been sentenced to some serious time in Alcatraz- hate it when that happens! But, don't worry, there's a plan to escape -IF we can work together and avoid being the scapegoat! Highlights include: - Barry Scott and Kevin Bacon have actually nothing to do with this episode... - Harry goes off on so many tangents... - Shout out to Poland! - It's the harsh reality of prison life... - I'm so proud of the term 'Goaty Votey.' - That well known prison feature, The Sniffage Room... - The more people that play, the more people there are to pick on you... - Have you ever seen a smoking goat?