One gamer, one hater, tons of board games - who will win?
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This week we're talking about all things Belarus! Highlights include: - 'Belarusian Travelling' is it real? - It sounds like it's more fun to be a boy in Belarus than a girl in Belarus... - Marxists... IN SPACE! - A long time ago in a gallery far, far away...על ידי organisedfun
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Teens In Space Chapter 9 - Assault On The Mines
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The crew of the AGA-0 venture into the Crystal Mines to liberate them from Slinger control, all so they can find out about the waste product that's been polluting Aquaria... but where's Merlin?על ידי organisedfun
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Expansion 21 - Cthulhu Wars Infiltrator
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We're back fighting for territory with giant monsters, this time with The Infiltrator and the Mists of Mogoroth! Highlights include: - Board games are good for cuddles! - Audio Adventures do exist! Mark wasn't hallucinating! - BAHRAIN!!!! - The Infiltrator... basically if Death was a goblin... - Don't get lost in the fog... - Usual manufacturing wo…
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Teens In Space Chapter 8 - Priorities
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The crew meet back at The Space Bar after their adventures on Nestes and Colony 9, with new paths opening up as the mysteries of the galaxy unfold. What's more important? Solving the mystery of Aquaria's waters, investigating the destruction of Forgia, or something else entirely?על ידי organisedfun
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Minisode 50 - The Museum Of Board Games
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This week, Jane and I visit Tony Boydell's Museum of Board Games and have a right good time! Highlights include: - Board games basically just make you a better person... - Don't confuse Newent and Newnham... - Prepare for Battle Hats! - If you play the original Booby Trap, you'll legit lose a finger... - There's a surprising amount of parliament ga…
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This week we have been mostly talking about Bahrain. Highlights include: - We set a new progress record on Apollo! - Next week, we pretend we're in a house... - Bahrain has a Virgin Megastore. Fact.על ידי organisedfun
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This week, Riley joins us as we try and pick definitive games for certain categories - but how to choose? Highlights include: - We are so in synch for Deckbuilding and Worker Placement! - Area Control... where you have to... control... areas? - Someone Uno-Reversed my whatever... - Who's laying all the eggs? - Auction? What?? - Some categories are …
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This week, we're off to The Bahamas! Highlights include: - If you live in The Bahamas, you're not going to be indoors playing board games... - I was expecting pirates... - Taxis aren't exactly Bahamas specific... - There are sheep in The Bahamas... - Game designer, or Footballer? - What has Mark spotted this week?…
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It's our 6th anniversary! Huzzah! Highlights include: - Audio games - do they actually exist? - Rest assured, Derek Ring is still alive! - Pick N Mix is in the post... - Schrodinger's Cats is a cat game too far... - Mark gets confused between real and imaginary... - How exactly do you say duchy? - We need some listeners from Genovia... - Is Narnia …
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What wonderful games does Azerbaijan have to offer? Highlights include: - Surely Israel has more important things to do than listen to us... - Mark can't say 'Azerbaijan' - Would you rather play 'Hounds and Jackals' or '58 Holes?' - Mark also can't read numerals... - Backgammon players are held in very high regard... - Hang on, these are all the sa…
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Teens In Space Chapter 7 - Murky Waters
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Trying to solve the pollution problem on Aquaria has led the crew of the AGA-0 to a murdered scientist on Psionus. Now they must face some difficult decisions that will put their morals to the test...על ידי organisedfun
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We're off to Armenia to see what their gaming sitch is! Highlights include: - Pigs Vs Dogs... - I'm sure Mark said 'cinnamons' instead of 'synonyms...' - Maybe we won't go to Armenia right now...על ידי organisedfun
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Have you heard? The Fairchilds have moved to Derbyshire, and they're the most eligible, marriageable people of the land! Can we lure them to our family estates and show them a jolly good time? Highlights include: - Beware, there's accents... - Hey, I know you just lost your parents, but... wanna bang? - If you don't plan the Village Fair, you don't…
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Episode 175 - Monopoly Socialism
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It's Monopoly, but not as we know it! Can we keep our utopian society alive without bankrupting it with our horrible horrible greed? Highlights include: - What the hell is a typewriter voice? - Can't afford it? The community will pay! - Quinoa! - Remove a chip... - Extreme disappointment in McDonalds... - It's difficult to switch to co-op mode... -…
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Episode 174 - Horizons Of Spirit Island
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Pesky colonisers have arrived on our sacred island - I hate it when that happens! Luckily, we're all-powerful spirits with a range of abilities to get rid of these interlopers, but can we do it before they wreck the island forever with their filthy filthy blight? Highlights include: - Ecosystem: Go big or go extinct... - As usual, we ignore all pla…
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Episode 173 - Ecosystem Coral Reef
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We're building ecosystems again, but this time under the sea with fish and that. Highlights include: - My underwater utopia didn't win me any prizes... - Fish count as nature! - Bears are NOT a British woodland creature... - Plankton floats, right? - Ellen Macarthur should play this so she knows what she's sailing through...…
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Teens In Space Chapter 6 - Directionless
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Leesan is gone, the Fraxis are causing trouble, the pollution on Aquaria is reaching crisis point, and weird creatures are turning up all over the place - what will the crew of AGA-0 do?על ידי organisedfun
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Minisode 48 - A Listener's Journey
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This week we are joined by John, who has listened to our entire back catalogue over a couple of months... and survived! We talk through his listener's journey! Highlights include: - Atmosfear: The Bins... - Go back 25 paces... - Chess 2000: don't be fooled... - Redemption City of Bondage actually looks pretty cool! - It's NOT a doorbell!…
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Countrybait 5 - Antigua And Barbuda
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We're off to the Caribbean (I think) to try and entice some new listeners! But what does Antigua and Barbuda have to offer? Highlights include: - I did bad maths... - Another country, another Mancala variant... - Did the Queen play Warri? - Mark starts laying into a game we haven't even played...על ידי organisedfun
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Episode 172 - Schrodinger's Cats
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A load of boxes in Schrodinger's lab... Can we hypothesise how many contain alive or dead cats, or are completely empty? Highlights include: - Neither of us can purr... - Prepare for a very rudimentary explanation of Schrodinger... - I make some fundamental errors in gameplay... - What is the point of this game? - Bootstrap Bill, you're a liar! - T…
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Welcome to the hottest reality show in town, Room 25! Watch some dirty scummers try and escape a complex filled with horrendous booby traps before time runs out! Hooray! Highlights include: - French translation issues ahoy! - It's basically Cube: The Game... - What the fuck game is Sub Zero?? - Special powers? Hard pass! - Jennifer loves a good vor…
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We are amateur dracologists trying to lure dragons into our caves. Do we have the meat? Highlights include: - Are you an Upgrader? - Machi Koro: Monopoly without the hatred... - Beware of box-farts... - The box gets a bit sensual... - Never approach a Loyal Fey Dragon with red wings... - First or nothing! - Meet Little Miss Five-Egg... - Amanda bec…
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Minisode 47 - Figure Painting Challenge
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This week, Mark and I have competed in a challenge to paint a game figure each - despite our limited experience/talent. Highlights include: - Don't say 'targeted.' - Mark can't get his head round Games Workshop and Warhammer... - Games Workshop plus Hornby Railways = the perfect combination! - Coming soon: Painting Legacy! - Here's my picture, by W…
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Guess what? This week, we're coming for Angola! Highlights include: - We keep getting new territories, but not the ones we've targeted! - Marbles: not for boys, apparently... - I can't remember, or in fact find, Space Alert... - Angolan war, no thanks. Space war? Monster war? Yes please!על ידי organisedfun
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This week, can we lure some listeners from Andorra? Highlights include: - In case you didn't know, Andorra is the 6th smallest state in Europe... - Andorra may or may not have its own games industry... - Andorra and Legends of Andor are not the same...על ידי organisedfun
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This week we try and lure in some Albanians! Highlights include: - We may not have got Afghanistan, but we got Korea! - Heritage games... a new category? - Naturally, the Balkan wars dominate Albania themed games... - It's hypothetically Albanian... - Is it a board game, or just a war newspaper?על ידי organisedfun
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This week, we attempt to lure in the listeners of Afghanistan! Highlights include: - Games in Afghanistan seem like non-stop pranks! - Kite Fighting!!! - That well known Afghanistan themed board game, Rambo! - We learn some history with Pax Pamir... - Afghanistan is not where I thought it was... - Here's my new BFF, William Hay MacNaghton...…
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This week, we try to work out another game, but this time it's on Tabletopia, where there is no rules help whatsoever! Can we figure something out? Highlights include: - Tabletopia proves to be just as intuitive as ever... - No matching results... - Pick a random hand size... - How do we get more cards? - We actually got a lot of things correct! - …
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This week, we make the bold assumption that we know enough about games that we should be able to work one out without reading the rules. Highlights include: - Mark still can't say the motto... - Surely we've got all the countries by now? - But why does the hexagon change? - Building buildings seems like a good thing to do... - I completed two missi…
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Teens In Space Chapter 5 - Fraxian Standoff
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In the pine forests of Colony 9, our heroes find themselves held at gunpoint by a suspicious Reborn, a debt-collecting Monotan and a vengeful Fraxis - Can they talk or fight their way out?על ידי organisedfun
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This week, we're raiding a temple for a priceless artifact - watch out for booby traps, the locals, and of course, a giant volcanic eruption! Highlights include: - Are we the bad guys? - Can you hear the baby? - Welcome to the Precarea! - Templus Non-Cromulus... - If you're an explorer, wear a fedora...…
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Mark is blasting off into space, while I monitor things from Mission Control... what could go wrong? Highlights include: - Thank god NASA did it better than we did... - We hope you like NASA facts... - I didn't know Gnasher did space missions? - 1/5 of the mission complete is fine, right? - We were basically Challenger... - Do you want to make a sp…
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This week, we're hapless writers, trying to get our movies optioned by the studio. Can we win the prestigious yet dubious awards whilst at the same time factoring in the bizarre requests from the studio execs? Highlights include: - Anti-clockwise???? - Podcast trip to Uzbekistan! - Would you rather an unknown plot, or an unknown character? - Theseu…
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It's a game of cat and mouse, but can the fugitive reach home base before the marshal tracks him down? Highlights include: - I am lacking in deduction and wit... - Nought/Zero, Zed/Zee, Aitch/Haitch... whatever! - Counting is hard... - You actually need to be intelligent to be the marshal... - It's Marsha the Marshal! - If you're careful, you can p…
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Range based trivia... how confident are you that you're correct, and will you score big because of it? Highlights include: - Bunty's phone is blowing up because she's so popular... - 9 years old? - Copy, Swap or Double? - How many countries are there in the world? - Forget Gareth Thomas, how long would it take us to do an Iron Man challenge? - How …
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How close can you put a magnetic stone next to another magnetic stone without them sticking together? Highlights include: - Don't eat the magnets, even though you want to! - Neodymium, ooh! - Everyone knows bigger magnets are more magnetty... - 24 is a perfect number... - Beautiful stones surrounded by a bit of coat... - Little kittens are distract…
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Minisode 44 - Exit Advent Calendar 3
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It's that time of year again, where you get to hear us bumble through some Exit puzzles in an attempt to save Christmas!על ידי organisedfun
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This week, we aim to get to the bottom of the ultimate question: which pet shat on the floor? Highlights include: - Any poo mentioned is strictly 'in game' - Memory. Speed. Poo. - Cat, gerbil, rabbit - all the same, innit... - Sarah's manicure gives her an unfair advantage... - No lady should leave home without a turd in a box - Dobble: like snap b…
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This week, we discuss all things homebrewed! Highlights include: - Sometimes rules are just bad and need changing... - What if you break the game forever? - What exactly goes on in Vermont? - Don't mix real expansions with fan-made ones, please! - Codenames: Duet? Thank the fans! - I made a fan expansion out of malicious intent...…
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Expansion 20 - Jurassic World Legacy Of Isla Nublar Chaos Mode
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I've homebrewed an expansion for my favourite legacy game - using as many of the previous bits as possible! Highlights include: - Pat ate a sheep's head - Why wouldn't you have all the dinosaurs? - Have I unbalanced the game? Does it matter? - Sometimes you visit Jurassic Park and it's fun. Sometimes though, people die - Listen up, Prospero Hall! -…
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Two rival houses warring against each other for control of the land, which just so happens to be watched over by a huge angry dragon. Hate it when that happens! Highlights include: - It's the first game we can't actually pronounce... - What is Qoam anyway? - A dragon is basically a fantasy WMD - My lair has layers...…
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This week, we're faced with multiple dilemmas of trolley murder. Who can make the best moral arguments between increasingly ridiculous options? Highlights include: - You can't cull games from someone else's collection... - Amanda keeps her games hidden, like she's embarrassed or something? - Knowing someone is not the same as liking someone... - Oh…
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Minisode 42 - Culling Boardgames
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Don't panic! But we discuss why you might, whether we have, and would we regret culling boardgames! Highlights include: - You can't move house every time you run out of shelf space - There's some shocking revelations for Mark - Monopoly causes an argument - Do you collect or curate?על ידי organisedfun
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Teens In Space Chapter 4 - Going Postal
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Just another day's work for our crew - delivering post/hunting a bounty on Colony 9, planet of the Reborn! What could go wrong, right?על ידי organisedfun
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Team PJJ are back, and this time we're trying to escape the plague ridden town of Bristol on an apple cart. As you do. Highlights include: - Overview! - The Chandler: one of the lowest ranking citizens of Bristol - It's simple: get to the front and stay at the front - Time for a cart party - I feel sorry for the chickens - We go on a bardcore tange…
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Minisode 41 - Chance And Counters Game Jam
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I did something extremely uncharacteristic and entered a game design contest! Find out how it goes!על ידי organisedfun
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Matt joins us IRL for some backstabbing traitorous card action - sadly, Claudia Winkleman is not included. Highlights that ARE included: - False Business Alarm - Apologies to anyone called Barbara... - Everyone likes killing Meriel - You don't want to out yourself as a murderer - Prepare to have your faith in humanity destroyed - Matt FRAGs off the…
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Diseases are spreading across the world, and pretty soon they'll be too entrenched for humanity to survive - luckily there's a dispatcher and an operations expert ready to save the day. (They did not save the day) Highlights include: - Featuring the well known 'Ugh Mechanic' - Tokyo exploded - And now, it's the shittery phase - The game itself is a…
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This week, we're turning our hand to farming - but can we harvest a crop of lovely cabbages before those bloody cows trample all over them? Highlights include: - This episode is udderly delightful - Nobody wants to play Mark's games... - Hong Kong: it's a mystery - One cow ruins the cabbage saladעל ידי organisedfun
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Episode 156 - Theseus The Dark Orbit
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A desolate space station, drifting through space - are we going to try and fix it? No of course not, we're fighting each other, obviously! Highlights include: - I forgot to tell the girls the name of the game - We learn all about apostrophes - Good job nobody got penetrated by the Greys - The Marines will win. End of. - Guns are better than Science…
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