Organised Fun

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...

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...

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...

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 R...

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 adv...

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 mea...

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...

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 sla...

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......

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 the...

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