Organised Fun

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 games... -  Hello dear, fancy a game of Ulcers?

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.

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 extremely suspect... - What the hell is an elapsed...

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? 

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 a country?

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 same wars as Armenia! - Turns out Bali isn't a count...

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...

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...

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 benefit from it. Fact. - I wasn't good enough to...

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... - What's with all the roses?

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 playing advice... - Unhelpful rulebook alert! - Why d...

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...

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?

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!

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...

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! - The cats are NOT cute!

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 vortex… - Sometimes it just gets to ‘fuck it’ time…

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 becomes the FRAG Dictator... - Dragons>Birds - The...

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 William, age 2 1/2... - Full credit to the employee...

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!

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...

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?

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...

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! - Mark still doesn't know the difference between spa...

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 missions by accident... - Coffee pots and bird feeders...