Organised Fun

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, Gandhi no! - You can't kill your own mother! - W...

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?

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?

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 tangent - Did Forbidden Planet exist in 1350?

I did something extremely uncharacteristic and entered a game design contest! Find out how it goes!

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 cuff - 8 year olds should be able to count to 5

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 pandemic

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 salad

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 - The tragic tale of the Small Laboratory...

Riley joins us for our next design challenge - games that can fit on a single playing card! But will the limitations prove too much? Highlights include: - Mark almost does an infinite dice roll - Together, Mark and Riley become a teacher's worst nightmare - Wait... Maths? - What is the Mac equivalent of Paint? - Ever wanted to have a staring contest but not known how? We can help! - It's Beetle Dr...

After escaping Fraxia Beta, the crew of the AGA-0 take a much needed break at The Space Bar...

This week, we play around with ChatGPT - can it make a convincing boardgame? How does it know what a boardgame even is? Is it actual magic? Highlights include: - Dinosaurs? They're so 90s Germany - I'd actually play Nightmare Manor - It knows all the buzzwords - Roll It To 5... otherwise known as Yahtzee - Aqua Doodle Challenge sounds well shit - Keep rolling those dice, strategising those moves,...

The court is in session as we attempt to solve your gaming dilemmas! Highlights include: - Judge Judy gets quite a lot of airtime - Not sponsored by McDonald's, honest - Fictional Derek takes a bashing - Most of these problems can be solved by simply uninviting the undesirable guest - Sometimes you just need to be a bit harsh, and sometimes you need to just chill out - If you need to confront some...

We have to get the ring to Mordor before we're overwhelmed by its corruption - watch out for goblins! Highlights include: - Gutted for the Diana Jones award - Get ready for Welsh - Sarah doesn't know who anybody is - Check out that field though! - Dead grandma banter - There's some disgusting goblin racism - Turns out in a co-op game, we actually have to work together - We're all agreed, we don't...

We play 26 games in a row - one for every letter of the alphabet! Highlights include: - They didn't know the time in the olden days - We try and stick to gaming par - Hostage Negotiator becomes Hostage Murderer - International Rescue can only help you once they've rolled a 6 - We show the harsh contrast between set up time and play time - Shadi Torbey gets an official apology - A 15 year old could...

We're back on Fireball Island! Highlights include: - Strap in for some cool ice puns - The island gets bastardy - Would you rather be permanently injured, or lose some treasure? - We spend a considerable amount of time discussing 'Model Railway: The Board Game' - I can't get used to saying X instead of Twitter

This time our battle rages across the Dreamlands - watch out for Zoogs! Highlights include: - Why would you even go to the Underworld? - The Bhole... sounds shit - I can't wait to DICER this game - Can you make a board game out of ice? Why has nobody done this? - This is the Playmobil of board games - Mark doesn't care whether he's invading a country or a library

After taking a direct hit to the engines and leaving Jack behind on Fraxia Beta, the crew of the AGA-0 are forced to make some hasty repairs!

A light-hearted boardgame with a fatal curse... can we solve the mystery of The Ghost in the Attic? Highlights include: - Anybody for Cribbage? - We wasted the first ten minutes because I can't read - Who the fuck is Alice Brooks? - You could wrap this back up and give it to someone else... but I won't - You get a whole bonus game to play! - Yeah, but what *is* an armillary sphere? - Beware the fr...

5 years! Here we look back on the last 12 months of Organised Fun! Highlights include: - Turns out 41 is a prime number - I get proper obsessed with the H-Index - Bad news for Derek Ring fans (he's not dead though) - Losing your fingers: probably not a dream come true - Quite often, when you buy something, you know what it is - Thoughts and prayers for Anneka Rice's washing machine - The girls are...

The flat gets trashed as we compete to complete random tasks! Highlights include: - Things may get untidy - It's my new obsession - What would you sacrifice in the name of the game? - Can you rediscover gravity? - 'Fish out of water: Everything is connected' - Meet Rory the Toilet Septopus - Word types cause way more trouble than expected - Americans! Have you heard of this?

We join the crew of the AGA-0 on a routine job, delivering a birthday gift for a Fraxis commander's daughter, but all is not as it seems... 

We scratch off a poster that lists 100 board games that they think you should play! Highlights include: - Vietnam: It's the best thing since Saudi Arabia - What's your tally? - Gaia from Captain Planet probably doesn't have her own board game - Why Birmingham? - Most board games just seem to be 'where can we build a civilisation?' - Did they make a board game about a cruise ship disaster? - Where...

We start the final game in our Renegade RPG series, Teens In Space! How will it compare to Bikes and Brooms? Highlights include: - We hear lots more celebrities and fictional characters for game night! - Will Riley ever shut up? - Bunty's character gets right slated - We love a good pressure gauge...

It's the sequel to last week's minisode, and this time we're inviting fictional characters to our game night! Who will have cultivated the best guest list? Highlights include: - Anneka Rice drops us a tweet - We're so predictable that we doubled up again - Ian Malcolm vs Sherlock Holmes - Sherlock could probably win Cluedo on the first turn -Have you ever played a game with a fictional character?...