Organised Fun

This week, we're farmers who seem to be lacking all the basic animals for our farms. Tch! Now it's a race to buy the relevant creatures from the market... on market day! Highlights include: - We basically enabled a new Fluxx set - Everyone knows Wingdings sounds like junk falling down the stairs - Are beauty contests offensive now? - Would you rather paint a mural, or pick up dog shit? - Ladies ca...

The jungle of Jumanji is full of dangers, but will they stop us from achieving our goal? Highlights include: - It's a creeperless affair - Where's Nick Jonas? - When did board games get so woke? - Starring The Rock/Greg Wallace/Dara O'Briain - The losing streak continues - What do fonts sound like?

Who's the most knowledgeable on horror, or are we both intro-kill shitness? Highlights include: - Mark can't say 'pursuit' - Purple > Brown - There's nothing like a game of Trivial Pursuit to highlight how shit you are - John Moore! - There's a strange opinion of what constitutes a comedy - Purple = Pink - And now for the impressions round!

A ritual to summon one of the great old ones has successfully been completed, spilling all sorts of eldritch shit out into the Miskatonic campus. But don't worry, there's still one final chance to reverse it! Highlights include: - The odds against us are astronomical! - It's Arkham, so you know what you're getting - The box is a bit of a liar - It's all about the priority cards - It's a bit of a t...

A wizard and a crone, desperately searching for mysterious items in an ever changing maze of twisting paths and dead ends! Highlights include: - Prepare for a multiple Ravensburger tangents - Nothing to do with Bowie - Nothing to do with burgers either - I get distracted by Hocus Pocus - By the time you listen to this, I will have already bought Market Day - You literally need no knowledge to play...

Some evil douchebag is on his way to pillage the Isle of Cats, so it's up to us to rescue as many of the inhabitants as possible! There's just one problem - how to fit them all in? Highlights include: - Mark's in charge! - Watch out, your sister is mean - It's basically cat-tetris - Obviously, cats can't go through walls - This is my child, Polyomino - Mark's approach to unboxing a game has raised...

Various locations in the world of Harry Potter are being beset by magical miscreants, and it's up to us to use our deck-building skills to kick them into oblivion! Highlights include: - For some reason, Mark can't say 'Ron Weasley' - Nothing says romance like forcing your other half to play board games - It's Valentine's Day, let's have a fight - Spells are the guns of the Harry Potter world - If...

The Great Old Ones are at it again, this time battling for control of Yuggoth... which is actually Pluto, would you believe? It's a new map, but is it a game changer? Highlights include: - Mark doesn't know who he is - Is it a place or is it a monster? - Mark generally struggles to comprehend things - it's like he's in a Lovecraft novel of his very own... - There's slime, but I wouldn't go out of...

The excitement is palpable as the Blue Eels take on the Lower Granfeld Elks - but will the mysterious goings on bring trouble to the game?

The cities of the world (all of them) are in crisis! Their only hope is for us to fly our super plane round there and deliver the necessary supplies in a rapid fashion. What could go wrong? Highlights include: - Sand timers are notoriously silent - There's no time for fannying about - The world has more than 25 cities - Karachi is alright, but everywhere else is fucked! - We don't know flags. Or g...

One of our relatives has gone missing, and all we're left with is a bunch of mysterious and monstrous clues - but which one of us can be in possession of the most important clue by the end? Highlights include: - Just in case you were wondering, there's only one rulebook - What's more important, winning or staying sane? - Mark actually did some strategy! - There's always insanity - If board games w...

Where am I? You're in the Knightmare Board Game! It's a race to reach Merlin, but can we involve the various traps and bastardry? Highlights include: - Mark takes the lead! - Who wants to climb Merlin's 'throne'? - That's the room where that stupid kid fell off a bridge - Back in the 80s nobody gave a fuck about plastic - Half way through, we were like 'Oh, strategy.' - Warning team! - Falsehood!...

A 29 game campaign comes to an end, and the deck we finish with is nothing like the one we started with! Permanent changes mean our Sopio Legacy deck is unique to us - go Popcorn! Highlights include: - The game was heralded in by a totally shit Whoopi Goldberg movie - Massive spoiler alert! - It's all about the popcorn - There's probably a bastard deck out there - What's more important, opening se...

We've fallen through the back of a wardrobe and ended up in 1988 with the Chronicles of Narnia game. Can we reassemble parts of the story or will the White Witch get the better of us? Highlights include: - You WILL watch Narnia NOW!! - The only Narnian thing are the pictures - The whole 4 series, and they managed to ignore most of the main characters and events - It's an epic quest for Jill Pole's...

Sean makes an interesting trip to the Budget Mart, Jerry and Deputy Montgomery hatch a plan, Janice is back at the Fun Palace with Sandy, and Tyler has another illuminating chat with Wesley...

It's been a month since all that nasty Temperence Society business, but the mystery is far from over. Who was Hortense Mondegreen working for? Is the new Bluesburg Fun Palace on the straight and narrow? Will Tyler ever publish his book?

Lucien LeBleu is alive and Hortense Mondegreen's plan is finally revealed! Can our heroes defeat the Temperance Society and restore order to Bluesburg?

The engines are revving, the checkered flag is waving, and the stage is set - hopefully Dick Dastardly won't sabotage us as we play Wacky Races! Highlights include: - Women invented chocolate chip cookies - A bit of technical beepery (apologies!) - Third time's a charm for Mark's box reading - Are boards no longer cool? - Everyone knows the four terrain types: forest, desert, farm, and... purple -...

A shocking news report brings Blueberry Brewery down, but don't worry! Conveniently there's a brand new beer ready to take its place. Is the timing a little too perfect? And what exactly is in the tunnels beneath the brewery?

We're back in the realm of Star... Realms, except this time, instead of just us regular plebs in charge, we've got some actual Commanders! Will it be enough to make a difference? Highlights include: - You're a blob destroyer - Mark attempts to change the order of things - The points system offends Mark - We forgot all about the gambit cards - Mark's opinion has changed! - You never separate an exp...

We try our hands at crafting fairytales - but with each of us striving to achieve a certain ending, who can finish the story first? Highlights include: - Mark finds the bumf, or is it just the rules? - And the giant rat was actually his beloved... - Mark just reads out cards for fun - Who could forget the red furry cottage? - I need a queen, a wizard and a tomb - Don't eat roast shitty-beast - Pro...

We're back in the Oniverse this week, building airships for... some reason. As usual though, there's many obstacles in our way, like metal clouds, hourglasses and a kite. An angry fucking kite. Highlights include: - Error, box! - I struggled to create a narrative - It's well Shadi - It's the nightmare version of Yahtzee - There's a game in there somewhere - It's not the Oniverse's style to have wo...

Psycho space-douche, the Evil Power Master, is threatening the Lacoonian system and could be hiding on any of the nine planets. It's up to the heroic members of Rapid Force to track him down and kick his ass! Highlights include: - It's rad! - Fuck congress! - There's a potential tits out situation - Fallopian Rocket Fuel? God knows what that's made of... - So much purple - Killed by cupcakes, tch!...

Something suspicious is happening with Blueberry Brewery's delivery trucks - the only solution is to follow them and see what secrets can be uncovered...

As our heroes continue to investigate the strange goings on, they discover that the local beer might contain a secret ingredient...