Organised Fun

The world as we know it has ended, humanity is done for, and ancient evils walk the earth, vying for supremacy. Who will win the Cthulhu Wars? Highlights include: - Fuck the environment and fuck homeless people! - If Sandy Petersen is such a great game designer, why does he need Kickstarter? - What is Sandy short for? - We work ourselves into a dead end with an epic strategy fail - Mark kills ever...

Be a winner at The Game Of Life, find a job and money maybe, get married, have a baby, take a chance, find romance, all your dreams may come true! Highlights include: - You get a boner from egg and cress sandwiches - Mark really can't say the motto - Marriage is compulsory - Mark is a humourless wretch - I'm not sold on the spinner - We fail at maths - We had pretty good lives, but never actually...

We've woken up in an abandoned hospital with no recollection of how we got there, or what's going on. All we've got to go on is this podcast episode! Will we solve the mysteries of the Coma Ward? Highlights include: - I get my words wrong - Mark destroys Meriel's game categories - Hooray! Zack and Albert both survive! - The last thing you want is to flash your junk whilst running through the hospi...

We enrol in the Grand Academy of Magic so we can train as kick ass Battle Mages! We've chosen our best spells, but who will win? Highlights include: - Mark's wizard sounds like an STD - 69% of people can't be trusted - I've been practicing my letters - Mark blames his poor spell choices on me - It's Epic PvP, but done well

We assemble a team of brave investigators to once more try and rescue the town of Arkham from unspeakable horror, in the original 1987 release! Highlights include: - We get a second Hater! - Every Monopoly cloud has a Game of Life silver lining - We lamely attempt to pass the Bechdel test - Dilettante? Debutante? Whatever! - It's all a bit brisk - It's not a maths podcast - Finally, someone says t...

In this Minisode, we discuss game genres and classifications! How do you know what you're getting, and how do you choose? Highlights include: - I finally won something on Arkham Horror The Card Game - Mark confuses Guatemala with Guantanamo Bay - Board Games? Crystal Maze? Same thing innit - Knowing things is a skill - Coming soon to a games shop near you - Horror of the Whatevers - I use a horren...

Prepare the away team and get your red shirts on as we play Star Trek Fluxx! Highlights include: - We get a new pet hate... - I get shitty with Hasbro - You're in for some quality sound effects... - Who is Christine Chapel?? - Mark makes some controversial ranking choices...

We're on a train speeding across Europe and there's been a murder! The detective solving the case has gone missing and now it's down to us to solve the crime and escape. Oh, and we're locked in, obviously. We need an exit, pronto! Highlights include: - I have to say hello to everybody - I do a half arsed job at box reading - #exitstrategies - Mark doesn't know the difference between Spades and Clu...

Eat some mushrooms and force yourself down a pipe to collect shiny coins - sounds like a typical day on a council estate, but it's not, it's Monopoly Gamer! Highlights include: - It's bad news for Derek Ring - Old people can design games too - I lose the ability to speak coherently, and I wasn't even drinking this week! - Mark is a coin grabbing bastard - Luigi is the shit brother - You get to hea...

We take to the clouds, harnessing the lightning in an attempt to wire up a rocket launch pad... as you do! Join us as we play Forbidden Sky! Try not to get blown off... Highlights include: - Apologies to Ryan Miller - your name is common - Luke Peterschmidt is more popular than Derek Ring - We get interrupted by a random rocket launch - According to Mark, America owns the internet - Cassie admits...

Join us for a shufflebuilding battle of epic proportions. It's the Halfling Rogues versus the Orc Barbarians, but in the end, does it really matter? Highlights include: - I get multilingual - Listener Cassie has been on the blower again - Mark refuses to drink Brandy Milk Punch - We fail the Bechdel test - There's some box inconsistency - I sound like a Hater - Mark declares this is the worst one...

Join us for our first Expansion - We'll be seeing if adding a load of cocks makes a difference to Bears Vs Babies! Highlights include: - Cassie gets a challenge - God bless the Christians - I retract a flashback - Saying NSFW repeatedly is really difficult - Some of the bears now have tits

So we finally did it! Joined by special guests Patrick, Glen and Lee, we play Epic Drinking Fluxx with all the corresponding drinks and snacks.... did we survive the horror? High(low)lights include: - Mark gets listener criticism - Nobody wants to argue over a wheelbarrow or a twatty cannon - Mark persistently forgets how to play, and acts incredulous about literally everything - The Shiraz has no...

In this Minisode, we discuss the use of Kickstarter as a platform for board game creation. We get Patrick's expert opinion, because we literally know nothing! Highlights include: - We mess up the intro - Format change! - Too bad Canada doesn't have its own language - The Kickstarter baby is an ugly twat - What if you back something and then die? - Fucking Chinese New Year! - Wingardium Leviosa?

Strange phone calls in the middle of the night? Weird dreams pointing to a creepy ass house in the middle of nowhere? What could go wrong? Find out as we play House Of Danger... Highlights include: - Can fictional people write books? - Why isn't it just a book? - Don't stop around to look at shit - Mark would rather play without me - I wasn't exactly rolling in lols - Mark can't remember the motto

We aim to misbehave as we play Firefly Adventures! Highlights include: - I mutilate some Danish (language, not people) - Mark admits he doesn't know anything - We get a pretentious Latin motto - Where do we get the guns? - I ditch the plug

There's a distinct rise in criminal activity as we play Monopoly: Cheaters' Edition! Highlights include: - Mark does not remember Kwanzaa - I try some Swedish - It's our first actual board game, with pieces and a board and everything! - Mark plugs his own podcast again

We Skype up some Yanks for a transatlantic game of Cards Against Humanity! Will there be horrific misunderstandings, or is offensive material THE universal language? Highlights include: - It's our longest episode! - Mark continues to deny his hatership - I disobey the Spreadsheet - Fog Of Love has indeed caused a divorce - Would you play this with your mum? - We all do awful accents - Cassie is a...

Can we survive a relationship simulator? Or will we realise that actually we hate each other? Find out as we play Fog Of Love! Highlights include: - We briefly re-visit Doctor Who Fluxx - Supernatural Trivial Pursuit finally makes sense - I get box confusion - What is the audience? Couples? Friends? Girls? Spies? Whoever it is, Mark offends them - We meet Tolkien's new elf, Tutariel - Otters = Lac...

Mark tackles the solo challenge of trying to negotiate the release of some hostages from a crazed loon. What could go wrong? Highlights include: - 3D Snakes and Ladders disappointment - We've caught up with the backlog in some weird meta self-referencing - Drink every time someone says 'Hostage Negotiator' - Mark takes charge - More than half your hostages dead? That's not a win is it... - Edward...

We couldn't save Arkham with cards, but maybe we can do it with dice! Bunty joins us as we play Elder Sign! Highlights include: - Mark makes another stellar character choice - Bunty went to Piranha Land - Mark's advice = look at the symbols and just try and win - Tactics? From Bunty? - Bunty doesn't have the brains - Dice rolling is actually a lot harder than it looks... - Mark is single-handedly...

We travel to Sunnydale for a game of Legendary: Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Grab your stakes and prepare to get dusting! Highlights include: - Mark encounters reading issues - I can't use dividers properly - Board, Mat... same thing! - Shit shuffling strikes again! - Master wins: we are shit - There's no shafting - Mark blasphemes against the Spreadsheet - Huge card boxes - they are the future

This week, expand your knowledge as we talk expansions! Highlights include: - Warren Rice is still missing, and a load of Miskatonic students are dead - Mark has literally no thoughts - I sow the seeds for an Expansionode? Expandode? Expanode? - Mark tries to go against the spreadsheet

Patrick and Meriel join us this week, but shit! I forgot to scan for human DNA - Will it be ok, or will we have to escape from aliens in outer space? Highlights include: - I mess up. A lot - Finally, someone who can appreciate the finer points of The Spreadsheet - Meriel is the first girl we've had... on the podcast - The Wedge Effect is lost - Mark reads the rules - Lying is hard. Tracking is har...

After playing Arkham Horror The Card Game again (unsuccessfully), we discuss the major crimes of the board game world, and what generally ruins the experience - watch out, the spreadsheet takes a bashing! Highlights include: - New scary interludes - 'Alternisode' sounds a bit shit - It's not Colditz - I'm a bit of a hypocrite - You SHOULD get up and have a drink - The podcast is called 'Organised...