Organised Fun

In the pine forests of Colony 9, our heroes find themselves held at gunpoint by a suspicious Reborn, a debt-collecting Monotan and a vengeful Fraxis - Can they talk or fight their way out?

This week, we're raiding a temple for a priceless artifact - watch out for booby traps, the locals, and of course, a giant volcanic eruption! Highlights include: - Are we the bad guys? - Can you hear the baby? - Welcome to the Precarea! - Templus Non-Cromulus... - If you're an explorer, wear a fedora...

Mark is blasting off into space, while I monitor things from Mission Control... what could go wrong? Highlights include: - Thank god NASA did it better than we did... - We hope you like NASA facts... - I didn't know Gnasher did space missions? - 1/5 of the mission complete is fine, right? - We were basically Challenger... - Do you want to make a space baby?  - Going to space makes you stupid... -...

This week, we're hapless writers, trying to get our movies optioned by the studio. Can we win the prestigious yet dubious awards whilst at the same time factoring in the bizarre requests from the studio execs? Highlights include: - Anti-clockwise???? - Podcast trip to Uzbekistan! - Would you rather an unknown plot, or an unknown character? - Theseus what? - Jane = Cannibal - Is this Sarah's first...

It's a game of cat and mouse, but can the fugitive reach home base before the marshal tracks him down? Highlights include: - I am lacking in deduction and wit... - Nought/Zero, Zed/Zee, Aitch/Haitch... whatever! - Counting is hard... - You actually need to be intelligent to be the marshal... - It's Marsha the Marshal! - If you're careful, you can play this in the bath... - It's not you, it's me...

Range based trivia... how confident are you that you're correct, and will you score big because of it? Highlights include: - Bunty's phone is blowing up because she's so popular... - 9 years old? - Copy, Swap or Double? - How many countries are there in the world? - Forget Gareth Thomas, how long would it take us to do an Iron Man challenge? - How wet is a leek? - I temporarily lose the ability to...

How close can you put a magnetic stone next to another magnetic stone without them sticking together? Highlights include: - Don't eat the magnets, even though you want to! - Neodymium, ooh! - Everyone knows bigger magnets are more magnetty... - 24 is a perfect number... - Beautiful stones surrounded by a bit of coat... - Little kittens are distracting...  

It's that time of year again, where you get to hear us bumble through some Exit puzzles in an attempt to save Christmas!

This week, we aim to get to the bottom of the ultimate question: which pet shat on the floor? Highlights include: - Any poo mentioned is strictly 'in game' - Memory. Speed. Poo. - Cat, gerbil, rabbit - all the same, innit... - Sarah's manicure gives her an unfair advantage... - No lady should leave home without a turd in a box - Dobble: like snap but you injure yourself... - Why is the fish even a...

This week, we discuss all things homebrewed! Highlights include: - Sometimes rules are just bad and need changing... - What if you break the game forever? - What exactly goes on in Vermont? - Don't mix real expansions with fan-made ones, please! - Codenames: Duet? Thank the fans! - I made a fan expansion out of malicious intent...

I've homebrewed an expansion for my favourite legacy game - using as many of the previous bits as possible! Highlights include: - Pat ate a sheep's head - Why wouldn't you have all the dinosaurs? - Have I unbalanced the game? Does it matter? - Sometimes you visit Jurassic Park and it's fun. Sometimes though, people die - Listen up, Prospero Hall! - Maybe needs some budget?

Two rival houses warring against each other for control of the land, which just so happens to be watched over by a huge angry dragon. Hate it when that happens! Highlights include: - It's the first game we can't actually pronounce... - What is Qoam anyway? - A dragon is basically a fantasy WMD - My lair has layers...

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...