Organised Fun

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?...

This week, we answer the age old question of which celebrities would you invite to play boardgames? Highlights include: - Agatha Christie would be too good at deduction games - Boudicca would kill you if she lost - Let's get Napoleon onto Pitchcar - You'd get nowhere with Jeff Goldblum - Sam West keeps his games vertically. Oh dear - Pocahontas is not fictional

It's a small world, after all! Various civilisations are vying for control of the underground territories of Smallworld. Can they successfully spread their influence before they're forced to go into decline? Highlights include: - I've done the laziest logo ever - All the tokens did in fact spill out - Recommended for experienced Smallworld players - whoops - It's all about the size of your army, r...

The evil Fire Elementals are sweeping across the land, threatening to burn our forest to ash - the total shits! Can we strategically place some water fountains and save the day? Highlights include: - We were definitely not skilful - Ravage... pawn? - Everyone knows the friendliest woodland creature is the whale - There's lots of flame related bastardry - What is the point of a strength zero card?...

For some reason, the Sydney Royal Botanical Gardens have built all their landmarks, but haven't got any paths to connect them - I hate it when that happens! Looks like it's up to us to take a walk in the park and join things up. Watch out for Bin-Chickens! Highlights include: - Has Anneka Rice been there? - We've never had an 'acknowledgement of country' before - The landmarks are very pretty, but...

Our heroes have returned from the past with the evidence they need to confront Ms Merriweather, but is she just going to allow her plans to be thwarted so easily?

Our crappy spaceship is awash with malfunctions, and we're only five minutes away from getting sucked into a black hole! I hate it when that happens! Can we fix the ship before total destruction? Highlights include: - Turn on the Gigaflange! - Oh, that's why Sarah was whispering! - Is that part of the ship? - It really teaches you the reality of spaceship repair - If you leave out the bongs and di...

The Owl and the Pussycat went to space, then had a huge fucking battle to blow the shit out of each other! Highlights include: - We choose ships for very different reasons - Mark doesn't know what HUD stands for. Or EMP... - It's dice chucking fun! - FIRE! - Well, that escalated! - It has major StarFox vibes... - If you have a plastic spaceship, why would you use a cardboard counter? - We DO NOT g...

It's the final game of our 'Mystery Box Trilogy' - this time we're rolling dice to score points. Simple, right? Highlights include: - Do you want chapters? - 'Plays great with 2 players' hint hint! - It doesn't make you feel very clever - Do you know the difference between blue and purple? Well here's blurple! - It's a cross between sudoku and a maths exam - They've imagined the future, and it's b...

We aim to recreate the luxury dining experience of the Pullman car - but can we get everyone's orders sorted before their journey is complete? Highlights include: - Alice Paster wants teacakes - Bloody Jeanette Tipple, make your mind up! - Can you smoke on the train? In those days, probably... - Mark likes food, Phil likes trains... it's the perfect combo - This game DOES NOT need a whistle - Oh s...

In the second of our Alleycat Games trilogy, it's a race to explore a randomly thrown card galaxy. With cats. Obviously. Highlights include: - Catstronauts is actually quite difficult to say - Is it possible to have a strategy? - Phil can't do orange and Pat can't do blue - Should Pat start us off? - It was the allotted amount of fun - Your kitten needs a face - 2 and below, that's lose territory

It's clear that Ms Merriweather is up to no good - but where to get the concrete evidence needed to bring her down? It's time to look to the past to find out what really happened on the fateful day of the Hollyfirth Flower Show!

Our school trip has gone horrifically wrong and now we're stranded on an island in the middle of nowhere - but it gets worse! The boat is fucked and there appears to be a psychopathic killer lurking about - who will survive? Highlights include: - Sarah just can't accept the fact that she was murdered - What happened to the boat that's wrecked the battery and the propeller? - Everyone knows killers...

We've binned off Pluto as the ninth planet, then inexplicably gone off in search of another one. Whatever. Highlights include: - Mark drifts off into space - Each time you say 'Atlantis' you have to pay someone a dollar - It's been a while since we've had a font-related FRAG - We pause for a brief Easter egg hunt - And now for the tax section of the podcast...