Whose Turn Is It Anyway?

It's your turn...to click here to send us your comments on the show Dan finishes his run with a retrospective on board gaming in and around 2010 and the evolution of gaming mechanics.  Talking about games which oust other games, our first memories of game mechanics that got us hooked and how they've changed throughout the years.  Come and join us at the table for chat all about cardboard....

It's your turn...to click here to send us your comments on the show It's time for another guest episode and this time we've had a sit down chat with Mark Dainty from Not Bored Gaming.  So if you are a fan of solo gaming and want to learn more about Mark's journey within the hobby then check this episode out.  As Mark always says, if there is no one else to play with, there'...

It's your turn...to click here to send us your comments on the show It's well known that each of us has our own approaches to solo gaming and Dan returns with another episode which dives into the digital side of board gaming.  Do you like board game apps, digital adaptations or even companion apps, the Whose Turn team break it down FIRST PLAYER: Dan OTHER PLAYERS: Becky & Kerley In th...

It's your turn...to click here to send us your comments on the show It's that time of year again...not Christmas, something even better which is GRIDCON.  In its fifth iteration GRIDCON is a convention based in the South West and ran by Gaming Rules and we just adore this weekend.  JP, Adrian & Kerley take you throughout the weekend and of course all of the games we've played. OU...

It's your turn...to click here to send us your comments on the show Dan has taken first player and focuses this episode all about luck in board games, are we lovers of it, does it make us sick.  The team don their four leaf clovers, rabbits feet and anything else which will boost their luck stats and head in for another Whose Turn fireside chat. FIRST PLAYER: Dan OTHER PLAYERS: JP, Kerley &amp...

It's your turn...to click here to send us your comments on the show We're back again with more bloopers, expect the Only Fools & Horses expansion to BSG, Dan gets too personal with Tekken characters and Rob does unspeakable things to chicken (not really!!) THE PLAYERS: All of us   LINKS REFERENCED IN THE SHOW N/A EPISODE CHAPTERS N/A You can check out JP's new podcast called Just...

It's your turn...to click here to send us your comments on the show Are you "Team Buttons" or "Team Maximum Effort" when you first play a board game?  We answer this question and dive into the topic on why some board gamers are happy to explore without consequence and why others punish themselves on getting a great first game experience. FIRST PLAYER: JP OTHER PLAYERS: Dan,...

It's your turn...to click here to send us your comments on the show Have you ever wanted to listen to a "Come Dine With Me" special merged with a games day?  Thought not but that is exactly what you have in the second of JP's episodes of this run.  Expect nonsense, expect backstabbing comments, expect drama as we played "Come Game With Me" FIRST PLAYER: JP OTHER PLAYER...

It's your turn...to click here to send us your comments on the show THIS WAS RECORDED VIRTUALLY DUE TO ADRIAN'S FOOT INJURY WHICH WAS COVERED IN PART ONE WHICH HAS IMPACTED OUR USUAL QUALITY You thought we had ran out of Essen chat right? Well fear not we've only just got going as Adrian, JP & Davey return to talk through Saturday and Sunday's shenanigans so expect games, ga...

It's your turn...to click here to send us your comments on the show THIS WAS RECORDED VIRTUALLY DUE TO ADRIAN'S FOOT INJURY WHICH YOU'LL LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS LATER WHICH HAS IMPACTED OUR USUAL QUALITY The boys are back in town, Essen that is with part one of their adventures with so much content we've had to cut it in half.  This episode covers the journeys to the show, our exp...

It's your turn...to click here to send us your comments on the show After a bit of a break in our recording schedules JP takes first player again and directs the spotlight internally to our players for a change as voted by our Ko-Fi supporters.  In this episode we go beyond the board gamers and talk about what makes us tick. FIRST PLAYER: JP OTHER PLAYERS: Adrian, Kerley & Chris P In this...

It's your turn...to click here to send us your comments on the show Don't adjust your sets we've handed the mic to one of our listeners to give them a turn on the podcast in this experimental episode.  Please give a warm welcome to Stewart Ennew who actually is part of our Loaded Dice Gaming Group and has been asking us for AGES about doing an episode around solo gaming, so we though...

It's your turn...to click here to send us your comments on the show Chris wraps up his run by diving deep into when games get storage solutions right...or so very very wrong. FIRST PLAYER: Chris OTHER PLAYERS: Kerley, Becky & JP In this episode you'll learn: - how Fire Tower by Goliath Games fuels aggro behaviour in kids - that Nucleum from Board & Dice gets a second shot at redem...

It's your turn...to click here to send us your comments on the show In Chris' second episode of his run he wants to know why we suck at board games, well when we say we we mean us specifically as we can't comment on general gamers.  Do we abandon games we suck at? Do we stick with it in the vain hope we'll become better? Listen to our latest episode to find out. FIRST PLAYER: Ch...

It's your turn...to click here to send us your comments on the show In this expansion pack the Whose Turn gang attended the 24 Hour Board Game Marathon 2024 which is a charity board gaming event ran by our very own Dan.  This year we return with a similar format of recording snippets as the gang went through the event, have a listen to what they played. THE PLAYERS: All of us OVERVIEW In this...

It's your turn...to click here to send us your comments on the show Prepare for a brand new first player as Chris takes the token and brings us his first of three episodes starting with "Does size matter...in board games?".  FIRST PLAYER: Chris OTHER PLAYERS: JP & Adrian In this episode you'll learn: - all about JP's experiences with Beyond The Suns expansions Leaders o...

It's your turn...to click here to send us your comments on the show We're back with more bloopers from more recent episodes Episodes 49 - 54.  In this batch Davey struggles in just talking about Hex, we discuss the worst lyric in any song ever, why the word lozenge makes Dan go wild and will Kerley stop scratching himself mid-recording? THE PLAYERS: All of us   LINKS REFERENCED IN THE SHO...

It's your turn...to click here to send us your comments on the show No it's not a special about Oasis' back catalogue of songs...Becky ends her run of episode talking about roll / flip & write games, they're accessibility, why they might not be for everyone and also why they are an important staple for the hobby. FIRST PLAYER: Becky OTHER PLAYERS: Adrian, Dan & Tambo In...

It's your turn...to click here to send us your comments on the show Our guest episodes continue to "dive deeper" into more board game designers and why they do what they do.  We "dredge" up the latest news from Judson Cowan from Tettix Games about one of the hottest new games to hit crowdfunding which is of course Deep Regrets GUEST PLAYER: Judson Cowan OTHER PLAYERS: Davey...

It's your turn...to click here to send us your comments on the show An important topic for Becky in that we sometimes under appreciate language independent games so this episode is all about that topic.  We discuss games that we feel are language independent, what classifies then and the pros and cons around them. FIRST PLAYER: Becky OTHER PLAYERS: JP, Rob In this episode you'll learn: -...

It's your turn...to click here to send us your comments on the show We can't quite believe it's happened and we're extremely excited to present a very special expansion pack episode where we get to chat with the one, the only Dávid Turczi to mainly geek out about Star Trek Captain's Chair which is coming out later this year GUEST PLAYER: Dávid Turczi OTHER PLAYERS: JP &...

It's your turn...to click here to send us your comments on the show Guess who's back...back again? It's Becky as she returns as first player to talk about one of her favourite subjects "The second hand market" and the importance of that in the hobby space. FIRST PLAYER: Becky OTHER PLAYERS: JP, Rob In this episode you'll learn: - about Rob's first experiences on P...

It's your turn...to click here to send us your comments on the show It's time for some more footage from the archives again from Episodes 43 - 48 and some of our expansion packs such as GRIDCON 2023, Christmas and our birthday episode.  In this batch we have an uncontrollable Dan, Kerley, Adrian and Davey trying to get through an episode, some strange twists and turns and Tambo trying to...

It's your turn...to click here to send us your comments on the show With our UK Games Expo 2024 content still flowing this expansion pack now focuses on our live show which we recorded on the Friday 31st May in Piazza 4 as well as a handful of interview captured during the show with many of our friends and exhibitors.  A massive thank you for all that attended the live show, it was great to se...

It's your turn...to click here to send us your comments on the show It's our biggest UK Games Expo episode yet and there's so much UK Games Expo content we've had to split it into two parts.  Part One is our usual debrief around the table around the show, what we've played, what we've experienced so strap yourself into all of the UKGE goodness. OUR PLAYERS - Davey, Adr...