Organised Fun

This week, we're helping out our good friend Giselle on her archaeological dig at Cherwell Castle - oh, and solving a murder from 700 years ago, obvs! Highlights include:
- Real life documents from the 1300s!
- Here's the evidence, off you go!
- Jane knows actual Latin...
- Lambert Harcourt, what a lad...
- You were always saying you wanted some Gregorian chanting, right?
- Giselle can't remember her password, silly bitch...
- Are you Henry Graves?
- Ingrid needs to get her dates right...
- Paul Robinson takes a day off from Lasseters to help us out...
- Maybe the whole thing was God all along...
- But what was the head wound from?
- There's SO MUCH PAPER!
- We pass it on to Jane's mum...
- Name a type of person and there's one of these where they've died...
- You're not taking this on the train... 

This week we're park rangers trying to meet the needs of all the animals we've poached... I mean, saved. Highlights include:
- John is now our official Podcast Historian. We'll get him a nameplat...
- British Museum, what?
- You'll learn more about honey badgers than you needed or wanted...
- What is this flower here for?
- The blood means it's working...
- Bunty doesn't have a frog...
- Your honey or your life...
- Everyone needs a therapy gnu...
- Arctotis Venusta!!
- Who can build the chodiest zoo?
- I'm the greatest safarist, where's my plat?
- Who succeeded the hardest?

This week, some of us have been possessed by some some ancient artifacts! I hate it when that happens! Highlights include:
- I made a space related error...
- Jeyne isn't dyslexic, she's just thick...
- Ellie can't lie...
- It's hard to keep track of what lies you've told...
- Will gets philosophical...
- It could have been a bit shinier...
- You can't offend the Christians...
- It's a soft, flaccid win...

This week, we've finished the Dragon Staff of Maladoria! Highlights include:
- But where did it come from?
- It's all about the admin...
- I can't walk, but I'm arcane as fuck...
- Wait, are we dead?
- Fucking hell, Victor, have a chill!
- It would have been an alright month if I hadn't died...
- This has got trap written all over it...
- Bliss Falls... full of shit and stinks of tramps...
- Oh, he was downstairs the whole time...
- Time to fire a cannon at some slags...
- I know there's a war going on, but hey it's Christmas!
- Do we need to apologise?
- January 3rd, what the fuck is that?
 

We've completed another 52 episodes! Highlights include:
- Shutterbug counts for 3 losses on its own...
- I can guarantee you will not get HPV from this podcast...
- It seems I've created a random Season 1...
- It's a record breaking year for world domination!
- Ooh, what about REDACTED...
- Lord of the Rings had a very good year...
- John is the king of callbacks...
- There's a lot of game names that get forgotten...
- Will recorded his highlights from a Wetherspoons, by the sound of it...
- It's STILL Riley's turn in Trickerion...
- You may not be aware, but I love Legacy games!
- You know that game, the one that came in a box?
- Magic is not something an IP can fix...
- The more goals you set yourself, the more likely you'll fail...
- What is Jamaica?
- Let's end the year on a brutal takedown!

Stroppy teenage dragons have found their way to Wyrmspan! Highlights include:
- Let's go on a dragon walk!
- If you can't find the FRAG cards, check what you played last...
- One dragon will let you ride it, the other one will fuck your village...
- Amanda has no regard for the spreadsheet... 

This week we're photographers trying to capture pictures of some of America's most elusive creatures! Highlights include:
- What are the creatures?? Tell us their names!
- There's good forest and horrid forest...
- 8 rounds just doesn't seem enough...
- Everything non-essential to the game looks really pretty...
- Does it just not work with two players?
- Is there too much smingy beige?
- Are you Mike Elliott?

This week, we're back in the Dark Castle, but with three whole new Adventure Packs - will it make escape any easier? Highlights include:
- The Giles intro hits harder now...
- It's a game of atmospheric adventure, don't you know...
- Curses. They're bad.
- Shit shuffling strikes again!
- Turns out the merchant is just a dickhead. He doesn't care if you have plague...
- Everyone's hideous...
- The abbot, he say yes!

This week, we're back in Middle Earth, trying to save the world, one trick at a time! Highlights include:
- I shouldn't have been so poor last week...
- Why say it's for 2 players if it doesn't really work with 2 players?
- It's hard to make yourself lose...
- Who is Gildor Inglorion?
- Featuring non-recyclable gloss!

This week, it's the Fellowship of the Ring versus the forces of Sauron as we duel it out for control of Middle Earth! Highlights include:
- Once again there's Elf/Ent confusion...
- Roman soldiers? No, no no!
- There needs to be more perspex in board games...
- I'm like Gollum - I always go for the ring...
- It's better than the 1970s...

This week our stars are well out of whack - can we get them back in alignment? Highlights include:
- Sound logic, suss lore...
- Ok, but why dragons? Why mice? What??
- Some questions are more useful than others...
- You have to pay attention...
- The tracking tokens are actually a hindrance...
- What does an event horizon look like?

This week, we're rival AIs trying to compile our protocols first! Highlights include:
- Mark delegates...
- Turns out plague is bad...
- We were stumped by control...
- Mark reads the notes in the wrong order...
- Just make it all shiny!
- Big thanks to pants!

This week, we push our luck to see if we can flip 7 cards with no duplicates! Highlights include:
- The more you say 'bust' the worse it sounds...
- We need more butter...
- My microphone can't work out who it's listening to...
- They've made a second set but you can't combine them??
- I didn't bring the FRAG cards, so... chaos!
- It was fun because it was...
- And now, it's over to Will for the Replayability Report...
- It all depends how quickly you bust...
- What about rhinestones?
- Kaydien experiences a clock related dilemma...

This week we're off to Zhana... I mean Ghana! Highlights include:
- Spin battery, get smacked!
- Never forget the importance of fruit bats...
- If you invent a game in a different country, does it belong to that country?

This week we're off to Gambia... or is it Zambia? Highlights include:
- Actually, it's THE Gambia...
- I'm sorry, but WHAT island??
- Everyone knows Gs and Zs are tricky...

This week, a noble, a witch and a huntsman are trying to save a village from a terrible monster - who will meet their destiny first? Highlights include:
- It 'might' be the best story driven game I've ever played...
- There's no fitties, so I chose based on headwear...
- Can you pour salt in somebody's wound? If not, why not?
- Why isn't it just a video game?
- The three main attributes of any adventurer: Fight, Clever, and... Green...

I'm back with the Americans - watch your dots! Highlights include:
- Dinger brings global appeal...
- Would you prefer 'that's just the game,' or 'wow you're shit?'
- Riley gets bullied a lot...
- I didn't eat the pencil...
- The Anti-Riley Alliance fails...
- The box shows so many rule breaks!
- Watch out for natural slippage...
- You're such a timesuck!
- Do we do giveaways?
- No bullshit!

This week, we're off to explore the games of Fiji! Highlights include:
- They don't even have mancala!
- Don't get your head shrunk!
 

This week, we're trying to destroy the one ring in the fires of Mount Doom - that old chestnut! Highlights include:
- Three new voices!
- Nobody likes being forced to be Hitler...
- I could have saved the day with Merry and Pippin...
- Gollum is useless...
- Watch out for Nazgul!
- I forgot the dice tower...
 

This week, Riley, Kimmy and I debrief on my week in Utah! Highlights include:
- Riley brings sexy back...
- Real life sucks after one week of magic...
- Surprise surprise, there's rules...
- I got to stay at Sir Ian Moss' house!
- The main event of Monday was Walmart...
- I taught the Americans Shithead...
- What the fuck is a mangosteen?
- Daybreak ruined the whole week...
- Watch out for the mean chicken lady...
- My week = Games, Food, Animals...
- Kimmy wins the whole week!

This week, you hear the culmination of over two years' worth of Pandemic Legacy! Highlights include:
- Is that how you say virologist?
- We made the shittiest world imaginable...
- It's Ryan or die!
- Sarah loves zombies...
- We have a Bratz summer!
- Why can't people read my writing?
- Our biggest issue was the outbreaks (not Jane)
- The Babes finally get their Christmas presents!
- Which disease is the least racist?
- Amanda is already a hard pass on Season 2...
- There are 17 different actions you can do...
 

This week, the queen is having a banquet with some of the most influential families in the land. Can we use our political manipulations to see the right families in favour, or will they end up in disgrace? Highlights include:
- Every good episode starts with an apology...
- The best strategy is 'winning...'
- I get challenged by a 4 year old...
- Is it a butterfly or a moth?
- Stag rhymes with slag...
- Who wants to join the moth party?
- Prepare for negative toadage...
- It's shafting, but friendly shafting...
- We had to speed run the ending because Florence woke up...
- Problemato is the worst flavour of soup...
- Wait, is it nobles, or... whores?

This week, we're jetting off to Eswatini! Highlights include:
- It used to be Swaziland, don't you know...
- Everyone knows there's half as many flags as countries, right?
- Can we make a game about AIDS and low life expectancy?
- Watch out for lightning!
- Eddie Redmayne, and some woman...
- Obviously, all game artists know each other...
- Save the rhinos!

This week, we are rival magicians competing to be the most famous so we can claim the legendary Trickerion Stone! Highlights include:
- Come see the Mechaniker change some oil, live on stage!
- Riley takes 84 years. Each turn...
- The market does not sell shit...
- It's giving workshop...
- Who goes to the theatre on a Thursday?
- Why would you choose to play without the Dark Alley?

The crew of the AGA-0 were swarmed by Helios soldiers on Colony 9, and now find themselves inside the mysterious white light...

This week, we're checking out Eritrea... and chauvinism. Highlights include:
- Let's be honest, were we really expecting anything?
- Careful nobody steals your coral...
- Does Africa have rainforests?
- Bones O'Million years old, you say?
- We're designers of Eritrean board games, not Eritrean board game designers...
- Mark has been doing his regular searches for 'games with pigs on them...'

The Titan war is over and the world is in ruins - It's up to us to rebuild it, but who will get the world closest to their divine plan? Highlights include:
- Pigs On Trampolines sounds cool...
- Everyone knows Demeter hates water...
- Jane is such a God-blocker...
- Hippolyta's blessings upon you all!
- Sarah is a locking machine...
- I hate it when you kidnap a woman and it starts a whole war...
- Have you ever been banjaxed?

This week, we're exploring a dungeon and trying to collect treasure! Highlights include:
- Welcome to Ellie!
- Level 3 is where the evil things live...
- The Rogue: weak and cheap...
- Is a hobgoblin better than a regular goblin?
- Level 1 is where the sacks of gold are, and Level 2 is where the silver lives...
- I get a delivery from a sullen Amazon man...
- Level 6? Not worth it!
- Why isn't there a cuddle trap?
- I really couldn't handle the 'miss a turn' mechanic...
- The rainbow dungeon is good for the brain...
- Why would you stop in the chambers?
- Oh, we got it wrong...
- There is an element of maths...

This week, we're off to Equatorial Guinea! Highlights include:
- The exact location is classified...
- Why is it 400?
- Service or disservice?

This week, we're exploring what El Salvador has to offer! Highlights include:
- The National Anthem sounds like the William Tell Overture...
- Bunty is officially my nemesis...
- If you lose, you get sacrificed...
- Fuck the trading cards, make a Legendary!
- BGA killed Exploding Kittens...

This week, our ship has been impounded and we have to escape! Highlights include:
- It's Escape The Dark Castle... IN SPACE!!!
- Yeah, but what IS cunning?
- Don't get tweaked...
- There's lots of positive employment opportunities for women on this station...
- Ooh, eggs!
- Get your cybernetics out, love...
- This is my first drone rodeo...
- If only I'd flanked...
- Where are the space fitties and the colours?
- Jason Derulo!

We're keeping up our yearly tradition of being averagely skilled at puzzles - this time, we've been roped into the Intergalactic Race, where the winner gets to be in charge of Christmas celebrations for ever!

It's the best Christmas gift of all! A trip to The Dominican Republic! Highlights include:
- No Santo Domingo for you!
- Hope you all had a lovely Nocho Buena! 

This week, we're off to Dominica to for a quick stop! Will there be any games? Highlights include:
- Did you mean The Dominican Republic?
- Mark gets a parcel...
- Listen to us or else we'll make a game about you...
- Alicante better get ready for Wetherspoons...

Our heroes have regrouped after their various exploits, when an exciting discovery is announced on the GalaxyNet. Could some mysterious seeds on Colony 9 hold the key to finding another Eternian?

Tired of living a miserable life, ridiculed by everyone and bullied because of your epic loser status? Well get some revenge by turning your life around. With dice. Highlights include:
- It's Shut The Box but with cards...
- The explanation is hard to say, and hard to listen to...
- 2 is not a good roll...
- Complicated or convoluted?
- It IS a game...
- It could have any theme, or indeed, no theme...
- All that faff for maybe 2 points...

This week, we're continuing our spurious world tour with a visit to Djibouti! Highlights include:
- Mark found the Pokemon game!
- Britain: The Board Game... can you put up your racist flags before they get taken down?
- The Congo confusion continues...

This week we're jetting off to Cyprus to see what's cracking. Highlights include:
- Why is backgammon there?
- You know what would make a fun game? That war we had that one time...
- Watch out for AI!
- Who the fuck is Lorna?

This week, we're off to Cuba! Highlights include:
- Prepare for a Congo addendum...
- Would you go and live with aliens for a week?
- Tabletopia is bad enough without being in a different language...
- It's basically just war and crime...
- Shh! Don't tell the Yanks...

This week we're taking a quick visit to the Ivory Coast. Highlights include:
- Eklan: Important enough for stamps, but not for anyone to remember how to play it...
- 10 minutes is the target...
- They're all airbenders!

This week we're exploring The Congo - but do they actually have any games? Highlights include:
- There is immediately some Congo confusion...
- Now you can find ghosts in Leicester...
- Did Mark get his cardigan from The Congo?
- Tintin was a dick when he was in The Congo...

Our crew is split - while Jack waits on Whitelaw for Brink's mysterious collectors to arrive, Neutron, Meredith and Merlin find themselves guests of the Monotan King...

It's been 84 years, but Teens In Space is back! Our heroes have two more Eternians to collect, but can they bust Onec and Acropho out of Whitelaw before it's too late?

This week, we're sneaky cheaty mages, betting on creatures fighting in an arena - morally questionable? Probably! Highlights include:
- Moo takes the reins!
- Dispel magic!!!!
- I instantly forgot every bet I made...
- Surely it's not possible to keep track of everything?
- More monsters please...
- The art can only be described as 'medieval tapestry.'
- It's crumble time!

This week, we found an old board game buried in the mud on a building site. Oh, and it was locked in a chest. No red flags there, right? Highlights include:
- Pat only watched Jumanji for the first time scarily recently...
- It has all the riddles except the one everyone wants to hear...
- You can meet such jungle animals as lion, cheetah, crocodile, monkey, and... bird?
- What rhymes with hippos?
- There a few potential game breaks...

This week, we're stacking cats to try and build the highest tower without collapse! Highlights include:
- There are some discrepancies between the box and the rules...
- You can't refer to your wife as a tool...
- Does repeated folding make them better or worse?
- The tokens don't match, and in fact are a bit rubbish...
- There's too many cat games!
- Shall we add swans?
- Meriel has all the copyrights... 

This week, Bunty and I try to recreate an RPG/Dice rolling situation round London! Highlights include: 
- All credit to John!
- Nothing deters pickpockets like being a huge nerd...
- 20 seconds is not long enough to look at a map...
- I chickened out of 'charming' the ice cream girl...
- What does basil smell like?
- Museum Lady disapproval!
- Don't forget, rivers turn corners...
- We managed to choose a day when we were both ill or injured...
- Luckily, we didn't end up at the airport...

This week, we're testing our extremely limited James Bond knowledge! Highlights include:
- No explanation necessary...
- I hope you like bad Louis Armstrong impressions...
- What do you mean, you've never heard of Fisherman's Wharf?
- The strategy is... know stuff.

Exploding Kittens, but with more headgear! Highlights include:
- We try to do a Giles...
- Who can look the stupidest?
- What exactly is a barking kitten?
- If it helps, it's wipe clean...

This week, we're back in the Oniverse, trying to balance the good dreams and the bad dreams, so everyone can get a good night's sleep! Highlights include:
- Sorry, who exactly am I?
- It's census time!
- Balancing equations: The game...
- Have you accepted chaos into your life?
- It's a lot of effort just to look at it...
- There's seven expansions, if you fancy it?
- What colour is this door?

This week, it's a classic battle of capture the flag! Highlights include:
- 200 games!
- I accidentally blocked myself in with bombs...
- So many tactics!
- Face the wrath of Admiral No-Waist!
- I have 20/20 eyeshite...

This week, the Doctor battles Missy across time and space and... magic? Highlights include:
- I would have loved 'Magic Club...'
- You can only play this if you already know how...
- Everyone knows the basic elements: Earth, Water... Forest?
- Stuck for a strategy? Just drive a tank into them!
- It's the harsh reality of space combat...
- That is a WIDE hand...
- Mark can't fold leaflets...
- What's the opposite of 'win?'

This week, we must band together to save Sunnydale from The Master! Highlights include:
- Does anybody know Anthony Stewart Head?
- There are many Arkham Horror comparisons...
- The town is overrun with vampires? Never mind, have a cake...
- Xander: 25% more go!
- It has an interesting checkanism...
- Ah shit, we accidentally traded the Glove of Myhnegon...
- Musical interlude!
- How to kill literally any boss: Go there. Hit him.
- Sorry, I can't help right now, I'm currently evil...
- Omg did you see Spike's makeup? Such a bad blend...
- We get some last minute technical issues...

This week, we've been sentenced to some serious time in Alcatraz- hate it when that happens! But, don't worry, there's a plan to escape -IF we can work together and avoid being the scapegoat! Highlights include:
- Barry Scott and Kevin Bacon have actually nothing to do with this episode...
- Harry goes off on so many tangents...
- Shout out to Poland!
- It's the harsh reality of prison life...
- I'm so proud of the term 'Goaty Votey.'
- That well known prison feature, The Sniffage Room...
- The more people that play, the more people there are to pick on you...
- Have you ever seen a smoking goat?

This week, we're trying to destroy a random monster with a random item in a random place - all in a dubiously constructed haunted house! Highlights include:
- It's as old as I am!
- Patrick: The original minion...
- Even minions have performance management targets...
- What do you mean, your house doesn't have a well in it?
- Welcome to the morchard - it's not for everyone...
- Better to have an item than not...
- Cool strategy, but it was completely accidental...
- Do we score it for 1985 or 2025?
- Who designed this kitchen?

In our first episode of Year 8, I talk to Riley and actual legit game designer Skye Larsen about their upcoming release: Paperback Adventures Volume 2! Check it out on Gamefound!

We made it through seven whole years! Highlights include:
- That well known game we just played, Deep Fishing...
- We successfully baited 4 countries!
- Mark is definitely not sponsored by Wall-Zap...
- I have no idea how much a kilogram is...
- Even Mark didn't remember which the fake episode was...
- People are born knowing the rules to Uno...
- We'll have none of that dirty energy here, thank you very much...
- John is the king of the callbacks...
- Derek Ring is alive and well, and Mark's new crush by the sounds of it...
- Is it possible to be a podcast slag?
- Did we miss a twick?
- Cassie got too busy to bother us...
- Germany is closer than America. Fact.
- We seal it with a diss...

This week, we're looking for the Lost Ruins of Arnak - who can make the most of their limited time and resources to get the best expedition score? Highlights include:
- BGA does a lot of the heavy lifting...
- Turns are limited: you can't afford to waste one...
- When everything scores points, does it really matter what you do?
- Mark doesn't listen...
- Mark has already planned the ultimate expedition games night...
- Cimerosa is a person not a thing...
- In many ways, it's a musical disappointment...

This week, we're off to Comoros. It's a VERY short stay...
- Turns out we mis-dinked...
- Such Comoros. Very confluence.
- Where are all the Euro-Afro-Ottoman games?
- Do sheep have hooves?
- Which is worse, sheep or zombies?
- The alphabet has gone literally crazy...

This week, we're whisked off to Oz! Can we get Dorothy and friends through the magical land, whilst avoiding the Wicked Witch? Highlights include:
- I foolishly put the box away...
- For those of you who don't know, a video is an old fashioned way of watching a movie...
- Wait, it's a book??
- We can all agree, Return To Oz was horrible...
- I commit a notebook crime...
- It has 'local' replayability...
- We went past Meriel's bedtime...

This week, we're competing to catch the best fish in an ocean full of... not fish. Highlights include:
- The deeper you go, the worse things get...
- A pram???
- Why would anybody want regret cards?
- Mark forgets how to FRAG...

This week, you can hear all about mine and Matt's adventures at the UKGE! Highlights include: 
- Slowpokes and Lollygaggers need not apply...
- The first rule of Bring and Buy is don't talk about Bring and Buy...
- So. Many. Dice!
- I was actually very sensible, thank you very much...
- We missed an entire Medieval village!

This week, we vaguely talk about Chad... ish. Highlights include:
- Do you mean Chad the person, or Chad the country?
- No offence, but Chad sounds well boring...
- How did a country so small have such a massive civil war?
- Why isn't there a Tremors board game?

This week, the Sanderson sisters are trying to bewitch the children of Salem, and we're the only ones who can stop them! Basically, they're screwed! Highlights include:
- We don't acknowledge the sequel...
- Mark is shocked by the idea of the cinema...
- How could anybody get it wrong?
- Harry doesn't know the difference between orange and yellow...
- Jack is a notorious cauldron wrecker...
- Honestly, you make one mistake and nobody let's you forget it...
- It's NOT a cauldron!
- Harry likes it big...
- You don't play the box...
- Yeah, but is there a graph?
- I don't know the website...

This week, I've been shrunk, and must fight for my life to restore myself back to normal size - I hate it when that happens! Highlights include:
- Add an extra 20 minutes for bumbling...
- I have yet to visit any of the havens...
- Is Cragheart my name or my species?
- Crater fail!

This week, we're off to The Central African Republic, what do you think? Highlights include:
- We begin with a google...
- Prepare to take a token from the Hole of Cthulhu...
- Nobody got Bijd at the weekend...
- It's all about the Mancala...
- Anyone for a game of Housewives and Kitchens?
- Guys, have you heard of... boxes?
- I confuse Mark with pedantry...

This week, we're rival telescopes trying to be the first to find the elusive ninth planet (gutted, Pluto). Highlights include:
- We're searching for massive Assteroids...
- Asteroids hate to be lonely...
- Target shit, get banged...
- Research the D!
- Ooh, that's a nice Mitch...
- Space Cluedo!
- There's a lot of suspicious gas clouds in this part of space...
- Comets can't be everywhere!
- Meteorites aren't even a thing...

This week, we're off to Cambodia! Highlights include:
- How do you all store your Legendary?
- If the whole of Arkham Horror happened to one person, that would suck...
- Man chess is very different to lady chess, apparently...
- Temples + Jungles + Rice + Monkeys = Cambodia!
- Save the doucs/Kill the doucs - it's up to you!
- The Lost Expedition has dinosaurs???
- £14 for delivery from Ireland?? You can literally see it!
- Watch out for douche-monkeys...

This week, we're off to Cabo Verde to sample their board game delights... oh, who are we kidding? Highlights include:
- A super smooth opening to this one...
- Silent games? They're nothing to shout about...
- Once again, Mark mentions the famous game of Sub Zero...
- I'm basically Cabo Verdean...
- How many different ways can Mark say 'Mysthea?'

This week, Burundi gets the Countrybait treatment... ish. Highlights include:
- Mark forgets the episodes are numbered...
- Any game can be silent if you hate it enough...
- My war is more important than your war...
- Less than 5 minutes in and Burundi gets ditched...
- Risk goes to Mars!

It's a fantasy themed heist as we have to rob stuff and then escape from... a shopping mall? Highlights include:
- It's not for girls...
- Is 7 the golden number? No!
- How do you work out a strategy when you can't discuss it?
- What kind of shopping centre is this??
- But... why a shopping centre???
- Everyone's entitled to their opinion, even if it's wrong...
- Allow me to classify...
- Moo tries to take credit for inventing Spaceteam...

This week, we're apprentice Deaths trying to prove ourselves by killing a load of victims! Highlights include:
- The Twilight movies would definitely make you want to die...
- Turns out there's loads of pop culture references that I don't know...
- If in doubt, what would a bastard do?
- Fucking zombies...
- The shuffling was particularly bad this week...

This week, we're trying to guess quotes from the Harry Potter movies! Highlights include:
- Second time lucky?
- Watch out for silly accents!
- I keep getting my Rons and my Hermiones mixed up...
- McGonagall? Slag!
- Stick to the script, yeah?
- The most fun thing wasn't actually part of the game...
- YES!

A miracle has occurred on Aquaria! But how did it happen? And is the mysterious white light connected to the long lost Eternians?

This week, we have to stop the notorious Bandido from escaping by blocking off all his tunnels! Highlights include:
- Oops, I accidentally made three new routes!
- Expandido!
- Every time, the tactics question catches Mark by surprise...
- Why did BGA let Mark ruin the game?
- Do we have a new etiquette rule?
- What did the cat destroy?

This week we've gone full Autumn as we try to score the most acorns doing Autumnal things! Highlights include:
- Accents are at an all time low this week...
- To bonus or not to bonus?
- Prepare for cuteness overload!

This week we're off to see what's crackalackin' in Burkina Faso! Highlights include:
- Same game, different name!
- Everyone knows, you can't slide a peg...
- Let's play a round of 'Don't Get Pregnant!'
- A bit sexual, but not in a cool way...
- We don't need THAT in board games!

This week, we're doomed camp counsellors at Crystal Lake - can we find enough supplies to fend off the dreaded Jason Voorhees? Highlights include:
- Horror or Terror?
- My country list is a total mess...
- I do, We do, You do...
- Who won, I can't remember?
- Why are there so many frying pans?
- There wasn't actually much horror...
- All Jason wanted was a frying pan...
- Everyone looks well old...

The Lost Expedition gets a bit supernatural with zombies and were-beasts! Highlights include:
- Fountain Of Youth > Lost City Of El Dorado, surely?
- A few zombies never hurt anyone...
- Stuck? Just wound the dog!
- Is it good to be a Were-beast?
- In the apocalypse, nobody cares about gourmet food...

This week we're trading rude sounding cards to avoid being the Dik Dik! Highlights include:
- It's Chase the Ace, but with Diks...
- Cousins is legal, right?
- You could actually play this quite strategically...
- Dik Dik takes the bins out!

Bulgaria was so much fun that we stayed an extra week to play Battalia! Highlights include:
- We didn't do Brunei dirty...
- Stock up on Battle People!
- Pegasi? Pegasuses?
- It's all Tabletopia's fault...

This week we're off (metaphorically) to Bulgaria! Highlights include:
- 31% of Belgians love board games!
- Spam alert!
- Bet you didn't know that Bridge could solve climate change?
- Remember all the real world applications of Gnome Day?
- Coming soon - Brian Reynolds: Bridge Infiltrator...
- Give me your lettuce!
- Does anybody know how to play Magic?

This week, I'm a Greek vampire. Here's my life! Highlights include:
- Lonely? I'm not lonely!
- Sorry best friend, I choose to forget you...
- Never trust Apollo...
- I'm like a history buff now, so...
- Social mores? Internecine?
- Everyone I know is going to die...
- Do you want a climax event?
- People's lives don't follow the story mountain...

It's time for the Exit Advent Calendar again! This time we're a humble pizza delivery guy caught up in the scandal of the missing Hollywood star - can we find her and work out what the hell is going on?

Just another day in Crime City... As the name would suggest, many a crime has happened, and it's up to us to solve them! Highlights include:
- Our first episode from a sofa...
- You have to play this game if you want to become a detective...
- Watch out for pigeons. And eroticism.
- Is it a game though?
- One mango mojito and I can't even speak...
- Expert mode: play it with the lights off...
- There weren't enough sweets...
- What are the rules of this world?
- We exist in multiple lounges...

This time we're off to Brunei to check out their games. Or not. Highlights include:
- It's a whole lot of Christmas and a little bit of Brunei...
- Brunei is not where I thought it was...
- Jingle All The Way has a sequel - who knew??
- Santa is basically Christmas Postman Pat...
- Mark forgets the term for 'play a card.'
- More nightmare, less Christmas...
- Brunei: Needs a website...
- I keep messing up the ending...

This week, we're off to Botswana. Have they got any game? Highlights include:
- You can now check us out on Bluesky!
- I over Christmas...
- Throwing pebbles? Fuck that!
- First one to shout 'Malala' wins!
- Mark fails to find the actual game called actual Botswana. Actually...
- You can find Botswana in America and Japan... but not Botswana...

The crew are reunited just in time to celebrate Gnome Day, but amid the festivities, they discover a new lead in the quest to save Aquaria's polluted waters...

This week, we've discovered a magical (?) land and we're setting off to explore as much as possible! Highlights include:
- Congratulations to Sue!
- Welcome to the world of Levita Ting...
- It's a magical world... now find some apples!
- It has over a million combinations, don't you know!
- Exactly how fantastical can you get with an apple?
- Someone needs to realign the printers...

Strap in for another half hour of prime insults, as the diss track returns! 

This week, we have completed our epic Seafall legacy campaign! Highlights include:
- Turns out the box told us what would happen all along...
- Buying treasure is a dick move...
- Turns out we're the bad guys...
- Scallywagging for the narrative!!!
- We accidentally found hell. Hate it when that happens...
- If your men say they saw a demon, you should listen to them...
- Maybe it needed more... hell?

This week, we're jetting off to Bosnia and Herzegovina to check out their board game sitch! Highlights include:
- Turns out Sir Walter Raleigh was a bit of a douche...
- General consensus on El Dorado: it's a no, I'm afraid...
- Turns out Mark already explained Chabcha ages ago...
- War. Again.
- Does Purple Pineapple Games actually exist, or is it some kind of trap?

Famous explorer, Percy Fawcett has gone missing in the jungle (true story) - can we follow in his footsteps and discover the lost city of El Dorado? Highlights include:
- Time to explore, FOR YOUR LIFE!!!
- It's similar to a deckbuilder, in the sense that it has cards...
- Turns out the Bushmaster is not a nice helpful man, it's a huge fucking snake...
- Why are insects so positive?
- Roy: What a lad! Bessie: Such a pioneer! Isabelle: Oh...
- Mark's world is completely rocked by a hinged box...

This week, we're off to Bolivia... Highlights include:
- Chabcha... we still don't get it!
- Lost Expedition is actually lost...
- Mark just gave Postman Pat his own multiverse...
- Titicaca will never not be funny...
- New, from 'Goods of the Land...'
- Llamas don't care about borders...

Team JJP are joined by Harry to play the winner of the 2023 Bristol Chance And Counters Game Jam! Highlights include:
- What is the sexiest board game?
- We don't give change in this sweet shop...
- Get ready for lots of 'bag' innuendos...
- Apparently, the game is too mean...
- Pick N Fuck Off - No babies, no whiners!
- You haven't got enough money... here's a bean!
- Is it a sweet or a penis?

This time we're off to Bhutan! It has a cool flag! Highlights include:
- Bhutan is home to Chewbacca...
- We can count, so we should be able to play Chabcha...
- You may only play this game after early dinner...
- The men play with dice while the girls throw rocks at each other...
- Not war, not exploration, but stumpy little cow things!
- Does Tintin have a board game?
- Come on guys, don't ride the Takins...

While the rest of the crew were raiding the Crystal Mines, time to find out what happened to Merlin! 

This week, we're (metaphorically) headed to Benin, which we didn't even know existed until now! Highlights include:
- Why would I want a load of rulebooks for games I don't own?
- Well done Benin, you've not really been embroiled in any major wars...
- Space? Ocean? Benin!
- Hey Alice, OMG where are you?

I catch up with Thatcher to talk all things Witchbound, Dark Doll, and the latest project, Rune Rite!

We're off to Belize! Unbelize-able! Highlights include:
- How green are you?
- Get ready for some auditory discrimination...
- I did not play Jacob And Esau with my drama class...
- What is Miss Jennery Jones doing today?
- Turns out I can't read Kriol...