Organised Fun

Episode 191 - Gloomhaven Buttons And Bugs

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!

Countrybait 24 - The Central African Republic

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...

Episode 190 - The Search For Planet X

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...

Countrybait 23 - Cambodia

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...

Countrybait 22 - Cabo Verde

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?'

Countrybait 21 - Burundi

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!

Episode 189 - Magic Maze

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...

Episode 188 - I Am Death Now

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...

Episode 187 - Harry Potter Who Says

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!

Teens In Space Chapter 12 - Eternians Everywhere

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

Episode 186 - Bandido

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?

Episode 185 - 61 Autumn Leaves

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!

Countrybait 20 - Burkina Faso

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!

Episode 184 - Friday The 13th Horror At Camp Crystal Lake

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...

Expansion 22 - The Lost Expedition Fountain Of Youth

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...

Episode 183 - Don't Be A Dik Dik

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!

Countrybait 19 - Bulgaria Part 2

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...

Countrybait 18 - Bulgaria

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?

Episode 182 - Thousand Year Old Vampire

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...

Minisode 52 - Exit Advent Calendar 4

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?

Episode 181 - Micro Macro Crime City

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...

Countrybait 17 - Brunei

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...

Countrybait 16 - Botswana

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...

Teens In Space Chapter 11 - Gnome Day

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...

Episode 180 - Explorers

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...

Minisode 51 - Diss Track Volume 2

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

Episode 179 - Seafall

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?

Countrybait 15 - Bosnia And Herzegovina

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?

Episode 178 - The Lost Expedition

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...

Countrybait 14 - Bolivia

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...

Episode 177 - Pick N Mix

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?

Countrybait 13 - Bhutan

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...

Teens In Space Chapter 10 - The Trials Of Merlin

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

Countrybait 12 - Benin

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?

Promosode 4 - Rune Rite

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

Countrybait 11 - Belize

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...

Countrybait 10 - Belarus

This week we're talking about all things Belarus! Highlights include:
- 'Belarusian Travelling' is it real?
- It sounds like it's more fun to be a boy in Belarus than a girl in Belarus...
- Marxists... IN SPACE!
- A long time ago in a gallery far, far away...

Teens In Space Chapter 9 - Assault On The Mines

The crew of the AGA-0 venture into the Crystal Mines to liberate them from Slinger control, all so they can find out about the waste product that's been polluting Aquaria... but where's Merlin?

Expansion 21 - Cthulhu Wars Infiltrator

We're back fighting for territory with giant monsters, this time with The Infiltrator and the Mists of Mogoroth! Highlights include:
- Board games are good for cuddles!
- Audio Adventures do exist! Mark wasn't hallucinating!
- BAHRAIN!!!!
- The Infiltrator... basically if Death was a goblin...
- Don't get lost in the fog...
- Usual manufacturing woes apply...

Teens In Space Chapter 8 - Priorities

The crew meet back at The Space Bar after their adventures on Nestes and Colony 9, with new paths opening up as the mysteries of the galaxy unfold. What's more important? Solving the mystery of Aquaria's waters, investigating the destruction of Forgia, or something else entirely?

Minisode 50 - The Museum Of Board Games

This week, Jane and I visit Tony Boydell's Museum of Board Games and have a right good time! Highlights include:
- Board games basically just make you a better person...
- Don't confuse Newent and Newnham...
- Prepare for Battle Hats!
- If you play the original Booby Trap, you'll legit lose a finger...
- There's a surprising amount of parliament games...
-  Hello dear, fancy a game of Ulcers?

Countrybait 9 - Bahrain

This week we have been mostly talking about Bahrain. Highlights include:
- We set a new progress record on Apollo!
- Next week, we pretend we're in a house...
- Bahrain has a Virgin Megastore. Fact.

Minisode 49 - Definitive Games

This week, Riley joins us as we try and pick definitive games for certain categories - but how to choose? Highlights include:
- We are so in synch for Deckbuilding and Worker Placement!
- Area Control... where you have to... control... areas?
- Someone Uno-Reversed my whatever...
- Who's laying all the eggs?
- Auction? What??
- Some categories are extremely suspect...
- What the hell is an elapsed real time ending?
 

Countrybait 8 - The Bahamas

This week, we're off to The Bahamas! Highlights include: 
- If you live in The Bahamas, you're not going to be indoors playing board games...
- I was expecting pirates...
- Taxis aren't exactly Bahamas specific...
- There are sheep in The Bahamas...
- Game designer, or Footballer?
- What has Mark spotted this week? 

Special 6 - Year 6 Review

It's our 6th anniversary! Huzzah! Highlights include:
- Audio games - do they actually exist?
- Rest assured, Derek Ring is still alive!
- Pick N Mix is in the post...
- Schrodinger's Cats is a cat game too far...
- Mark gets confused between real and imaginary...
- How exactly do you say duchy?
- We need some listeners from Genovia...
- Is Narnia a country?

Countrybait 7 - Azerbaijan

What wonderful games does Azerbaijan have to offer? Highlights include:
- Surely Israel has more important things to do than listen to us...
- Mark can't say 'Azerbaijan'
- Would you rather play 'Hounds and Jackals' or '58 Holes?'
- Mark also can't read numerals...
- Backgammon players are held in very high regard...
- Hang on, these are all the same wars as Armenia!
- Turns out Bali isn't a country...

Teens In Space Chapter 7 - Murky Waters

Trying to solve the pollution problem on Aquaria has led the crew of the AGA-0 to a murdered scientist on Psionus. Now they must face some difficult decisions that will put their morals to the test...

Countrybait 6 - Armenia

We're off to Armenia to see what their gaming sitch is! Highlights include:
- Pigs Vs Dogs...
- I'm sure Mark said 'cinnamons' instead of 'synonyms...'
- Maybe we won't go to Armenia right now...

Episode 176 - Obsession

Have you heard? The Fairchilds have moved to Derbyshire, and they're the most eligible, marriageable people of the land! Can we lure them to our family estates and show them a jolly good time? Highlights include:
- Beware, there's accents...
- Hey, I know you just lost your parents, but... wanna bang?
- If you don't plan the Village Fair, you don't benefit from it. Fact.
- I wasn't good enough to have a ball in the hall...
- Do we have ladies?
- Everyone's talking about the Cavendish Casino...
- Join us on the lawn for Angry Bowls...
- Family planning is super important...
- Is it Whist, or Lesbian Whist?
- A lovely time is have...
- One never FRAGs without one's underbutler...

Episode 175 - Monopoly Socialism

It's Monopoly, but not as we know it! Can we keep our utopian society alive without bankrupting it with our horrible horrible greed? Highlights include:
- What the hell is a typewriter voice?
- Can't afford it? The community will pay!
- Quinoa!
- Remove a chip...
- Extreme disappointment in McDonalds...
- It's difficult to switch to co-op mode...
- What's with all the roses?

Episode 174 - Horizons Of Spirit Island

Pesky colonisers have arrived on our sacred island - I hate it when that happens! Luckily, we're all-powerful spirits with a range of abilities to get rid of these interlopers, but can we do it before they wreck the island forever with their filthy filthy blight? Highlights include:
- Ecosystem: Go big or go extinct...
- As usual, we ignore all playing advice...
- Unhelpful rulebook alert!
- Why does this game even exist?
- Fear is good. Fear is what we want...
- It has The Arkham Effect...
- All the Benders have played this one!
- Lucas Durham looks like AI...

Episode 173 - Ecosystem Coral Reef

We're building ecosystems again, but this time under the sea with fish and that. Highlights include:
- My underwater utopia didn't win me any prizes...
- Fish count as nature!
- Bears are NOT a British woodland creature...
- Plankton floats, right?
- Ellen Macarthur should play this so she knows what she's sailing through...

Teens In Space Chapter 6 - Directionless

Leesan is gone, the Fraxis are causing trouble, the pollution on Aquaria is reaching crisis point, and weird creatures are turning up all over the place - what will the crew of AGA-0 do?

Minisode 48 - A Listener's Journey

This week we are joined by John, who has listened to our entire back catalogue over a couple of months... and survived! We talk through his listener's journey! Highlights include:
- Atmosfear: The Bins...
- Go back 25 paces...
- Chess 2000: don't be fooled...
- Redemption City of Bondage actually looks pretty cool!
- It's NOT a doorbell!

Countrybait 5 - Antigua And Barbuda

We're off to the Caribbean (I think) to try and entice some new listeners! But what does Antigua and Barbuda have to offer? Highlights include:
- I did bad maths...
- Another country, another Mancala variant...
- Did the Queen play Warri?
- Mark starts laying into a game we haven't even played...

Episode 172 - Schrodinger's Cats

A load of boxes in Schrodinger's lab... Can we hypothesise how many contain alive or dead cats, or are completely empty? Highlights include:
- Neither of us can purr...
- Prepare for a very rudimentary explanation of Schrodinger...
- I make some fundamental errors in gameplay...
- What is the point of this game?
- Bootstrap Bill, you're a liar!
- The cats are NOT cute!

Episode 171 - Room 25

Welcome to the hottest reality show in town, Room 25! Watch some dirty scummers try and escape a complex filled with horrendous booby traps before time runs out! Hooray! Highlights include:
- French translation issues ahoy!
- It's basically Cube: The Game...
- What the fuck game is Sub Zero??
- Special powers? Hard pass!
- Jennifer loves a good vortex…
- Sometimes it just gets to ‘fuck it’ time…

Episode 170 - Wyrmspan

We are amateur dracologists trying to lure dragons into our caves. Do we have the meat? Highlights include:
- Are you an Upgrader?
- Machi Koro: Monopoly without the hatred...
- Beware of box-farts...
- The box gets a bit sensual...
- Never approach a Loyal Fey Dragon with red wings...
- First or nothing!
- Meet Little Miss Five-Egg...
- Amanda becomes the FRAG Dictator...
- Dragons>Birds
- The Bellicose Firevern gets two mentions, whoops!

Minisode 47 - Figure Painting Challenge

This week, Mark and I have competed in a challenge to paint a game figure each - despite our limited experience/talent. Highlights include:
- Don't say 'targeted.'
- Mark can't get his head round Games Workshop and Warhammer...
- Games Workshop plus Hornby Railways = the perfect combination!
- Coming soon: Painting Legacy!
- Here's my picture, by William, age 2 1/2...
- Full credit to the employees of Warhammer Cardiff...
- Quit while you're distinctly average...
- Mark knows all the lingo...
- And now here's Riley with the science part...
- Highlighting ALWAYS makes it look better...
- Galaxies of the Guardian??

Countrybait 4 - Angola

Guess what? This week, we're coming for Angola! Highlights include:
- We keep getting new territories, but not the ones we've targeted!
- Marbles: not for boys, apparently...
- I can't remember, or in fact find, Space Alert...
- Angolan war, no thanks. Space war? Monster war? Yes please!

Countrybait 3 - Andorra

This week, can we lure some listeners from Andorra? Highlights include:
- In case you didn't know, Andorra is the 6th smallest state in Europe...
- Andorra may or may not have its own games industry...
- Andorra and Legends of Andor are not the same...

Countrybait 2 - Albania

This week we try and lure in some Albanians! Highlights include:
- We may not have got Afghanistan, but we got Korea!
- Heritage games... a new category?
- Naturally, the Balkan wars dominate Albania themed games...
- It's hypothetically Albanian...
- Is it a board game, or just a war newspaper?

Countrybait 1 - Afghanistan

This week, we attempt to lure in the listeners of Afghanistan! Highlights include:
- Games in Afghanistan seem like non-stop pranks!
- Kite Fighting!!!
- That well known Afghanistan themed board game, Rambo!
- We learn some history with Pax Pamir...
- Afghanistan is not where I thought it was... 
- Here's my new BFF, William Hay MacNaghton...

Minisode 46 - Unruly Gaming 2

This week, we try to work out another game, but this time it's on Tabletopia, where there is no rules help whatsoever! Can we figure something out? Highlights include:
- Tabletopia proves to be just as intuitive as ever...
- No matching results...
- Pick a random hand size...
- How do we get more cards?
- We actually got a lot of things correct!
- Mark still doesn't know the difference between spades and clubs...
- Is that a 7 or a 2?
- Suites?
- The otters and the anteaters vs the skull people...
- Welcome to the Regiverse...
- Would you rather have a shit rule book, or no rule book?

Minisode 45 - Unruly Gaming

This week, we make the bold assumption that we know enough about games that we should be able to work one out without reading the rules. Highlights include:
- Mark still can't say the motto...
- Surely we've got all the countries  by now?
- But why does the hexagon change?
- Building buildings seems like a good thing to do...
- I completed two missions by accident...
- Coffee pots and bird feeders, what?
- Mark loves moving the tortoise...
 

Teens In Space Chapter 5 - Fraxian Standoff

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?

Episode 169 - Sub Terra 2

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...

Episode 168 - Apollo

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...
- Anyone for space-tennis?
- You have to do this science experiment, but I'm not going to tell you how!

Episode 167 - Pitchstorm

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 5?
- Uncharacteristically, I miss out a few rules...
- Sarah comes dangerously close to saying the M word...

Episode 166 - Fugitive

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...

Episode 165 - Confident

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 speak...
- Where's the English?
- It's not even made in Wales...
- What is the average Frag of an Organised Fun game?

Episode 164 - Kluster

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...
 

Minisode 44 - Exit Advent Calendar 3

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

Episode 163 - Who Did It

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 suspect?
- This game cannot be played in space...

Minisode 43 - Homebrewery

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...

Expansion 20 - Jurassic World Legacy Of Isla Nublar Chaos Mode

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?

Episode 162 - Volfyirion

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...

Episode 161 - Trial By Trolley

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!
- Who cares about young George Washington?
- Not many people can say they've met a leprechaun...
- Literally no-one will miss Justin Bieber...
- Some people are binmen, some people are lawyers, and some people euthanise animals...
- Fuck your boss!
- Malala? She's peaked...
- If you're dumb enough to set up your table on a train track, you deserve everything you get...
- Surely nobody's gonna target me for The Purge?
- It wouldn't be an episode with the girls without some Munchkin bashing...
- I get desecrated...

Minisode 42 - Culling Boardgames

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?

Teens In Space Chapter 4 - Going Postal

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?

Episode 160 - Bristol 1350

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?

Minisode 41 - Chance And Counters Game Jam

I did something extremely uncharacteristic and entered a game design contest! Find out how it goes!

Episode 159 - The Traitors

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

Episode 158 - Pandemic

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

Episode 157 - Cows And Cabbages

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

Episode 156 - Theseus The Dark Orbit

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...

Minisode 40 - Single Card Games

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 Drive, but with the Key To Time
- No Relinquams In Arkham Horror Operculo

Teens In Space Chapter 3 - Lasto The Great Bloodline

After escaping Fraxia Beta, the crew of the AGA-0 take a much needed break at The Space Bar...

Minisode 39 - Artificial Intelligence

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, and sharing the joy

Minisode 38 - Boardgame Court

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 someone, wait for Nan's birthday
- Who is Hans and why are we holding him?
- You stand accused of Ludophilia

Episode 155 - Lord Of The Rings Adventure Book

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 use the ring, right Sarah? Right Sarah???
- Come on Frodo, stop crying and just get on with it

Minisode 37 - Boardgame A To Z

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 eat a meeple
- The Table Is Lava got my child hooked on... lava
- We lose our head start around W

Expansion 19 - Fireball Island Treasure Trove

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

Expansion 18 - Cthulhu Wars Dreamlands

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

Teens In Space Chapter 2 - The Fix, The Flood And The Fraxis

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!

Episode 154 - The Mystery Agency

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 freaky clawboards
- Ghost in the Attic? A fucking monkey could play it!

Special 5 - Year 5 Review

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 proper harsh
- Sarah starts off with a board game low-light
- Bunty chooses a game from the future! 
- Kimmy only likes a game if she wins
 - It's a good old time
- Riley forgets Kyle's name

Episode 153 - Taskmaster

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?

Teens In Space Chapter 1 - Express Delivery

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... 

Minisode 36 - Boardgame Bucket List

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 is Mombasa?
- Just because you like games doesn't mean you know every game ever