Organised Fun

Episode 208 - Dungeon

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...

Countrybait 35 - Equatorial Guinea

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

Countrybait 34 - El Salvador

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...

Episode 207 - Escape The Dark Sector

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!

Minisode 55 - Exit Advent Calendar 5

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!

Countrybait 33 - The Dominican Republic

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! 

Countrybait 32 - Dominica

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...

Teens In Space Chapter 15 - Seeds Of Chaos

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?

Episode 206 - Living Well Is The Best Revenge

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...

Countrybait 31 - Djibouti

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...

Countrybait 30 - Cyprus

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?

Countrybait 29 - Cuba

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...

Countrybait 28 - Cote D'Ivoire

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!

Countrybait 27 - The Congo

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...

Teens In Space Chapter 14 - Here Comes The Sun

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...

Teens In Space Chapter 13 - Eternians Assemble

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?

Episode 205 - Cheaty Mages

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!

Episode 204 - Jumanji

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...

Episode 203 - Cat Tower

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... 

Minisode 54 - Dice Day

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...

Episode 202 - 007 Trivial Pursuit

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.

Expansion 23 - Exploding Kittens Barking Kittens

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...

Episode 201 - Urbion

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?

Episode 200 - Stratego

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...

Episode 199 - Magic The Gathering Doctor Who

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?'

Episode 198 - Buffy The Vampire Slayer

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...

Episode 197 - Alcatraz The Scapegoat

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?

Episode 196 - Chill Black Morn Manor

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?

Promosode 5 - Paperback Adventures Volume 2

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!

Special 7 - Year 7 Review

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...

Episode 195 - Lost Ruins Of Arnak

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...

Countrybait 26 - Comoros

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...

Episode 194 - Wizard Of Oz Adventure Book

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...

Episode 193 - Deep Regrets

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...

Minisode 53 - UK Games Expo

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!

Countrybait 25 - Chad

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?

Episode 192 - Hocus Pocus

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...

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...