Organised Fun

So we finally did it! Joined by special guests Patrick, Glen and Lee, we play Epic Drinking Fluxx with all the corresponding drinks and snacks.... did we survive the horror? High(low)lights include:
- Mark gets listener criticism
- Nobody wants to argue over a wheelbarrow or a twatty cannon
- Mark persistently forgets how to play, and acts incredulous about literally everything
- The Shiraz has not been aired
- Patrick and Lee have a background Science-off
- What is an honest amount of nuts?
- Glen makes questionable life choices
- Is pepper a fruit?
- No one wants a lawsuit
- Mark is a cheating bastard!

In this Minisode, we discuss the use of Kickstarter as a platform for board game creation. We get Patrick's expert opinion, because we literally know nothing! Highlights include:
- We mess up the intro
- Format change!
- Too bad Canada doesn't have its own language
- The Kickstarter baby is an ugly twat
- What if you back something and then die?
- Fucking Chinese New Year!
- Wingardium Leviosa?

Strange phone calls in the middle of the night? Weird dreams pointing to a creepy ass house in the middle of nowhere? What could go wrong? Find out as we play House Of Danger... Highlights include:
- Can fictional people write books?
- Why isn't it just a book?
- Don't stop around to look at shit
- Mark would rather play without me
- I wasn't exactly rolling in lols
- Mark can't remember the motto

We aim to misbehave as we play Firefly Adventures! Highlights include:
- I mutilate some Danish (language, not people)
- Mark admits he doesn't know anything
- We get a pretentious Latin motto
- Where do we get the guns?
- I ditch the plug

There's a distinct rise in criminal activity as we play Monopoly: Cheaters' Edition! Highlights include:
- Mark does not remember Kwanzaa
- I try some Swedish
- It's our first actual board game, with pieces and a board and everything!
- Mark plugs his own podcast again

We Skype up some Yanks for a transatlantic game of Cards Against Humanity! Will there be horrific misunderstandings, or is offensive material THE universal language? Highlights include:
- It's our longest episode!
- Mark continues to deny his hatership
- I disobey the Spreadsheet
- Fog Of Love has indeed caused a divorce
- Would you play this with your mum?
- We all do awful accents
- Cassie is a stickler for the rules
- If I don't have the Jew Pack, does that make me a racist?
- Cassie and Chris don't know who our Prime Minister is...
- 9 times out of 10, Dick Fingers will always win
- We have a Haiku-Off
- I plug my own books. They're good...

Can we survive a relationship simulator? Or will we realise that actually we hate each other? Find out as we play Fog Of Love! Highlights include:
- We briefly re-visit Doctor Who Fluxx
- Supernatural Trivial Pursuit finally makes sense
- I get box confusion
- What is the audience? Couples? Friends? Girls? Spies? Whoever it is, Mark offends them
- We meet Tolkien's new elf, Tutariel
- Otters = Lack of discipline
- I say 'you know' about 6 million times
- Could Fog Of Love ruin your life?
- Both of us were utterly miserable in our relationship
- Nothing shall be plugged
 

Mark tackles the solo challenge of trying to negotiate the release of some hostages from a crazed loon. What could go wrong? Highlights include:
- 3D Snakes and Ladders disappointment
- We've caught up with the backlog in some weird meta self-referencing
- Drink every time someone says 'Hostage Negotiator'
- Mark takes charge
- More than half your hostages dead? That's not a win is it...
- Edward Quinn needs to calm the fuck down
- It's called 'Hostage Negotiator' not 'Hostage Ignorer'
- Mark remembers to use the past tense

We couldn't save Arkham with cards, but maybe we can do it with dice! Bunty joins us as we play Elder Sign! Highlights include:
- Mark makes another stellar character choice
- Bunty went to Piranha Land
- Mark's advice = look at the symbols and just try and win
- Tactics? From Bunty?
- Bunty doesn't have the brains
- Dice rolling is actually a lot harder than it looks...
- Mark is single-handedly responsible for everything bad
- I use an actual flashback from Episode 2
- I try to do an impression of Mark
- I don't know how to suspect things
- I can work a spreadsheet, but I can't work socks

We travel to Sunnydale for a game of Legendary: Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Grab your stakes and prepare to get dusting! Highlights include:
- Mark encounters reading issues
- I can't use dividers properly
- Board, Mat... same thing!
- Shit shuffling strikes again!
- Master wins: we are shit
- There's no shafting
- Mark blasphemes against the Spreadsheet
- Huge card boxes - they are the future

This week, expand your knowledge as we talk expansions! Highlights include:
- Warren Rice is still missing, and a load of Miskatonic students are dead
- Mark has literally no thoughts
- I sow the seeds for an Expansionode? Expandode? Expanode?
- Mark tries to go against the spreadsheet

Patrick and Meriel join us this week, but shit! I forgot to scan for human DNA - Will it be ok, or will we have to escape from aliens in outer space? Highlights include:
- I mess up. A lot
- Finally, someone who can appreciate the finer points of The Spreadsheet
- Meriel is the first girl we've had... on the podcast
- The Wedge Effect is lost
- Mark reads the rules
- Lying is hard. Tracking is hard. It's all hard
- Mark is the enigma
- "Bad guys"
- I'm the worst kind of bastard
- Well done to Italy

After playing Arkham Horror The Card Game again (unsuccessfully), we discuss the major crimes of the board game world, and what generally ruins the experience - watch out, the spreadsheet takes a bashing! Highlights include:
- New scary interludes
- 'Alternisode' sounds a bit shit
- It's not Colditz
- I'm a bit of a hypocrite
- You SHOULD get up and have a drink
- The podcast is called 'Organised Fun' not 'Do What You Want Whenever You Like'
- Even stupid people can follow rules
- We introduce our new Scandinavian friend, Yarn

Join us as we battle to rescue Dr Francis Morgan from eldritch monstrosities! Key points include:
- The importance of The Wedge Effect
- Canada are a bunch of thieving bastards
- Mark always picks the shit characters
- I don't know gambling terms
- Mark doesn't like reading or listening

Holy water? Check! Silver bullets? Check! Extensive knowledge of source material? Not so much... Join us as we play Suppernatural Trivial Pursuit. Highlights include:
- Shock over Mark's Twitter followers
- I lose the rules
- Beer isn't a food

Prepare to kick ass and rock out as we play Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Card Game! Highlights include:
- Derek Ring is around!
- Mark can't say 'innovative'
- Why is my box a different colour?
- Mark likes a board
- Mark sighs a lot
- Mark develops a new catchphrase
 

Park the Tardis and get the beers in as we play Fluxx! Key points include:
- Mark doesn't remember basic podcast conventions
- An official Gamers Vs Haters mechanic is established
- Derek Ring!
- Hand limits suck
- Concentrating is hard
- I love Tegan
- The cat gets annoyed
 

We play our first game, Bears Vs Babies. Key points include:
- My amazing spreadsheet
- Mark's best 'Broadcast Voice'
- Our impressions of Judge Judy
- My rule reading skills get criticised
- Mark describes his beaver
- I can't shuffle
- Mark doesn't know what 'plug' means