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First Turn Tabletop Thoughts: Where three friends play board games for the first time and discuss our immediate reactions. It’s like book club … but for board games!
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Jul 5, 2022
Jul 5, 2022
35 min
Kait is away, so Eric, Kiwi, and bP head off to discover the "Jersey Cape" this week! We're playing Cape May from Thunderworks Games. It was designed by Eric Mosso and published in 2021.
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Jun 28, 2022
Jun 28, 2022
30 min
"Who's been painting my roses red? WHO'S BEEN PAINTING MY ROSES RED?
Who dares to taint
With vulgar paint
The royal flower bed?
For painting my roses red
Someone will lose his head."
Eric and his intrepid crew of gamers bring out Paint the Roses by Ben Goldman and published by North Star Games in 2022.
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Jun 21, 2022
Jun 21, 2022
33 min
It's our 150th episode! So we're doing a Deep Dive into Caverna: The Cave Farmers! This is one of our favorite worker placement games and we bring it back to the table. Published by Lookout Games in 2013 and designed by Uwe Rosenberg.
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Jun 14, 2022
Jun 14, 2022
29 min
This week, our gamers joined together for what we're calling CamelCon West over a long weekend. We played a lot of games, and this was one of them! Phantom Ink by Mary Flanagan and Max Seidman, published by Resonym in 2022.
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Jun 7, 2022
Jun 7, 2022
37 min
... anything before or after is just waiting." -Steve McQueen
We've got our engineers, our crazy contraptions, and the starting grid is set! Now it's time to go flat out! Our gamers come together around the virtual table to play Steampunk Rally by Orin Bishop and published in 2015 by Roxley.
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May 31, 2022
May 31, 2022
27 min
BP brings out Coffee Roaster by Saashi and published in 2015 by Stronghold Games in the US. So perk up and brew on this as she gives it her best shot to expresso herself in our first Solo episode!
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May 24, 2022
May 24, 2022
39 min
... Do other plants photosympathise with it? Kiwi will now see himself out.
This week the gang is back together again and the're playing Verdant, designed by the team of Molly Johnson, Robert Melvin, Aaron Mesburne, and Shawn Stankewich. It was published in 2022 by Flatout Games.
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May 17, 2022
May 17, 2022
35 min
"You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is to never get involved in a land war in Asia!"
No, it's not another play through of The Princess Bride board game, instead Eric and Kiwi recreate the German offensive into Russia in 1942, Operation Barbarossa. Kiwi has once again forced a game upon the podcast for work research so they are playing Holdfast: Russia 1941-1942 designed by Grant and Mike Wylie and published by Worthington Publishing, LLC in 2014.
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May 10, 2022
May 10, 2022
18 min
Kiwi and bP weren't Yurty enough for the Yurtle club, so Kiwi just made a lot of Yurt puns in the show notes that now one will ever see but that he's unabashedly proud of anyway. Kait and Eric stayed in a Yurt, in said Yurt the tried to figure out what some good Yurt Games are. Not games with Yurts ... but if you find one of those please let us know, but games to take to a Yurt if you happen to be staying in a Yurt. See how fun it is to say Yurt? Yurt. Yurt. Yurt. I am Yurt!
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May 3, 2022
May 3, 2022
38 min
We started this podcast 3 years ago. We've made some changes, added a new host, but overall we're still having a lot of fun. This week, we're doing a deep dive into a game that we played for the first time on this podcast way back in Episode 6! We're playing Call to Adventure from Brotherwise Games this week! Designed by Chris and Johnny O'Neal, published in 2019!
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