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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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Sep 13, 2022
Sep 13, 2022
20 min
Because it'll hurt more ... you twit! Some classic Alan Rickman right there! This episode was supposed to be another game, but the audio was lost to the horrors of chaos, so we get a semi-deep dive episode with Kait and Eric playing The Adventures of Robin Hood, published in 2021 by KOSMOS and designed by Michael Menzel.
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Sep 6, 2022
Sep 6, 2022
30 min
In a magical land of non-descriptive but emotionally sentient robots, we travel around collecting ideas and electricity as robots are want to do! We're playing Transmissions by Adam West, published in 2022 by CrossCut Games!
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Aug 30, 2022
Aug 30, 2022
27 min
The dog days of summer are coming to an end and we are quickly approaching fall. For those living in areas with trees, they should start their turn to reds, yellows, oranges, and browns. It felt like a great time to try out Momiji this week. Designed by Dario Massarenti and Francesco Testini, published in 2021 by Deer Games.
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Aug 23, 2022
Aug 23, 2022
52 min
As the convention closed, and we rested our feet, we sat around the table and talked about our experiences at GenCon 2022 while they were still fresh in our minds. We talk about the games we played, the things we saw, and our general experience at this year's show. In Part 2, we cover the first two days of the convention. Come join us!
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Aug 16, 2022
Aug 16, 2022
31 min
As the convention closed, and we rested our feet, we sat around the table and talked about our experiences at GenCon 2022 while they were still fresh in our minds. We talk about the games we played, the things we saw, and our general experience at this year's show. In Part 1, we cover the first two days of the convention. Come join us!
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Aug 9, 2022
Aug 9, 2022
37 min
Did you know that Woodrow Wilson signed the act that created the National Park Service on August 25, 1916 but that Yellowstone became the first National Park with an act signed by Ulysses S Grant on March 1, 1872. The service employees employees around 20,000 and has about 280,000 volunteers and last year had almost 300 million visitors? This week, we're playing PARKS by Henry Audubon, published in 2019 by Keymaster Games.
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Aug 2, 2022
Aug 2, 2022
31 min
Eric and Kiwi challenge real life dog walker, Kait, to become the most successful and best dog walker in the land! That's right, we're playing Dog Park by Lottie Hazell and Jack Hazell, published in 2022 by Birdwood Games!
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Jul 26, 2022
Jul 26, 2022
39 min
Kait was off and so the other three hosts decided that this we were going to kill off a relative so that we could inherit the family's abandoned distillery and bring it back to it's former glory. This all makes since 2 of them don't do hard spirits and the other is more of a wine person. But you know, sometimes you gotta try out new things. That's right, I'm sure you have guessed it by now, we're playing Distilled from Paverson Games, designed by Dave Beck and published in 2022.
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Jul 19, 2022
Jul 19, 2022
36 min
"I saw a wino with a bag of grapes and I was like ... dude, you have to wait!" This week, Paxton and Kiwi provide no wine knowledge what-so-ever to bP, but they do bring some math ability and planning skills, as the three play Viticulture World designed by Mihir Shah and Francesco Tetstini, published by Stonemaier Games in 2022.
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Jul 12, 2022
Jul 12, 2022
28 min
We're in! Let the hacking begin! Zero Cool and Acid Burn are on the job this week, as we blaze through the techno-sphere jumping servers, trashing routers, causing net damage and meat damage galore! It's all just 1s and 0s dude, 1s and 0s! Eric and Kiwi play Android: Netrunner designed by Richard Garfield and Lukas Litzsinger, published by Fantasy Flight Games in 2012.
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