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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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Jun 6, 2023
Jun 6, 2023
32 min
Because it's DULL, you twit, it'll hurt more! This is it! We made it! This is our 200th episode! Only 88 shows in US Prime Time television have made it to 200+. We're in prestigious company. Only 436 more to pass Gunsmoke and be number 2 on the list. This week we delve into hot topics, like who played the best Robin Hood as we get into our deep dive of The Sherriff of Nottingham designed by Sergio Halaban and Andre Zatz, originally published in 2014 and now published by Asmodee.
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May 30, 2023
May 30, 2023
34 min
We're building subway lines this week in Terminus by Earl Aspiras and Thomas Volpe. It was published in 2023 by Inside Up Games.
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May 23, 2023
May 23, 2023
33 min
Engines pumping and thumping in time! The green light flashes the flags go up, churning and burning .... we're taking to the track in our vintage 1960s Formula 1 cars to see which one of us can SEND IT! We're playing Heat: Pedal to the Metal, designed by Asger Harding Granerud and Daniel Skjold Pederson. It was published by Days of Wonder.
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May 16, 2023
May 16, 2023
33 min
We're back in this week in the big beautiful ocean, as we hang out with seahorses, clown fish, hermit crabs, and the super smart Octopus! We're playing Octopus's Garden by Roberta Taylor publishing 2022 by Maple Games.
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May 9, 2023
May 9, 2023
33 min
... is a revolution not worth having. was V right? Find out this week if Eric, Stephanie, Ernesto, and Alexei are dancing as they play Bloc by Bloc: The Insurrection Game by T.L. Simons and published in 2016 by Out of Order Games.
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May 2, 2023
May 2, 2023
34 min
This episode marks our 4th anniversary. Bringing the content that at least a dozen of you crave but one way or the other we enjoy making! Join our four hosts as we deep dive in to why we enjoy, and continue to play Castles of Mad King Ludwig, designed by Ted Alspach and published by Bézier Games in 2014 with a collector's edition hitting our game rooms in 2022.
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Apr 25, 2023
Apr 25, 2023
25 min
Kait and Eric are racing … at their own pace … on llamas. Or llama NFTs, but I don’t want to speculate. I made all that up, but what is true is that they are playing Tiwanaku, designed by Oliver Grégoire and published by Sit Down! In 2022.
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Apr 18, 2023
Apr 18, 2023
39 min
bP and Kiwi attended Circle DC: A Conference on History, Education & Play held on March 31st to April 2nd, 2023. They talk about the games they played and their experience at the inaugural convention held at the Naval Lodge in Washington, DC.
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Apr 11, 2023
Apr 11, 2023
21 min
From the 20th to the 23rd of November 1943, the 2nd Marine Infantry Division landed on Betio Island in the Tarawa Atoll. The battle would be later known as Bloody Tarawa. This week, Kiwi is talking to himself and forces Eric to listen and edit as he plays Tarawa 1943 designed by Grant and Mike Wylie and published by Worthington Publishing LLC in 2021.
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Apr 4, 2023
Apr 4, 2023
20 min
Puns may be the lowest form of humor, but goodness do they make me giggle. If Kiwi ever groans in disappointed at a pun, he's lying, he loves it. Is he the worst? Possibly. This is week, the ladies are away, so it's just Kiwi and Eric playing Fjords by Franz-Benno Delonge and published in 2005 by Rio Grande Games. That's the edition we played, but there is a newer edition in 2022, published by Grail Games and with updates from Phil Walker-Harding.
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