Episode 77: Hex on the beach

In Becky's last episode within her run she takes board gaming to the beach, well on holiday at least as we chat about when the hobby meets travel.  We chat through our tips, some of our favourite travel games and anything else in between.

FIRST PLAYER: Becky
OTHER PLAYERS: JP, Davey and Tambo

In this episode you'll learn:
- about JP's first few games of the hit battle royale shooter Apex Legends by Glass Cannon Unplugged
- how Tambo argues with his family about what colours the walls should be in Décorum by Floodgate Games
- all about the chaos that is Galaxy Trucker from Czech Games Edition and why it's Davey's perfect board game warm up act
- that Becky cheats and gets two games in Harmonies by Libellud the the powerhouse that is Flip 7 by The Op Games
- all about taking games on your travels, why it's fun, top tips and more.

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EPISODE CHAPTERS
0:00 - TURN 1 - Player Count

1:06 - TURN 2 - Let's Talk About Hex

1:13 - JP - Apex Legends

14:48 - Tambo - Decorum

19:37 - Davey - Galaxy Trucker

26:40 - Becky - Harmonies & Flip 7

35:07 - TURN 3 - Main Event: Hex on the beach

35:59 - The key aspects to taking games on holiday

41:56 - What are our top travel friendly games?

53:54 - The type of holidays will help curate the type of games to bring

55:55 - Top tips for preparing to take games on holiday

1:01:51 - What is out one chosen game & honourary mention to take away?

1:11:47 - TURN 4 - Receive, Sleeve or Leave

1:14:45 - TURN 5 - Penultimate Turn: What's Coming Up

1:23:01 - TURN 6 - The Final Turn

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Chapters

• 0:00 TURN 1 - Player Count
• 1:21 TURN 2 - Let's Talk About Hex
• 1:28 JP - Apex Legends
• 15:03 Tambo - Decorum
• 19:52 Davey - Galaxy Trucker
• 26:55 Becky - Harmonies & Flip 7
• 35:22 TURN 3 - Main Event: Hex on the beach
• 36:14 The key aspects to taking games on holiday
• 42:11 What are our top travel friendly games?
• 54:09 The type of holidays will help curate the type of games to bring
• 56:10 Top tips for preparing to take games on holiday
• 1:02:06 What is out one chosen game & honourary mention to take away?
• 1:12:02 TURN 4 - Receive, Sleeve or Leave
• 1:15:00 TURN 5 - Penultimate Turn: What's Coming Up
• 1:23:16 TURN 6 - The Final Turn

Transcript

TURN 1 - Player Count
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[Music]
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Welcome to Whose Turn Is It Anyway, a podcast all about our gaming group here in the southwest of the UK where we chat
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all about board games. I'm Becky, your current first player, and I'm joined by other players today. Tambo. Hello JP.
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Hia. And Davey. Hello. Our topic this week is Hex on the Beach where we're going to discuss board games and holiday
0:37
travel. How's everyone doing today? Super. That was very determined. It was very
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like short and to the point. Super. Super. Yeah. More actually. Yeah. I'm still kind of recovering from the old uh
0:49
expo. Um like most people, I'm slightly less tired than I was last week, but I'm
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still a little bit tired. But it's all good. What else? Yeah, I'm getting there. All good. No complaints over this
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side. Well, let's crack straight onto our first section then. Let's talk about hex.
JP - Apex Legends
1:14
So, what has been on everybody's table recently? All those new expo kind of purchases or whatever. JP, go on. Take
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it. You want me to start the the ball rolling, do you? Well, mine isn't an expo purchase. Mine was something that
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arrived pre-expo and I haven't kind of had the chance to play it properly and
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Expo happened and I had a chance to talk about it properly but they were at Expo and they were demoing this game so it
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kind of is like an expo kind of game. Why not? Yeah. So basically I'm talking about Apex Legends by Glass Cannon
1:46
Unplugged. So my pledge legendary pledge and it is legendary cuz it's it's is it
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massive? It's [ __ ] huge humongous box. It's It is so My box is really
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long. Um but yeah, it's it's massive. You want to see someone about this? It's No, I don't. I'm really I'm really
2:03
impressed by it. Uh no, it's it's it's huge. This thing arrived and it's oh my god, this is massive. Um and I had a bit
2:11
of PTSD. I'm not going to lie, when I punched it out cuz then I realized I've got to sort this out. And I did it. I
2:17
got excited. And did you take everything out of the box? took everything out and it was like a Friday and it was late and
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I started to punch and for what am I doing cuz I'm not going to get this done and and and you know when you kind of
2:28
get halfway through that and you have to just chuck it all back in the back. Yeah. I was like, "Oh, this is dirty and filthy." But it all went back in and
2:35
like and um and yeah, basically I got through it and it did take a good couple of hours of just solid sorting out which
2:42
I you know I don't mind. Sounds good. But the worst thing is you know that it's sitting in that box all messed up when it's there in the back of your mind
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going oh and I couldn't get to it for two days and I was like oh this is just annoying painful. So I managed to sort it all out and get it all organized. So
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once it's organized it's like it's good it's good now. And then we had a good couple of games. So I had a training game um with uh Rob and we kind of
3:02
played two-handed um two legends each and then we had a a proper um stint at
3:08
it the the other week as well. So before I get into it, if people don't know what Apex Legends is, it's based off an IP,
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video game IP, battle royale shooter kind of game. Bit like I say a bit like
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Fortnite. People probably crucify me if they're nothing like Fortnite. But you know, if
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you're an outside thing, it's a shooty shooty bang bang game where people like to kill each other, but you're in kind
3:32
of squads of what? Two or three? Uh three. Three. And but each character is kind of um different. So each legend has
3:40
their own abilities and uh they they kind of work very differently. Um so yeah, they definitely a personality,
3:47
shall we say, and and you think how are they going to translate this fast-paced shooter into a turnbased board game? And
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they've done it in such an incredible job in my opinion. It is just really,
4:00
really fun. So, kind of how it works is if you can imagine at the start of any kind of battle royale shooter where the
4:05
map's massive, there's loads of you, it kind of fast forwards through all of that bit and it takes you to the last
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moments of of the the the death match where there's a ring that closes down and shrinks the play area into a smaller
4:19
area and the game the board game kind of enters you in that moment where you're kind of entering the the final stand.
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But before you do that, you kind of um draft your legends of which I can't remember how many I've got. Quite a few.
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Um and you can kind of go, "Oh, I want that one." And if you know the game, you're like, you've probably got your favorite. So Dave already knew most of
4:39
the the the roster in there cuz you probably played them all over time. Yeah, I've played them all. Yeah. He's like, "Where's where's this one? Where's
4:44
that one? Oh, it's" And I was like, "No, we're playing we're playing the uh the boring intro." And I had to kind of stop him from picking what he wanted, which
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he was he wasn't happy about, but tough. Um, so you you kind of draft your legends and then you do a kind of load
4:57
out phase and that's quite fun actually the load out phase because you draw a load of weapons, draw a load of loot
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from loot bags and then you and your partner cuz it's a team game. You you sit and go, "Right, how do we work this
5:08
out between us now? I'll have that, you'll have that. That's really good for me." Now, if you have this and you're kind of just puzzling it out between
5:14
you, it's like a little mini game before the main game. So once you got set and you're like, "Right, ready, cool." You
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then decide who's going to enter the map from what side of the the the main map
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and you take it in turns. You get bonuses for for picking certain sides and then let hell commence basically
5:32
after that. So, and it's got a really nice um verticality to the game because
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it comes with 3D buildings and 3D terrain. So, it really has a table presence. This thing you look at and go,
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"Wow, like this thing is popping." Um the disadvantage of that is you have to stand up every now and then to actually
5:49
have a look around corners. But but you know with those kind of games you you're you're probably on your feet a lot
5:55
anyway so it's all good. One person stands and then the whole table starts standing anyway.
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Um and it's all arranged on a grid system. So it's not like measuring tapes or anything like that. It's all on
6:07
grids. And there's rules around you kind of moving around how you move up buildings, how you can drop down and all
6:13
of that jazz. and and you have the typical line of sight uh stuff. So once you get your head around the line of
6:18
sight rules, they're not too bad, but I think when you're not used to that kind of game, there's definitely a bit of
6:23
right, how does how does this work? I'm on top of this building and what's hidden and what's not hidden. But you
6:29
figure that out is golden and then suddenly you're kind of in the the game. The bit I really enjoy is well many bits
6:38
I really enjoy is the um the abilities on the legends. So they all come with a a tactical and a ultimate ultimate.
6:46
Thank you Dave. An ultimate ability where you'll use them. So if you're uh Bangalore, as an example, she's got uh
6:53
smoke screens that she'll just drop and they come with really nice uh kind of cross-section I call them minis, but
7:00
they're just cross-section train pieces, aren't they? Kind of thing. Pieces that really just pop out on the board um as
7:06
as one of her abilities. Another one is Rolling Thunder. Rolling Thunder. So she can literally call in an air strike.
7:12
Nice. And literally bombard the crap out of the uh the arena. And I've got cuz I
7:18
got the the legendary edition. I've got all the diaramas of all the characters.
7:23
It's completely unnecessary. Don't even need it. So if you're thinking, do I need them? You don't need them. Are they
7:29
cool? Absolutely cool. I thought it was going to be used in the game. I was like, what's this diioama piece? This looks cool. Oh, no. It just sits to the
7:36
side with all your pieces. It holds your stuff. It kind of the dioras look like an active scene in the game. So your
7:41
legend sits in there, its abilities and all sitting there. So if you look at it, it just looks like they're, you know,
7:46
being fired upon or whatever. And it is really cool, but they serve no function other than to look cool and hold the
7:53
stuff. But I'm I'm there for it. Um, so yeah. So really cool how they got
7:58
different abilities. So every character feels different. And now having played it a bit more, I'm like, I really want
8:04
to just explore some of the others in there cuz they look crazy. Um, so that's kind of one aspect I really enjoy. But
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the the actual main thing is the the the shooting mechanic, how you actually shoot people and how that whole thing
8:16
works. Cuz you'd expect, oh, it's dice chucking, isn't it? No, no dice in this game whatsoever. And you have an aim
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board that sits off to the side and an aim deck. And it works really simply and
8:28
it's really clever is when you're about to fire, you'll shuffle that thing. your
8:33
enemy gets a chance to react and they can play feat cards from their hand to react and say, "Haha, I'm going to move
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or I'm going to do something." Um, but if you manage to get the shot fired, then depending on your weapon, it'll
8:43
tell you how many cards you're going to draw. Um, so it could be like you've got a pistol, so it's literally,
8:51
you know, not that many shots, or you got an assault rifle where you're going to have a lot of cards in a row, or you got a shotgun where you got lots of
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cards, but condensed into uh many fewer columns. and you're flipping these cards
9:02
over and they've all got numbers on there and you're trying to hit um basically uh over a target value that
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your weapon will say. Your weapon will say you need to hit over 50 and then different things to modify that depending what's going on. And uh yeah,
9:15
you're just flipping them over and you go hit hit. Oh, this one's got a head shot. Nice. If you hit with a headshot, bang, extra damage. But again, on that
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deck, you've got half targets, which means if you get two half targets, doesn't matter what the number is, that's a hit. And you've got things like
9:30
actually if the opponent's in cover and you've got you draw a certain card that says you miss if they're in cover or
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sometimes you'll get a hit automatically if you're elevated misses if you're firing upwards and things like that. And
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it just works really quickly. You do it and you go damn or yes and and reset and
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off you go cuz the value actually on the track you have positive numbers and then negative numbers. That's right. And if
9:55
your gun's more stable, that means you start the deck higher up. So you're adding numbers, so you're more likely to
10:01
hit. But then if you start getting debuffs or you get more recoil in the gun, you actually go into the negative
10:07
numbers, which means you're less likely to hit. So it's a really intriguing way they've done it. It kind of makes sense though, like how that works with the
10:14
weapon that you're using. Go. That makes sense. Um, and yeah, and you're just firing shooty bang bang. And basically
10:20
the win condition is you you need to get a kill on each legend. So if let's say me and Dave on one team, Tambo and Becky
10:28
on the other, I'd need to kill Tambo once. I need to kill you once, Becky. And then that team wins. Simple. We kick
10:34
their asses, Tambo. Simple. And uh and it's just it's frantic. It's it's in
10:40
your face. And the ring closes even further in the game to the point where you are literally got no choice. that
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you are just face to face firing and just just nowhere to hide at the end of it. And I quite like that cuz you can
10:55
skip out of the ring. You're going to get punished for it cuz you lose damage, but you can literally just Yeah, it's
11:01
just it's just action and you can't help but just be involved. And I'm having a blast with it and I can't wait. We've
11:06
got another game coming up. I still owe I think you're missing out on that one, Dave, but we'll owe you another one,
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Tambbo. You're one in. Yeah. So, there's another one to be set up for sure. Um, and I just want to play all of the
11:17
legends. I like the idea that the sort of the zone of action Yeah. minimizes
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it. Like that's really clever, isn't it? It kind of focuses your attention. Like you can't just drag this out and try and
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limp along. That's pretty cool. That's the beauty of it. I think I we our first game that we had slow to start people
11:35
hadn't played before. lots of questions when you know it. this. You could be knocking games out in 90 minutes like
11:43
which you know the setup is 20 to 30 minutes which actually is not bad when you look at you think oh my god this is
11:49
take forever but when you know it you can literally get games in off you go and uh and I think that's where the
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game's going to shine if you're sitting there with AP like most games and you're waiting go come on just move your
12:03
character like two spaces and shoot something I think if you don't just like the video game right you're thinking
12:09
But you're not sitting there going, I'm going to analyze while I could go up there and I could do you'd be dead, wouldn't you? Before you even think,
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you'd be dead. So, you've got to do more reaction and stuff. And I think if you play in that mantra where react more
12:20
than overthink this, then the game's going to be really snappy and fluid. So, yeah. Yeah. It's nice and fast-paced,
12:26
isn't it? Yeah. So, it it does that really well and it's action-packed. You've got two goals. You've got one
12:32
goal and that's to kill two people. So, from the off you'd assume be each other. They've kind of condensed that skirmish
12:38
game into a, you know, an hour and a half game, which is really nice. But there's loads of different modes.
12:43
There's capture the flag, there's there's boss mode, there's there's loads of different ways of playing it that I've never even touched or looked at
12:51
yet. Some of those might be a bit longer, right? Probably. Yeah, who knows? Oh, there's a fun fact about
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battle royals, though. All the concept came from an old movie, old Korean movie where Battle Royale
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in it. That's what PUBG was like made that game and that's what that ring enclosing ring was all based off of.
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Yeah. And then you did Apex Legends, Fortnite. All of them started cloning up and started to get a slice of the
13:17
action. Yeah. Now there's more battle royale than there are dogs. I don't know why dogs, but yeah, fine. Woof. I went
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through a phase of watching a load of uh Korean and Japanese movies with a friend many years ago. Um was a crazy one about
13:31
spirals. How could you make a film about people going mad about spirals? But you can. Yes, you can. You can. And it's
13:38
great. Yeah. Don't know. Triangles are scarier, I think. Well, you haven't seen who's me. If you see that, you you won't
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look at a spiral the same spiral out. I think he ended up digging out his ear cuz he knew he had a spiral in. Yeah.
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It's all a bit. Yeah. Watch with caution, listeners. Watch with caution. But that doesn't happen when playing Apex. So, it's fine. But I I I'd
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recommend it. I think even if skirmish games aren't your jam, which they're not mine, but that sounds rapid enough that
14:04
would keep my attention, I think. But just try it because you might surprise you. Like I'm surprised I own it cuz I I
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played a prototype two years ago and I I I'll be honest, I wasn't really that
14:16
interested. I was helping Paul Grogan out and said, "Would you mind coming playing this?" Went. Yeah, sure. Go for it. I'll play anything anyway. And I
14:23
remember driving over there going, I'm not really that bothered about this. and then sat down and played it. I've just
14:30
had a blast. This is amazing. That's such a nice sort of surprise when that happened, isn't it? When you've been
14:35
sitting thinking, "Oh, that's exactly how I felt about Lords of Water Deep." As I know I've mentioned before, you think, "Oh, this game's going to be rubbish."
14:41
And then you just think, "Oh, this is brilliant." And it exceeds expectations. It's so nice, isn't it? Love it when that happens. So, yeah, that's me. Cool.
Tambo - Decorum
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Tambo, tell us about your game. Okay, so I wasn't an expert game. I I recently went over to my sisters and we they
14:54
bought a game called Decorum by Flood Floodgate Games. Um, basically it's a
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game of they describe it as a game of passive aggressive cohabitation.
15:05
Okay. So, you're bally literally a family trying to decorate a house, but you all have your own ideas on how this
15:10
house is decorated. Okay. I think people are living that actually married.
15:16
It's a married couple. Should we do his eggshell white or should we do magnolia? Yes. So, um, so yeah, basically as a
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family, you are there to decorate the house, but you all have your own objective cards with your three objectives, which say it's got the
15:30
bathroom's got to be red, and you got you got the choice of I mean, um, antique, modern, and there's four
15:36
options you can have like on the board next to it. Okay. Like style, like classic. Yeah. Yeah. Um, and you you've
15:43
got to have like your bedroom a certain color and you might have the bathroom has to have um a yellow modern
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or something like that. And you've got to have it in and then you all got to meet your requirements to fulfill it within I think it's like 15 days or
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something per day. Um it's really good fun. You can't it's all about communication. You can't say much at
16:03
all. So it's not about communication but it is but you're not allowed to talkirectly very limited. You can only
16:09
have to say so swarm does an action. You do one action. You can ether change the color of the of the the room you want by
16:14
chopping around or you can take an item off. But if you take an item off, you can put an item back on, but it's got to be the same item. So if you just want to
16:20
take an item off and do a different item, you can't put that other item back on. Um, so and then you do that and then you go around the table once you've done
16:26
anything and they go, "So what do you think?" And you go, "I don't like that." Cuz it's it doesn't help you. Oh, I see.
16:31
Okay. And or or you just say, "No, that that's horrible. That's awful. That's disgusting. I don't
16:38
like it." And that makes just to make sure it's really bad. You're not going to make my objectives if you do that. Yeah. Um, but no, it's it's good fun. Um
16:46
there's loads of different um scenarios. So you got I don't know how they figured that out cuz it all must work. So they
16:53
have one scenarios and if you put all together you think how how can they make
16:58
this work? How how can they have all different ones but and you can all meet your objectives. So is it a sort of co-op then? Are you trying everyone? Oh
17:05
okay. That's interesting. You've got to do it as a collective to do it. You've all got parts of the information. Correct. And then you've your one big
17:11
sheet and you got the three little sheets with your objectives on and then every 5 days you get to have a family meeting. So you're allowed two of you
17:17
are allowed to pass on your one objectives that you trying to give. So you give that person it and they can look at it and they know what you're
17:23
actually going for. That helps in a way. But um yeah, no I I was like that I was
17:29
a bit I'm not really bothe about these sort of games but it was good fun when we played it. You sold it to me. I think it sounds amazing. How many players is
17:35
it? It's four players. Four players. It's four players. Yeah. Um yeah, it it was good. It was we um I was actually
17:41
quite good because I actually done all my objectives like pretty much within three terms and I went I'm really happy. You say a phrase that I'm really happy
17:46
with that and it just goes so I'm all but then all my nephew my mom and my mom my sister they're all just fighting each
17:53
other. Don't do that. Don't do that. Which is okay. Yeah. It's entertainment. Yeah. To watch that. And then about
17:59
another 10 days 10 days later then they start moving my stuff. I'm like no I'm not happy with that. I've been happy for
18:05
half the time and then it sounds like real life family kind of dynamics of of being in a house, isn't it? Yes. And
18:11
when you get to the last day, you got one more chance to have a meeting and then there's one more time and if you don't do it by then, you fail basically.
18:16
But there's loads of different scenarios. Does the house get repossessed at the end or something? Burn down. Yeah. Must just basically the
18:22
family just drama. Yeah. Blow it up. Blow it up. That sounds really good. How long did it take to play? Uh not long.
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About 40 minutes. Oh, nice. It depends obviously how well you do. You do quite quickly. Um, they have different star
18:34
levels of objectives. So, you can have two star hardness and then you got real hard ones. Well, yeah. So, yeah, it's good fun. Nice. I can't think of a game
18:41
that I own that's like a co-op four player.
18:46
I can't think of Spirit Island. Oh, don't you brought it up again. I don't.
18:51
It's not really PTSD with Spirit, don't you? Love. It's not as nice as decorating your house, is it? No.
18:59
Fending off invaders. depending on I just I just can't with that game. I really want to be able to, but I just
19:04
can't. No, I think that sounds like a really That would definitely fill a niche, wouldn't it? Yeah, different.
19:11
Yeah, it's kind of like puzzle code breaking in and but there's a Yeah.
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Yeah. My nephew's doing the same thing with Tim not to do all the time. He got to do it. You can't do it cuz we can't
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do it. Like, but I got to Yeah. And and then he passed you going, "This is why."
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And I'm like, "So, it's good. It's good." Nice. Yeah.
Davey - Galaxy Trucker
19:37
I like the sound of that. Go on, Dave. What have you been playing? Um, so we we've kind of mentioned it at the expo,
19:43
but I haven't really played a game since the expo. I've kind of had a bit of a uh a purge of games. But um you just been
19:51
relaxing. It's been a lot, hasn't it? Yeah, it has been a lot. But we I'm going to talk about Galaxy Trucker. So, it's an older game. They do have a new
19:58
expansion coming out soon um which is about is it the VIP one or is that the
20:03
it's got VIPs in it? It's called Do What? But it has VIP uh people that come onto the ship and like and it's also got
20:10
like super mad um disasters that that can happen. Not like the game's hazardous enough. So, Galaxy Truckers,
20:18
if you've not heard what it's about, so you you are truckers in space, and at
20:24
the start, you've got to build your ship, but it's not like, "Oh, I'll build my ship at a leisurely pace." No, you're
20:30
timed. And there's tiles in the middle. They're all face down. You've got a grid, which is your ship, which can
20:36
change depending on what level you're doing. I think there's like three or four uh levels that you can do, but um
20:42
yep, you'll everyone puts their hand in, countdown, do a timer. You'll grab a
20:47
piece, one piece, put it over your ship, then flip it, have a look at the piece, decide if you want to build it or not.
20:54
There's lots of different pieces. There's like connectors which are just um literally a tile of different types
21:02
of connectors because on each piece of your engine there is either like a one pipe connector or two pipe connector.
21:09
Your piece has to connect in the right way when you put the piece down. You're
21:15
allowed to store two, but if you don't use them at the end, they're minus money. And this is all about making money. Person with the most money at the
21:21
end wins. You've got other pieces which is like cargo holds, guns, shields,
21:29
um there is aliens which give you little buffs. There's engines and you build a
21:35
ship. While you're doing this, you can also look at the card which are your goals that might happen as you go out
21:41
into space cuz there's ones where you have a race where it's the person with the most engines has to like zoom off.
21:47
um which there's always also batteries and some of the better engines require you to spend batteries to do them.
21:55
Person at the end of the track uh who goes first gets most money at the end and also gets to do objectives as these
22:02
objectives flip. So after you've built your ship, the first person to build their ship puts their piece down and
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they're going to go first. flip the objectives. When an you might have one which is like
22:14
cargo where the first player gets to choose whether they want to take this cargo but usually it means going backwards on the grid which means they
22:20
might change their position which means the next card that comes out they won't be going first. Some of them might be just meteors falling from the sky
22:27
blowing up your ship. And this is where the stuff kind of gets interesting. Pieces of your ship might get hit. If
22:34
that's a connector, that whole piece of your [ __ ] just disappears and each one of those tiles that's broken off is a
22:40
minus money at the at the end of the first run. So, and it's kind of chaos.
22:46
It's absolute chaos when you're playing. It's good fun. My brother loved it and bought it in the end. Um he had so much
22:51
fun playing it even though he did the worst out of all of us because right right at the start of the very last
22:58
round I think um he had like a targeted meteor that hit the middle of his ship so he had to wipe out one half of his
23:05
ship from the start. So it was pretty doomed for him but it is kind you you just accept it. It's just funny, right?
23:11
He had two I think he had two squares on his ship left. He had this main um like cabin and like a and yeah and an
23:19
offshoot and everything else had fallen off and it was just floating it was just floating around space
23:26
and it did look good fun when you guys were playing it like that kind of the the grabbing tiles at the start. It was
23:32
just like this frenzy of of like a piranha frenzy. Yeah. And a lot of shouting go I don't need this piece but
23:38
I want this piece but I can't hold this piece cuz I've already got two pieces that you put it back. when you put it back has to be face up. Yeah. So if
23:44
someone else spots it, oh, I need that. Well, that's gone. I can't build that
23:50
because you Yeah. building the ships like it is half the fun of the game, right? And then seeing how well you do
23:56
as you go out into space and seeing if you What's fun is when because you do a
24:01
little check after you've built, you do a little uh is this legal? Oh, okay. What were you looking for? It's frantic,
24:07
right? Mistakes are going to get made and you check all the connectors of the other player and you go, "That's not
24:12
right." And you're like, and then you got it's got to go. You wipe off the map. And and that could be a fatal
24:18
start. Like that's what happened to Rob right at the start of the very first game, wasn't it? It was like half your ship's gone. They still count as
24:24
negative as well then at that point. Yeah. No. Blind. It's punishing, isn't it? But you can you can build it back
24:30
through money from doing stuff like it happens to everyone as well. So you don't you kind of don't you don't mind.
24:38
You don't really don't mind. You know, it's going to be chaos. It's all about the fun of the game. It's not about who wins in that game. It's about kind of
24:45
just how much fun you have while playing it. It's like a good party game. It is really It does sound really good. I'd
24:50
really like to play that. It's just nonsense and and silly, but you're just laughing even when your your stuff's
24:57
falling apart or some crap's happened to you because you know it's going to happen to someone else in a minute. Why did Ky not like it then? Probably cuz
25:03
it's too random. Yeah, maybe there is a lot. Yeah, there's not a lot of sort of decision making and choices as well. I
25:10
there are I think there are I think it's probably got more in it than people give it credit for because but it's just you
25:16
know if you if you're knowing the the tiles in there and you're knowing what to look for. Yeah, I guess and you're
25:22
looking at the cards as Davey said. Um I didn't do this often as I should have done, but if you if you're looking at
25:28
the cards going, "Right, yeah, that's got this. I'm going to build my ship in this particular way cuz I think it'll maximize what money I'm going to get."
25:34
There's all of that you can do. Um, but but obviously if you're looking at cards, you're not getting pieces and
25:40
everyone else is like snafling and I've got a good booster and you're like, "Oh god, I'm left with the drags or I've got
25:47
a gun that points the wrong way and I can't can't get it to orient." You're saying this very casually like, "Oh, you look at this." And you can build this
25:53
while it's all just chaos going, "Look at the piece. I needed this piece. Oh no, I need this. This card's coming out. I need that. But now why am I looking at
25:59
the card now? I've already built that." And then in your head it's like
26:05
That's like a puzzle under pressure. I don't know if I like it. Maybe that's why Curly doesn't like it, you know? Maybe that's why he doesn't like it. I
26:12
No, I I want to try it. I want to see. Just Yeah. If you like that kind of Don't worry about it. We should get a
26:18
game of that in cuz I love the thought of that. A game to play before another
26:23
game. It's like a warm-up game, right? Yeah. It's real good in introduction. Like, oh, let's play a game. Let's do
26:30
this fun thing first before we do the beige. Serious. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
26:36
It's a good cleanser. Good warm up. Nice. That sounds cool. Yeah. It was Galaxy Truckers. Cool. Well, I'm going
Becky - Harmonies & Flip 7
26:41
to cheat and choose two because it's my last uh turn as first player and I can So, and you again. Yeah. Um so, the
26:49
first game I'm going to talk about is Harmonies by Li Liilud. We've decided you pronounce it that way. And we'll go
26:56
with it. that is a game where you're creating certain landscapes in order to
27:02
um deploy place certain animals. So, it comes with beautiful little pieces and
27:07
you're basically you've got your own sort of little board player board, your
27:14
own little biome. That's nice. And there's kind of selections of three different habitat tiles, a bit like us
27:21
all. So, you've got little tile selections in the center. Um, and you've got uh rocks, which are little gray
27:28
discs. You've got buildings, which are little red discs. Uh, planes, which are yellow, sort of foliage, which is green,
27:35
and brown, which is like the bark of a tree. So, you can just have a bit of green on its own, but you can put a green on top of a brown, which makes a
27:42
tree. Um, so in front of you in like the I think they call it the river, there is
27:47
four different kind of animals, and they kind of are sort of they make sense. So, for example, a beaver is going to want
27:56
two bits of water and a I don't know, maybe a rock or something. And if you
28:02
have if you choose that card, cuz each turn you get to pick three, you know, your choice of the three habitat tokens
28:09
and you get to pick a card if you've not already got four in front of you. And then the idea of the game is to basically make um the the kind of
28:17
habitat they want, which might be one gray in the middle with a blue each side. It's on little hex's, so it kind
28:22
of tessillates nicely. And then if you do that, you'd put one of the little tokens from that card on top of the
28:28
let's say a gray piece. So you can be clever about this. You can use that the
28:33
blue pieces that you've already used, they haven't got tokens on. You can put another gray piece on like say the opposite side. So you're still making
28:39
that same formation. and you take another little token and put it on the gray, whatever. So, you're trying to
28:45
sort of max out the different ways you can have that correlation of of pieces
28:51
um and certain scoring conditions. And I I'm not very good at this because I was playing it on BGA and you can find the
28:58
information, but I would didn't score enough. So, that's probably why I scored so badly. So, I think you only score you
29:04
score the the animals that you've managed to get out into the habitat, but you also score certain points for let's
29:09
say groups of stones that are together. So, you don't score a stone on it, one little gray piece on its own scores
29:15
nothing. But if you're in like a if you got like a little formation of them, then they score I think 1, three, five,
29:21
that that sort of thing. So, you score game you score points for having the animals and you also score points for
29:26
sort of generic pieces that you managed to get out. It's a very quick game and
29:32
there's no kind of I guess other than someone picking those three tiles that you specifically wanted and they get
29:38
refreshed anyway, but there's not really any player interaction. So, you could play this solo and that's the only way I have played this is is solo, but it
29:45
would just be it's just about kind of do you get more points than the other person, but it's really calm, nice
29:51
little puzzle game really, I think. So, if you don't like puzzle games, this is not for you. But if you do like puzzle
29:58
games, it's just another variation. It's instead of just sort of making like wild Serenetti, you're trying to get your
30:04
animals in a certain line. This is maybe a little bit more you got to think a couple of steps ahead. Like, oh,
30:10
actually, I don't want to I don't want to put that animal out yet because that will put a yellow token on that and I need to build that later, so I won't put
30:16
So, you do have to think about it a little bit. And it's just really pleasant. The pieces are really nice.
30:21
They reminded me of Kabuto Sumo pieces. They're quite chunky. Chunky discs. Yeah, really just really nice. So would
30:29
recommend that. Yeah, I think any any age group could play it really. Uh I
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think there are sort of more advanced cards that you can put in called something like spirit animals and that
30:39
kind of gives you a maybe a if you do more of these, you're going to get this at the end. You don't
30:46
have to play with those and it you know it's just a more points but you don't have to. M but I just it's really basic,
30:53
really easy to understand, but the kind of puzzly aspect and you choose the puzzle bits you're going to do. So
30:58
that's that's really nice. I just really liked it. Yeah. So yeah, Harmonies would recommend. Sounds interesting. I just
31:04
have beef with it. Okay. Beef. Well, there's no there's no there's no cows in it. There's no cows in it. I do. I've
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I've I've got Okay. It's in the ir quiz.
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Do you remember this? There was that one that looked like Cascadia. Yeah. looked loads like Cascade but ended up being
31:20
Harmonies. Yes, I do. In the in the uh That's nothing to do with the game. No, it's not. But I've got beef with
31:26
harmonies for taking that spot. This was the uh the Fox and Hounds um North Devon
31:31
board gaming weekend event that our friendly podcast pals Deon Dice podcast
31:37
hosted that year and they had a really cool quiz, but clearly Davey took on bridge with one of the questions. No,
31:42
no, with harmonies. Okay. With harmonies with the game. Yeah. Yeah. With the game. Joel. Joel, you're fine. He's not cross at you. He's cross at the game.
31:48
He's cross at the game and he'll never play it. No, no, I will play it. I will play. It's good. It's just a little
31:53
puzzly game. Yeah, cool. I'm down for it. I like the look of it. It's cool. And the other game that I didn't buy,
32:00
but I really wish I did cuz I've played it again on BGA Board Game Arena, is Flip 7. Totally simple push a luck game.
32:10
You could probably explain this to somebody who didn't even speak your language. I could imagine. There's only
32:16
three cards that you need to sort of explain what they do and that is very obvious. So, flip seven is a um you can
32:22
play with maybe I think probably eight players. Massive amount of players. That's good. Yeah. So, all you're doing
32:28
is a card is dealt to you which is a number most likely. So, in this entire
32:34
deck you've got one one two number twos three number threes four number fours all the way up to 12. You've also got
32:40
three cards that say second chance, which is like a a way to get out of busting. You've got three cards that say
32:47
freeze, which means you can stop someone else scoring any more points and just that they just Yep. Block them down. Uh
32:53
and you've got a flip three, which you can use as like a uh a weapon against someone if they've already got a few
33:00
cards turned and they're like, "Oh, yeah, I'm going to stick now." No, you're not. I'm going to make you play three. Yep. or you can play it yourself
33:07
if you haven't got many cards yet as a way of getting more cards. So the turns
33:12
go around the table, you flip your card, and then you decide if you're going to basically stick or twist. So if you've
33:17
scored if you been dealt a one, you're definitely going to probably twist
33:23
because you're only going to score one point. Mhm. And the game ends when you score 200. But also one's a really safe
33:28
card because there's only one of those in the entire deck. So you know you're all right really unless someone gave you a flip three and you randomly pulled two
33:36
more of a different card. So you basically decide each time do you stick or twist the amount of times the amount
33:43
of god damn times yes damn that you that you draw like a five and you think oh
33:48
well that's you know I'm fine with five and you draw another five immediately straight after and you're like what are
33:53
the odds of that and the odds are pretty low but god damn it happens to me a lot and it's just a very very simple I guess
34:00
it might be a bit of a pain keeping score but that's why I play on BGA cuz I don't need to do that does it for you.
34:05
Yeah. Um, but yeah, just one little tip for people. Do not accidentally play it as turnbased cuz then you're waiting
34:12
every single day for one person to make a turn, which is awful. But yeah, real time. It takes about less than 10
34:18
minutes, I suppose, if people aren't messing around. Really quick and it's punishing but nice when you pull off.
34:25
Oh, I'm Yeah, I'm going to push my luck. Oh, yes, I've got it. I've got loads of points now. And equally then when someone else bust, you're like, gutted.
34:32
So when you go bust, you lose all your points. No points for you. So it's it's
34:37
a race basically. It's the simplest game there could probably possibly be, I think. But but they're the best. I think
34:42
it really is addictive. Yeah. I It's probably a good one to end on cuz it really ties into your uh into your This is it. Well, this is what made me think
34:48
of this game. Yeah, cuz I wish I had bought it because it would be I think I'll get it fantastic for uh for
34:54
holidays. Yeah. [Music]
TURN 3 - Main Event: Hex on the beach
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So, Hex on the beach then. What makes a good game for holidays and travel? What
35:13
do we think? Oh, straight in with a question with a question. What makes What makes good? So,
35:19
durability. Yeah. So, I think underestimate. Yeah. Underappreciated durability. Durability, right? Because
35:26
basically it's gonna get knocked around and it can get smashed and trashed. Y So
35:32
size size size matters in this point. It does. It does. Yeah. I think in sort of almost two ways. It matters that it
35:38
doesn't take up your entire luggage for example. But equally you need to think about where you're going to play it. So
35:43
if you're playing it on a plane or a train, you've got a very very small footprint that you can use there. Unless
35:49
you've bagged a table on a train and you've got a bit more footprint until someone with a laptop turns up and takes
35:56
the rest of the exposure. Absolute ruinous buggers. Yeah. Yeah.
The key aspects to taking games on holiday
36:01
But yeah, equally, yeah, you don't want to fill your entire rock sack. If you're just going super lightweight camping or
36:07
some crazyness like that, you're not going to want to take 5 kilos of No.
36:12
Wow. Depends. Is out, isn't it? Depends on your holiday. And this is the thing, isn't it? So I guess if you're going on
36:18
a a holiday with people that are big board gamers, maybe you are actually going to be able to take big games. So
36:23
for example, we always not always, very often take tickets a ride. Yeah. We
36:29
don't take the box though. We just take the board cuz the board is flat, right? So that's easy to fit in the top bit of
36:35
your suitcase. No problem. And you just put the cards in a baggie and you put the crappy trains in a bag. Another baggie. Simples. Fit that in a shoe.
36:43
Yeah. Well, the board the pieces. Well, no. You tie the board
36:49
to the bottom of your shoe and then it's like a snow boot and you can walk it and then you can walk it. Yeah. Yeah. So,
36:55
you can That's going to take up like almost zero room in in your in your That's just smart. So, there you go.
37:01
Yeah. So, yeah, I think you're absolutely right. That durability is a really good point. You don't want really delicate, beautiful cards. Well, you
37:08
could get a neoprene board of Tickets Road as well. Yeah. So, travel edition. Some of your chip theory games are going
37:14
to be fine because it's near neoprene and plastic. So, but they're not small. Um, no. And they're not light either.
37:20
And the durability isn't key cuz like my my daughter has just come back from a juke of Edinburgh weekend staying and
37:26
camping overnight. She goes, "Dad, can I take Uno?" I said, "Yeah, I don't care. Take a Uno. Uh, it's not mine. It's
37:32
fine." And this thing had come back wet. Is it mangled? Mangled trash. just went,
37:38
"Yeah, we got caught in the rain and everything got a bit soggy and it's like, yeah, great." I think I think it's
37:44
in the bin now. So, durability is key. It depends on what you're doing in your holiday, but yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah,
37:50
waterproof maybe or sandproof if you don't want something that's going to get all gked up with sand. That's That's not
37:57
going to be playing board games on the beach. Yeah, I guess it could happen. I I can't Can I think of a I can't think
38:03
off the top of my head of a board game I'd want to play on the beach. I played cards on the beach. Yeah, I have had a deck of cards and we played cards cuz
38:09
it's I mean they're all like laminated. It's fine, right? Yeah. And you can get some card like is there like a double
38:15
that's there is a double each plastic card. Oh, there you go. But most of the
38:21
things I was thinking of when I was thinking about the games in this episode, they're predominantly card games, I think, because you got the
38:28
portability right there. Really small. You can put it in a baggie if you're worried about it getting wet in like a
38:33
Ziploc bag or something. And it's it's easy, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. I think
38:38
there's certain adjustments you have to make to have a board game. I think you'd have to have the board so it's neoprene
38:45
so that you can roll it up and put it Yeah. in a compartment in a shoe. Yeah. If it's only got any small components,
38:51
those components need to be a little bit bigger so you don't lose them. Yeah. Yeah. That's a good point. But then you
38:56
also need to save space with it, right? So you want to there's that probably sweet spot. And then you don't Well,
39:03
dice. Dice, right? I suppose dice are plastic, right? Yeah. So, flame craft could work then because that's on like a
39:10
neoprene mat. There's a lot of cards. Yes, a lot of cards. Although mine are all sleeved, but I wouldn't want sand
39:16
getting in there. No. And that's an issue is wind with card games cuz we play we play too many bones. Was it too
39:23
many bones you played outside? And everything was fine. Bar the cards. The deck of cards for the travel thing started Yeah. going off in the wind and
39:31
then it was like everything else was fine. It was just the cards. Yeah. Yeah. Because it was a nice day.
39:36
We're like why don't we play outside and it sounded like a great idea. Was that when Rob burnt his head really bad? No.
39:42
No. It's another another another outside another outside experience. Yeah. But I think I think the whole thing around
39:49
being creative with um actually I don't want to take the box is really good because actually or I do want to take a
39:56
box but in this box I can take five games. You could probably more than five games in a box, mate. You know what I
40:01
mean? Depending on the games that you've got, if you And I know people do this. They have um uh plastic storage
40:08
solutions and actually they've binned most of their their boxes for small. I wouldn't go as far as binning. I've seen it though. That's too far. But it Yeah.
40:15
In here has is 10 games of blah blah blah blah blah. And you know, it's all quite portable and you've got 10 games
40:21
that uh you know, in a shoe box size that you can take with you, chuck in the car or whatever. So, I think yeah, don't
40:27
be afraid to decant. Yes, I think decanting is a really good point. Do you know what you could do as well is you
40:34
you get rid of all the boards and you print the boards off into a folder and then all your boards on the folder and
40:39
you just turn to what page you play the board game. You can laminate them as well. You can laminate them off and then
40:44
you just have a little slot and be like, I need these games. Take my book, my board game book. There are ways to get
40:51
some of your classics. If I had to go on like say a six-month canal boat or something and I really wanted I don't
40:57
know where that idea it's Yeah. Someone was saying if you don't live on that boat for six months I'm going to kill everyone. I want to get off your Then I
41:05
think Yeah. I think that's a really good idea. Minimize like miniaturize the board. Use little small pieces or
41:10
whatever cuz you won't have a big table on a canal boat. No. No. That's for sure. I have never been on a canal boat.
41:16
I don't know why that that came. You get a table. It'll be good for board games but you just can't. Won't be a big table. Probably force. You're going to
41:22
Norfolk. Squeeze. That's it. I I would like to do one. I could pretend to be a pirate. Yeah. A slowmoving pirate. Very
41:29
slow moving pirate. I think the locals might take offense of you trying to pillage their their good. I don't want to do anything. I just want to look like
41:34
a pirate. Oh, you want to look like pirate? Cosplay as a pirate on in that remote. Jump on jump onto the pavement,
41:40
steal something of them, jump back on the boat and go away and then slowly move. It's like Yeah. Quarter of a mile
41:46
an hour. Bit singing. It's a pirates life for me. They probably would let you
41:51
get away with it. They think this person's crazy. I don't I don't want to go anywhere near them. Yeah. So, what
What are our top travel friendly games?
41:56
are some of our top travel friendly games then? Can you think? What would be ones that you would always take on
42:01
holiday with you? I've mentioned Tickets to Ride. Yeah. I think for me the the the little box games um that we like to
42:09
take away are um some of the jeweling games that usually me and Josh play.
42:16
Okay. Like Kiri or something. Kiri the Jewel or Radlands um and things that I
42:21
compile recently again really kind of small boxes that you can kind of wheel out and it's mainly me and Josh cuz I
42:27
tend to try and keep him entertained whereas my daughter and my wife quite happy just watching Love Island or
42:32
whatever. Um so those are the kind of staples in there um to be fair but if
42:39
it's for me it's different. So this things I've got stuff I'll play with family. Yeah. Um and weirdly taverns of
42:46
teeth and foes in the family. Um it's not small parks, especially with the
42:52
expansion pieces. It's a lot of pieces, but you know, we've got a car, so it just goes in the car. I guess you've got
42:58
a lot of game in not a massive humongous car, have you? It's kind of one thing. So that that tends to be our weird
43:05
family travel game as well. Get rid of a spare tire, put the board game in, fine. Don't need it. Yeah, it'll be fine. But
43:12
I mean, yeah, the but then going to me, I always take captain's chair with me.
43:17
Yeah, I do because if I'm actually got an evening, I'm in a caravan or whatever and the tables aren't super massive,
43:24
it's big enough to get an array of cards and a tableau for yourself. So, if I'm
43:29
thinking actually this this is I just want to escape, but I'm still part of the family, still on holiday, still
43:35
here, but you know, they're doing something. Um, then that's usually always there. And just like your your
43:40
thing around decanting, I don't have to take all the captains. I wouldn't save that much space, but it's literally just
43:46
put five decks out the box. I might as well take them with me. Got deck. He's got a deck in his pocket at all times.
43:52
Oh, yeah. Bit of captain. I like to keep a card close to my uh my nether regions.
43:57
Um or is it Kof the Cllingon? I don't know. Yeah, there you go. Dave, what
44:03
about you? What are your top travel for in the games? So the crypto is one we usually take with a family because that
44:09
you don't actually have a lot of bits to it anyway and it's really good. It's really fun to play especially after a
44:15
couple of wines. Um beers um and then when we went to Essen we me and Paul
44:23
played a lot of rolling rights which were quite good actually. Yeah that I think they really come into their own in
44:28
travel games don't they really well they're usually small. And on the way back we played um Monumental Jewel which
44:35
we were right on the limit really for for cuz we took the train to play a ball
44:40
game. It kind of filled the whole table but we got away with it and it worked
44:45
and it was good fun. So yeah, I think you've got a little bit more room. A dual game as you were saying is always
44:51
good. Um if you've got no room, a roll and right works well. All you need is
44:56
like a hardbacked something and someone to roll a dice usually or have have a deck. Um and then a family game, the
45:03
crypto. It's nice and small and it has enough crunch to it that it's fun. Yeah.
45:08
No one's mentioned love letter. No standard. Yeah. That's usually in the bag. Yeah. Yeah. How about you Tambber?
45:14
What's When I go abroad, say we're going abroad on holiday, the best one we I like to take sky team. Okay. Yeah. Nice
45:21
small box. Small box and it um just little little card. You roll dice next to it. You play it on the plane as well
45:28
or no? It's a bit too big to put on the plane tables unfortunately. Yeah. A bit
45:33
worrying though. Yeah. Suddenly the plane starts falling as you're going.
45:38
Am I controlling the plane? Um yeah, that's one. And the other one we like I like to play is Kakazone.
45:45
Yeah. But we take out the box, we put into a poly pocket. We don't take the box with us and score your pieces. This
45:52
is in a Tesco bag. Yeah. Yeah, that's a really good fun just drawing tiles, put on the table. Yeah, I
45:58
think something something similar in in what we've all said with those is is games that have got really good replayability cuz if you're only going
46:05
to take a couple of games and you're going for two weeks, I guess it's diff it's different for us, isn't it? Like the idea that you'd only play two games
46:12
over two weeks is like perish of thought. Whereas that's probably as many as most people play in the entire year,
46:18
isn't it? So I guess maybe replayability is not massive important for them but for us it would be really important.
46:24
Depends on your holiday and what you're doing right because you know if you're on a board gaming weekend all week then
46:30
well board games are quite important for that. Um but if you're generally on holiday summer holiday abroad or whatever then you're probably not going
46:36
to be gaming every night. Depends on who you are. Depends on what you're doing. Depends what your family's into. Yeah.
46:42
Um or yeah you might be out. You might be getting drunk. I don't know. It's your holiday guys. And I think sometimes
46:49
some games it's nice if you can stretch them to a lot of people as in like big player count like something like flip
46:55
seven. You can explain that to someone like I say with very very minimal understanding of your language and
47:02
everyone gets it really quickly and you can play a massive massive amount. So that might even make you friends.
47:08
In fact I didn't mention two which was when we were going around South America living in a van. We played shut the box
47:14
a lot and um Perudo. Perudo was great with the locals and everyone else
47:19
because it kind of Yeah, it was just it's just loads of fun. Really good bluffing game. Um all you needed was
47:26
some dice and some cups. Had that in the van and then the dice also were shut the box with a piece of paper where you
47:32
wrote the numbers down and then played shut the box. Yeah, I've never played shut the box. Oh, it's such a simple game. My mother-in-law has the wooden
47:39
box version where you you flip over the numbers, but you you have what? Two dice and two dice. Yeah. You roll them. You
47:46
roll them and then you got to you shut the number of what what you get from the dice roll pretty much. But you can do a
47:51
two and a three. Say you roll a two and a three. You can do a two and a three or do the five. So it's working out what
47:57
odds are best. So you roll the seven. It's usually doing better doing the individuals, right? So and then it's
48:03
whoever shuts the box first. I get Is it one to nine or is it higher? I think it's Isn't it all the way up to 12?
48:09
Might be 12. Yeah, I think you two dice. Yeah. Got to get them all down. Get them all down. I guess kind of like Yatsi
48:15
then in a way that you've got to find combinations of numbers and points potentially. Yeah. So I think yeah,
48:21
maybe games that are dice based and just a bit of P like rolling rice. Yeah, it was easy cuz literally always had it in
48:26
the van. So, and then we just got and then sometimes we played with like some old bean tins with the dice for playing,
48:33
but I just had a big bag of dice and some tins like a Yeah. slightly homeless
48:39
man going, "Want to play some Peru?" for food. I would love them.
48:45
We We did a shut the box tournament over Christmas which is just basically we all
48:50
had a go who who get the highest score on round and then we had a knockout system. So, whoever got the lowest
48:56
scores knocked out, we went again until there was one left. And that it was so dumb, but it was like everyone was
49:02
really into it. The whole family was like, "This is so exciting." You know, we're playing shut the box for two
49:08
hours. Two hours. Game takes what, Dave? 60 seconds to play. Yeah. Yeah. It took
49:14
two hours of playing Shut the Box. It's mad. Well, that's clearly got replayability in, hasn't it? It doesn't,
49:20
but but that day it did. But when you put a competitive element on it, it's it
49:26
changes the game. I think anything that you can play sort of solo that's small like like your roller rides, like your
49:32
molehill meadows, like your rustling leaves or sort of railroad inc that kind of thing. Super skilled pinball. Yeah,
49:39
you can play them independent like on your own and maybe have your own high scores, but you can all play them
49:44
together and just do like a Yeah. a tournament. And me and Curly had like a an Uno tournament. Well, not a
49:51
tournament, but like a a scoreboard on the kitchen, like notice board, like a like a tally chart of who was winning.
49:58
And of course, it's always him. But, you know, you could have that going over years if you wanted. Mhm. So, the
50:04
footprint is really important. So, like we were saying, you could play maybe some games at an airport, but you
50:09
couldn't play some of the other ones. So, maybe like like you said, if you had like a caravan holiday, you've got that size difference, haven't you? Yeah. What
50:16
yours, Becky? Have you said yours? Well, when me and Curly went to Italy,
50:22
um, was it even then? Doesn't matter. When me and Curly went on holiday, we
50:28
managed to fit, I think it was about 10 games into the box of Splendor cuz most
50:34
of Splendor is an insert. You don't need that. That's just stupid. So, we definitely fit Splendor in. We fit um
50:42
Century Spice Road. Yeah, good. Good. you can fit, you know, now we've got so
50:48
many more small games. So, I think mine would be something like maybe avant card because it's got real replayability
50:53
because it's very very clever sort of mechanics but in very simple and you
50:58
don't need hardly any space at all. You can switch the patronons around as well. Yeah, this is it. Um, I think I'd always
51:04
take Scout because again, you can keep playing that. That game is great. Really good sort of variable player counts and
51:11
it's really fast-paced. Um, I think I'd take something like 10b
51:17
because that's really sweet, really lovely game. And maybe if you were going on holiday to Wales, you might want to
51:22
take 10. Exactly. I've been to 10 this year. It was raining there, which is a bit disappointing. Well, not in the
51:28
game. It's always raining. Well, I played in Wales. Didn't have enough uh vows in it. I didn't think
51:34
really 10b. Is it just the one? Just the one. It's weird.
51:39
But that's a really small footprint game and it might get in the like it is quite seasidey. It's a seasidey town, isn't
51:45
it? So that might kind of get you in the mood of a holiday game. Or maybe if you're going somewhere like Orlon,
51:52
Orleans, you could take or or Carcasson. You could take the game of the place
51:57
you're going. Good idea. Should we do let's do a world tour of all of the places that we've got ball games. I'm
52:03
off I'm off to Teanth. Going to go into a tavern. I'm going to go and play some some Bravarian music. I
52:12
think maybe one of the other key elements is something that doesn't take too long to set up or, you know, involve
52:18
lots of very strategically placed things. It's got to be quite quick to pack up and put away, hasn't it? Yeah,
52:26
that's important. If you're out and about. Yeah. So, if you are at the beach or you're at a a pub in the evening or
52:32
something. Yeah. You don't want to be don't be setting up voidful. Um, so we
52:37
took um Hogwarts Battle to a holiday in Cornwall and we played it in the pub
52:44
outside which was it was fine. Everything's heavy enough to play outside. We didn't really think about
52:49
the fact that people see you playing a game and you get the local drunkard person wandering over and sort of with
52:55
his very sort of Harry Potter unsteady hand with a pint in it and you're like
53:02
don't slop that on my game mate. I'm not going to be happy with this. playing over here. So sometimes can I play Ron?
53:10
So sometimes it's not about how difficult you're going to find it, but how potentially problematic it could be.
53:18
Yeah. If someone messes up. That just reminds me of Essen when we played Ang's um was it Destiny or whatever it was it
53:25
Ang's thing. Ang's Destiny. Ang's Destiny in a pub. In a pub. Yeah. Yeah. I've never felt so tired. Yeah. That was
53:32
nothing to do with the game. was in a very dimly lit Irish bar with candles. So, it was like everything was all
53:38
squinty and and like you got to focus and concentrate. I think I'm going to go to sleep squinting over the game over
53:44
your German beer. Like, yeah, the beers didn't help. What are we playing? Yeah. And also the the amount of steps we did
53:51
in that day, right? Combination of all of those things. And I think that's a that's a really important point
The type of holidays will help curate the type of games to bring
53:56
actually. What are you doing on your holiday? If you're going on like a super action-packed
54:01
walking the fells holiday, don't take anything that's going to be too
54:07
concentrated. You want something to chill out an evening with for now. So, yeah. Yeah. You want to unwind, don't you? Yeah. Not be more tired. Yeah. What
54:15
games would you take to the beach? This is the big question. Double beach. Only roll and right for me. Only good one.
54:22
Travelers. Travel. Oh, yeah. They don't stick. They got the actual gritty. They don't the cube. They don't move. They
54:28
don't slide. Travel is just a now as far as I'm concerned because because it's
54:34
just a better produced all. Yeah. And it's smaller. Yeah. I still haven't bought it. I really want to. You still
54:39
got the inserts for your on your tableau. So you just put them in. They don't move. Yeah. They're tiles. They can't blow away. They can't get if they
54:45
get sandy. They're protected. End up with a bag of sand on the tiles. That is the downful. Yeah. Empty the bag in
54:50
here. I think travelers all is probably the winner for actual like perfect beach beach play. How you get around the sand
54:58
problem which is exactly I keep harking on about double double beach but their bag was a net. Oh nice. Yeah nice. You
55:05
can't get sand in it cuz it falls out. So that's a really good idea. Just get a netted bag. Put your all pieces in. And
55:14
then with a pair of tights you can put move your head and rob a bank and then there you go. One more 50 denier. One
55:19
more game you can play mjong. Yeah. You have to have a flat area. You have to get your sand nice and flat. But
55:24
you can play a little table out of it. Get it slightly wet so it gets packed
55:29
down. We can play any ball game. We just have to get the sand slightly wet. Compact a table out. We can make a board
55:36
game table. Yeah. Out of sand. Out of sand. Removable pieces and LED strips. Yeah. Cup holders. Just make an Apex
55:43
Legend board out castle. Someone gets AB. You're like, "Quit, the tide's coming in. Have your
55:48
turn." No, I can't do that. We'll get sand in my dias. Not having it. Not having it. So, we've
Top tips for preparing to take games on holiday
55:56
touched on it a little bit about how we are going to pack our games. So, what kind of top tips? We've mentioned Ziploc
56:02
bags and I think that is a great one. Yeah, especially if you're going to
56:08
somewhere like Florida where you might get wet in a log flume ride and you still want to keep your little game or
56:15
in fact take Ziploc bags wherever you go on there to be honest. But perfect for games. Yeah. I mean the the the great
56:20
example I had with that was uh I went to a work trip to the US and I just got
56:26
into Netrunner and um I took it and was going with Ian. He used to be on the podcast. So how he got into it I kind of
56:33
uh seeded him into the world of Netrunner and I didn't want to take the big box and actually all I needed was a
56:39
a deck for the the runner and a deck for a corp or whatever. I just basically
56:44
threw them in a ziploc bag with some tokens and chucked it in my rook sack and it's like there you go, job done.
56:50
And uh yeah, it's just again it just gets rid of all the the chaff that you don't kind of need or maybe you'll take
56:56
a third of the game because you know that's going to be enough for what you need. Um long as you remember to put it
57:01
back in. That was always a fear. I must remember to put this back in or not lose anything. Uh otherwise my collection
57:08
will be out of kilter. But yeah, I think the dice rolling thing, you can actually
57:13
use tech to your advantage. You could get a dice rolling app. Y or you could get like a a travel version of something
57:18
on an app like code names or well any any kind of app. I was playing
57:24
that uh code names app um literally yesterday cuz I was watching a a kid's
57:30
football match which was not that interesting. So I was playing code. So you were playing code names while you were watching. Yeah. with with my son
57:36
who wasn't playing at the time, I want to add because I was you're normally watching him and we were just playing code names. It was great. Those little
57:43
apps like that are pretty good. Um especially pass and play ones and like Oink games do um they've got an app with
57:50
all of their games on and and we played a lot of oh what was it? Fake artist goes to New York. I imagine how that
57:56
would have a really good appe and you just basically you're for those that don't know it's kind of like it's you
58:02
get a a picture but one of the the group doesn't know what the picture is but you all get to draw an element of that
58:08
picture. So when you don't know like say elephant so I I go first and Becky will go and Tambo doesn't know it's an
58:15
elephant so he just draws a random line but usually the drawings are [ __ ] anyway so no one quite knows who's the fake
58:21
artist and and again you're just passing the phone around and that can work really well um on trains, planes or
58:27
whatever. We played a lot of that one year which is good fun. I think digital digitalization of games is really
58:33
helpful for this. So when me and Curly went on holiday last year, we just played so much Arn Nova cuz we did a lot
58:40
of coach sort of tours, trips to places. So the actual driving to the thing, yeah, there might have been a few nice
58:45
things to look at, but mostly you were driving in a country to a to the coast maybe. So we just played Ark Nova after
58:53
Ark Nova and if you could just get enough, you know, internet, absolutely fine. And there's millions of games on
58:59
BGA, isn't there? Yeah. Yeah. Do we think that maybe board gaming on holiday is kind of going to go out of
59:05
fashion a bit with the rise of digital stuff? I don't think so. It's a social element is why we do a lot of it anyway,
59:12
right? So, yeah, the digital side of that eliminates that in a lot of sense.
59:17
Unless you're playing with each other, then that's fine. But yeah, you kind of you still want to play with your family
59:24
or with your friends while you're going. So, yeah, I don't think so. I don't think so either. Again, completely
59:30
depends on style of holiday, but you know, if you're going to like a hiring a
59:35
lodge out for the weekend, you know, got tables, haven't they? And actually, it's quite nice to make an event of it. Uh,
59:42
especially with people that don't normally board game. I find I play more board games with non- ball gamers during
59:49
holidays and weekends away than I would normally. Like, outside of that, that I
59:55
think non board gamers make an excuse to play a game, don't they? They think yes you should play a game. You should on holiday it's different. It's different.
1:00:02
You're not watching TV. You're not watching for on TV or anything. I know you still got your phone, your apps, but everyone around the table. You're right.
1:00:08
So maybe picking kind of gateway games is is quite important with that. Yeah. Especially as the person known in your
1:00:14
group as the gamer person. You're going to be looked at to kind of curate Oh, yeah. the the event, aren't you? What
1:00:20
are you bringing JP? It's like, oh god, I'll bring this Apex Legends. Yeah, we're doing it. I've got to get my
1:00:27
money's worth. Let's do this. So, have we got any other packing tips? So, you're saying Ziploc bags? I think Ziploc bags is usually my go-to or like
1:00:34
you say, decant into uh bigger games into smaller boxes so that you can pack more. But if you're playing card games,
1:00:40
the the Magic the Gathering Commander deck boxes work really nice. 100% boxes.
1:00:46
And plus, they've got like a real nice matte feel on the I think they're the Eclipse boxes. Oh, they feel really
1:00:52
nice. I know that sounds weird to say, but they've got like a Yeah, just just get them if you if you got a card game
1:00:58
that you need to to put into a safe box, but it can fit 100 cards in one of those
1:01:04
boxes. Cards or regular cards? Always. Well, yeah. But yeah. Yeah. There's some
1:01:11
nice ones at the expo. Actually, I saw there were like some real fancy cases where they had the card on the outside
1:01:18
as well that was protected. So cuz commander you have like one special commander who's the special card where
1:01:24
you could it was on the outside so you could see what the rest of the cards were nice can work with other card games as
1:01:32
well with captain's chair you could see which you could put the captain at the front make a show yeah there you go
1:01:39
you got any other packing games so you were talking about tile games don't you too yeah but I was saying the ziplo bag
1:01:44
I would say put them in yeah I think that is the way forward isn't it I think And that is the way forward. Yeah. Yeah.
What is out one chosen game & honourary mention to take away?
1:01:51
So, we've mentioned the games that we're really into. If you only had room for one game in your holiday rucks sack, and
1:01:57
it's just it's got to fit in a in a rock sack along with you. You know, this can't be a rock sack of just, you know,
1:02:04
um Too Many Bones. You can't just have your No, no. A reasonable game that you
1:02:10
could go on holiday with cuz Too Many Bones is not that. I don't care what you do to that game. You can't take You
1:02:16
can't take it on holiday. No. Go on JP, what's yours? If you could only had room for one game to take, what you going to
1:02:23
take? It is tough. It is tough. Oh,
1:02:29
I mean the the the solo selfish git says of course it's captain's chair chair. Of course it is. But I tend to on holiday
1:02:37
want to involve everyone. So it'll likely be, you know, a game that's going
1:02:42
to bring everyone together. So it probably is it is going to be like
1:02:47
love letter or something like that because it's everyone knows it. Everyone knows the rules of it. I can wheel it
1:02:53
out. No one goes when I do it and it's just a staple in our family. It's a
1:02:59
staple game that we can just play and and when it starts to overstay it welcome and we'll just put it away and
1:03:05
it takes two seconds. Yeah. So yeah, there's not a lot of um tear down and No. But then I'll be like, "Oh, I want
1:03:11
my captain's chair now cuz they're all going to watch. board of love and I'm start on my own. But but yeah, probably
1:03:16
say something like that, Davey. If there's only one room in in room for one in your bag. Well, I'm going to post
1:03:22
myself uh primal the awakening. That's called a loophole, sir. And then
1:03:28
send it back. And then send it back. Yeah. Um no. So I think the resistance,
1:03:34
right? Well, I was in Avalon, but or resistance Avalon. The Resistance Avalon. Is that what it's called? No,
1:03:40
no, no. Sorry. Coup. Yes. Coup, not play coup. It's good fun. Real good fun.
1:03:46
Include a lot of players. Um, loads of replayability. It's got that deduction side which everyone always usually
1:03:51
enjoys. Um, for my family anyway. Um, so yeah, I think coup. Cool. I know I
1:03:57
didn't even mention it before, but there you go. But if you could only take one, that's the one you take. Yeah. Yeah. Wild card, baby. Well, I I nearly went
1:04:03
Sabotur in my head. I was like, "Oh, yeah. What about Sabatur?" Okay, that's that's an honorable mention. Let's have an
1:04:09
honorable mention then, Dave. If you if you're going to if you the one that you almost picked one that I almost picked
1:04:15
um was going to be Avangard. I really enjoy that's that's a good one. That's
1:04:20
mention even though we've spoke about it before but it is really good. It's [ __ ] with more. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. T
1:04:28
what's your one only game? One only game. Can I not take a couple of games? No. No. You can have an honorable
1:04:33
mention. Get into one captain's chair box. No. No. No. Just one game. Um,
1:04:39
it'll have to be one of my tiny epics, I think. And it'll probably have to be I'm going to go dinosaurs. It's always my
1:04:44
favorite little Yeah, you do like that. You do. That was going to be Blastoff. That'll be my one mentionable one, I
1:04:49
think. Okay. Yeah, they both are really good. I was really surprised by dinosaurs. How much like weight is in
1:04:55
that? A lot of game in that very small box in there. Yeah. Have to rectify this tears. Oh, you just dinosaurs keep
1:05:02
escaping cuz you haven't built the bloody fences. And it's Oh, it's literally like a down version of
1:05:08
Dinoics. Literally. But it's better, I think, cuz the dinosaurs have powers and they're actually like individual, aren't
1:05:13
they? No. No. If you get the DNA ones are the ones, the special ones. Yes. They have their own abilities. Yes. Yeah. Yeah.
1:05:20
I'm really really in a quandry now. I was going to say I'm going to break it all and just have a deck of cards. Well,
1:05:27
standard 52 card. Yeah. You know what? How many games are in that? Well, this is what I'm thinking. This is this is
1:05:33
what I'm thinking. Tried and tested. And also, there are still new versions of games coming out with just a deck of
1:05:40
cards as well. Or even you can stretch it and get two deck of cards. And then Oh, steady now. Steady. Unlimited.
1:05:46
Unlimited. I could take Yeah, this works. I could take my Too Many Bones 52 card deck. That's with riffle. There you
1:05:53
go. Because they're proper like PVC cards. Okay. Good for outdoors as well.
1:05:58
durability. You ain't You ain't bending those bad boys. Well, you could. And I'd frown if you did, but you'd be very sad,
1:06:04
but they're very durable. And uh but the only difference is instead of hearts and spades and clubs and whatever, it's like
1:06:10
blood symbols and eyes and and bones that it works. Does the job. And we used to play werewolf with a deck of cards.
1:06:17
Oh, really? Oh, okay. Yeah. So, you just allocate the power to the deck the card then you'd give them out to everyone.
1:06:23
Yeah, makes sense. That works. And then if you haven't got a face card, depending on what face card you had.
1:06:28
Yeah. What power you had to. We used to play that with a load of Dutch people. Yeah. You do like works. There's been
1:06:35
dungeon crawly games with deck normal decks of cards that you can Yeah, there's all sorts of really innovative
1:06:42
stuff out there. So, you're right. That's probably a solid choice. It is a solid choice. My my honorable mention
1:06:47
would probably have to be um Uno, though. Yeah. Just because it's just a classic, isn't it? It is a classic.
1:06:53
transcends language as well. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You can't I can't knock Uno. People will say, "Oh, Uno." But I It's
1:07:01
It's cool. Everyone knows it. It's a good game. And how satisfying is it to have played a times four and someone
1:07:08
thinks they're Billy big balls and puts another plus four on top and you're like, "I had another one." That is just the
1:07:14
pinnacle of You're playing the It's not actual rules, not real. Yeah.
1:07:20
You play the electronic, you know, the one with the the the thing in the middle and you got to tap it and No, no, it's
1:07:25
that's really No, you got Yeah, it's got deck cards in the middle and then you got to beat the card to left or right with the, you
1:07:31
know, and you got to do it in a certain amount of time. If you don't press the button in time, then you got to draw three more cards. Oh, that's quite cool.
1:07:37
Adds another layer of jeopardy to Yeah, it does. And then you've got the bopit thing in the side where you have to twist it. Reminds you of it, punch it,
1:07:46
twist it. Yeah, it's like that thing. Simon, isn't it? Like memory. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The rest of the colors and
1:07:52
like the sequence. You got to go to the area where the light shows up. So, it can't be It might work that one. It might be the one over there. So, you got
1:07:58
to keep an eye on it. Okay. And you got to make a decision. Yeah. Yeah. I just thought one kind of car, one kind of
1:08:04
travel we didn't talk about is sitting in a car. Yeah. So, I guess your verbal games like Strong Point, Ice Spy. Well,
1:08:12
I mean, I spy is a it's a classic for a reason, isn't it? Cuz you don't need anything to play it. What's the color of the next car? Guess the color. I used it
1:08:19
was just me. I used to always love um was it animal, mineral, or um what was it? Vegetable. Vegetable. Yeah. Which is
1:08:26
always weird cuz vegetable I think it's not vegetable anymore, is it? Cuz vegetable like is it organic? It's
1:08:31
organic, I think. Yeah. I think that's a new thing. 80s version. Yeah. Yeah. But
1:08:36
that was a classic, wasn't it? I used to love playing that when I was younger, but then it got to a certain age and people no one wanted to play it anymore.
1:08:42
Yeah. 20 questions. That's what it's called, isn't it? You could probably play just one in the car. Not the driver, though. You could. I mean, you
1:08:48
could I guess you could play it with the driver gets an advantage where they get to say their word at the end. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I suppose. Or just the driver is
1:08:56
the one guessing the whole time, right? Yeah, that's a good one. Yeah. But it's got to be verbal, hasn't it? I think in a car. Well, I I remember a trip on the
1:09:03
rare occasion I wasn't driving. I tend to to drive most of the time. Um, but in the rare occasion I wasn't, I on one
1:09:12
2-hour trip did a role playing game out of my head. Wow. Okay. What were you the
1:09:18
DM? Yeah. With a quite a unique battle system of rock, paper, scissors.
1:09:24
So, I kind of I just said, "Right, guys, we're going to play this game." And they were like, "Okay." And then the iPads came down, which was great, but I had to
1:09:31
kind of spend the journey like twisting around the kids. Yeah. Um, and I said, "Right, you're in this
1:09:38
room and describe this room." And I had a a bit of paper and I had a map in front of me and I was just kind of
1:09:43
drawing out where do you want to go? And they're like, "Oh, wow. I'll get that door. Okay, cool. It's a corridor there." And then there's like a monster
1:09:50
and it's like going to get you. And then yeah, we did a rock paper scissors battle and I made all these rules up on the spot. Like literally, it's probably
1:09:56
the most crap game ever, but it entertained them for about an hour and a half. Wow. And uh got to the end and
1:10:02
like, "What are we wearing?" I don't know. We're here now. Let's go. holiday. We won basically keeping you entertained
1:10:09
for an hour and a half. But yeah, that was cool. That's quite good fun. Um they always talk about that. They said, "Oh,
1:10:15
should we play that again?" I said, "Can't I'm driving. I can't do it all." And yeah, play played Yansy with a load
1:10:21
of friends while I was driving. Basically, they would roll dice and tell me what dice were down. And you go, "Put
1:10:26
it here." And I'll go, "Yeah, I'll keep that one." And then and then yeah, we just played we all played Yi while I was drive while I was driving somewhere for
1:10:33
Lake District. Yeah, it's a great game, isn't it? It is a great game and I think that the sort of little story you've
1:10:40
just told there kind of brings into why we bring games or play games at all, but especially like family holidays. Yeah.
1:10:46
It's a way of putting your screen down and actually conversing with each other. Y and I think that kind of that's the
1:10:53
point of all of it, isn't it really? It's why we do it. That's why we do It's why we do this hobby is to I mean I
1:10:58
spend 8 n plus hours a day on a laptop. So it's nice to get away from it. Yeah.
1:11:06
Every now and then it's also social interaction without having to sometimes have that awkward bit with random
1:11:13
people. When you sit down and play a game, you you're already interacting. You've you know other people like I
1:11:20
don't know. It just got parameters. It's got parameters, hasn't it? Yeah. There's a purpose to it. Yeah. Yeah. And if
1:11:25
anyone has an idea or has played a random game on the beach, let us know.
1:11:30
I'm really I would like to know games that we could play on the beach. You haven't lost components in the sand.
1:11:37
Where's that gone? I don't know. Well, if you have, tell us anyway. It' be a good story. Yeah.
1:11:42
So, uh, on to our next segment. Receive, sleeve, or leave.
TURN 4 - Receive, Sleeve or Leave
1:11:56
So sleeve is going to be a bit difficult here, but the one you're keeping really as in you're protecting with your life
1:12:02
forever. Yeah. Scout avant card or uno.
1:12:07
Oh, that's easy. Is it gone?
1:12:12
Scout's one I want to keep cuz I love Scouts is a really good game. So you're leaving now leaving that one. Okay. Uno
1:12:19
is the Oh, I see. No, avent card can go. I
1:12:25
don't get on with it. So, Oh, okay. Fair enough. So, you're leaving a card. Yeah. You're receiving uh
1:12:32
Uno. Uno and slee. Leaving. Okay. Yeah. I'm going to sleeve Aventard. I'm going
1:12:39
to receive um Scout and I'm going to leave Uno because I've played it so much
1:12:45
now. It it's it's got it trophies. It's got it medals, but it can retire. It's
1:12:51
done it done its work. Yeah, it's worked hard for you. Yeah, exactly. So, what would you do? Exactly the same.
1:12:58
So, you're sleeping avent card, receiving scout and leaving Uno. I really like scout and actually haven't played scout um for a while now. So, I'm
1:13:05
kind of due a little scout game. Um but having card for me just got a bit more
1:13:12
going on and the variability is there. Um for sure. So, yeah, definitely uh sleeve that the box. The box is freaking
1:13:20
It's a work of art, isn't it? How it all folds and it's like origami box. Oh, it's just brilliant. Let's Let's play the game. We're going to roll the box
1:13:26
out and it's it's set up. Let's play. Yeah. I feel like I'm hated on this table.
1:13:32
Well, I'm a little bit different. I'm going to sleeve scout because I just love that game so much. I I can't play
1:13:39
it too much. I just love it. I'm going to receive avant card because the box on
1:13:44
its own is enough to just marvel at. It's a great present. Yeah. So, I guess I'm leaving Uno, which makes me really
1:13:50
sad. It is sad, but it doesn't feel good to leave it. But I guess with with avant
1:13:56
card, you could play Uno sort of maybe.
1:14:02
No, a little bit. You could make a crap version if you re like wrote all of the
1:14:07
cards then. Yeah. Or you could put like a um
1:14:12
not like a highlight highlighter on the back. So actually on the backs of the cards are Uno. We've highlighted uh
1:14:21
white marker. You've drawn Uno on the back of card on the back of a card. I'll do that. Then it might work. Or you
1:14:27
could have sleeves with it on or sleeves. Does it fit in the box of sleeves in the game? Probably not. Probably not. Oh, that's a that's
1:14:35
actually so we can't sleeve card then because it won't fit in the box properly. No. Oh dear. What's that then? But we're sle
1:14:42
it. We're leaving it anyway. Just a special. Okay.
TURN 5 - Penultimate Turn: What's Coming Up
1:14:49
[Music] So, penultimate turn. What have we got
1:14:55
coming up, Davey? Let's start with you. Um, so I'm going to do a shameless plug
1:15:01
as always. Got Primal coming up. You've always got it coming up. I've always got it coming up with Paul. So, if you
1:15:08
haven't checked that out, go check that out. But other than that, um, we've got Old King's Crown coming up, which I'm
1:15:14
really looking forward to. Um, I really want to see how it's changed from the prototype that we got given by Pablo
1:15:20
from Eerie Idol Games. Um, but they've given us a full edition. So, going to get that to the table. Yeah, really
1:15:26
looking forward to it. Slight knobiness will go around, but that's what we want from it. We know what we're getting. It's a knobby game.
1:15:32
on yours before. Yeah. Yeah. That was good. Yeah. T like in a game where you do a back. That's why I've not signed up
1:15:39
for anything yet. T doing a game that you can get to backstab and be knobbyby.
1:15:44
Can I be a knob? People understand. Do people know what we mean when we're saying knobbyby? It's knobbyby with a K
1:15:49
and it's like acting like a knob. For our perhaps American listeners that that might not know the term, if you're from
1:15:55
the UK, you'll know exactly what we're talking about. Don't be such a knob. But if you're not Yeah. Knobby. Yeah.
1:16:00
Basically being a dick. Yeah, basically it's the same word, is it? That's what it means. Yeah, a canob.
1:16:07
JP, what have you got coming up? You know what? Weirdly, um, last night I
1:16:13
decided to download an Xbox game, which is really weird for me cuz I don't tend to bother. It's Expedition 33. Nice. And
1:16:22
um, it's an RPG game, a lot like Final Fantasy. And I'm really enjoying it. I'm
1:16:29
glad you're enjoying it. I'm really enjoying it. you would. It's like old school Final Fantasy. Oh yeah. It's like
1:16:34
so I've now gone like 3 hours in and I'm like I want to play it all the time. And
1:16:40
so that's quite nice to have that from an Xbox game cuz as many of the listeners know, I'm I kind of renounced
1:16:46
it a little bit, but I just fancied it last night. I just on Game Pass. Yes, it's on Game Pass. Um so that but yeah,
1:16:54
generally board gaming, you're right. Old King's Crown is is definitely up there. But just every everything. But
1:17:00
talking of travel games, Rob and uh Rob and myself have got a trip, a work trip
1:17:07
to the US soon. Two weeks. So what are you going to take? And now I'm thinking what am I going to take? So I think um
1:17:16
captain's chair's chair is definitely coming. It's definitely coming. But, um, I'm going to take, um, what I talked
1:17:23
about on the expo, Neon Rain that I picked up, um, from from Chip Theory. I'm going to take that and give it put
1:17:28
that through its paces cuz Rob really enjoyed that little arcade fighty battler game. So, I'm going to take that
1:17:34
as well. Uh, so yeah, I'm looking forward to to the gaming aspect of that trip. I'm looking forward to the trip
1:17:39
generally, but it is work, so you know, it's nice to go away. So much fun you can have, right? But we are away for 10
1:17:45
days. It's a long time to be away. And so, but there's plenty of time to play some games, right? You're going to take
1:17:51
more than two games then, aren't you? Yeah. And I'm going to try and make it to a board game cafe in Memphis. So,
1:17:57
it's where we go Memphis. Okay. So, if any listeners are in Memphis or nearby, which is quite a long shot, then let us
1:18:04
know cuz we we probably would have put this episode out before we've gone or after we've gone, so it's probably
1:18:10
pointless. But anyway, anyway, shout out and tell us where he should have gone. Yeah. Just try not to get deported. I'll
1:18:16
try. You got to get in the country first. So your passport in date? It's in
1:18:21
date. Just joking. Yeah, I know. I had previous.
1:18:27
It's a valid question, too. I can't I can't knock it. But yeah, that's me. T, what have you got coming up? Nothing
1:18:32
much. I'm actually for the Saturday. We got Battle Star Galactica coming up. I completely forgot about this.
1:18:39
Oh, I didn't mention someone to mention it. So, nice. I forgot that was happening. Is that happening around our
1:18:45
house? I believe so. Yeah, here battle star Galactica. Yeah, that'll be that's
1:18:50
always an event, isn't it? That's a great thing to again. I can be a knob. So hopefully, but is our You will
1:18:58
anyway. It's our kind of game as tribute to Chris. So we wanted to to get
1:19:05
basically we all chipped in for his copy of of Battlestar Galactica and uh and we
1:19:10
thought well we got to make this an annual event. So we are a bit late because we meant to do it two or three
1:19:16
months ago. But so it's going to be really nice just to sit back and play BSG. Yeah. With hopefully the right
1:19:22
rules. I was going to play a bit just I think we should mix in some extra silons just honor. Yeah, we should we should
1:19:29
mess something up but yeah. So I am looking forward to that for that reason as well. So nice. Yeah. I haven't
1:19:36
actually put it in the calendar yet because I've got a good excuse for this one because I haven't received the
1:19:43
sleeves for it yet. So, my copy of um Earth Abundance came. So, I'm really excited about that. And I thought, "Oh,
1:19:50
I know what I'll do now. I'll add it in the box." And then thought, "No, you won't." Because your original box has got sleeved cards. And I didn't have any
1:19:57
extra sleeves. Oh, no. So, then I had to go through the whole rigarole of, "Oh crap, what brand sleeves did I buy?"
1:20:03
Yeah. Now, I don't think these are premiums. So, I've I've taken a punt. That's punt. And I've bought some. And
1:20:10
I'm hoping it's them. I'm hoping it's Sleeve King's regular. Did you get extra
1:20:15
of those just in case? I thought I would, wouldn't you? Yeah. Then you could leave them all. Yeah. But when I went in the drawer of board game
1:20:22
accessories that we have in our house, there was tarot sized ones. There was the your regular 63.5 by
1:20:31
9, whatever the size is. Uh, and there were the tiny little ones. And there were also there were the ones for
1:20:36
Flamecraft, the big massive ones. There were absolutely no Chimera size, which is the size this needs. So, that was
1:20:43
annoying. So, I can't put it in yet. But, I did order them from Games Law. And this is we're not sponsored by Games
1:20:49
Law, but we'd love to be. So, you know, if you if Games Law, if you're listening, or other retailers or other
1:20:54
retailers. Yeah, absolutely. But uh yeah, I ordered um I ordered my sleeves. So hopefully when they arrive, what
1:21:01
would be the worst would be if when they arrive I realize then don't they don't match the sleeves I already have. Then
1:21:06
I'm going to have to buy an entire amount of sleeves of those to cover all of Earth and the ex extra and means you
1:21:13
have to rele it. Yeah, I Yeah, you know, I like what
1:21:20
I don't want to do is spend the money on the sleeves, but I did sleeve all of Curly's captain's chair the other day and love I did I did see this picture.
1:21:26
You're like, "Oh, I've just sleeved this." And it's like Curly is like, "Thank you. I didn't have to do that."
1:21:31
It's like you're his little sleeving queen. I love sleeving cards. Yeah. It's fine. You get a little system. You put your piles in the same place. Oh, it's
1:21:37
lovely. I hate it. Really? Yeah. I hate it. I don't know. I've just I've done it so much with Magic decks and everything
1:21:44
else. I just hate it now. I just Fair enough. I do much of it. Too much of it. I get a little um like when I've been
1:21:51
doing it for like an hour like a little bit of my fingers just starts to the skin starts to shred off because I must
1:21:56
keep catching it on. Yeah. It's like you can tell oh my fingers a bit sore. It's like Yeah. Bits of skin have come off
1:22:02
after hours. It hurts is just how bad. But the insert in that game is very un
1:22:09
unappealing. Yeah. [ __ ] It doesn't fit sleeved card. Sad times. No, it's not designed for a sleeved. So yeah, I found
1:22:16
the same thing out when I did mine. And I was like, well, into the bin that goes. A lot of games don't though, and I
1:22:21
found it really annoying cuz you feel, well, I'm going to sleeve my game that I want to play a lot. Leave a little bit
1:22:28
extra room for I've got an answer for that. Folded space inserts. Again, we're not sponsored by them, but we should be,
1:22:34
but Milo, I'm happy to happy to We bloody should be. You keep plugging them. Love folded space. I love them
1:22:41
because they're brilliant. Yeah, they are good. They are very good. So they always leave enough room. Yes. For extra
1:22:47
protection. Yeah, they do. Sounds like a Durex commercial. Just as trustworthy and just as
1:22:54
necessary. 99.9% safe bumped for your pleasure.
TURN 6 - The Final Turn
1:23:01
And that about wraps up our episode and also my run of episodes. So I'm going to
1:23:06
pass the first player baton over to JP. I'm going to metaphorically and physically hand him over a invisible
1:23:12
baton. I've received the baton. Received it. The baton is now mine. Which just leaves us to say a huge massive thank
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1:24:06
Yeah. Heat.
1:24:13
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