1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,840 Welcome to Meeple to Meeple uniting players around the 2 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:06,600 world, a 30 minute exploration of PJ and Gareth's four-game 3 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:09,480 experiences from across both sides of the Atlantic. 4 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:12,720 Each episode, they share their thoughts and opinions on the 5 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:16,280 World of War games, including their favorite themes, games, 6 00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:20,760 hot topics, and much, much more. Hey guys, and welcome to Episode 7 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:27,000 81 Board Game Conventions. A preview, As always, I am PJ 8 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:30,440 and I'm happy. Happy to report that our good 9 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:32,680 friend Gareth is back. How? 10 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:35,520 Are you? I'm good. 11 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:37,240 Where's John? He was a good replacement 12 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:38,960 though, mind you. He was good. 13 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:43,120 He did a sterling job of covering my tardiness, but I was 14 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:44,960 a bit busy. You are work life. 15 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:49,240 He's taken a little bit too much at the moment, but it is ball 16 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:51,640 game convention season. That's right. 17 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:53,440 You've just been spent some time somewhere. 18 00:00:53,480 --> 00:00:58,160 We've got the UKGE 11 days away. I think it's a countdown I saw. 19 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:03,200 That's crazy. That it's a year, another year 20 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:07,800 has gone by and and we'll be there for sure. 21 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:10,920 And then you're going, you've got some other stuff coming up, 22 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:12,960 you've got a few other origins, is it? 23 00:01:12,960 --> 00:01:16,200 Yeah. So I I just got back from Geek 24 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:19,640 Way to the West, which is still going on at the time of this 25 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:23,480 recording and then I'm going to Origins and then I'm going to 26 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:24,520 Gen. Con this summer. 27 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:26,320 So. So we're just going to kind of 28 00:01:26,320 --> 00:01:30,560 talk about what our plans are, who we're going to see, what 29 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:32,280 we're looking forward to getting. 30 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:36,840 Gaming, yeah, that's the plan. Housing. 31 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:40,320 So you did a day at Kikui? I did a day so. 32 00:01:40,320 --> 00:01:43,280 How was that? What did you see? 33 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:44,520 It was great. Did you see? 34 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:45,600 Yep. What do you do? 35 00:01:46,040 --> 00:01:47,920 I did a lot. What did you buy? 36 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:51,320 I bought one game. I bought one game. 37 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:53,760 So, all right, you know, this is great. 38 00:01:57,160 --> 00:02:00,080 OK, so this is a really good story and this is a great way to 39 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:05,120 start. I don't know if you noticed, but 40 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:07,120 hopefully everyone has noticed. We post. 41 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:10,360 I posted a reel on Meeble to Meeble on Instagram and it was 42 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:14,400 about wandering towers. It was kind of a reel with all 43 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:15,680 these little pictures and everything. 44 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:22,640 So one of our friend, one of Happy Meeble's friends from 45 00:02:22,640 --> 00:02:28,760 Nebraska who I had never met before, they 3D printed me the 46 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:32,480 towers for the game Wandering Towers. 47 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:37,520 And so I meet Jared and he's like, hey man, it's great to 48 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:38,520 meet you. I'm really excited. 49 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:41,480 And he presents me this, you know, this grocery bag with 50 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:44,600 these beautiful 3D printed tower components. 51 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:48,080 And I'm like, are you serious? I thought he was joking because 52 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:50,160 in the chat we were talking about it a week ago. 53 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:52,000 And I was like, I thought he was just kidding with me, you know? 54 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:58,080 And I was like, Jared, I don't even own this game, so I didn't. 55 00:02:58,080 --> 00:02:59,480 That's what you owned it. No. 56 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:01,680 Oh yeah. Oh, I see now I see where this 57 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:04,520 is going. So I ran to the vendor hall as 58 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:07,320 soon as it opened and I bought a copy of Wandering Tower so that 59 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:12,800 we could, you know, we could play with the fancy beautiful 60 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:16,520 tower pieces and it hit our table yesterday with our our 61 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:18,480 game group and it was pretty fantastic. 62 00:03:18,920 --> 00:03:23,920 Everyone had a had a good time. It feels like it feels like that 63 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:28,720 the game Wandering Towers is in the same universe as Quacks of 64 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:31,560 Quedlingberg. So it's kind of like you're 65 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:34,440 Wizards and you're trying to move your Wizards in the circle, 66 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:36,880 and then you can move the towers right? 67 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:40,360 By using your magic, you're trying to get all of your 68 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:45,720 Wizards into the Dark Tower. I feel like that's the magic 69 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:49,960 training school. And then you pack up all your 70 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:53,840 ingredients and you go to the local village of Quedlenburg and 71 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:55,960 you try to sell your potions, right? 72 00:03:56,280 --> 00:03:59,920 So that's kind of how those two games in my mind work, but. 73 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:02,280 So that was that. Was good. 74 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:04,240 No, you do. It's really good. 75 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:07,520 Yeah, we, I think it was in my hand in we were in. 76 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:10,840 I think it was Christmas time we were in Manchester, Tomboy 77 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:17,200 Fanboy 3 and I picked it up and Gary wasn't sure, but I thought 78 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:20,320 he looked so good for the gaming group and those 3D printed 79 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:22,200 minis. I'm just going to watch the I've 80 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:24,640 been watched the the real game. They are lovely. 81 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:27,080 They're really cool. They're really awesome. 82 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:32,280 But so I went down to Saint Louis for a day and I visited 83 00:04:32,280 --> 00:04:38,720 with Obsessed with Board Games and her with Obsession. 84 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:42,200 Obsessed with Board Game. Mr. Obsessed with Board Games. 85 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:44,960 It's Lauren Ryan. Beautiful people love them so 86 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:48,200 much. I met so many folks. 87 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:51,720 Happy Meebles was there, both Nick and Mandy. 88 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:56,760 I got a chance to visit with Danielle Reynolds, the designer 89 00:04:56,760 --> 00:05:01,960 of Her Story and her new game that's coming out next month at 90 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:04,920 Origin. So that's caution signs you 91 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:07,880 would probably see her play, testing it everywhere. 92 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:12,560 Got to see some friends who work for wise wizard games. 93 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:17,400 Saw Jamie Stegmeyer? Got to say hello. 94 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:22,880 Let's see some. The friends Jared and Susie that 95 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:28,520 are friends with happy Meebles that they came down met Aaron. 96 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:31,520 I don't remember Aaron's last name, but he's bring your own 97 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:33,080 dice. On. 98 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:36,200 Instagram. So he's got a game in progress 99 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:39,120 right now that he's working on called Raising Rabbits. 100 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:42,120 I got to play that. I got to spend a good bit of 101 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:46,560 time with him. He'll hopefully he'll be sending 102 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:49,720 us both copies of his game and then we're going to have him on 103 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:52,320 in the future. He'll be releasing his game 104 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:56,640 hopefully in July or August or sometime this summer, is what he 105 00:05:56,640 --> 00:05:59,480 said. So that was a lot of fun playing 106 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:02,480 that and God, I mean who else did I meet? 107 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:05,040 For those of you I forgot, don't get mad. 108 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:07,760 Of course Adri was in from Costa Rica. 109 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:10,440 Wanderer, Wanderer, meeple. She was in town. 110 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:17,160 We got to visit and hang out. Wow, let me look at my list. 111 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:20,000 Who else did I meet? I met a lot of people and play 112 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:22,440 tested a lot of games. Heather was there. 113 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:27,760 Heather Dixon, She's just she is killing it on Kickstarter. 114 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:29,800 Yeah. Apostock. 115 00:06:29,840 --> 00:06:31,160 She has very little. Yeah. 116 00:06:32,440 --> 00:06:35,800 Let's see. Megan from board games, paint 117 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:39,880 and hand stands. That's a mouthful. 118 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:44,000 That's that's a long name. Board games, paint and hand 119 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:46,920 stands. I met her. 120 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:49,520 Hand stands. I met her and her husband. 121 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:51,320 Her and her. Her husband and I had this great 122 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:53,680 conversation about Star Trek for like 20 minutes, which is kind 123 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:58,800 of awesome. Kristen Mott, designer of 124 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:03,720 Dinosaur Exhibit Sharks. She's got another game coming 125 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:10,880 she's working on right now. Got to play test that Thea, who 126 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:14,680 is perpetually bored on Instagram. 127 00:07:15,320 --> 00:07:21,040 Thea is so delightful. I don't know, she's just 128 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:23,080 incredible. She's local to Saint Louis, 129 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:27,520 just, you know, a gamer. She's kind of fantastic, really 130 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:31,240 fun, very positive person. So it was great to add her to 131 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:33,360 the the group of people that we can go visit. 132 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:34,480 Follow him. Yep. 133 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:37,760 Yep. So that's that's pretty good. 134 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:43,800 Yeah, we're a lot of folks. Did you see any new games? 135 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:49,080 Nothing that's used, nothing. Nothing has been released yet. 136 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:51,000 Yeah, it's, but it's more the gaming and the. 137 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:55,560 Yeah, Geekway's got a huge it's it's a big a big play to win 138 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:59,120 library. So and then an open gaming area. 139 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:02,160 The the vendor Hall's really small like 12. 140 00:08:02,160 --> 00:08:05,600 Yeah yeah, 12 or 13 vendors. If you're interested, go to 141 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:09,200 Happy Meeples. She posted a bunch of reels 142 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:13,760 where she did videos where she let all the members talk about 143 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:15,840 their stuff. Yeah, she did a really good job 144 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:18,320 of that. I was there for the one day, so 145 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:21,720 I was doing a lot of meeting greeting of game designers, play 146 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:25,360 testing games and scheduling them to come on our podcast. 147 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:26,760 What was? The high What was the highlight 148 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:30,240 of the games? What was your Oh, that was a 149 00:08:30,280 --> 00:08:33,000 great game moment. I gotta tell you, raising 150 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:35,679 rabbits was fantastic. Raising rabbits. 151 00:08:35,840 --> 00:08:38,480 Yes, I'm I'm ready to play that again. 152 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:43,280 Mostly because it uses my favorite word in the English 153 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:46,960 language. Which is? 154 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:50,480 Poop. Poop. 155 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:52,800 Yeah, it's quite a it's quite a fun word. 156 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:57,320 It's a it's this cool game because like you get you get 14 157 00:08:57,320 --> 00:09:00,400 actions over six rounds, right? Which is 6 months. 158 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:01,920 So you have these little action cubes. 159 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:03,560 Every time you take an action, you put it down. 160 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:07,040 One of the actions, because you're raising rabbits, is that 161 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:09,840 you can collect their poop. Poop. 162 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:14,080 And you sell it for money, for fertilizer, for farms. 163 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:17,040 So I'm like, all right, yeah. Is it? 164 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:18,920 Is it poop shaped or is it cubes? 165 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:21,440 It's cubes. The cubes, yeah. 166 00:09:21,680 --> 00:09:22,840 Painful. Yeah. 167 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:25,280 Painful poop. Painful poop. 168 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:28,600 But yeah, that's so be looking forward to that. 169 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:31,040 We'll have Aaron on. I've noted it down. 170 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:33,680 Raising raising rabbits this year. 171 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:39,160 Sometimes this summer. OK, so Kickstarter or. 172 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:44,160 Kickstarter, he's he's he's really close to finishing. 173 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:48,120 I like to think we gave him some constructive criticism that's 174 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:50,280 just going to improve the game ever so slightly. 175 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:52,080 Nice. Yeah. 176 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:55,880 You know, you can only hear so many times. 177 00:09:55,880 --> 00:09:59,160 Oh, that was fun. Well, I need more as creators, 178 00:09:59,160 --> 00:10:01,360 right? As creatives, we need real 179 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:02,520 feedback. That's what. 180 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:04,640 That's what makes us better, right. 181 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:08,840 So yeah, so that was Geekway. I got to see everybody, visit 182 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:12,760 with everyone, play some games, plan some things out. 183 00:10:14,560 --> 00:10:19,080 Yeah, Heather says hello. She was, she was busy. 184 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:20,480 She's. Not got long to go, she how many 185 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:21,920 days? It's nearly over, isn't? 186 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:25,800 It I think, I think of the Stacy has like a week left maybe five 187 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:26,560 days just. Kind of. 188 00:10:26,560 --> 00:10:30,960 Look my it's not even loading. You may be faster than me. 189 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:34,360 Maybe. Three days, three days 3. 190 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:35,800 Days. Three days. 191 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:38,160 Three days. So y'all better hurry up. 192 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:43,280 Apostocracy is coming to an end and you need a copy. 193 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:51,560 It is the quintessential defining board game that you 194 00:10:51,560 --> 00:10:54,840 play right before playing Obsession. 195 00:10:55,840 --> 00:11:00,040 Those two games fit so well together. 196 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:06,200 I'm telling you, I'm yeah, I can't wait for to get my copy. 197 00:11:06,240 --> 00:11:08,120 It's just a warm up. It is. 198 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:11,000 It's a total warm up. That was the disappointment as 199 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:15,000 everyone wanted to play obsession with me, especially 200 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:19,560 after I think it was episode 79 where we talked about teaching 201 00:11:19,560 --> 00:11:23,280 tips and I said the one game that I could play just 202 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:27,160 out-of-the-box is Obsession. And so there were people who 203 00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:30,000 wanted to, but schedules didn't end because I was only there for 204 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:34,000 the day. So this is a this is an 205 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:35,640 interesting at least for me anyway. 206 00:11:35,640 --> 00:11:39,920 It's an interesting convention season because of our two weeks 207 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:44,600 jaunt in England. All my all my convention visits 208 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:48,800 are abbreviated. So one day at Geek Way, I'll be 209 00:11:48,800 --> 00:11:50,680 one day at Origins. I'll be at one day at Gen. 210 00:11:50,680 --> 00:11:54,640 Con too. So yeah, but. 211 00:11:55,680 --> 00:11:59,240 In UKGE in between, yes. In what, 11 days? 212 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:02,880 11 days. If you're not going or not heard 213 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:06,640 of UKGE, I'm I'm sure most listeners have it's UK Games 214 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:09,080 Expo. It's probably the biggest trade 215 00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:12,400 stroke open gaming. There are other session other 216 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:16,840 cons which focus more on the gaming element but it's you know 217 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:21,440 2 trade, two huge trade alls at the NEC in Birmingham starts on 218 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:26,560 the Friday the 31st of May which are most people in in the UK. 219 00:12:26,560 --> 00:12:30,360 That's half term holidays, runs till the Sunday 2nd of June. 220 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:35,880 We'll be there Thursday, mid afternoon. 221 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:40,160 There's a press event on Thursday night, so our Thursday 222 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:42,520 late afternoon which we will go and attend. 223 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:47,200 Plenty of people emailing in and asking us to go and look at 224 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:49,600 their wares. I'll be honest, I have not done 225 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:53,720 enough research yet. Work is too busy, so much that I 226 00:12:53,720 --> 00:12:56,680 have Thursday off. But now I'm going to go and do a 227 00:12:56,680 --> 00:13:00,560 pitch Thursday morning on the route to the UK games net. 228 00:13:00,560 --> 00:13:04,760 So we'll leave my daughter in the car or in reception as I 229 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:09,720 drive to Coventry to do some work and then head to the UKGE 230 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:12,040 in the afternoon, which is I think it actually works. 231 00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:14,080 OK, I only had the morning off. Only had the afternoon off 232 00:13:14,080 --> 00:13:18,600 anyway, so but I wasn't planning to do a pitch that's snuck in. 233 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:22,400 There's bound to be like a board game cafe or just some sort of 234 00:13:22,560 --> 00:13:24,280 coffee shop for her to go hang out. 235 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:26,440 Not where, not where. This place is. 236 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:29,600 OK, yeah, it's like it's like an industrial site. 237 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:34,360 So, so yeah, so we've got, so we've got that to look forward 238 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:37,440 to. Lots of people chatting away 239 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:39,840 like in the Instagram UKG chat group. 240 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:44,680 I can't keep up with the constant barrage of information. 241 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:48,760 I know there's a bingo Instagrammer hunt hunt the 242 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:53,280 Instagrammer bingo game. So keep an eye out for that and 243 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:56,920 then people are starting to write their top ten lists, a bit 244 00:13:56,920 --> 00:14:00,800 like Geek Way. It's not really a big release 245 00:14:01,640 --> 00:14:04,400 show. So there's I was reading earlier 246 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:08,600 someone's done some work about maybe a 250 games, but some of 247 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:10,480 the games that are new are actually being released like 248 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:13,880 2019. So I'm not quite what sure 249 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:18,520 what's classed as new, but there'll be lots of things to 250 00:14:18,520 --> 00:14:21,960 see, lots of things to test or test or you know, preview. 251 00:14:23,880 --> 00:14:25,960 I haven't got much to buy, which is good news. 252 00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:29,840 I think the only given is is Rats of Rats of Worcester, 253 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:31,040 Worcester. OK. 254 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:32,880 All right. That's on my list. 255 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:35,760 Maybe you could get a copy of Wandering Towers while you're 256 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:37,160 there too? Well, maybe. 257 00:14:37,160 --> 00:14:39,120 Maybe. That's not a bad shout. 258 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:41,560 Only me and Kira, Only me and Kira are going. 259 00:14:41,680 --> 00:14:43,360 There's no Mrs. Ball game, people. 260 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:48,400 She's got to work, so we'll be there. 261 00:14:50,280 --> 00:14:54,520 I have my mics with me, so if you were around last year and 262 00:14:54,520 --> 00:14:58,120 you want to get involved, we will mic you up, Let me, you 263 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:01,760 know, 30 seconds of your time. Tell me what you think of the 264 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:07,960 show, what you've seen and what's the best thing about, you 265 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:12,000 know, that that kind of stuff. So that worked quite well last 266 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:14,640 year. Yeah, I didn't get to do any 267 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:19,200 recording a geek way that I was too busy play testing games. 268 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:21,120 It is. It is remembering it. 269 00:15:21,280 --> 00:15:23,040 It's so easy to to forget and chat. 270 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:25,440 It is, I think. Last year I did a few things and 271 00:15:25,440 --> 00:15:27,760 went I've forgotten to turn the mic on or I've not taken the 272 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:30,640 mics with me. So I'm going to give you, I'm 273 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:34,760 going to give you an assignment. There are two people that you 274 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:37,360 absolutely must find. Pen. 275 00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:39,680 My pen is in hand. You must find. 276 00:15:39,680 --> 00:15:42,440 They're on the bingo card. They probably are. 277 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:44,840 You have to tell them that I said hello. 278 00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:49,080 You have to give them a hug for me and just get a sound bite 279 00:15:49,080 --> 00:15:51,880 from them both and then one of them is Pink Meeple. 280 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:56,720 Our good friend Alex, she's going to her first convention 281 00:15:56,720 --> 00:16:00,280 ever and this is going to be it, so. 282 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:02,960 Yeah, she she did a really nice video of all the people. 283 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:06,600 She did. She's she's she's nervous, so 284 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:08,800 y'all got to make her feel at home. 285 00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:11,960 She'll get me Grandma UKG. Welcome. 286 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:17,760 And then the other one is Hannah Hand Hand plays games hand. 287 00:16:18,320 --> 00:16:19,360 Yeah. Right. 288 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:20,760 You know who I'm. Talking about Yeah, I know, 289 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:22,640 yeah. Her too. 290 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:26,040 Neither one of them, neither one of them could make it to Cajun 291 00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:29,160 Con. Just scheduling didn't work out. 292 00:16:29,160 --> 00:16:33,920 So you're going to meet them at UKGE and it's going to be great. 293 00:16:34,280 --> 00:16:37,480 We do the sound bites, yeah, yeah, there's there's a lot of 294 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:41,960 new Instagramers or either to UK Games Expo in the group, so lots 295 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:44,880 of new voices to hear. There are, yeah, there really 296 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:47,080 are. So, So that's exciting. 297 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:49,040 That's cool. Yeah, it's yeah, I can't believe 298 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:51,760 it's come round again. I just it's kind of blinked and 299 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:54,120 boom, we're in conventions. Do this. 300 00:16:54,120 --> 00:16:57,800 Didn't we do this last year? I think so we did and then we 301 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:00,440 were like, I think I was a bit a bit more planned. 302 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:03,720 I should do my planning over the weekend ready for next week. 303 00:17:04,839 --> 00:17:08,800 Because you had a whole list of recordings from designers and 304 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:11,119 then you had a whole list recording from boomers, so. 305 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:16,040 I've got three appointments lined up that I've replied to so 306 00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:21,040 far, but yeah, work is just taking a minority moment. 307 00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:23,160 Gaming is second. Well, game is about fifth 308 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:26,920 currently. Yeah, So what? 309 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:29,040 Wow. Maybe even last. 310 00:17:29,560 --> 00:17:31,840 It's not good. That is not good. 311 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:35,800 Yeah. What's But we're lucky. 312 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:41,560 We're lucky that we have friends like John to step in when you're 313 00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:44,640 busy. We need like a whole cast. 314 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:47,200 We yeah, we definitely need to do that. 315 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:51,960 We should, we should definitely have like substitutes and. 316 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:53,800 Stuff. Yeah, yeah. 317 00:17:54,120 --> 00:17:56,320 Anyone wants to get involved, just message us. 318 00:17:56,800 --> 00:18:02,520 Yep, do it. Variety is always good, so so on 319 00:18:02,520 --> 00:18:05,360 to UK GS out the way. Is it origins? 320 00:18:05,360 --> 00:18:08,080 It's usually a couple of weeks later, 3 weeks later? 321 00:18:08,080 --> 00:18:12,280 What date is Origins? So Origins Game Fair It's June 322 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:15,600 19th to the 23rd. Yeah, so, like, yeah, like, just 323 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:18,800 like the shot. Weeks last year I've worked the 324 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:21,440 whole convention for wise wizard games. 325 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:23,080 We were about to say that was wise, Wizard, wasn't it? 326 00:18:23,080 --> 00:18:27,760 Yeah. So just through a stroke of 327 00:18:28,080 --> 00:18:32,000 unfortunate events, they didn't need me this year. 328 00:18:32,480 --> 00:18:37,600 OK, no worries. So we're going to go to see 329 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:40,240 Katie's parents and we're going to only go down to Origins for a 330 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:42,560 day, so. What day are you going? 331 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:45,040 On it is going to be the Friday the. 332 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:47,040 Friday, which I? Think is. 333 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:48,920 That a better day? Like, I always think that Friday 334 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:53,000 is the best at UKGE because it's it's not insanely busy because 335 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:56,280 Saturday's a write off. I think for Origins, Friday is 336 00:18:56,280 --> 00:18:58,640 the better day. Yeah, absolutely. 337 00:18:59,120 --> 00:19:01,520 I don't know what day that is, though. 338 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:04,480 Come on. I'm looking that up right now in 339 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:12,040 the calendar. That's the 21st, the 21st. 21st. 340 00:19:12,120 --> 00:19:14,320 So Friday the 21st, our friends are going to be there. 341 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:16,720 I know that I'm going to see Adam tabletop vibes. 342 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:19,880 We're going to, we're going to, We've got to meet up. 343 00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:24,720 We're doing a board game swap. I've got a game that he wants 344 00:19:24,720 --> 00:19:28,080 and he's got a game that I want. Well, he has a lot of games I 345 00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:34,480 want, but, but we're going to do a swap and so yeah, that'll be 346 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:35,800 fun. It's just going to be a day for 347 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:39,360 us to explore. Katie's never been to Origins 348 00:19:39,360 --> 00:19:40,680 so. Hasn't she? 349 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:43,080 No, she's never. Been I didn't know that. 350 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:44,480 I've been. It's always. 351 00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:47,360 It's really gentle that you guys go together. 352 00:19:47,640 --> 00:19:52,080 Yeah, so the vendor, the the vendor hall or the trade hall, 353 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:56,160 the events area and the open gaming and the games lobby, 354 00:19:56,360 --> 00:20:00,160 they're all in the they're all in the same physical space, 355 00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:02,480 right? They might be divided by walls, 356 00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:04,640 but they're in the same space. Whereas like in Gen. 357 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:07,240 Con you can go from building to building, 'cause it's so big, 358 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:10,600 which I imagine there's some similarity to a UKGE. 359 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:15,120 Yes, Origins is all compact, which is great. 360 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:18,600 So we'll, we'll walk around, hopefully we'll meet up with 361 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:22,360 Shelley. Michiana Board Gamery, We 362 00:20:22,360 --> 00:20:24,680 usually see her every year. We'll definitely see. 363 00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:27,400 Adam obsessed with board games will be there. 364 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:31,640 Jerry from Tabletop Worldwide is going to be there. 365 00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:33,120 It's going to be his first Origins. 366 00:20:34,520 --> 00:20:37,040 So for all of you listening, you're just hearing this for the 367 00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:38,320 first time. I'm going to have a chance to 368 00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:41,080 tell everybody I will not be working Origins. 369 00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:43,360 I'm only going for the day. That's not better. 370 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:46,440 Than Friday. It will be his origins got game 371 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:48,320 releases I've seen. Remember, sometimes there are 372 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:50,680 some releases. There's usually a few. 373 00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:53,360 It's really minor because they wait for Gen. 374 00:20:53,360 --> 00:20:56,120 Con, but you get a couple, you get a couple of them. 375 00:20:56,120 --> 00:21:00,160 So I don't it's it's it's a much more chill experience. 376 00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:08,000 The other thing is that it's in Columbus, OH and just a very 377 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:11,480 short walk away from the Convention Center is North 378 00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:16,960 Market, which has lots of restaurants, places to eat. 379 00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:20,080 I think it's an old train station or fish market or 380 00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:24,640 something that's been converted. So that's really convenient. 381 00:21:25,160 --> 00:21:28,200 Indianapolis, for Gen. Con, you, you've got to do the 382 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:30,160 Gen. Con thing or you've got to go, 383 00:21:30,680 --> 00:21:34,560 you got to walk aways. So Columbus is a little bit more 384 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:37,360 convenient. It is also Columbus. 385 00:21:37,360 --> 00:21:42,680 OH, is my second favorite city in the entire United States. 386 00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:46,040 For. Everything. 387 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:50,840 From it's just because. So it's it's it's large enough. 388 00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:55,960 I would I would move there. It is large enough that there 389 00:21:55,960 --> 00:21:58,720 are things to do. There are always events. 390 00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:02,880 It's it's got a rich culture. It has amazing food. 391 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:08,080 There's so many, so many high quality restaurants, dining. 392 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:11,640 I love Columbus. I eat so well. 393 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:14,880 There's only one other city in in the United States where I eat 394 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:17,840 better than I do in Columbus. And conveniently, that's my 395 00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:19,200 favorite city in the United States. 396 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:22,640 So there you have it. I'm looking on the map. 397 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:25,520 Because I'm in the West. I'm not. 398 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:29,200 I know you don't. OK, You found it. 399 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:31,960 And do you do you drive to all these places? 400 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:34,760 Yeah. So what's the drive to Geekway? 401 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:39,760 So, oh, an hour. What's a drive to Columbus, OH? 402 00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:43,920 Six hours. I do cross the time zone, so the 403 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:50,560 time changes, so it's a six hour drive, but seven hours pass 404 00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:53,080 because I got you going to another time zone and. 405 00:22:53,360 --> 00:22:57,480 Then what's What's Gencom? Gencom's three hours You drive 406 00:22:57,560 --> 00:23:00,680 through Indianapolis to get to Columbus, so. 407 00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:04,000 Is that the furthest you've driven to to a con? 408 00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:06,720 Would you drive, would you? That feels like a long way. 409 00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:09,560 And do you drive on one go? Would you? 410 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:12,680 Do you take a break? I'd rather I mean you. 411 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:16,520 I don't think I can make it on one tank of gas, so I do have. 412 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:18,920 To yeah, you do stop. And rest stop the. 413 00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:22,640 Rest. Yeah, but Oh yeah, that's the 414 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:24,800 farthest I've driven for a convention. 415 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:29,240 It's a long way. I agree, and it's probably the 416 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:30,840 furthest I'm willing to drive for a commit. 417 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:34,040 I drove six hours for Nashville, TN game days. 418 00:23:35,360 --> 00:23:38,200 You did? Well, let's be honest, Adam 419 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:40,680 drove. I rode in the driver, I rode in 420 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:41,520 the past. That's right. 421 00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:43,840 Even better. Well, that's six hours you've 422 00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:45,160 got. You've got a lot of What do you 423 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:47,680 do? Do you listen to podcasts or do 424 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:52,440 you talk called music? Or do you sing in APJ style? 425 00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:59,240 So I typically what we do is so, so Katie's very detail oriented. 426 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:03,840 So she's already mapped out what vendors do we want to see, What 427 00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:08,320 games do we want to see, What games do we want to buy, What 428 00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:12,520 games do we want to demo, right. And so we kind of map that out 429 00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:15,600 while we're on the drive. That is the beauty of us going 430 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:18,840 together to everything. So it's like, I mean I'm not 431 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:22,000 talking about like it's tyrannical how at 8 we're doing 432 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:23,840 this and at 9:00. Spreadsheet. 433 00:24:24,360 --> 00:24:27,840 There is a spreadsheet, but should be like, OK, we're going 434 00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:31,120 to do these things and I think if we do these on Friday then we 435 00:24:31,120 --> 00:24:33,000 could do these on Saturday blah blah blah blah, right? 436 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:36,800 So, so we'll do that and then I will remind her we need to see 437 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:39,400 Shelly and we need to see Laura and we need to make sure we see 438 00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:42,560 Adam and we got to see Jerry and and and then the list goes on. 439 00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:45,000 So we both have different priorities, but we want to do it 440 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:47,600 all so. That sounds really good, yeah. 441 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:51,000 So once Orange is out of the way, then you've got Django 442 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:51,960 then. We've got, yeah. 443 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:54,560 So then we have July, which is like all work. 444 00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:59,280 Like I've got work conventions. I've got work conventions. 445 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:03,320 Where are we going this time? Oh yeah, we're going up to 446 00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:08,480 Mundelein, which is just north of Chicago, for a work week, a 447 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:12,320 whole week work convention. And then there's other big 448 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:17,000 things going on at work as well. And then the very first week of 449 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:21,000 August 1st to the 5th is Gen. Con, but we're only going to be 450 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:23,800 there on Sunday. Usually do the whole thing. 451 00:25:24,360 --> 00:25:29,200 So what changed? Oh, budget, budget concerns and 452 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:34,800 scheduling again. Two weeks in England took a took 453 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:38,480 a toll, I bet. Yeah, and and holidays, of 454 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:40,880 course. And holidays because we took 455 00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:45,720 vacation time. So my sister-in-law lives maybe 456 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:48,600 an hour South of Indianapolis, so we're going to go stay with 457 00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:50,080 them for the whole weekend 0. That's good. 458 00:25:50,360 --> 00:25:51,880 And then we'll, we will go up to Gen. 459 00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:56,520 Con just for Sunday. Sunday is probably the best day 460 00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:57,480 to be at Gen. Con. 461 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:01,720 Yeah, a lot of people are kind of winding down. 462 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:05,720 They stayed up late Saturday night, so the vendor Hall's not 463 00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:09,040 as crowded. Towards the end of the day, the 464 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:11,600 vendor hall, the vendors are just trying to get rid of their 465 00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:12,880 inventory because they don't. Yep. 466 00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:18,960 They're willing to just chat more because they're not trying 467 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:23,440 to, you know, I don't know. It's more casual and I'm down. 468 00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:28,400 I think UKGEI always like a Sunday to go chat with anyone 469 00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:30,760 because it's usually it is so much quieter. 470 00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:33,440 So much quieter. Yeah. 471 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:37,280 I don't know who we're going to see and what we're going to see. 472 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:39,600 I haven't even started thinking about Gen. 473 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:44,960 Con at this point, so who knows? Who knows? 474 00:26:45,120 --> 00:26:46,600 And when's that? August. 475 00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:49,280 August, you say August, August 1st, 1st to the 5th. 476 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:53,680 Boom. So that's wow, that's that's 477 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:58,400 what we've got going on. Well, I'm looking forward to 478 00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:01,840 UKGEA few days of gaming and a few days of hanging out with 479 00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:03,560 people. What about seeing all the 480 00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:05,800 friendly faces? Are you going to Essen at all? 481 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:12,160 I don't think so. We've been talking about doing 482 00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:15,600 something over here with a group, so whether it's ES and 483 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:21,960 weekends, I kind of used to want to go to get all the games and 484 00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:26,200 these days I'm not so enthused. The games will get here and I've 485 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:28,440 learned that most of the games that I think will be really good 486 00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:32,280 generally aren't. So I'm just wiser these days of 487 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:35,960 like board games. I think I said about the Rats of 488 00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:37,880 Wooster earlier, I think that was nesting release. 489 00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:40,360 That's I think came out over here 2 weeks ago. 490 00:27:41,120 --> 00:27:46,040 But you know, my shelf of opportunity, or was it my board? 491 00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:49,280 Game backlog. My board game backlog you know 492 00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:51,360 has it got worse? No. 493 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:55,600 I think it we after games day with Nick at board game of EST, 494 00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:58,680 I think I might have ticked off. We might have got, we might be 495 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:04,680 less than sub 80. Nothing's nothing's arrived but 496 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:07,280 that needs playing. Yes. 497 00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:10,440 Oh, well done Gareth. You think things have got 498 00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:11,520 better? I've been. 499 00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:14,920 Too busy to buy Be too busy to buy board games. 500 00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:20,080 We're we are at 59.4% of our collections. 501 00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:22,640 Played. That is insane. 502 00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:26,120 Yeah. I'm trying to think what's what 503 00:28:26,120 --> 00:28:28,320 got off? Oh yeah, so another game of the 504 00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:30,560 incredibly long list of games that haven't been played. 505 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:36,080 We finally played Deadwood 1876, which is a facade, which is, you 506 00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:38,480 know, this has been an ongoing joke for years between me and 507 00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:41,800 Nick that we'd play them all and for a long time they were in my 508 00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:45,040 bag but never got played. But I do believe we have one 509 00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:51,720 left to do. So we played that, and 510 00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:57,160 everything else was new to me. Oh, I talked. 511 00:28:57,160 --> 00:29:00,920 Snowdonia. I saw you posted something about 512 00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:02,240 Snowdonia. Yeah, I. 513 00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:04,840 I took, I took the guys the basic the basic version of that 514 00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:09,240 so. I've got a new a new strategy 515 00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:14,400 I'm going to, I'm going to share this with you and hopefully the 516 00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:17,320 our listeners can benefit from this. 517 00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:21,800 I know a couple of people have asked me about how we manage to 518 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:26,080 play every game in our collection or as close as 100% 519 00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:29,000 as possible. So we recently had This is a 520 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:32,400 Coffee Tin. I don't know if you can hear 521 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:34,000 that. We can hear it. 522 00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:40,040 So inside I know inside this coffee tin, are sheets of paper 523 00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:43,440 with the names of games printed on them. 524 00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:47,920 And so whenever Katie and I are like, what do we want to play? 525 00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:50,120 And it's like, the problem is it's like what do we want to 526 00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:52,280 play? And so first of all, the the the 527 00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:53,920 first thing is what are we in the mood to play? 528 00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:58,360 The second one is what is still on our list to be played. 529 00:29:58,360 --> 00:29:59,720 Well, we don't have that list in front of us. 530 00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:03,760 Now she and I both pick a it's like picking a name out of a 531 00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:07,280 hat. Surely sometimes you want a 532 00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:08,840 short game, sometimes you want a long game. 533 00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:10,440 Isn't there? It's true. 534 00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:14,520 But so I pick AI, pick a game, and she picks a game. 535 00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:19,880 OK, so you get. 5050 So then we choose one of those two games. 536 00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:23,160 Might might hit the mark. So here's the interesting thing. 537 00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:29,000 So what if we pick two games neither of us want to play them? 538 00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:32,040 Then what? So, so, OK, there's two things. 539 00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:35,160 Why is is what I love it. You always got to evaluate, 540 00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:37,160 right? Why don't you want to play that 541 00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:39,160 game? Well, I just don't feel like 542 00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:43,040 playing a big scythe right now and I'm in the mood for 543 00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:44,960 something lighter. And that's OK, we'll put it back 544 00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:49,080 on the hat or I don't feel like playing this game at all. 545 00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:54,880 And if we both feel that way, we put it on the the shelf to be 546 00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:58,440 culled, right and get it out of her. 547 00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:00,360 It's crazy. I think Katie's already got 548 00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:03,920 three or four games on our shelf to be sold and the used game 549 00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:06,240 sale was just a few weeks ago, so she's ready to sell. 550 00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:11,080 Yeah, I think we've we've been doing that recently where we've 551 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:14,320 talked about games and I've gone with the games that Carrie have 552 00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:16,040 always said she wants me to keep. 553 00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:20,240 What was it this week like Bunny Kingdom, which Carrie loves. 554 00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:22,880 And I said, oh, Bunny Kingdom. And she was like, yeah. 555 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:29,240 And I was like, oh, is that a, is that a no or is that a like, 556 00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:32,040 It's dead to me. But she wasn't sure. 557 00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:35,240 So we we do need to play it. But I was surprised because she 558 00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:38,240 loves that. Game Maybe there'll be a game 559 00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:41,160 coming out this summer to replace it. 560 00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:44,880 Maybe like raising rabbits? Raise. 561 00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:47,600 There we go. OK, Aaron, I love you. 562 00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:50,320 It was a pleasure to meet you. And that's the last time I plug 563 00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:54,040 your game at this episode. Raising rabbits. 564 00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:56,200 Raising rabbits. Yeah. 565 00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:01,320 So yeah, so that I guess yeah, let's let's Well, if anyone's 566 00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:05,280 going to be at those upcoming conventions, what did you what 567 00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:07,320 did you select? PJ opened his jar of coffee, and 568 00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:08,080 he. I did. 569 00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:13,120 I just chose Maharani Mosaic Palace. 570 00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:15,480 This is a good. This is a good game. 571 00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:18,480 It's by Queen Games. It's a little tile placement 572 00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:22,440 game. It's it's an older game that we 573 00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:24,280 picked up at a used game sale. I love. 574 00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:26,240 That's the other thing too. I'll find the title and be like, 575 00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:29,440 oh, and this story kind of just I remember when we got this. 576 00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:32,520 It's a good. Game I think a feature the end 577 00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:37,280 of every episode because like I can go into my my my app same as 578 00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:39,840 you're picking hat and just say pick me a random game. 579 00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:42,920 And we can talk about it for. Just talk about the random game 580 00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:45,440 that pops up, because there's always a little story. 581 00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:50,440 Yeah, that idea. So one last thing to close out 582 00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:54,520 the episode. What does AI have for us today? 583 00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:57,760 AI has been really busy with work. 584 00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:00,560 We've built we've been we've been building some stuff that 585 00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:03,000 even I think Microsoft, Microsoft said to us we are 586 00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:05,120 bleeding edge, which I was quite proud of. 587 00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:07,720 Not me. I like that clever, but the guys 588 00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:11,200 in the team are. I don't know what can we ask, 589 00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:14,640 what can we ask AI? What is the question? 590 00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:16,400 I shall ask it. We shall ask it. 591 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:25,120 What are the top 3 tips for attending a board game 592 00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:28,880 convention? What do you what do you reckon 593 00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:31,160 it's going to say? I think. 594 00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:32,720 It's going to take good advice already I. 595 00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:35,160 Think it's going to be. Go ahead, go ahead. 596 00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:39,600 Plan ahead. Plan ahead #1. 597 00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:41,800 Perfect for Katie. Review the convention schedule 598 00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:44,240 in advance and prioritise the events, panels and games you 599 00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:49,200 want to attend. 1B Pre registration If there's popular 600 00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:52,720 events and tournaments get in. That's a great tip because UKG 601 00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:56,280 there's loads of events, Jen. Carney, Ton of events. 602 00:33:56,280 --> 00:34:00,360 That's great. Map it out now in the uki Think 603 00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:02,440 it's the offline game I was going to check. 604 00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:07,600 I think it's the offline gamer. Yeah, Tod cast at Tod cast in 605 00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:10,760 Instagram. The offline gamer does a great 606 00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:14,239 service in the UK. He takes UKG maps that they 607 00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:18,120 produce and then actually makes them useful by annotating and 608 00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:21,040 writing who's on every single stand versus theirs, which is 609 00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:25,480 just numbered. So wrap out Section 2, pack 610 00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:28,960 smart. I think we had this last year. 611 00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:34,480 Bring a backpack, water, snacks, phone chargers, Wear comfortable 612 00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:40,679 shoes, Maybe ChatGPT, which is the one I'm using. 613 00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:45,400 Other AI services are available. Maybe they've just been and read 614 00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:47,719 our listen to our podcasts. Because you know. 615 00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:49,080 I'm sure this is what we said last year. 616 00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:51,480 I mean, we. Almost word for word. 617 00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:53,800 This one This is interesting one. 618 00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:56,719 If you're planning to play specific games, bring your own 619 00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:59,360 dice, pencils, or other gaming accessories. 620 00:34:59,920 --> 00:35:01,560 Do you do that? Take your own dice. 621 00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:07,520 You know, OK do you? I I bring my own Zen bins with 622 00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:11,160 me. So this is like the biggest 623 00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:13,480 piece of this is the biggest piece of advice I have for 624 00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:17,480 anyone going to a convention is bring you Zen bins. 625 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:21,000 By Zen means you mean token storage containers, yes? 626 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:25,480 So I think that's a brand ZENI just have the guess because 627 00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:27,360 you're holding. Yeah, yeah I am. 628 00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:29,800 Anyway, these are fantastic because you know what's going to 629 00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:31,880 happen is you're going to play a game for the first time and 630 00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:34,840 you're going to have all these tokens and bits and resources 631 00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:37,280 and they're great for organizing them, so. 632 00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:39,400 Haven't you take? Lots of. 633 00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:44,040 We usually take three because the lid and the bottom. 634 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:46,080 You've. Got two, yeah. 635 00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:49,080 Yeah. So if you bring 3 now, you could 636 00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:54,760 you could bring like there's a game trays tray that has six 637 00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:56,800 compartments and just bring the one. 638 00:35:57,080 --> 00:36:00,640 But it's it's it's kind of long. It's not square light. 639 00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:03,080 Travel light, yeah. But I quite the ones. 640 00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:05,520 The little pop up ones, the buttons on the corners, that 641 00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:07,600 flat, that fold flat, you know what I mean? 642 00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:12,400 Those are really good too. So whatever, Whatever. 643 00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:18,120 Token organization, bring something. 644 00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:20,960 Because let me tell you what, how many times do we pull them 645 00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:22,920 out of our bag? And they're like, that's 646 00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:23,840 brilliant. I didn't. 647 00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:25,480 Why didn't I think of that? Yeah, yeah. 648 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:27,640 Well, do it. This time next year when we do 649 00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:32,240 this AI search, you'll say your Zen bins or other Zen bins. 650 00:36:32,720 --> 00:36:33,920 Or. Section 3. 651 00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:38,320 Engage in network. Yes, socialise. 652 00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:40,560 Organ Connection is a great place to meet fellow 653 00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:42,040 enthusiasts. Don't be shy. 654 00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:45,880 Come and say hello. Learn this is this is your 655 00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:47,800 favorite. Take advantage of demo sessions 656 00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:50,040 and workshops and learn new games and strategies. 657 00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:54,560 And the final one, connect. Exchange contact information 658 00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:58,680 with new friends and game developers like UKGE and I guess 659 00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:00,920 even Instagram. Yeah, like, we've met so many 660 00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:08,880 cool friends through that social media hub that we only see at 661 00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:12,280 UKGE, right? And you know, there's a few 662 00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:14,040 people that say messages. It's just great to hang out. 663 00:37:15,240 --> 00:37:18,560 So to summarise, by planning ahead, packing smartly and 664 00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:21,320 engaging with the community, you'll be well prepared to have 665 00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:24,280 a fantastic time at a board game convention. 666 00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:26,400 I love that. There we go. 667 00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:27,320 It's great. Let me. 668 00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:30,440 So only forgot. That last, that last prompt was 669 00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:33,360 connect. When you when you're at a game 670 00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:37,080 convention and you're like, you know you want to, you want to 671 00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:39,080 let them know, you want to let the individual know that you've 672 00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:41,520 got a podcast, you want to get them on our show, whatever. 673 00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:44,600 So we don't have business cards. What do you do? 674 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:46,440 What do you, how do you handle that? 675 00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:49,120 Like how do you? Know that people gave me 676 00:37:49,240 --> 00:37:53,880 business cards, but then I just say that they, you know, got a 677 00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:55,640 podcast as well. We'll check our Instagram 678 00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:57,760 channel. So I had buttons made-up, but 679 00:37:57,760 --> 00:37:59,760 I'm completely out. I had stickers. 680 00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:01,520 I'm completely out. I've got five. 681 00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:05,920 I've got five buttons left. I really hate that because it's 682 00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:08,120 like I'm like, oh, I need to like. 683 00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:13,320 So I met a designer at Geek Way and I was like, I wish I had. 684 00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:16,480 I mean, she started following us on Instagram right away and you 685 00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:17,800 know, we did that. I use. 686 00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:22,120 I use for work wise so I actually I could use this. 687 00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:27,000 I use the app called hi hello. So I have a I have my business 688 00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:30,080 card, I have my personal one which you which I'm showing PJ's 689 00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:35,360 a picture of me in board games and you just you just share and 690 00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:37,640 then they got AQR code and they can scan it. 691 00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:39,960 Oh, that's neat. That's cool. 692 00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:41,960 It's really neat, yeah. All right. 693 00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:43,240 Hi. Hello. 694 00:38:43,240 --> 00:38:45,440 Cool. Hi Hello I'm sure there are 695 00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:48,360 other networking apps that are available too. 696 00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:53,480 So board games, board game convention season is officially 697 00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:56,640 upon us. You're all going to conventions 698 00:38:57,720 --> 00:38:59,680 and. You there, Come and say hello. 699 00:39:00,240 --> 00:39:04,120 Yeah, and we'll do the interview. 30 seconds. 10 700 00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:06,000 seconds, Absolutely. Whatever you find comfortable. 701 00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:09,120 So for our friends at Origins and Jenkin, I'm definitely 702 00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:11,000 bringing my mics. We're going to do recordings, 703 00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:13,360 we're going to make it happen Geek way. 704 00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:15,840 I got myself distracted and I cannot allow that. 705 00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:18,320 Disappointing. Yeah. 706 00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:20,960 Sometimes you just got to. Can't get stressed by it? 707 00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:22,600 Yep. All right. 708 00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:24,800 Well, thanks everyone, for listening. 709 00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:28,760 Thanks, PJ and we'll see you hopefully all soon. 710 00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:32,240 See you more than hear you. See you Laters. 711 00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:36,440 Thanks everyone for listening. Please subscribe and as always, 712 00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:40,400 we'd love to hear your thoughts and ideas, so make sure to leave 713 00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:44,080 those in the comments. And don't forget, you can also 714 00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:47,320 chat with us both on Instagram at meeple to Meeple.