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 4 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 --> 00:00:21,680 hot topics, and much, much more. Hey guys and welcome to episode 7 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:28,400 6565 is a fun one where we're going to talk about or. 8 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:34,440 The title is going to be Geekway Gateway Getaway. 9 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:37,600 How about that? I got through it as always. 10 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:39,400 I'm PJ. And I'm Gareth. 11 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:44,760 And we're going to talk about, so this weekend was Geekway 12 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:48,520 Mini. Geekway to the West is a gaming 13 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:53,880 convention in St. Louis, MO in May and that's what 14 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:56,960 they call Geekway Prime. But then they do a mini, they 15 00:00:56,960 --> 00:01:01,880 host a Mini three day convention, just the games 16 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:05,519 library play to win games. 400 attendees maybe. 17 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:10,920 And so that's where I was this weekend and Gareth was home 18 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:13,560 playing a lot of small games with the family. 19 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:18,880 So are there are there other, Are there geek ways to the east 20 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:22,840 and geek ways to the north? So, and here's your history 21 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:26,160 lesson. The the Gateway Arch in Saint 22 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:28,640 Louis, which is on the banks of the Mississippi River and it's 23 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:32,880 on the West Bank, was called or is still considered the gateway 24 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:37,440 to the West, right. So in the early 1800s, Lewis and 25 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:41,400 Clark go in their expedition from what is at that moment now 26 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:43,960 the United States. And they're going West to 27 00:01:43,960 --> 00:01:47,720 explore the land that was purchased by Napoleon, known as 28 00:01:47,720 --> 00:01:52,840 Louisiana Purchase, and to find out what to expect and survey 29 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:55,400 the land. And so they started in Saint 30 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:57,200 Louis. And so this arch was built as a 31 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:00,120 monument that this, that the city of Saint Louis is the 32 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:02,840 gateway to the West or Western America. 33 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:07,800 And so to ask, I I honestly, you're like an encyclopedia of 34 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:11,800 American history. A you even squeeze in a board 35 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:14,080 game name Lewis and Clark. I do like that board game as 36 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:17,880 well. And so instead of Gateway Geek 37 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:22,000 Way and of course their their icon is the Arch in Saint Louis. 38 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:25,320 But it's we're all geeks and. It's the geek way to look up, 39 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:27,520 but there we go. So there isn't one to 40 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:29,600 north-south, east and West. It's just. 41 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:33,160 Just the one. Just the one there's a there's a 42 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:36,560 whole convention opportunity there to make others. 43 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:42,000 And so three days of pure gaming. 44 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:46,360 No, no trade haul. No so this like I. 45 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:51,800 Said playing games. This is Geekway Mini and it's 46 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:58,160 just games, so they have a games library with over 1000 games in 47 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:01,600 their collection that they allow you to check out and play for 48 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:05,760 free. It is housed at the Miniature 49 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:08,880 Market Game store. OK, in. 50 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:12,000 Saint Louis, So you can go to miniature market anytime. 51 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:15,400 The games library, the games library is available, but then 52 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:19,160 they also have, I think it's 25 or 30 titles. 53 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:21,640 I don't know, I don't remember the number off the top of my 54 00:03:21,640 --> 00:03:25,480 head, but they have 5 or 6 multiple copies of these games 55 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:28,800 and that's their play and win. So you play the game, you check 56 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:32,240 it out of the library. You you you play it, you come 57 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:34,920 back, check it in, and then you go up to Little Station, which 58 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:38,320 is a tablet, and you enter your name and your badge number. 59 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:42,600 Say you know you rate it from one to five stars and whether or 60 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:46,520 not you want to win a copy, it drops your name into a random 61 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:51,600 drawing on Sunday to win a copy of the game every game you win 62 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:53,960 when you go up to the station and enter your name. 63 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:57,800 The beauty is, is that when Katie and I are playing a game, 64 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:02,000 she can enter both of our names. Everyone who has a badge number 65 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:05,000 that played the game with you can be entered in to win the 66 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:07,520 copy of that game. So win, win. 67 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:10,400 It's a it's a really great concept. 68 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:14,120 I got to say, I don't. I don't know the concept over 69 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:15,520 here, but I don't go to conventions. 70 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:18,160 But I love it and I'd like to see more of it. 71 00:04:18,399 --> 00:04:23,400 And did you win? We did, yes, yes, never. 72 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:26,760 Look, I don't win anything and. And how many things did you win? 73 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:30,120 More than one. No, I won a game and Katie won a 74 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:31,960 game. It worked. 75 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:36,560 So she won a game by Yellow called Ancient Knowledge. 76 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:38,800 Yeah, she really, she really enjoyed that. 77 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:43,240 It's a two to four player. 12 plus is the age range according 78 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:45,760 to the box. It's it's really fun and it fits 79 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:48,720 in our wheelhouse of the ancient world since that's what we both 80 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:50,760 studied. And then keeping with that 81 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:54,360 theme, I swear it's like Geek Way knew who we were. 82 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:58,720 I want a copy of World Wonders. Oh, those little minis. 83 00:04:58,840 --> 00:05:00,600 Yeah. And so you have all these 84 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:04,680 beautiful 3 dimensionally wood ancient wonders of the world 85 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:09,520 that you're building, you know, on a my city style grid. 86 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:10,840 OK. In front of you. 87 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:12,760 Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then you have polyamino 88 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:15,760 districts and roads that you're building. 89 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:19,040 And then when you meet certain conditions, you automatically 90 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:23,320 get to purchase one of the monuments that are in a market 91 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:25,400 in front of you. And that includes the 92 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:27,360 three-dimensional. Are those unique? 93 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:30,080 So like there's only one, there's only one. 94 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:32,360 There's. Only seen it a few times. 95 00:05:33,080 --> 00:05:36,960 Technically there are three Great Pyramids of Giza, and so 96 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:41,320 it's cool because that miniature when you when you get it, it's 97 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:45,320 actually 3 wooden pyramids, right? 98 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:48,320 Whereas the Parthenon's, the Parthenon, the Coliseum, the 99 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:52,720 Roman Aqueduct, But the the pyramids are actually 3 and you 100 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:55,600 have to position them on your board once you've purchased 101 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:57,800 them. The only other one that's like 102 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:00,600 that is the Great Wall of China, which comes in three sections 103 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:02,320 and you can place them on the board. 104 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:04,480 Yeah, I've, I've seen it a few times. 105 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:07,520 I've been, oh, that looks good. And then I think it's worthy. 106 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:10,480 Ball game reviews got it and I said I'd play it first, so I 107 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:13,000 need to play that. Nick, you need to teach Gareth 108 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:14,800 World wonders. It's worthy. 109 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:17,120 We've got a date and a diary for Nick's Games Day. 110 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:18,920 Great. It's so worthy. 111 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:22,720 Only a month away. No, it's fantastic. 112 00:06:23,760 --> 00:06:29,320 The other highlight, I think for the our experience is all told, 113 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:35,320 from Friday morning to Sunday afternoon, we played twenty 114 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:42,560 unique titles. Wow, 26 individual plays. 115 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:46,200 See And these These are not games you took. 116 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:50,840 These are games you just went. And all of these games, all of 117 00:06:50,840 --> 00:06:55,200 these game libraries were in the Play and Win or the games 118 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:59,600 library, with the exception of two of them. 119 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:02,960 OK 2. Of them, two of them were 120 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:06,240 actually brought by people that we played with. 121 00:07:06,280 --> 00:07:08,720 Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's not I I end up taking the 122 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:10,760 whole bag of games and and I teach people, but. 123 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:15,160 It's it's why I love Geek Way, because I don't have to bring 124 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:17,920 anything. You just turned up and play 125 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:22,320 games, You play 20 games. So what was the where, what was 126 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:25,640 the highlight, the number one favorite game that you haven't 127 00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:29,280 played before? Oh well, we had never played any 128 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:31,800 of these games. OK, OK, let's start so. 129 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:36,480 There were no repeats, so we got there. 130 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:40,680 And the first game that we picked up because we'd seen a 131 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:43,400 lot of hype on social media, we're like, you know, we really 132 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:45,880 want to see what it's all about. It's Barcelona. 133 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:48,240 OK. And. 134 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:51,600 It's it's beautiful, isn't? It it is beautiful and it scales 135 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:55,720 perfectly for because keep in mind, the majority of these 136 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:58,200 games we all played at two players, right? 137 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:04,360 And it's scaled really well and just when I thought, well, the 138 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:07,600 games aren't going to get any better than this, we played Life 139 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:12,000 of Amazonia. Oh my gosh, so many. 140 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:13,840 Is that is that a new game? It. 141 00:08:14,040 --> 00:08:17,000 Is It's a fairly fairly recent game. 142 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:21,000 It's so amazing. There are so many animal mini 143 00:08:21,880 --> 00:08:24,520 meeples and they're so beautiful. 144 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:28,960 It's kind of like Cascadia in that you are placing tiles in 145 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:32,919 front of you and you're trying to build the largest habitats. 146 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:34,840 Oh, nice. Oh, yeah. 147 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:39,600 The minis are lovely, Yeah. You have one unique animal that 148 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:44,240 represents you, and that animal cannot be placed on your board 149 00:08:44,960 --> 00:08:47,640 until you've met a certain requirement, whether that's 150 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:50,480 placing trees, placing water lilies, is it? 151 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:53,200 The kind of mixture, like habitats where you've. 152 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:57,840 It's a little bit of yes, a little bit of habitats, a little 153 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:02,760 bit of Cascadia and a little bit of wild Serengeti, OK? 154 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:05,520 Yeah, in terms in terms of the. Animals. 155 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:07,880 Yeah. It's so, so fantastic. 156 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:10,000 So we. It's lovely. 157 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:13,360 We checked that game out of the play and win and we played it 158 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:16,480 twice, so we checked it out twice. 159 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:20,400 That's how good it was. And the second time we played 160 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:24,040 it, we played it at three players and it didn't 161 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:25,000 disappoint. Like it. 162 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:29,680 Just it's so good. The book says it's one to four. 163 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:34,520 Best play 2 and the kids you say play it one to three, I guess. 164 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:38,080 Is there some downtime possibly? There is some downtime. 165 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:41,560 A little bit four. It's actually three out of five 166 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:43,800 weight as well. It's not like he looks like a 167 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:45,840 cute family game, but actually looks like there's a little bit 168 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:47,080 of. It's. 169 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:49,600 Meats behind it. It really does. 170 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:52,480 Most of the games that we played were very similar to that in 171 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:56,040 that they look like family games, but they had that meat, 172 00:09:56,040 --> 00:09:58,640 like you said, and that was pretty, pretty fantastic. 173 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:04,080 Next up, we tried a cooperative game, and you know that Katie 174 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:06,720 and I love cooperative games and that's Tesseract. 175 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:13,200 So, OK, so it's got like you, you've got a cube of dice and 176 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:16,440 all the dykes are very colorful. You've not seen any pictures. 177 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:19,040 It's been all over social media. I'm sure it's. 178 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:23,640 It's it's a cooperative game. The concept is that this, this 179 00:10:23,640 --> 00:10:25,960 tesseract's come to earth and we're. 180 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:26,760 Trying. Oh, yeah. 181 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:27,800 Now it's in the box. Yeah. 182 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:28,600 OK. I'm with you. 183 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:28,920 Yeah. Yeah. 184 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:34,200 So the problem with the problem with still photographs of 185 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:36,960 Tesseract is it's very colorful, it's very vibrant. 186 00:10:37,520 --> 00:10:40,560 You can tell that it's got, you know, it's got a lot of dice. 187 00:10:40,560 --> 00:10:44,200 What's going on, 64 dice in total I think is what's in the 188 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:46,160 game. It's like, but what is, what is 189 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:48,400 the game? I I get it right, but what is 190 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:53,040 it? Once you play it, it is so good. 191 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:56,840 It is so good. Best with two. 192 00:10:57,560 --> 00:10:59,760 I don't know. I think a third player would 193 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:02,080 have helped. We played it at two. 194 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:03,880 It was great. I think a third would have been 195 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:05,920 perfect. There are many votes, so that's 196 00:11:05,920 --> 00:11:09,840 a yeah, it's a loose 2. So, so yeah, but we played 197 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:13,600 Tesseract and then we played Ancient Knowledge, the game that 198 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:16,840 Katie won, we really enjoyed that. 199 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:20,000 And so that's our first four games. 200 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:25,280 Then we met our first flop. Oh yeah, we we played Forbidden 201 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:27,160 Jungle. Yeah. 202 00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:30,440 Yeah. Yeah, I'm excited. 203 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:32,480 New. New. 204 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:35,840 No. Now, I've talked to some folks 205 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:39,560 who absolutely love it, and they all have the same thing in 206 00:11:39,560 --> 00:11:42,520 common. It's their first forbidden game. 207 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:47,120 So here's the deal. This is what I'm going to say. 208 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:53,600 Objectively speaking, it is probably the best of the four 209 00:11:53,600 --> 00:12:00,600 Forbiddens the fact that aliens in the jungle evolve from from 210 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:04,880 egg to hatchling to adult, the adults. 211 00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:07,960 Can aliens in the jungle? Yeah, aliens. 212 00:12:09,040 --> 00:12:12,560 The things that they do are really interesting and 213 00:12:12,560 --> 00:12:16,920 compelling. The trouble is, for a seasoned 214 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:22,360 gamer, is, and I'm sure you felt this as well, it's cooperative 215 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:25,720 game. Take four actions, draw threat 216 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:29,120 cards, take four actions, draw a threat card, take four actions, 217 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:31,360 draw. So it was really it. 218 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:33,520 It felt like something we had seen. 219 00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:36,240 Rinse and pee. That's what it felt like. 220 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:42,320 But with all that being said, I think the way that the game is 221 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:49,680 structured, the threat is better or more compelling, so I can see 222 00:12:49,680 --> 00:12:51,880 why people would love it. It's just that because it was 223 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:55,280 the 4th in the series where we're like, you know, so. 224 00:12:55,960 --> 00:12:56,440 We're. Done. 225 00:12:57,920 --> 00:13:03,320 And then the last game of the day for us was forced to 226 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:07,240 shuffle. It's gotten a lot of hype on 227 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:08,960 Instagram. I've heard mixed views. 228 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:12,920 What do you think? So we started playing it and 229 00:13:12,920 --> 00:13:15,360 we're reading the rules and we're like, I don't get it 230 00:13:16,920 --> 00:13:19,320 right, We're like, what? We're supposed to do. 231 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:21,480 What? I mean, OK, So we're going to 232 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:23,440 plant trees in front of us and we're going to do a thing. 233 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:25,760 OK, what are we doing with these animals? 234 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:28,200 Because it's weird. The cards are split in half 235 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:33,560 vertically or horizontally. So it means that when you play 236 00:13:33,560 --> 00:13:36,840 the animals or the the forest woodland creatures or the 237 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:40,680 mushrooms or the fruit or whatever, you're going to put 238 00:13:40,680 --> 00:13:44,240 half the card underneath the full tree card. 239 00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:48,400 And after two or three turns it made sense to us. 240 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:51,960 What I can say is Forest Shuffle is delightful. 241 00:13:53,680 --> 00:13:58,320 It's calming. I had no regrets. 242 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:06,560 I would play it again. Did I hear is scoring a bit 243 00:14:06,560 --> 00:14:08,720 administrational? Is it a bit? 244 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:11,160 There's a lot. Maybe that's what I heard. 245 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:13,360 There's a lot of. There's a lot of. 246 00:14:13,560 --> 00:14:16,880 Scoring, yeah. Because you've got set 247 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:21,080 collection and then you've got you score your trees and then 248 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:24,920 you score your top and bottom cards and then your lefts and 249 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:30,720 your rights and it get and there's so many multipliers, it 250 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:35,280 gets a little bulky and cumbersome at the end, you know. 251 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:39,680 But yeah, so you know, I'll put that in the middle. 252 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:41,160 It was great. I enjoyed it. 253 00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:44,040 I'm glad we played it. We actually played that one 254 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:45,960 twice, 'cause we did enjoy it, right? 255 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:52,040 There were only four games we played twice, so this was the 256 00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:55,200 second one and yeah, it was it was good. 257 00:14:57,200 --> 00:14:59,960 Was it up to the hype? I. 258 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:03,120 Don't know. I walked away feeling really 259 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:05,000 good and we played it a second time later. 260 00:15:05,920 --> 00:15:07,880 Like I said, it was really calm and pleasant. 261 00:15:08,960 --> 00:15:10,560 I. Mean out of your list. 262 00:15:10,760 --> 00:15:13,120 I mean Barcelona. I've got and it's, it's 263 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:15,080 beautiful. I mean, it does play very 264 00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:17,920 nicely. I am intrigued by Life of 265 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:21,920 Amazonia. That was not on my radar and now 266 00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:24,440 it is on my radar. It was not on my radar either, 267 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:26,040 and I was really hoping to win that. 268 00:15:26,040 --> 00:15:28,680 We didn't, but that's OK. Because in the boxer it's just, 269 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:30,960 I think it's a parrot. I don't, I don't know. 270 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:34,320 Oh that looks good. It's like a a kids game. 271 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:37,960 But now I've read through the Ball Game Geek page, I'm like 272 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:41,440 this. Is so good, when you trigger the 273 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:48,480 end game, you get 5 points, you get a 5 point bonus and you get 274 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:51,720 this marker that's a beautiful wooden piece. 275 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:55,680 It's some sort of exotic flower that grows in the Amazon. 276 00:15:55,760 --> 00:16:00,040 And it's, I mean, so even down to that bonus token was 277 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:03,680 beautifully designed. So that was just fantastic. 278 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:07,960 So that was our first day we got together with Jonathan and his 279 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:10,240 wife Megan. Jonathan of course is part of 280 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:13,160 the trio of re engineer the game. 281 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:18,160 There's they're a group of three in Saint Louis, group of three 282 00:16:18,160 --> 00:16:20,200 gamers. And so we met up with Jonathan. 283 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:25,280 If you recall, I met Jonathan a geek way last year with him and 284 00:16:25,280 --> 00:16:28,840 his wife playing Flame Craft. Remember saying you remember 285 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:30,920 that story? Well, now this year we 286 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:32,520 organized. We're like Jonathan, you're 287 00:16:32,520 --> 00:16:33,800 going to be there. He's like, of course I'm going 288 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:35,280 to be there. It's like we got to get together 289 00:16:35,280 --> 00:16:38,880 and we, you know, and we did. And so we got to have dinner, 290 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:43,400 and then the next day was Saturday and we start off. 291 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:46,920 We started the day off with dwellings of Elder Vale. 292 00:16:47,280 --> 00:16:49,240 Brilliant. That was something someone 293 00:16:49,240 --> 00:16:51,760 brought one of Jonathan's friends Brought it did. 294 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:55,160 You do it. Yes, Katie and I both did. 295 00:16:55,280 --> 00:17:02,280 I demoed it at Origins in 2019, and the only thing I remembered 296 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:05,240 was that there was an alligator. I didn't realize. 297 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:07,680 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Alligator's a monster. 298 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:11,480 It's a monster, yeah. Because Jonathan's like, what do 299 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:12,960 you want to play? And I'm like, I don't really 300 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:15,480 care what color I play, just let me be the alligator. 301 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:17,200 And he's like, there's no alligator. 302 00:17:17,319 --> 00:17:19,520 That's the boss. Well, I didn't know that. 303 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:23,480 I do now. It brought out a little, I don't 304 00:17:23,480 --> 00:17:27,599 know, I'm playing that game and all it, it brought out my, it 305 00:17:27,599 --> 00:17:30,480 brought out MyHeritage a little bit, which it probably shouldn't 306 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:32,680 have, but it's like, so you're building dwellings, right? 307 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:36,040 And I build the first dwelling and then some of the players 308 00:17:36,040 --> 00:17:38,840 start exploring and laying tiles and they're like, I don't know 309 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:40,000 what to do. And I'm like, well, why don't 310 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:41,520 you come visit me, come to my house. 311 00:17:41,520 --> 00:17:44,200 I got a dwelling. You know, I it just, it came out 312 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:45,200 of me. I was like, I got to build 313 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:48,040 dwellings and camp out on these little rivers. 314 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:50,680 And that was a fun game I really enjoyed. 315 00:17:50,920 --> 00:17:53,560 It, yeah, it's fun. I can make it's a game that it 316 00:17:53,560 --> 00:17:56,880 doesn't hit the table. I mean yeah I can see it here, 317 00:17:56,960 --> 00:18:01,720 the box is so big when it when the table I do it is a table 318 00:18:01,720 --> 00:18:02,920 hog. But I do enjoy. 319 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:05,560 I need to get back to the table. You do. 320 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:07,680 I do. Maybe Cajun Con? 321 00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:13,480 Maybe Cajun Con, maybe six, 6th of 6th of April, 6th of April. 322 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:17,000 April 6th, yes. Saturday, if you're listening 323 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:19,720 and you have let me know, Message me on Instagram. 324 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:22,320 Ball game people. Yes. 325 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:25,120 So that's a possibility. That's supposed that that's not 326 00:18:25,120 --> 00:18:27,440 a bad shout. That could be a good one. 327 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:28,800 Yeah. Good choice. 328 00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:31,520 OK, so else. So then we went back to the play 329 00:18:31,520 --> 00:18:33,160 and win. Everything was play and win for 330 00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:35,280 the most part. We played Art society. 331 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:37,720 That. Oh. 332 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:40,360 I was hoping, I was hoping for that for Christmas, but it had 333 00:18:40,360 --> 00:18:42,360 sold out because it's, I think it's very tight. 334 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:45,440 How was it? That was incredible. 335 00:18:45,440 --> 00:18:48,120 Looks lovely. You just, you know, you're 336 00:18:48,120 --> 00:18:52,120 purchasing artwork and you're hanging them on your wall and 337 00:18:52,120 --> 00:18:55,240 the wall has texture. Yeah, yeah. 338 00:18:55,680 --> 00:18:58,240 Amazing. Because it's like the little the 339 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:02,560 tack holes for where you would hang your artwork on the wall 340 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:06,240 and it's like a museum, so you've got an eye line. 341 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:10,240 So your final scoring is the pictures that are in the eye 342 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:15,920 line on the wall on your player board, which is art society. 343 00:19:16,520 --> 00:19:18,960 I can't say enough. That was beautiful. 344 00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:23,440 That was really good. Now after that we played Match 345 00:19:23,520 --> 00:19:27,600 of the Century. Do I know that? 346 00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:30,320 I don't know that you do. It is a two player game. 347 00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:36,080 It's about the match between Fisher, the chess match between 348 00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:39,320 Fisher and Saske. No. 349 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:44,960 They Saske, you're not playing chess, but you're kind of 350 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:47,240 playing chess. It's got a pitches. 351 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:53,800 It's got a thick historical context catalogue at the 352 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:57,600 beginning. It's very much informed by the 353 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:02,240 history of the match they played, but it fell a little 354 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:06,200 flat for us. It it didn't appeal to our type 355 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:10,240 of gameplay, but I mean we love two player games, but it was. 356 00:20:10,240 --> 00:20:11,800 Like, I mean, it looks intriguing. 357 00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:13,640 I didn't. I think I'd skip over it. 358 00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:17,240 It was really clear what the designer was trying to do, and 359 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:20,720 the designer did it. The gameplay just didn't. 360 00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:24,320 It just didn't hit us. What? 361 00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:24,920 What? What's? 362 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:27,280 What's mechanics? Is it a card game or? 363 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:32,480 So you do you have a deck of cards, You draw three cards, 4 364 00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:35,240 cards. So you're not playing chess, 365 00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:40,560 You've got, you do have chess pieces, you have pawns. 366 00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:47,320 There's a king and I play the card it it, it feels like land, 367 00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:50,600 air and sea, where I'm going to play a card with a number on it 368 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:52,440 and you're going to play a card with a number on it. 369 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:56,200 Highest number wins. Whoever the loser, whoever's the 370 00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:59,800 loser, will activate the ability printed on their card. 371 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:04,360 So sometimes you want to lose because the ability's good, but 372 00:21:04,360 --> 00:21:07,120 if you lose, then you lose your influence. 373 00:21:07,120 --> 00:21:09,640 There's an influence track off on the side. 374 00:21:10,360 --> 00:21:12,360 I say influence, it's something else. 375 00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:14,880 Advantage. Advantage 'cause it's a chess 376 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:17,400 match. It was fine. 377 00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:20,280 It was fine. It was not for us, but it was 378 00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:23,680 definitely fine. I'm glad we played it so Match 379 00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:28,680 of the Century. And then we played my Celia. 380 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:31,560 Oh man. This is This is My Celia. 381 00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:34,040 That's not the My Celia that was on Kickstarter. 382 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:36,920 This has gone straight to retail from a different publisher, also 383 00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:39,480 called My Celia. Oh, is there two my Celias? 384 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:43,320 Yeah, well, this one was cute. You're like playing little 385 00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:49,120 mushroom peoples. You're moving raindrop tokens on 386 00:21:49,120 --> 00:21:51,360 your game mat. You're trying to get them into 387 00:21:51,360 --> 00:21:56,080 the portal, but it keeps raining, so you get some back 388 00:21:56,080 --> 00:22:00,760 each so, so many rounds. As soon as you the game ends, 389 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:04,320 when all your board is clear. That's really what you're trying 390 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:05,520 to do. But you're trying to use your 391 00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:10,240 cards to move your raindrops into the portal, right? 392 00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:14,080 And sometimes that's one space at a time and some cards give 393 00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:16,600 you leaves. Leaves is the currency of the 394 00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:19,560 game, so pretty simple. We played it twice. 395 00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:24,480 It was good, so that was good. Then we played books of time. 396 00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:31,440 Another board and dice game. This game is the design is so 397 00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:34,240 good. This is the one you are making a 398 00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:37,120 book with with leaves, so I've not played this one. 399 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:37,920 You. Yeah. 400 00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:40,080 So you have like you've got like a little. 401 00:22:40,120 --> 00:22:43,040 Pedestal. Well, there's a pedestal with a 402 00:22:43,120 --> 00:22:45,560 chronicle that opens up. That's it, yeah. 403 00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:49,640 And that that that governs the 15 rounds of the game. 404 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:55,080 Meanwhile, we each have 3 little books that have two rings. 405 00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:57,800 It's not a three ring binder, but two rings that you can open 406 00:22:58,120 --> 00:23:02,480 and you're adding pages to it. So you're writing chronicles on 407 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:08,280 technology, history and geography. 408 00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:10,760 I think it is. But anyway, so and you're trying 409 00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:14,600 to get the cards, you're trying to get the pages in a certain 410 00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:17,640 order. When you open the book, they're 411 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:21,560 revealed in a certain order so that you can get your objectives 412 00:23:22,360 --> 00:23:26,400 for end game scoring. The design was just so good, so 413 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:28,160 good. You know, it was that was a lot 414 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:29,800 of fun to play I. Always. 415 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:31,680 I always see. I think it it does look 416 00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:33,760 beautiful. It's like it's really good. 417 00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:38,880 Again, we played that at two players, so so then we had the 418 00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:41,440 luxury of Laura and her husband Ryan. 419 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:46,440 This is obsessed with board games on Instagram, and her 420 00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:50,560 husband Mr. Obsessed with board games on Instagram. 421 00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:54,800 There live just outside of Saint Louis in a suburb. 422 00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:59,720 And they drove down to the hotel and we sat at a table and they 423 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:04,280 brought a couple of games, of which we played a few and that 424 00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:09,280 was wandering towers by Capstone Games. 425 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:12,840 Heard so much about this. Katie had read about it. 426 00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:15,320 She wanted to play it. We were going to try to buy it 427 00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:18,480 at the Capstone Games Store in Cincinnati. 428 00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:20,840 Yeah, yeah, yeah. But they were sold out. 429 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:24,040 So you have a collection of Wizards, these wooden maples in 430 00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:27,960 this big circle, and you got these little tower segments and 431 00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:31,480 you play cards, and those cards will either move your Wizards. 432 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:34,280 You're trying to get them into the key, which is this one Black 433 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:38,720 tower, right? And you you you physically, you 434 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:40,560 have to land directly on it. You can't. 435 00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:44,400 You know you can't. If your card says move two, you 436 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:47,560 have to move two and it and it has to be exact in the keep, you 437 00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:49,520 actually put it inside the keep, which is cool. 438 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:54,680 Or you can move the towers, and the towers can go on top of 439 00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:59,800 other Wizards. So you're moving tower pieces, 440 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:03,120 or you're moving your pieces. The problem is it hides your 441 00:25:03,120 --> 00:25:05,560 opponent's pieces. So sometimes you got to remember 442 00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:09,440 where your pieces are. But you can take the like. 443 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:14,880 So if there's like 7 segments of a tower stacked up, whatever 444 00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:17,400 segment you move, all the ones above it move too. 445 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:20,920 So that means even though you've been, you're on segment 3 if I 446 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:23,360 move the whole thing and then you forget where you were. 447 00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:25,680 So you've got it's a little bit of memory as well. 448 00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:29,080 Yeah, I'm just reading it. It's yeah it makes your memory 449 00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:32,520 memory game but it's just play up to six which it. 450 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:34,760 Does and. It's quite light, so quite a 451 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:38,480 good party game, not party game, but you know it's large group. 452 00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:39,920 Game. It was fun. 453 00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:43,040 We played it at four. I think it would just be chaotic 454 00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:46,320 at six. If anyone's coming to Cajun Con, 455 00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:48,240 that would be a good game to bring. 456 00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:51,400 Because six players, I think this would be a lot of fun. 457 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:53,760 Maybe moving the towers and trying to remember where all our 458 00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:56,640 dudes are. It scales. 459 00:25:56,880 --> 00:26:01,120 It scales well to like two players. 460 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:05,840 You play two colors that have more meatballs and then four 461 00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:09,080 players, the meatball number diminishes, right. 462 00:26:09,120 --> 00:26:10,840 So. So that was fun. 463 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:13,840 And then they brought three sisters, the Roland, right, You 464 00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:16,040 think, Which Katie and I never played. 465 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:18,480 It had been on our list forever. So we got to play that, Yeah. 466 00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:19,880 Yeah, it's good. Oh. 467 00:26:20,120 --> 00:26:22,120 I love that game. It was fantastic. 468 00:26:22,120 --> 00:26:27,720 We really enjoyed that. It's also, in Geek ways, games 469 00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:30,480 library. So the next day, because we 470 00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:33,080 played Three sisters and enjoyed it with Laura and her husband, 471 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:35,360 we checked it out of the games library. 472 00:26:35,360 --> 00:26:38,920 So that's another game we played twice was Three Sisters. 473 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:41,720 So we really, really enjoyed that. 474 00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:43,280 And then right at the end of the night. 475 00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:47,320 So the weather was terrible and I apologize that the 476 00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:50,440 temperatures I'm about to relay to you are in Fahrenheit and not 477 00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:55,960 Celsius. So Friday it started at 40°F, 478 00:26:55,960 --> 00:27:03,680 but by the end of the night it was 12°, it was -12°F, which is 479 00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:07,400 probably going to be more negative in Celsius and then it 480 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:11,440 stayed in the negative below 0. In fact, the temperature today 481 00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:13,800 is below 0 right now where I am talking. 482 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:15,920 To you? Was it -14? 483 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:18,000 Sounds good? Sure. 484 00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:20,760 Yeah. What did you say it was minus? 485 00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:24,720 It was -4. I think the lows got to minus. 486 00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:28,880 -20 Celsius, Celsius. Yeah, yeah, it was cold. 487 00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:32,280 It's quite chilly, it's like -1 today, so. 488 00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:34,040 And there was a little bit of snow. 489 00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:37,600 And so, so Laura and her husband left because they were concerned 490 00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:38,760 about the weather and everything. 491 00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:42,520 So we went into the games library, we checked out 492 00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:45,800 Herbaceous, and we played that. Nice. 493 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:50,840 That's a that's a pencil. What's the publisher for that? 494 00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:55,240 Oh, Oh dear. They do a whole series of games, 495 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,680 which we adore. They're really great because 496 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:03,400 you're just planting herbs in pots and planters and it's 497 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:05,280 really delightful. And that's a theme that Katie 498 00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:06,640 and I really like. Thank you. 499 00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:10,000 And I did a whole episode on gardening and, you know, 500 00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:14,360 planting things and. Pencil first games. 501 00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:17,600 Pencil first, yes. And they've Oh yeah, because 502 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:19,720 they've got herbaceous. And then there's. 503 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:23,360 Horriforous. And there's sunset over water. 504 00:28:23,360 --> 00:28:25,080 You played that 10? Not yet. 505 00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:27,560 That's good. It's delicious. 506 00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:30,200 Herbaceous. So good. 507 00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:32,720 That's good. Yeah, such a great, lovely game. 508 00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:34,040 Great. It's a great theme, very 509 00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:38,440 relaxing, yeah, which was great for the end of the night for us. 510 00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:43,040 So and then our final day, we're at the final stretch now folks. 511 00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:45,680 You. Got to say, I mean my shopping 512 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:47,760 list has grown. So any anyone listeners, I I 513 00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:50,640 apologize because I'm shopping as we speak. 514 00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:54,840 So this has been, it's been a very enjoyable set of games. 515 00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:58,200 How many more we got to go? Yeah, something like that. 516 00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:01,840 Actually, believe it or not, we have six. 517 00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:05,680 OK, there's six more to go. So we started off Sunday with 518 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:08,440 World Wonders, the one I talked about before. 519 00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:10,160 This is the this is the game that I won. 520 00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:14,320 I fell in love with that game and I'm so glad I I won that 521 00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:18,160 because we really enjoyed that. And then we went and we played 522 00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:22,560 draft and write records draft. Yep. 523 00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:25,640 No. Only good no? 524 00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:28,520 No, it's. It's. 525 00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:31,480 Trying it's down from PJ. Yeah, it was just trying to do 526 00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:36,400 too many things, yeah. Draft and right. 527 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:39,400 Yeah, I mean, it's a flip and write is what it is you. 528 00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:43,160 Draft and write records I mean. You do draft you you get a, you 529 00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:45,280 have a you have a set of odd cards in your hand. 530 00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:50,880 You choose one to play and then we show them simultaneously and 531 00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:56,560 we take that action on our mat in front of us and then we pass 532 00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:58,320 them. So we draft the deck, right. 533 00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:01,920 So that's why it's draft and write but and you're trying to 534 00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:07,960 create a band of musicians and you're trying to pump them up on 535 00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:13,280 social media and it's just, yeah, you know, it was, it was a 536 00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:16,400 lot going on. Three Sisters was just executed 537 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:20,880 better in my opinion, but that's OK Next we played fit to print, 538 00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:22,760 which a lot of people have been talking about. 539 00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:27,000 Yeah, they have. We were a little nervous. 540 00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:29,720 We are not fans of Galaxy Trucker. 541 00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:33,200 So a big pile of tiles in front of you where you can only touch 542 00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:36,760 them with one hand and flip them over and decide to put them you 543 00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:39,480 know on your spaceship. And I love the trucker I. 544 00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:40,920 Love. We hate to get we. 545 00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:43,200 Yeah, I've got other friends who hate everyone. 546 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:45,880 I think Gareth and his Santa group doesn't doesn't like it, 547 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:50,520 but I quite like that chaos. Cannot stand that however fit 548 00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:52,200 the print. You're doing the same thing, 549 00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:55,000 yeah, but then you put them on your desk, which is a 550 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:58,920 three-dimensional cardboard desk and then you put them on your 551 00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:04,280 your layout for your newspaper and it works. 552 00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:06,880 I liked it better. I liked it better. 553 00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:10,520 We played it and we were like we were happy we played it. 554 00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:13,800 We don't know that it's worth the hype, but we certainly 555 00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:17,720 enjoyed it and would would gladly accepted. 556 00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:19,480 Into play a game, would you add it? 557 00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:20,440 Would you add it to your collection? 558 00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:23,120 We would, yeah, because it's a, it would hit the table. 559 00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:28,160 Our group would enjoy that. I think it's executed better 560 00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:30,040 than Galaxy Trucker, I think. Is the problem. 561 00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:32,760 But Galaxy Strucker must be 10 plus years old now, isn't it? 562 00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:33,640 As. Well, it is. 563 00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:34,520 It is. I know he. 564 00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:38,240 Had a He had a bit of a second edition, but it's still old. 565 00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:39,720 Oh. Man. 566 00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:43,320 Well then we played first in flight afterwards. 567 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:50,120 This game was fantastic. Oh wow. 568 00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:51,120 First so. Good. 569 00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:56,040 Yep. So you play a famous pilot in 570 00:31:56,040 --> 00:32:00,640 the early days of air travel, like we're talking about the 571 00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:03,480 Wright brothers, right? Oh, I. 572 00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:06,080 Love the art already? It's great. 573 00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:11,240 So you have a flight deck of cards, and they include flaws 574 00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:14,200 and basic air problems, glides and whatever. 575 00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:16,880 And so you flip them over and they have a distance number in 576 00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:19,760 the corner that lets them know the distance that you've flown, 577 00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:22,000 right? And so you're trying to get, 578 00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:24,560 you're trying to get to 40, you get to 40 points. 579 00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:28,640 The end game ends, you're done. You play over the course of four 580 00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:32,160 rounds or years. And so you you take, you take 581 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:34,600 flight actions. As you move your meeple or your 582 00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:41,480 pilot around the Rondell of actions, there's a asymmetry 583 00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:44,600 because whoever your pilot is, and these are all historically 584 00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:51,000 accurate individuals and so you get benefits. 585 00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:54,720 And then when you get to 15, if you could travel 15, you flip it 586 00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:58,000 over because you're famous, you've you've managed to fly a 587 00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:01,120 plane, assert, you know, whatever the distance. 588 00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:04,360 Right, right. So you become famous, which 589 00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:08,240 makes your person stronger, your asymmetrical power stronger. 590 00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:10,840 And so it's that. It's that push your luck. 591 00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:15,080 Do you keep flipping cards to try to get further and further? 592 00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:18,920 You've got basic problems and flaws, and they have like little 593 00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:21,680 explosion symbols on them. If you get four of them, that 594 00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:26,240 means you crashed, you know, so that's unfortunate. 595 00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:30,080 At the end of each year, there's whoever went the furthest gets 7 596 00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:34,320 gold, The Michelin cup, 4 gold, 3 gold. 597 00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:39,400 Whatever it is, there is a third player ghost player in in a two 598 00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:42,560 player game, but all it is, is it's just his pilot. 599 00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:46,160 He moves around the board, too, just like Tokaido, whoever's in 600 00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:48,400 last place gets to go first. Next. 601 00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:48,720 Yeah. OK. 602 00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:54,080 And he has a he has a token and he just blocks spaces. 603 00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:56,200 That's really all he does. So it's very low. 604 00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:57,840 Admin Low admin. Yeah, it's what you want in the 605 00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:00,240 admin. And then we we ended the day 606 00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:04,160 with another game of Three Sisters because it was so good 607 00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:09,719 and we played I'm, I'm probably going to say this wrong Aughton 608 00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:16,320 or a Ton Aton. It is an it is a very old game 609 00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:19,800 by Queen Games. It's a two player game where 610 00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:22,960 you're striving to gain power in ancient Thebes. 611 00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:27,800 In Egypt, 2005. Yeah it was in their games 612 00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:31,560 library and it was a it's a two player and it I mean it is it is 613 00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:35,239 the standard two player back and forth. 614 00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:38,520 We're we've got 4 temples in front of us and we're trying to 615 00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:40,639 play. This one sent to me like as a 616 00:34:40,639 --> 00:34:44,239 freebie from like. It might have been a Kickstarter 617 00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:47,920 and this was added in to backers, but it came with. 618 00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:50,360 I think it came with like missing tokens. 619 00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:51,880 I've never. Played in No. 620 00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:53,719 And I asked for them. They couldn't find any. 621 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:55,560 It is. How was it? 622 00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:59,680 It's good. It really it is it. 623 00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:02,760 It fits in our wheelhouse of two player games that we really 624 00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:05,520 enjoy. There's not a lot to say about 625 00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:07,760 it, right? It came out in 2005. 626 00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:08,880 It's exactly. What you? 627 00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:11,240 It's what you expect from Queen Games. 628 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,560 It was nothing flashy, it was nothing crazy. 629 00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:19,120 It was just putting tokens on the board and then our last game 630 00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:24,960 of the weekend was Brussels 1893. 631 00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:28,440 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a solid it's the new 632 00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:32,320 reprint deluxe version with like, the gold foil and 633 00:35:32,720 --> 00:35:36,320 beautiful worker placement. We only got to what I call demo 634 00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:38,720 it. We ran out of time at the end of 635 00:35:38,720 --> 00:35:41,120 the day before they started. You know, like you need to bring 636 00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:43,000 all the Bud games back to check back. 637 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:48,640 So we got to, we got to set it up and play around. 638 00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:52,360 It's very interesting. I would love to get that. 639 00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:54,360 I would love to get that. In our it is lovely. 640 00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:58,280 It's a really chunky mid to heavyweight worker placement 641 00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:03,520 game that that really appeals to my wife and I, and so there you 642 00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:05,240 are. What's your What's your top 643 00:36:05,240 --> 00:36:10,480 three? Top three was Life of Amazonia 644 00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:18,720 and this is in no order Life of Amazonia World Wonders and 1st 645 00:36:18,720 --> 00:36:22,640 in flight that might change tomorrow but. 646 00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:26,960 Yeah, I've got to say, Wandering Towers looks like fun. 647 00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:29,680 That does look like a good game to have for larger groups. 648 00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:33,000 So I'm looking for group games. I look, yeah, yeah, Group games 649 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,960 that play. Group games, Yes, quick group 650 00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:38,640 games for Cajun Con. That is the key. 651 00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:42,240 That's the key. You're busy. 652 00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:46,040 I'm impressed. 2020 games, 26 plays. 653 00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:49,520 What's the What's the next convention you've got? 654 00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:50,960 Is that Cajun corn? Have you got anything else 655 00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:54,440 summed up? No, actually I'm going to be 656 00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:57,880 going to Nashville or just outside of Nashville, TN for 657 00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:03,120 Tennessee game days where Adam from Tabletop Vibes will be 658 00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:04,960 driving down. He's going to pick me up and 659 00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:06,880 then we're going to drive together to Tennessee. 660 00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:10,960 It's a four day event. I think it's going to be similar 661 00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:13,760 to this. I don't know a lot about it, but 662 00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:19,040 I know that we're going to see Ameritrash talk, random meeble, 663 00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:24,800 TJ plays tabletop worldwide. They're all going to be there. 664 00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:26,760 It's going to be good to see them again. 665 00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:31,240 I've not actually met May and Josh before Ameritrash talk. 666 00:37:31,240 --> 00:37:33,440 I have not met them. So I'm looking forward to 667 00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:35,320 finally meeting them. Everyone else I have so far. 668 00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:39,800 So we've got that up in the, that's up on the in the pocket 669 00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:42,440 and then like a month and a month and a half later I'll be 670 00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:43,680 in England. KJ. 671 00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:47,960 Yes, Sir. Not on to go. 672 00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:53,320 So in 30 seconds, I'll tell you what I played this weekend. 673 00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:55,840 Tell me what? You played this, right? 674 00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:57,760 I didn't mean for this to be all about me, folks. 675 00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:00,320 But PJ, it's always about you. I mean, that's that's how it 676 00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:03,520 rolls. So in my 30 seconds of this very 677 00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:07,080 short episode, we got left. I play lots of small games 678 00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:09,400 because I guess he's quite fitting for the 30 seconds I've 679 00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:14,040 got. So we played French Quarter. 680 00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:16,600 Oh man, I can't wait for my coffee. 681 00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:20,720 Which arrived on Saturday and was straight on table on Sunday, 682 00:38:20,720 --> 00:38:23,640 which is the 4th. Is that a fourth game in this 683 00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:26,240 series? So there was Fleet, the Dice 684 00:38:26,240 --> 00:38:27,080 game. The fleet. 685 00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:30,600 Yeah, dice game. Then there was the Motor City. 686 00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:33,160 No, There was three sisters, then Motor City and now French 687 00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:35,360 Quarter. So roll em right game. 688 00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:39,760 Only played it once. I really enjoyed it. 689 00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:42,600 But I wish I'd read. I wish I'd read the scoring 690 00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:48,040 mechanic before I got in the game because Mrs. Ball gave me 691 00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:52,520 Paul whooped me. She had also not read the the 692 00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:56,040 scoring mechanics. But man, there's combos so it's 693 00:38:56,040 --> 00:38:56,840 combo. Tastic. 694 00:38:57,120 --> 00:38:59,720 So it's like, or the others, you know. 695 00:38:59,720 --> 00:39:01,200 Oh, I've done this. Oh, trigger this. 696 00:39:01,240 --> 00:39:02,320 I've got a bonus. Oh, I've got this. 697 00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:06,040 I've got a star 05, you know, Five actions later, I'm filling 698 00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:08,840 in exes all over the board. I feel like you actually went to 699 00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:10,280 the French Quarter in New Orleans. 700 00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:12,160 That's exactly. I was on. 701 00:39:12,240 --> 00:39:17,840 I mean, you're travelling by cabs and carriages and taxis and 702 00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:22,160 steamboats and something I've forgotten. 703 00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:25,720 And the beauty about New Orleans is you really need a local to 704 00:39:25,720 --> 00:39:28,120 help you navigate, and you didn't have a local with you. 705 00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:30,560 So I did a local because so you see like the rule book is 706 00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:33,320 thinking about second lines and I was like what is a second line 707 00:39:33,720 --> 00:39:36,200 and I had to go right back to the very first page and a little 708 00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:38,640 bit of, you know, intro that you always skip over, you're rolling 709 00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:40,760 the rules. They explained about the second 710 00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:45,720 line, which is like a like a party that moves along the. 711 00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:47,440 It is a. It is. 712 00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:49,360 Explain it better than me. I will. 713 00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:51,720 So second lines are predominantly funeral 714 00:39:51,720 --> 00:39:56,520 processions in New Orleans and there's like a jazz band and so 715 00:39:56,800 --> 00:40:01,680 the the, the family and the bit and the mourners and the pastor 716 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:06,200 is the first line, right. Second line is just everyone 717 00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:10,200 else can join and join the procession and it's, you know, 718 00:40:10,240 --> 00:40:12,040 it's so you could be in New Orleans. 719 00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:14,760 And all of a sudden there's a second line walking by. 720 00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:16,200 Yeah, you get, you can join them. 721 00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:18,920 Yeah, you can join them, yeah. But without that context, I was 722 00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:21,880 like, I don't know what it is, but but we played that and then 723 00:40:22,720 --> 00:40:25,280 over the last, like I know four or five weeks we've had loads of 724 00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:27,000 buttons. Shy Game Wallet games arrived. 725 00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:31,520 So we played some of the two player ones, a game called 726 00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:35,320 Making Manhattan, which was, you know most most of these games 727 00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:40,880 are 18 cards games. So that was you start with 728 00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:45,320 Central Park, which got unique scoring conditions, and then you 729 00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:49,520 draft six more cards to your table, so eight cards in total. 730 00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:52,320 Game finished. Nice, excellent. 731 00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:54,680 Sounds like this is something I need for the airplane ride to 732 00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:56,320 England. So somebody messaged me and 733 00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:58,480 asked me whether it was good for planes and I said yes. 734 00:40:58,880 --> 00:41:00,080 OK. For trays. 735 00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:03,640 So making Manhattan was good. They played a game called Forest 736 00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:08,880 Sky, but he played that game twice, which was again drafting. 737 00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:12,800 And you're trying to get three cards in your hands and there's 738 00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:17,560 two sets of three cards on the table to basically hit scoring 739 00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:20,240 mechanics on your cards, but utilising what other people have 740 00:41:20,240 --> 00:41:22,560 dropped, like thrown away so you've got lots of birds flying 741 00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:25,520 around. I thought it was very unique. 742 00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:28,040 I couldn't do anything else. I played like it but again was 743 00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:30,360 fun. I'm going to destroy this 744 00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:37,400 pronunciation. Kinsugi Ki KINTSUGI based on 745 00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:44,120 kinsugi based on pottery that are all broken and then you use. 746 00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:47,840 Gold. To make, to make them and it 747 00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:49,040 makes it. Stronger. 748 00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:52,960 Laying cards down to basically make beauty out of what is 749 00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:56,040 broken. You have your own colour, but no 750 00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:57,960 one knows. But you can't make it too 751 00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:01,000 obvious because if people guess your colour, they take your 752 00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:03,120 score off their score. Lowest score wins. 753 00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:08,240 That was very good. And then we played another round 754 00:42:08,240 --> 00:42:11,760 of tickets to Ride Legacy. No spoilers, but still very, 755 00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:14,720 very much enjoying that one. How many games do you have left? 756 00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:18,120 Three. So we're going to try and oh, 757 00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:20,080 what won't be tonight, be tomorrow night. 758 00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:23,240 So we had a bit of a gap because of back to work, but. 759 00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:25,560 It's it's good. It's worth. 760 00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:28,360 It's worthy. It is really worthy. 761 00:42:28,720 --> 00:42:31,440 I definitely glad that somebody sent me that copy. 762 00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:39,360 And then back in 2002 at the Board Games Expo in the UKI 763 00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:44,320 played the game called Isla Isla, which is like a family 764 00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:49,040 roll and write, so had a lot of fun. 765 00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:52,400 It's on Kickstarter next month, so I've got to set a preview 766 00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:56,400 copy just to play a game. Just yeah, just fun. 767 00:42:56,400 --> 00:43:01,560 Roll dice, move around trying to fill the island and escape it. 768 00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:05,800 But if you try to escape too quickly, every tile was negative 769 00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:08,160 points. You got threat cards? 770 00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:11,680 Yeah, just a standard family oriented role and right, good, 771 00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:16,960 Good for the kids and that's it. That was the small games. 772 00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:19,200 Weekends. So slightly more than 30 773 00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:20,920 seconds. I think I took 5 minutes, but 774 00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:24,080 it's fine, it's fine, right? I've got a list of the games. 775 00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:31,440 I have circled Wandering Towers and Life of Amazonia to see what 776 00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:33,760 I can find in the UK. Not that I'm able to buy the 777 00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:37,040 games because currently I am on a buying ban and alcohol. 778 00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:38,960 Ban. And generally trying to keep 779 00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:42,480 myself fit and healthy for dry January, including board game 780 00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:44,320 purchases. Good for you. 781 00:43:44,680 --> 00:43:46,160 So far I've done. I've done quite well. 782 00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:50,880 Good for you, any so. So I think there's one last 783 00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:53,360 segment. So we've recently gotten some 784 00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:57,920 feedback that the disappointing part of our episodes is that 785 00:43:57,920 --> 00:44:01,240 they're not about our dear friend Nick Board Game Review 786 00:44:01,240 --> 00:44:03,720 UK. Never heard of him. 787 00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:07,400 Yeah, like we we need to make episodes about him. 788 00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:10,480 He will be joining us, right? This is pretty soon we'll be 789 00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:15,160 having. Him on episode 69 would be the 790 00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:17,840 episode that Nick has claimed is his own. 791 00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:21,760 There you go. So Maple to Maple Takeover with 792 00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:25,920 Nick Ball Game Review K It might be a not safe work episode. 793 00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:28,000 It in my nubby. So Nick, if you're listening, 794 00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:33,360 this last 1530 seconds are all about you, and episode 69 will 795 00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:38,120 be all about you as well, Sir. He's got his equipment and he's 796 00:44:38,120 --> 00:44:43,320 ready, he's ready to go. So we'll give him some tuition 797 00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:48,000 on his equipment and we'll we'll be, we'll be ready for episode 798 00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:50,040 69. Well, that is our Geekway 799 00:44:50,040 --> 00:44:54,800 Gateway getaway for the weekend. 3GS Thank you PJ for sharing 800 00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:58,960 your awesome trip. Well done on the games plane and 801 00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:01,120 thank you everyone for listening as ever. 802 00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:05,400 Thanks everyone for listening. Please subscribe and as always, 803 00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:09,360 we'd love to hear your thoughts and ideas, so make sure to leave 804 00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:13,040 those in the comments. And don't forget, you can also 805 00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:16,240 chat with us both on Instagram at meeple to Meeple.