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This week we are talking about flicking, playing with bulls and
generally fooling around with dexterity games.
And if you hadn't guessed by all that innuendo, this is episode
69 with me Nick from Full Game Review UK.
We are working on a title and at the moment it is NSFW, but I
won't beat around the Bush any longer.
Get ready to rumble as I hand over to the new PJ and Duncan is
PJ and Gareth. 69 Dudes Who Made It Episode 69.
It is the Internet's favorite number.
Yep, that's right. And it's my last broadcast
because with that introduction I've been terminated.
It's all about dexterity games. All about Nick and.
I heard his poll, I guess F669, we've been meeting, we've been
trying to work out what we do with this episode for a while.
And there's Nick's NSFW. If you've got an idea that's
better than NSFW, there will be a poll the day before this
broadcast goes live. It's going to be backwards, and
that's what we decided. But it's not safe for work with
Nick at the ends. That's right there.
Will in fact be a poll on Instagram tomorrow.
You do vote for your favorite, and it's a.
Short poll or a long poll? That's in the eye of the
beholder, my friend. Nice.
I was trying to come a bit other innuendos and the only one I
came up with was my favorite worker placement ball game,
which is 50 culture. It is.
Whenever I play that game, I get to put my cock on the table.
You do. You do.
I've been. Trying to give up sexual
innuendo. It is hard.
I need a cymbal sound. Don't I have.
I have. I do.
I have. I don't think I've got one.
There we go. Bear with me.
Got. A Oh, so this is going to be my
favorite episode. There it is.
Here it. Is.
I'll keep it a little late. We're going to, we're going to
work on Gareth's timing, folks. We'll we'll get that right.
Can I just say, can I just say it is an absolute pleasure
because I couldn't think of anyone I would rather lose my
podcast virginity to the new. Thank you.
Thank you a lot. Of love there.
I've been waiting for this moment for a bite we've been
friends on. We've.
Been friends on Instagram for three years and finally get to
see you and chat with you. This is great.
So it's going. To be fun.
It's going to be fun. I'm just, I'm just happy to be
here. So you so you're Boom fish ready
haven't you Gareth? I was thinking you're boom tish
you're. Symbol.
Yeah, yeah, I've got it. Yeah, So I was thinking about
some things that you could stay at the board game table as well
as in the bedroom. So get ready with your symbol.
I'm. Ready.
I'm ready. I'm ready.
In no particular order, I'd like to try it at three.
Sorry, you can't put that there. I've looked everywhere in the
box and I just can't find it. We should probably sleeve it.
I'd rather just play solo. One for the Instagramers.
Are we OK to start or you still just taking photos?
And my final curveball. That was amazing, but I don't
think your parents would like it.
We were talking about dexterity games, right?
Well, I mean, we would try. Which topic do you do?
And obviously I like dexterity games, and Nick, you like
dexterity games and PJ is a massive fan of dexterity games.
Oh. Yes, obviously no Sir.
So, Nick, why did we choose dexterity games?
You came up with the idea because.
I was just looking for a different topic cover that would
probably fit with some innuendo candidly.
Yeah, balancing, rubbing, flicking.
All the above. So.
And it's a topic that has never been covered by us before.
That's because PJ, you don't like dexterity games.
I do not. Nick wants to know why.
We all want to know why the truth.
The truth. So the truth is, the reason I
don't like dexterity games is the same reason why I don't like
solo gaming. I will play games solo, but I
don't like it. That's because as a child I
didn't have a lot of friends. I played a lot of games solo and
making up games. I was using dice and flicking
them. So it just kind of reminds me of
that lonely little child. And I'm like, yeah, you know,
I'm it's a little triggering. So I just don't play solo and
dexterity games. You asked, and now I brought the
crowd down, and I'm. Sorry, I was looking for like a
small violin sound, but no, it wasn't one.
That's OK, I can probably. Do a violin.
I've got probably tune it. I think you're going to find PJ
that after you've heard about the games that me and Nick play,
that I think it'd be OK to embrace dexterity.
So. Maybe out of these games pick
one you'd like to play and when you come to UK we can at least
play with friends. We'll do that.
Yeah.
OK. Yeah.
You know, we were talking before this.
There's a lot of dexterity games.
Like the list of dexterity games are just vast.
Oh, the vast is not a. Dexterity game, right?
Out of all that vast fast on this, how many of you actually
played them PK? Two and.
What are they? Yeah, that's Jenga.
Was it Jenga you find in a pub or like like Jenga you find on
the games table? No, you'd find it on the games
table. OK, I will say using Jenga
instead of dice for a role-playing game is pretty
cool. What sort of role-playing is
that? No.
So instead of when you're when you're at a tabletop
role-playing game, instead of rolling dice for a skill, you
have to pull the brick out of the Jenga tower.
If it falls over, then your character fails their task, and
I think that's a pretty. It's a whole new level of
dexterity games. It is.
And what was the other one? Is, oh God, stack the dice.
It was not Stack the dice. Oh, it was Galaxy Trucker, which
we sold. You're like a massive fan of the
game as well. Oh yeah, yeah.
But I guess if Galaxy Trucker is a dexterity game, then fit to
print is also a dexterity game. I mean, I don't know what makes
Galaxy Trucker A dexterity game. It's the grabbing in it.
It's it's loose. I mean, I mean it.
Yeah, it wasn't when I thought of when I went through my
dexterity games list. But when I looked on Board Game
Geek at the list of deck to action games, I was quite
surprised how many we'd actually played and owned.
But that's not about me. We're here to talk about Nick.
It's all about me. It's all about Nick.
So, Nick, do you, Why don't you start with your with one of the
dexterity games that you've brought to the party?
If I'm bringing a dexterity game to the party, there is only one
I would ever bring and that is a game called Maple Circus.
Maple Circus is basically stacking and you're fooling
around and I'm not putting innuendo in this.
It's played over 3 rounds and you are doing a performance.
You're doing a performance and in the last round everyone wants
to watch. But for that you have a dress
rehearsal and you have another where special act comes in and
you build up your circus to complete objective cast.
You say special act or special costume?
There's special acts. There's no there's.
Special costumes, Yeah, obviously.
And if you build your circus, so there will be something where
you have to balance something on something else or you have to
incorporate a certain token in your performance, and it is
hilarious. And then the final performance
has you doing things like every time you place a piece, you have
to announce the name of the performer or give them a bit of
the back story. My favorite one was my middle
son George was entering the ring and he went, this is this is
James coming into the ring. He's a vegan but secretly eats
sausages. Yeah, true story and I loved it.
But there's others where you just want your own.
That's every time you place a piece.
That's my clown. Didn't realize.
See. Contagious and it's just lots of
silly fun and if it falls over and you've got a timer that's
playing circus music the whole time so it adds extra pressure
and it is probably my favorite dexterity party game.
Plays on five people hard to find now.
I think it's been superseded by a slicker 4 player game called
Tiny Acrobats, also by Matago. Is that a serious one or is that
a joke? No, it's still just silly fun,
but it just plays four and it's more streamlined, the scoring's
more streamline. Do you get to juggle?
Balls. No, there's no juggling the
balls. If you want to play with balls,
you need to move on to a different dexterity game.
On Shanty would be my one of choice at the.
Moment. How do you spell that?
OMSHANT I I believe I'm. Well, I've never even heard of
it. So this is comes in a beautiful,
lush purple box, and when it arrived I thought my wife had
treated herself to a new toy. It's luxurious.
It comes in a box, inside is a stacked in silk sleeve.
Are you getting a picture of it? It it oozes luxury appeal.
And then no, it wasn't. It was a board game and you
unfurl the mat and it's sort of a mixture between, I guess it's
a bit like shuffleboard, but you have these beautiful purple
balls to hold in your hat and they've got like a clear liquid
in. So instead of like you pushing
them, they sort of glide like they've been lubed across the
table top. And if you want to play with
some balls, there are no finer balls to play with.
They are smooth, they are silky, and they are delight.
That sounds like a super slick, slippery Slidy game.
That with two players effect for Valentine's just gone on
Valentine. Oh, I listened to your show.
You have some great suggestions. That is a two, so I'm Shanti is
a two player game. Yeah, one of you pushes or glide
your ball and you've got to try and get first into the one, then
the two, then the three and then to the final scoring zone.
And every time you do it you like, move up your mark, so
you're going for the next one and then they'll push the balls
back to you. And if you're not pulling it
with innuendo. Like shuffleboard.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, like shuffleboard, but
you're opposing each other rather than next doing, doing at
the same time, and. How far really good are?
You how close our table width of park.
It's not intimate. No, no, it's it's not both
quarters. From I've never heard of it, but
I am intrigued. Nick, do you do you own this
game? Yeah, I own it.
We shall. You will know me when.
I we shall see you next weekend and you can show me your balls.
You can get play with my balls anytime.
Super Super Slidy. Any of these games appealing to
yet? PJ?
If you have you, like gone, I'm definitely into dexterity.
Or shall I share one from my? No, I think you should probably
share try to convince me. So this one is one of the first
games we had with the kids. Just try and find the year of
it. This is 2015, so we've been
playing games a while. This one is Flick M up, Flick M
up, Flick M Up, which was it's a beautifully crafted wooden
pieces based in the Wild West where one player is like the
Cowboys and you've got the outlaws.
You set up the scenery, you set up the buildings.
I think there's expansions of the stagecoaches in Drumbo and
then you might have to rob the bank.
You might need to save XYZ and you basically have like cactuses
placed strategic around the map and then you start on one one
edge. The Cowboys will flick their way
into town or the to do whatever mission it is and there's lots
and lots of missions. It's really good fun.
Obviously you're trying to take out the bad guys.
Incredibly light. Our kids loved it at that age.
Did Carrie like it? All that flicking.
Yeah, all that flicking. Carrie massively enjoyed it.
She'd often end up at the saloon doing a couple of shots
afterwards. That's what it does.
Flick, flick, flick the dice. Flick them.
Up. I mean, that's Flick the Dice is
what our kids used to do it. That's a different game, which
I'll come back to, which I hadn't even remembered for this
episode. But Flick the Dice.
It's not even called that, but I'm going to write it down and
what the game is actually called.
But Flick Them Up is the game I was talking about, which I'd
highly recommend have you have. I think they did like a Dead of
Winter version, I think. Yep, they did.
They did indeed. Do you own that copy?
PJ. No.
No, no, no, no. It's not going very well, is it?
Is influencing PJ to buy dexterity games.
You might be able to convince me at the end.
So one of the things I'm hearing so far is you both, and I know
both of you are fathers. You've played a lot of these
games with your kids. I don't have any children.
So I'm wondering if in the future these types of games may
hit the table more. Oh, you know.
So I don't just play dexterity games with the kids Maple
circus. I'm more likely to play with
adults because watching a child do it and knock it down
continuously is no fun whatsoever.
Yeah. OK, so so and but some games.
I mean you were just talking about flicking.
My favorite flicking and probably my wife's favorite
flicking is pitch Car Mini. There is more the Big version,
but Pitch Car Mini plays a lot of people and unlike the big
version, it fits on a table. Also unlike the big version, the
disk that you flick aren't slightly rounded, which is a
shame I'll be honest. And there isn't as many
expansions for the Mini, but for us the Mini is good enough and
that's great fun. You're just running around the
table, flicking your car and. Basically a race a mini version
because I've never seen the like the full size version.
Yeah, I mean it's still big, but it's it fits on a table top
rather than you having to join tables together to try and work
it out. So that's that's my favorite
flicky. OK.
If I was looking, sorry. Carry on.
Thank you. If I was playing with my
children a a game, that is just to be really clear, before
operation usually get involved, I would be trying to get.
I'd get Rhino Hero out, I think, because there's nothing better.
It's a classic for a reason. There's nothing better than
building that, you know that sort of massive erection of
paths on a tabletop. And it's unusual actually, isn't
it? For three middle-aged men to be
talking about massive erections? It's a might in.
My tower that you get to build, you do.
And without any blue pills. Which is fortunate because last
time I took Viagra I got stuck in my throat, gave me a neck for
a week. Anyway, jokes aside, Rhino, who
is a really good game, they also have the Super battle version
where you roll dice and Batley out.
I actually don't like it as I. Was going to say the same
version. I think the original is.
It's just a set of cards which obviously they fold and you, you
stack them up and I've got terrible tremors these game.
All these games aren't games I very win very often.
But yeah, running Hero, the original was fantastic.
There's a battle. One just felt like he got over
complicated. He didn't need.
We didn't need all that all that extra.
Stuff, and actually interesting. The first time I played that was
AK Plays games, K under score plays under score Games on
Instagram. Her wedding, which was the first
time I met her, she had a little selection of games set out and
that was one of them. That's cool, which was great
fun. We drunk a little too much and
it was hilarious as a drunken party game.
Too. I mean these these games do get
another edge. If you get drunk or drink then
you can't remember anything in the morning.
They're always the best nights on me.
So, if I May is to It's not a dexterity game, but it is a
towering erection on the table is holly.
It's holly. Yeah.
Holy. Holy or holly, it's.
Holly, it's not a holy. Erection.
It's not holy. It's not holy.
It's not holies with AY Holly is with an I.
OK. Like the like?
The what you got? And you mean, yes, Indian?
Festival always wants to. Play that game.
It's three different layers. It's this huge plastic tower on
the table and you're throwing colors at your opponents and
trying to get up to the top of the tower and score more points.
It's a pretty cool game. We just recently played that,
no. It's really good.
I always liked their art and the IT just looks very pretty.
I've never played it but it looked to be doesn't and I've
always got like kind of fancied it but never thought, oh I need
to own that but the table presence look.
It it's surprisingly good and strategic like there.
It's like it's it's worth more than you know.
You would think you know. Yes, again, I.
Don't think everybody got coverage.
It got released and come under radar.
Yeah, I've got one called Jungle Speed, which is all about
grabbing someone's totem. So used to, if this was actually
those games, that was rather dangerous with the kids when we
were when they were younger. Because you're just flipping
cards over to look for a match, and as soon as someone gets a
match then you have to grab the totem that's the middle of the
table. But that totem will either be
someone, someone else is grabbing their fingers or you'd
grab the totem. It'll fly across the room.
But that's Jungle Speed. It's like 1997.
It's like an old wow. But it's a.
Great game and all the. Cards are really close, aren't
they? They're really close to each
other, but often are different. But at first glance, you go to
grab that that, yeah, it's. It's it's the same colour
different colours oh sorry, same shapes different colours.
But yeah, that's that was always one that, you know, grabbing
wooden poles from middle of the table need a really?
Made firm grass you do. You really do just children.
Don't. Have a firm grasp?
No, That's why it was. Always reasonably terrifying if
it was near ATV because this wooden thing would fly off
across the room. Nick, have you got any others?
I've still got a few to go, yeah.
Well, I'm I'm a big champion of class, not a champion in real
life. You have to be quite good at it.
But for if you want a little bit of two player action and again,
a little bit of a firm grasp with a a a stick.
And a magnet and. And a magnet and some little
flick around and a ball to play with.
I mean it's sounding perfect for episode 69.
This is last. So it's basically a bit like air
hockey in its closest form, that you've got 3 magnets, which
you've got to avoid. You've got a ball and there's a
goal in the opponent's half and your magnet can only go halfway.
So it's it's sort of a mixed take.
Takes a bow. You can, you can only go half
the way. But yeah, there's there's three
magnets if they stick, if you get 2 magnets sticking to you,
it's not a good thing. And like in real life, magnetism
is not wanted in this. But it's a it's a cracking game.
You first to five or six points, I think something like that.
And it's just brilliant fun. Yeah, it's a game.
That we've had with every year. We had like some friends and we
get together. It's like a boys weekend.
We're too old for stag Do's now, but it's a game that you end up
playing for half an hour. You know, it's five or six
matches. It's just, yeah, just really
good fun. But there's really.
Serious tournaments around the world aren't there.
I mean, yeah, I think the World Championships is held in
Finland, I think, right? Recently.
Really. Sure I saw it, yeah.
And they have regional championships, so you could be
like the American champion or the UK champion or or the place
champion that PJ. You are US champion.
You can do this. We believe you can do this.
Yeah this could be your calling. This could be.
Exactly. All that.
All that pent up frustration of dexterity games, you're going to
release it over the class. I do fancy good air hockey, so
the air hockey then. You'll love class?
I guess so. Yeah.
I mean, is air hockey a dexterity game?
Can we add this number free to this list?
I mean, I think it is air hockey.
I. Know, but that's like you can't
exactly bring air hockey home and.
With class you can, with class you can.
So there you go, yeah. So I want to tell you, I want to
tell you a story and it I think because Meeple Circus would
probably be accepted in our home, no matter what game we're
playing, no matter what game we're playing.
My wife loves to take her wooden components that are not yet
placed on the board and she enjoys stacking them into
elaborate, you know, designs. Oh yeah, that's.
Quite satisfying side side quests of any ball game, right?
Now, but this has actually. Turned that into a game.
Right, So. Here's another here's the other
side quest, my friend David and I, David's very enthusiastic
about it, but I've. I've begun to join him.
We try to use one of our components on our side of the
table to knock down her elaborate tower of meeples and
wooden components. So yeah, we're playing Frost
Haven, but we're, you know, knocking over all the pieces or
we're playing viticulture and knocking over all of her little
things. Sure.
Yes. Yep.
And. There is a game with.
Catapults isn't there, and wooden walls is.
It Catapult feud feud, Catapult feud we've got.
Crossbows and catapults, which is like a game in the nine 80s I
think, which was spring loaded firing things.
Do you play about 10 pin bowling?
I don't. I don't know that.
It's like you go to a bowling alley and throw down skills.
That's a dexterity game. Do you play that?
Yeah. Of course I bowl, but that's
more like 3 games. That's more of a sport.
That is more it's a game. It's a game.
What other games do you do on? The.
Olympic it's not sport. It's just bowl.
It's just bowls. And if, if.
Playing video games is a sport, then.
Bowling is a sport. I mean, you know, I'm just
saying, I think. I think.
You love dexterity games. You're just in denial.
Is that what? You.
Well, maybe I am. So I've.
Mentioned Flick the Dice, which actually is a game called Cube
Quest that came out in 2013 that is one of our most played games
ever. Like this game has been played
huge amount, mostly by myself and Kira, where you've got two
player mats, you've got a selection of dice, got king each
and they're around. It might have some orcs and some
fighters and then you position those behind the box screen
either side so you can stack them any way you like.
And then you take turns flicking those dice across the board.
Bit like a catapult bit to basically flick the opponents
guards or orcs off of the board. It is brilliant.
That is my summary on the one of our most played games.
Flick the. Dice, or as it's officially
called, Cube Quest. Cube PJ Look it up.
Cube Quest. Game.
Geek community give it an average rating of 6.8, age
rating of eight plus community say 55. 15 minute game.
That is why it's so quick. It's.
Weighty, weighty, 1.10 we're going.
To heavy. People don't understand that one
is pretty much the lowest, 5 is the heaviest, but you know.
Was there not? Wasn't there a game in the 80s,
maybe the early 90s? It was like a little table and
it had a bunch of cubes representing ice and you're like
a little Penguin sitting on the top and you had a hammer and you
tried to. This sounds like don't, don't
lose the Penguin or something. I don't know.
I. Know what you mean?
You had a little Do you have a little hammer to hammer out the
ice packs and? You were trying to knock the.
I think it might be more. Modern than that.
I think it might be newer than that.
I don't know this this. Before my time, boy, is it
before your. Time now, Yeah, it's relative
recent then this. Is an old.
This was an old game when I was a kid, yeah.
Your old. Your old PJ too.
You know you're older than me. By you.
You drag our average age down. I mean, I've done my.
I. I I think, I mean high school.
That was another dexterity. Dame Talk about Ice, which was
very popular with the leads opened up and you made rooms and
you flicked your little Penguin thing around the rooms trying
not to get myself in trouble here.
Trying is a race, wasn't it? I think seems remember very
popular back in 2016, it would seem.
Was it high school Penguins to catch fish without getting
caught by the whole monitor? That.
Was very popular that UK game sets of that year.
It was everywhere. Massive stand well it.
Once spiel the yarn, right? Did it Well, there's OK, there's
ice. Cool, then icy cool, right?
Aren't there two? I don't know.
Ice cool Wizards was another that's a re skin I.
Seem to recall there was a Penguin to.
Collect lesson cards, pass exams, and cast spells.
Oh, that's 2024, that's how. This year Oh.
That's a. That's a free.
Skin so. Look forward to that, boys and
girls. Nick, I don't think I could get
away with not talking about a game called Toss it, Toss It 9.
Yeah, toss it. Tossed it or toss it.
Toss it. Just say again.
Yeah, No. Past tense here.
It's all coming. Look forward to in the few what
happens when you? Toss it so you're going to.
Get you have everyone has three darts.
They're about they're made of plastic.
They're about 12 inches long, which probably means they're
actually 4 inches long. And you have a it's a dart and
you throw this, you get a Jack and you then throw your 3 darts
in turns to try and get closest to the Jack.
So it's like a mix between darts and ball or Paton, Yeah, Yeah.
Yeah. So it's a bit like that.
But you can play it anywhere. You can play it against a window
they stick, or you can play it on a coffee table or any smooth
surface. I've seen it played on train
station platforms. If it's smooth marble, yeah, So
they're just really easy to carry around.
They come in different pack sizes.
I think I've got enough Posit to have a orgy of Posit players.
I've got that many. So yeah, it's a really fun
little throwing game called Posit So.
I think when I'm in England, y'all should meet me in London
and we should play this at the British Museum and use the
Rosetta Stone and get kicked out.
Sounds like a plan. It does, I mean.
It's Face walking around, looking at all the things we've
stolen over the years. The other one.
Sorry, I don't want to get. Political.
No, it's fine. Speaking of throwing things, if
on a games day I need a breath of fresh air, which sometimes
you do, you've been sitting at the table for a long time.
Stretch your legs. Actually, let's go stretch your
legs. And there's a game called Moki,
which I highly recommend. MO LKY, But I think it has some
dots over the OS or something. Like, it's a really lovely game.
So you start off with this really tight, compact group of
sticks and they're all numbered, I think from 1 to 12 memory.
And you have a baton, and you lift the baton and you throw
that baton all the way and knock over the sticks.
If you knock down more than one stick and they're lying flat on
the ground, you get one point for each stick knocked over.
And then you stand them up where they fell.
And as the game goes on, they spread out.
And if you ever get one stick laying down instead of more than
one, you get the points total on the top.
And it's the first to a step point, a step number of points.
But the kicker is, if you go over that step number of points
you your score gets half. I've always seen that game.
I've always fancied it. Always looks a good outside
game. Yeah, so I got it.
For Father's Day this year, did you?
Last year. Sorry, my Father's Day this year
M. OLKKY or is it?
Double K thank you for the over the.
O double Ki also noticed there is AI wouldn't know I.
Got the fake Jack of London. Mini table version Table 2
called finska mini FINSKA that he played in a games table but
then you're not getting your exercise and getting your fresh
air so good. So, you know, decompress after a
heavy game of flick them up or meeple circus and go and toss
some buttons, darts, darts. I've got a new game arrived just
yesterday. Oh, tell us, tell us.
Oh, yes. And.
It's a new Oink game. I think that's how you found.
I don't think you have to go, Yeah.
I think we can go away. Yeah, we can go away.
Good. Yes.
New oink game called Rafter 5. Now you have your the box
becomes the platform in which to start your building.
Very. Good place, the card.
On top so no wasted space as always.
Annoying. You have 5 rafters of various
shape and form. You will have seen one maybe in
my story on Instagram. Yeah, but.
If you haven't, they're all those photos online.
They sit at the top and then there's a sea of cards around
the edge and you take one of the rafters and AC card, flip it
over and it's a plank. And then you place the plank on
the top of the boxes with one of the characters as the weight.
And then you put a treasure chest, one of your colour
treasure chests, on top of said plank.
Now that's fine, but there's only 5 rafters, and after
everyone's taken, five goes. Obviously you've got to remove a
rafter to place a new rafter, and whenever you place a bit of
wood, it has to overlap one of the previous ones.
So you sort of get this cantilever, but quite scary
cantilever action going on if ever.
And inevitably it will happen that you take a rafter off and
some things tumble to the sea, they stay there, any opponent's
treasure goes onto your board, and if you get 5 treasures you
lose. My eldest son, Harrison, is
probably in the PJ camp of dexterity game loving OK, He
really enjoyed this one because he felt like there was something
he could do. It sort of felt like almost a
fancy puzzle of working out which one would take to move at.
And in fairness, he beat me. I'm yet to win at this game.
He beat me hands down because I was a bit gung ho and went oh
this one will definitely be for oh, I've just ruined it where he
was there thinking of all the levels and even placing his
woods so it might happen on one of the bigger meatballs and he
was playing some clever stuff. So although it was just a small
box game we had a lot of fun with that.
That is Rafter. I've Do you like?
Do you like a game? And that does sound like a great
Oint game to have. He does.
Bring it down. That does.
Noted. He's just noted.
It's just a bit. More to it, Yeah, small box.
It's not going to take up much room on yourself.
You said OK, so your rafter, are we talking about rafter like
someone in a raft or you talking about rafter like the I?
Am not beams. This is the, I imagine because
it's OK they're building a raft, yes.
It's a raft, it's a. Raft from Card Piece by.
Piece using crafts to help balance the build.
OK. It looks crazy.
There's Advanced Setup. There's Advanced Setup so some
of the cards have like nail holes on them and joints and you
can't cover those with other bits of wood and add more
strategy. I haven't played that yet.
I can't see me playing with it. I don't see any reason why I
need to over complicate a game. I can't win out any.
Very true. Well, I'm not.
Very good at these games, so you should bring it.
We'll play it. You'll win, guaranteed.
And it's a small. Box game as well.
Perfect, isn't it? That's cool, haven't got many
other than honourable mentions if if I've got one.
Final one, OK. Should we go first on the now?
So my. Final one is Terror in Meeple
City but when it first came out it was called Rampage where
basically dinosaurs or Godzilla would rampage through the city
and you'd have all the skyscrapers which would
basically light layers of board with mini meeples all stacked
under so you'd drop and throw these dinosaurs around the
board. But I think after the first
print run, because Rampage is the computer game, it got a
probably a cease and desist and got and got renamed to Terrarie
Meeple City. But a really good fun dexterity
game. Smash, stomp and chomp your
monster going to destroy it all with a flick of a finger.
Game 2013. It feels like there was a whole
couple of years of flicking. Was very popular in dexterity
games. Was a was a really was a real
thing in the game design industry.
I'm. Going to say I'm not sure I want
to destroy anything with a flick flick.
Or the power in one digit. I think flicking games were
replaced by stacking games, I think.
Yeah, well, this had stacking. Yeah, it's stacking.
That's a good game. Do you still own it?
No, not that good. No, but bring it back I think.
Disappointed. I haven't got it anymore.
I I wanted to. Pay it next week, yeah.
I'm I'm annoyed. So Nick, what have you got on
honourable mentions? Well, we.
We spoke about building up and my big problem why these only
get honourable mentions instead of like saying rushed out and
buy these games is things like Tokyo Highway for example are
great. They've got new Kickstarter out.
It looks delicious. My problem with it is when it
goes wrong it really goes wrong. It's basically end game.
So I have a slight problem with that.
The same with Rhino Hero and all of those.
Once it goes, you can't just go, Oh let's just put that back up
there. No, this is game over and it is
cataclysmic. Me prefer when it happens.
It's funny and it's hilarious and you get stressed and adds
excitement, but in that, the other one that handles it really
well is Men At Work. So when things collapse at Men
At Work, you sort of just scoop them out and you get like a
little penalty token. But it doesn't ruin the whole
game for everybody. And I really like, admired that
part of my work. And other than that it's the
quick grabby games, nearly mispronounced, that quick grabby
games. So like Echo Cat goat cheese
pizza, the way you match Cobra pool and it's just and a bit
like you're grabbing the totems game Jungle Speed.
They are just quick, fast and I'm going to grab, grab, grab
and scratch people and break fingers if I have true.
Story breaking fingers. Sorry.
Actually, that was also at Kay Plays Games wedding, where we
did break Betty's finger playing Taco Jenny's.
Yeah. No, yeah.
Board Gaming. Family.
We broke, I think. I'm not taking any blame for
this. I don't want to point any finger
of blame. It wasn't me.
Almost certainly was either. So Jenny's supposed to be a
Cajun Con, right? Yeah, just.
Don't ask about the Taco. Cat go to the fingering.
Instant, it will go down. Got it.
So yeah, good to know, but it's funny story.
She she didn't really feel anything.
She was had a one or two. I think it was it.
Was drinking. Neatly, yeah.
I think she was either drinking neat gin or neat peeler all
night. I mean, after you woke up with a
headache and a very sore finger. Yeah, people had those nights,
haven't we? All right.
I missed the opportunity for some drums because I'll go back.
To me it's. It's.
Yeah. Say it again.
Nothing. Problem boy, I said.
But it was. Don't like we've all?
Oh yeah. Yeah, oh, Timing went wrong as
ever. Yeah you just you went a bit
well actually you're in fair bit early late.
A bit late. Which is, which is a result.
So, well, that was the episode of Chaos.
And it was. Nick has.
Shared with us about 20 of his favorite balancing dexterity.
Flicking, clapping, grabbing, clutching.
Stacking. Smoothing.
Slippery. Erecting ball.
Grabby Games. Nick, it's, it has been a
pleasure. Thank you for coming on the show
Breaking my. Podcast virginity When?
You think of a another episode. If anyone's got any topics that
they'd like us and Nick to chat about, please do let us know.
Might be allowed. Back on in 67 more episodes,
yeah. Episode 99, just before the big
one. 100 come on just before the big 100 your.
Peak just before 100? No.
No PJ. That would.
Be That would be 99 Nick balloons.
Wow. How about that?
Right. See, the title's already there.
You've got the title. For that one.
But not for this one. Not for this one.
That's why it's. Called NSFWNSF.
WW. N with Nick with Nick with Nick.
Anything Nick you have to close the show with?
Have you got to look a little closing speech you opened?
It beautifully so well, yeah, I can't.
Top that. I can't top that, so no.
I will say thank you very much for having me, gentlemen.
It's always a pleasure to hang out with You Beautiful people,
and I'm delighted to change the demographic of Maple to Maple to
have another middle-aged man, granted, but this one with a
little bit of hair. Still, that's true, yeah?
Wiser and and cuter so. Changing, just changing the
demographic ever so slightly. The beads.
Beads are in. Didn't want to.
Overdo it. No, no, no.
Don't do it too hard. Still got no beard.
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