1 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:03,640 Welcome to Meeple to Meeple uniting players around the 2 00:00:03,640 --> 00:00:07,400 world, a 30 minute exploration of PJ and Gareth 4 game 3 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:10,160 Experience Syndrome across both sides of the Atlantic. 4 00:00:11,040 --> 00:00:13,480 Each episode they share their thoughts and opinions on the 5 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:17,280 World War games, including their favorite themes, games, hot 6 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:21,840 topics, and much, much more. Hey guys, welcome again. 7 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:26,400 It is episode 68. In honor of tomorrow being 8 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:29,560 Valentine's Day, the title is Be My Valentine. 9 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:31,760 We're going to talk about two player games that you should 10 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:33,960 play with your partner. As always, I'm PJ. 11 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:36,160 And I'm Gareth. How are you Sir? 12 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:40,840 I'm OK Valentine's Day tomorrow. So before we begin, I want to 13 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:42,840 say, because you know I'm just too excited right now. 14 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:44,640 Today's a great day. Today is a great day. 15 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:47,360 What I love about this podcast is that we always broadcast on 16 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:51,560 Tuesdays, which means today is Mardi Gras, Laissez Le Banton 17 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:54,840 Roule to all my friends in the South, Happy Mardi Gras, 18 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:57,080 everybody. Happy Mardi Gras. 19 00:00:57,440 --> 00:01:00,240 Tomorrow is Valentine's Day and we're going to get together with 20 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:03,360 our loved ones. It's interesting because it's 21 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:09,440 also Ash Wednesday. So it's a fasting day, but it's 22 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:12,880 Valentine's Day, so it's like the day of love and the day of 23 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:15,000 repentance. It's it's just it's interesting 24 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:17,840 how the calendar works. Maybe we should do solo games 25 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:19,400 for those who haven't got a partner. 26 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:22,520 Oh. Oh dear, just realized this. 27 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:25,000 For those of you who don't have a partner. 28 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:27,000 I'm going to pick my favorite solo game in a second and I'm 29 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:29,560 going to sit here and think to add that at the end. 30 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:32,040 OK, all right. So good point. 31 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:37,040 The plan is 2 player games for you to play with, your loved 32 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:40,840 one, your spouse, your partner on Valentine's Day. 33 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:46,120 And Gareth. You're up first, Sir. 34 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:50,080 I'm up first, so this is a new this is a new game to our 35 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:51,320 collection. I say new. 36 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:54,200 I think it might have been before Christmas, but this is 37 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:56,400 Sky Team. Yeah. 38 00:01:57,040 --> 00:01:59,400 Which I'd still think it's quite hard to find. 39 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:02,560 I think the print run hasn't second print run hasn't hit hit 40 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:05,720 the ground, but hit the ground taken off or landed maybe if 41 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:07,600 we're talking about Sky Team. Hit the sky. 42 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:12,440 So A2 player cooperative game where one of you is the pilot, 43 00:02:12,640 --> 00:02:16,080 the other is the copilot, and you're supposed to work together 44 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:21,800 to land planes. Sounds easy, but here that you 45 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:24,600 and Katie argued you. Can tell me you? 46 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:26,200 Can tell me that story in a minute? 47 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:29,120 Yeah. So it's purely 2 player. 48 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:32,960 You've got components wise, it's really nice. 49 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:34,640 It's got a nice little dashboard. 50 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:38,080 One player is seeing one side of the board. 51 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:40,920 I guess it's got that landing the the wheels. 52 00:02:40,920 --> 00:02:42,200 The other person's got the flaps. 53 00:02:42,920 --> 00:02:45,880 You both roll your dice and you need to put those on the board. 54 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:50,840 Trying to often like if both of you got to put one for like kind 55 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:54,120 of the balance of the plane. So if somebody over you can't 56 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:57,480 discuss, you can't discuss what you're going to do so or you can 57 00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:01,760 before you start playing. Once you roll the dice. 58 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:05,880 There's no discussion, so I put a four down, Carrie puts A5 59 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:10,080 slightly missed balance and we just turn the plane, not turn. 60 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:12,880 We balance off to the left, of course, if you like that, the 61 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:14,680 tilt. If the tilt, that's it, the 62 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:17,280 tilt. If the tilt is not balanced by 63 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:20,240 the time the runway arrives which is over maybe 6-7 rounds, 64 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:23,640 then of course you're going to crash and you've got the speed. 65 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:26,360 So you've got yeah, that kind of how fast you go into again if 66 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:29,440 you haven't slowed down enough by the time the plane gets to 67 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:34,600 the runway, you overshoot or you ditch it into the land before 68 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:37,480 the runway. So we played this game quite a 69 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:43,640 few times even uneasy until until we actually succeeded and 70 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:46,680 then yeah, you've got other planes to navigate out of the 71 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:49,240 way and move them. It is really fun. 72 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:51,720 Really good solid two player game. 73 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:56,440 Perfect Valentine's and you need you do need to work together but 74 00:03:56,440 --> 00:03:59,160 there obviously is a bit of luck with the dice. 75 00:03:59,160 --> 00:03:59,560 Yeah. Ours. 76 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:01,400 You know you have coffee so you can mitigate. 77 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:07,320 You can use coffee to mitigate. Are just dice rolls so it's 78 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:14,720 definitely worth checking out plenty of what's the word So you 79 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:17,600 play the first game and it's landing and then you open a rule 80 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:19,480 book and you've you've got taken. 81 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:22,960 I think it's taken off or it's what's the what'd you earn. 82 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:26,160 I believe it's called blank. You earn stuff, you. 83 00:04:26,280 --> 00:04:28,120 Get you get more stuff to do and. 84 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:31,880 You land at different airports at different difficulties. 85 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:34,640 Yeah, and the red and green. Sometimes they're really short, 86 00:04:35,280 --> 00:04:41,640 so worth worth checking out Sky Team 2023. 87 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:47,880 Right. 2.05 out of 5 S Yeah, so PJ happens and it's 15 minutes. 88 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:49,880 It's a quick game. You can play a couple of games. 89 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:54,480 It could be even quicker. Wow, OK, Sky Team's a great 90 00:04:54,480 --> 00:04:57,840 game. I, however, do not believe it's 91 00:04:57,840 --> 00:05:02,720 a good Valentine's Day game. Wait, I don't think it's a good 92 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:08,600 Valentine's game because it has the potential of risking your 93 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:14,000 relationship with your spouse. Katie and I played this several 94 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:17,760 times. Like you, we played it four or 95 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:20,600 five times and we will. She will not play it with me 96 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:22,040 ever again. I see. 97 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:25,040 I think it's it's the pilots. I wouldn't say it's not 98 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:28,040 Valentine's Day. Clearly one of you is who is who 99 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:30,840 is trying to run the game. She's mad at me. 100 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:33,000 She's mad at me. I never, I could never do 101 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:36,840 anything right. The problem is you can't speak. 102 00:05:36,840 --> 00:05:42,040 So yeah, I did not go well. But then I played it with my 103 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:45,480 friend David on a regular, regular night. 104 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:47,560 He and I played it. And, you know, the first game 105 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:49,520 didn't go very well because I was trying to teach it to him. 106 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:50,920 He's like, let's play that again. 107 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:55,360 And yeah, so I guess with my friend David, he and I can 108 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:57,760 communicate well and work together. 109 00:05:57,760 --> 00:05:59,960 But with my wife. I'm not going to say a word. 110 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:03,000 I'm not saying a word. I mean I just say go check it 111 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:04,560 out. It's a great two player game it. 112 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:07,680 Is it is a great game? It'll be a good lesson in 113 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:10,200 communication. Yeah, you've got to be able to 114 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:13,120 communicate. I wouldn't play it on 115 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:14,480 Valentine's and. I'm moving on. 116 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:18,200 So we're going to move on to something a little bit more 117 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:20,640 romantic, at least in theme anyway. 118 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:24,200 And that's Paris. City of Lights. 119 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:29,240 Beautiful tile placement game, two phases to the game. 120 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:32,640 The first one is you're actually the beauty of the game, Where 121 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:35,880 this game really shines. Everyone hears me say this is 122 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:41,320 that the box, the bottom of the box is the board in which you 123 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:43,400 play. Love that. 124 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:46,240 So you know it's kind of like like Boop, right? 125 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:49,480 You flip the box over and it's. But in this case you just, you 126 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:53,000 open the box lid, you take the components out and you play 127 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:56,680 inside the box. You lay your tiles down in the 128 00:06:56,680 --> 00:07:02,120 first phase in order to try to you know match up shapes, 129 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:07,480 polyomnik shapes of your color. So in phase two, when you go lay 130 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:13,920 tiles of buildings across Paris, you can only put them on your 131 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:17,680 colored squares. And the purple was a share 132 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:20,880 because it's like you're blue, I'm orange, and then purple we 133 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:26,200 share and so we place our polyomino shaped buildings onto 134 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:29,480 the tiles to build the city of Paris. 135 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:34,560 And you score points when your buildings are erected or are 136 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:38,800 illuminated by lamp light. Hence the City of Lights. 137 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:40,520 Beautiful. It is beautiful. 138 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:44,240 There's a few little 3D the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de 139 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:46,720 Triomphe. There's a couple. 140 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:48,600 It is really pretty. It really is. 141 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:50,560 It's a lot of fun. We played it at Gen. 142 00:07:50,560 --> 00:07:54,800 Con 2021, then we got the expansion for it, which came 143 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:56,520 with all the three-dimensional buildings. 144 00:07:57,360 --> 00:08:00,560 It's beautiful, just it's very pleasant. 145 00:08:01,880 --> 00:08:05,440 And you know, apparently Paris is the most romantic city in the 146 00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:10,520 world. So why not go lay tiles and 147 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:16,440 build Paris City of Lights? It's about two out of five wait 148 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:19,120 30 minute play time. Yeah, very quick. 149 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:23,960 Very popular #30 of of abstract games and Ball Game Geek. 150 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:25,560 I see. I didn't know that. 151 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:26,520 But it is. It is. 152 00:08:26,560 --> 00:08:28,240 It's worthy. Well rated, well rated. 153 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:30,160 I like an abstract game. Well. 154 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:32,799 You will love Paris City of Lights then. 155 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:35,400 Excellent. Will carry like it? 156 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:37,280 I don't. Know Sure. 157 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:41,679 OK, I think Kiera would like it. She likes to abstract more kind 158 00:08:41,679 --> 00:08:50,920 of that whole placement thing. OK, I am going for the extreme. 159 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:54,600 So we've talked about games which are generally quite light 160 00:08:56,680 --> 00:09:01,360 as a two player game that me and Carrie would want to play on 161 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:04,560 Valentine's Day. We've gone for the Evie 162 00:09:04,560 --> 00:09:08,320 Rosenberg Fields of. Oh, that's great. 163 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:13,280 Which which in its basic game is one to two players that you can 164 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:15,520 add a third player if you add in the expansion. 165 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:21,800 But I'd say the the core game is good enough, but it is a 3.85 166 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:23,720 out of five. So if you don't understand 167 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:29,000 complexity, 5 is the most insane amount of thinking and 168 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:31,920 understanding and strategy. Whereas the 3.85 is kind of a 169 00:09:31,920 --> 00:09:35,080 medium heavyweights game. So it's a bit more complex in 170 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:43,160 terms of thinking. You are a farmer in East Frisia 171 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:47,040 and it's got flax and you've got to clear the land, you've got to 172 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:51,640 build dikes it. Some people describe Fields of 173 00:09:51,640 --> 00:09:54,640 Isles as a sandbox worker placement because there are so 174 00:09:54,640 --> 00:10:00,040 many spaces to go, which everything from yeah, drying out 175 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:04,640 the bogs, harvesting peats, creating more fields for your 176 00:10:04,640 --> 00:10:09,960 livestock, building buildings, developing your tools so you can 177 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:14,640 do more things, better, better. Obviously there's livestock to 178 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:18,040 grow as well. If that wasn't enough, you've 179 00:10:18,040 --> 00:10:21,640 got to travel and prosper to neighbouring villages and 180 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:25,320 finding buyers. There's multiple paths to 181 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:28,400 victory with this one, but it is. 182 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:34,680 It is one of Carrie's favorite games, so it is a delight to 183 00:10:34,680 --> 00:10:36,200 play. It doesn't hit the game table as 184 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:40,600 often because the set up is a bit of a beast, but if you're 185 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:46,320 after something a bit more meaty on Valentine's Day, I want to 186 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:47,960 get into something a bit of a heavy. 187 00:10:48,640 --> 00:10:54,320 I guess Euro then the fields of all would be my recommendation. 188 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:57,320 10 years old this year, 10 years old. 189 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:00,960 Between now and two, I'll get play time. 190 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:04,840 Have you got fields of all? We do. 191 00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:07,920 So this is a really interesting game. 192 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:12,000 It's one of Katie and I's favorites, two player, but I I 193 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:13,720 really enjoyed the story behind it. 194 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:19,520 So E Frisia is in Germany run on the border with the Netherlands 195 00:11:19,560 --> 00:11:21,400 right? And it's it's on the coast of 196 00:11:21,520 --> 00:11:27,600 the the North Sea and it's where UE it's from I believe or. 197 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:33,160 Because the rule book is full of history and every component has 198 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:37,000 got like a a story behind about how it comes it feeds in 199 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:41,600 thematically. Yeah, I mean the history goes 200 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:46,240 back to the Paleolithic times when man was just, you know, 201 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:49,360 hunter gatherer hunting reindeers in the what is it, the 202 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:52,080 Neolithic and the Mesolithic Age. 203 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:55,840 And so it's got a, it's it's below sea level, which I 204 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:59,440 identify with coming from South Louisiana, which you know, we we 205 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:02,120 have levees to hold back the rivers and the lakes all the 206 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:04,640 time, same thing. And you're building levees to 207 00:12:04,640 --> 00:12:07,880 expand your farmland. So it is, it's definitely a 208 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:10,520 great worker placement, 2 player game. 209 00:12:11,280 --> 00:12:14,440 Beautiful, beautiful. I I, I really enjoy it. 210 00:12:14,440 --> 00:12:18,760 But it's got a rich heritage and a rich story that I really 211 00:12:18,760 --> 00:12:23,400 enjoy. And yeah, good choice, good 212 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:27,320 choice. So where you going next? 213 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:32,520 So I'm going to go with another favorite of my wife and I's and 214 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:36,680 that's patchwork. Now there is in fact a 215 00:12:36,680 --> 00:12:40,320 Valentine's Day reskin of patchwork. 216 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:44,600 So you you could play that on Valentine's Day, which would be 217 00:12:44,600 --> 00:12:48,600 very appropriate thematically, You know, Patrick's really cozy. 218 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:54,480 That's a that seems to be. That is an adjective that we've 219 00:12:54,480 --> 00:12:58,640 been seeing used a lot to describe a lot of games recently 220 00:12:58,640 --> 00:13:01,040 across all the social media platforms. 221 00:13:01,040 --> 00:13:03,760 Cozy, right? It's been used to describe 222 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:07,240 Mythwind and other games recently, so maybe I want to 223 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:09,000 stay away from that. It's delightful. 224 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:12,640 Two player only. As you know it's been around for 225 00:13:12,640 --> 00:13:16,000 a while. You're laying polyomino tiles. 226 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:18,400 Who doesn't like tile placement? Any listener? 227 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:20,880 This show knows that it's my favorite mechanic, right? 228 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:22,640 Because this is 10 years as well. 229 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:24,400 This is 2014. Was this one? 230 00:13:24,520 --> 00:13:28,600 Was this one of the first? It probably wasn't polyomino 231 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:30,560 games, but I seem to have made it. 232 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:34,280 It may very. Well be certainly was around 233 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:36,160 when that mechanic started to take off. 234 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:39,760 So you you, you place all the tiles because you're you're 235 00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:41,360 fashioning A quilt. Yeah. 236 00:13:41,640 --> 00:13:44,600 And you place all the tiles in a circle around the main board, 237 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:47,120 which is like a track for your player count. 238 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:51,600 And you have a board in front of you, so you're going to have use 239 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:57,560 buttons as your currency to purchase tiles around the board. 240 00:13:57,640 --> 00:14:02,280 But you can only purchase amongst the first three of like 241 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:05,000 the token. Here's a name for it. 242 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:09,160 I don't I'm not a quilter or sewing, so there's I think 243 00:14:09,160 --> 00:14:11,240 there's a term for it. But anyway and you can purchase 244 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:13,960 those and place them on your board, which then forces you to 245 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:18,680 move around the center board. But the tiles that you place on 246 00:14:18,680 --> 00:14:21,840 your quilt, the ones that have buttons printed on it. 247 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:24,600 Yeah. When you cross the button on the 248 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:28,480 middle board, you get more buttons, which is your currency 249 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:31,800 to purchase more tiles. And so you want to try to fill 250 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:33,640 up your quilt as much as possible. 251 00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:37,880 You get negative points at the end of the game for vacant 252 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:41,720 squares on your quilt. So you want to, you want to do 253 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:44,160 that, You want to make sure you get buttons and you want to make 254 00:14:44,160 --> 00:14:48,960 sure that you, you know, I play that just today with Katie. 255 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:52,080 It's pretty. First time, now it's really 256 00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:54,840 accessible. There's a there's a Halloween 257 00:14:54,840 --> 00:14:59,080 themed patchwork. There's an Americana themed 258 00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:01,160 patchwork. There's the basic patchwork. 259 00:15:01,160 --> 00:15:04,760 There's Valentine's Day. I'm sure there are others. 260 00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:08,920 Valentine's was last year. Yeah, and then? 261 00:15:10,160 --> 00:15:14,800 We've upgraded our our buttons to to proper blue buttons. 262 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:18,560 It's a lovely game, just to to add a little bit of enhancement 263 00:15:18,560 --> 00:15:19,760 to. Absolutely. 264 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:21,440 You know it. You got to have real buttons 265 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:24,400 because a lot more fun than little cardboard tokens. 266 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:26,960 I get it. But yeah, yeah, so Patchwork is 267 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:31,320 Patchwork's my number 22 player game for Valentine's Day. 268 00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:34,200 It's definitely going to hit our table. 269 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:36,160 Actually, it hit our table today. 270 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:40,880 So most likely Paris is going to hit our table tomorrow on 271 00:15:40,880 --> 00:15:44,480 Valentine's Day proper, right? So yeah. 272 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:49,560 Good choice, very good choice. And I've got some other other 273 00:15:49,560 --> 00:15:54,000 games I think I'd chat out that we would add to the list. 274 00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:56,800 Obviously we had patchwork, so you've covered that. 275 00:15:58,880 --> 00:16:00,960 I think what episode do we do? Two player games? 276 00:16:01,320 --> 00:16:03,480 Episode seven was it. Episode 7. 277 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:06,080 So we're going back. So if you want to hear some 278 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:08,800 other two player games, certainly I again another game 279 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:11,920 that both me and Carrie love is Targie, which we covered Episode 280 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:17,600 7, which is a nice worker placement, kind of putting two 281 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:20,280 workers out. You draw a line and it's so 282 00:16:20,280 --> 00:16:24,280 clever. The game that Carrie we enjoys 283 00:16:24,280 --> 00:16:29,840 playing but gets frustrated is Mister Jack, which is, which is 284 00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:32,120 the kind of hidden movement you're kind of trying to 285 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:34,720 position yourself in. The lights is it's based on Jack 286 00:16:34,720 --> 00:16:37,360 the Ripper. So the Jack is trying to 287 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:42,760 manipulate the other characters on the board so that he escapes. 288 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:46,640 All the other characters got to find Jack and the lights are on 289 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:48,360 or off. It's a really clever game. 290 00:16:48,640 --> 00:16:51,800 So here's a question. What kind of message are you 291 00:16:51,800 --> 00:16:56,720 sending to your spouse if you want to play a game about Jack 292 00:16:56,720 --> 00:16:59,800 the Ripper on Valentine's Day? Just just be nice. 293 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:02,720 It's a nice game. I think you're ever thinking it. 294 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:04,920 Overthinking it? OK. 295 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:06,079 Yeah, it's. A Jack. 296 00:17:06,079 --> 00:17:08,040 It's just a game. I wasn't having sort of a murder 297 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:08,800 or anything, have we? Wow. 298 00:17:09,160 --> 00:17:12,240 But I mean, you know. That's what I got my list to ask 299 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:15,640 you about 5. That's about insects, you know, 300 00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:17,160 is that is insects. OK. 301 00:17:17,560 --> 00:17:19,800 Insects. I think they're OK. 302 00:17:20,319 --> 00:17:24,119 This is a game that you gave me. You gifted me a copy of this. 303 00:17:24,160 --> 00:17:28,160 Game copy over. Yeah, when when Diz came to stay 304 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:32,400 with us back in September and we played it last, David and I 305 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:35,520 played it Thursday night. We play like 3, maybe three or 306 00:17:35,520 --> 00:17:38,800 four games. It's so quick, so portable and 307 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:40,880 so many and so many ways to play. 308 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:42,680 So if you haven't played Hive, it's a two player. 309 00:17:43,160 --> 00:17:47,480 Insects. Yeah, you got grasshoppers, your 310 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:52,560 spiders, ants, each player's got a bee, a queen bee. 311 00:17:52,560 --> 00:17:55,360 And you just need to make sure that the other player doesn't 312 00:17:55,360 --> 00:18:00,280 surround your queen bee with with their with their insects. 313 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:05,760 So it's a mixture of, I guess chessy kind of moves each each 314 00:18:05,760 --> 00:18:10,400 insect moves differently and you've got to say connected to 315 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:11,520 the hive. So they all have to. 316 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:14,360 You can't have breakaways. They all have to be attached all 317 00:18:14,360 --> 00:18:17,760 the time. That's a great description, 318 00:18:17,760 --> 00:18:20,920 yeah. Chess with Hexagon. 319 00:18:20,960 --> 00:18:23,840 Hexes. And they all move differently 320 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:25,360 based on the insect. That's pretty. 321 00:18:25,360 --> 00:18:28,400 On the hive moves, It's brilliant, it's genius and. 322 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:31,600 Unlike unlike chess where you're trying to remove the king, 323 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:33,480 you're trying to surround the queen. 324 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:35,320 Around the queen. And sometimes you can trap 325 00:18:35,320 --> 00:18:38,960 yourself because you can look, you can put your because you've 326 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:40,400 got to be connected to the queen. 327 00:18:40,560 --> 00:18:43,080 Right before you know it you trapped yourself for the queen. 328 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:47,520 So it's it's absolutely genius game and the other one I've got 329 00:18:47,520 --> 00:18:51,760 here would be Santorini which is an older game now but similar 330 00:18:53,240 --> 00:18:59,320 two players who are playing trying to build the the towers 331 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:02,320 of Santorini up and down and not be landed on by the other 332 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:03,920 player. So it's just trying to always 333 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:08,640 keep out of the way, which is a very popular game as well. 334 00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:09,760 It looks. Great. 335 00:19:09,760 --> 00:19:12,880 Great for Instagram photographs. It is, but we sold it. 336 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:14,920 Did she? Yeah, it is. 337 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:17,840 It is. I'm going to be nice. 338 00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:19,640 It's boring. It is so boring. 339 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:22,560 Yeah, it's so boring. Even with all of the variation 340 00:19:22,560 --> 00:19:26,240 on the character cards, yeah. Yeah, it's just like there's so 341 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:29,160 many better two player games that we would prefer to play and 342 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:31,800 we're like, why even keep this? So we pitched. 343 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:32,920 I'm going. To have to play that with you, 344 00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:37,000 so it's what we played. Maybe you'll see how boring it 345 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:39,560 is too, and we'll sell that game. 346 00:19:40,360 --> 00:19:43,440 Never sell it. And the collection what? 347 00:19:43,440 --> 00:19:44,760 What else did you have on your list? 348 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:50,280 So I was going to talk about Far Away by Cherry Pick Games, but 349 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:53,080 we did talk about it in episode 7. 350 00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:56,640 So that's another one. That's challenging because you 351 00:19:56,640 --> 00:19:58,720 know when you're on the same tile you can talk to one 352 00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:01,920 another, but when you leave, you can't, like in Sky News. 353 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:04,200 So. You could get into a lot of 354 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:08,520 trouble with that and and this is a, this is a type, this is a. 355 00:20:09,120 --> 00:20:12,040 It's not really a theme. It's not really a mechanic, you 356 00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:14,000 know. I love two player games just in 357 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:17,360 general. So there's there's tons of them 358 00:20:17,360 --> 00:20:19,520 out there. What do we play? 359 00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:23,160 We played so back by Pandasaurus games again. 360 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:25,960 We talked about that in Episode 7. 361 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:31,200 What else? What else did we What else we? 362 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:32,720 I mean, there's so many two players. 363 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:36,560 Star Wars Rebellion's Great. Yeah, it's on my list, but it's 364 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:38,360 a. But it's a long game. 365 00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:42,760 Yeah, I mean, fields have always short compared to what could be 366 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:45,240 Star Wars Rebellion. Star Wars Rebellion is a great 367 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:48,720 two player game, but it is not a good example of a Valentine's 368 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:54,400 Day game for myself and my wife, especially with Valentine's 369 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:56,720 being on Wednesday. So it's like, you know, you come 370 00:20:56,720 --> 00:21:00,360 home after work, do I want to sit down and play a three hour 371 00:21:00,360 --> 00:21:05,000 game from set up to finish? It's always War of the Ring. 372 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:08,800 War of the Ring that's. I've not played it, but. 33 or 373 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:10,440 fours hours. Yeah, yeah. 374 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:14,480 Yep, only one person can win. Hopefully. 375 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:15,320 It's not. Absolutely. 376 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:18,680 It's not the bad guys, which is what happened to me. 377 00:21:21,360 --> 00:21:22,720 Trying to look at my shelf on my. 378 00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:25,000 Yeah, I'm trying the other two other two player games. 379 00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:29,080 There's a nice abstract game called Show Shobu which is these 380 00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:30,160 wooden balls. Shobu, yeah. 381 00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:34,600 And black and white tokens. It's kind of, yeah, move around 382 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:37,880 position, but each board you have to move independently. 383 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:40,840 That's why we picked that up in New York and it's been around 384 00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:42,960 the world with us. So what I've noticed about two 385 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:45,120 player games just in general, right? 386 00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:48,960 And I'm going to, I'll just quickly rattle off some titles. 387 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:52,080 The two player versions are better than their Big Brothers, 388 00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:56,080 right? So 7 Wonders Dual is a two 389 00:21:56,080 --> 00:22:00,440 player version of Seven Wonders. 7 Wonders is not the best game 390 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:03,920 out there, but Seven Wonders Dual is very popular and we love 391 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:10,360 it in our home. Yeah, Agricola all. 392 00:22:10,360 --> 00:22:12,240 Creatures. All creatures. 393 00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:13,760 Big and small. Yeah. 394 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:15,480 Something like that. Anyway, it's a two player 395 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:17,760 version of Agricola. Now I can tell you that I 396 00:22:18,120 --> 00:22:20,360 despise Agricola and will not play it. 397 00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:23,120 We played Agricola Friday night. Yeah, well, you've. 398 00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:25,480 Lasted 4 years. Yeah, well, there's a reason. 399 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:28,000 Why brilliant? No, it wasn't, because it took 400 00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:30,480 you 4. It's a good like an hour and a 401 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:31,320 half. Like that, Yeah. 402 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:33,680 But it took you four years to hit the table. 403 00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:35,400 There's a reason why it doesn't hit the table. 404 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:37,040 It's. Just got too many games. 405 00:22:37,360 --> 00:22:41,560 There's better games out there. It was really bad at it. 406 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:45,200 I'd forgotten how hard it was. So it'll be in the table again 407 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:48,280 next week because we were like, it's it's good, no? 408 00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:51,560 It's not what? Would you keep Have you got 409 00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:53,160 Caverna? No. 410 00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:54,520 I see. It's the problem. 411 00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:58,440 It's not even your genre games. No, we had the two player 412 00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:02,520 version of Caverna, which we love cave to cave. 413 00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:06,360 But the the two player, Agricola is so delightful. 414 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:09,960 You know, Agricola's got beautiful animals and animals 415 00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:14,400 are cool and I don't want to plant pumpkins and corn and oh, 416 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:17,680 and by the way, if you feed your family, I can't feed mine 417 00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:19,160 because you took the spot, I mean. 418 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:22,320 No, you haven't got right about that a Grricola. 419 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:26,280 Man, yeah. We need more conflict in our 420 00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:27,840 lives. We have loads of conflict games, 421 00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:29,840 You Convocation Kong. We need more conflicts and 422 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:31,960 upsetting people. Clearly OK, you need. 423 00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:34,480 Apparently. You know, it's funny you mention 424 00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:37,560 that. Apparently so, yeah, Agricula is 425 00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:42,160 just so it's one of Yui's early games and he's gotten so much 426 00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:44,200 better in designing games. There's a reason. 427 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:45,280 You know you get a wave to me as. 428 00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:50,440 Well, it's like the I wouldn't say it's wherever the 2012 or 429 00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:53,200 whatever, but there's a there's a second edition which has been 430 00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:58,240 OK streamlines. So A just celebrated. 431 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:00,120 A. Just celebrated. 432 00:24:00,120 --> 00:24:02,760 The box isn't it. Yeah, it's like a grickle of 15 433 00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:06,040 because 15th anniversary or something took a look at that 434 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:08,120 and said yeah, I'm not buying it. 435 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:12,000 Yeah, I mean, someone sends me on on my post that they've got 436 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:15,080 every spare card, every deck. We've just got the core game. 437 00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:19,440 You can't give me a copy of a grickle for free. 438 00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:22,600 Just. Yeah, and have it set up ready. 439 00:24:23,120 --> 00:24:24,720 What else do you have the two player games before we do a 440 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:26,600 solo? A couple of solo games. 441 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:31,440 I've got a couple of solo games. Oh, right, Emo Tap Dual is 442 00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:34,160 another two player version that's better than it's bigger, 443 00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:37,840 rather it's it's great. I mean, you're basically 444 00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:41,280 offloading ships and scoring points for it. 445 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:43,960 I had the I had the original game, yeah. 446 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:46,440 So I mean emo tip is a. Emo tip is OK. 447 00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:49,760 Yeah, we sold it too because we got the two player version which 448 00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:51,680 is so much better. Yeah, that makes sense, you 449 00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:54,840 know. Moving on solo, so for those are 450 00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:58,520 our friends and loved ones who do not have a partner or loved 451 00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:00,640 one at the time. Currently of their way. 452 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:02,960 Or their way like. I've been for the last couple of 453 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:04,160 years. But Yep. 454 00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:08,880 This year I'm not, so I've just gone through my solo games and 455 00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:11,720 I'm going to pick out three without really getting touch 456 00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:15,080 detail, so I think a really good one will be Final Girl. 457 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:18,120 Maybe. Not sure it. 458 00:25:18,120 --> 00:25:20,400 Sticks to the theme of Valentine's Day and serial 459 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:23,640 killers. What other ones have I got on my 460 00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:25,560 list? We've got a friend, we've got a 461 00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:28,320 friend here in the US in our community who absolutely loves 462 00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:30,680 Final Girl. That Final girl is his favorite 463 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:34,080 game. That it is supplanted Everdell 464 00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:35,440 as his favorite game. Wow. 465 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:37,880 That is our our dear friend Jacob. 466 00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:43,320 Game with me under the Evertree. Under the Evertree. 467 00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:47,000 With my ex under the evertree. He confided in us that he was 468 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:49,400 considering changing his handle on Instagram. 469 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:52,200 He's a. Favorite final girl over 470 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:56,280 Everdale and I was like, I mean. Doing 2 accounts you. 471 00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:58,800 Could do that, too. I know he loves Final Girl, our 472 00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:02,120 good friend Mae Beasley. Ameri trash talk. 473 00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:06,520 She's a big fan of Final Girl. I'm Horrors, not my genre. 474 00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:12,200 Solo gaming is not really my thing, but it's. 475 00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:16,800 I've I've only got 1 box. I've got the core game and it is 476 00:26:17,120 --> 00:26:20,320 genius. There is so much expansion boxes 477 00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:23,800 and other stories. But the way you open both sides 478 00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:28,240 of the box, set it up and it does feel like a tense you know 479 00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:32,480 horror film live. It's it's really clever. 480 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:34,760 That's interesting very interesting. 481 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:37,640 A game that we got, I got recently that it does play more, 482 00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:42,480 but I do agree probably plays best with one is Turing Machine. 483 00:26:43,360 --> 00:26:47,080 Oh yeah. Which is a logic, I guess a 484 00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:50,720 logic puzzle if you like. So I've having, I've been having 485 00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:53,080 fun with that. So yeah, trying to crack the 486 00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:56,960 code using a real life analogue computer, Yeah, and what the one 487 00:26:56,960 --> 00:27:03,520 would I recommend under Falling Skies was my last one, which is 488 00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:08,120 kind of the space space Space Invaders kind of games, so. 489 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:10,520 I have never played it, but here's the question. 490 00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:15,480 There was a there was a television show back in the 90s, 491 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:19,840 maybe the maybe the aughts in the beginning of the 2000s 492 00:27:21,120 --> 00:27:23,360 called Falling Skies. Which was? 493 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:25,240 Which is about alien invaders. I'm wondering if there's a 494 00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:28,640 connection or that's. Just. 495 00:27:29,360 --> 00:27:31,560 Just coincidental. I've always wondered that about 496 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:34,040 the game. I've never played it, but I I 497 00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:38,080 don't know. So if anyone knows, send us in 498 00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:41,440 the comments there at Instagram and be able to meeble. 499 00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:44,000 Or catch us on Spotify and let us know if there's a connection 500 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:49,320 to the USA series Falling Skies. With the game under Falling 501 00:27:49,360 --> 00:27:52,040 Skies, maybe there is. Maybe you've got. 502 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:54,440 Any sort of games before we wrap up the episode? 503 00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:59,320 I I I don't. I don't have any solo games. 504 00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:03,400 There are games that I I've played solo that I enjoy and 505 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:08,960 we've talked about them before. But yeah, I've got I've got 506 00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:09,400 nothing. You've. 507 00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:15,000 Got nothing, You've got nothing. I'm not a solo gamer, so. 508 00:28:15,360 --> 00:28:19,840 I think the game that we'll play on Valentine's but won't be a 509 00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:23,040 two player game will we will be two players is that we have 510 00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:26,840 picked up Newton which if anyone was listening to maybe two 511 00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:29,360 episodes two episodes ago. We're talking about our our 512 00:28:29,360 --> 00:28:32,640 favorite games by. That was a Darwin. 513 00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:34,920 'S Journey episode, wasn't it? And then we talked about other 514 00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:38,880 games by the designers, and then you said. 66 We talked about 515 00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:42,200 Darwin's journey and we discovered that Newton is 516 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:45,320 similar and by the same designers. 517 00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:47,920 And now let's all of those designers and when they are 518 00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:50,240 games that I enjoy. So there's a whole host of other 519 00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:51,840 games I'm going to try. But yeah, Newton is probably 520 00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:53,480 what we will end up playing on Wednesday. 521 00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:55,440 Good for you. Good for you. 522 00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:57,680 We're going to play Paris City of Lights. 523 00:28:57,760 --> 00:28:59,320 Good. We should talk about that next 524 00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:00,680 week, then. Let's see how we. 525 00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:03,240 Yeah, How we get on. Yeah. 526 00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:06,880 So with that, I wish. I guess we both wish everyone a 527 00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:10,880 happy Valentine's Day, whether you're celebrating with your 528 00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:14,360 partner or you're going to hang out and do some solo gaming or 529 00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:15,800 whatever it is you're going to do. 530 00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:19,400 And we'll be back for our next episode in a week. 531 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:22,800 Yeah, and I think Gareth needs more Valentine's in his life. 532 00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:27,120 So everybody send him a message and be his Valentine. 533 00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:30,360 Thanks. Yeah, Share the love. 534 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:31,880 That's right. Right. 535 00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:36,760 Thanks for listening. Thanks everyone for listening. 536 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:40,160 Please subscribe and it's always love to hear your thoughts and 537 00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:43,640 ideas, so make sure to leave those in the comments. 538 00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:47,680 And don't forget, you can also chat with us both on Instagram 539 00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:49,280 at meeblesomeebles.