1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,840 Welcome to Meeple to Meeple, uniting players around the 2 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:05,640 world. A 30 minute exploration of TJ 3 00:00:05,640 --> 00:00:08,880 and Gareth 4 game experiences from across both sides of the 4 00:00:08,880 --> 00:00:11,480 Atlantic. Each episode they share their 5 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:14,440 thoughts and opinions on the world of board games, including 6 00:00:14,440 --> 00:00:18,480 their favorite themes, games, hot topics, and much, much more. 7 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,720 Hey, guys, and welcome to Episode 94. 8 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:24,960 Today we're going to talk about board games on vacation. 9 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:27,640 And why are we going to do that? Because Gareth. 10 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:29,160 I'm. Back. 11 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:32,040 Come back, I've got a watch tan. Look at that watch tan. 12 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:33,800 Really. PJ can see that, but. 13 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:36,760 Right. But guys, he got, he got a lot 14 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:39,960 of sun because I can tell that he was wearing a watch. 15 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:42,600 A watch, which is a foolish mistake, but after I kind of 16 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:47,160 realized that it was too late. So yes, 2. 17 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:49,840 Two weeks off 2. Weeks, boy, it feels. 18 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:54,680 It feels longer, doesn't it? I think, I think, yeah, yeah, 19 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:56,480 it's 1-2. Yeah, it's three weeks. 20 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:03,680 So in your absence, we've had Hannah and Alex on the show. 21 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:08,000 We had things. We had Danielle Reynolds and 22 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:11,280 Kristen Mott filled in for you. That was an interesting 23 00:01:11,960 --> 00:01:14,840 conversation. Like game store now it's not not 24 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:16,440 available. Still still waiting for it. 25 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:19,560 So we've had a lot of, we've had a lot of people on the show. 26 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:20,920 But yeah, it's been 2 weeks because the Gen. 27 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:23,840 Con recap, You were with us for that. 28 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:27,520 And I think we recorded that, you see, slightly earlier we did 29 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:29,200 because of we were flying around. 30 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:31,280 So that's right. But yes, I'm back. 31 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:33,560 I am. I completely switched off of 32 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:36,640 work for two weeks. I didn't have any contact with 33 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:40,640 anyone. I sat on the sun bed and I think 34 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:43,480 my earliest beer was 10:30 in the morning. 35 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:48,240 Decided that 10:30 half past seven was OK. 36 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:55,080 That's great. And I had ice creams and, and 37 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:57,840 yeah, I didn't. Well, we planned to do nothing 38 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:01,400 apart from just chill. So we had 10 days in Greece. 39 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:04,520 I think the average temperature was about 34. 40 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:10,000 The hottest, it felt like was 51, which I'm always that day 41 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,520 was rather uncomfortable. But the rest of the time there 42 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:18,320 was a nice breeze, Played games, hang out with the family, you 43 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:22,080 know, holiday stuff. And so you're on vacation and 44 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:25,560 I'm, like, hustling to promote the podcasts and Gen. 45 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:27,640 Con and Gen. Con made a bunch of contacts, 46 00:02:27,640 --> 00:02:30,600 sending out emails, lining up interviews. 47 00:02:30,840 --> 00:02:33,240 In fact, it's like I felt really bad because I was, like, sending 48 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:36,560 you emails and like, OK, the next 10 episodes, it's like, we 49 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:38,680 have a schedule. We actually have a schedule. 50 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:42,640 Like the next time, too busy, too busy to even read this right 51 00:02:42,640 --> 00:02:44,720 now. I haven't even had my diary 52 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:46,400 open. So I was like, I can't even see 53 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:48,680 what's in. I'd spend all of my Diaries off. 54 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:51,200 I was not being brought into the world. 55 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:56,640 But but yeah, games on vacation. I mean, so because we have two 56 00:02:56,640 --> 00:02:59,440 adult, well, practically adult children, everyone had a 57 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:01,760 suitcase. But when it came to packing, the 58 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:06,400 kids didn't need much. So in the Kira suitcase was half 59 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:09,000 empty and I went, well, half empty space. 60 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:10,360 We might as well fill it with ball games. 61 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:13,720 So I think we took about 20. At one point I even thought 62 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:17,440 about taking a full size, you know, as as the full size box 63 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:21,560 game. Not just, you know, small game, 64 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:26,680 but the largest game we took, which we didn't end up playing 65 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:31,720 was Targi, which is a kind of probably, what, a 10/10 by 10/8 66 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:33,520 by 10 box. Something like that. 67 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:38,840 So, yeah, so we took about 20 games, everything from those lot 68 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:43,440 tin tin games that we've talked about before to some of the Oink 69 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:46,000 classics. I will go through some of the 70 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:53,800 ones who played to Yeah, I mean, they're all generally small box. 71 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:58,560 We had some of those, I don't know if you've seen, but people 72 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:03,040 condense their travel games and into those plastic photo to 73 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:05,040 boxes. We do the same thing. 74 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:07,160 We do the. Same thing worth checking out. 75 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:09,920 So you just, I mean, Google it, you'll find it board game travel 76 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:15,200 case on on Amazon. You can buy like a box that 77 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:20,360 holds, I'm going to say 16 or so plastic photo boxes, which are 78 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:24,080 perfect for compacting down a ball game. 79 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:27,800 And there's even a website that's got all of the covers for 80 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:30,880 the board games to print in. So we took a few of those with 81 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:32,200 us. Not the whole, not the whole box 82 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:36,200 so. Let me ask, can I let me ask you 83 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:38,600 a question before you get into like your actual vacation? 84 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:42,480 So you're packing, you're going to be gone for two weeks. 85 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:48,720 So you, you, you, when you decide to pack games, like what? 86 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:50,960 What are your priorities? What are you going through your 87 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:52,680 mind? Like are you, you know what I 88 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:54,680 mean? Like, why do you choose one game 89 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:57,200 over another? Because you know, you're on 90 00:04:57,200 --> 00:04:58,840 vacation. Why are you playing games, 91 00:04:58,840 --> 00:04:59,480 right? I mean, that's what. 92 00:04:59,880 --> 00:05:03,280 Evenings, some people would ask evenings, evenings was when we 93 00:05:03,280 --> 00:05:05,720 play games. And then of course it's me, it's 94 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:07,600 Carrie. So who I guess are the gamers. 95 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:12,520 So I think I thought through what happens if the kids don't 96 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:16,000 want to play games, right and and Dylan doesn't play games 97 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:19,360 really. I hate it so and that's why so 98 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:22,480 so that's why Targhee came in the box because I was like, 99 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:25,720 what's a small game that's really good two player that's 100 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:27,760 not a massive table hog and he's small packed. 101 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:33,760 So I think we thought through we've got 2-3 or four players. 102 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:36,840 But then I was like what happens if we make some make some 103 00:05:36,840 --> 00:05:39,160 friends, we'll get ball game friends. 104 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:42,600 So I was like, we'd better take a couple of games that maybe 105 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:47,360 play to 8. Wow, you know, never know. 106 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:51,240 Do you? Yeah, you know, so so then it 107 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:54,360 was like, OK, we we better take a for for a larger group just in 108 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:57,760 case we find some ball game friends, which we didn't. 109 00:05:59,840 --> 00:06:03,600 Then I will yes, I'm going to write something down to buy 110 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:08,040 myself to come back to a point about an observation I made. 111 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:12,200 And then I asked, I asked everybody what games they wanted 112 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:14,280 to play. So Kira went through and said 113 00:06:14,280 --> 00:06:16,080 some games that she obviously likes to take with her. 114 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:19,640 Although I thought what happens if nobody wants to play games 115 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:22,200 and I'm just me and I'm just chilling out. 116 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:24,120 So then I thought I'd better take some solo games. 117 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:27,000 So you can see if you see suddenly when the the thought of 118 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:28,920 a suitcase is half empty. Yep. 119 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:31,600 And we're talking a large suitcase, not like a you know, 120 00:06:31,840 --> 00:06:33,880 it's one the check in. I know. 121 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:40,080 So yeah, we had a mixture of solo games, two player, three 122 00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:44,160 player, four player, but mostly around the probably 4 player 123 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:47,560 mark was what what I aimed for because I thought it is in 124 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:51,520 evenings. The kids probably because 125 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:54,160 they're older now, they probably aren't just going to make random 126 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:58,920 friends and go off. So they probably will be more 127 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:01,800 likely to hang out with us when whereas when we travelled and 128 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:04,960 the kids were small, they'd be, you know, we'd have dinner and 129 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:07,560 the kids would be playing with other kids at that age, OK. 130 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:09,040 And me and Carrie would just play games. 131 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:12,400 So. Yeah. 132 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:14,880 So when Katie, when Katie and I travel for like a work 133 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:18,240 conference or I mean gaming convention, even when we go to 134 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:19,560 Gen. Con, right, it's like we usually 135 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:22,000 just bring one game because we know we're going to meet gamers, 136 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:24,160 we're going to buy games, we're going to get free games, we're 137 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:25,600 going to play games with our friends. 138 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:28,440 So we don't bring a lot of them. But when we're traveling, 139 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:31,760 vacation, work conferences, we usually bring one to two, two 140 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:34,400 player games, something that's can fit in our pocket. 141 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:36,160 And then inevitably what happens? 142 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:39,080 We never, we never play anything at all. 143 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:44,440 The only game we've ever had any success with traveling is Love 144 00:07:44,440 --> 00:07:46,000 Letter. Yeah. 145 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:50,320 We'll play love letter, the two of us at a bar at the at the 146 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:52,640 table. The other thing too, is we've 147 00:07:52,640 --> 00:07:56,080 got all their games on our on our phones, you know, to get 148 00:07:56,080 --> 00:07:58,080 there really terrifying Mars, stuff like that. 149 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:01,240 So so that's why I was interested that he's travelling 150 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:03,080 with his family. And then you started posting 151 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:04,360 pictures of game Joe we're playing. 152 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:07,960 And I think you commented to me in a message that Dylan only 153 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:10,720 plays games on vacation. And I'm like, that's awesome. 154 00:08:11,640 --> 00:08:16,680 And and like, so we had obviously not that we're 155 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:21,240 competitive, but Dylan and Kira up up. 156 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:24,080 I think Kira won the most games, then Dylan, then me, then 157 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:27,760 Carrie. Oh, so and Dylan. 158 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:33,640 Dylan really enjoyed particularly trio, if you played 159 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:35,120 trio. Have not. 160 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:38,000 So that that was played 23 times on holiday. 161 00:08:38,159 --> 00:08:42,880 Wow, so that was the. Most played game, which is a I 162 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:47,680 think it's two to six player, I think where you've got a set of 163 00:08:47,680 --> 00:08:51,640 cards split out and then some cards go in the middle depending 164 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:55,520 how many players they are and you need to basically find sets 165 00:08:55,520 --> 00:08:57,920 of three. But you can only ever say what's 166 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:00,720 your highest or lowest card in someone's hands and then use a 167 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:03,920 memory game of actually I saw three right did Peach ever 168 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:04,960 three? Have you got three? 169 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:07,320 Yeah, OK found the next three if I could find all three threes. 170 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:11,560 So it became really competitive and that was played probably 171 00:09:11,560 --> 00:09:16,680 every nearly every night when we were playing playing games. 172 00:09:19,040 --> 00:09:20,600 I think because it's such an easy game. 173 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:22,960 I think Dylan noise sinks looks like it comes into the games 174 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:28,080 room and there's some, you know, table hog with many pieces. 175 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:32,040 But this was I mean, I taught, you know, the rules are I pretty 176 00:09:32,040 --> 00:09:36,000 much taught the rules to you. Then it's quick to play and the 177 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:39,480 the round lasts maybe 5 minutes, Max 10 minutes. 178 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:42,800 So you win and it's go again and go again and go again. 179 00:09:43,560 --> 00:09:48,120 So yeah, trio. So Nick from board game review 180 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:52,120 found recommend that to me at their house a while ago and that 181 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:54,440 does travel to work. That's another one that it's a 182 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:56,760 small box. It's only like I'm going to say, 183 00:09:56,800 --> 00:10:00,280 well, it's got a box of cards. So it's like maybe 4 by 4 184 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:04,920 inches. So that was that was played by 185 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:06,920 all of us. We did have a couple of three 186 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:11,320 player games when Dylan wasn't with us, but generally trio and 187 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:14,400 then the next most played game was Azul. 188 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:18,640 Really. Azul Travel, Yeah. 189 00:10:18,680 --> 00:10:19,760 That's a good one. Which it? 190 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:22,200 Just it just does pack down really nice. 191 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:26,360 So we played that usually once an evening towards the back end 192 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:30,360 of the holiday. But again, that's that's 193 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:34,240 probably a box. I wouldn't back to your point 194 00:10:34,240 --> 00:10:36,960 around you didn't take one or two games. 195 00:10:36,960 --> 00:10:39,440 If we were just going away normally and we didn't have so 196 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:42,640 much luggage space, that would probably not have got in the box 197 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:50,680 or might be the only thing we would take down with us the did. 198 00:10:50,680 --> 00:10:54,760 You did you bring the canvas bag for a Zool Travel or did you 199 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:57,000 just bring it in the box we bought? 200 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:00,720 In the in the normal box, in its cardboard box. 201 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:02,720 OK, we did. Yeah, we did. 202 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:05,040 When we sat there, Carrie goes, Oh yeah, maybe we should put it 203 00:11:05,040 --> 00:11:09,520 in it's canvas bag. But we had, again, we had ample 204 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:10,720 space. OK. 205 00:11:12,560 --> 00:11:18,560 So yeah, that got thrown in. We did see when we went from our 206 00:11:18,560 --> 00:11:22,280 apartment down to dinner on the complex. 207 00:11:22,680 --> 00:11:24,720 Yeah. Because carrying games is like, 208 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:27,280 I mean, I don't really want to carry games around, right. 209 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:29,720 So I was like, what have we got? Damn. 210 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:31,360 I haven't bought a game bag with me. 211 00:11:31,360 --> 00:11:33,520 I haven't bought, you know, didn't have any carrier bags. 212 00:11:33,520 --> 00:11:35,200 Like, so it's like, what have you got? 213 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:38,600 And Dylan's got like a over the shoulder. 214 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:44,240 Messenger bag or. Half of that, like the ones that 215 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:46,360 have slung over their shoulders and they're sure. 216 00:11:46,760 --> 00:11:48,840 So it's like, right, OK, Dylan, need your bag. 217 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:53,320 No, you don't need my bag. So anyway, so that bag became 218 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:56,480 the board, the board game bag. So apart from a zoo, actually 219 00:11:56,480 --> 00:11:57,840 you get three or four games in there. 220 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:00,840 So there's another top tip travelling, obviously, if you're 221 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:03,200 going to dinner or you're not going to come back to your room, 222 00:12:03,680 --> 00:12:06,360 which it was only like probably a 5 minute walk, but I didn't 223 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:09,400 really want to go back to to the room to get right to get stuff. 224 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:13,040 So yeah, so we so every night the character games around in 225 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:15,800 that and that allowed us to pack in that copy trio. 226 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:20,160 Some of the little tin games. I think actually trio we even 227 00:12:20,160 --> 00:12:23,120 took out-of-the-box and just left inside the bag because it's 228 00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:24,680 just a pack of cards and they're all sleeved. 229 00:12:25,560 --> 00:12:29,640 So need. Yeah, particularly, you know, 230 00:12:29,640 --> 00:12:33,360 with drinks flowing and cocktails and sticky tables. 231 00:12:35,160 --> 00:12:39,480 One of the games that has been on every holiday has been Mint 232 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:42,040 Works, which I think I've talked about before on the show, which 233 00:12:42,040 --> 00:12:45,000 is one of those tin tin games. Mint. 234 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:48,400 Works, so it's. If you really want a small tin, 235 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:52,480 I mean, again, it's it's a, you know, mint tin box size, like a 236 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:55,800 placement game that plays really well at two or three or four. 237 00:12:56,360 --> 00:12:59,160 Check out Mintworks. I assume it's still available. 238 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:04,960 It was a kickstart years ago, but that game got to play and 239 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:07,960 everyone enjoyed that. Obviously Love letter came out. 240 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:12,440 What else do we play? Sunny Day, Sardines. 241 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:14,440 Yeah. I don't know that one but I saw 242 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:15,800 you post about that. Yes. 243 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:19,600 That, that back in the early Instagram days, there's the 244 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:26,720 account called board game Renegade and they they're not so 245 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:34,000 busy on Instagram now sometimes, but they went off and produced a 246 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:37,040 game on. I'm going to say that two or 247 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:42,000 three maybe just after lockdown. I'm going to get the account 248 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:47,960 details. And anyways, it's a game about 249 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:52,880 catching sardines in a tin. So it's got a set of cards. 250 00:13:52,880 --> 00:13:54,720 You put the card at the table and it's basically set 251 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:57,200 collection. But it's it's a really nice 252 00:13:57,200 --> 00:13:58,760 intro to mechanic of set collection. 253 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:04,880 So it's been, yeah, it's been, that's been in a few trips with 254 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:07,480 us. So that's a nice little one. 255 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:13,200 So earlier in the conversation you had mentioned that you had 256 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:17,880 an observation that you made. Yeah, yeah, Uno. 257 00:14:19,360 --> 00:14:24,360 I, I mean, so obviously she was, everyone plays games on holiday. 258 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:29,480 So I know I've noticed that. I've seen that before that this 259 00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:34,000 holiday, if I sat out after dinner, every table I looked at 260 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:37,400 was playing a game. But it was always Uno. 261 00:14:38,760 --> 00:14:42,920 It. Will be 80% Uno and then 262 00:14:42,920 --> 00:14:46,800 there'll be people playing cards and there'll be variations of 263 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:50,120 Uno. And then we did see a group of 264 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:55,000 people playing Whits and Wages, which was the closest I think we 265 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:56,560 saw. No, we saw a couple of people 266 00:14:56,560 --> 00:14:59,400 playing some. Is it cat cafe? 267 00:14:59,920 --> 00:15:03,320 It's a, it's a rolling right Cat cafe. 268 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:06,600 Oh, do you remember it a couple of years ago? 269 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:11,600 OK, sort of. I don't you. 270 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:17,880 Know we saw some people but yeah, I was like man, if you 271 00:15:17,880 --> 00:15:23,960 could create one game you find a way to to kill Uno or not kill 272 00:15:23,960 --> 00:15:26,360 Uno but take some of that market share what about. 273 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:30,520 What are your thoughts on multiple questions? 274 00:15:30,520 --> 00:15:33,120 What are your thoughts on? Do you have a copy? 275 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:36,200 Did you bring it with you is Scout? 276 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:41,160 So we took Scout with us. You did, yeah. 277 00:15:41,160 --> 00:15:44,360 And we played that. That was our third most played 278 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:46,000 game. OK. 279 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:50,520 And I that's that's probably what I thought Dylan would 280 00:15:51,520 --> 00:15:55,240 possibly not enjoy because it is a bit more, you know, you've got 281 00:15:55,240 --> 00:15:57,760 cards you got. Anyway, he loved it as well. 282 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:01,480 So so it was say it was good is that we all had time with the 283 00:16:01,480 --> 00:16:03,600 family and everyone played games. 284 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:09,000 So you're sitting out on this balcony or this patio or 285 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:11,680 wherever this is where people are playing Uno and whatnot. 286 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:17,520 Did any strangers see you playing games and come up and 287 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:19,520 ask you a couple questions? What do you plan? 288 00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:22,320 Can you did you make did you make any new friends? 289 00:16:22,680 --> 00:16:31,120 No, no, no, which I thought so. So I'd say the complex was 40% 290 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:35,160 English, 4% German, and then 20% mix of probably Spanish and 291 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:38,160 French. But I thought because it was 292 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:41,400 heavily German English, I thought that's maybe why there's 293 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:44,360 some more people playing things like Wits and wages and some 294 00:16:44,360 --> 00:16:47,320 more more popular games just because of how strong ball 295 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:54,120 gaming is in Germany. But yeah, I thought in the UK 296 00:16:54,120 --> 00:16:56,720 you people would come up and ask questions, right? 297 00:16:56,720 --> 00:16:59,280 But I don't know whether it's a language thing or people would 298 00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:00,680 just were doing their own business. 299 00:17:01,040 --> 00:17:03,720 That's fair. So yeah, so we did have to. 300 00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:12,520 So we did take what's the horse racing, rolling right dice. 301 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:13,800 Oh my. Honestly. 302 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:17,200 There's a couple of rolling horse racing games. 303 00:17:17,480 --> 00:17:19,520 Anyway, that's the one I took. It plays up to 8. 304 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:21,960 OK. But we did. 305 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:23,440 We didn't need it. Didn't. 306 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:24,880 Need it had. Skull King. 307 00:17:25,079 --> 00:17:26,640 So Skull King we played a couple of times. 308 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:30,360 That was the one that was like, that's relatively easy. 309 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:33,600 Yeah, trick taking game. I think it plays up to six or 310 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:38,040 does it play eight? I can't remember now, but that 311 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:40,360 was in the box. But you know, I I thought we we 312 00:17:40,480 --> 00:17:44,720 we people did look over and see that we were playing, you know, 313 00:17:44,720 --> 00:17:51,480 not Uno, right, but people just love Uno and like love Uno and 314 00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:54,120 we'll play it for hours and hours less to care is like, man, 315 00:17:54,120 --> 00:17:58,200 if I could just find. I mean it's I do domination in 316 00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:01,400 that market must be at ninety 9598%. 317 00:18:02,440 --> 00:18:06,840 Every shop I went to there's a copy of Uno that is a big brand. 318 00:18:08,480 --> 00:18:12,280 I I guess people have tried to, you know, break in, you know, 319 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:16,520 exploding kittens, anything where there's cards, but it's. 320 00:18:16,520 --> 00:18:17,960 True it. Was. 321 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:22,360 I hadn't realized how many variants of Uno there are. 322 00:18:22,880 --> 00:18:25,600 Every IP that you can think of. Yeah. 323 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:28,680 Yeah, I know We have a we have Star Trek Uno. 324 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:32,280 Yeah, Yeah, it's the, it's the only Uno that we have. 325 00:18:32,280 --> 00:18:34,720 And it's only because it's Star Trek, you know? 326 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:39,040 But yeah, no, I hear you. So, so yeah. 327 00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:42,480 So everyone, I guess in evenings, in hotels, I guess 328 00:18:42,840 --> 00:18:45,240 what you do. So yeah, yeah, play games. 329 00:18:45,240 --> 00:18:49,720 So it was lovely to see so many people enjoying playing games. 330 00:18:51,280 --> 00:18:55,720 But everyone plays Uno, so maybe I need to stand up and teach 331 00:18:55,720 --> 00:18:58,920 some lessons on, you know, come and play these different games 332 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:06,080 or we need to need to set up a you need to set up a stand. 333 00:19:06,120 --> 00:19:09,720 There's an idea in hotels. With a selection. 334 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:17,120 Of games on it I feel like. Trio and Scout kind of people 335 00:19:17,120 --> 00:19:20,120 who only know Uno or gravitate towards Uno. 336 00:19:20,120 --> 00:19:24,480 Scout and trio would be games that they would naturally I. 337 00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:26,600 Think Trio. Trio's the one that I thought 338 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:28,560 that's the one where people did look over because it's just a 339 00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:30,560 hand of cards and it's it's done, it's quick. 340 00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:36,480 We played slide to the news did. You play slide. 341 00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:38,880 I cannot find. I can't find slide. 342 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:39,640 Yeah. Isn't it? 343 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:42,720 Yeah, but it's Hachette as well, so I know. 344 00:19:43,360 --> 00:19:43,960 I. Know. 345 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:47,960 So oh, see. Salt and paper was the other 346 00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:48,840 one. Oh. 347 00:19:49,120 --> 00:19:50,480 That's a good game. Yeah. 348 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:53,800 Oh, that's so good. We take that with us every time 349 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:57,200 because it it's so small and compact, but then we never play. 350 00:19:57,720 --> 00:20:01,000 So all all I mean, another game was out of the wallet series 351 00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:04,280 Tootsie Moosie, which is we played just played two player, 352 00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:06,640 me and Harry played it when the kids went off somewhere. 353 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:12,120 So yeah. So I think, yeah, I think, I 354 00:20:12,160 --> 00:20:13,640 think what? What didn't we play? 355 00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:16,480 So I didn't play any solo games. That's a win. 356 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:22,440 So I took some wallet games. We didn't play Targhee, which 357 00:20:22,520 --> 00:20:24,160 would I say, say the biggest box. 358 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:29,160 And then there was a couple of rolling rights we didn't play 359 00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:31,720 again, that maybe it's just too much admin. 360 00:20:31,880 --> 00:20:34,640 It did get really windy over about four days of the holiday 361 00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:39,320 in the evenings. So we actually didn't play as 362 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:41,680 much because we wanted to sit outside because it's so warm. 363 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:45,240 Right. And you weren't, you were on an 364 00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:47,360 an island in the Aegean. You weren't on the great 365 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:48,280 mainland. Yeah, in Coast. 366 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:52,440 Yeah, in Coast. So, so naturally there was a, 367 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:56,800 you know, breeze off the sea. Yeah, I mean, but only it's like 368 00:20:56,800 --> 00:20:59,240 4 days recently it was always still, but for four days. 369 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:04,040 We we then went inside and played inside because we wanted 370 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:06,880 to play some car games. But yeah, you can take your 371 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:10,160 board game collection with you pretty much just take kids who 372 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:13,120 don't need many clothes. What would you need? 373 00:21:13,120 --> 00:21:16,680 Shorts, T-shirt, flip flops. I guess, yeah. 374 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:20,280 That's it I guess. I guess so, yeah. 375 00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:24,360 Was there a laundry facility where you were staying? 376 00:21:24,360 --> 00:21:27,480 Like, yeah. Yeah, I did have to again. 377 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:29,040 I mean, I just took enough T-shirts. 378 00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:30,760 We're only there for 10 days, so. 379 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:34,560 Because that, that, that's some really warm temperatures. 380 00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:38,320 Yeah, yeah, I mean mostly though in like in the pool, in the sea. 381 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:44,280 So, yeah, but we were very much in the daytime, did wander into 382 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:46,480 a local town. Yeah. 383 00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:48,720 To see whether I could find any. You know, you never know what 384 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:51,240 you find so much stiff out a ball game or two, but true. 385 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:52,640 No, no, I just found packets of Uno. 386 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:56,560 Oh, and chess of course, you know, chess made out of, you 387 00:21:56,560 --> 00:21:58,840 know, sets of chess you find in all shops. 388 00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:04,480 So yeah, no, no game shop. I did find there was a there was 389 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:07,600 a game shop in Cos, but it was in Cos town. 390 00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:11,400 We didn't do any like excursions. 391 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:14,680 We were having a chill out time so we didn't end up there 392 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:16,280 because you. Didn't leave the island, did 393 00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:16,880 you? No. 394 00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:20,280 No, no, we went out on boats but didn't leave. 395 00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:24,880 We didn't go to anywhere else. This holiday was supposed to be 396 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:29,640 no stress, literally just get up, chill out because if you 397 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:31,120 have excursions, you've got to get somewhere. 398 00:22:31,120 --> 00:22:32,280 Then you've got coaches everywhere. 399 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:34,440 So we just like, we're just going to go and chill. 400 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:38,040 So yeah, most days, you know, what was really, what was really 401 00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:40,960 nice was there was no sunbed wars. 402 00:22:41,360 --> 00:22:42,880 You know, I mean by sunbed, Sunbed wars. 403 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:46,240 People get up early sunbed. Sunbed. 404 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:49,400 Sunbed Wars. Sunbed Wars? 405 00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:51,320 I don't. I'm not familiar with that term. 406 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:55,360 Some holiday holiday destinations, obviously there's 407 00:22:55,440 --> 00:23:00,640 X amount of sunbeds around the pool, so people get up at 5:30 408 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:04,320 or even earlier to go and claim their sun beds. 409 00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:07,000 And it's one of the things that really puts me off holidays is 410 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:11,360 like, I don't want to have to get up at 5:30 right to to then 411 00:23:11,360 --> 00:23:13,880 not have anywhere. I have to get up 5:30 to have 412 00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:15,840 somewhere to sit. Because if I get up at normal 413 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:18,240 time and rock up at, you know, 8:30, nine o'clock. 414 00:23:19,120 --> 00:23:22,320 Oh, look, nowhere to sit. This is really fun, isn't it? 415 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:25,520 So it's those things I was like, Oh, please don't be some bed 416 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:28,800 wars. So first day we didn't arrive to 417 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:32,160 1:00 in the morning, so we went to bed to go up about 7:30, 418 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:35,960 wandered down and went look at all this space. 419 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:39,720 This is how my life should be. So even at 10:00 the sun beds 420 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:41,000 were available. I. 421 00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:43,120 Agree that. Is how life so there was no 422 00:23:43,120 --> 00:23:45,720 stress at all. It's likely to put the towels 423 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:51,600 down, have some food, chill out, have a beer. 424 00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:56,400 Yeah. 10:00 AM Yeah. Play 10:30, 10/30, 10:10 AM is a 425 00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:59,240 little bit early, but 1030, OK. 1030, yeah. 426 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:01,800 That was only one day when I was feeling particularly thirsty 427 00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:03,160 because it was quite warm and I was like that. 428 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:06,640 It's fine. So yeah. 429 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:09,160 And then yeah, just play games. So how about? 430 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:12,520 How about local beers? Were there any local SO? 431 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:19,120 We were drinking Mythos OK, like the Greek beer, which is very, 432 00:24:19,120 --> 00:24:20,600 very nice. I will get some. 433 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:24,720 I was wondering if there was a local brew on the island of 434 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:28,280 course. I don't know, OK, I don't know. 435 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:31,360 There might have been. They're the only things really 436 00:24:31,360 --> 00:24:32,680 available unless you're buying bottles. 437 00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:35,160 But that became branded, right, you know, by Wiser and. 438 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:37,720 Sure. San Miguel, those kind of 439 00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:41,520 things, so. You were so relaxed, the one 440 00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:44,400 because I I try to not bother you much. 441 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:48,360 You're on your vacation, right? And but I'd like to check in, 442 00:24:48,360 --> 00:24:51,120 see how things were going. And you were so relaxed you 443 00:24:51,120 --> 00:24:54,240 didn't want to come home. Oh yeah, I'd worked at my 444 00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:55,720 retirement plan. You. 445 00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:57,280 Did Yeah. You were going to open up a 446 00:24:57,280 --> 00:24:59,640 board game cafe? Yeah. 447 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:02,200 And then you were going to hire me so I could quit my job and 448 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:02,840 move over. And we were. 449 00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:05,480 Just going to hang out. And yeah, so I was just looking. 450 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:10,520 So we went to in the town, but we went there twice over the 10 451 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:13,480 days. And then we just went to like a 452 00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:15,120 Tavern, you know, the bar. Yeah. 453 00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:20,040 And it was owned by an English lady who'd been out there for I 454 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:23,520 think kids are grown up now. So I think maybe 10-15 years. 455 00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:30,920 But it's, it is the seasons like from early May right through to 456 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:33,520 sort of end of September. So it's six months on. 457 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:37,600 But when it's on, it's you're up at 5-6 and you're going to bed 458 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:41,880 probably at midnight. So you are working and then 459 00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:47,040 you've got six months of, you know, nicer weather, as in not 460 00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:49,920 to hot weather, right? But, you know, very little 461 00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:51,880 business. I think the planes actually stop 462 00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:53,600 arriving as in the tourist planes. 463 00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:58,600 And then I spoke to another, like a really nice olive wood 464 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:03,040 souvenir shop, and that was owned by English and who'd been 465 00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:06,600 there 14 years. And OK, that's a pretty nice 466 00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:09,040 life, you know, she said. You know, it gets busy, but 467 00:26:10,120 --> 00:26:12,600 weather's lovely. It's lovely when everyone goes 468 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:15,920 away and it got six months of it being cooler with a bit of rain. 469 00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:19,960 I was like, well, maybe, But is is Cos does Cos need a board 470 00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:22,320 game? Cafe somewhere does. 471 00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:25,720 Yes, I'm trying to. Work out a board game cafe or 472 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:29,000 just a bar that happens to have board games. 473 00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:30,400 But would people want to play in the heat? 474 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:34,120 Probably not, but maybe locals. Maybe locals, I don't know. 475 00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:39,480 By the way, I decided that I quite liked the temperature. 476 00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:42,840 Sure. I mean, who doesn't the? 477 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:46,760 The only danger was fire. So we had there was a fire on 478 00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:51,200 the island about 3 before we got there and then we went out for 479 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:55,480 an hour or two with the local like speedboat who just took us 480 00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:59,520 this us out as a family and I was chatting to him and he 481 00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:02,960 showed me photographs of just behind the hotel was all on fire 482 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:07,040 only six weeks ago. So we talked about how 483 00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:10,680 devastating that has been and how quickly it spreads. 484 00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:13,360 And then actually when I went back to hotel and looked 485 00:27:13,360 --> 00:27:15,520 actually what I thought was just mounting, actually you could 486 00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:17,200 start. You could see the char, the char 487 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:22,920 marks from, from, from, but it without realising there being 488 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:24,160 fire there. It just looked like it was 489 00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:28,160 scrub. So that was yeah. 490 00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:30,880 So they do get do get fires. Obviously it is so hot now. 491 00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:35,640 It's a real thing, I. Mean and obviously our friends 492 00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:38,400 George from boundary Stow games he's Greek so they were out 493 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:39,320 there that's. Right. 494 00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:41,440 Not just. No, because like they were on 495 00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:45,480 the mainlands or I think the mainlands, but they, they 496 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:51,120 commented how hot it was, like how much climate change or, you 497 00:27:51,120 --> 00:27:53,640 know, this, it's so much hotter now than when he grew up. 498 00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:57,680 So yeah, it was it. Yeah. 499 00:27:58,640 --> 00:27:59,960 Yeah, I guess that's one of the problems. 500 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:02,200 It's the fire fireside of things. 501 00:28:02,360 --> 00:28:05,600 But it was lovely time and we've got 10, we've got 10 episodes 502 00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:06,920 lined up, haven't you? I think you've worked. 503 00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:10,000 Is it 10/8? So. 504 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:13,720 This is 100 though. This is episode 94. 505 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:18,120 I've got us for the next 5 episodes and then we'll do. 506 00:28:18,120 --> 00:28:23,640 Something got us to 100. That's good, so. 507 00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:25,600 That's that's kind of the plan there. 508 00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:30,000 So unfortunately, I'm sitting, I'm sitting here while you're 509 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:33,560 talking and I'm trying to find a game to do my voice over, but I 510 00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:38,720 didn't prepare one. But I would like to tell our 511 00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:42,680 listeners, our guests, Hannah and Alex were in fact correct. 512 00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:46,800 Last week's episode of the voice over was in fact deadly 513 00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:51,880 Dowagers. So, So that is the game that I 514 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:55,960 read from and I don't have one in arms reach. 515 00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:57,800 I. Was trying to find find one 516 00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:01,480 from. I would love to. 517 00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:04,120 If I would have. Yeah, I was actually thinking 518 00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:08,800 about from the games you played on vacation, which would have 519 00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:12,840 been really cool. But I also like the mystery of 520 00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:14,640 trying to trying to stump Gareth. 521 00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:21,360 So, you know, that's a thing I'm trying to. 522 00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:24,200 Find one out of my list and there's none that they're so 523 00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:27,320 obvious. Yeah, they are. 524 00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:31,040 They're obvious. Well, it's interesting that Alex 525 00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:35,240 got it right away only because she had recently did a review 526 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:38,080 that was an interesting conversation where we talked 527 00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:40,120 about the review circle in the UK. 528 00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:40,920 Yeah. Yeah. 529 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:44,480 Yeah, I was really interested in that. 530 00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:51,520 There's a really nice post from Jamie Stegmer in his blog about 531 00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:54,000 that group. I think it's about 50 plus of 532 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:54,400 them. Now. 533 00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:57,680 I'm not part of the circle because I haven't got the time 534 00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:02,440 to commit to it, but quite a few of the Southampton Ball Game 535 00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:05,240 group are in it. It works really well because you 536 00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:07,560 can just choose what you want and you pass it on, you play it 537 00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:10,680 and it gives publishers that ability to know they've got a 538 00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:15,520 circle of up to let's say 50 people where you're not. 539 00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:17,520 You haven't got the cost of shipping, you know, You're 540 00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:23,800 shipping it once and then it flows and Torah organises, you 541 00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:27,480 know, ball game, ball game fo favorite fo, favorite fo Yep, 542 00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:31,000 organises that. So if you are in the UK, do 543 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:35,200 reach out. You find Tor on Instagram or her 544 00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:36,400 website OK? Or going. 545 00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:38,560 Or only Jamie's interview? Oh. 546 00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:40,560 Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Yeah, so. 547 00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:43,320 I've got a I've got a voice over real quick and we'll see if you 548 00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:46,840 can guess it. So here we go. 549 00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:50,000 The beautiful pieces of glass that can be found along the 550 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:54,000 river here have attracted the most entrepreneurial woodland 551 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:58,920 creatures to set up shop. In this game, you play as one of 552 00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:02,960 these pioneers, drafting glass from the market of river tiles. 553 00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:07,560 To do so, you have to play a piece from your inventory into 554 00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:10,440 the river. Each river tile can take only a 555 00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:14,680 specific shape, and you must play into a space adjacent to 556 00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:17,680 where you want to draft. After you pick up your glass, 557 00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:21,640 the river shifts forward, revealing new pieces and new 558 00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:24,400 opportunities. Store the glass you pick up 559 00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:27,760 strategically in your shop. Depending on how the glass are 560 00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:30,760 placed, your score will change drastically. 561 00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:36,520 Fill in rows and columns for more points and come to victory. 562 00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:38,560 Any idea? I know what. 563 00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:40,440 That is because you showed me the box. 564 00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:44,320 Yeah, about an hour ago it did. I was like, this is only the 565 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:47,360 game that I had to go back and look at my feed thinking, I'm 566 00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:50,200 sure this is a game that you only showed me a picture of. 567 00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:52,280 I did. So let's see whether our 568 00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:55,040 listeners can guess. Can. 569 00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:58,000 Guess what it. Is so. 570 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:00,080 Here's what I'm going to here's what I'm going to say to our 571 00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:04,120 listeners because we I have never gotten a message with 572 00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:09,040 someone giving us their guests either on Instagram, my page or 573 00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:12,640 the meeple to meeple page. If you wait to binge these 574 00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:14,840 episodes, you're just going to get the answer. 575 00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:18,000 The what? You're going to get is people 576 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:21,480 who binge it, but they binge it like in about 3 months time 577 00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:23,480 you're going to get a random game, total game. 578 00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:28,760 What's this person on about? Makes no sense again. 579 00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:30,440 They've just listened to episode 94. 580 00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:32,360 Yeah. So there you go. 581 00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:35,200 So those are board games on vacation. 582 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:37,400 Gareth, I'm glad you're back. Excuse. 583 00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:41,520 Me back back to work tomorrow boom our. 584 00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:44,400 Our bank holiday is next Monday. Oh, is. 585 00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:46,160 It for. Labor Day. 586 00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:49,320 OK. Because I know you've got a bank 587 00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:50,640 holiday this week. That's. 588 00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:55,000 Today, yes, yeah, which is convenient and like uni's got to 589 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:56,680 work, don't you? Because like, this is really 590 00:32:56,720 --> 00:33:00,720 early for you for a Monday, yes. So we've done things a little 591 00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:02,520 bit differently today in recording. 592 00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:07,920 It is 6:30 in the morning. I've been up since 5:00 AM It's 593 00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:11,360 lunchtime there in the UK That's just kind of how it worked out. 594 00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:13,880 So yeah. Yeah, usually I I take the hit 595 00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:16,040 and do the lake show. So you've got the air doors. 596 00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:18,400 So you guys enjoy work. Oh yeah. 597 00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:22,800 I hope guys has enjoyed our a a a discussion on games on 598 00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:25,360 holiday. And if you haven't got, you 599 00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:32,400 know, then you're missing out. Uno, bye, bye. 600 00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:34,840 Have a good, have a good one. Thanks everyone for listening. 601 00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:39,120 Thanks everyone for listening, please subscribe and as always, 602 00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:43,120 we'd love to hear your thoughts and ideas, so make sure to leave 603 00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:47,280 those in the comments and don't forget you can also chat with us 604 00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:50,000 both on Instagram at Meeple the Meeple.