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It's a new year and a new season. This week, Kiwi takes the solo game 20 Strong from Chip Theory Games and gives it a try. It was designed by Josh Carlson and published in 2023. 

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It's our annual year end redemption episode. This time we hopped in our way way back mission and grabbed Villainous back off the virtual shelf and roped Kait into playing it this time. Come see if ti…

Our four cohosts come together at the end of the year to discuss our highlights (and some lowlights) of our gaming this year. Everyone blacks out while Kiwi talks statistics as we wrap up our 5th sea…

"Tea is amazing. I probably prepare it wrong, but I find my way delicious and I won't be stopped!" -Kiwi

This week, Kiwi and bP are playing Elevenses. Designed by David Harding, it was originally pub…

While normally we would be welcoming to all, and Kiwi certainly welcomes our new robot overlords, this episode is for non-Robots only. And we have a little test to prove it ... our western most group…

How does Kiwi get bP to play wargames? But tricking her into playing games that are war themed but don't play like wargames (or vice versa, non-war themes with common wargame mechanics). Well, he's d…

Don't worry, there's no $10 sprites here only a few gamers playing Sea Salt & Paper from Pandasaurus Games. It was designed by Bruno Cathala and Théo Rivière and was published in 2022.

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After a short career in the major leagues pitching for the Brooklyn Dodgers, and pitching a no hitter in 1948, he became a radio broadcaster and eventually the PA announcer for the Baltimore Orioles …

Clocking in at 80 Roman miles, or 73 modern miles, Emperor Hadrian of Rome built a wall to separate the Roman province of Britannia from Celtic tribes to the north. The area had no natural boundaries…

We head to the Cheeseries of France this week and collect animals, harvest their milk, and brew? up some cheese. Craft up some cheese? Mold it up? Who knows. We're playing Fromage, publishing in 2024…

If Jeff Spicoli played board games, he'd certainly play this one. We hit the beach and paddle out this week to play The Perfect Wave. It was designed by Jason Mowery and Chase Williams. Published by …

If only we had Paul Bettany as Geoffrey Chaucer to introduce us, how great would that be? Also, A Knight's Tale? If you haven't seen it you really should, it's quote entertaining. Anyway, bP and Kiwi…

This week, we're trying out the voxel art inspire Cubirds from AEG. It was designed by Stefan Alexander and published in 2018.

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Not all of it ... but Mozart. That's a Kiwi original, you can keep it. Have that ... cherish it forever! This week, we're playing Lacrimosa by Gerard Ascensi and Ferran Renalias. It was published in …

Sometimes it can be really hard to come up with something snarky or 'funny' to type at this point when it's a game that doesn't have a theme. I can tell you what the theme isn't … and that's Tetris, …

1 out of 1 Kiwis agree, that Breakfast food is the best food. He'll be taking no questions at this time, thanks for enjoying this TED talk. This week we're playing Waffle Time. It was designed by Max…

With Rock & Roll!!!!! Or tiles .... probably just tiles. This week, we're sans Kait as she galivants across the globe, so the other three are playing Shake That City, published in 2023 by AEG and des…

With our GenCon recap episodes all wrapped up, we have a few episodes that we recording during the weeks leading up to the convention. In this one, Eric and Kiwi race around the world as birds in Odi…

In our series covering GenCon 2023, we turn to Stephanie, Ernesto, and Alexei and we find out what they did and what they thought. It's their first time attending GenCon so tune in and find out what …

This week, we have part 2 of our GenCon series. This time we're covering the second half of the convention on Saturday and Sunday. We'll have one more part after this, covering the first time experie…