The Incomparable

00:00:03 ◼   ► the incomparable number 184 Marge 2014 [TS]

00:00:11 ◼   ► welcome back everybody the incomparable [TS]

00:00:12 ◼   ► podcast I'm your host Jason smell we're [TS]

00:00:14 ◼   ► here to talk about not video games not [TS]

00:00:18 ◼   ► console games not card games probably [TS]

00:00:21 ◼   ► unless they also have a board we're [TS]

00:00:23 ◼   ► going to be talking about board games [TS]

00:00:24 ◼   ► that's right that's right spin your [TS]

00:00:26 ◼   ► little spinner get out you're hungry [TS]

00:00:27 ◼   ► hungry hippos that I don't even sure [TS]

00:00:29 ◼   ► that counts as a board game and join us [TS]

00:00:32 ◼   ► as we take this trip through great games [TS]

00:00:35 ◼   ► of perhaps our childhood perhaps today [TS]

00:00:37 ◼   ► games you can play on a rainy day games [TS]

00:00:41 ◼   ► you can play on a sunny day if you don't [TS]

00:00:42 ◼   ► like the Sun and want to stay inside or [TS]

00:00:44 ◼   ► plan on the table that's outside [TS]

00:00:46 ◼   ► I don't know games board games that's [TS]

00:00:48 ◼   ► what we're talking about if you didn't [TS]

00:00:50 ◼   ► get my drift [TS]

00:00:51 ◼   ► let me introduce the people who are [TS]

00:00:52 ◼   ► going to be talking about board games [TS]

00:00:53 ◼   ► with me Monty actually is here hi Monty [TS]

00:00:56 ◼   ► hi Jason board games great for games are [TS]

00:00:59 ◼   ► fun having kids has given me a whole new [TS]

00:01:02 ◼   ► appreciation for board games because we [TS]

00:01:05 ◼   ► played that with the kids [TS]

00:01:06 ◼   ► Erica and sign is also here hello hello [TS]

00:01:09 ◼   ► the game is on amazon and it's [TS]

00:01:12 ◼   ► controlled by a spinner that is a little [TS]

00:01:15 ◼   ► piece of plastic arrow on a piece of [TS]

00:01:17 ◼   ► cardboard but it's still a game is still [TS]

00:01:18 ◼   ► on David Laura also here hi david liu [TS]

00:01:22 ◼   ► i'll i'll take Paul Lynde to block in [TS]

00:01:27 ◼   ► the Hollywood Squares board game you can [TS]

00:01:28 ◼   ► do that [TS]

00:01:29 ◼   ► that is right there a Hollywood Squares [TS]

00:01:30 ◼   ► board game at the bar was I bet there [TS]

00:01:32 ◼   ► was you got to take it home for losing [TS]

00:01:34 ◼   ► the set the home game yeah that's true [TS]

00:01:36 ◼   ► that's true good point body you have to [TS]

00:01:39 ◼   ► make your own smarmy jokes of course [TS]

00:01:41 ◼   ► yeah your celebrities were just pieces [TS]

00:01:42 ◼   ► of cardboard but you know baseball [TS]

00:01:45 ◼   ► that's that's the real thing but anyway [TS]

00:01:47 ◼   ► Tony sindelar also here hi Tony [TS]

00:01:50 ◼   ► hi jason i'm looking forward to talking [TS]

00:01:52 ◼   ► exclusively about fizzbin it is a [TS]

00:01:56 ◼   ► thursday night so that is worth double [TS]

00:02:00 ◼   ► yeah neither will i have at least a half [TS]

00:02:02 ◼   ► business has been more of a card game [TS]

00:02:04 ◼   ► isn't it it is played on a board on the [TS]

00:02:07 ◼   ► board [TS]

00:02:07 ◼   ► well that's true right it is a very [TS]

00:02:08 ◼   ► confusing game good thanks [TS]

00:02:10 ◼   ► alright finer points of his been coming [TS]

00:02:12 ◼   ► up later on this podcast and Dan Morgan [TS]

00:02:15 ◼   ► who I've left to last because i do that [TS]

00:02:19 ◼   ► with dan hi dan I it's good to be here i [TS]

00:02:21 ◼   ► thought this was more of a [TS]

00:02:23 ◼   ► watch at night but I don't know I can [TS]

00:02:25 ◼   ► the night is young Gator the night is [TS]

00:02:27 ◼   ► young it could be we could get there as [TS]

00:02:30 ◼   ► always I approving this in past podcast [TS]

00:02:33 ◼   ► one could discuss a topic like normal [TS]

00:02:36 ◼   ► people and just say hey what about that [TS]

00:02:38 ◼   ► what about this is not interesting [TS]

00:02:41 ◼   ► I find it more intriguing to treat life [TS]

00:02:44 ◼   ► as a series of fantasy drafts that is my [TS]

00:02:48 ◼   ► cross to bear but uh it's my podcast so [TS]

00:02:52 ◼   ► Monty Ashley what would you like to pick [TS]

00:02:55 ◼   ► with the first pick in the board game [TS]

00:02:57 ◼   ► draft i'm going to go with the game that [TS]

00:03:01 ◼   ► i have studied trivial pursuit [TS]

00:03:05 ◼   ► oh man that's on my list specific [TS]

00:03:09 ◼   ► bringing those reactions didn't happen [TS]

00:03:10 ◼   ► if it's not a giraffe [TS]

00:03:13 ◼   ► that's classic ponte a plastic good [TS]

00:03:18 ◼   ► specifically the original genus edition [TS]

00:03:20 ◼   ► edition not a genius additional Gina [TS]

00:03:23 ◼   ► think it's the genius addition you are [TS]

00:03:25 ◼   ► perhaps a genus but you're not a genius [TS]

00:03:29 ◼   ► as far as i can tell i once spent an [TS]

00:03:31 ◼   ► entire summer just reading trivial [TS]

00:03:33 ◼   ► pursuit cards that's that's that's not a [TS]

00:03:38 ◼   ► game Monty well no homework how I did DD [TS]

00:03:42 ◼   ► when I was a kid that's a cry for help [TS]

00:03:44 ◼   ► its preparation for a game so now if i [TS]

00:03:47 ◼   ► play the original genus addition there [TS]

00:03:50 ◼   ► are times when I know the other [TS]

00:03:52 ◼   ► questions on the card if I hear one [TS]

00:03:55 ◼   ► question and if anyone out there is [TS]

00:03:57 ◼   ► actually thinking of playing this [TS]

00:03:58 ◼   ► version i can give you two tips if it's [TS]

00:04:02 ◼   ► a sports question and you don't know the [TS]

00:04:04 ◼   ► answer [TS]

00:04:05 ◼   ► it's probably lawn tennis and it's not [TS]

00:04:08 ◼   ► it's Sonja Henie as a Canadian game and [TS]

00:04:12 ◼   ► they had not squeezed all the Canadian [TS]

00:04:14 ◼   ► this out of it yet for the first edition [TS]

00:04:15 ◼   ► so go with lawn tennis or Sonja Henie [TS]

00:04:17 ◼   ► and you will be set [TS]

00:04:18 ◼   ► that's sports and leisure yes I had a [TS]

00:04:21 ◼   ► friend who in college my friend and I [TS]

00:04:24 ◼   ► would just challenge regularly challenge [TS]

00:04:26 ◼   ► the rest of the entire dorm floor too [TS]

00:04:28 ◼   ► trivial pursuit and we never lost so [TS]

00:04:31 ◼   ► those good times people stop playing me [TS]

00:04:33 ◼   ► after I started playing for money [TS]

00:04:35 ◼   ► they're all cowards that happened yeah [TS]

00:04:37 ◼   ► that that I had a similar experience [TS]

00:04:39 ◼   ► with Star Wars developers you where [TS]

00:04:41 ◼   ► people stop playing with me after I [TS]

00:04:43 ◼   ► wanted two turns [TS]

00:04:44 ◼   ► well oh yeah I actually own eye on 10 [TS]

00:04:48 ◼   ► different versions of trivial pursuit [TS]

00:04:49 ◼   ► and actually when I moved in with my [TS]

00:04:51 ◼   ► spouse will be 12 nice Canadian see so [TS]

00:04:55 ◼   ► they're back to the roots of Tremont [TS]

00:04:57 ◼   ► yeah because i have i have the american [TS]

00:04:59 ◼   ► version of genius one and he has the [TS]

00:05:01 ◼   ► canadian version of this one which [TS]

00:05:03 ◼   ► actually has even more Canadian [TS]

00:05:04 ◼   ► questions in it than the US version [TS]

00:05:06 ◼   ► there's that much trivia about Canada [TS]

00:05:09 ◼   ► you wouldn't think so which is what it's [TS]

00:05:12 ◼   ► all about sctv hockey [TS]

00:05:15 ◼   ► it's like it's another country or [TS]

00:05:16 ◼   ► something yes stuff like that i wrote [TS]

00:05:18 ◼   ► the genius of that genus of Trivial [TS]

00:05:21 ◼   ► Pursuit is that is combining it is [TS]

00:05:25 ◼   ► making a board game because you could do [TS]

00:05:27 ◼   ► a trivia you know book or something but [TS]

00:05:31 ◼   ► by making it the brightly colored [TS]

00:05:33 ◼   ► circles with the little pieces of pie [TS]

00:05:34 ◼   ► that you get when you when you when you [TS]

00:05:36 ◼   ► answer a question right and and having [TS]

00:05:38 ◼   ► that board element [TS]

00:05:40 ◼   ► I is for people who were not who do not [TS]

00:05:42 ◼   ► live through I mean the eighties it was [TS]

00:05:45 ◼   ► just a revolution when this thing came [TS]

00:05:46 ◼   ► out it was just everybody had this game [TS]

00:05:49 ◼   ► it was the game to have I feel like we [TS]

00:05:51 ◼   ► should do a podcast where we played [TS]

00:05:53 ◼   ► genus one just because of how [TS]

00:05:55 ◼   ► hilariously bad and out-of-date [TS]

00:05:57 ◼   ► out-of-date the answer so yeah my god [TS]

00:06:00 ◼   ► don't ever used to go to a brunch place [TS]

00:06:02 ◼   ► where they have trivial pursuit cards [TS]

00:06:04 ◼   ► and like the thing that we probably [TS]

00:06:05 ◼   ► should have had like salt and pepper [TS]

00:06:06 ◼   ► packets or something like that and they [TS]

00:06:08 ◼   ► were clearly all from the eighties so [TS]

00:06:10 ◼   ► there was that added dimension of [TS]

00:06:11 ◼   ► trivial pursuit but trying to guess what [TS]

00:06:14 ◼   ► you know what the answer to that would [TS]

00:06:16 ◼   ► have been around 90 countries still [TS]

00:06:19 ◼   ► exist at that point you know yeah sorry [TS]

00:06:22 ◼   ► the answer is East Germany Yugoslavia my [TS]

00:06:26 ◼   ► roommates and I used to trivial pursuit [TS]

00:06:29 ◼   ► wasn't interesting enough so since i had [TS]

00:06:31 ◼   ► so many versions we would add another [TS]

00:06:32 ◼   ► dimension so you'd go around the table [TS]

00:06:34 ◼   ► you land on some color and then you [TS]

00:06:37 ◼   ► would roll a die to see which version of [TS]

00:06:39 ◼   ► the game you would get a question from [TS]

00:06:40 ◼   ► love that it was so fun and yeah every [TS]

00:06:44 ◼   ► time you get genus one you'd be like oh [TS]

00:06:46 ◼   ► man now I have to take extra hard it was [TS]

00:06:48 ◼   ► the answer in 1987 yep or you could get [TS]

00:06:51 ◼   ► it let end up on like the DVD [TS]

00:06:53 ◼   ► pop-culture version which was just like [TS]

00:06:55 ◼   ► the answers usually Britney Spears they [TS]

00:06:57 ◼   ► got takeout so much worse and worse as [TS]

00:06:59 ◼   ► they went along to our terminal at was [TS]

00:07:01 ◼   ► like genius for might have been like [TS]

00:07:02 ◼   ► right on the edge of like the last one [TS]

00:07:05 ◼   ► that wasn't just like trashy terrible [TS]

00:07:08 ◼   ► knowledge and then they'll change all [TS]

00:07:09 ◼   ► the categories and got dumb it was dumb [TS]

00:07:12 ◼   ► yeah and then for some reason after five [TS]

00:07:14 ◼   ► they stopped even being genus just six [TS]

00:07:16 ◼   ► is version 6 spurt genus 12345 version 6 [TS]

00:07:21 ◼   ► y trivia anybody used to be i I'd like [TS]

00:07:24 ◼   ► to announce by the way our brand new [TS]

00:07:25 ◼   ► podcast that we're starting here that we [TS]

00:07:27 ◼   ► ever we were just going to play Trivial [TS]

00:07:29 ◼   ► Pursuit on the internet but I am so into [TS]

00:07:31 ◼   ► that [TS]

00:07:32 ◼   ► listen Jason have you like it I don't [TS]

00:07:34 ◼   ► like you joke about things I used to [TS]

00:07:36 ◼   ► have a book about trivial pursuit and it [TS]

00:07:38 ◼   ► could include strategy tips when whoa [TS]

00:07:41 ◼   ► know a lot of things [TS]

00:07:43 ◼   ► yeah well no you have to understand that [TS]

00:07:45 ◼   ► being in one of the squares between the [TS]

00:07:48 ◼   ► two roll again spaces is better than [TS]

00:07:50 ◼   ► being in the in the spot between the [TS]

00:07:52 ◼   ► role again and the wedge spot because if [TS]

00:07:56 ◼   ► you're between the two roll again that [TS]

00:07:57 ◼   ► anything you alway they give you a role [TS]

00:07:59 ◼   ► again or a wedge spot [TS]

00:08:01 ◼   ► whereas if you're in a spot between the [TS]

00:08:03 ◼   ► rolling in the wet spot to will only get [TS]

00:08:06 ◼   ► you to a regular question [TS]

00:08:08 ◼   ► incidentally trailed pursuit falls in [TS]

00:08:09 ◼   ► the same category as monopoly with games [TS]

00:08:12 ◼   ► that when you play them with like your [TS]

00:08:13 ◼   ► parents they eventually like give up and [TS]

00:08:16 ◼   ► let you win because it just goes on for [TS]

00:08:17 ◼   ► hours otherwise unless you're playing [TS]

00:08:20 ◼   ► with my dad who wins almost immediately [TS]

00:08:22 ◼   ► every time I haven't played with your [TS]

00:08:23 ◼   ► dad but I you know I think I see what my [TS]

00:08:26 ◼   ► parents were both librarians and my mom [TS]

00:08:28 ◼   ► was a reference librarian so I lost a [TS]

00:08:30 ◼   ► lot until the questions started adapting [TS]

00:08:32 ◼   ► more to my age I could do a whole [TS]

00:08:35 ◼   ► podcast about games i won't play because [TS]

00:08:37 ◼   ► other people in my family were too good [TS]

00:08:38 ◼   ► at them [TS]

00:08:39 ◼   ► i'm looking at you scrabble also chest [TS]

00:08:44 ◼   ► yeah yeah I guess you know those are [TS]

00:08:47 ◼   ► those are board games i wonder if [TS]

00:08:48 ◼   ► somebody will pick chess or checkers or [TS]

00:08:50 ◼   ► or another that would be outside the box [TS]

00:08:53 ◼   ► kind of this is what I'm saying that our [TS]

00:08:55 ◼   ► game box Monty that was a great pic [TS]

00:08:57 ◼   ► painting of the first pick in the draft [TS]

00:09:00 ◼   ► cheers yeah Erica it's your turn next [TS]

00:09:04 ◼   ► well that was going to be my first pixel [TS]

00:09:06 ◼   ► advance i'm going to go with my other [TS]

00:09:08 ◼   ► favorite game of all time and that would [TS]

00:09:11 ◼   ► be careers which I some of you may not [TS]

00:09:14 ◼   ► be familiar with the game that i grew up [TS]

00:09:16 ◼   ► with the version that I grew up playing [TS]

00:09:17 ◼   ► was actually from I think 1958 it was my [TS]

00:09:21 ◼   ► parents for game but there have been [TS]

00:09:22 ◼   ► multiple versions since then I actually [TS]

00:09:25 ◼   ► for a while went on a thrift shop hunt [TS]

00:09:27 ◼   ► and have collected a bunch of versions i [TS]

00:09:29 ◼   ► think i now have like three or four [TS]

00:09:30 ◼   ► different versions a couple from the [TS]

00:09:32 ◼   ► seventies the newest one is really dumb [TS]

00:09:35 ◼   ► as tends to happen with games but the [TS]

00:09:37 ◼   ► idea with careers is you go around the [TS]

00:09:40 ◼   ► board and there are different careers [TS]

00:09:43 ◼   ► that you can career paths that you can [TS]

00:09:44 ◼   ► choose but you have to be able to meet [TS]

00:09:46 ◼   ► the entrance requirements some of them [TS]

00:09:48 ◼   ► require a certain amount of Education [TS]

00:09:50 ◼   ► which you can earn some of them require [TS]

00:09:51 ◼   ► a certain amount of money which you can [TS]

00:09:53 ◼   ► get from landing on spaces and the thing [TS]

00:09:56 ◼   ► that I like the best about this game is [TS]

00:09:57 ◼   ► that your goal varies depending on what [TS]

00:10:00 ◼   ► you choose and nobody else knows what [TS]

00:10:02 ◼   ► your goal is for the game so the [TS]

00:10:04 ◼   ► beginning of the game you're trying to [TS]

00:10:05 ◼   ► you're trying to gain money and fame and [TS]

00:10:07 ◼   ► happiness and the family happiness or [TS]

00:10:09 ◼   ► little stars and little hearts very cute [TS]

00:10:11 ◼   ► so the beginning of the game this has to [TS]

00:10:13 ◼   ► add up to 60 so you could choose 20 of [TS]

00:10:16 ◼   ► each you could choose you know sixty [TS]

00:10:18 ◼   ► thousand dollars or 60 frames or [TS]

00:10:21 ◼   ► whatever and everybody chooses their own [TS]

00:10:23 ◼   ► and then they they write it down on this [TS]

00:10:24 ◼   ► little piece of paper and you you fold [TS]

00:10:26 ◼   ► over fold it over so the other people [TS]

00:10:28 ◼   ► can't see what your goal is so the whole [TS]

00:10:30 ◼   ► time you're playing you're the only one [TS]

00:10:32 ◼   ► that knows what you're what you're [TS]

00:10:34 ◼   ► shooting for [TS]

00:10:35 ◼   ► so you can win without anybody else like [TS]

00:10:37 ◼   ► realizing you're even getting close [TS]

00:10:39 ◼   ► it will be fun and I just like the idea [TS]

00:10:41 ◼   ► that you know i can go to space and be [TS]

00:10:43 ◼   ► an astronaut or in the old version one [TS]

00:10:45 ◼   ► of the careers is to go uranium [TS]

00:10:47 ◼   ► prospecting on a donkey that is that is [TS]

00:10:52 ◼   ► not a good career but you know it's got [TS]

00:10:55 ◼   ► a short appetite [TS]

00:10:56 ◼   ► this is john job isn't just a summer job [TS]

00:10:58 ◼   ► maybe but not as a career in the [TS]

00:11:01 ◼   ► seventies i believe they replace that [TS]

00:11:03 ◼   ► with ecology me original version the [TS]

00:11:08 ◼   ► original version you could go to see [TS]

00:11:10 ◼   ► that was one of the best places to earn [TS]

00:11:12 ◼   ► happiness because you know there was [TS]

00:11:13 ◼   ► out of of beautiful things if you're a [TS]

00:11:15 ◼   ► sailor but then that went to later be [TS]

00:11:17 ◼   ► starvation right i think it may be [TS]

00:11:20 ◼   ► became teaching or something like that [TS]

00:11:22 ◼   ► later I it was just a lot of interesting [TS]

00:11:25 ◼   ► changes which i didn't approve of [TS]

00:11:26 ◼   ► because I grew up you know uranium [TS]

00:11:28 ◼   ► prospecting where you could make twenty [TS]

00:11:30 ◼   ► thousand dollars on one space if you [TS]

00:11:31 ◼   ► landed right and their cards that were [TS]

00:11:33 ◼   ► called opportunity knocks cards so that [TS]

00:11:35 ◼   ► was the first way I'd ever heard that [TS]

00:11:37 ◼   ► phrase opportunity knocks I thought it [TS]

00:11:39 ◼   ► was from the game careers for Allah [TS]

00:11:41 ◼   ► nope wow I've never heard of that game i [TS]

00:11:44 ◼   ► imagine one of those opportunity knocks [TS]

00:11:46 ◼   ► card says you win ten thousand dollars [TS]

00:11:48 ◼   ► unless your new uranium prospector which [TS]

00:11:50 ◼   ► case I'm cancer and let's go to the [TS]

00:11:52 ◼   ► hospital instead there's a reason they [TS]

00:11:55 ◼   ► took that one off [TS]

00:11:56 ◼   ► I I think that was one in the stack of [TS]

00:11:58 ◼   ► games that they had it like one of the [TS]

00:11:59 ◼   ► camp's i went to or something which [TS]

00:12:01 ◼   ► means it was probably like missing [TS]

00:12:02 ◼   ► pieces and stuff like that but i have I [TS]

00:12:04 ◼   ► do have some sort of memory of playing [TS]

00:12:06 ◼   ► this game is it as a child if you get [TS]

00:12:08 ◼   ► the thrift shop pick it up because it's [TS]

00:12:10 ◼   ► just fun and I can always sell itself to [TS]

00:12:13 ◼   ► you because clearly you're in ya need of [TS]

00:12:14 ◼   ► more edition [TS]

00:12:15 ◼   ► yep yep absolutely i will take it off [TS]

00:12:17 ◼   ► your hands I swear [TS]

00:12:18 ◼   ► well with those two pics i feel like [TS]

00:12:20 ◼   ► we're I feel like we have surround [TS]

00:12:21 ◼   ► ourselves with ringers that Erica and [TS]

00:12:23 ◼   ► Monty are going to destroy us with their [TS]

00:12:25 ◼   ► incredible board game knowledge i used [TS]

00:12:27 ◼   ► to play careers every year with my [TS]

00:12:29 ◼   ► cousin at a Christmas family reunion we [TS]

00:12:32 ◼   ► have so I think of careers finally [TS]

00:12:35 ◼   ► because it reminds me of Christmas and [TS]

00:12:37 ◼   ► family and I must have played 50 games [TS]

00:12:40 ◼   ► with my cousin Cindy over the course of [TS]

00:12:42 ◼   ► four years before we got tired of the [TS]

00:12:44 ◼   ► game because I want every single one of [TS]

00:12:46 ◼   ► them [TS]

00:12:46 ◼   ► wow I stand be nice to play so much that [TS]

00:12:48 ◼   ► i still remember now there's a there's a [TS]

00:12:50 ◼   ► space called park bench which was a bad [TS]

00:12:53 ◼   ► space because that meant that you were [TS]

00:12:54 ◼   ► out of a job in have enough money to get [TS]

00:12:56 ◼   ► up the park effects and you had to roll [TS]

00:12:59 ◼   ► 7-eleven or doubles to get off the park [TS]

00:13:01 ◼   ► bench just like in real life [TS]

00:13:05 ◼   ► that's a great pic that's a great yeah [TS]

00:13:07 ◼   ► just like in real life that's how [TS]

00:13:08 ◼   ► careers work how many stars you have Dan [TS]

00:13:10 ◼   ► a lot of dice let's put it that way [TS]

00:13:13 ◼   ► fair enough that's that's great i don't [TS]

00:13:15 ◼   ► think i've ever heard of that game [TS]

00:13:16 ◼   ► before so that's totally blown me away [TS]

00:13:18 ◼   ► David lure it's your turn [TS]

00:13:22 ◼   ► each is no basket [TS]

00:13:26 ◼   ► I'll get it skip never words thank you [TS]

00:13:29 ◼   ► for your pic even beyond help go ahead [TS]

00:13:32 ◼   ► go ahead [TS]

00:13:33 ◼   ► that's that's right evil laughter the [TS]

00:13:34 ◼   ► board game know since I think the rest [TS]

00:13:38 ◼   ► of my list is pretty safe i'm gonna go [TS]

00:13:40 ◼   ► with the big name right off the bat and [TS]

00:13:41 ◼   ► go for monopoly up because I don't know [TS]

00:13:46 ◼   ► anyone who doesn't know it doesn't play [TS]

00:13:48 ◼   ► it hasn't played it hasn't seen it [TS]

00:13:50 ◼   ► doesn't have one of you know how many [TS]

00:13:51 ◼   ► thousand variations of it they have now [TS]

00:13:54 ◼   ► but I grew up with one of the it wasn't [TS]

00:13:59 ◼   ► the original set but was like the 1937 [TS]

00:14:02 ◼   ► edition so it was sort of like you know [TS]

00:14:04 ◼   ► you have to be very careful taking it [TS]

00:14:06 ◼   ► out and so you know I grew up loving the [TS]

00:14:09 ◼   ► game and my best friend in high school [TS]

00:14:13 ◼   ► who end up as the best man at my wedding [TS]

00:14:15 ◼   ► he and I have had a long tradition this [TS]

00:14:18 ◼   ► is going on something like 30 years now [TS]

00:14:20 ◼   ► we're whenever we get together if we [TS]

00:14:22 ◼   ► have the time we will play what we call [TS]

00:14:24 ◼   ► killer monopoly which involves staying [TS]

00:14:26 ◼   ► up all night playing all night till Don [TS]

00:14:30 ◼   ► sometimes through to the next day I [TS]

00:14:33 ◼   ► think our longest game ran four days [TS]

00:14:35 ◼   ► straight [TS]

00:14:37 ◼   ► that was back when he was in college so [TS]

00:14:38 ◼   ► it's called Hitler monopoly because at [TS]

00:14:40 ◼   ► the end you want to murder the person [TS]

00:14:42 ◼   ► right yeah you just keep going to [TS]

00:14:43 ◼   ► someone dies [TS]

00:14:44 ◼   ► pretty much yeah i know you you do start [TS]

00:14:46 ◼   ► to lose all sense of you know human [TS]

00:14:49 ◼   ► courtesy by about the 12-hour and so do [TS]

00:14:52 ◼   ► action off properties that you land on [TS]

00:14:54 ◼   ► you just have to buy them out writer or [TS]

00:14:56 ◼   ► passing by [TS]

00:14:57 ◼   ► oh yeah it is the auctioning and trading [TS]

00:15:00 ◼   ► and mortgaging and you know we we use [TS]

00:15:03 ◼   ► all the variation rules the free parking [TS]

00:15:07 ◼   ► what is your policy on free lands on [TS]

00:15:10 ◼   ► your spaces in exchange for not being [TS]

00:15:12 ◼   ► able to pay rent [TS]

00:15:13 ◼   ► I you know I don't think we ever worried [TS]

00:15:16 ◼   ► about that is stealing money from the [TS]

00:15:18 ◼   ► bank cheating or only cheating if you [TS]

00:15:20 ◼   ► get caught it was no we never did that [TS]

00:15:22 ◼   ► well I should say I never did that [TS]

00:15:25 ◼   ► that's why talk it haha but yeah I mean [TS]

00:15:33 ◼   ► the thing is kind of interesting just [TS]

00:15:34 ◼   ► protocol flooring for yeah okay I got it [TS]

00:15:37 ◼   ► with that just really sociological point [TS]

00:15:40 ◼   ► of view or an economic point of view I [TS]

00:15:42 ◼   ► don't know it was really weird how you [TS]

00:15:44 ◼   ► know every few hours the balance would [TS]

00:15:46 ◼   ► shift you know and the longer you played [TS]

00:15:48 ◼   ► you know it would seem like one person [TS]

00:15:50 ◼   ► was gonna win and just dominate and all [TS]

00:15:52 ◼   ► of a sudden something would happen it [TS]

00:15:54 ◼   ► would start shifting back and you know [TS]

00:15:55 ◼   ► of course you both had to have hotels on [TS]

00:15:57 ◼   ► stuff for that to happen if one person [TS]

00:16:00 ◼   ► had everything that was it but but and [TS]

00:16:03 ◼   ► this and this is a theory that I got [TS]

00:16:05 ◼   ► from my mother and its held true every [TS]

00:16:07 ◼   ► since I don't worry about boardwalk and [TS]

00:16:10 ◼   ► Park Place i always buy the yellow [TS]

00:16:12 ◼   ► properties everybody lands on the yellow [TS]

00:16:16 ◼   ► I was always felt that way about the [TS]

00:16:17 ◼   ► greens but either way [TS]

00:16:19 ◼   ► yes well that that whole quarter is just [TS]

00:16:21 ◼   ► beautiful [TS]

00:16:22 ◼   ► so you have the greens are my second [TS]

00:16:24 ◼   ► choice so it's the blue the yellows and [TS]

00:16:26 ◼   ► the girl Marvin gardens kind of guys [TS]

00:16:27 ◼   ► what you're saying that's right that's [TS]

00:16:29 ◼   ► right and there's there's a wonderful [TS]

00:16:32 ◼   ► book of short nonfiction pieces by john [TS]

00:16:36 ◼   ► mcphee where one of them is the history [TS]

00:16:40 ◼   ► of the board game Monopoly where he [TS]

00:16:42 ◼   ► contrasts it with the history of [TS]

00:16:45 ◼   ► Atlantic City and you know any goes and [TS]

00:16:47 ◼   ► visits the real Ventnor Avenue and [TS]

00:16:49 ◼   ► around New York you know all that and [TS]

00:16:52 ◼   ► then balances it against the history of [TS]

00:16:54 ◼   ► the game and its really interesting well [TS]

00:16:56 ◼   ► worth reading is I think the book is [TS]

00:16:58 ◼   ► called table of contents [TS]

00:17:00 ◼   ► ok monopoly people i was the car what [TS]

00:17:03 ◼   ► was your let's go around what's your [TS]

00:17:05 ◼   ► what's your what's your choice David top [TS]

00:17:08 ◼   ► hat because because fred astaire Tony I [TS]

00:17:11 ◼   ► think I was the car always do i did not [TS]

00:17:12 ◼   ► i do not i don't i don't like the [TS]

00:17:14 ◼   ► message that monopoly city said i was [TS]

00:17:16 ◼   ► reading it be's oh so but there's a lot [TS]

00:17:19 ◼   ► more playing with sticks and put it [TS]

00:17:21 ◼   ► aside explained in that we've got all [TS]

00:17:23 ◼   ► these are dangerous i just i think they [TS]

00:17:25 ◼   ► were waiting for the people's republic [TS]

00:17:26 ◼   ► of monopoly to be released and that [TS]

00:17:28 ◼   ► never never made it print everything [TS]

00:17:31 ◼   ► else Bradley everybody gets the same [TS]

00:17:32 ◼   ► amount of money and then the and the [TS]

00:17:34 ◼   ► game is so that's where all the [TS]

00:17:35 ◼   ► properties are handed out the [TS]

00:17:37 ◼   ► message of monopolies that real estate [TS]

00:17:38 ◼   ► developers just sometimes go to jail for [TS]

00:17:41 ◼   ► no reason but you're gonna spend some [TS]

00:17:44 ◼   ► time just that's just a happy to that's [TS]

00:17:47 ◼   ► accurate go directly to jail by the way [TS]

00:17:51 ◼   ► my babysitter growing up and I always [TS]

00:17:53 ◼   ► played Monopoly and she would do the [TS]

00:17:57 ◼   ► luxury taxes $75 so it was 50 20 m5 and [TS]

00:18:01 ◼   ► I could still remember that she would [TS]

00:18:03 ◼   ► say it every time 50 20 and 25 and then [TS]

00:18:05 ◼   ► the other things when she would land on [TS]

00:18:07 ◼   ► the the jail space she would shoot she [TS]

00:18:12 ◼   ► would say not when she was sent to jail [TS]

00:18:13 ◼   ► when she will and especially change just [TS]

00:18:15 ◼   ► visiting yeah I I scared the kids the [TS]

00:18:21 ◼   ► first couple of times we played monopoly [TS]

00:18:23 ◼   ► because I would just count out the money [TS]

00:18:25 ◼   ► without even thinking with that looking [TS]

00:18:27 ◼   ► huh [TS]

00:18:27 ◼   ► and you know how many bills beach no [TS]

00:18:29 ◼   ► just pump obviously know you do that and [TS]

00:18:33 ◼   ► you might have a problem goods i'm a [TS]

00:18:35 ◼   ► ringer I damn what was your token i [TS]

00:18:38 ◼   ► think i also went for the car [TS]

00:18:42 ◼   ► yeah I think that was the car Monty i [TS]

00:18:44 ◼   ► really like the car because I felt that [TS]

00:18:46 ◼   ► it went best with free parking but i [TS]

00:18:49 ◼   ► have evolved into a shoe man i think [TS]

00:18:51 ◼   ► that's a pretty shoe man nice [TS]

00:18:53 ◼   ► interesting [TS]

00:18:54 ◼   ► Erica what about you I never liked the [TS]

00:18:56 ◼   ► car I i would change up i was usually [TS]

00:18:58 ◼   ► either both in both the hat or the iron [TS]

00:19:01 ◼   ► womanly things no one wishes [TS]

00:19:04 ◼   ► yes so much careers [TS]

00:19:07 ◼   ► yeah screw you guys I'm gonna return [TS]

00:19:11 ◼   ► probably my my son that takes the car so [TS]

00:19:16 ◼   ► i'm left with whatever the hell is left [TS]

00:19:18 ◼   ► after he takes the car that got a dog [TS]

00:19:20 ◼   ► that's not even out yet you know that [TS]

00:19:22 ◼   ► our scottie dog was myspace you can put [TS]

00:19:24 ◼   ► them up we can stand up your behavior [TS]

00:19:26 ◼   ► fell over so easily [TS]

00:19:27 ◼   ► yeah but you could step but you could [TS]

00:19:29 ◼   ► stand up it was little with yeah there's [TS]

00:19:32 ◼   ► a battleship you can intimidate your [TS]

00:19:34 ◼   ► opponent's little how many cans that [TS]

00:19:36 ◼   ► iron got true i think we had lost the [TS]

00:19:38 ◼   ► battleship because we never had that I [TS]

00:19:40 ◼   ► feel like it came later or something [TS]

00:19:42 ◼   ► because i feel like i had one but it [TS]

00:19:43 ◼   ► like wasn't originally in my I don't [TS]

00:19:45 ◼   ► know yeah i think it may have been one [TS]

00:19:47 ◼   ► that either was there and gone or just [TS]

00:19:49 ◼   ► came later because I maybe was [TS]

00:19:51 ◼   ► and in our set Wow monopoly i'm shocked [TS]

00:19:54 ◼   ► when third honestly I die that's it's a [TS]

00:19:57 ◼   ► classic that's a good one [TS]

00:19:59 ◼   ► thank you David well played anytime hey [TS]

00:20:01 ◼   ► now go directly to jail its major roll [TS]

00:20:06 ◼   ► doubles to get out we'll come back to [TS]

00:20:08 ◼   ► you are they are they 20-sided doubles [TS]

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00:20:23 ◼   ► vision problem i do I wear glasses all [TS]

00:20:26 ◼   ► the time I have since I was 18 years old [TS]

00:20:28 ◼   ► and you could also be somebody who just [TS]

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00:23:30 ◼   ► uh Tony it is your turn hi [TS]

00:23:33 ◼   ► well i have a list of games they are [TS]

00:23:36 ◼   ► mainly games probably from the last [TS]

00:23:38 ◼   ► decade so I'm not too worried about [TS]

00:23:39 ◼   ► anybody drafting them except maybe dan [TS]

00:23:42 ◼   ► I've got some of those all i got i got [TS]

00:23:44 ◼   ► so guess what i'm going to talk about [TS]

00:23:45 ◼   ► them when you draft and no matter what [TS]

00:23:46 ◼   ► you do on syracuse road to help well la [TS]

00:23:49 ◼   ► so i'll just go with something that is [TS]

00:23:54 ◼   ► not from the last kid i will draft he [TS]

00:23:57 ◼   ► requests [TS]

00:23:57 ◼   ► does anyone else anyone for me when I [TS]

00:23:59 ◼   ► was your night stick love it [TS]

00:24:01 ◼   ► yeah I I thought about money might have [TS]

00:24:03 ◼   ► some types and founder of this game so [TS]

00:24:05 ◼   ► he requests if I love it's going to [TS]

00:24:07 ◼   ► check from 1980 night I knew it was at [TS]

00:24:09 ◼   ► least 10 years older than any other game [TS]

00:24:11 ◼   ► on my list [TS]

00:24:11 ◼   ► um he request was basically a Dungeons [TS]

00:24:14 ◼   ► and Dragons ask board game and in fact I [TS]

00:24:17 ◼   ► have a [TS]

00:24:18 ◼   ► a little bit of trouble separating in my [TS]

00:24:20 ◼   ► head how different it was from dnd you [TS]

00:24:22 ◼   ► didn't get to roll a d20 i know that but [TS]

00:24:24 ◼   ► your characters were they didn't really [TS]

00:24:26 ◼   ► have names they would be like dwarf one [TS]

00:24:29 ◼   ► wizard and barbarian and they moved [TS]

00:24:32 ◼   ► around kind of a preset up board that a [TS]

00:24:35 ◼   ► basically a dungeon master would build [TS]

00:24:37 ◼   ► that had traps and bad guys on it and I [TS]

00:24:39 ◼   ► think everything was done with little [TS]

00:24:40 ◼   ► custom v6 which I little dice with a [TS]

00:24:43 ◼   ► shield and skulls on them but it was [TS]

00:24:46 ◼   ► basically dnd light repackaged into you [TS]

00:24:49 ◼   ► know board game format that you could [TS]

00:24:50 ◼   ► play in the in the early nineties and I [TS]

00:24:53 ◼   ► played in a bunch you could even if you [TS]

00:24:54 ◼   ► were that kind of kid make your own [TS]

00:24:56 ◼   ► adventures like remix in like the maps [TS]

00:24:58 ◼   ► and the the traps and that various cards [TS]

00:25:00 ◼   ► they gave you and that was a lot of fun [TS]

00:25:03 ◼   ► and that was probably something that you [TS]

00:25:04 ◼   ► know paint a path for a later interest [TS]

00:25:06 ◼   ► in roleplay games and dungeons and [TS]

00:25:09 ◼   ► dragons and things like that money it [TS]

00:25:10 ◼   ► sounds like you would you have memories [TS]

00:25:12 ◼   ► of here with us some I was more of a [TS]

00:25:15 ◼   ► talisman guy myself [TS]

00:25:17 ◼   ► smooth yeah and I had a bad experience [TS]

00:25:19 ◼   ► with talisman up because i don't have [TS]

00:25:21 ◼   ► precipitated recently if we tried to [TS]

00:25:23 ◼   ► play it recently [TS]

00:25:24 ◼   ► no you can't do that no you have to do [TS]

00:25:25 ◼   ► it when you're a kid you have eight [TS]

00:25:27 ◼   ► hours did not age well turns out it does [TS]

00:25:29 ◼   ► it turns out it's it's like watching the [TS]

00:25:31 ◼   ► Transformers cartoons now i disagree i [TS]

00:25:33 ◼   ► still love i still have television i [TS]

00:25:35 ◼   ► have played it within the past couple [TS]

00:25:36 ◼   ► years and I haven't finished it but I [TS]

00:25:39 ◼   ► may have made a mistake we played it [TS]

00:25:41 ◼   ► with an enthusiastic friend who [TS]

00:25:43 ◼   ► sometimes makes the mistake of when [TS]

00:25:44 ◼   ► there's a game with a bunch of [TS]

00:25:45 ◼   ► expansions for it he will instantly oh [TS]

00:25:47 ◼   ► yeah the first game with all of the [TS]

00:25:49 ◼   ► expansions even if that was ill-advised [TS]

00:25:52 ◼   ► some advice for it was a bad you have to [TS]

00:25:54 ◼   ► do with talisman all the expansions [TS]

00:25:55 ◼   ► except college and how haha dragon last [TS]

00:25:58 ◼   ► one anyway played your request i have [TS]

00:26:01 ◼   ► some fun memories of it but not enough [TS]

00:26:03 ◼   ► to go into anecdotal lede so yeah and i [TS]

00:26:06 ◼   ► think you know he requests had that kind [TS]

00:26:07 ◼   ► of because you have this kind of the [TS]

00:26:10 ◼   ► pre-built very simple kind of little [TS]

00:26:11 ◼   ► dungeons you know it will allow somebody [TS]

00:26:13 ◼   ► you know a younger kid for example you [TS]

00:26:15 ◼   ► know I think it was recommended for ages [TS]

00:26:16 ◼   ► 10 and up [TS]

00:26:18 ◼   ► who wouldn't really be able to say run a [TS]

00:26:20 ◼   ► DD adventure is about it you know the [TS]

00:26:23 ◼   ► other children would not hate it kind of [TS]

00:26:25 ◼   ► package some kind of pattern but what if [TS]

00:26:27 ◼   ► we took some took some weight off that [TS]

00:26:28 ◼   ► kids shoulders right maybe ages 10 to 80 [TS]

00:26:31 ◼   ► if you're [TS]

00:26:31 ◼   ► b5 sorry too old to play [TS]

00:26:35 ◼   ► ok he requests that's good at the rate [TS]

00:26:37 ◼   ► we're going we're gonna get through a [TS]

00:26:38 ◼   ► couple rounds here but let's move on Dan [TS]

00:26:40 ◼   ► well I was strongly considering a game [TS]

00:26:42 ◼   ► invented by one of our fellow panelists [TS]

00:26:45 ◼   ► here Tony in the the version of risk [TS]

00:26:49 ◼   ► opoly in which every battle in risk is [TS]

00:26:51 ◼   ► it's always us settled with a game of [TS]

00:26:54 ◼   ► Monopoly I believe you're only allowed [TS]

00:26:56 ◼   ► to draft games you have actually played [TS]

00:26:58 ◼   ► sir I like Trivial Pursuit where you [TS]

00:27:02 ◼   ► have to roll the die [TS]

00:27:03 ◼   ► jenna pitcher set except infinitely were [TS]

00:27:06 ◼   ► infinitely worse is my you know that's [TS]

00:27:08 ◼   ► my stock-in-trade infidelity your game [TS]

00:27:12 ◼   ► company Tony infinitely worse games i [TS]

00:27:15 ◼   ► will go with an oldie which I is a clue [TS]

00:27:19 ◼   ► specifically the one I like the best [TS]

00:27:21 ◼   ► which was the master detective variant [TS]

00:27:24 ◼   ► which is a later version that had a [TS]

00:27:26 ◼   ► larger had more of everything basically [TS]

00:27:28 ◼   ► like more suspects more weapons more [TS]

00:27:31 ◼   ► more mansion and just made it a little [TS]

00:27:35 ◼   ► bit more fun more interesting and [TS]

00:27:37 ◼   ► animals you know mentioned that i played [TS]

00:27:40 ◼   ► clue recently over the summer with my my [TS]

00:27:44 ◼   ► cousin's kids who are in the 89 and like [TS]

00:27:48 ◼   ► 6-7 range and man they have really made [TS]

00:27:51 ◼   ► clue suck [TS]

00:27:53 ◼   ► yes there is a they've made it a lot [TS]

00:27:55 ◼   ► easier because now it like they like you [TS]

00:27:57 ◼   ► like flip up cards being the gay like [TS]

00:27:59 ◼   ► everybody can see certain cards so like [TS]

00:28:02 ◼   ► you deal out by five different cards or [TS]

00:28:03 ◼   ► something slip those over so everybody [TS]

00:28:05 ◼   ► can immediately eliminate those which [TS]

00:28:07 ◼   ► means yes the game of Clue takes less [TS]

00:28:09 ◼   ► time than it used to but it also doesn't [TS]

00:28:11 ◼   ► really require quite as much in the way [TS]

00:28:12 ◼   ► of deductive reasoning and wild guessing [TS]

00:28:15 ◼   ► really where's the fun in that [TS]

00:28:17 ◼   ► but I was a fan of mystery fiction and [TS]

00:28:19 ◼   ► detective stuff and I really liked clue [TS]

00:28:21 ◼   ► i like the fact there was a little [TS]

00:28:22 ◼   ► envelope that you keep things in all of [TS]

00:28:23 ◼   ► the little pieces that have like the [TS]

00:28:25 ◼   ► whole dagger little rope that kind of [TS]

00:28:27 ◼   ► stuff and I know it's a it's not the [TS]

00:28:29 ◼   ► best game in the world but i have fond [TS]

00:28:31 ◼   ► memories of it and i enjoyed playing it [TS]

00:28:33 ◼   ► and that's Cluedo for our inter aren't [TS]

00:28:36 ◼   ► international referred that's right i [TS]

00:28:38 ◼   ► think is the best game 2 movie [TS]

00:28:39 ◼   ► adaptation though [TS]

00:28:40 ◼   ► here could be better than battleship [TS]

00:28:44 ◼   ► right [TS]

00:28:45 ◼   ► Oh better than chest the musical [TS]

00:28:49 ◼   ► Oh to follow Jason's example which piece [TS]

00:28:53 ◼   ► did you play in clue a professor plum as [TS]

00:28:57 ◼   ► a colonel mustard yeah myself I was [TS]

00:28:59 ◼   ► always the Rope am i doing it wrong i [TS]

00:29:03 ◼   ► always wanna Carly every time I was also [TS]

00:29:05 ◼   ► Colonel Mustard I i was also professor [TS]

00:29:08 ◼   ► plum I was the shoe you know these guys [TS]

00:29:11 ◼   ► seem like really bad detectives if they [TS]

00:29:13 ◼   ► can't tell the difference somebody who [TS]

00:29:14 ◼   ► was strangled somebody who was ya shot [TS]

00:29:17 ◼   ► I mean they're not they're not crime [TS]

00:29:19 ◼   ► scene investigator ok clue that was on [TS]

00:29:23 ◼   ► my list to excellent choice tan that's a [TS]

00:29:27 ◼   ► classic I learned I learned [TS]

00:29:29 ◼   ► ok here's some I same babysitter who I [TS]

00:29:31 ◼   ► played Monopoly with as a as a whatever [TS]

00:29:35 ◼   ► I was five-year-old six-year-old I [TS]

00:29:36 ◼   ► learned that people that uh you you [TS]

00:29:39 ◼   ► shouldn't cheat games from clue because [TS]

00:29:41 ◼   ► my babysitter went to take a phone call [TS]

00:29:43 ◼   ► and I looked at whodunit who and she [TS]

00:29:45 ◼   ► refused to play board games with me the [TS]

00:29:47 ◼   ► entire rest of the time that she was [TS]

00:29:49 ◼   ► babysitting me that time and that taught [TS]

00:29:52 ◼   ► that and then I never cheated a clue [TS]

00:29:54 ◼   ► again only monopoly know my fond [TS]

00:29:58 ◼   ► memories of clue and yes professor plum [TS]

00:30:01 ◼   ► gotta be professor plum I'm gonna I'm [TS]

00:30:03 ◼   ► gonna pick a more recent game because [TS]

00:30:05 ◼   ► blue monopoly off the board and i'm [TS]

00:30:08 ◼   ► going to pick a carcass on which is a [TS]

00:30:11 ◼   ► game this is when my family plays uh [TS]

00:30:14 ◼   ► it's game it's game night or it's rainy [TS]

00:30:16 ◼   ► day game weekend my pic when it's my [TS]

00:30:20 ◼   ► turn to pick is carcass on a game that [TS]

00:30:24 ◼   ► in which you need a table and then you [TS]

00:30:26 ◼   ► form your own board by drawing tiles of [TS]

00:30:30 ◼   ► cities and roads and rivers and fields [TS]

00:30:34 ◼   ► and and you put them all together and [TS]

00:30:37 ◼   ► drop your little little wooden guys on [TS]

00:30:40 ◼   ► them and collect points for having you [TS]

00:30:43 ◼   ► know having a road or or being in a city [TS]

00:30:46 ◼   ► or being in the field [TS]

00:30:47 ◼   ► nice it's really pretty i love that at [TS]

00:30:50 ◼   ► the end of it you have built a city more [TS]

00:30:52 ◼   ► or less i think that's kind of [TS]

00:30:54 ◼   ► eat that you start with nothing and you [TS]

00:30:56 ◼   ► end with something and strategically [TS]

00:30:58 ◼   ► it's actually really tricky my kids can [TS]

00:31:00 ◼   ► pick it up fairly easily but there is a [TS]

00:31:02 ◼   ► whole other level where you're where [TS]

00:31:04 ◼   ► you're stealing people cities or you're [TS]

00:31:06 ◼   ► finding a way into one of the fields [TS]

00:31:09 ◼   ► where you can really clean up on the [TS]

00:31:10 ◼   ► number of points and you know I i found [TS]

00:31:14 ◼   ► out about it because of the ipad game [TS]

00:31:17 ◼   ► that that came out from what does that [TS]

00:31:20 ◼   ► was coding monkeys and i can factor I [TS]

00:31:23 ◼   ► think collaborated on that icon factory [TS]

00:31:25 ◼   ► to the art and and I loved the ipad game [TS]

00:31:29 ◼   ► but i love the board game to that it's a [TS]

00:31:32 ◼   ► and some really great expansions that [TS]

00:31:34 ◼   ► you can roll in that that either change [TS]

00:31:37 ◼   ► how the game develops at the start with [TS]

00:31:39 ◼   ► the river expansion or does things like [TS]

00:31:41 ◼   ► double the do a double or nothing on [TS]

00:31:44 ◼   ► some of the some of the the pieces where [TS]

00:31:47 ◼   ► you have to complete the rotor you get [TS]

00:31:48 ◼   ► no credits you have to complete the city [TS]

00:31:50 ◼   ► or you get no credit for any of the [TS]

00:31:52 ◼   ► pieces that are in the city lots of fun [TS]

00:31:54 ◼   ► expansions too so I I'm I i love carcass [TS]

00:31:58 ◼   ► on and I play it whenever my family [TS]

00:32:00 ◼   ► allows me to [TS]

00:32:02 ◼   ► that's my choice good one I like making [TS]

00:32:04 ◼   ► a lot of you been to the city of [TS]

00:32:05 ◼   ► carcassonne I you know I have not but I [TS]

00:32:09 ◼   ► almost did I actually when we were in [TS]

00:32:11 ◼   ► Barcelona we almost took a day trip [TS]

00:32:12 ◼   ► there and I felt silly silly because the [TS]

00:32:16 ◼   ► number one reason to go there is because [TS]

00:32:17 ◼   ► i like the game so much but I almost did [TS]

00:32:19 ◼   ► it [TS]

00:32:19 ◼   ► maybe that's basically a giant version [TS]

00:32:21 ◼   ► of the board game yeah that's what I [TS]

00:32:23 ◼   ► hear either giant wooden guys standing [TS]

00:32:25 ◼   ► around outfield Ryan people because i [TS]

00:32:27 ◼   ► would like to see where their middles [TS]

00:32:28 ◼   ► uniting the people's its modern art [TS]

00:32:31 ◼   ► really [TS]

00:32:32 ◼   ► uh yeah I just you know it's fun and [TS]

00:32:35 ◼   ► it's and it's smart and every time I [TS]

00:32:36 ◼   ► played I i learned another little trick [TS]

00:32:38 ◼   ► about the strategy of it it unfolds [TS]

00:32:40 ◼   ► which is kinda nice too [TS]

00:32:42 ◼   ► let's move on Monty it's back to you I [TS]

00:32:45 ◼   ► played a lot of four games but i'm going [TS]

00:32:47 ◼   ► to pick the one that I've had the most [TS]

00:32:48 ◼   ► fun with playing with people whether [TS]

00:32:51 ◼   ► it's people who don't play games or [TS]

00:32:53 ◼   ► whether it's you know like style game [TS]

00:32:55 ◼   ► designer hardcore gamers and that's the [TS]

00:32:59 ◼   ► 1977 home game version of family feud [TS]

00:33:04 ◼   ► it is incredibly fun for [TS]

00:33:07 ◼   ► one person to be richard Dawson and to [TS]

00:33:10 ◼   ► divide the group into two groups and [TS]

00:33:12 ◼   ► actually make people guess the answers [TS]

00:33:14 ◼   ► to questions like name a famous Stewart [TS]

00:33:18 ◼   ► and you think well that's easy but the [TS]

00:33:23 ◼   ► thing is it's the 1977 yes there are [TS]

00:33:26 ◼   ► only three people listed here and they [TS]

00:33:28 ◼   ► are Jimmy Stewart rod stewart and [TS]

00:33:30 ◼   ► stewart granger i would have said Jimmy [TS]

00:33:35 ◼   ► Stewart first [TS]

00:33:36 ◼   ► well you got one do you want to play [TS]

00:33:38 ◼   ► your ass right now you finally hit on a [TS]

00:33:44 ◼   ► game i've never played well i recommend [TS]

00:33:46 ◼   ► going on ebay and spending the three [TS]

00:33:48 ◼   ► bucks it will take but you have to [TS]

00:33:54 ◼   ► understand that there are right answers [TS]

00:33:56 ◼   ► because your core of course guessing [TS]

00:33:58 ◼   ► what people said and what people said [TS]

00:34:01 ◼   ► was completely random and insane know as [TS]

00:34:05 ◼   ► another example there's a question name [TS]

00:34:07 ◼   ► of food you want at least once a week [TS]

00:34:08 ◼   ► and what are the answers to that one [TS]

00:34:13 ◼   ► bread meat hamburger steak and then so [TS]

00:34:20 ◼   ► forth but there's no way of knowing that [TS]

00:34:22 ◼   ► hamburger and state could be on the list [TS]

00:34:24 ◼   ► somebody said meet so rather than [TS]

00:34:27 ◼   ► explain how much fun this game is I'm [TS]

00:34:29 ◼   ► just going to give you a couple sample [TS]

00:34:31 ◼   ► questions they dug out of the box just [TS]

00:34:32 ◼   ► now [TS]

00:34:33 ◼   ► ok let's do it name a foreign brand of [TS]

00:34:37 ◼   ► beer heineken includes answers like [TS]

00:34:40 ◼   ► heineken his number-one Lowenbrau [TS]

00:34:43 ◼   ► Lowenbrau is number two I don't think [TS]

00:34:45 ◼   ► anyone's going to get number three which [TS]

00:34:47 ◼   ► is Stroh's oh wow my goodness i remember [TS]

00:34:50 ◼   ► strokes but i would not have come up [TS]

00:34:52 ◼   ► with it also enlist something called [TS]

00:34:54 ◼   ► tuborg and something called genesee I [TS]

00:34:57 ◼   ► want Karen I at least I didn't know that [TS]

00:35:00 ◼   ► was from I thought screws was American [TS]

00:35:02 ◼   ► huh [TS]

00:35:03 ◼   ► apparently it was German or something at [TS]

00:35:05 ◼   ► what it sounds for in David the question [TS]

00:35:08 ◼   ► name it make car you see telephones in [TS]

00:35:11 ◼   ► naturally the answers are rolls-royce [TS]

00:35:14 ◼   ► Cadillac lincoln continental [TS]

00:35:16 ◼   ► mercedes-benz and Chevrolets [TS]

00:35:20 ◼   ► who are these people [TS]

00:35:24 ◼   ► well my theory is that it's just the [TS]

00:35:26 ◼   ► studio audience for the show so it's 90 [TS]

00:35:30 ◼   ► a group of 1977 tourists that would [TS]

00:35:35 ◼   ► explain a lot [TS]

00:35:36 ◼   ► throws all but by the way is an american [TS]

00:35:38 ◼   ► beer for stripper as Detroit Michigan [TS]

00:35:42 ◼   ► come on you guys Detroit is really like [TS]

00:35:45 ◼   ► it's very it's practically candidates [TS]

00:35:48 ◼   ► but yeah right [TS]

00:35:49 ◼   ► oh yeah its exotic so exotic so with [TS]

00:35:52 ◼   ► this strain of having to know the right [TS]

00:35:54 ◼   ► answer removed when you're faced with a [TS]

00:35:56 ◼   ► question like name a brand of coffee you [TS]

00:35:59 ◼   ► get some right away and everybody sits [TS]

00:36:01 ◼   ► around trying to remember holders hills [TS]

00:36:04 ◼   ► brothers tasters choice [TS]

00:36:06 ◼   ► thank thank thank you rim rim yes I am [TS]

00:36:09 ◼   ► feeling a solicitation room with brim [TS]

00:36:11 ◼   ► yeah only half a cup don't you like my [TS]

00:36:13 ◼   ► coffee we've yes we've secretly replaced [TS]

00:36:15 ◼   ► the coffee the normally service fine [TS]

00:36:19 ◼   ► restaurant with Folgers crystals Bob [TS]

00:36:20 ◼   ► never asks for a second cup at home the [TS]

00:36:23 ◼   ► top answer that was Maxwell House and [TS]

00:36:25 ◼   ► the bottom answer was a you ban you been [TS]

00:36:28 ◼   ► yeah oh yeah oh you can't have center [TS]

00:36:30 ◼   ► without you banned it's especially fun [TS]

00:36:32 ◼   ► to play with people who work to live in [TS]

00:36:33 ◼   ► 1977 because they had no idea no idea [TS]

00:36:35 ◼   ► yet [TS]

00:36:37 ◼   ► yeah I got nothing out for their sorry [TS]

00:36:39 ◼   ► wow amazing this game is tremendously [TS]

00:36:42 ◼   ► enjoyable [TS]

00:36:42 ◼   ► alright well $19 Monty your team is [TS]

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00:38:16 ◼   ► incomparable Erica what's your next pick [TS]

00:38:19 ◼   ► oh my goodness i have choices choices i [TS]

00:38:25 ◼   ► think i will i will follow your lead [TS]

00:38:27 ◼   ► with the carcassonne tile sort of bored [TS]

00:38:30 ◼   ► building game and choose one of my [TS]

00:38:32 ◼   ► all-time favorite games to play which is [TS]

00:38:34 ◼   ► more recent called betrayal at house on [TS]

00:38:36 ◼   ► the hill was on my list which which [TS]

00:38:40 ◼   ► which version the original version where [TS]

00:38:44 ◼   ► the big thick of a stack of Virata yet [TS]

00:38:46 ◼   ► the back the broken one [TS]

00:38:48 ◼   ► the battery life and the other broken [TS]

00:38:50 ◼   ► underground lake that's on the Attic [TS]

00:38:52 ◼   ► this is not a right from Monty's former [TS]

00:38:54 ◼   ► employer so recently you were [TS]

00:38:57 ◼   ► responsible for testing this where you I [TS]

00:38:59 ◼   ► was not but i will say that you [TS]

00:39:01 ◼   ► mentioned that there's an underground [TS]

00:39:02 ◼   ► lake tile that's in the upper that's [TS]

00:39:05 ◼   ► what I setting ah because i had access [TS]

00:39:08 ◼   ► to some of the digital files i printed [TS]

00:39:10 ◼   ► out a sticker that fixed mine so i moved [TS]

00:39:14 ◼   ► my doubts the bottom with great power [TS]

00:39:16 ◼   ► comes great responsibility [TS]

00:39:18 ◼   ► I just remember playing a mission in [TS]

00:39:20 ◼   ► that game that it was like impossible [TS]

00:39:21 ◼   ► for us to win or something like we got [TS]

00:39:23 ◼   ► to like I happy through it and is that a [TS]

00:39:26 ◼   ► lot yeah that was maybe this cannot be [TS]

00:39:27 ◼   ► done with it [TS]

00:39:28 ◼   ► yeah i was in a boardgame Club in [TS]

00:39:30 ◼   ► college when that was popular and i [TS]

00:39:32 ◼   ► remember playing it like like every week [TS]

00:39:34 ◼   ► for like a month and then a number of [TS]

00:39:36 ◼   ► times where we either where we would [TS]

00:39:38 ◼   ► like we would be playing for three hours [TS]

00:39:40 ◼   ► and realize that basically the end is [TS]

00:39:43 ◼   ► inevitable [TS]

00:39:44 ◼   ► we are either going to win or lose [TS]

00:39:46 ◼   ► and we just need to roll dice for [TS]

00:39:47 ◼   ► another hour came up way too often so [TS]

00:39:50 ◼   ► Erica explain explain this game to me [TS]

00:39:52 ◼   ► we've got discovered that there may have [TS]

00:39:53 ◼   ► been some flaws [TS]

00:39:54 ◼   ► oh yeah it was certainly I i'm not [TS]

00:39:57 ◼   ► looking at it through any kind of [TS]

00:39:58 ◼   ► rose-colored glasses i just i i really [TS]

00:40:01 ◼   ► enjoyed the the way the game is played [TS]

00:40:03 ◼   ► because very much like carcassonne you [TS]

00:40:05 ◼   ► build the the board which is a house as [TS]

00:40:08 ◼   ► you go [TS]

00:40:09 ◼   ► the idea is you are a bunch of random [TS]

00:40:12 ◼   ► people that for some reason have decided [TS]

00:40:13 ◼   ► to spend the night and investigating [TS]

00:40:16 ◼   ► this this haunted house and on each turn [TS]

00:40:18 ◼   ► I like there's a tiny bit of sort of a [TS]

00:40:20 ◼   ► role-playing elements to it because each [TS]

00:40:22 ◼   ► character has a certain number of the [TS]

00:40:25 ◼   ► speed you know that they can go certain [TS]

00:40:27 ◼   ► number spaces in a turn and there are [TS]

00:40:28 ◼   ► there's they're so smart ex-member of [TS]

00:40:31 ◼   ► points for sort of intelligence and and [TS]

00:40:32 ◼   ► sanity that sort of thing and you [TS]

00:40:36 ◼   ► explore and and turn over a room tile [TS]

00:40:38 ◼   ► for each each broom that you walk into [TS]

00:40:40 ◼   ► and as they mentioned that there is an [TS]

00:40:43 ◼   ► underground lake which is on the third [TS]

00:40:45 ◼   ► floor there's a main floor and upstairs [TS]

00:40:46 ◼   ► and the basement and yeah they were [TS]

00:40:49 ◼   ► there were a few mistakes but you could [TS]

00:40:51 ◼   ► you could travel around the house and [TS]

00:40:52 ◼   ► eventually after a certain number of a [TS]

00:40:55 ◼   ► of events happen there are some cards [TS]

00:40:58 ◼   ► that you turn up and spooky scary things [TS]

00:40:59 ◼   ► it's very fun to we used to put on a [TS]

00:41:01 ◼   ► midnight syndicate cds while we were [TS]

00:41:04 ◼   ► playing this game that's a really spooky [TS]

00:41:05 ◼   ► spooky band that does like just sort of [TS]

00:41:08 ◼   ► ambient music for like it's creepy [TS]

00:41:12 ◼   ► vampire type stuff and you read the [TS]

00:41:15 ◼   ► cards and really spooky voice and [TS]

00:41:18 ◼   ► eventually it becomes clear that one of [TS]

00:41:20 ◼   ► you is a traitor which nobody knows [TS]

00:41:22 ◼   ► until it actually happens and then that [TS]

00:41:25 ◼   ► person has to take this little booklet [TS]

00:41:26 ◼   ► and go off into another room and figure [TS]

00:41:28 ◼   ► out what they're supposed to do and then [TS]

00:41:29 ◼   ► everybody who's left are the good guys [TS]

00:41:31 ◼   ► and you read the a separate booklet and [TS]

00:41:35 ◼   ► then it's sort of like everybody against [TS]

00:41:37 ◼   ► the one traders bad guy and sometimes it [TS]

00:41:41 ◼   ► doesn't work out very well and it's not [TS]

00:41:43 ◼   ► always super well balanced but i just i [TS]

00:41:45 ◼   ► like the idea that it kinda takes a left [TS]

00:41:48 ◼   ► turn in the middle and it's kind of fun [TS]

00:41:49 ◼   ► and it's got a lot of good replayability [TS]

00:41:51 ◼   ► because there are like something like I [TS]

00:41:54 ◼   ► don't know 30 or 50 different is 50 [TS]

00:41:56 ◼   ► yeah 50 different scenarios that you can [TS]

00:41:59 ◼   ► go through [TS]

00:41:59 ◼   ► so there are tons and tons of little [TS]

00:42:01 ◼   ► tokens and tiles and stuff for rats and [TS]

00:42:04 ◼   ► bats and zombies and booze and whatever [TS]

00:42:07 ◼   ► kind of status please don't even put a [TS]

00:42:09 ◼   ► lot of random things for one thing where [TS]

00:42:11 ◼   ► you're having to put together a person [TS]

00:42:13 ◼   ► or something [TS]

00:42:15 ◼   ► it's the house has organs hintertux [TS]

00:42:17 ◼   ► trade you [TS]

00:42:18 ◼   ► I'm i played it too much for a game i [TS]

00:42:20 ◼   ► don't actually like yeah so according to [TS]

00:42:23 ◼   ► be the the erotic page for how thrilling [TS]

00:42:27 ◼   ► house on the hill the way you play is [TS]

00:42:29 ◼   ► when you get to the levitating lake on [TS]

00:42:31 ◼   ► the upper floor you get it cut the floor [TS]

00:42:34 ◼   ► collapses and plunges you down to the [TS]

00:42:36 ◼   ► lake in the basement and then you play [TS]

00:42:38 ◼   ► from there but yeah they are having kind [TS]

00:42:40 ◼   ► of a misprint [TS]

00:42:41 ◼   ► yeah having a link to the product page [TS]

00:42:43 ◼   ► it was very helpful when i played have [TS]

00:42:46 ◼   ► lain a 30 page printout that's layout [TS]

00:42:48 ◼   ► binder clip that stacked on top of my [TS]

00:42:50 ◼   ► box [TS]

00:42:51 ◼   ► Wow out of the floor i can't really push [TS]

00:42:54 ◼   ► the software update to a board game [TS]

00:42:56 ◼   ► no I mean it is it's really cool in that [TS]

00:42:59 ◼   ► each time you play it's gonna be very [TS]

00:43:00 ◼   ► different [TS]

00:43:01 ◼   ► unfortunately sometimes it'll be very [TS]

00:43:03 ◼   ► short sometimes it will be really get [TS]

00:43:05 ◼   ► along sometimes it'll be broken but I [TS]

00:43:07 ◼   ► mean it is i think they wanted to make a [TS]

00:43:09 ◼   ► game that would be very different every [TS]

00:43:11 ◼   ► time you played it and they did that a [TS]

00:43:12 ◼   ► lot of atmosphere which I appreciate [TS]

00:43:14 ◼   ► yes one thing I liked about it was that [TS]

00:43:16 ◼   ► some of the haunts are easier if you get [TS]

00:43:19 ◼   ► them earlier in the game and some are [TS]

00:43:21 ◼   ► easier to get them later in the game so [TS]

00:43:24 ◼   ► sometimes everything gets messed up and [TS]

00:43:26 ◼   ► it's impossible but you don't really [TS]

00:43:28 ◼   ► know until the hot start with your [TS]

00:43:30 ◼   ► facing zombies or the house is on fire [TS]

00:43:32 ◼   ► or you are small and you're running away [TS]

00:43:35 ◼   ► from cats and you have to confront the [TS]

00:43:37 ◼   ► giant paper airplane yes [TS]

00:43:38 ◼   ► yeah now another game i've never heard [TS]

00:43:41 ◼   ► of so good job [TS]

00:43:44 ◼   ► Erica you're different too and expose me [TS]

00:43:46 ◼   ► the games I have never even heard of [TS]

00:43:47 ◼   ► before [TS]

00:43:48 ◼   ► alright ah David your turn alright [TS]

00:43:51 ◼   ► here's one that friend got for me years [TS]

00:43:56 ◼   ► and years ago called poetry slam and [TS]

00:44:00 ◼   ► it's basically scrabble but with words [TS]

00:44:04 ◼   ► and the you know it's gotten answers I [TS]

00:44:08 ◼   ► mean if you've had if you've had a man [TS]

00:44:09 ◼   ► metric poetry kit same kind of pieces [TS]

00:44:12 ◼   ► right and your you would get scored [TS]

00:44:16 ◼   ► points for you know smaller points a [TS]

00:44:18 ◼   ► smaller words to be low points [TS]

00:44:20 ◼   ► complicated difficult words would be big [TS]

00:44:23 ◼   ► points we used to add to the rules [TS]

00:44:27 ◼   ► because there weren't enough rules that [TS]

00:44:29 ◼   ► you know if if your sentence or your [TS]

00:44:31 ◼   ► line was more coherent or more [TS]

00:44:33 ◼   ► attractive you get a bonus point if it [TS]

00:44:35 ◼   ► was nonsense but you didn't have a [TS]

00:44:37 ◼   ► choice either those were all the words [TS]

00:44:39 ◼   ► you had you didn't get any points but [TS]

00:44:41 ◼   ► that's a lot of fun and it would be fun [TS]

00:44:44 ◼   ► to Train make sense of all the poems and [TS]

00:44:47 ◼   ► sentences on the board by the end of the [TS]

00:44:48 ◼   ► game and so you know it's it's a fun fun [TS]

00:44:53 ◼   ► way to come up with random stuff so [TS]

00:44:55 ◼   ► magnetic poetry the board game basically [TS]

00:44:58 ◼   ► basically that's another one I've never [TS]

00:45:01 ◼   ► played or even heard of in this case [TS]

00:45:04 ◼   ► yeah I don't know if they even still [TS]

00:45:05 ◼   ► make it anymore but it's it's a lot of [TS]

00:45:07 ◼   ► fun it's well worth grabbing especially [TS]

00:45:09 ◼   ► if you like scrambled sort of squeeze a [TS]

00:45:12 ◼   ► little more difficult than scrabble [TS]

00:45:13 ◼   ► obviously wow yeah it's on [TS]

00:45:16 ◼   ► i'm looking at the page on boardgamegeek [TS]

00:45:17 ◼   ► right now it's real [TS]

00:45:19 ◼   ► he didn't imagine people it's I can take [TS]

00:45:22 ◼   ► a picture of it with myself and a [TS]

00:45:23 ◼   ► newspaper from today you haven't tasted [TS]

00:45:27 ◼   ► it yet [TS]

00:45:28 ◼   ► what introduce ya newspaper way to make [TS]

00:45:31 ◼   ► mines anymore [TS]

00:45:33 ◼   ► my degree is sometimes a half my ipad [TS]

00:45:36 ◼   ► with a website of the x 3000 really [TS]

00:45:39 ◼   ► impossible to fit much better much [TS]

00:45:42 ◼   ► better your photos impossible with a [TS]

00:45:44 ◼   ► hostage-taking order you something right [TS]

00:45:46 ◼   ► buddy [TS]

00:45:47 ◼   ► your turn okay i'm going to draft race [TS]

00:45:51 ◼   ► for the galaxy [TS]

00:45:52 ◼   ► ok that's because it's a great game who [TS]

00:45:55 ◼   ► else's place for the galaxy [TS]

00:45:56 ◼   ► I haven't played it but i do know of it [TS]

00:45:58 ◼   ► just can I played against you [TS]

00:46:00 ◼   ► many many times you call that playing [TS]

00:46:03 ◼   ► dan and I played a lot of race for the [TS]

00:46:08 ◼   ► galaxy race for galaxy is a card or [TS]

00:46:12 ◼   ► board game that is delightful it is a [TS]

00:46:15 ◼   ► game in which you are building a [TS]

00:46:17 ◼   ► galactic empire it is not it it's not as [TS]

00:46:22 ◼   ► interactive again [TS]

00:46:23 ◼   ► as other games that i like your kind of [TS]

00:46:24 ◼   ► building a little Empire for yourself [TS]

00:46:25 ◼   ► and pulling cards and using cards to buy [TS]

00:46:27 ◼   ► other cards and build this little empire [TS]

00:46:29 ◼   ► in front of you it's actually kind of if [TS]

00:46:31 ◼   ► you have ever played the game [TS]

00:46:32 ◼   ► Porto Rico which is a game where you [TS]

00:46:34 ◼   ► hang on these so apparently the the [TS]

00:46:36 ◼   ► stories that race for the galaxy wasn't [TS]

00:46:38 ◼   ► that came kind of out of a game design [TS]

00:46:40 ◼   ► challenge in which the idea was to take [TS]

00:46:42 ◼   ► the get the board game puerto rico and [TS]

00:46:44 ◼   ► turn it into a card game and that is [TS]

00:46:46 ◼   ► somewhat what they've done [TS]

00:46:47 ◼   ► you get to choose a kind of a special [TS]

00:46:49 ◼   ► power each turn and those can rotate and [TS]

00:46:51 ◼   ► there's turning things into either [TS]

00:46:54 ◼   ► victory points or into goods that you [TS]

00:46:56 ◼   ► can use to convert into stuff on it is [TS]

00:46:59 ◼   ► not the easiest game to learn how to [TS]

00:47:01 ◼   ► play it is very popular in there at this [TS]

00:47:03 ◼   ► point I think 45 expansions for it on [TS]

00:47:06 ◼   ► which add to the complexity of it but it [TS]

00:47:09 ◼   ► does take a while to ramp up to it i [TS]

00:47:11 ◼   ► have taught many people have to play it [TS]

00:47:12 ◼   ► and it's a game that takes like a good [TS]

00:47:14 ◼   ► five or six times before people get it [TS]

00:47:15 ◼   ► but i have frequently heard people refer [TS]

00:47:17 ◼   ► to it as a nerd poker because people [TS]

00:47:20 ◼   ► really enjoy playing it and being able [TS]

00:47:23 ◼   ► to chat while playing it once that kind [TS]

00:47:24 ◼   ► of mastered it [TS]

00:47:25 ◼   ► it does kind of suffer in that it's not [TS]

00:47:26 ◼   ► a very interactive game right like [TS]

00:47:28 ◼   ► you're not trading goods with other [TS]

00:47:30 ◼   ► people or affecting other people which [TS]

00:47:32 ◼   ► is kind of one of my critiques of a lot [TS]

00:47:34 ◼   ► of the kind of older style board games [TS]

00:47:36 ◼   ► where it's like you know you're rolling [TS]

00:47:37 ◼   ► dice and moving a little thing around [TS]

00:47:38 ◼   ► bored and you're not actually [TS]

00:47:39 ◼   ► interacting with other people in the [TS]

00:47:42 ◼   ► game space some of us like that so I [TS]

00:47:44 ◼   ► like protective plus i do like that [TS]

00:47:47 ◼   ► because it i refer to that game as being [TS]

00:47:49 ◼   ► its competitive without being [TS]

00:47:51 ◼   ► antagonistic yes which is to say you're [TS]

00:47:53 ◼   ► not [TS]

00:47:54 ◼   ► yeah you're not trying to be like you [TS]

00:47:55 ◼   ► can't grieve somebody in racing around [TS]

00:47:57 ◼   ► see which I think also having played [TS]

00:47:59 ◼   ► with Tony and some of our other friends [TS]

00:48:01 ◼   ► I think that's a good thing i'm coming [TS]

00:48:04 ◼   ► for you and i and i would put race for [TS]

00:48:06 ◼   ► the galaxy in this lake [TS]

00:48:08 ◼   ► probably my grouping of like five games [TS]

00:48:11 ◼   ► that I played hundreds of times to the [TS]

00:48:13 ◼   ► point that like I would get sick of it [TS]

00:48:14 ◼   ► and then take a couple weeks off for [TS]

00:48:16 ◼   ► months off and then come back to it [TS]

00:48:18 ◼   ► there were times where like you know you [TS]

00:48:20 ◼   ► go away for a weekend and I would just [TS]

00:48:22 ◼   ► play dozens of games in a weekend with [TS]

00:48:24 ◼   ► people i will never forget their the [TS]

00:48:26 ◼   ► time again and I were sitting in my use [TS]

00:48:29 ◼   ► the word crappy but let's say shabby [TS]

00:48:30 ◼   ► apartment in the summer with no [TS]

00:48:33 ◼   ► air-conditioning and we just played I [TS]

00:48:35 ◼   ► think then we played race ago [TS]

00:48:36 ◼   ► see from like noon until like like in [TS]

00:48:38 ◼   ► three and thirty in the morning or [TS]

00:48:40 ◼   ► something yeah something like that was [TS]

00:48:41 ◼   ► and we just have playing at speed you [TS]

00:48:43 ◼   ► can play in a game in about half an hour [TS]

00:48:45 ◼   ► and just finishing be like one more game [TS]

00:48:47 ◼   ► for Game well and it had it hits that [TS]

00:48:50 ◼   ► kind of that thing that it because of [TS]

00:48:52 ◼   ► the strategy that's in it that like I [TS]

00:48:53 ◼   ► feel like a lot of video games kind of [TS]

00:48:55 ◼   ► kind of catch you where you can like you [TS]

00:48:57 ◼   ► want to try you want to get a little bit [TS]

00:48:58 ◼   ► better each time right all right you [TS]

00:49:00 ◼   ► know there is an element but of kind of [TS]

00:49:02 ◼   ► both competing with yourself as well as [TS]

00:49:04 ◼   ► the other players because you can't [TS]

00:49:05 ◼   ► really interact with them which is kind [TS]

00:49:07 ◼   ► of neat so you are kind of playing [TS]

00:49:09 ◼   ► against yourself trying to see how many [TS]

00:49:10 ◼   ► points you can get there are several [TS]

00:49:12 ◼   ► different strategies that people try to [TS]

00:49:13 ◼   ► use and that you know people leaving so [TS]

00:49:15 ◼   ► you know and some of those are kind of [TS]

00:49:17 ◼   ► pic for you at the beginning you get [TS]

00:49:18 ◼   ► assigned I homeworld the start of the [TS]

00:49:20 ◼   ► game randomly and you know the home [TS]

00:49:22 ◼   ► world gives you a slight edge toward a [TS]

00:49:23 ◼   ► variety of different strategies so [TS]

00:49:24 ◼   ► there's like you might get a strategy to [TS]

00:49:26 ◼   ► homeworld that starting with a little [TS]

00:49:28 ◼   ► bit of military power and you decide I'm [TS]

00:49:29 ◼   ► gonna go military or I'm not going to go [TS]

00:49:31 ◼   ► military and I i like that because it's [TS]

00:49:35 ◼   ► kind of like games where you can kind of [TS]

00:49:37 ◼   ► try practice it and hope that you're [TS]

00:49:39 ◼   ► getting better and better and you know [TS]

00:49:41 ◼   ► theoretically could never get bored of [TS]

00:49:43 ◼   ► it but it right [TS]

00:49:44 ◼   ► what's nice is extremely tactical game 2 [TS]

00:49:46 ◼   ► which is that if there are many [TS]

00:49:48 ◼   ► different valid paths to winning and it [TS]

00:49:52 ◼   ► really does depend on how you're playing [TS]

00:49:54 ◼   ► it and also i like the tactical part [TS]

00:49:56 ◼   ► that it's you know your best move is the [TS]

00:49:59 ◼   ► move that you can like make right now [TS]

00:50:00 ◼   ► right like you gotta look about what is [TS]

00:50:02 ◼   ► my options right now I gotta do the best [TS]

00:50:03 ◼   ► thing for me right now as opposed to [TS]

00:50:05 ◼   ► like if you try to plan out like eight [TS]

00:50:07 ◼   ► moves ahead and you don't get the cards [TS]

00:50:09 ◼   ► that you want you know that that's a [TS]

00:50:11 ◼   ► waste [TS]

00:50:11 ◼   ► so you go to raise my galaxy with the [TS]

00:50:13 ◼   ► cards you have not the cards you need [TS]

00:50:14 ◼   ► and so I don't know it always hit that [TS]

00:50:17 ◼   ► kind of strategy spot for me probably in [TS]

00:50:20 ◼   ► a way that maybe poker or chested for [TS]

00:50:22 ◼   ► other people I used to play a lot of [TS]

00:50:24 ◼   ► chest like and in junior high and was [TS]

00:50:26 ◼   ► never was always rubbish at it [TS]

00:50:27 ◼   ► I've never really gotten into poker but [TS]

00:50:30 ◼   ► that idea of kind of trying to get a [TS]

00:50:31 ◼   ► little bit better each time and and kind [TS]

00:50:33 ◼   ► of it is one of those good games where [TS]

00:50:36 ◼   ► you know i think you could probably [TS]

00:50:38 ◼   ► never completely master it so that [TS]

00:50:39 ◼   ► there's always there's an interesting [TS]

00:50:41 ◼   ► element of that and there is if you do [TS]

00:50:44 ◼   ► not like other humans [TS]

00:50:45 ◼   ► there's probably there's a version you [TS]

00:50:46 ◼   ► can play on your computer we can beat [TS]

00:50:49 ◼   ► the AI [TS]

00:50:50 ◼   ► k is pretty good and you can just you [TS]

00:50:52 ◼   ► can play those games in like eight [TS]

00:50:53 ◼   ► minutes because you're not waiting for [TS]

00:50:54 ◼   ► other humans [TS]

00:50:55 ◼   ► I don't know if I recommend that but if [TS]

00:50:57 ◼   ► you do not like other people check that [TS]

00:50:59 ◼   ► out and don't talk to me all right [TS]

00:51:01 ◼   ► I it does sound good however my favorite [TS]

00:51:04 ◼   ► part of puerto rico is a little wooden [TS]

00:51:05 ◼   ► barrels so i assume these are time and [TS]

00:51:07 ◼   ► no wooden barrels that makes me sad [TS]

00:51:09 ◼   ► there I mean I i enjoyed puerto rico i [TS]

00:51:11 ◼   ► played a lot of that before racing [TS]

00:51:13 ◼   ► galaxy there are some of the automatic [TS]

00:51:15 ◼   ► elements of puerto rico that I could [TS]

00:51:16 ◼   ► never not be uncomfortable about so fair [TS]

00:51:19 ◼   ► enough water rico is a game in which [TS]

00:51:21 ◼   ► unpaid workers come to help you make [TS]

00:51:24 ◼   ► good at your plantation but a little [TS]

00:51:27 ◼   ► Harold's from far away and they're so [TS]

00:51:30 ◼   ► eager to finish two more people come [TS]

00:51:32 ◼   ► every day to work for free on my [TS]

00:51:33 ◼   ► plantation yeah I makes them so there's [TS]

00:51:35 ◼   ► that on one hand on the other hand you [TS]

00:51:38 ◼   ► get to say indigo so like you've got a [TS]

00:51:40 ◼   ► mouth looks that out [TS]

00:51:41 ◼   ► dad it's your turn well I'm gonna pick a [TS]

00:51:43 ◼   ► slightly similar game in that i find it [TS]

00:51:45 ◼   ► falls in that same sort of competitive [TS]

00:51:46 ◼   ► without being antagonistic slot and this [TS]

00:51:49 ◼   ► is I probably my favorite game recent [TS]

00:51:51 ◼   ► years i bought it for multiple people [TS]

00:51:52 ◼   ► and that is seven wonders [TS]

00:51:54 ◼   ► I'm anybody else has ladies at night [TS]

00:51:57 ◼   ► there's not yet i mean i know tony has [TS]

00:52:00 ◼   ► but it's it is a really fun game where [TS]

00:52:02 ◼   ► it takes place in its the seven wonders [TS]

00:52:04 ◼   ► of the ancient world each of you get one [TS]

00:52:06 ◼   ► of the wonders game on a card game but [TS]

00:52:10 ◼   ► it has boards as a board you have a [TS]

00:52:11 ◼   ► board in front of you you have an [TS]

00:52:13 ◼   ► individual bored with your wonder on it [TS]

00:52:15 ◼   ► and you basically it's played in three [TS]

00:52:17 ◼   ► ages and in each age you have your Delta [TS]

00:52:21 ◼   ► a certain number of cards that are [TS]

00:52:22 ◼   ► things that you can build like resources [TS]

00:52:24 ◼   ► you know like wood piles are you know [TS]

00:52:27 ◼   ► brick places you can actually get break [TS]

00:52:29 ◼   ► from or rock or what have you and then [TS]

00:52:32 ◼   ► make things get more complicated your [TS]

00:52:33 ◼   ► building like forums and the Senate's [TS]

00:52:36 ◼   ► and there's all these different types of [TS]

00:52:38 ◼   ► cards the science cards we're building [TS]

00:52:40 ◼   ► like achievements and learning and and [TS]

00:52:43 ◼   ► things where you're building like [TS]

00:52:43 ◼   ► statues or or monuments or things [TS]

00:52:46 ◼   ► rebuilding commercial things and you [TS]

00:52:48 ◼   ► sort of go around and build your tableau [TS]

00:52:50 ◼   ► and you're competing with the people you [TS]

00:52:53 ◼   ► know to try and build acquire the most [TS]

00:52:54 ◼   ► points have your tab will be worth the [TS]

00:52:56 ◼   ► most at the end of the game and you do [TS]

00:52:58 ◼   ► there is some interaction because you [TS]

00:52:59 ◼   ► can trade as in something like sellers [TS]

00:53:01 ◼   ► Don you can trade resources with the [TS]

00:53:03 ◼   ► people [TS]

00:53:03 ◼   ► on either side of you but since it plays [TS]

00:53:05 ◼   ► up to seven people that are oftentimes [TS]

00:53:07 ◼   ► people who are like across the table [TS]

00:53:09 ◼   ► from you that you are basically will [TS]

00:53:10 ◼   ► never interact with but it's super fun [TS]

00:53:14 ◼   ► it takes you know like it's not too [TS]

00:53:17 ◼   ► steep of a learning curve i find that [TS]

00:53:19 ◼   ► the first game takes about an hour and [TS]

00:53:21 ◼   ► then subsequent games you can play in [TS]

00:53:22 ◼   ► about half an hour [TS]

00:53:23 ◼   ► there's a really cool mechanic with [TS]

00:53:24 ◼   ► where your hand you're dealt the [TS]

00:53:27 ◼   ► beginning the game basically gets passed [TS]

00:53:29 ◼   ► around to every player so you pick a [TS]

00:53:31 ◼   ► card and then you pass the remaining [TS]

00:53:33 ◼   ► cards to the player on your right or [TS]

00:53:34 ◼   ► left and basically it goes all the way [TS]

00:53:36 ◼   ► around so it's another one of these [TS]

00:53:38 ◼   ► games that require sort of like alright [TS]

00:53:39 ◼   ► these are these cards what's the best [TS]

00:53:41 ◼   ► card i can pick right now because I [TS]

00:53:43 ◼   ► might not have another chance at this [TS]

00:53:46 ◼   ► set of cards and it's it's really [TS]

00:53:48 ◼   ► beautiful game it's with great art you [TS]

00:53:51 ◼   ► know well designed and I haven't really [TS]

00:53:53 ◼   ► met anybody who doesn't seem to enjoy it [TS]

00:53:55 ◼   ► so i bought it for my cousins for a [TS]

00:53:59 ◼   ► couple friends it's it's super fun and [TS]

00:54:02 ◼   ► it's hard to find games that place seven [TS]

00:54:03 ◼   ► people [TS]

00:54:04 ◼   ► yeah it is it's a good one for the egg i [TS]

00:54:06 ◼   ► think it's it's it's in that nice spot [TS]

00:54:08 ◼   ► of having enough complexity but also [TS]

00:54:10 ◼   ► being something that you can introduce [TS]

00:54:12 ◼   ► other people too i used to play board [TS]

00:54:14 ◼   ► games with people of my work over lunch [TS]

00:54:16 ◼   ► and it was always like hard to find a [TS]

00:54:18 ◼   ► game that you could definitely play in [TS]

00:54:19 ◼   ► an hour and that you could definitely [TS]

00:54:21 ◼   ► play in an hour and teach somebody would [TS]

00:54:23 ◼   ► not played it before and seven wonders [TS]

00:54:25 ◼   ► fits like perfectly into that it's a [TS]

00:54:27 ◼   ► really great i'd say of all the games [TS]

00:54:28 ◼   ► we've kind of talked about today if [TS]

00:54:30 ◼   ► there's one that like you want to go out [TS]

00:54:32 ◼   ► and buy and play for the first time [TS]

00:54:34 ◼   ► without you know knowing how to play [TS]

00:54:36 ◼   ► ahead of time seven wonders to be a [TS]

00:54:37 ◼   ► great one to start with my old work [TS]

00:54:40 ◼   ► nobody ever worried about that [TS]

00:54:41 ◼   ► so every mail room was full of wargames [TS]

00:54:44 ◼   ► tucked in the corner with note saying [TS]

00:54:46 ◼   ► please do not move any of these armies [TS]

00:54:48 ◼   ► right I my turn [TS]

00:54:52 ◼   ► I'm gonna pick a game so my plan playing [TS]

00:54:55 ◼   ► board games with my kids is a challenge [TS]

00:54:57 ◼   ► because when you lose it can be [TS]

00:55:01 ◼   ► upsetting if you're really into the game [TS]

00:55:03 ◼   ► I don't know if you remember being a kid [TS]

00:55:04 ◼   ► and having that moment of like you know [TS]

00:55:06 ◼   ► it's not that great to lose a game and [TS]

00:55:10 ◼   ► so we my wife and I went on a whole [TS]

00:55:16 ◼   ► quest to come up with some games that we [TS]

00:55:19 ◼   ► could play that would not upset my son [TS]

00:55:20 ◼   ► because if you didn't win he would be [TS]

00:55:24 ◼   ► upset [TS]

00:55:25 ◼   ► let the Wookiee win that was one thing [TS]

00:55:26 ◼   ► we could do otherwise we had to find a [TS]

00:55:28 ◼   ► game that was cooperative and we ended [TS]

00:55:30 ◼   ► up finding one that he loves to this day [TS]

00:55:33 ◼   ► several years later and it's castle [TS]

00:55:36 ◼   ► panic i don't know if you guys have I [TS]

00:55:39 ◼   ► have played it played this game he [TS]

00:55:41 ◼   ► basically you have a castle in the [TS]

00:55:43 ◼   ► center of the map and every turn its [TS]

00:55:46 ◼   ► cool completely cooperative game every [TS]

00:55:49 ◼   ► turn monsters appear in the forest and [TS]

00:55:52 ◼   ► move toward your castle and the game [TS]

00:55:55 ◼   ► ends when you kill all the monsters and [TS]

00:55:57 ◼   ► there's a big bag full of monster tiles [TS]

00:55:59 ◼   ► or the monsters knock down all the walls [TS]

00:56:02 ◼   ► of your castle and I think there are six [TS]

00:56:03 ◼   ► different walls that they can they can [TS]

00:56:06 ◼   ► hit and then you then you lose and when [TS]

00:56:09 ◼   ► you lose everybody loses and if you win [TS]

00:56:11 ◼   ► then the person who kills the most [TS]

00:56:12 ◼   ► monsters is the master Slayer but really [TS]

00:56:14 ◼   ► it is a cooperative game and it's got [TS]

00:56:17 ◼   ► some expansion packs that up the [TS]

00:56:19 ◼   ► difficulty level a little bit because [TS]

00:56:20 ◼   ► after you played a little while you can [TS]

00:56:22 ◼   ► get pretty good unless you really have [TS]

00:56:24 ◼   ► bad luck with the drawing of the [TS]

00:56:25 ◼   ► monsters you can get pretty good at [TS]

00:56:27 ◼   ► killing the monsters and and the way the [TS]

00:56:29 ◼   ► play works as you get cards that are [TS]

00:56:31 ◼   ► basically often stew attack various [TS]

00:56:36 ◼   ► monsters in various places on the board [TS]

00:56:38 ◼   ► and you can trade one card with with [TS]

00:56:42 ◼   ► other players on the board so you're [TS]

00:56:44 ◼   ► trying to work the problem together and [TS]

00:56:47 ◼   ► then you kill the monsters and take [TS]

00:56:48 ◼   ► their tokens and then when that's all [TS]

00:56:50 ◼   ► done you move the monsters and they get [TS]

00:56:52 ◼   ► closer and they move around and they do [TS]

00:56:54 ◼   ► and occasionally giant boulders roll [TS]

00:56:56 ◼   ► through and slam into the walls of your [TS]

00:56:57 ◼   ► castle and things like that but it's a [TS]

00:57:00 ◼   ► lot of fun and there's no either [TS]

00:57:02 ◼   ► everybody loses in which case there's no [TS]

00:57:04 ◼   ► gloating winner it right it's just like [TS]

00:57:07 ◼   ► a shock the monsters one or everybody [TS]

00:57:09 ◼   ► wins and I really like that and it feels [TS]

00:57:14 ◼   ► actually a little bit like a video game [TS]

00:57:15 ◼   ► reminds me of space invaders in a way in [TS]

00:57:17 ◼   ► the relentless way that the waves of [TS]

00:57:19 ◼   ► they just keep coming and they come [TS]

00:57:21 ◼   ► closer and closer and closer until they [TS]

00:57:23 ◼   ► destroy you but it it has been really [TS]

00:57:26 ◼   ► successful with my kids because it is [TS]

00:57:29 ◼   ► cooperative [TS]

00:57:30 ◼   ► and yet and they can grasp the the [TS]

00:57:33 ◼   ► strategy of how to knock these monsters [TS]

00:57:36 ◼   ► off and yeah the monsters have different [TS]

00:57:37 ◼   ► illustrations on their card so they're [TS]

00:57:38 ◼   ► kind of interesting it's like oh that [TS]

00:57:40 ◼   ► guy's really ugly and all that but in [TS]

00:57:41 ◼   ► the end it's a great like teamwork board [TS]

00:57:44 ◼   ► game so castle panic i like it a lot [TS]

00:57:46 ◼   ► you should play it play it with kids [TS]

00:57:48 ◼   ► they like it [TS]

00:57:50 ◼   ► you know for kids yeah that's a good one [TS]

00:57:54 ◼   ► so shout-out to my local game store who [TS]

00:57:56 ◼   ► recommended that one to us because they [TS]

00:57:58 ◼   ► got it right [TS]

00:57:59 ◼   ► support your local game store okay hey [TS]

00:58:02 ◼   ► you know what game we haven't mentioned [TS]

00:58:03 ◼   ► in this entire episode of the [TS]

00:58:04 ◼   ► incomparable so far [TS]

00:58:06 ◼   ► cards against humanity the reason is [TS]

00:58:09 ◼   ► this episode is brought to you by cards [TS]

00:58:11 ◼   ► against humanity [TS]

00:58:13 ◼   ► now they asked us not to say anything [TS]

00:58:15 ◼   ► about their game because they said they [TS]

00:58:16 ◼   ► just didn't want to waste your time so [TS]

00:58:18 ◼   ► they say enjoy the podcast [TS]

00:58:21 ◼   ► thank you two cards against humanity I'm [TS]

00:58:23 ◼   ► just gonna slip it in their cards [TS]

00:58:24 ◼   ► against humanity calm all right back to [TS]

00:58:26 ◼   ► it [TS]

00:58:27 ◼   ► let's do a lightning round where we just [TS]

00:58:28 ◼   ► go around really quickly and name [TS]

00:58:30 ◼   ► another another round before we before [TS]

00:58:32 ◼   ► we go I don't want to just do two rounds [TS]

00:58:34 ◼   ► so Monty what do you have a risk 2210 ad [TS]

00:58:37 ◼   ► it's like risk but it has new maps it's [TS]

00:58:40 ◼   ► in the future so you can go to space and [TS]

00:58:43 ◼   ► there's a turn limit everybody gets five [TS]

00:58:45 ◼   ► turns at five years and you're done [TS]

00:58:47 ◼   ► really improves risk [TS]

00:58:49 ◼   ► oh and their nukes you get the nuclear [TS]

00:58:51 ◼   ► bomb people wow you are there other [TS]

00:58:53 ◼   ► crazy risk duty and have you played a [TS]

00:58:55 ◼   ► crazy [TS]

00:58:56 ◼   ► yeah i was going to risk agassi yeah [TS]

00:58:58 ◼   ► that's what I see is not that was on my [TS]

00:58:59 ◼   ► list [TS]

00:59:00 ◼   ► not as much fun game per game as risk [TS]

00:59:02 ◼   ► 2210 80 which I played a million times [TS]

00:59:05 ◼   ► cool well just let her i used to work [TS]

00:59:07 ◼   ► for the company that made it alright [TS]

00:59:08 ◼   ► more disclosure for my body is connected [TS]

00:59:11 ◼   ► to many of these games although he takes [TS]

00:59:13 ◼   ► no credit or blame for betrayal and the [TS]

00:59:15 ◼   ► house on the hill he tried to fix it but [TS]

00:59:20 ◼   ► the only fixed is one copy and as I a [TS]

00:59:23 ◼   ► good enough [TS]

00:59:24 ◼   ► Erica were value my nexus one of my [TS]

00:59:27 ◼   ► all-time favorite games [TS]

00:59:28 ◼   ► arkham horror which is a game based on [TS]

00:59:31 ◼   ► the American i think you and i may have [TS]

00:59:35 ◼   ► like opposite idea [TS]

00:59:37 ◼   ► not happiness and board games I think [TS]

00:59:40 ◼   ► you might be right [TS]