Episodes

6 days ago
Episode 197 - Picking Over the Bones
6 days ago
6 days ago
Ronan is joined by returning guest Adam and between them they mull over the merits of Akropolis, Oath, Ahoy!, Rumble Nation, Star Trek: Ascendancy, Red Cathedral: Contractors, Sea, Salt & Paper and Oriflamme: Ablaze.
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Thursday Mar 09, 2023
Episode 196 - Top 100 Games of All Time: 40 - 31
Thursday Mar 09, 2023
Thursday Mar 09, 2023
Sean and Ronan rock up and roll out twenty of the greatest games to ever grace the tables of the world. T-Rexs! Dragons! Minotaurs! Vikings! Merchants! Human Shields Gods! Ravens! Cathedrals! Escalators! This episode has it all. Join us.
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Wednesday Mar 01, 2023
Episode 195 - Two Little Pit Fights
Wednesday Mar 01, 2023
Wednesday Mar 01, 2023
Ronan jumps in to adjudicate on two mini pit fights this episode.
In one ring we have three solo games but first up is the main event, three fantasy mappy adventurey movey aroundy games.
Which Champions are crowned and who will return to the gaming gym to try and improve for next time?

Tuesday Feb 07, 2023
Episode 194 - Picking Over the Bones
Tuesday Feb 07, 2023
Tuesday Feb 07, 2023
Ronan is joined by Lloyd as they go on a time travelling adventure through theme and decision density. Games covered include Ahoy!, San Francisco, Stars of Akarios and a plethora of older titles both shiny and tarnished.
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Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
Episode 193 - Top 100 Games of All Time: 50 - 41
Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
Close your eyes, start a journey to a strange new world
Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before
Close your eyes and let music set you free
Only then can you belong to me
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Sunday Jan 15, 2023
Episode 192 - Holiday Gaming and Top 10 of 2013
Sunday Jan 15, 2023
Sunday Jan 15, 2023
Sean and Ronan return to recall the games old and new they feasted on over the holidays. They then turn their gaze down memory lane and recall the top ten games from one of the greatest years for news releases, 2013.
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Thursday Dec 22, 2022
Episode 191 - Top 100 Games: 60 - 51
Thursday Dec 22, 2022
Thursday Dec 22, 2022
Strap in as Sean and Ronan continue their rundown of the greatest games ever known to grace a table. Space! Dams! Cats! Pyroclastic Flow! We have it all.
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Wednesday Dec 14, 2022
Episode 190 - Picking Over the Bones: Mosaic, War of the Ring The Card Game and more...
Wednesday Dec 14, 2022
Wednesday Dec 14, 2022
Ronan is here to meander his way through five games, one activity and a book.
Featured are; Mosaic, War of the Ring: Card Game, Caldera Park, Village Rails, ROVE, Rankster and Board Games on My Mind.
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Sunday Nov 20, 2022
Episode 189: Picking Over the Bones
Sunday Nov 20, 2022
Sunday Nov 20, 2022
Ronan reviews seven games in this episode. The titles covered are; Terracotta Army, Hamlet, Cat in the Box, Deities, Night Parade of a Hundred Yokai, Fun Facts and Town 66.
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Thursday Oct 27, 2022
Episode 188 - Top 100 Games of All Time: 70 - 61
Thursday Oct 27, 2022
Thursday Oct 27, 2022
Sean and Ronan continue their countdown of the greatest games of all time with twenty more all time bangers to fill your table.
In this episode they introduce The Eeky Rating, Ronan finds himself in a lake of minestrone soup, Sean watches people confused by fish and when is a game surpassed but not actually surpassed.
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Wednesday Oct 19, 2022
Episode 187 - Essen Spiel 2022 Battle Report
Wednesday Oct 19, 2022
Wednesday Oct 19, 2022
Ronan is here to ramble around his thoughts about our visit to Spiel 2022 and then give some initial opinions on seven new releases.
The games he licks this time are; Starship Captains, Kites, Flamecraft, Marvel Remix, Orichalcum, Donkey Valley and Joan of Arc: Draw and Write.
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Monday Oct 03, 2022
Episode 186 - Spiel 2022 Treasure Hunt Part 2
Monday Oct 03, 2022
Monday Oct 03, 2022
Ronan returns with more ill informed opinions for a bit of fun. He takes a run at thirteen games releasing at Spiel 2022 this week and tries to predict whether they will be Treasures or Traps.
Games covered are; Swindler, Kites, Mosaic, Evergreen, The Great Split, Donkey Valley, Rankster, All Roads, Atiwa, Deities, Evora, Kingdom Defenders and Oneironauts.
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Friday Sep 30, 2022
Episode 185 - Spiel 2022 Treasure Hunt Part 1
Friday Sep 30, 2022
Friday Sep 30, 2022
Sean and Ronan are here with their crystal balls to try and predict the future again. Just for fun they have cast their eyes over twenty new releases for this year's Spiel at Essen and they give their uninformed opinions on whether each game will be a Treasure, worth parting with your gold for, or a Trap, luring in the unwary.
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Monday Sep 26, 2022
Episode 184: Picking Over the Bones
Monday Sep 26, 2022
Monday Sep 26, 2022
Ronan returns to regale you all with reviews of; Sniper Elite, Tabannusi, Welcome to the Moon, Imperium: Classics, Waste Knights 2nd Edition, Voyages, It's a Wonderful Kingdom, Cross Clues and Paleo.
This episode is brought to you by Lemsip, Strepsils and Benylin.
Be good to each other.

Monday Sep 12, 2022
Episode 183: Top 10 of 2021 with Matthew Jude
Monday Sep 12, 2022
Monday Sep 12, 2022
Matthew once again dives into The Pit, alongside Sean and Ronan he gives the lowdown on the best and worst of 2021 in board gaming.
To go with our Top 10s we also run through our Games of the Year, Biggest Disappointments, Under the Radar, Best Production and Best Reprints.
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Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
Episode 182: Picking Over the Bones
Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
Ronan returns to ruminate on seven games to lately grace The Pit.
Your victims this time around are; burncycle, Renature, Luna Capital, Babylonia, Silver & Gold, Scout and Messina 1347.
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Friday Aug 19, 2022
Episode 181: Top 100 Games of All Time 80 - 71
Friday Aug 19, 2022
Friday Aug 19, 2022
Our countdown continues with twenty more incredible game (maybe nineteen) as Sean and Ronan give their picks from 80 to 71 in the definitive Game Pit Top 100 Games of All Time.
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Friday Aug 05, 2022
Episode 180 - Two Player Game Pit Fight
Friday Aug 05, 2022
Friday Aug 05, 2022
Ronan enters the pit this episode to referee a wrangle between seven two player games. They have been weighed, they have been measured but which ones have been found wanting and which ones are true von Leichtenstiens? Travelling through Europe disguised as Venus?
The contenders in this episode are; Golems, Jekyll vs Hyde, Opale, Radlands, So You've Been Eaten, The Field of the Cloth of Gold and Volfyirion.
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Tuesday Jul 26, 2022
Episode 179: Picking Over the Bones
Tuesday Jul 26, 2022
Tuesday Jul 26, 2022
Ronan is back with a review of six games this time around. The games gnawed over in the episode are Paint the Roses, Ark Nova, Azul: Queen's Garden, Wise Guys, Three Sisters and Undaunted: Normandy.
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Friday May 20, 2022
Episode 178 - Top 100 Games: 90 - 81
Friday May 20, 2022
Friday May 20, 2022
Our countdown of the bestydoodliest games of ever continues and the debate rages. Is chicken stealing ever ok? Did dwarves start the downfall of Western Civilisation? Can a party ever have too much aquasphere? Are trees legitimate torture devices?
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