A PODCAST ABOUT BOARD GAMES, CARD GAMES AND TABLETOP GAMING. HOSTED BY SEAN AND RONAN AND COMING OUT OF THE UK.
Episodes
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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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
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
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
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
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
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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Wednesday May 04, 2022
Wednesday May 04, 2022
Ronan is here to mangle his way through four days of sleep deprivation and gaming at LoBsterCon XXII. There are a plethora of games covered including; Cryptid: Urban Legends, Mantis, Magnate, Quartermaster General, Barrage, Dead Reckoning, Beyond the Sun, MTV, Yedo Master Set, Dune Imperium: Rise of IX, Nova Luna and more...
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Monday Apr 25, 2022
Monday Apr 25, 2022
Sean and Ronan return to the pit and gnaw over some tricky customers this episode, hard to define and tough to rate.
The games covered this time are Brian Boru, Golem, Framework, Stroganov, Isle of Cats: Kittens & Beasts, Stardew Valley, Festival of 1k Cats and What Next?
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Monday Apr 11, 2022
Monday Apr 11, 2022
So we begin our first ever Top 100 Games of All Time with our numbers 100 - 91.
Running the gamut from shooting penguins, arguing whether vegetables or rocks are more annoying, are tiles worse than glass panels and is it legal for Sean to break people's hands?
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Thursday Mar 31, 2022
Thursday Mar 31, 2022
Sean and Ronan return with a report from AireCon 2022, site of their annual gaming pilgrimage to Harrogate, Yorkshire each Spring.
First up is a rundown of the top nine games borrowed from the con library followed by their thoughts on ten games they played over the weekend.
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Friday Feb 18, 2022
Friday Feb 18, 2022
Sean and Ronan take a look back ten years and give their definitive Top 10 Games first published in 2012. Only those games which have passed the test of time can make the cut.
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Wednesday Feb 02, 2022
Wednesday Feb 02, 2022
Ronan flies solo this time around and gives seven reviews of seven shorter games that have been hitting the table recently.
The game covered are; Watch, Dinosaur Island: Rawr'n'Write, Kim Joy's Magic Bakery, Photograph: Wind the Film, Cartographers: Heroes, Ten Suns and Genius Square.
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