OFPG - Live at Capital City Gaming Con 2024! (Our Favorite Games at Conventions)

a [Music] [Music] know I [Music] aah [Music] [Music] [Music] h [Music] [Music] [Music] w oh [Music] go [Music] [Music] [Music] w [Music] w [Music] hello yes welcome back welcome back to another week yes another week with us yes we're live though today we're live we're live from somewhere else we we're always live yes we're always live we always live yeah we're always live We Live we're live from somewhere else we are live today from Capitol City gaming Con in De Mo Iowa we've got a live audience we've got a live audience right here yes yes so we have to cut to the audience because we've had equipment issues yes we lost the camera so we had to go you know gr going to do his thing he's going to do what he has to do but we didn't do our thing yet what oh my goodness we didn't do a thing yet no we did not do a thing y'all can hear us right everybody can hear us can hear yeah they can hear us good they hear okay everybody first we want to say we are our family plays games boom yes live from Iowa Iowa now I want to say welcome to every everybody here at the show who who's in the audience but also welcome to everybody who's here online and the first person in the chat today was Blain Blain thank you so much for showing up Blaine's always there Blaine's always there uh then we have um Marty is there dead pan uh slivers who else do we have in audience can we scroll it um I think it's it mon dead pants sers no somebody else sha from what was it he's from Michigan you got to scroll it I can't I can't see got go down oh I can't see it either I know scroll up for me please scroll we're working with different equipment everybody so give us a second but I want to say welcome to the show thank you guys for taking time out of your day to spend time with us we really appreciate it moving got go down um I want to say happy uh thanks to everybody for coming I want to call you out but I got to see your names because I forgot yeah go go down go way there go okay we got M slivers uh sh neon uh yellow games dead pan and we have people who are in the live live audience also online mhm you let me tell you I's there hi Ivan you can't take Nebraskans anywhere y they they just be all over the place all over all over the place and that's Susie and Jared so they're online and they're here yes they are yes they are all right so we've got a really good show yes we do today we are going to talk about 10 games yes that we play for the first time at a come and we love these are our top 10 this year that we played at K we've been to this year and we love now we played a lot of games at k a lot of games some of them we don't love yes but these made the list now actually we had we like these though yeah we have to whittle this down because my husband and his you know honorable mentions I got to you stop me from my honorable mention I said we said 10 we're going to do 10 and that's it okay what so we have to cut the list down cool all right cool yeah okay we kept the list down to 10 these are some that we love we want to share them with you guys maybe you've played them maybe you haven't but we want to share them with you yes but before we get into all of that so this going to be the portion of the news right the portion of the news okay every week I mean there's a portion of the news of what I say we we do this every week I I have been trying to figure out you know we got someone in the audience already put plug in her ears she plug her ears plug the little baby ears up oh protect cidan please protect your pets and everybody else we're going into the news I don't know if we have any news or not but I know we have new sounds we we got new sound though we have sound we got sound though yes we got sound here we go we what you sound we are not I am not be prepared I am not be prepared oh look at that that's musical y'all yeah he is proud of himself breaking news that's so proud of himself new talking about uh what you said you had breaking news what breaking news I have we got people to bring up I have breaking news yes what we do well since we are at Capitol City gaming Con in De Mo Iowa I want to bring up one of the organizers for Capitol City gaming con because every year we've come here for four years this our fourth year but the name has changed it used to be uh cardboard caucus yes so now we're going to bring up Matt Kelly and he's going to tell you a little bit about Capital City gaming con and maybe why they changed the name so come on up Matt everyone give a hand please all right Matt welcome to the show tell us about Capitol City gaming con so our original name cardboard caucus when we were coming up with the name for the con we wanted something that said hey we're a convention in De Mo or Iowa or the Midwest there's a really great uh convention down in St Louis called geekway to the west and that's just a perfect name for board game uh convention and so uh we came up with cardboard caucus and for those that don't know that's a reference to the Iowa caucuses every four years when it's pres presidential election year uh the whole process starts out in January with the Iowa caucuses and it's the process of the two parties figuring out who is going to be running for president and so we leaned a little bit oh I'm sorry let me give him the mic I apologize we uh we sort of leaned into the name a little bit you know red white and blue meeples with stars and but there's there's nothing inherently political about the convention but every year we've gotten feedback from people that they really are turned off by the name and I mean politics have become so polarizing and divisive in recent years and that's the exact opposite of what we're going for we want to bring people together unite people to whoever you are you're welcome to come and play games and so we decided it was time to change the name and this being an election year coming up in a few weeks seemed like the right time to do it I totally agree totally agree that's great EXP anything else you want to tell us about thist we love it we love coming here it's a lot of fun so tell us more about the growth and the changes and some of those things right so yeah we've uh we've been growing quite a bit uh last year we had about 420 people uh just checked a little bit ago we're probably up by about 2025 this year maybe close to about 450 uh we are getting close to the capacity of this hotel uh Saturday afternoon getting kind of crowded in the main Ballroom so uh we'll we're going to be kind of looking around see if there's some larger venues for us to move into so we can continue our growth uh it'll be interesting to see over the next few years uh what kind of growth we can sustain we don't know how big we can eventually wind up being there's a there's a great con up in Cedar Rapids every year called gameacon they had about 650 last year and they're up in Cedar Rapids we've got the De Moine metro area to be pulling from so what's that Corville yeah they're they're moving to Corville this year but they're they're over in that area east of us so uh yeah we're just going to have to over the next few years what our growth is kind of get an idea of what our Peak is I mean can we get to a thousand people eventually who knows but we we want to just keep with sort of the the same core of this is a this is a convention uh centered around playing board games we just want people to come out and play board games some of the big cons are about the vendors and buying all the freshest new games but we just want people to come out be together share their love of board games and that's exactly what we see we see a lot of people coming together playing board games and we love it thank you so much Matt for coming on to the show and telling us about Capital City gaming con because I see a lot of great games being played out there I mean a lot of great games I mean they're new games yes yes so I'm it's really exciting to see that it is we we've got a we've got a great community in De Mo we've got a lot people who are knowledgeable about the games they keep up to date on what's coming out and I've got friends who they'll I'll go over to their house and they'll have some expansion that's only available in Europe and they've had it shipped over so I get to play it immediately we've got a bunch of people like that just scattered around so yeah that's cool that is cool it's really fun to see the growth too it's really fun and we seem to have had a baby uh boom a baby boom at least we have at least can they see me I don't think they can see me but it's it's probably about like 10 babies here yes yes we were going to have Grant do baby pictures we going to have him do baby pictures yes with org baby pictures there's a lot of babies a lot of babies well thank you so much Matt for coming on the show we appreciate it thanks for having great you guys so much yes yes we love coming we love coming all right that is Matt Kelly from Capital City 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games that are not really Co-op they they're just semi Co-op no they're Co-op they're team Co-op they're not Co-op they're not Co they just kind of coop Sky Team Co-op you playing no it's kind of Co-op no it's Co-op is Co-op the gang Co-op team oh jeez they're Co-op they're called Co-op deorum no co- Co-op and Co-op I have a definition for you guys don't worry about it I have a definition whatever it's Co-op y'all and then also with epilog here's epilog we have some it's really interesting yeah it has you're dead and then putting these word cards together to try to figure out how you died or something interesting how you died and you down it's very morbid but it's from a great designer Emma Emma lens who did uh what that AB chokes and also her her latest one was the beautiful one the sky one God I can't remember now St star night sky star night sky which I love love love love love love yes so those EP yes so thank you so much awesome sponsors you so thank you so much and Lucky Duck games I mean they do a lot of great games out there so definitely check them out my shelfie my shelfie love my shelf love love love yes yes all right so now we're going to go straight into the heart of this episode we're going to talk about our top 10 games we played at conventions this year yes we're going to kick it off huh with okay as you guys know I always put the games in alphabetical order yes she does alphabetical order not by preference yes yes always alphabetical order first first on our list is cabanga cabanga from Amigo games it came out in 2023 it's a 3 to six player game and we played this at okon which is ok ComiCon in Omaha yes and we played that in 2023 yes we did we always found a good card game to play at okon yes and that's a good one wait a minute we said this year yeah it was this year no that's 2023 we played it last year no no no no no we played this year but we but the first time we played it was last year no no we played this year no we played this year last year no we didn't play we play kab this year okay we're going to have came out no it just came out yeah it did it just came out all right we're going to have this argument just yes it just came out family we played it this year at o are you sure yes okay all right I okay I got 2023 they we got conf thank you Nebraska okay I'm getting confused with the date that came out of 2023 so that's my fault all right so yes cabanga cabanga great game great game yes love love it love love love it's a simple card game card setting it is trying to get all your cards and you can do that by you're going to have a row of cards by color yellow blue red and some other lot of col anyway and you've got different cards on each side and you're going to try to play a card that's closest to that number that's already on the table and if you don't then you're going to get cabanga by your opponent they're going to give you cards that are in between the numbers that you play so if you play the 18 if 18 on the table and you play a 10 you've got eight more cards that could come your way if they're holding those cards mhm and that's cabanga great game for newcomers to the Hobby great G yes and it's just kind of like a filler game at the end of the night you know at the end of the day you just throw it in there I I don't know I you call it filler I just want something light sometimes you play games that are so heavy yes that you just want something light and easy that doesn't tax your brain yes yes that that is that that is that is cabanga that is Kaba all right next one on the list which I a new favorite I'm not going to argue with this one cuz we did just play this one just yes we did um castle combo is from catchup games it came out of 2024 it's a two to five the distributor is uh pandasaurus thank you pandasaurus um see thank you pandasaurus pandasaurus uh anyway I I'm getting stuff wrong today so it's one of those shows we're going to have a lot of errors on I hope not I hope not but I got you though I got youur we played this for the first time at the wsbg in Las Vegas Yes um love this game it is a lot of fun lot to fun it's just it's it's the name tells you what you're doing you're making combos it is a castle combo and you're making like with a 3X3 and you got your your castle and you've got your Township cards and so you're going to be putting them in in your to your grid trying to make points you try to com combine things so like you may have different instructions on the card where you need to have green cards in this row are you need to have cards for particular flags and that's that's it you get nine cards and in those nine cards you've got to maximize your points and you and you have a little messenger that goes back and forth the messenger is treacherous yes and you use Keyser or the cards will tell you where that messenger goes from each little road either the village or the or the castle and that's where you can get your cards and if you have the keys you can make that Messenger to go to where you need him to go but you also need the keys for you know end game for points points and some of the cards require you have keys because if you get a card that requires you to have a particular number of keys you get extra points at the end of the game which is great but the messenger the reason why I say he's treacherous is because exactly where you want to go he going go somewhere else yes you need him in the village he's going to go to the cast he go to the castle so you got to watch him yeah but it's a great it's a really great game from pandasaurus it's a really really really fun game and I think it's out now is it out yes no I think it's not out yet but you can play it on bg8 you can play it on board game marinaa yes it's not the same but you can play on Bo want to play it when you can touch the cards and see the beautiful you know really quirky comical artwork which is fun to look at yes now the next one I got some issues it's a good game but got some issues coming online really quick oh what is that what is that sh said what Shay uh Shay said it's all about balance I like a good heavy game but I can't always play heavy game or I'll lose it'll lose me or L age I totally agree with you sh sh yeah hey Mr Coaster's here what's up Mr Co what's up and Marne said love morbid Marne no you don't don't love no morbid don't love no morbid no come on we doing that all right so number three is a game that I do like it's fun but we got some issues it's comic hunters and we played that at newon last week it's been out it was the big oh just everybody from Spin Masters everybody loved this game at J con everybody went crazy for it it was just just oh my Lord just comic Hunters this Marvel Marvel covers but I'll tell you family Spin Masters y got to do better because the components are horrible but anyway anyway it's horrible okay the components are horrible family game good components bad game okay no it's good it's okay it's good um let me talk to you about comic Hunters first second what okay first let me tell you we played it at nuke conon the nuke con is our local convention in Omaha which is board gaming and RPG uh so we go there every year we if we're in town we miss last year miss last year W comic Huns when it came out Mick was like I got to get comic we got to play get got to get it now for somebody like me who really doesn't read comic books or collect comic books I wasn't excited about it I was like and then when I you like Marvel though I love Marvel yes movies movies uh but when we played it I was still he's playing the game he's look all the comic book covers and all this stuff and he's all excited you know we're trying to get through the game and he's got AP you know just sitting looking at the oh I'm I want to look at this beautiful beautiful they got all the covers but you got a sleeve if you get it sleeve the cars immediately when you buy it you better buy some sleeves with it huh de oh hey de Moto hey Dave Dave is here hi he said I got comic Hunters but the quality is bad that's what said yes it is bad Dean um now is Dean Dean are you still in Hawaii right now are you here I think he in Hawaii might be in Hawaii um our Heckler is is on here too who happens to be in the audience as well you you can't take Nebraska people anywhere you can't take them nowhere can't take them nowhere he said seems like stara is in dire need of a filler segment on the show to recharge from all the heavy G naming the section ha what GRE got to show the Heckler yes you can identify him by his little spinny hat yes so if you guys hear us talk about our Heckler name that's that's our heck that's him yeah now Ivan said that yeah com Hunters is good but solo mode Jarvis the AI is hard to be oh okay yes oh Dean said he is in Hawaii Mahalo Mahal de Mah okay well that's interesting that you want to play it solo yeah that's good a lot of people say like it solo I think it's good for you to play I want to play with other people it's better with other people it is but just sleeve now remember sleeve it and then get the bits from uh 3D printer or from The Foundry I got them from The Foundry yeah I got them from The Foundry game Foundry yes I did you have to get you have to get the best my sister Mar saying uh I agree Mick love Comics yes Mar I know yes she now she will play that with you what comic cont yes she would she would I I have no doubts but yeah comic HS great game you know it's like four games in one game it's four games it's a drafting game yes then there's a yeah yes that's upgraded yes yeah it's a drafting game it's a tableau build uh kind what is it a auction game yeah it's auction bidding game then there's also what is that a kind of choose like Tableau building I don't remember and then you take you don't remember it's four games trying to get through the game no it's a good game it's a good game yes for real family it's a good game don't listen to her don't listen Nate says he'll play with you that's good yeah that's good I like that now the fourth one we discovered and we love it we loved it back in uh World Series of board gaming it's called flip seven from the Op games yes and that thing is a Wonder to behold anybody can play the thing flip seven is just just simple as can be it's just putting cards on the table and hoping you don't bust and so the goal of the game is to get seven different cards and if you do you get a bonus of 15 points but while you're getting those cards cuz you're going around the table offering cards to people they have a opportunity to accept that card or reject that card if they say I don't want any more cards they freeze it and whatever cards they've collected the number value they have as points but if you decide to Press Your Luck yes or push your as they say and keep going on and you get a duplicate card you bust and you lose all your points yes now there's some other cards in the game that give you exceptions like a second chance or you can uh give somebody three cards to give yourself three cards you can freeze somebody that you think is getting too far ahead in the game and you don't want them to have any more points freeze them so it's a fun game but it's an easy game who's here a roller Rie he's one of our RPG voices contributors love him yes Oregon he's from Oregon yes he's from Oregon Portland Oregon yeah flip s is a fun game easy game simple to put on the table and you get a lot of laughs cuz you like seeing people BL oh uh Mr coaster said we ordered flip seven when it was mentioned two weeks ago should be arriving this week can't wait to play yeah awesome so happy we introduced that that's a good one flip seven is so much fun it is fun you can play with anybody cuz what it say is 3 to 18 yes and we actually played flip seven we we went to our Heckler birthday part he birthday party over there you shouldn't encourage hecklers but we do anyway we went to his birthday party and I think we had 15 people I think we had 15 around the table playing flip seven and it was insane great it was great it was so insanely great yes yes love it now the next one we got story Zone oh God because it comes back to her over here oh her and that is the gang now the gang I think is still in pre-order but it was sold at J con and it's sold out and then it was at Essen and it was a big hit there at Essen the gang from Cosmos is a weird one family it's a weird one it is a Texas Holden poker game Co-op it's Co-op and it's weird is I don't know it's just weird but the game works and it's unreal how you have a Texas poker holdom game that Co-op now she didn't now let me tell you let me right before start she did not she now her her father her late father he played Texas holdom yes big pupp he played it yes when he played it before it was it was acceptable yes he played it stala got the bug and she plays it too she plays it competely when we go to Board Game Geek in Spring and fall she plays that and she plays it online yes you know so she loves Texas hold them when it came out she said no I'm not going to play that that looks stupid I'm not going to play that it don't look right how can you take the bluffing and the you know the the betting out of Texas hold them yes so she said no but then what was that at wsbg at World Ser of board game we played it Tri we tried it yes yes yes yes we played it MH and you kind of liked it a little bit okay so here's here go right ahead go ahead I let you go the story is as a poker player I when we first got the game they sent it to us we just introduced it on the show and when we introduce games and our what do we get show we just kind of tell you a little bit about what the game says on the back so we got the gang which it is your gang trying to rob people so you got to get your gang right and it's like oh it's Texas hold them but it's Cooperative yes um not Coop it's Coop it's not it's Co-op it's team you're you're a gang OHA hey but yes Co-op it's okay Co-op Amanda it's Co-op it's Co-op see Amanda Amanda Panda is also another one of our OPG voices contributors yes she's from what California yes California California semic Cooperative it's your team so back to the gang so we got it and we played it in wsbg and I liked it a little bit I was a little frustrated with it because you do take the bluff out you you don't want to Bluff because you want your game you want to help everybody yeah you want to help everybody see yeah Co-op cooperation yes there you go so anyway you don't want to Bluff you want to be able to be as truthful as possible so that you and your gang of robbers yes can successfully Rob this safe and so in that you've got these tokens on the table and you have to accurately assess your poker hand so you go from one to the number of players so if you're playing with four it goes from 1 to four you take a token that has that number on it whether it's 1 2 three or four you have to assess your hand and you have to play with other people who know how to assess their hand and sometimes they don't because we lost the game oh that last week we played seven times and lost every one with six people though with six people and seven times and it's it's a number of rounds within that seven games that that was the first that was Saturday we had six people and you know we knew some people did not assess their hands properly and we wanted to get rid of them you got rid of Jared too I'm just saying I'm just saying I'm not and Marcus you got we had six and then you got rid of Marcus you got rid of me and you got rid of Jared and who did you recruit you you got uh what is that Nick Nick and and Mandy it was four of them on Sunday and Nick and Mandy we finally got the right game yes and so that we can be successful and robbing this bank and winning and then the people that we got rid of they were upset because very upset they were upset because we were yelling we were yelling and screaming because we were so excited very you know sometimes gang members got to get replaced but we did good at least you didn't you didn't get whack look at this look at this at least at least you didn't get whacked or anything we we let y surv we didn't whack you guys out of the game but this but but yesterday we were successful with four it was me you Susie and Jared and we were successful we were successful we finally won one time we played four times and only won that one time we were successful it's a hard game y'all it's a hard game hey boy gay wagons in the house and they're here too the wag yes they are yes they are and they're in the audience U what oh god what is Nate saying Nate he's right there I still haven't played the gang we know we know we going get to you we going get to you so anyway the gang it has grown on me uh Bor gang wagon says the Bor G wag now has the gang in the library so if you haven't played it try it yes it goes up to six and Marcus did mention that six people was a bit much I think you can kind of um mediate some of the stuff if you only have four people so we were able to make our our gang members that we were getting rid of made we made them work it out and we we worked it that is so wrong that is so wrong that is so wrong but the gang is a great game Cosmos did their stuff and made a really great game it is fun I again sometimes when we get games in and we just read the back of it or you know he you're not really sure how you're going to like it but after I played it and it took me more than that one time the first time I still wasn't sold yeah but then I got into it and now I am sold I'm actually getting addicted to it like poker I want to play it over and over and over to see if I can win yes it's a good one but you got to know poker yeah you got to know poker you got got poker even though they do come with some player Aid uh that'll help you you know what to know what kind of hand and if you get sleepy and tired you may forget that you have a good hand that has happened to me yes you got sleep and tired I last one and I forgot I had a straight I'm like I have nothing but it's like Jared said you got a straight you got straight anyway the gang is awesome it is it now the next one is another one that you get and you're like oh my God what is this it's from pandasaurus game it's very small I mean it is small but about as big as this oh oh somebody made a comment who made a comment oh bla but it's very very small read it oh read it okay sorry BGG says Co-op means player coordination coordinate their actions to achieve a common win condition or conditions players win or lose the game together call it a team if you like it's still Co-op BL I thought you were on my side not bla a on side I thought you were on my side I thought we BL on your side he is not on your side on this no he's not thank you thank you so much chat thank you so much thank you now Pixies very small box and and it's from we play at newon n and we get these games it's so small it's some pandasaurus games like what is this little old thing it's got It's kind of cute but when you look at the cards of the Pixies they kind of disturbing yeah they're they're a little weird but it's it's a weird cute it's a weird cute but the game play is really good good solid you want to play it and and so the little cards I don't know I guess that gives it a theme that you got these cute little Pixies but it it's a fun game it's on board game Arena 2 it's on there but but we love to play it live but it is really a nice small game that's got a lot of strategy to it weird pictures is weird weird but it's a really fun game yeah yeah you're making like a tableau of nine cards and you're putting you know when you get a card that's uh you know what a one or two or three whatever you got to put a one you got to put it in this slot and if you get another one you turn that one over and activate it to put the other one down this this area yeah it it kind of It kind of um restricts you of where you can put your cards in your Tableau cuz have to go in a particular order but it really is a good game it's good game it's a fun game yeah so that's Pixies we really do like that one now this next one oh goodness oh my Lord when you open the box you hear rock music all over the place you hear rock music just hitting you everywhere the theme is everywhere and that is rockart 1977 from Deva games and we played it at pretz con for the first time and we want to say thank you to pretz con pretzcon is a local K that was in uh Omaha and it was a family it was a family of how many they got now about 20 40 it's the pretz and the pretz are nice people really nice folk and for 12 years they had a family Centric C it was only for the I mean it was really fabul and then they invite some people in they we're not pretz but we no we're not pretz but they invited but it was a really great local cun that we had but sadly this was the last year they said they were kind of giving that up cuz they have a lot of kids and just a lot of other things going on but they gave it up we going to miss them greatly but we played a rock hard for the first time from the there and that game is Just dramatic all the way through you really will find yourself getting immersed in the theme that you are this musician and you've got to make decisions about your life yes are you going to go to work are you going to skip your job designer Jackie Fox Jackie Fox and she was in the The Runaways the first kind of female rock band back in the day and it was The Runaways and so she knew she knows all about that life she knows about it she's about that life and she put it in the game yes literally and figuratively she put it in the game so in rock hard again you make you're making decisions about your life are you going to be a full-time musician or are you going to go ahead and go to work and do your music and stuff part-time so you've got to make choices you're going to get a job card you got to tell you what time you can go to work if you don't go to work you get an ABS and after three absences fired so now you have to be a fulltime you're professional musician but then you also have a manager that you got to deal man you got a publicist you got um a crew I mean it's it's so I mean she really thought of every element of a rock band and brought it to life and she thought about candy we didn't have to think about that candy Candy's the main ingredient in the game Candy yes yes M I know you smell candy yes yes yes candy there's there's a candy element and that that makes it a very adult game you don't want to put children uh at the table with this game anybody under 18 I wouldn't do that cuz they're going to want to know why am I taking candy why does that candy give me so much energy and some of the uh you know cards and some of the cards kind of tell you some things like ooh like especially in the hangout area cuz you're doing daytime night time and hangout yeah after hours and in the Hang Sometimes some of the cars be kind of talking kind of crazy I would suggest if you're going to play rock hard adults adults yes adults yes 18 up yes it or 17 I'm going to tell you the first time I played it I was playing the game and everybody was getting ahead of me and I'm like why is everybody getting ahead we do the candy and they were using candy they they get extra turns they doing extra gigs them like they say you got do the candy so yeah and then if you get too much candy and you mess up you got to go to recovery recovery yeah she put it all in there y'all she put it all in there istic it is fun and you really will get immersed in the game so and I know you know some people don't want to play it because of that little element and I totally respect that but it is a good game and it is very thematic you know and if you can handle it and if want you know you want to deal with it it's a great game uh worker placement you know set collection all that's in there but it is rock and roll through and through and right now is my top game of 2024 right now so I love it's a good one all right the next one on our list before we go oh okay so Blain had a dad joke and I'm going to read it off okay um so usually online blame there's a user who comes on Lane ma he gives D on so I'll just read this one off it was how do you describe a cow that is just given birth I don't know decalin thank you bla thank you Blain for your unsolicited um thank you bla jokes thank you we appreciate you Blaine yes thank you um so now we were on the next game the next game the next game yes now this one is a a recent discovery World Series of board gaming just a couple of weeks ago and it's sausage Sizzle from 25th Century games made back in 2012 but we discovered it at the world series of game sausage Sizzle it's just a basically a dice game it's a dice game it's a dice game it's a really cool awesome dice game where you just trying to you know get enough points yeah well the the whole theme of it is you've got these animals coming around and I guess you're cooking sausages yes and they want them sausages want the sausages yes so when you're rolling you've got six different animal tokens and so when you're rolling your dice you declare which one you want to go for um and so you can turn it over when you're done so you can only roll for those animals once so you got six yeah now when you're rolling if you get sausages you have to get all four CU there are four sausages on four different dice to get the extra points if you get one sausage and then your other dice have numbers now your value is only one point per was it per dice per no per animal per animal right cuz you're rolling for Animals as well you can roll up to four animal uh dice so it's it's an interesting game it's fun it's light it's one of those games again at the end of the day at the end of the day you just put that on the table your head is all messed up you roll some dice and you have a lot of fun because sometimes you're going to risk it all to try to get those four sausages and then you end up not getting that four sausage and now you don't get a lot crazy I think the last one I won right I I I don't remember I won that one why you want me to take I'm just saying you know rock hard 1977 we just played it uh yesterday I won y'all yes I was the best musician in 1977 we we had one one of the attendees here his name is Joel who's in the back back here in the audience he asked us to play that game with him and we were excited to play with him we played with Joel and Nicole there Nicole and and we were so excited we had a lot of fun playing with them great game great to play with so we had fun yes so thank you Joe I I won again yes I did I did win yes I won I won all right so the next one we played was a very interesting game and we played that at the beginning of the year January we went to uh orcacon in Washington state Seattle and it was uh the Wolves the Wes from pandasaurus games and it's little it it didn't get too much love it didn't but it should have it should have we play is one of our favorit wolves uh the Wolves right the Wolves the Wolves not that one that one that one that's the one that one yeah but it was a real interesting game they said it was model he well the designer said he modeled it after uh what is that uh no um hanza tan Tanica yes it's one of these games where there is no luck there's no luck no dice rolling no cars no nothing you have to make decisions about your wolf pack and that's it and majority too and it's it's very vicious and take that and I love it's only vicious if you make it vicious well I was the last place cuz everybody was attacking me everybody attacked me everybody just destroyed my poor little wolves your wolves are in the wrong area I know yeah they have to move they got they got to ate up they got to ate up but it's a really great I mean if you don't want no luck that's the game you want yes the Wolves it was all right now the last one the last one is xar yes and we played that at the wsbg it's a beier uh bezier games 2024 two to 5 players and I don't know if you guys know um what is it bonacore Steven bore who used to be the well he was the CEO and the founder of stronghold games you'll see him bouncing around on the Dice Tower and BGG he's calls he calls himself the Pod father of boy gaming of boy gaming so Steven decided to show us xylor yes he did yes yes it is very good you know it's a good thing it's a really cool game it's interesting because you've got these cards it's like not and you've got to put them musical notes You' got to put them in order and the way you want to play them but then after you do that you've got to pass it off to your neighbor yes and so now you're going to get their cards and you don't know what order they put them in even though you you nothing but you know your but your opponent you know what they got you know what they have but you don't know what you have and so now you've got to play these cards onto the table and you got to determine whether this is a high or a low card and you are not sure you don't know you don't know what's going on with your card you're not sure but your opponent knows what's going on with your card but for some reason it works it does it works because you are putting the cards in order from high to low yes but even on the high end you don't know if it's a 8 nine 10 or whatever and your your um opponents are playing you know cars you're thinking okay it's on the high end that he gave me MH MH but you end up playing something that's not high as you thought it would be yeah fun game I liked it because it was so unique so different and I thought it was an interesting game so look who made it St our Viking hi Monica Monica always way from Norway how you doing yay I was digging for go in Cola oh that's a game oh she was playing oh I was like to the party cuz she was playing yeah she that was a game that's a game yes that's a game that's a game so we made it oh Susie said you won because she wasn't playing shots fired you right here right here shots fired shots fired so we going have to play that game we got have to play it shots fire we got to play it all right so those are our top 10 games that we've played at conventions this year yes including kabanga kabanga yes all right so that's it everybody for our top 10 games and the next thing we have well we want to talk about that we're going to do some giveaways but we're going to do now we always tell your family wherever you see us live come to the cons that we are cuz we do giveaways for the live audience and we're doing that today and you must be present to win you have to be present to win you got to have a ticket yes now don't worry online family don't worry we have some great giveaways coming up in the next couple yes we have two of them two of them coming up so we will have some online giveaways definitely we're excited about those Navy hey Navy Montel hey Navy Montel how you doing how you doing so we have that kind of but we do have things for the audience that we give away and where's our next place we're going to be where we're going to be live so our next convention we will be at uh oh my God BGG con oh my mind I'm it's gone BGG conall we went to BGG spring had a blast uh this will be our third time going to BGG KF fall we have a wonderful time there it's going to be at the HDE Regency they take over the entire the hotel hotel I mean every floor all over the place all over the place let me tell you the first time we went to fall we were so shocked the staff at the Hyatt has on BGG shirts yes they have them in BGG shirts yes they do check it in front desk BGG and from top to uh from the top to the bottom of every floor there's a room where you can play games and people in the H it's just beautiful so we're going to be there so out too out it's November 13th to the 17th we will be there we will be doing a live show on Sunday like we did last last time uh for spring uh we do a show every every year so every time we go come to the show giveaways uh we want to see you there we want to play with you guys and we will have giveaways yes oh we have a question we a question what is that from where uh will you go on the BGG cruise I've heard they stopped by a port where where I grew up well Monica we wish we could yeah we may not make the Cru we might not make the cruise but they'll be around there yes B some they do a lot not this time yeah they do bla got to go he's going to football all right now BL appreciate it all right so now but we want to say who are giving away we're doing giveaways who is that so okay we're going to do a giveaway uh that'll be the next thing we do um and we've got some great giveaways this first one is harmonies and well may not be the first one harmonies and that is from Atlas games yes and that's Cole newart he runs Atlas games is right here uh at the convention he gave us this game to give give away we're so happy to be able to share this one harmonies is a great game we got a chance to play it at BGG spring love it it is underrated it doesn't get a lot of love and it should it's a wonderful game the next thing we have we have a $20 gift card uh from Mayhem games and that's also here at Capitol City you can take this $20 buy a game or at least apply it to your purchase I know you guys going to be buying stuff you can take this one then we have two shirts from the game uh wagon the boy game wagon and we have a 2X and an x large we're going to give these shirts away and I think if you need to change sizes you can just go talk to Matt he'll give you another shirt and then I want I want to say the board game wagon has some great games they're putting more games into the library and they're doing that thing y'all they doing their thing and the board game wagon shirt you can see Mick is wearing one on this picture right here so we have our own shirts but yeah great shirts to wear great to wear we want we want to thank Atlas and Mayhem G Mayhem and the board game wagon for giving us things to give away to you guys and if you're in Iowa go to see those game stores support them they're right there in the gaming room so go buy something all right all right so first up who has the tickets Grant yeah but we're going to do that after we do that after we're going to do that after okay okay we're going to do it after so after the show ends we'll do the so don't leave y'all don't leave don't leave now you want to do it you want to do it we can do it now okay yeah last three go to the front please come to the front pleas let everybody see I Heckler one of them we we've got a couple so much pressure I don't like the attention that seriously all right I'll just read the last three digits 707 hey all right we got har for you you're going to love it love it all right that's the co that's who played with us for uh rockart 1977 I beat her I beat her what I just want to say I beat her what I want to be I beat her I just want to say I won but you know just want to say it's so rare I do it supposed to be about the experience so rare it's supposed about just saying I'm just about winning I'm just so happy you know just all I think need no no astics no as all so next we have the $20 gift card to Mayhem 709 congratulations thank you for coming now this is Andrew show Andrew he loves the 18 XX games that you'll be playing for five six seven eight hours but I am going to play with it one of these days I will thank you Andrew got two shirts to give away 73 hey hey oh there go all right so just grab one if you have to change it Matt can change it out so just grab one all right last one we're going to give away see this just can't heck uh 702 oh that's me what what okay we'll get you guys I'll put it back in here watch me grab it 704 all right all if you need another one just go to Matt in the library he can get you something thank so much thank you thank you thank you all right so that no no no no no no no no no we didn't say no no no no yeah thank you the a far what's the all far everyone said they saying a you know now we we we can't let the hecklers just actually be on the sh yes a f okay all right everybody we're going to wrap this up thank you online audience for coming out thank you so much um Mar say it's always about winning it's always about winning anything you say she supports you my goodness oh no but what about a merch a merch we got some merch on now well if you're looking for a shirt or a cup we have posters we've got pillows we've got mugs check us out on Spring and if you want to get this shirt this is our exclusive online family shirt you can get it from BGG online yes so that's our Merchant anything else yeah where can they find this where can they find this well if you're looking for our family plays games you can find us on Facebook Instagram Twitter right here on YouTube right here on our website 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there we go yes yes yes okay so what our questions question got what we got all right so I'll get to online first if you guys have anything I'll get well so online Blain ma asked earlier for Starland Mick and Grant what is your favorite game where everyone gets to do something on each player's turn one of mine is Dice Forge where on each player's turn everyone gets to roll their own dice and get to get some benefit or resources mine is uh uh forges Raven I think that's something where you get everybody's telling you get something yeah we like that one too there's another one I just can't think of the name of it now but yeah I like those games I like it where you're getting something I get something yeah yeah I like Ravens yeah yeah R what that R yeah R fores A RAV like that yeah Earth Earth yeah Nate said Earth Earth is a good one too true Earth is a good one too was being nice yeah he's being nice he's say suggestions suggestions AR asked when you were kid what was your favorite game oh wow kid that's way back that's way back oh Lord um what's that you actually one of my favorite games when I was a kid was life I used to love The Game of Life okay because you get a chance to pick your little career and you get a chance to go around and you know whether you're going to win wind up in the Mansion or someplace else I used to like life M's Bermuda Triangle oh yeah you've talked about that before Bermuda Triangle cuz back in the day I I think it was in the was I think it was the 80s it was this like magnetized like Cloud where you're trying to get your ships from you know in the ocean around the ber triangle area you're trying to get your ships to port to port to try to deliver stuff so it's basically a pick up and deliver game back in the day but when your ships are going your ships has a little magnet on top of it and it's the cloud the berua triangle comes over your ship there's a POS there's a a maybe a a thing you know maybe like maybe 50% that your your ship might disappear and get sucked up into the cloud and it's gone it's gone it's gone I love that game I wish restoration games bring it back so that's why I need it back I need it back yes I need that back yes you got another Force Gren yeah yes the last one was what mechanics and games do you like or do you dislike worker placement for me I love worker place yeah I'm not a fan of Cooperative games but you're starting to love it a little bit though you're loving it a little bit but it's worker placement for me worker placement all right any questions from the the live audience any questions any questions what's the favorite thing you played this weekend the favorite thing we played this weekend Oh favorite thing I played okay I think my favorite I I'm I'm going to go with botney I really Susie just introduced us to B bney I love it love it love it it is a brain burner it's a longer game you really got to think and and and try to really strategize which I love those kind of games but after we played it I was ready for something lighter really yeah yeah but I I love botney Yeah B the cards are beautiful and it's a nice looking game bney was good yeah yeah bney was good that was a good one yeah that was good any other questions yes the 10 games that you list what is your favorite oh okay out of those 10 I'm I'm going to have to go with the gang yeah I I'm getting addicted to it yeah so yeah I'm I'm getting addicted to I would have never thought she would be falling in love with the game that's amazing but I'm addicted I want to play it over and over it's a co-op y'all Cosmos is this Co-op they love it that's the second one so I guess so I guess Fallout you know Fallout they basically they they lost you what's wrong no flat what is that uh Floodgate Floodgate okay Floodgate games who made decorum I'm sorry yeah Floodgate games who made decorum they held the record that they had the one Co-op game that stall loved no it's Co-op it's Co-op so now Floodgate they have lost out no well I mean I still love theorum but yes you do for the for this time it's the gang the gang is it it's got me G is it it's got me she likes co-op games or you don't speak yeah that's I've said I just just don't say anything and let me do my own thing and then hopefully we can make it work yeah yeah any other questions Grant I don't all right any other questions from the audience here all right let's wrap it up everybody all right well thank you so much thank you family out there thank you chat from all over the world thank you so much for talking to us and we are so excited that we're here again live at Capital City gaming and we we just love how it's growing and it's going to grow so much it probably be just like B take over a whole hotel in downtown de Mo you never know but hey thank you so much for coming and we love yall we love y'all in here too thank you again we'll see you next year and hey love you all right everybody we see you next week next week bye all right thank you guys 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