Full Transcript for 5 Easy to Teach Games for Engaging Non-Gamers

going to say. 00:02:32.623 --> 00:02:34.343 Strike always a hit. 00:02:34.945 --> 00:02:37.626 Yeah, that's some of those things are. 00:02:37.626 --> 00:02:44.606 Just give me is even we did cues and cues and then we can do what's the other party game that we bring a lot. 00:02:44.787 --> 00:02:45.247 Just one. 00:02:45.429 --> 00:02:48.299 Just one that I mean, that's, those are more part. 00:02:48.299 --> 00:02:51.348 I'm not thinking so much party games, as these are gamer games. 00:02:51.348 --> 00:02:53.204 These are many weight games. 00:02:53.204 --> 00:03:00.824 These are games that introduction to the hobby and not games or gateway, but kind of that gateway feel to it. 00:03:01.039 --> 00:03:05.088 The holiday season is always very exciting for Angie and I. 00:03:05.088 --> 00:03:10.530 Considering, if you've listened to our podcast enough, you would understand that we don't have friends. 00:03:14.105 --> 00:03:15.968 We make a sound like losers. 00:03:16.090 --> 00:03:19.725 Yeah Well, okay, so we're not losers, but we just don't get out a lot. 00:03:19.725 --> 00:03:22.808 We play primarily everything at a two player count. 00:03:22.808 --> 00:03:32.127 So I really look forward to getting together with the family and basically, here you're forced to join our hobby now, you know. 00:03:32.127 --> 00:03:37.170 So I look forward to it and this is going to be a great conversation and I'm really looking forward to it Me too. 00:03:37.170 --> 00:03:39.402 I am ready to get going. 00:03:39.663 --> 00:03:40.144 I am. 00:03:40.264 --> 00:03:41.548 I am bantered out already. 00:03:41.568 --> 00:03:42.330 Okay, I am bantered. 00:03:42.330 --> 00:03:45.405 I am excited about Meeple Quiz Hospital. 00:03:45.405 --> 00:03:46.548 I am excited about this. 00:03:46.668 --> 00:03:46.888 All right. 00:03:46.888 --> 00:03:48.070 Well then Meeple. 00:03:49.584 --> 00:03:50.788 Hey, that's what I named it. 00:03:50.788 --> 00:03:53.266 Okay, I need to have a name for it. 00:03:53.759 --> 00:04:07.344 It's funny that you're naming this Meeple Quiz Hospital, considering in a previous episode I talked about how I'm not a big fan of medical dramas because of I will I get paranoid, that I have every calamity. 00:04:07.586 --> 00:04:14.290 Yes, yes, exactly how you thought you had brain cancer because Dr Green on ER had. 00:04:15.281 --> 00:04:16.625 I didn't think I had brain cancer. 00:04:16.625 --> 00:04:18.687 I was doing the tongue in the mirror test. 00:04:18.687 --> 00:04:24.276 Come on, quiz time. 00:04:24.315 --> 00:04:37.516 Yeah All right, we are taking it old school, chris. 00:04:37.516 --> 00:04:41.930 We are starting with something that has to do with our name. 00:04:43.221 --> 00:04:44.483 So that's really old school. 00:04:44.745 --> 00:04:45.165 It is. 00:04:45.165 --> 00:04:46.942 It is Now. 00:04:46.942 --> 00:04:51.408 The answer is not going to have chase, it's not chasing or anything like that, but we're starting. 00:04:51.408 --> 00:04:53.225 We're starting with our name. 00:04:53.305 --> 00:04:59.165 Okay, you're confusing me, because it literally took me like four episodes before I even realized how you were doing your quizzes. 00:04:59.165 --> 00:05:07.779 So, to refresh everybody's memory, if you ever want to go back and listen to our earlier episodes or listen to the quiz extravaganza combination. 00:05:07.879 --> 00:05:15.161 We will understand as soon as I ask you the question, but we're starting with something that has to do with our name and then taking it back to a board game. 00:05:15.663 --> 00:05:17.088 Okay, hit me. 00:05:18.079 --> 00:05:27.163 The 2022 documentary Chasing is an extraordinary story of one man's obsession to cross the ocean in record time. 00:05:27.163 --> 00:05:34.088 Was it the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean or the Arctic Ocean? 00:05:35.089 --> 00:05:35.870 Atlantic Ocean. 00:05:36.351 --> 00:05:37.012 Ding, ding ding. 00:05:37.012 --> 00:05:37.653 That's one, right? 00:05:37.653 --> 00:05:42.369 Oh, I'm going to give you two points for that one. 00:05:42.369 --> 00:05:45.379 Okay. 00:05:45.379 --> 00:05:56.026 In the 2001 movie Oceans 11, danny Ocean puts together a team of 10 accomplices to rob three Las Vegas casinos in one night. 00:05:56.026 --> 00:05:58.043 Who placed Danny Ocean? 00:05:58.043 --> 00:06:06.012 Is it George Papard, george Hamilton, george Clooney or George Carlin? 00:06:07.319 --> 00:06:09.869 Although I think I mean I know the answer to this. 00:06:09.869 --> 00:06:13.790 I know the answer to this, Okay, the answer is George Clooney, okay. 00:06:13.790 --> 00:06:19.113 However, George Hamilton would have been awesome in that movie. 00:06:19.595 --> 00:06:20.177 I thought so too. 00:06:20.177 --> 00:06:21.019 I thought so too. 00:06:21.019 --> 00:06:25.050 I could see George Papard in it as well. 00:06:25.319 --> 00:06:27.524 I'm not sure who George Papard is. 00:06:27.704 --> 00:06:29.689 Eighteen, that's face. 00:06:30.630 --> 00:06:32.093 Oh no, that's face. 00:06:32.093 --> 00:06:35.065 His name is George Papard. 00:06:35.065 --> 00:06:37.071 Yeah Face. 00:06:37.531 --> 00:06:37.812 Yes. 00:06:38.540 --> 00:06:39.766 Yeah, that got to be pretty cool in it too. 00:06:39.766 --> 00:06:43.072 I mean, we're talking in their prime, yeah, not like. 00:06:43.072 --> 00:06:46.663 Yeah, george Papard, I never knew that was his name. 00:06:46.663 --> 00:06:48.346 What else was George? 00:06:48.346 --> 00:06:49.829 I'm pretty sure it is Now. 00:06:49.829 --> 00:06:50.651 I got to look it up. 00:06:50.651 --> 00:06:53.466 Hold on, I don't want future Chris coming in here. 00:06:53.466 --> 00:06:56.266 I'm pretty sure it is. 00:06:56.266 --> 00:07:02.713 The cost of time travel is just crazy nowadays. 00:07:02.713 --> 00:07:04.786 No, not face. 00:07:04.786 --> 00:07:06.504 I knew that wasn't face. 00:07:06.625 --> 00:07:07.369 Okay, I never watched it. 00:07:07.519 --> 00:07:10.519 Face was the good

looking guy on Eighteen, dirk Benedict. 00:07:10.821 --> 00:07:11.826 Okay, I don't know why. 00:07:11.846 --> 00:07:13.122 I thought it was Dirk Benedict. 00:07:13.122 --> 00:07:15.899 Everybody knows him from Battlestar Galactica. 00:07:16.201 --> 00:07:16.843 That's face. 00:07:17.163 --> 00:07:17.925 That's face. 00:07:17.925 --> 00:07:20.925 Yeah, so you were wrong. 00:07:21.567 --> 00:07:23.185 I was right, he was in the Eighteen. 00:07:23.699 --> 00:07:24.925 He was, but he was not face. 00:07:25.125 --> 00:07:25.346 Okay. 00:07:26.180 --> 00:07:27.605 So that's minus points for you. 00:07:29.569 --> 00:07:32.105 Good try, good try. 00:07:32.105 --> 00:07:35.668 Are you ready to move on here to the next question? 00:07:35.901 --> 00:07:36.843 I am ready. 00:07:37.759 --> 00:07:48.435 From 1994 to 1999, George Clooney played in a widely popular NBC hospital drama. 00:07:48.435 --> 00:07:53.408 Was it Chicago, Hope, Scrubs, ER or General Hospital? 00:07:54.170 --> 00:07:54.913 It was ER. 00:07:55.901 --> 00:07:56.845 A applause for you. 00:07:56.845 --> 00:08:00.204 Okay, three right, three right. 00:08:00.204 --> 00:08:10.764 The word hospital is referenced 20 plus times and the board game word hospital is referenced 20 plus times. 00:08:10.764 --> 00:08:11.906 And board game geek. 00:08:11.906 --> 00:08:16.790 Which game is not a real hospital game? 00:08:16.790 --> 00:08:29.235 Zombie, hospital, hospital, hilarity, hospital, hope, make it out alive, or Dr Wars, the hospital card game? 00:08:29.235 --> 00:08:30.550 Why are you trying to read my face? 00:08:30.711 --> 00:08:31.639 I'm trying to read your face. 00:08:32.062 --> 00:08:34.039 You're like sitting there trying to read my face. 00:08:34.039 --> 00:08:35.225 Do you want me to say them again? 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:36.192 It's the second one. 00:08:36.192 --> 00:08:39.850 The second one is not a real board game Hospital hilarity. 00:08:40.600 --> 00:08:42.225 Oh, you got that one wrong. 00:08:42.287 --> 00:08:43.880 Whatever Is zombie hospital? 00:08:43.880 --> 00:08:49.948 The one that which is the not real one, or the real one which is the wrong one? 00:08:49.948 --> 00:08:51.565 I'm so worked up now. 00:08:53.240 --> 00:08:54.043 Which one did I make up? 00:08:54.625 --> 00:08:57.465 Yes, don't say Dr Wars. 00:08:58.639 --> 00:09:01.182 Hospital hope make it out alive, come on. 00:09:01.403 --> 00:09:03.369 Angie, that was very creative. 00:09:03.369 --> 00:09:04.966 When did you get so creative? 00:09:05.761 --> 00:09:06.725 Well, I can name a game. 00:09:06.725 --> 00:09:09.947 I can't make them like Stan Kornanski, but I can make them. 00:09:09.947 --> 00:09:17.510 Okay, we own one game with hospital in the title. 00:09:17.510 --> 00:09:18.273 What is it? 00:09:18.919 --> 00:09:23.206 Dice hospital, Also Stan Kornanski. 00:09:26.440 --> 00:09:32.761 So we are down to oh, that one you got wrong, this one you got right. 00:09:32.761 --> 00:09:35.585 Spell the last name of the designer. 00:09:35.585 --> 00:09:38.081 It's a bonus question. 00:09:38.081 --> 00:09:39.586 Okay, five points. 00:09:40.580 --> 00:09:41.302 Can I write it down? 00:09:41.302 --> 00:09:47.628 Yeah, you're going to make me look bad if I get his name spelled wrong here. 00:09:49.639 --> 00:09:54.563 You know, the only reason this is your bonus question is because you got it wrong the other day when we were talking about it. 00:09:58.013 --> 00:09:58.836 Okay, are you ready? 00:09:58.975 --> 00:09:59.136 Yes. 00:10:01.638 --> 00:10:04.049 It's K-O-R-D-O-N-S-K-I-Y. 00:10:09.339 --> 00:10:11.923 Oh, you got it for five points. 00:10:11.923 --> 00:10:12.803 You got it. 00:10:12.803 --> 00:10:15.657 Oh, thought I had you on that one. 00:10:15.657 --> 00:10:16.398 Thought I had you. 00:10:16.398 --> 00:10:24.202 Okay, now this one, and this may be why you're going to understand some of my exasperation, okay. 00:10:24.202 --> 00:10:27.658 So let's see you got two, four, six, eight, five. 00:10:27.658 --> 00:10:28.539 You got 13. 00:10:28.539 --> 00:10:34.562 So it was 15, 13 out of 15, but I had a super mega bonus. 00:10:34.602 --> 00:10:36.288 Question A super mega bonus question. 00:10:36.327 --> 00:10:37.551 I think it's a super mega bonus question About. 00:10:37.610 --> 00:10:38.472 Phil Walker. 00:10:38.472 --> 00:10:40.778 Harding Games super mega bonus question. 00:10:40.778 --> 00:10:41.219 No, it's not. 00:10:41.219 --> 00:10:42.201 No, it's not. 00:10:42.909 --> 00:10:49.942 For extra points if you can tell me how many Rocky Horror games are on BGG. 00:10:51.091 --> 00:10:59.509 Oh, my goodness, oh, how many Rocky Horror Picture Show games. 00:11:00.191 --> 00:11:01.596 Yeah, Rocky Horror games, yep. 00:11:03.974 --> 00:11:08.410 It leads me to believe there's more than just the one that we found at the game store the other day. 00:11:08.410 --> 00:11:12.394 I'm going to go four. 00:11:13.751 --> 00:11:14.936 Oh, just two. 00:11:14.936 --> 00:11:23.541 Oh, oh oh, so you got 13 right, 13 out of 15. 00:11:25.110 --> 00:11:26.193 13 out of 15. 00:11:26.193 --> 00:11:35.995 I've had worse showings, I feel, like the last couple of quizzes I've been, you know, pretty darn close, so I guess I'll take it. 00:11:36.476 --> 00:11:37.239 Well, you should. 00:11:37.239 --> 00:11:43.995 You did good, you only got one wrong, and that's and you know what, it was my creativity that did it to you. 00:11:44.355 --> 00:11:45.679 Oh, whatever it was. 00:11:46.350 --> 00:11:47.714 It was my creativity that did it to you. 00:11:47.774 --> 00:11:48.395 Okay, I'm edit. 00:11:48.395 --> 00:11:49.679 This doesn't even in the podcast. 00:11:49.679 --> 00:11:52.576 I said I'll take it and that's it. 00:11:52.735 --> 00:11:53.557 Okay, I'll take it. 00:11:53.557 --> 00:11:54.159 That's it. 00:11:54.159 --> 00:11:54.941 La, la, la la. 00:12:21.926 --> 00:12:24.607 All right, it is time for Gag Pan. 00:12:24.607 --> 00:12:32.712 For those of you that have listened to us for

a long time, you might know that Gag Pan what it actually stands for. 00:12:32.712 --> 00:12:36.541 It actually stands for Games Angie and Chris played at night. 00:12:36.541 --> 00:12:46.179 So we got clever and I kind of forced Angie to name this segment, and that is the name that she settled on way back when. 00:12:46.509 --> 00:12:47.331 Yeah, it's not. 00:12:47.331 --> 00:12:53.572 It hasn't been that long, but yes, you were supposed to name a segment and you never did it. 00:12:53.852 --> 00:12:55.756 Yeah, and it just kind of went away. 00:12:55.756 --> 00:12:56.378 It kind of went away. 00:12:56.378 --> 00:12:58.042 It was stuff that Chris finds interesting. 00:12:58.261 --> 00:12:59.224 Yes, and you hated it. 00:12:59.224 --> 00:13:00.125 You hated it. 00:13:00.125 --> 00:13:01.909 You didn't find a lot of things interesting. 00:13:01.909 --> 00:13:10.957 Well the last interesting thing you talked about was Bigfoot, was the Bigfoot alien story, so maybe we'll have to find another cryptid story. 00:13:11.110 --> 00:13:11.972 Yeah, that'll be on our. 00:13:11.972 --> 00:13:17.070 Maybe we do cryptids on the on our Christmas extravaganza. 00:13:17.993 --> 00:13:20.139 Yes, we have a nice new cryptid story. 00:13:20.409 --> 00:13:22.297 We always bring cryptids into it. 00:13:22.590 --> 00:13:23.674 Yes, there you go. 00:13:23.674 --> 00:13:25.114 That was an interesting one. 00:13:25.114 --> 00:13:28.294 So yes, I named Gackpan. 00:13:28.294 --> 00:13:31.461 And what games have we been playing? 00:13:31.461 --> 00:13:33.216 We played Don Abulos. 00:13:34.289 --> 00:13:34.551 We did. 00:13:35.950 --> 00:13:37.616 We played Chakra. 00:13:38.629 --> 00:13:39.653 We played Chakra. 00:13:40.710 --> 00:13:46.441 And we played our most recent acquisition that came in the mail Novoroma. 00:13:46.441 --> 00:13:48.083 Yes, which one are we going to go? 00:13:48.083 --> 00:13:52.836 We'll leave Novoroma for the for the last, because that's the one I'm kind of like. 00:13:52.836 --> 00:13:55.861 It's right there, it's right there. 00:13:55.861 --> 00:13:57.083 You can see it, can't you? 00:13:57.490 --> 00:13:58.936 Yeah, you want to talk about it, I do. 00:13:58.936 --> 00:14:07.000 Well, we're going to talk about it, but we're not going to give out too much, because we will be having an episode where we do talk about the game in depth. 00:14:07.000 --> 00:14:09.975 Well, at least as in depth as we talk about games. 00:14:09.975 --> 00:14:18.173 I listened to some other content creators and the way they review stuff and we're just like yeah, I like the game. 00:14:18.173 --> 00:14:18.755 Yeah. 00:14:20.071 --> 00:14:34.081 But let me put it out here yeah, you are so awesome at your research, but I'm going to ask you this yes, maybe listen back to your surgeons review before you create this one. 00:14:34.341 --> 00:14:35.778 Okay, I will. 00:14:35.778 --> 00:14:41.398 I will 100% If I'm going to rate a game at 10, like I did resurgence. 00:14:42.570 --> 00:14:43.654 You must rip it down. 00:14:43.830 --> 00:14:48.581 I must tear it to pieces and make it sound like I hate, absolutely hate, the game stand. 00:14:48.581 --> 00:14:52.299 I'm really sorry that I had to say that, but I'm going to make it sound that way. 00:14:52.299 --> 00:14:55.495 It just means that I like it. 00:14:59.231 --> 00:15:05.000 I just have to tease you about that, just because it was just. 00:15:05.000 --> 00:15:12.822 It was so funny when it dawned on me what exactly you were doing when I realized you went 10. 00:15:12.822 --> 00:15:20.817 I'm lucky your whole review of it was just like you know, they cut it on this and you cut it on this and you could have done this. 00:15:20.817 --> 00:15:23.456 I'm thinking it was a 10. 00:15:26.451 --> 00:15:26.753 Well. 00:15:27.232 --> 00:15:28.134 I'm thinking he's going to go. 00:15:28.134 --> 00:15:29.956 It's a solid six. 00:15:31.097 --> 00:15:32.500 Nope, it's 10. 00:15:32.740 --> 00:15:33.360 It was a 10. 00:15:33.360 --> 00:15:36.125 All right, okay, just mean. 00:15:36.830 --> 00:15:43.634 So the other game that we got back to the table, that we haven't played in quite a while, was Arc Nova. 00:15:43.634 --> 00:15:49.241 We were sitting around and Angie asked me what I wanted to play and I was like I want to play Arc Nova. 00:15:49.241 --> 00:15:52.600 And I think the look on your face was a little little surprised. 00:15:52.600 --> 00:15:56.921 I hardly ever pick Euros when you asked me what to play, that's true, it's a good game. 00:15:57.370 --> 00:15:58.388 We've played it several times. 00:15:58.388 --> 00:16:05.780 I am maybe I'm surprised, because, yeah, you know, it's a long game for us. 00:16:06.442 --> 00:16:11.498 Yeah, yeah, the first time you were going to take play a game for two hours. 00:16:11.498 --> 00:16:15.639 Yeah, the first time we were played that game it was four hours. 00:17:24.990 --> 00:17:34.016 And even when we played it at the, we played at PhoenixCon it took us three hours, I think, and that was only, I think, the second time we played it. 00:17:34.016 --> 00:17:36.749 Yep, I think that was only the second time we got it. 00:17:36.749 --> 00:17:38.918 We played it once and then we packed it up and took it there. 00:17:38.918 --> 00:17:42.580 I mean, now we, you know, don't take quite that long. 00:17:42.580 --> 00:17:45.660 I think this one actually probably was much quicker. 00:17:45.660 --> 00:17:47.675 Did we get it done in an hour and a half? 00:17:47.856 --> 00:17:48.700 We got it done in a boat. 00:17:48.700 --> 00:17:50.216 No, we got it done in about two and a half. 00:17:50.216 --> 00:18:02.062 It was about two and a half Because I remember I had these grand plans to play Arc Nova and then probably another game, and we just got Arc Nova and then I had like 11 o'clock and I knew it. 00:18:03.132 --> 00:18:03.634 I knew it. 00:18:03.634 --> 00:18:04.417 I didn't. 00:18:04.417 --> 00:18:07.670 I knew that's what it was going to be.

00:18:07.670 --> 00:18:08.533 Anyway, it was a great game. 00:18:08.533 --> 00:18:10.117 It was a great game. 00:18:10.117 --> 00:18:12.316 What do you think about that game? 00:18:13.430 --> 00:18:17.098 It was a good game until you won. 00:18:17.098 --> 00:18:22.016 Final score 24 to 10 and you wins. 00:18:22.016 --> 00:18:28.399 That is a game that I enjoy playing until the scoring. 00:18:28.399 --> 00:18:31.657 I've never played a game before, other than patchwork. 00:18:31.717 --> 00:18:32.721 We talked about that. 00:18:32.830 --> 00:18:39.733 Yeah, we did talk about it, but other than patchwork that just makes it feel so at the end of the game. 00:18:40.310 --> 00:18:42.358 You worked so hard for a good score. 00:18:43.715 --> 00:18:46.449 Yeah, and then you end up with like 10, 24. 00:18:46.449 --> 00:18:48.675 Sometimes, you get the negatives. 00:18:48.675 --> 00:18:51.561 The one time I got in a negative and I'm like okay. 00:18:52.350 --> 00:18:53.374 Is that like that? 00:18:53.695 --> 00:18:54.498 Arc patchwork. 00:18:55.512 --> 00:18:59.020 It's like almost the worst thing that could happen to you is this negative point. 00:19:00.411 --> 00:19:07.480 Negative points in games are so bad from my psyche, my mental health. 00:19:07.480 --> 00:19:12.473 No, it was good. 00:19:12.473 --> 00:19:16.738 I don't know what. 00:19:16.738 --> 00:19:22.226 I don't think I tried a different strategy during that game, except I ended up. 00:19:22.226 --> 00:19:27.219 I ended up royally messing up. 00:19:27.219 --> 00:19:32.979 I had an end game scoring card that I would get points for. 00:19:32.979 --> 00:19:35.150 What is it? 00:19:35.150 --> 00:19:37.634 Prestige points, the hat track. 00:19:38.475 --> 00:19:40.819 Yeah, you know, when you get all the way up there. 00:19:40.859 --> 00:19:42.442 Reputation, the reputation. 00:19:42.461 --> 00:19:43.062 That track. 00:19:43.062 --> 00:19:47.070 That's like me, yeah, say something like that. 00:19:47.150 --> 00:19:52.523 I didn't flip the card that I needed to to be able to go to the higher points. 00:19:53.011 --> 00:19:54.295 I did not have. 00:19:54.295 --> 00:19:54.716 Yeah. 00:19:54.716 --> 00:19:59.793 Yeah, I didn't get as many flipped over because there was something that I didn't do at the beginning of the game. 00:19:59.793 --> 00:20:06.521 I can't remember what action I did not take, so I could not flip as many cards. 00:20:06.982 --> 00:20:07.222 Yeah. 00:20:08.350 --> 00:20:13.754 So that hurt once or twice, can't remember what it was, but yeah, that hurt you, I felt bad. 00:20:14.090 --> 00:20:14.773 I was cussing. 00:20:14.773 --> 00:20:17.116 I was cussing just a little bit. 00:20:17.116 --> 00:20:18.349 I don't, I don't cuss. 00:20:19.053 --> 00:20:22.288 You know, when you get to flip a card you're looking at going, okay, which one? 00:20:22.288 --> 00:20:25.298 You're looking at it, which am I going to get the immediate benefit? 00:20:25.298 --> 00:20:38.088 I can maybe add more animals on one turn, or I can get more cards and with some of them like the sponsor association those are maybe or the building. 00:20:38.088 --> 00:20:47.053 You need to flip over that building once to be able to build certain areas of the zoo, and that was when I didn't have flipped over and suddenly I'm trying to have to fit a piece in here going. 00:20:47.053 --> 00:20:59.293 There was like one area I could fit it in, you know to, because I was surrounded by three areas that I couldn't dig because I didn't have the construction card or the building card flipped over. 00:20:59.293 --> 00:21:05.998 So sometimes it's not until the end that you really see that, oh, I really needed to flip that one. 00:21:07.057 --> 00:21:14.751 Okay, yeah, normally I can think about the long game. 00:21:15.132 --> 00:21:15.432 Yeah. 00:21:16.073 --> 00:21:21.230 You know I don't focus and what you know I think what screwed me up is I was looking at end game scoring cards. 00:21:21.230 --> 00:21:23.246 Yeah, we say I never. 00:21:23.246 --> 00:21:24.470 I never do that. 00:21:24.470 --> 00:21:26.738 But this one I was and I focused. 00:21:26.738 --> 00:21:27.600 I had two of them. 00:21:27.600 --> 00:21:34.237 I had one that needed to have large animals Okay Okay. 00:21:34.237 --> 00:21:41.257 And then the other one was the reputation track and I ended up when we started off the first. 00:21:41.257 --> 00:22:00.169 In my starting hand I had an elephant Well, that's a large animal and I had my mindset that I wanted that elephant in my zoo and the only way I could have got that elephant in my zoo was turning over the animal card and I hardly ever flip over that animal card. 00:22:00.730 --> 00:22:04.031 hardly ever and I usually go with I believe it is. 00:22:04.051 --> 00:22:04.272 Yeah, I had. 00:22:04.272 --> 00:22:04.977 There's some lizard. 00:22:04.977 --> 00:22:07.047 I couldn't get in the zoo because I didn't have it flipped. 00:22:07.047 --> 00:22:07.871 I never flip that. 00:22:08.192 --> 00:22:24.332 I believe it's the I believe it is the association one that I would always flip, the one that would allow me to get to the end of the reputation track if I did it and not not playing that game for as long as we did, you know, is the span in between playing it. 00:22:24.332 --> 00:22:30.812 I didn't realize that when I got to that part on the board I was like I can't, oh, oh, you know I can't get past this. 00:22:31.100 --> 00:22:35.400 And the thing about those, the end goal cards, is that one thing you're going to get rid of. 00:22:35.400 --> 00:22:40.632 So when I look at mine, I almost always look at it as this one. 00:22:40.632 --> 00:22:46.886 I'm not going to do If you concentrate on both of them and you get to that one point in the conservation track, you have to choose. 00:22:46.886 --> 00:22:48.514 You have to dump one, yeah. 00:22:48.514 --> 00:22:55.907 So if you work so hard towards one and then you have to dump it, so I kind of, when I look at it

I'm going, okay, I'm not going to worry about that one, so much it may be. 00:22:55.907 --> 00:22:57.921 Concentrate on a different, on one of them. 00:22:58.403 --> 00:22:58.603 Sure. 00:22:58.903 --> 00:23:00.830 Because you have to get rid of them eventually. 00:23:01.180 --> 00:23:01.923 So that was our Knova. 00:23:01.923 --> 00:23:09.226 I forgot how much I enjoyed that game, looking forward to possibly getting a chance to try the Marine Worlds expansion. 00:23:09.226 --> 00:23:11.691 That is actually, truth be told. 00:23:11.691 --> 00:23:20.383 Watching people review that on YouTube and and some of the socials that we're on kind of made me wanted to play the game. 00:23:20.643 --> 00:23:22.689 So oh, okay, that's why. 00:23:22.689 --> 00:23:24.261 Yeah, yeah, you do, that happens. 00:23:24.281 --> 00:23:27.070 You see other people playing it, that's why it was tough of mine for me. 00:23:27.070 --> 00:23:28.663 What? 00:23:28.663 --> 00:23:29.767 What else do we play, Angie? 00:23:29.767 --> 00:23:32.555 So Angie and I again. 00:23:32.555 --> 00:23:37.571 You know that we, when we do go out, we always have what I like to call our EDC games. 00:23:37.571 --> 00:23:39.578 Every day carry. 00:23:39.578 --> 00:23:47.362 They're always in the Jeep, they're always somewhere in a purse or at a bag or something, and we brought a game. 00:23:47.703 --> 00:23:48.826 Silver and gold. 00:23:48.826 --> 00:23:50.392 Silver and gold. 00:23:50.392 --> 00:23:50.894 We did not. 00:23:50.894 --> 00:23:53.442 We do not have silver and gold pyramids. 00:23:54.784 --> 00:23:55.305 What's that? 00:23:56.287 --> 00:23:57.189 That's his new game. 00:23:57.389 --> 00:23:58.511 Silver and gold pyramids. 00:23:58.591 --> 00:24:03.913 Yes, In case you know, Mr Phil Walker already wants to send it to us. 00:24:03.913 --> 00:24:08.496 Oh, yes, yes, had to get my slight bit of pandering in this episode. 00:24:08.936 --> 00:24:17.492 I'm sure shipping from Sydney, sydney to Wisconsin, can't be that, no, no, not at all Anyway. 00:24:17.492 --> 00:24:20.786 So yes, silver and gold. 00:24:20.786 --> 00:24:23.963 I even lost track of where we were. 00:24:24.666 --> 00:24:28.922 I know I just it's like I shocked you, but I told you something that you didn't know. 00:24:31.086 --> 00:24:40.554 So silver and gold game a game I always enjoy we actually noticed in the rulebook that we were playing it wrong when we were scoring. 00:24:40.554 --> 00:24:42.782 We were only scoring for the trophies. 00:24:42.961 --> 00:24:45.389 Oh, yeah, yeah, exactly the coins Wait a minute. 00:24:45.528 --> 00:24:48.968 In this example, they are also adding up the coins. 00:24:48.988 --> 00:24:51.056 Well, you know what Then that was? 00:24:51.056 --> 00:24:58.001 I wasn't getting as many points because if I wasn't getting the trophies, yeah, I was missing out on some points. 00:24:58.421 --> 00:25:00.825 Yeah, I am Wow. 00:25:00.825 --> 00:25:11.569 And our score is just like skyrocketed Once we

realized oh, that's good, that is a great game. 00:25:11.569 --> 00:25:14.201 For those of you who have never played silver and gold, you should check it out. 00:25:14.201 --> 00:25:26.562 Poly Amino game where you have cards that are shaped in different poly Amino shapes and you're flipping a card, kind of like your Super Mega Lucky box, almost right. 00:25:26.843 --> 00:25:27.646 Yeah, it's a flipping right. 00:25:27.646 --> 00:25:28.570 That's the term. 00:25:28.570 --> 00:25:34.228 It's a flipping right, and whatever symbol is there, you try to fill in on your card. 00:25:34.228 --> 00:25:41.921 If you can't fill in the shape, you can at least put an X in and then all the cool scoring opportunities that you have on that game. 00:25:42.884 --> 00:25:46.172 It's a good palm trees and coins and free spaces. 00:25:46.172 --> 00:25:47.937 It's a quick game. 00:25:48.679 --> 00:25:56.264 You order your appetizer, get the game going and by the time your appetizer is at your table, you are almost done. 00:25:56.264 --> 00:26:05.126 That's that's how quick that game is, so I don't know if it's that quick. 00:26:05.206 --> 00:26:06.588 That's not Okay. 00:26:06.588 --> 00:26:08.250 Are we ready? 00:26:08.850 --> 00:26:14.142 Whoa, whoa, whoa whoa, whoa, whoa clappin here, clapin in my head. 00:26:14.142 --> 00:26:15.546 I'm sorry my ear holes. 00:26:15.546 --> 00:26:19.516 Are we ready for what, angie? 00:26:20.419 --> 00:26:22.443 I want to talk about what came in the mail. 00:26:23.425 --> 00:26:25.830 Oh, you want to talk about Nova Roma. 00:26:26.692 --> 00:26:28.002 I want to talk about Nova Roma. 00:26:28.002 --> 00:26:35.828 Now we're not going to talk a lot about Nova Roma, but I was very excited when it came in the mail that I made the mailman very happy. 00:26:35.828 --> 00:26:40.965 Because I jumped over a couple things to get to that. 00:26:40.965 --> 00:26:42.932 I was excited to play it. 00:26:42.932 --> 00:26:45.040 I was so excited to play it all day. 00:26:45.040 --> 00:26:45.803 We're going to play it. 00:26:45.803 --> 00:26:54.631 We're going to play it and things weren't working out and it wasn't working out and we did it, got it to the table and I watched a video on it. 00:26:54.793 --> 00:27:04.473 I'm reading the rule book and Chris's very first move I thought this is it. 00:27:04.473 --> 00:27:08.409 You looked at and you're like well, what am I supposed to do? 00:27:08.409 --> 00:27:11.181 And right away I'm like oh my God, the whole game is shot. 00:27:11.984 --> 00:27:13.307 He's going to hate it forever. 00:27:13.328 --> 00:27:13.790 That's it. 00:27:13.790 --> 00:27:15.175 He hates it already. 00:27:15.175 --> 00:27:17.363 One move in and he's looking at it. 00:27:17.363 --> 00:27:18.850 Go, why don't I know I can't do that. 00:27:18.850 --> 00:27:19.534 I don't know. 00:27:19.534 --> 00:27:29.502 Why would I, especially since you get the choice of like eight different actions to take, options to take and I had tunnel vision. 00:27:30.064 --> 00:27:30.705 I had tunnel vision. 00:27:30.705 --> 00:27:32.130 I was like this is what I'm doing. 00:27:32.872 --> 00:27:34.123 But you haven't even started. 00:27:34.143 --> 00:27:35.773 I was like this is the move I have to make. 00:27:35.813 --> 00:27:40.306 And then I realized you couldn't do it because I didn't have the resources required. 00:27:41.528 --> 00:27:43.112 And then I was just like whatever. 00:27:43.112 --> 00:27:48.636 But on that note though, so you said you read the rules, you watched some videos. 00:27:48.636 --> 00:27:53.369 Randy and Ellen did a from we, we game together. 00:27:53.509 --> 00:27:53.770 Yeah. 00:27:54.752 --> 00:27:57.278 Did a fantastic job with the. 00:27:57.318 --> 00:27:57.880 Kickstarter. 00:27:59.884 --> 00:28:00.467 The how to play. 00:28:00.467 --> 00:28:01.650 They did a good job yeah. 00:28:02.781 --> 00:28:03.142 Job. 00:28:03.162 --> 00:28:08.151 So, randy and Ellen, if you actually listen to this podcast, good job. 00:28:08.271 --> 00:28:09.453 Good job Good job. 00:28:10.100 --> 00:28:12.645 A fellow from one fellow Wisconsinite to another. 00:28:12.645 --> 00:28:15.050 Good job, do you want to be our friends? 00:28:26.549 --> 00:28:27.651 Oh, they're going to think you're creepy. 00:28:28.852 --> 00:28:37.068 Well, they wouldn't be the first, oh yeah. 00:28:37.148 --> 00:28:41.179 Okay, well, we'll talk more about Nova Roma and upcoming. 00:28:41.179 --> 00:28:51.427 We're going to give it a full review, because that gives this, is going to give us a chance to play it several more times and in true fashion. 00:28:51.427 --> 00:28:54.631 We tied this time. 00:28:54.631 --> 00:28:56.734 I won the tiebreaker. 00:28:56.734 --> 00:28:58.096 I will lose. 00:28:58.096 --> 00:28:59.598 Next time I will lose. 00:28:59.598 --> 00:29:01.659 I am, I'm already prepared. 00:29:01.659 --> 00:29:05.714 I'm going to lose next time and that's the way it works. 00:29:05.714 --> 00:29:07.209 It does work that way. 00:29:07.209 --> 00:29:34.584 I'm I'm like all hyped, I'm go, I know what I'm going to do, I'm playing, I've got it, I'm feeling confident, and then you play through once and then you know what to do and the next time you've got that down and you know where you're going to strategies in and you're just boom, boom, boom, boom, boom and I'm just sitting in the dust going oh, I thought I knew what I was doing and I feel like the whole time I get this tension going. 00:29:34.744 --> 00:29:38.061 I can't let him win, I can't let him win, and then you do. 00:29:38.403 --> 00:29:43.543 So you touched on something that I really wanted to save for the for for our full review of the game. 00:29:43.543 --> 00:29:46.470 However, it is just I just want to say it. 00:29:46.470 --> 00:29:59.869 So you mentioned that we ended our first game ended in a tie, so the tiebreaker rule on this game is I don't know is in somebody might get docked a point and a half for that. 00:30:01.280 -->

00:30:02.022 I'm going to say it. 00:30:02.022 --> 00:30:12.351 So the tiebreaker rule in this game is first you check your influence track, the person with the most influence is the winner. 00:30:12.351 --> 00:30:19.628 If you are still tied after you check your influence track, the youngest person wins. 00:30:20.149 --> 00:30:21.813 I'm feeling personally hurt. 00:30:25.947 --> 00:30:28.992 I was so happy you were, you were. 00:30:28.992 --> 00:30:34.148 You were so excited to was like I could win this just because I'm younger than you. 00:30:34.849 --> 00:30:49.425 But you did, you're tied and I think the first thing you said was I won, I'm younger, I'm thinking no, that was a second time breaker, that was a second tiebreaker and like, literally, I think I had like two more influence track. 00:30:50.086 --> 00:30:51.250 Oh, we got a phone call. 00:30:51.250 --> 00:30:53.201 Hold on a second Greba Lucy. 00:30:53.201 --> 00:30:58.173 Hello, this is the chasing meables podcast. 00:30:58.173 --> 00:30:59.181 What can I do for you? 00:31:02.086 --> 00:31:02.486 She hung up on you. 00:31:02.486 --> 00:31:03.207 She hung up on you. 00:31:08.720 --> 00:31:09.505 Man, oh man. 00:31:10.128 --> 00:31:12.721 I think she got confused the way you answered the phone. 00:31:12.721 --> 00:31:24.678 Hello, now, everybody that listens to the way Chris does this, you think that maybe he's just sitting here like a deadpan thing and this voice is coming. 00:31:24.678 --> 00:31:27.387 Oh no, it's exactly how you could imagine. 00:31:27.387 --> 00:31:36.716 It is here, he is all like super and in his arms are flying, and hello everybody, this is Chris at the chasing meables podcast. 00:31:36.716 --> 00:31:40.088 Yes, it is exactly what you think it would be. 00:31:40.188 --> 00:31:42.355 Yes, Hello, grandma Lucy. 00:31:42.355 --> 00:31:45.944 Thank you for calling the chasing meables hotline. 00:31:45.944 --> 00:32:03.427 So yeah, I totally thought I don't know how I'm going to fix this in editing, but I, oh, I thought I had in the bag and you were just Nope, we got to check the influence track and then I was so mad at myself. 00:32:03.447 --> 00:32:03.807 Oh, that's right. 00:32:03.807 --> 00:32:06.655 You remember when I said oh gosh, yes. 00:32:08.699 --> 00:32:09.882 Oh, we can't talk about this. 00:32:09.922 --> 00:32:10.443 Okay, we can. 00:32:10.463 --> 00:32:11.566 We're stopping right now. 00:32:11.566 --> 00:32:12.267 Cue the bump up tunes. 00:32:12.267 --> 00:32:12.548 That is it. 00:32:12.548 --> 00:32:13.590 Moving on to the main segment. 00:32:29.690 --> 00:32:30.672 Hey Meble Chasers. 00:32:30.672 --> 00:32:37.078 Up next, Kristen and she are going to talk about five easy to teach games, ideal for newcomers to board gaming. 00:32:37.078 --> 00:32:45.222 Simple, engaging and fun these games are perfect for introducing friends and family to the world of games. 00:32:55.847 --> 00:32:57.309 All right, Meble Chasers. 00:32:57.309 --> 00:33:01.585 This is the moment I think you've all been waiting for during this podcast. 00:33:01.585 --> 00:33:16.652 What are the five games that Angie and Chris think would make a easy teach when introducing non-gamers or newer gamers to the hobby gaming world? 00:33:16.672 --> 00:33:19.201 Angie A good way to put it. 00:33:19.201 --> 00:33:27.648 That was a good way to put it because we want to introduce Like we said earlier, we want to introduce actual game games to them, and not necessarily a party game. 00:33:27.648 --> 00:33:29.661 So what's the next step? 00:33:29.661 --> 00:33:31.739 What's the next step from a party game? 00:33:31.859 --> 00:33:33.544 Next step games. 00:33:33.645 --> 00:33:35.109 There we go, there you go, there you go. 00:33:36.656 --> 00:33:38.259 All right, Angie, why don't you start this? 00:33:38.781 --> 00:33:38.941 No. 00:33:39.122 --> 00:33:40.304 No, is there a particular order that you have? 00:33:40.324 --> 00:33:47.387 That's what I was going to say there's no particular order, so I'm going to grab one out of the list here and I'm going to talk about Trekking through History. 00:33:47.387 --> 00:33:50.282 It is a 2022 game from Underdog Games. 00:33:50.282 --> 00:33:52.999 It is a, so it is a newer game. 00:33:52.999 --> 00:34:00.868 It is in the Trekking through line of games Trekking through national parks. 00:34:00.868 --> 00:34:02.384 There's Trekking through the world. 00:34:02.384 --> 00:34:04.601 This is Trekking through history. 00:34:04.601 --> 00:34:07.222 It's an easier game. 00:34:07.575 --> 00:34:11.045 I had originally been thinking about my brother and something that maybe would interest him. 00:34:11.045 --> 00:34:25.583 So when you're talking about intersticing a game to somebody who doesn't really play games, maybe a topic and my brother is like a history buff, he's that type of thing that would really interest him. 00:34:25.583 --> 00:34:28.222 It is a set collection game. 00:34:28.222 --> 00:34:32.518 So there's a good example of a set collection game, because that is essentially what you're going to do. 00:34:32.518 --> 00:34:43.141 You go through three eras and you are trying to collect a number of cards that descend or ascend by the year. 00:34:43.141 --> 00:34:44.726 Essentially, you're ascending. 00:34:44.726 --> 00:34:51.105 You're ascending because you might be starting at 1200 and go all the way up to 2020. 00:34:51.105 --> 00:34:52.288 So you need to. 00:34:52.288 --> 00:34:53.699 You're going on a running here. 00:34:53.699 --> 00:34:55.601 You're trying to build a timeline. 00:34:55.795 --> 00:34:57.882 In chronological order Thank you. 00:34:58.574 --> 00:35:01.103 You are building a timeline in chronological order. 00:35:01.103 --> 00:35:04.965 The cards are really interesting because they give you facts about them. 00:35:04.965 --> 00:35:07.054 They have a neat little artwork. 00:35:07.054 --> 00:35:12.282 Like I said, you go through three eras, so it's a pretty simple game. 00:35:12.282 -->

00:35:29.264 Your turns go by a clock so you can choose how you want to move around the clock and that determines how many spaces you're going to move and how much time you want to use to move. 00:35:29.264 --> 00:35:34.818 Say, you just want to use two times, you're just going to move two. 00:35:35.079 --> 00:35:36.402 It's an hour, it's like two hours. 00:35:36.422 --> 00:35:37.042 It's an hour. 00:35:37.262 --> 00:35:38.144 Yes, right, so you're. 00:35:38.144 --> 00:35:38.725 Each round. 00:35:38.725 --> 00:35:44.403 There's three rounds in the game and each round represents one day of your trip through time. 00:35:44.683 --> 00:35:52.819 There you go, there you go, and if you ever played Patchwork, does Patchwork do it. 00:35:52.819 --> 00:35:54.475 Yeah, patchwork does it. 00:35:54.475 --> 00:36:01.782 As you're going through around, the person behind takes the next turn, so you don't go back and forth, back and forth. 00:36:01.782 --> 00:36:06.782 Somebody may have two turns in a row in this, so that's one thing that makes it really interesting. 00:36:06.782 --> 00:36:29.599 But you take a turn, you buy a card, you get the resources from the card and those resources you're going to use to put on a time board, and then you can get some benefits from that, and the longest chains of your timeline that you can make, those are going to score you some points. 00:36:29.599 --> 00:36:32.062 So it is a pretty easy game to grasp. 00:36:32.414 --> 00:36:58.058 I think you hit the nail on the head on this, because if you actually look at the way the publisher talks about their goal when they design this game is the goal for this game was to make the game inviting for non-gamers but have a little subtlety under the hood for gamers, and I think they accomplished that and that's a really good pick. 00:36:58.058 --> 00:36:59.556 Angie. 00:36:59.556 --> 00:37:01.783 Truth be told, Angie picked every game on this list. 00:37:01.783 --> 00:37:03.418 I'm just here for color commentary. 00:37:03.418 --> 00:37:09.201 What is the next game on our list? 00:37:09.422 --> 00:37:10.123 Creature Comforts. 00:37:10.806 --> 00:37:11.126 Awesome. 00:37:11.674 --> 00:37:19.961 Creature Comforts is a 2022 game from Kids Table Board Games, so it is a game for the entire family. 00:37:19.961 --> 00:37:22.299 It's got really cute artwork. 00:37:22.299 --> 00:37:23.083 They are animal. 00:37:23.083 --> 00:37:29.902 Oh, they're little creatures I'm not going to say the word, so they're like little woodland creatures. 00:37:30.654 --> 00:37:36.239 It is a form of a worker placement game and you're fulfilling contracts, so they're going to be. 00:37:36.239 --> 00:37:44.464 You're going to have a number of workers, family members that you're going to use, and you have some dice and you're going to. 00:37:44.464 --> 00:37:48.214 There's a number of different places on the board, so you're going to get different resources. 00:37:48.214 --> 00:37:56.761 So you're going to put one of

your workers in an area that maybe it's going to give you some wood and some wool, and then, on your turn, you have to roll some dice. 00:37:56.761 --> 00:38:00.143 These different spaces have requirements. 00:38:00.143 --> 00:38:01.740 You have to have dice requirements. 00:38:01.740 --> 00:38:07.447 Maybe you need to have two of the same number or they have to total less than five. 00:38:07.447 --> 00:38:19.485 If you can meet those requirements with your dice, then you get the resources that are there, and the reason why you're getting these resources are the cards that you're going to be getting. 00:38:20.614 --> 00:38:38.864 The whole idea behind this game is that the woodland creatures are gathering everything they need to hibernate for the winter, so all the things that you would like to have, like the rocking chair, the soup, some activities, some games, some knitting, any of these type of activities. 00:38:38.864 --> 00:38:43.482 They're all on little cards and each one of these cards have requirements. 00:38:43.482 --> 00:38:46.522 So maybe I would like to get some soup. 00:38:46.522 --> 00:38:57.920 I will have to pay the cost of that card, which is probably like two yarn and a piece of wood, which doesn't make sense for making soup, so that I'm kind of just making up. 00:38:58.734 --> 00:39:01.304 But at the end of the game you're going to score these up. 00:39:01.304 --> 00:39:07.867 There's going to be points that you're going to get for having different cards. 00:39:07.867 --> 00:39:15.358 Some of the cards work together, so it is a pretty and there are other ways to get some sort of bonuses. 00:39:15.358 --> 00:39:20.489 But it is kind of a easier worker placement game. 00:39:20.489 --> 00:39:22.842 It is something that you can play with the whole family. 00:39:22.842 --> 00:39:32.724 It gives you that introduction to like what's a contract for fulfillment, which means meeting the requirements of a card that you're eventually going to get points off of. 00:39:32.724 --> 00:39:38.380 So that is creature comforts Anything, chris, that you have to add. 00:39:38.894 --> 00:39:43.764 If you're looking for a game that is going to make people go wow, this is cool looking, that's one of them. 00:39:43.764 --> 00:39:44.947 It's a cute game. 00:39:44.947 --> 00:39:46.259 It looks really good on the table. 00:39:46.494 --> 00:39:47.176 Good components. 00:39:47.699 --> 00:39:49.504 The components are good, the artwork is good. 00:39:49.504 --> 00:40:00.519 I think if you want to maybe show those new gamers or the non-gamers how attractive a game can look on the table, that is a good example of one. 00:40:00.519 --> 00:40:00.780 Yeah. 00:40:01.261 --> 00:40:13.137 All right, I'm going to talk about the next game on our list and that is Century Golem Edition, published in 2017 by Plan B Games and designed by Emerson Matsuchi. 00:40:13.137 --> 00:40:16.300 So the theme in this game? 00:40:16.300 --> 00:40:36.039 It's a rethemed version of Century Spice Road, where in that game, you are caravan leaders who travel the famed roads of the spices and you're delivering it to people who want spices. 00:40:36.039 --> 00:40:52.597 In this one, you are caravan leaders who travel the famed Golem Road to deliver crystals to the far reaches of the world and basically get these crystals with the help of your Golem friends. 00:40:52.597 --> 00:41:14.884 So essentially, what you are doing is you are harvesting crystals and you have to fulfill a demand by the demand on the Golem cards of the certain colored crystals, and each Golem is worth your point value at the end of the game. 00:41:14.884 --> 00:41:21.462 It is beautiful, it's simple, it is a great game. 00:41:23.734 --> 00:41:25.855 It's a fun deck builder During your turn. 00:41:25.855 --> 00:41:31.878 You're going to, very simply, you are either going to it is a deck builder. 00:41:32.194 --> 00:41:40.705 It's a deck building game where you're either going to take one of the cards off the table the cards themselves are what's going to give you gems. 00:41:40.705 --> 00:41:44.003 So I might pull a card that's going to give me two yellow gems. 00:41:44.003 --> 00:41:51.918 When I play that card, I take the yellow gems and I put them on my little pool board that you have in front of you. 00:41:51.918 --> 00:41:55.440 So eventually you can decide to trade up your gems. 00:41:55.440 --> 00:42:01.277 But you want to use your gems to fulfill the Golems. 00:42:01.277 --> 00:42:18.260 So if I get two yellow, a pink and a blue, I can purchase one of the Golems and at the end of the game, the person with I think the first person with 15 Golems or is it first one to 10 ends the game. 00:42:18.974 --> 00:42:23.563 The last round is triggered once a player has claimed their fifth Golem, basically. 00:42:23.704 --> 00:42:25.208 Five Golems, yeah, five Golems. 00:42:25.208 --> 00:42:29.042 So whoever gets five Golems, then you end game and then you add things up. 00:42:30.586 --> 00:42:33.947 Yeah, that's a great game and I always win Next game. 00:42:34.871 --> 00:42:35.554 Next game. 00:42:37.177 --> 00:42:40.085 I'm like horrible at describing games, aren't I Angie? 00:42:40.445 --> 00:42:42.257 Well, no so. 00:42:42.257 --> 00:42:48.936 But as I'm sitting here, I'm thinking, oh yeah, these are easy games to teach and we can't even describe them, so I don't know how we'd actually teach them to somebody else. 00:42:49.117 --> 00:42:50.298 Yeah, hey, play this game. 00:42:50.298 --> 00:42:53.183 It's about this and Sound interesting. 00:42:53.283 --> 00:42:54.605 This is why we always yeah, okay. 00:42:54.605 --> 00:42:56.167 This is why we have no friends, chris. 00:42:57.168 --> 00:43:01.240 Yeah, so usually enough, we are doing a podcast where you have to be good communicators. 00:43:07.612 --> 00:43:07.855 Crickets. 00:43:07.855 --> 00:43:11.143 You know what? 00:43:11.143 --> 00:43:13.839 I'm pretty sure people just hear for the enjoyment.

00:43:14.862 --> 00:43:15.786 Hear for the banter. 00:43:16.014 --> 00:43:17.078 We're all here for the entertainment. 00:43:17.078 --> 00:43:24.641 I mean, if you want knowledge, there are a thousand YouTube channels that you can go for actual information. 00:43:24.641 --> 00:43:26.085 True, really. 00:43:26.085 --> 00:43:31.000 I mean, let's be honest, you want actual facts. 00:43:31.000 --> 00:43:38.706 We can give you the name of a half a dozen good YouTube channels and even some podcasts. 00:43:38.706 --> 00:43:41.739 People come here for us, chris. 00:43:41.739 --> 00:43:43.438 They come here for us. 00:43:43.438 --> 00:43:46.879 We keep them entertained while they're doing the dishes. 00:43:46.879 --> 00:43:50.418 We just keep them entertained. 00:43:51.574 --> 00:43:54.342 The next game on this list is an old one. 00:43:54.342 --> 00:44:03.520 It's one that Anybody that's touching the board game hobby knows about. 00:44:03.520 --> 00:44:07.496 People who are not board gamers probably have heard this game somewhere. 00:44:07.496 --> 00:44:09.754 It is Ticket to Ride. 00:44:09.754 --> 00:44:13.438 It is a 2004 game by Days of Wonder. 00:44:13.438 --> 00:44:22.864 The nice thing about this list I think all these games are available, not even at a game store. 00:44:22.864 --> 00:44:28.170 I think you can walk into Target or Walmart and pick up these games, so they're all very accessible. 00:44:28.170 --> 00:44:30.677 I'm pretty sure I saw Creature Comforts at Target. 00:44:30.677 --> 00:44:33.329 I know Ticket to Ride you can get that anywhere. 00:44:33.329 --> 00:44:37.799 I'm pretty sure I saw Sensory Spice Road or the Golem Edition at Target. 00:44:37.799 --> 00:44:41.077 So all these games are really easy to get. 00:44:41.077 --> 00:44:43.217 But right now we're talking about Ticket to Ride. 00:44:44.449 --> 00:44:48.141 Ticket to Ride is like I said, it's a 2004 game. 00:44:48.141 --> 00:44:49.735 It's got hand management. 00:44:49.735 --> 00:44:51.835 It has route building. 00:44:51.835 --> 00:44:57.701 Ticket is going to have you start the game with two contracts and a hand of cards. 00:44:57.701 --> 00:45:04.975 Your tickets are your contracts so I may want to travel from. 00:45:04.975 --> 00:45:08.161 I might want to travel from Los Angeles to New York. 00:45:08.161 --> 00:45:16.918 The map has routes throughout the country so there are different ways to get there so you don't always take the same route. 00:45:16.918 --> 00:45:28.138 And one of the tricky things is that Chris may be trying to go from El Paso to Chicago and he might be blocking some of my train routes. 00:45:28.138 --> 00:45:36.039 So a big ticket like that might give me like 20 points at the end of the game If I can get my trains from California to New York. 00:45:36.869 --> 00:45:39.214 So what I will do, I will try to. 00:45:39.214 --> 00:45:44.513 Maybe the first leg of my trip I will need to get four white. 00:45:44.513 --> 00:45:47.116 So I will have to look at

my hand. 00:45:47.116 --> 00:45:55.096 I will have to collect four white train cards, hand them in and I can put my own little trains on that area of the track. 00:45:55.096 --> 00:46:02.831 So the board is covered with different colors of train tracks, but there are some areas that are. 00:46:02.831 --> 00:46:04.317 They're neutral. 00:46:04.317 --> 00:46:10.000 Essentially they're invisible, they're clear. 00:46:10.000 --> 00:46:14.552 You don't have so you can use any color train to go on there, like through Texas. 00:46:14.552 --> 00:46:17.356 So you're handing in cards. 00:46:17.489 --> 00:46:18.693 This is where your hand management. 00:46:18.693 --> 00:46:28.115 You're deciding when you want to use which cards to go on to which path you want to go on to across the country so you can take little routes. 00:46:28.115 --> 00:46:31.400 So the strategy comes am I going to try to fulfill a big card? 00:46:31.400 --> 00:46:38.437 Am I going to try to use all my trains to go across the country, which might take me a while to get to New York? 00:46:38.437 --> 00:46:50.952 Or maybe I want to pick up a couple shorter routes, like Orlando to Charlottesville, and you could do several small routes. 00:46:50.952 --> 00:46:55.041 But it is a pretty accessible game. 00:46:56.049 --> 00:47:01.576 So, like you're just choosing cards, one of your action may be just to choose a card. 00:47:01.576 --> 00:47:06.359 You can choose two cards that are face up. 00:47:06.359 --> 00:47:10.280 You could choose something from the face down pile. 00:47:10.280 --> 00:47:14.779 If you decide to choose a wild card, that's the only one you can choose on your turn. 00:47:14.779 --> 00:47:28.778 Or you could take your turn and you could hand in three white cards and put your three little trains on a little white track, or you could take a new ticket. 00:47:29.491 --> 00:47:30.817 You said you do start the game. 00:47:30.817 --> 00:47:37.808 I believe you start with two tickets Once you complete those tickets or contracts they're not called contracts. 00:47:37.808 --> 00:47:38.632 They would be tickets. 00:47:38.632 --> 00:47:42.877 Once you fulfill one of those, you're going to want to grab another one. 00:47:42.877 --> 00:47:50.692 That's where you get routes, that's where you get your points from, and you could choose them. 00:47:50.692 --> 00:47:53.000 And you get to choose a couple and decide which one you want. 00:47:54.172 --> 00:48:03.177 Do I want to take one of the big ones or do I want to take smaller ones and get those done faster, making sure I get all of them done quicker. 00:48:03.177 --> 00:48:07.692 And as you finish your routes, you know there's score tracker around the board. 00:48:07.692 --> 00:48:17.523 At the end of the game you do get points whoever has the longest train connected train route. 00:48:17.523 --> 00:48:22.740 So if you happen to have a big, long train route, you do get extra points for that too. 00:48:22.740 --> 00:48:27.641 The neat thing about this game is it does have a very good app. 00:48:27.641 --> 00:48:30.317 You can play on your phone or on tablet. 00:48:30.317 --> 00:48:39.179 So if you want to try that out before you even pick up the board game, I know I think we've probably played the app as much as we've played the physical copy. 00:48:39.529 --> 00:48:41.016 Yeah, I agree. 00:48:41.710 --> 00:48:43.917 Because it has, and it's a really good, accessible one. 00:48:43.917 --> 00:48:44.659 We've played it. 00:48:44.659 --> 00:48:48.520 I think we're in a waiting room of a hospital or something like that. 00:48:48.520 --> 00:48:49.333 We've played it. 00:48:50.850 --> 00:48:51.734 Yeah, we did. 00:48:51.989 --> 00:48:53.855 So that is tick a dried. 00:48:53.855 --> 00:49:06.415 I should say that there is your base ticket to ride and then there are ticket to rides all over the world, just about everywhere. 00:49:06.415 --> 00:49:11.896 There's a map for Italy, there's Europe, there are parts of Africa. 00:49:11.896 --> 00:49:13.373 We got the. 00:49:13.373 --> 00:49:15.018 It's called. 00:49:15.018 --> 00:49:15.960 I think it's a 6.5. 00:49:15.960 --> 00:49:19.250 It's the Poland app or the Poland, excuse me. 00:49:19.250 --> 00:49:25.663 We have the Poland map pack, which is a difficult, hard to find. 00:49:25.663 --> 00:49:29.420 It can only be found overseas and I happened to have found it last year. 00:49:29.420 --> 00:49:33.096 Thank God, it for Christmas, or was it the year before it? 00:49:33.255 --> 00:49:36.556 was the year before the year before, and then there's smaller versions. 00:49:36.556 --> 00:49:48.114 So if it's something you're not sure you want to invest in, for like 18 bucks you can pick up ticket to ride New York or ticket to ride London, and that's a really shorter version. 00:49:48.114 --> 00:49:49.618 Introductory edition. 00:49:51.233 --> 00:49:52.235 So, yeah, that's a good game. 00:49:54.690 --> 00:49:56.956 Last one on the list, Chris, can you do it? 00:49:57.889 --> 00:50:00.458 Can I describe the game? 00:50:00.750 --> 00:50:02.435 Our oldest game on the list. 00:50:02.435 --> 00:50:06.353 Oldest game on the list. 00:50:07.176 --> 00:50:07.518 All right. 00:50:07.518 --> 00:50:12.599 So the game that I'm going to try to describe is Carcassonne. 00:50:12.599 --> 00:50:25.356 Those of you that have listened to this podcast for a while know that Angie and I love this game Carcassonne, Originally published in the year 2000,. 00:50:25.356 --> 00:50:29.123 We happen to have the Z-Man version of the game. 00:50:29.123 --> 00:50:33.280 There's at least 35 different publishers who have published this game. 00:50:33.280 --> 00:50:38.414 I do believe the original was published by Hans Imgluck, If that's how you pronounce it. 00:50:38.414 --> 00:50:40.712 But anyway, Carcassonne. 00:50:40.712 --> 00:50:44.581 It is a great example of a tile laying game. 00:50:44.581 --> 00:50:58.605 So in Carcassonne you are essentially making a map and you are placing

tiles down to complete the map. 00:50:58.605 --> 00:51:00.556 Am I doing, Angie? 00:51:02.054 --> 00:51:04.000 That's why it's easy to teach. 00:51:04.000 --> 00:51:05.012 You can do this. 00:51:05.012 --> 00:51:05.554 That's right. 00:51:05.554 --> 00:51:06.737 You are making a map. 00:51:07.269 --> 00:51:14.194 So you want to make roads, you want to make rivers, you want to make cities and you want to make roads. 00:51:14.194 --> 00:51:21.020 The larger you, for example, the larger you make your city, or the longer you make your roads, the more points you get. 00:51:21.020 --> 00:51:23.820 How do you get those points, angie? 00:51:23.820 --> 00:51:28.619 Meeple, chasers, listeners, how do you get those points? 00:51:28.619 --> 00:51:29.617 Tell us, chris. 00:51:29.617 --> 00:51:33.423 You get those points by taking your meeples and you put them on your map. 00:51:34.714 --> 00:51:40.204 You, for example, if I was taking, I wanted to start to create a city. 00:51:40.204 --> 00:51:42.028 I would put the city down. 00:51:42.028 --> 00:51:53.020 I would put one little tile down that has a city on it and then I would say little meeple guy, go and live in this city right here, and I would put that meeple down in that city. 00:51:53.020 --> 00:52:02.427 Now I want to continue to build that city until that city is completely done. 00:52:02.427 --> 00:52:18.135 When that city is completely done, you get those points based on how many tiles worth how many tiles those cities are comprised of. 00:52:18.135 --> 00:52:19.621 Same thing with roads. 00:52:19.621 --> 00:52:27.547 If I want a road, I'm going to put my little meeple on the road and I'm going to get points for that. 00:52:27.547 --> 00:52:35.778 Angie, anytime you want to hop in here, anytime you want to hop in here, instead of just sitting there laughing at me. 00:52:36.154 --> 00:52:37.199 I'm not laughing at you. 00:52:37.199 --> 00:52:38.301 You're doing a wonderful job, no. 00:52:38.542 --> 00:52:39.304 I'm doing a horrible job. 00:52:39.494 --> 00:52:43.344 Okay, when you play Kakarzone, you're going to start out with a starter tile. 00:52:44.554 --> 00:53:02.616 These are just square tiles and that's all there is to the game are tiles and meeples, and there will be a starter tile and then you place large pile of everything else face down each player You're going to. 00:53:02.616 --> 00:53:11.924 It's a square, so you're going to take your tile and you're going to put it next to one end of the other tile and you're matching the terrain. 00:53:11.924 --> 00:53:18.498 So you're going to have to match grass up to grass or if there's a road, you can continue the road. 00:53:18.498 --> 00:53:30.161 There are some tiles that have now the artwork on here is old and dated, but there are cities on here that you're trying to create. 00:53:30.161 --> 00:53:36.525 So if you're going to, you'd have to put the city area next to the city. 00:53:36.525 --> 00:53:44.708 There are some areas that have like there's different things on tiles, like there's an abbey. 00:53:44.708 --> 00:53:49.563 So if you're going to place an abbey, it's got to be all surrounded with other land. 00:53:49.563 --> 00:53:54.905 So you're going to take turns just laying a tile down. 00:53:54.905 --> 00:53:58.460 Then you're going to score by placing meeples down. 00:53:58.460 --> 00:54:07.583 So if I am building a road as I'm building a road, so I may just place a tile down and it's got part of a road I can put my meeple there. 00:54:07.583 --> 00:54:09.799 How is that going to score me? 00:54:09.799 --> 00:54:16.085 Because as that road gets bigger, if I keep putting more road tiles next to it, the road's going to get longer. 00:54:16.085 --> 00:54:20.565 It will stop at like little villages around the tiles. 00:54:20.565 --> 00:54:27.960 So when you have a beginning and an ending to that road, you're going to score that road and when you do that you get to take your meeple back. 00:54:29.875 --> 00:54:33.263 There is also Chris was trying to allude to that there are cities. 00:54:33.263 --> 00:54:40.338 So you may put a tile down that has a city and decide, hey, this is my city, I want the city, I want to score the city. 00:54:40.338 --> 00:54:43.661 So you put your meeple on it, but that city isn't complete. 00:54:43.661 --> 00:54:46.362 You just have like half a block of that city. 00:54:46.362 --> 00:54:52.500 So maybe on your next turn you're going to try to complete that city and then that the city is completed. 00:54:52.500 --> 00:55:05.583 When it's enclosed, there are walls around the city and then inside that you're going to score how many tiles it is that you had to use to make that city and you get extra points if there are any shields in there. 00:55:06.394 --> 00:55:12.487 There is a tricky method that you can use to upscan somebody else's city. 00:55:12.487 --> 00:55:14.420 Chris tried it once and he'll never do it again. 00:55:14.420 --> 00:55:18.281 As I was mentioning before, there are abbeys. 00:55:18.281 --> 00:55:27.322 So when you place an abbey down, you're just placing it next to another grassland because it is going to score by surrounding. 00:55:27.322 --> 00:55:33.007 So if you completely surround the abbey, then you get nine points. 00:55:33.007 --> 00:55:41.422 I think it is for completely surrounding that there are the fields, and that was the one thing I always thought was kind of tricky. 00:55:42.194 --> 00:55:50.464 But as you lay a tile down, instead of putting it on a road, instead of putting it on the city, you can put it laying down on the grass. 00:55:51.154 --> 00:55:55.806 Now, this is the way that your meeple is there and you don't pick it back up. 00:55:56.355 --> 00:56:01.820 So when you complete your city, you get to pick your meeple back up and you can keep reusing those meeples. 00:56:01.820 --> 00:56:08.359 But if you decide to put it on the side of the road, laying down in the grass, there he's there for the rest of the

game. 00:56:08.359 --> 00:56:18.106 So you better hope that what you're doing is creating a big field, so you're going to score that whole farmland that's all adjacent to it. 00:56:18.106 --> 00:56:30.542 So if you can create a large field or a large farmland, you score all those tiles, but that meeple is there until the end of the game. 00:56:30.542 --> 00:56:46.025 So if you for some reason decide to lay all your tiles meeples down, you got to realize that you're not going to be able to score other things roads, cities and stuff like that and there is a score tracker that's just keeping your score during the game. 00:56:46.025 --> 00:57:05.788 And here is the interesting fun fact about it Carcassonne is the reason we are called Chasing Meeples, because you use your meeples to go back and forth along that score track and there is one meeple that is always chasing the other. 00:57:07.920 --> 00:57:09.043 It's usually my meeple. 00:57:09.154 --> 00:57:12.344 I didn't say that, but that's where we get chasing meeples from. 00:57:12.344 --> 00:57:14.418 So how does that? 00:57:14.418 --> 00:57:15.161 How did I do? 00:57:15.161 --> 00:57:16.545 How did I do with that one? 00:57:16.654 --> 00:57:18.501 Oh, you did way better than I was. 00:57:18.501 --> 00:57:19.577 There are different. 00:57:19.617 --> 00:57:22.244 Yeah, there are different iterations of the game. 00:57:22.244 --> 00:57:25.784 There is a brand new cooperative version we just picked up. 00:57:25.784 --> 00:57:27.058 We have not played it yet. 00:57:27.058 --> 00:57:29.378 Hear good things about it. 00:57:30.514 --> 00:57:47.647 Carcassonne Yay, so that is the five games that we think would be a good, good choice to teach people that are new to the hobby or people who have never played games before. 00:57:47.647 --> 00:58:00.307 If you're going to your families this holiday season, leave us an email comment on this podcast or this video on YouTube and let us know what you think. 00:58:00.307 --> 00:58:01.237 Did we miss any? 00:58:01.237 --> 00:58:02.422 Are we right? 00:58:02.422 --> 00:58:03.136 Are we wrong? 00:58:03.136 --> 00:58:08.462 Should I just shut up all the time and let Angie do all the descriptions? 00:58:08.483 --> 00:58:18.743 No, the halfway through I'm thinking do we teach anybody games I could teach you, because you're the only person that understand me. 00:58:18.743 --> 00:58:20.940 There's a reason for that. 00:58:22.734 --> 00:58:23.777 All right, angie. 00:58:23.777 --> 00:58:29.728 I think this wraps up another episode of the Chasing Meeples podcast. 00:58:29.728 --> 00:58:41.025 Listeners, I really appreciate you sticking with us because as we went on, especially during that last segment, I realized that I am still in a fukoma. 00:58:44.482 --> 00:58:45.644 I have a leg cramp. 00:58:46.554 --> 00:58:47.578 You have a leg cramp. 00:58:47.578 --> 00:58:50.060 We are falling apart here, everybody. 00:58:50.060 --> 00:58:53.141 It is time to just stick a fork in us. 00:58:53.141 --> 00:58:54.284 We're done. 00:58:54.284 --> 00:58:55.047 Because we're done. 00:58:55.047 --> 00:58:57.502 All right, everybody keep chasing those meeples. 00:58:58.065 --> 00:58:58.525 Bye, bye. 00:59:10.442 --> 00:59:10.922 We're here for you. 00:59:10.922 --> 01:00:03.653 We're here for you, you.