We were sitting on a new stack of word games, so we asked our editor Mike Zipkin (he of fancy game upgrades and beige game tastes) to join us in covering Word Traveler, Illiterati, Mind Map, and ContraBanter. Plus, upgrading your board games is old news -- how do you upgrade your entire game room?

Timeline:

• 2:00 - Christina/Shoe's game pick: Captain Flip.
• 9:13 - Mike's game pick: StreetCar (San Francisco).
• 16:28 - Christina/Shoe's topic: new word games.
• 48:14 - Mike's topic: upgrading your game room.