Game on! Blow on those
dice, spend 30 minutes setting up that elaborate game board, and
get ready to raise your glasses to Tabletop games -- either a
great way to socialize, or the way to end friendships, as we
discover in this episode. All in honor of International Tabletop
Day, which is April 30th.
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history behind International Tabletop Day, from GeekandSundry.com, which is
also the home of Wil Wheaton's show "Tabletop."
benefits of playing games for children and adults, and why she and
her friends are no longer allowed to play Monopoly. Despite
the popularity of video games, board games continue to rise in
One reason games continue
to be popular is the rise in crowdfunding games, such as one of our
favorites,
Scrimish, which you can win a copy of by going to classylittlepodcast.com/giveaway.
about Scrimish? Check out inventor Danny Zondervan's video
explaining game play over on the Kickstarter page.
(Emily and her husband, Mark, are proud to say they helped
Kickstart this campaign!)
James, despite hating the
game, talks about some of the history of Monopoly, including
the real story behind the invention of it. Fun
Fact: You cannot use the game board as a map
around Atlantic City. We also want to go to the landfill to
find buried copies of Anti-Monopoly.
your house rules you had while playing Monopoly? Let us know!
Monopoly takes too long to play, Emily tells him how it's possible
to play the game in 21 seconds. We also talk about the updates made
to game, including changing cash to credit cards.
be responsible for the loss of friendship, the game was responsible
for helping British prisoners of war escape during World War
researching Ouija boards, and she finds out the history, some
precursors, and why mediums were more upset about Ouija boards at
first than the church. Find out the reason for the Ouija board's
name, how it was awarded a patent, and some of the other talking
board work? It seems plausible that it could be spirits ... until
you blindfold users. Watch
story, and you can hear more about poop stories from Off in the
Board Game or Racehorse? This is a tough, tough game, by the way!
Emily even calls on Kitty to help her out. She even just starts
guessing categories other than game or racehorse for a few of them.
Because of this game, we decide we want to play
polio has to do with Candyland. And we finally found a topic in
which James really couldn't find any large corporations to judge
History episode James refers to can be
watched on CC.com. But James does talk a bit about Milton
Bradley and some of the innovations he brought to America.
on why we're an Explicit podcast. (It's James' fault. Clearly.)
Apparently, we'll be planning a field trip to Springfield,
facts about Scrabble, including a terrible French/Spanish/Gibberish
pronunciation of the International Federation of Scrabble!
while Emily was feeling under the weather this week -- we tried to
get this episode out as soon as possible. Actually, a HUGE thank
you to her husband, Mark, who did a majority of editing for her
while she had fever dreams that her cat was telepathically sending
her a ideas for a book he wants to write. (Seriously. This
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