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Welcome to The Gleeful Meeple - A podcast all about board games, where strategy meets laughter and all the dice is always better!

In this episode:

• We talk about our gaming highlights and disappointments of 2025
• We draft some dice and travel around Europe in this week’s Games of the Show: Tiletum
• And you, the Gleeples, get to play along, as the hosts get put in the hot seat with this week's Game Challenge.

The Renaissance is an exciting time and you have goods to sell & prestige to earn. Will you become the most famous merchant in this golden age or will you be forgotten and be left with empty houses…

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Welcome to The Gleeful Meeple - A podcast all about board games, where strategy meets laughter and marbles ain't just for shootin’!

In this episode:

• We talk about how we’ve changed as gamers over the years!
• We do this to grab those to trigger that in this week’s Games of the Show: Gizmos
• And you, the Gleeples, get to play along, as the hosts get put in the hot seat with this week's Game Challenge.

The smartest minds of our generation are gathering together at the Great Science Fair. Everyone's been working hard on their creations, but only one will be crowned champion. Will your machine be the best?

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Welcome to The Gleeful Meeple - A podcast all about board games, where strategy meets laughter and racing gets galactic!

In this episode:

• We prepare for halloween and talk about horror themed games!
• We play cards on cards on cards in this week's Games of the Show: Race for the Galaxy
• And you, the Gleeples, get to play along, as the hosts get put in the hot seat with this week's Game Challenge.

players build galactic civilizations by playing cards representing worlds or technical and social developments. Get your space suits ready and world building apparatuses ready cause we’re building galactic civilizations, creating social and technical developments, all through the power of…cards. It’s all in the cards. 

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Welcome to The Gleeful Meeple - A podcast all about board games, where strategy meets laughter and oh God not the bees! They’re in my eyes! They’re in my eyes! aaahhh!!

In this episode:

• We’re joined by a special guest to talk all things board game cafe’s
• We play with space bees in this week's Games of the Show: Apiary
• And you, the Gleeples, get to play along, as the hosts get put in the hot seat with this week's Game Challenge.

In a far-distant future, humans no longer inhabit Earth. The cause of their disappearance (or perhaps their demise) is unknown, but their absence left a void ready to be filled by another sentient species. Enter the space bees! Will your faction BEE the strongest before you need to hibernate?

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Welcome to The Gleeful Meeple - A podcast all about board games, where strategy meets laughter and a life of gentry is just a card draw away! 

In this episode:

• How do our significant others feel about this weird board game thing?
• We go full Downton Abbey in this week's Games of the Show: Obsession
• And you, the Gleeples, get to play along, as the hosts get put in the hot seat with this week's Game Challenge.

You are the head of a respected but troubled family estate in mid-19th century Victorian England. After several lean decades, family fortunes are looking up! Can you improve your estate to be among the truly influential families in Derbyshire?

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Welcome to The Gleeful Meeple - A podcast all about board games, where strategy meets laughter and clickity clack goes the upgraded pieces!

In this episode:

• We put on our hiking boots and get destroyed by mosquitoes to talk about our top nature themed games!
• We fill our pots in this week's Games of the Show: Quacks of Quedlinburg
• And you, the Gleeples, get to take a break, as the hosts get put in the hot seat with this week's Game Challenge.

Have you found the perfect recipe yet? No? Well keep throwing stuff in the pot and see what happens! I mean what could go wrong?

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Welcome to The Gleeful Meeple - A podcast all about board games, where strategy meets laughter and more games is always better!

In this episode:

• We throw a curve ball!
• We march in a parade, we build castles, and we lead our knightly orders in this week's Games of the Show: Parade, Rebirth, and Crusaders Thy Will Be Done!
• And you, the Gleeples, get to take a break, as the hosts DON’T get put in the hot seat with this week's Game Challenge.

Are you ready to visit Neverland? Do you want to visit Scotland? Hey, how does Europe sound? You came to the right podcast! Let's go on a tour together!

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Welcome to The Gleeful Meeple - A podcast all about board games, where strategy meets laughter and bigger is always better…if you have the table spaaaaace.

In this episode:

• We went to GenCon! And we’re gonna talk about it!
• We go big, we go huge, we go colossal! in this week's Game of the Show: Castles of Mad King Ludwig
• And you, the Gleeples, get to play along, as the hosts get put in the hot seat with this week's Game Challenge.

The king has commissioned you to build the biggest, best castle ever — subject, of course, to his ever-changing whims.  Build an amazing, extravagant castle for King Ludwig II of Bavaria...one room at a time. Will you be the most responsive to the king's demands?

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Welcome to The Gleeful Meeple - A podcast all about board games, where strategy meets laughter and chaos reigns supreme.

In this episode:

• We return to the Pantheon to nominate more games for the illustrious honor!  
• We jump ramps, collide, and catch on fire in this week's Game of the Show: Thunder Road Vendetta
• And you, the Gleeples, get to play along, as the hosts get put in the hot seat with this week's Game Challenge.

Are you readyyyyyyyyy for the ultimate race of your lives?  Get your guns ready and fuel up your chopper, because the only rules in this race are that there are no rules!

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Welcome to The Gleeful Meeple - A podcast all about board games, where strategy meets laughter and cube towers are neither friend nor foe.

In this episode:

• It’s Gen Con time and we’re talking about what we’re most excited about.
• We compete with other influential families in this week's Game of the Show: Marrakesh
• And you, the Gleeples, get to play along, as the hosts get put in the hot seat with this week's Game Challenge.

Are you honorable enough to become the new "Obermufti" of Marrakesh? Provide the citizens with the water, dates, and dinar that they need and you might just have a chance!