Organised Fun

This week, we play around with ChatGPT - can it make a convincing boardgame? How does it know what a boardgame even is? Is it actual magic? Highlights include:

- Dinosaurs? They're so 90s Germany

- I'd actually play Nightmare Manor

- It knows all the buzzwords

- Roll It To 5... otherwise known as Yahtzee

- Aqua Doodle Challenge sounds well shit

- Keep rolling those dice, strategising those moves, and sharing the joy

The court is in session as we attempt to solve your gaming dilemmas! Highlights include:

- Judge Judy gets quite a lot of airtime

- Not sponsored by McDonald's, honest

- Fictional Derek takes a bashing

- Most of these problems can be solved by simply uninviting the undesirable guest

- Sometimes you just need to be a bit harsh, and sometimes you need to just chill out

- If you need to confront someone, wait for Nan's birthday

- Who is Hans and why are we holding him?

- You stand accused of Ludophilia

We have to get the ring to Mordor before we're overwhelmed by its corruption - watch out for goblins! Highlights include:

- Gutted for the Diana Jones award

- Get ready for Welsh

- Sarah doesn't know who anybody is

- Check out that field though!

- Dead grandma banter

- There's some disgusting goblin racism

- Turns out in a co-op game, we actually have to work together

- We're all agreed, we don't use the ring, right Sarah? Right Sarah???

- Come on Frodo, stop crying and just get on with it

We play 26 games in a row - one for every letter of the alphabet! Highlights include:

- They didn't know the time in the olden days

- We try and stick to gaming par

- Hostage Negotiator becomes Hostage Murderer

- International Rescue can only help you once they've rolled a 6

- We show the harsh contrast between set up time and play time

- Shadi Torbey gets an official apology

- A 15 year old could eat a meeple

- The Table Is Lava got my child hooked on... lava

- We lose our head start around W

We're back on Fireball Island! Highlights include:

- Strap in for some cool ice puns

- The island gets bastardy

- Would you rather be permanently injured, or lose some treasure?

- We spend a considerable amount of time discussing 'Model Railway: The Board Game'

- I can't get used to saying X instead of Twitter

This time our battle rages across the Dreamlands - watch out for Zoogs! Highlights include:

- Why would you even go to the Underworld?

- The Bhole... sounds shit

- I can't wait to DICER this game

- Can you make a board game out of ice? Why has nobody done this?

- This is the Playmobil of board games

- Mark doesn't care whether he's invading a country or a library

After taking a direct hit to the engines and leaving Jack behind on Fraxia Beta, the crew of the AGA-0 are forced to make some hasty repairs!

A light-hearted boardgame with a fatal curse... can we solve the mystery of The Ghost in the Attic? Highlights include:

- Anybody for Cribbage?

- We wasted the first ten minutes because I can't read

- Who the fuck is Alice Brooks?

- You could wrap this back up and give it to someone else... but I won't

- You get a whole bonus game to play!

- Yeah, but what *is* an armillary sphere?

- Beware the freaky clawboards

- Ghost in the Attic? A fucking monkey could play it!

5 years! Here we look back on the last 12 months of Organised Fun! Highlights include:

- Turns out 41 is a prime number

- I get proper obsessed with the H-Index

- Bad news for Derek Ring fans (he's not dead though)

- Losing your fingers: probably not a dream come true

- Quite often, when you buy something, you know what it is

- Thoughts and prayers for Anneka Rice's washing machine

- The girls are proper harsh

- Sarah starts off with a board game low-light

- Bunty chooses a game from the future! 

- Kimmy only likes a game if she wins

 - It's a good old time

- Riley forgets Kyle's name

The flat gets trashed as we compete to complete random tasks! Highlights include:

- Things may get untidy

- It's my new obsession

- What would you sacrifice in the name of the game?

- Can you rediscover gravity?

- 'Fish out of water: Everything is connected'

- Meet Rory the Toilet Septopus

- Word types cause way more trouble than expected

- Americans! Have you heard of this?