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A ritual to summon one of the great old ones has successfully been completed, spilling all sorts of eldritch shit out into the Miskatonic campus. But don't worry, there's still one final chance to reverse it! Highlights include:
- The odds against us are astronomical!
- It's Arkham, so you know what you're getting
- The box is a bit of a liar
- It's all about the priority cards
- It's a bit of a tactical nightmare
- This week, we FARG
A wizard and a crone, desperately searching for mysterious items in an ever changing maze of twisting paths and dead ends! Highlights include:
- Prepare for a multiple Ravensburger tangents
- Nothing to do with Bowie
- Nothing to do with burgers either
- I get distracted by Hocus Pocus
- By the time you listen to this, I will have already bought Market Day
- You literally need no knowledge to play this game
Some evil douchebag is on his way to pillage the Isle of Cats, so it's up to us to rescue as many of the inhabitants as possible! There's just one problem - how to fit them all in? Highlights include:
- Mark's in charge!
- Watch out, your sister is mean
- It's basically cat-tetris
- Obviously, cats can't go through walls
- This is my child, Polyomino
- Mark's approach to unboxing a game has raised some concerns
Various locations in the world of Harry Potter are being beset by magical miscreants, and it's up to us to use our deck-building skills to kick them into oblivion! Highlights include:
- For some reason, Mark can't say 'Ron Weasley'
- Nothing says romance like forcing your other half to play board games
- It's Valentine's Day, let's have a fight
- Spells are the guns of the Harry Potter world
- If you haven't had your Hogwarts letter, you can't play
- You just cannot trust the dark arts
- Lucius Malfoy = The guy with the hair
The Great Old Ones are at it again, this time battling for control of Yuggoth... which is actually Pluto, would you believe? It's a new map, but is it a game changer? Highlights include:
- Mark doesn't know who he is
- Is it a place or is it a monster?
- Mark generally struggles to comprehend things - it's like he's in a Lovecraft novel of his very own...
- There's slime, but I wouldn't go out of my way to get some
- In five goes, everyone's dead
- Lack of planning counts as bad planning
- At least the two parts of the board lined up this time
The excitement is palpable as the Blue Eels take on the Lower Granfeld Elks - but will the mysterious goings on bring trouble to the game?
The cities of the world (all of them) are in crisis! Their only hope is for us to fly our super plane round there and deliver the necessary supplies in a rapid fashion. What could go wrong? Highlights include:
- Sand timers are notoriously silent
- There's no time for fannying about
- The world has more than 25 cities
- Karachi is alright, but everywhere else is fucked!
- We don't know flags. Or geography. Or anything.
One of our relatives has gone missing, and all we're left with is a bunch of mysterious and monstrous clues - but which one of us can be in possession of the most important clue by the end? Highlights include:
- Just in case you were wondering, there's only one rulebook
- What's more important, winning or staying sane?
- Mark actually did some strategy!
- There's always insanity
- If board games were meal courses, what would you have?
- I was outstandingly bad at this game
- Who has the rights to what? Nobody knows!
- How many different engines are there?
Where am I? You're in the Knightmare Board Game! It's a race to reach Merlin, but can we involve the various traps and bastardry? Highlights include:
- Mark takes the lead!
- Who wants to climb Merlin's 'throne'?
- That's the room where that stupid kid fell off a bridge
- Back in the 80s nobody gave a fuck about plastic
- Half way through, we were like 'Oh, strategy.'
- Warning team!
- Falsehood!
- Who wants to join the Knightmare Adventurer's Club, only £3.95!
A 29 game campaign comes to an end, and the deck we finish with is nothing like the one we started with! Permanent changes mean our Sopio Legacy deck is unique to us - go Popcorn! Highlights include:
- The game was heralded in by a totally shit Whoopi Goldberg movie
- Massive spoiler alert!
- It's all about the popcorn
- There's probably a bastard deck out there
- What's more important, opening secret packs, or winning?
- Sarah is now officially the God of Sopio
- You have to accept the fact you'll vandalise the game
- Don't get stuck in a french toast loop
- Whatever you do, guaranteed Sarah will stop you
- RIP Angel Fish, Brotato and Popcorn Colonel
- It's all about the secret packets
- Sarah loves the FRAG drama
- What else could be a Legacy game?
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