In episode 4 of season 2 Jordan starts us off with the amazing charity efforts of Stonemaier Games. Thomas brings the conversation to chess and how he was crushed by Canadian FIDE (fee-day) International Master (IM) Mark Plotkin. He then transitions into his thrift store find of Embers of Memory: A Throne of Glass Game and his disappointment with the rule book. Both host talk briefly about using board games as math tools with Kingdoms by Reiner Knizia and a short while later Sagrada by Adrian Adamescu and Daryl Andrews. Finally, Thomas brings up his 30 plays of Under Falling Skies and how he wanted to love this title but was spoiled on it due to the randomness of the dice.

Jordan was eventually able to get a word in and talks about getting Quacks of Quedlinburg to the table with his family before lamenting about another title in the publisher CMYK library Lacuna. Unfortunately, Lacuna is only available on the publishers' website so it is not available to us here in Canada. As promised in the last episode, Jordan gets a solo play of Paladins of the West Kingdom. From Paladins Jordan moves into playing Wingspan with his wife. We finish off the Other Plays portion of the episode with a rant about Jordan's Expeditions Playmat and how it was damaged due to poor packaging methods at the manufacturing level.

Other Plays:

0:01:40 - Stonemaier Charity Initiatives

0:07:40 - Chess with IM Mark Plotkin

0:17:40 - Embers of Memory: A Throne of Glass Game

0:24:44 - Kingdoms

0:26:40 - Under Falling Skies

0:40:48 - Sagrada

0:41:40 - Quacks of Quedlinburg

0:45:08 - Lacuna

0:47:05 - Paladins of the West Kingdom

0:51:11 - Wingspan

0:56:00 - Expeditions Playmat Issues

Current Plays:

1:01:28 - Raiders of Scythia

1:31:25 - Raiders of the North Sea

2:03:55 - Fury of Dracula