The Spiel

Red alert! Dozens of bombs are planted across the decks of your ship. Can your team defuse them before time runs out? Fuse is a 10 minute cooperative dice game. It's easy to learn, hard to win & amazingly addictive. That's a winning recipe for Major Fun!

Get Together. Get the Loot. Get Out. Burgle Brothers is a cooperative heist game that is clearly inspired by the movies and built around teamwork. Tune in to find out why it deserves the Spiel of Approval award.

A review of Strike written by Stephen Conway. Strike is a game that takes something as simple as gravity and turns it into an enjoyable, compelling and addictive experience for players of all ages.

In 7 Wonders: Duel, players compete to build ancient civilizations over 3 ages. The game owes a debt to its wildly successful card drafting cousin but is filled with unique challenges & strategies. Tune in to learn why it deserves The Spiel of Approval!

Pingo Pingo is a wacky game driven by a 15 min. soundtrack. Using a deck of cards and your trusty dart gun, you must face traps, cross rope bridges, avoid polar bears and hordes of space penguins to collect the most treasure & escape before time runs out.

New year, new format. The Spiel and Major Fun have joined forces! We'll be reviewing games over the course of a season and bestowing each one with a Major Fun or Spiel of Approval award. We'll also be producing roundtable interviews at GenCon and Essen.

Meat sticks and mickey fickeys. We are joined by a cavalcade of friends from around the world to celebrate the season with conversations filled with games, laughter and lots of geeky goodness.

You just have to tray. This grab-bag episode features a review of The Bloody Inn, a card game with a deliciously dark and twisted theme, plus two live segments recorded with Spielers at BGG Con in Dallas and our 2015 holiday game gift guide.

The road goes ever on and on. We talk about three trips: one physical - a travelogue of our recent trip to Essen, one fictional - a review of Lord of the Rings: Journey to Mordor, and one psychological - a review of ...and then we held hands.

Seeing the red Amigo logo on a game means easy to learn, fresh gameplay and, most important, fun. Editors Uwe & Christian join us to chat about several titles that embrace this philosophy: Elfenland Deluxe, Gipfelsturmer, Roman Poker & Portal of Molthar.