Ronan takes you through six reviews of slightly oddball games. The games featured are; A Game About Selecting 7 Cards and Speedily Searching for Synergies, The Barracks Emperors, Green Team Wins, Patterns, Rome in a Day and Tesseract.

 

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Sean and Ronan unite to look back a decade at the very best games of a great year for new games. Before that they take a look at six games they have been playing recently.

 

Sean and Ronan sit down and chew the fat over the many games they played over a glorious weekend in Eastbourne at LoBsterCon XXIV. Old favourites, new experiences and everything in between.

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Finally the much anticipated (or dreaded) Episode 100 is here with famous guests, chats about how it all happened, a look back at our early shows, questions from listeners and a top 10 from 2013 (the year we started). Join us for the Episode 100 extravaganza!!

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Sean and Ronan pillaged UK Games Expo 2018 and return to your ears with tales of fourteen of the games they played over the weekend plus mentions of many more they looked at, prodded and licked. 

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Ronan is joined by guests Eleanor and Pouria and they review ten shorter games before revealing which are their Top 3 recommendations from those discussed. 

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In the build up to the UK's largest board gaming convention Sean and Ronan run the ruler over twelve games releasing or demoing at the show and try to predict whether they are going to be gaming Treasures or Traps for the unwise. These are previews of games we, for the most part, have not yet played.

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We're back with a bumper Picking Over the Bones episode where we look at some of the latest big releases and have a prize draw for you.

The games covered are Fallout, Civilizations: New Dawn, A Column of Fire, Reworld, Empires of the Void 2 and Tulip Bubble.

 

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Ronan and Sean return to give quicker reviews of quicker games as they look back at games they played with friends and family over the winter holidays. In all eighteen games are weighed, measured and judged. Some to find a place in Gaming Glory and others to be trodden into the dirt of gaming obscurity. 

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Sean and Ronan have decided to try and join the popular 10 x 10 Challenge for the year. In Episode 106 they list the twenty games they have chosen to try and play at least ten times over the next twelve months to try and explore the hidden depths of strategy and fun.

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This episode sees Ronan and Sean pick over the bones of Bunny Kingdom, Ex Libris, Montana and three other games.

Also in the show, we call on all our listeners to send in questions so we can include them in our delayed and horribly out of sequence Episode 100. If you want to take part, please send your question to: thegamepitpodcast@gmail.com

Finally we'd like to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas and the very best of fortune in 2018!

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Ronan and Eleanor take a spin in the booth to cover nine Spiel 2017 releases in record time. Join them for their run through to find out if they uncovered treasures or got trapped at the table.

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Sean and Ronan get together to discuss six of the games they picked up in Essen at Spiel 2017. Featured are Otys, Azul, Dragonsgate College, Bali, Deadline and Speed Colours. 

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Sean and Ronan celebrate The Game Pit's Ten Year Anniversary in style by completing their lists of the greatest games of all time.

Thanks for being with us for the past ten years and much love to all.

Sean and Ronan sit down after three busy days in Essen and give you first impressions on six games they have played. The episode was recorded as live so please forgive any sound or editing issues.

Ronan reports back from a frantic first day at Spiel 2017 during which travel troubles curtailed The Pit's presence in the halls but he still manages to report on five games he has played. 

On the eve of Spiel 2017 Sean and Ronan give you twelve more opinions on games releasing at the show. Each game is discussed and then they both let you know whether the game will be a treasure to fill your gaming shelf with delight or a trap to lure in the unwary. 

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Sean and Ronan continue the countdown to Essen by digging into twelve more games releasing at Spiel 2017 and give you their opinions on whether they will uncover Treasures or Traps.

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Sean and Ronan provide six reviews this episode of games they have been playing recently. Being picked over this time are Roll Player, Flip Ships, Island Dice, Carcosa, Hanamikoji and Grifters.

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Back with the second installment of their Essen Treasure Hunt, Sean and Ronan take a look at twelve more games being released at Spiel 2017 and without playing them try to decide if they are a Treasure or a Trap!

Featured are; Michael Strogoff, Merlin, Santa Maria, The Dutch East Indies, Edge of Humanity, Space Freaks, Parley, Cuckooo!, Dragon Castle, Deadline, Otys and Harvest Dice.

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Back with the first installment of their Essen Treasure Hunt, Sean and Ronan take a look at twelve games set to be released at Spiel 2017 and without having played them give you a brief overview and their best guess at whether each game will turn out to be a Treasure or a Trap!

Featured are; Hunt for the Ring, Coaster Park, Calimala, Clans of Caledonia, Pioneer Days, Keyper, In Between, Justice League, Bronze, Favelas, The Sanctuary and Rajas of the Ganges.

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The boys are back with the final instalment of their top 50 games of all time.

Now we have reached the absolute best of the best (according to Sean and Ronan), will you be nodding in agreement or roaring your disapproval.

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Six more games run the gauntlet within The Game Pit this episode. We cover the spectrum from ten minute fillers to three hour Waros as the rule is run over Time of Crisis, Shadowscape, Magic Maze, Amerigo, Aeon's End and Holmes: Sherlock & Mycroft. Which games delight, divide and disappoint?

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We are back with a revised format for this The Vault episode. We will as ever be putting one of the greatest games ever designed into the hallowed Vault but instead of Sean and Ronan nominating games we have Natalie with us. Natalia has chosen her Top 5 games of all time and it is our job to decide which of the nominees deserves to become only the 4th game allowed to enter. Listen to find out which game makes the cut.

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Sean and Ronan and busy digging through snow as today we launch into a review of Frostpunk followed by nine more quicker reviews and some Sesame Street theme tune.

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No Sean this time but Stephen, Adam and Lloyd join Ronan in The Game Pit to take a detour into the world of roleplaying games. They discuss their varied backgrounds in roleplaying, their current games, how to handle being a player, being a games master and other topics. Games that particularly feature include D&D 5th Edition, Pathfinder, Star Wars: Edge of Empire, Traveller and more...

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Sean and Ronan are back with six more board game reviews this time around. 

Going under the knife are Flatline, Ethnos, Pocket Mars, Caylus, First Class and The Football Game. 

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We're back with Ronan and Sean's latest instalment of their individual top 50 games ever.

As usual they are not in total agreement but see who you agree with, if either.

 

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Back to vigourously shake down the skeletons of six more games are Sean and Ronan. 

The featured review in the second half is This War of Mine. Before that we run the ruler over Century Spice Road, Superhot, Santo Domingo and The Lost Expedition.

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Adam is our Guest in The Pit as we take a look back at all of the gaming goodies we have enjoyed or otherwise from 2016.

We give you our Top 5 of the year, Most Disappointing, Best Presented, Best New to Us and much, much more...

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Sean and Ronan give their first impressions of eighteen games they sampled over a long weekend in Birmingham at UK Games Expo 2017 as well as touching on other experiences they sampled.

This episode is less about full reviews and more to give an idea of the sort of games you can expect to see on a table near you soon. There is a definite emphasis on lighter and family games, the heavy stuff is coming soon.

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In this episode we take a look forward at the up and coming UK Games Expo and in particular 12 games that will either premiere or demo at the Expo.

The 12 games covered are just some of the many available to buy and play at the UKGE.

If you are attending the UKGE, Sean and Ronan will be there all three days and will be taking part in various Dice Tower events including working the Dice Tower Booth and playing a big game of Wits & Wagers. If you see us in our Game Pit t-shirts around the halls, please come and say hello.

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It's once again time for Ronan and Sean to ramp up the excitement levels and head down to Eastbourne for the wonderful gaming weekend that is LoBsterCon.

In the episode we talk about 12 games we played at LoBsterCon XIII in quickfire reviews and have a brief chat in the Outro about things exciting us within the gaming world in the near future.

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The countdown continues and after general agreement last time out, the boys are at odds over a few of the choices made here.

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In this show Ronan is away and Sean is joined by Natalie who is back by popular demand to discuss Empires of the Void, OctoDice and Gloomhaven.

 

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Sean and Ronan return to run down twenty of the finest games ever to grace a gamer's table. 

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In this episode, Sean and Ronan finally chew over some big Essen 2016 names (Railroad Revolution, A Feast for Odin and Fabled Fruit) as well as looking as three more games they have been playing of late (The Grizzled, Jim Henson's: Labyrinth the Board Game and Valeria: Card Kingdoms).

They may have seemed more upbeat in recent shows but in this one they return to have a proper grumble. See what games escaped a good thrashing and what ones tok a beating.

 

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The second of five shows in which Ronan and Sean announce their individual top 50 games of all time.

 

What makes the list and what do the boys think of each others choices?

 

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Sean and Ronan begin the countdown on their own Top 50 Games Ever!!! 

Supporting, abusing and questioning each other as we go, here are our top games ever published from 50 - 41.

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The holidays have long delayed this episode recorded in early December right after Sean and Ronan had attended LoBsterCon XII on the south coast of England for a long weekend of gaming. In just over an hour they give you their thoughts on twelve games one or both of them played over the weekend. 

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We fire up our first full reviews from Spiel 2016 and the games on the slab this time are Adrenaline, Key to the City - London, Great Western Trail, Flamme Rouge, Cottage Garden and The Last Friday.

We also have a review of current Kickstarter massive hit Mythic Battles: Pantheon from Ronan.

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For our first post-Spiel 2016 episode we pick over the bones of six family games, from Essen past and present. We are joined by Ronan's daughters who share their opinions. At the end everyone takes a turn to list the games they have played in their order of preference. That is not one but four Top 5s for you.

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With Ronan lamenting at home, Sean and Natalie make a daring raid on Essen Spiel 2016 and in this episode they quickly run through their first day. We have some news from the publishers display area with some games to keep your eyes open for and we have three mini reviews on the games we played on the first day. These are Lorenzo il Magnifico, Fabled Fruit and Zauberei hoch drei (Wizardry to the Power of Three). Finally Sean and Natalie give their big wish and name the game that they will hunt down first at Spiel. **Episode recorded in an Essen hotel room so please forgive any reduction on sound quality**

On the eve of the big fair we present our final dozen previews of releases expected this week and decide whether we believe that they are Treasures or Traps.  Covered this time are; Eight Epics, Agamemnon, Barcelona: The Rose of Fire, Black Spy, Far East War 1592, Dream Home, Kepler 3042, Rhodes, Chromosome, The Daedalus Sentence, Meduris and Dragon & Flagon. Find us on social media as @thegamepitpodcast. Head to our BGG Guild for discussion on our episodes and general gaming,

In our penultimate round of Essen previews Sean and Ronan again give their opinions on which of a dozen upcoming releases will be Treasures and which will be Traps.  This time we analyse; La Granja: No Siesta, The Last Friday, Sola Fide, Codenames: Pictures, 7 Wonders Duel: Pantheon, Railroad Revolution, A Feast for Odin, Captains of the Golden Age, Nautilion, Warquest, Argo and Airlines. Catch us on social media network places and email us your feedback at thegamepitpodcast@gmail.com Head to our BGG Guild to rant at us in good company.

Back for more predictions on what will be the hits and misses at Essen Spiel 2016 are Sean, Ronan and a dozen games forced through the crystal ball. Some will be deemed Treasures and some will be consigned to the dungeon as Traps. This time up are; Flamme Rouge, Oceanos, The Colonists, Key to the City - London, Cyclades: Monuments, JORVIK, Inis, The Oracle of Delphi, HOP!, Small World: River World, Junk Art and Emojito.

Ronan is joined by returning guest Adam and between them they mull over the merits of Akropolis, Oath, Ahoy!, Rumble Nation, Star Trek: Ascendancy, Red Cathedral: Contractors, Sea, Salt & Paper and Oriflamme: Ablaze.

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Ronan is joined by Stephen Buonocore to give a publisher's insight into Spiel. Stephen discusses how it  has played a major role in the growth and development of Stronghold Games including how he forges international partnerships, seeks out new games and tries to create the perfect booth experience. We also chat about all eight of the games debuting for Stronghold games at Spiel this year as well as touching on many other titles. Check out more great gaming coverage at www.dicetower.com Check us out on social media and at iTunes, Stitcher and Podbean

It is time to preview twelve upcoming releases scheduled to hit our tables from Spiel 2016 at Essen. Using detective skills, rulebook pondering and an unhealthy amount of speculation Sean and Ronan will decide between them whether they think these games are Treasures fit to grace the tables of Kings or Traps set to waste the luggage space of the unwary. Join the fun. This time we weigh up Lorenzo il Magnifico, Of Dreams & Shadows, Adrenaline, Vikings on Board, Armageddon, Legendary Inventors, Pandemic the Cure: Experimental Medications, Age of Thieves, Great Western Trail, The Arrival, When I Dream and London Dread.

Sean and Ronan had time to squeeze out one more episode before Spiel madness takes over The Pit. We could not go on before picking apart the surprise release of the summer, Mansions of Madness 2nd Edition.  Also featured are Hit Z Road, The Networks, Let Them Eat Cake, Ticket to Ride: UK Map, DVONN and Sapiens. At dicetower.com you can find the very best in board game coverage from videos to podcasts to us. Catch all of our episodes on iTunes, Stitcher and podbean.com