Happy post-Halloween! Now that everyone's hopped up on sugar (and/or in a sugar crash coma), let's finish our discussion of party games! Come along as we discuss:

• Mike's greatest weakness - a limited knowledge of Campbell's Soup varieties!
• What game company was founded because of a flooded salmon boat?
• "They're Belgian, but that's French enough." (We're sorry.)
• A mercifully brief digression into Marcel Proust's 7-volume À la recherche du temps perdu.

And a few video/picture links we mention along the way:

• A well-shot, well-edited game of Skull: https://boardgamegeek.com/image/2432884/concept
• Polygon plays Wavelength: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS-XT-5R26Q

As always, thank you for listening. We return you now to our monthly begging for an iTunes review. We'd also love to have you visit our website and let us know what kinds of games we should discuss next. You're also more than welcome to comment on the episode page, or our Facebook page, or tag @ascentofboardgames on Bluesky. Whatever way you prefer to share your opinions with us, we'd love to hear them. As always, we appreciate your listening - stay safe out there, and happy gaming!

• Website: https://www.ascentofboardgames.com
• Email: ascentofboardgames@gmail.com
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ascentboardgames/
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• Discord: http://discord.ascentofboardgames.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ascentofboardgames/
• And, occasionally, Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/ascentofboardgames

Intro and outro music is "Evening Melodrama" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under a Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License.

The Ascent of Board Games is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Some rights reserved.

Thank you for listening!

Hi folks! We're back this month to talk about party games, though the last week or so hasn't been as much fun as we'd like. Between scheduling issues and hurricane-induced power outages, this episode was a bit rushed; as a result, it's ended up a bit on the short side, so we hope you'll forgive us. Also, instead of begging for an iTunes review this month, we'd like to ask that you donate what you can to the American Red Cross or another reputable charity providing relief to those battered by Hurricane Helene. All of us are doing fine, but there are a lot of people out there that need help.

Meanwhile, in brighter news:

• Did Burt Reynolds invent Pictionary? Well, kind of...
• The very worst game component to have in your airline luggage
• Why were so many classic games published by a chemical manufacturer, or a game company owned by a cereal company?
• QOTD: "There are probably some rules" - Michael Hanft, September 2024

As always, thank you for listening. We'd love to have you visit our website and let us know what kinds of games we should discuss next. You're also more than welcome to comment on the episode page, or our Facebook page, or tag @ascentofboardgames on Bluesky. Whatever way you prefer to share your opinions with us, we'd love to hear them. As always, we appreciate your listening - stay safe out there, and happy gaming!

• Website: https://www.ascentofboardgames.com
• Email: ascentofboardgames@gmail.com
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ascentboardgames/
• Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ascentofboardgames.bsky.social
• Discord: http://discord.ascentofboardgames.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ascentofboardgames/
• And, occasionally, Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/ascentofboardgames

Intro and outro music is "Evening Melodrama" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under a Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License.

The Ascent of Board Games is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Some rights reserved.

Thank you for listening!

Remember way back in Episode 33, when we talked about two-player games but excluded fighting and war games because there were too many? Now is when we finally talk about the fighty ones! Join us as:

• Brian's tongue stops working.
• We talk about chess - good chess channels on YouTube, weird chess games on forums, and absolutely bonkers chess games on the computer.
• We look back at an early first-person shooter - in book form.
• We haggle about the intricacies of the Avalon Hill game complexity scale.
• And we generally correct each other, talk smack, and otherwise have fun.

As always, thank you for listening. If you have the time to give us an iTunes review, please do - it really helps us grow!

We'd also love to have you visit our website and let us know what kinds of games we should discuss next. You're also more than welcome to comment on the episode page, or our Facebook page, or tag @ascentofboardgames on Bluesky. Whatever way you prefer to share your opinions with us, we'd love to hear them. As always, we appreciate your listening - stay safe out there, and happy gaming!

• Website: https://www.ascentofboardgames.com
• Email: ascentofboardgames@gmail.com
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ascentboardgames/
• Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ascentofboardgames.bsky.social
• Discord: http://discord.ascentofboardgames.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ascentofboardgames/
• And, occasionally, Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/ascentofboardgames

Intro and outro music is "Evening Melodrama" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under a Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License.

The Ascent of Board Games is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Some rights reserved.

Thank you for listening!