184: Genius Edition

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2014

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Do you love cardboard and hate sanity? Then join us for our draft of favorite board games! We do some uranium mining on a donkey, propose a new trivia-themed podcast, debate the merits of Sanka versus Yuban, and discuss two different versions of Risk—three, if you count the version Tony invented where each Risk battle is settled by a full game of Monopoly.

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 184, March 2014.
0:11.0	Welcome back everybody, The Incomparable Podcast. I'm your host, Jason Snell.
0:14.0	We're here to talk about not video games, not console games, not card games, probably, unless they also have a board.
0:23.1	We're going to be talking about board games. That's right. That's right. Spin your little spinner,
0:27.2	get out your hungry, hungry hippos. I'm not even sure that counts as a board game.
0:31.0	And join us as we take this trip through great games of perhaps our childhood, perhaps today.
0:38.7	Games you can play on a rainy day.
0:40.6	Games you can play on a sunny day if you don't like the sun and want to stay inside
0:43.9	or play on a table that's outside.
0:46.4	I don't know.
0:47.2	Games, board games.
0:48.4	That's what we're talking about if you didn't get my drift.
0:51.4	Let me introduce the people who are going to be talking about board games with me.
0:55.2	Monty Ashley is here. Hi, Monty. Hi, Jason. Aren't board games great? Board games are fun. Having kids
1:01.3	has given me a whole new appreciation for board games because we play them with the kids.
1:07.2	Erica Ensign is also here. Hello. Hello. The game is on.
1:11.2	The game is on and it's controlled by a spinner that is a little piece of plastic arrow on a piece of cardboard.
1:17.6	But it's still a game.
1:18.4	The game is still on.
1:20.3	David Lour also here.
1:21.6	Hi, David.
1:22.5	Hello.
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