On this 1/2 Episode Bruce hosts the Patreon content from July which includes a What the Food the probes the depth of Uranus and a Patreon party where the cast looks at We're Doomed from Breaking Games. New content will be out in just a couple of weeks, so stay tuned (or whatever it is you do with a podcast). If you are interested in our Extra Life Team, you can find it here: https://www.extra-life.org/team/47896 Thanks for listening, and supporting this show!  

Enjoy this portion of the Olfactory Academy Arts and Science presentation of "The Sniffies". To hear the WHOLE presentation, check out Flip Florey's Super Saturday Board Game Serial!   Thanks for listening.

Welcome to Episode #82 of The Party Gamecast featuring the Party Game Cast, on this episode Bruce is joined by Rocki, Mike, Bryan and Josh to talk about the escape room games Unlock and EXIT.  As a note, this was recorded just after Origins 2017, so yeah, its been a while.    WHAT THE FOOD On What the Food the gang cover Celebration Oreos and Waffles and Syrup Oreos. Would they Take them to a party....who knows? UNLOCK and EXIT The gang does a compare-contrast of the two different card based escape room games, and talks a little about escape rooms in general.   Thanks for listening!   P.S. - We are testing allowing an ad on this episode from Libsyn, please let us know what you think of it, do not assume we will always do it, but we did want to test it out. 

On Episode #81 of the Party Gamecast featuring the Party Game Cast Bruce is joined by Mike, Bryan and Rocki to talk about the sorta trick taking games Fuji Flush and Tempurra. What the Food !?! (Sponsored by DaWood Earth Movers) 3 Words: Bacon Cotton Candy   Thanks for listening!   Also thanks to Stronghold Games for sending over Fuji Flush.

On this Episode of the Heavy Gamecast featuring the Heavy Game Cast, Mike is joined by Bruce, Bryan and special guest Rocki. Since Rocki is on the show this episode, we will depart from our usual brand of heavy game, and instead lighten up a little with Scythe from Stonemaier Games.   Enjoy!

On Episode #80 of the Party Gamecast featuring the Party Game Cast, Bruce is joined by Rocki, Mike and Bryan to dissect the "Most Played Party Games" on boardgamegeek.com.  It can be found here: https://www.boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/61395/top-party-games-2004-2016 What the Food !?! (Sponsored by DaWood Earth Movers) The Cast eats all kinds of Oreo related products, including both the US, and the "Rest of the World" version of the Oreo Cookie Bar.   Thanks for listening!   Also let us know if you like discussions like this, since this is not our normal format. 

On the released out of sequence Episode #78 Bruce is joined by Mike, Bryan and Rocki to talk about the Gigamic (however it's pronounced) games Gloobz and Karibou Camp.   Lets Get Topical TPGC was up for a Mobbie, the Baltimore Sun new media award.  We ask for votes, but the voting has closed.  If we have released this earlier, we might have won, hopefully next year.  We did take 3rd, and in what was a huge field, that's not bad. What the Food In this What the Food!?! We take a taste of a couple of Meat Flavored potato chips in our Chiptastic Main Event.  One of them is from 7-Eleven, so that's a thing. Also at the first break we have a listener What the Food!?! from Mark Drezja, and with this we open it up to you, if you want to create your own What the Food!?!, feel free to send those over, we would love to put them on the show. Gloobz and Karibou Camp were sent over from our friends at Gigamic, you can find these and many other great games at http://en.gigamic.com/ You can find What the Geek right here http://www.whatthegeekpodcast.com/   Thanks so much for listening!

If you are an astute listener, you will notice that this has been released before #78, this is so the Thanksgiving Episode comes out at least in time to hit Thanksgiving on the West Coast.  The next episode will be #78, but we say the number a couple of times, so I had to acknowledge the numbers of the episodes as we said them.  On this Episode of The Party Gamecast featuring the Party Game Cast Bruce is joined by Mike, Rocki and Bryan to celebrate Thanksgiving and play Scrabble.  We also discuss the best games for family get togethers, and eat A TON OF FOOD. For this episode we do 4 What the Food segments, and eat A TON of crazy snack foods.   Thanks for listening!

On Episode #77 of The Party Gamecast featuring the Party Game Cast, Bruce is joined by Mike, Rocki, Josh and Bryan to talk about their experiences at Washingcon 2016 and discuss two games they played there. Topical Discussion We discuss our time at Washingcon 2016. What the Food!?! Sponsored by Stearmworks Coffee (steamworkscoffee.net) We talk about a couple of the circus themed Canadian Cadburys chocolate bars. Games Simons Cat from Steve Jackson Games and Twistocity Mass Middle Games. Extra Life  You can find our Extra Life team at http://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.team&teamID=29721   Thanks for listening.     

On Episode #76 Bruce is joined by Mike, Rocki, Bryan and Josh to talk about the Big Potato games, Bucket of Doom, Scrawl, Mr Listers Quiz Shootout and Obama Llama. What the Food!?! (Sponsored by Steamworks Coffee) For What the Food the gang talks about Pop Tarts, including the new A&W and Orange Crush flavors, as well as, Watermelon. Remember if you have the means and desire to help us out with Extra Life, our team can be found at: http://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.team&teamID=29721   Thank you so much for listening!   P.S. - If you called to correct my mislabeling the creator of Magic the Gathering as Steve Jackson, I do know it's Richard Garfield, but I did not say that, good catch!

On Episode #75 of The Party Gamecast featuring the Party Game Cast, Bruce is joined by Rocki, Mike and Bryan to talk about the pre-programmed movement, but for a bunch of players games Crazy Karts and The Dragon and Flagon.  In addition to being pre-programmed movement games, these are also games from the companies of the hosts of http://boardgamesinsider.com/   KEEPING IT TOPICAL  We discuss the Target exclusive game The Oregon Trail the Card Game   WHAT THE FOOD!?! Sponsored by Steamworks Coffee at steamworkscoffee.net We talk about 3 flavors of Oreos, Blueberry Pie, Key Lime Pie........AND.......SWEDISH FISH (you asked we delivered) Games Crazy Karts a team cart racing game thing from Portal Games and The Dragon and Flagon a fantasy character Tavern brawl from Stronghold Games   Thanks for listening, and if you want to join our Extra Life Team, here it is http://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.teamParticipants&teamID=29721 and if you want to join us at Washingcon here it is http://www.washingcon.com/  

On this episode of What the Food Bruce is joined by Rocki, Bryan, Michele, Don and Mike to celebrate the international games with a bracket of international chip flavors.  The events start with the eating of the twinkie (as is tradition) and end with the crowning of the 2016 Chiptathlon winner.     Thanks for listening!

On Episode #74 Bruce is joined by Rocki, Mike and Bryan to talk about the group deduction game things with a twist, Deception: Murder in Hong Kong and Dead Last. KEEP IT TOPICAL We start the show with a discussion of all the new Target exclusives including Cards Against Humanity: Retail Product and Codenames: Deep Undercover. WHAT THE FOOD We talk about Moon Cheese (yes you read that right) and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups filled with Pieces (yes you read that right).   GAMES We talk about Deception: Murder in Hong Kong from Grey Fox Games and Dead Last from Smirk and Dagger Games.   References: The Episode of What Did you Play this week podcast with Bruce is on this page: https://wdyptw.wordpress.com/what-did-you-play-this-week-conversation-episodes/ The Geek Forum about 3 player fixes is here: https://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/1595614/optimal-play-three-person-field-everyone-play-ambu   A big thank you to Steamworks Coffee (steamworkscoffee.net) for sponsoring What the Food!   Thanks for listening!  

On this Episode of What the Food Bruce is joined by Rocki, Donald Dennis (from On Board Games), Professor Laserbooks, Jared Hunnefeld and Your Moderator Chris (from Flip the Table) to talk about the pasta at McDonalds (yes you read that correctly, no need to check your glasses/eyes) We want to thank the fine folks at Steamworks Coffee (at steamworkscoffee.net) for sponsoring What the Food!?!

On this episode of The Party Gamecast featuring the Party Game Cast, Bruce is joined by Mike, Rocki and Bryan to talk about a couple new games from the folks at Stronghold Games, Bear Valley and Stellar Conflict. WHAT THE FOOD!?! This time we decide which of the "new" M&Ms is the best, Chili Nut, Honey Nut or Coffee Nut. What the Food is sponsored by Steamworks Coffee steamworkscoffee.net.   Thanks for listening!

For Episode #72 Bruce is joined by Mike, Chris and Maureen to talk about Linkee and Bananagrams Party Edition from Bananagrams.   WHAT THE FOOD!?! The Gang Talks about all kinds of beverages from Pepsi, and one VERY special beverage.   LINKEE Is a crowd sourced trivia game described as a "shouty outy party trivia game".  You can find it here http://northamerica.playlinkee.com/   BANANAGRAMS PARTY EDITION Is a version of the super popular Bananagrams but with all kinds of new action tiles.  You can find it here http://www.bananagrams.com/games/bananagrams-party-edition   Thanks for listening!   P.S. - You can find Casual Game Insider at http://casualgamerevolution.com/

On this episode of What the Food, Bruce is Joined by some of the Game Designers of North Carolina (GDofNC) Josh Mills, James Meyers and Chris Faulkenberry. We talk about games, and eat Ritter Sport Chocolate and Nacho Chips (yes that is together, as one bar, not us dipping one in the other).   What the Food is brought to you by the fine folks at Steamworks Coffee (steamworkscoffee.net).   Thanks for listening!

On episode #71 of The Party Gamecast featuring the Party Game Cast, Bruce is joined by Rocki, Mike, Mom and Bryan to talk about the frenetic games Happy Salmon and Doctor Panic. REVIEW The show starts off with a review of Fisticuffs from the Nerdologues. WHAT THE FOOD The cast talks about Deep River Snack Horseradish and Cheese Kettle cooked chips and the Oreo filled Chips Ahoy cookie. What the Food is sponsored by Steamworks Coffee at steamworkscoffee.net GAMES First we talk about Happy Salmon from North Star Games, a game that is ALL celebrations and comes packed in a neoprene fish. then about Doctor Panic from Repos, a light hearted game about trying to stop people from dying that come into the E.R (just trust us).    Here is a link to the letter I was a talking about : http://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/4412950 Thanks for listening!

On this episode of What the Food!?! Bruce, Bryan and Rocki sit down with Richard Launius at Unpub 6 to talk about some of his new games, some of his upcoming games AND not only his personal copies of superhero games but his opinions about comic books in general, including his feelings about the Marvel Cinematic Universe (note this was made BEFORE Civil War was released). We also eat Tabasco chocolate candies and discuss those. Thanks for listening!

Hey Partysans! First I want to start with how self serving and icky making a letter like this is, nothing about it feels right on this end.  Feeling like you are important enough to warrant an “announcement letter” will never feel right, however as a person that has read these sorts of things, I never feel ill of the writer and usually appreciate the news, I can only hope you feel this way. If not, please don’t tell me, it will just upset me. Next, I am a very poor writer, its why I do most of my communication verbally: you can’t notice I have a terrible grasp of the language and my voice makes some lucky people tingle, so that is a big win over writing.  Please pardon my usage and grammar mistakes, and just assume I am a dullard. Here we go: What’s up Bruce? Nothing much, still moderating the Party Gamecast and having fun being a host on On Board Games.  I also hope to get The Just Barely Sports Podcast back up and running under the Inverse Genius banner, they have offered me a chance to be a part of their “network” joining the Flagship podcast, On Board Games, On RPGs, Games in Schools and Libraries and Room Escape Divas.  I think this is be a great step towards getting the idea of checking out what is fun and wacky and goofy in sports out to more people, and I want to thank them for the chance to be a part of the network. Look for that in July or August. …that’s good and all, but what about The Party Gamecast featuring the Party Game Cast? I’m glad you said the whole thing, I didn’t in the last paragraph, and it felt a little naked. Well huge things on the horizon for the show.  I think to make it easier to digest I will do it with bullet points (for the tl:dr just read the bolded stuff). Mike is going into surgery in a few weeks, with that he will be out for quite a while healing, because of that he will be missing from quite a few episodes. First, we hope for nothing but a speedy recovery for him, and he will be missed from the show while he’s gone, but he will be back ASAP.  We will let you know on the show the first one of his hiatus.  He is not going anywhere in the long run, but will be out for as long as it takes to fully recover. We have decided that we NEED to have a clear release schedule. Our current plan of “putting out a new episode when the magic potato chip bag tells us to” is not a great arrangement for those of you that like the show.  We have decided to steal yet another idea from Flip the Table, and go on a “Once every 3 weeks” schedule.  We think this gives us enough time to make a good show, but sets up an actual time table, so that we in fact MAKE a show every 3 weeks.   Our plan is to release a different week from FtT, so that I don’t have to have my ego crushed by anyone else making sure I know they would always listen to FtT before our show.  I can tell with some certainty, “we know, you don’t need to tell us anymore”. There is a new agreement with the Dice Tower Network, and we have decided to stay on as a part of the network, unless they choose to boot us. This means we will mention the Dice Tower Awards and we will start making appearances on the flagship show “The Dice Tower” in some of their “Question of the Week” and “Top 10” segments, as these are obligations to the network, and probably a good idea for us anyway.  Remember Dice Tower Network Cares! We will not be part of the DTN Coolstuff Inc contest. This is not because we don’t like CSI or DTN, we just don’t do well with contests.  This is not to say we will never run one, but we find they give us temporary spikes to listenership that promptly go away as soon as the contest is over.  We love everyone involved, but have decided to sit this one out.  We will probably do next years contest. We have been offered CoolStuff Inc ,as a “network sponsor” opportunity, we decided to opt in for this, and we will see where it takes us, they do have “cool stuff, in stock (at coolstuffinc.com)” and that’s great by us. We have Steamworks Coffee (steamworkscoffee.net) as our “What the Food” Sponsor, and we could not be happier, we hope this is a long relationship, since having a food product, run by gamers is a dream sponsor for “What the Food”. We are currently working with Analog Gamer (analoggamer.com) to make some shirts for the show. They are currently working on logos and ideas for shirt designs.  They make shirts for shows like The Dice Tower, Flip the Table and Rolling Dice and Taking Names, and we are excited they are willing to work with us.  This also means we MIGHT be changing our logo. If they have a great design, and will let use it, we might see the first visual overhaul of the show since we began.  This is exciting, and we will not make any changes UNLESS we really believe in them. That having been said, we are exploring a logo that embraces more of the show we have become, and less of the show we intended to be when we started.  We hope to see logos with more of an emphasis on food, and a little less on games.  What we do know is the stuff they have designed for other shows makes us downright giddy.  The stuff for Flip the Table is amazing (including their new logo) and the “Squirrel! Moon Pie” shirt for Rolling Dice and Taking Names might be one of the coolest things ever.  So needless to say we are excited, and we will open shirt preorders up as soon as everything is worked out. Speaking of Food, we hope to release episodes of “What the Food” on a less regular basis, but always on Fridays, this lets us bring back the #whatthefoodfridays hashtag. We have a ton in the can now, and will start to make it a weekly thing for a while.  Some episodes will just be us eating food, others will be us interviewing folks in gaming, while we all eat food. We think it is a cool show, and we plan to make as much of it as we can, but we will release what we can, when we can. So since we need to make more What the Food episodes, we need to meet with more folks, so Rocki and I will be at Dice Tower Con 2016 in beautiful Orlando, FL. We would love to meet you, maybe try some crazy snack food, and generally hang out.  We will be there starting Thursday Night, and will be there until midday Sunday.  We are currently talking to Flip the Table about having a co-branded trip to the World’s Largest Entertainment McDonalds to eat gourmet McDonalds food and play arcade games. We might be doing other co-branded things, or we might not, either way we want to meet you, please come talk to us. Finally we have decided to join Patreon, and set up a patreon account so you can support the show if you want to. We know there are things we would LOVE to pick up for the show (like better mics) ,we would also love to have hosting paid for, and maybe cover some snacks.  This is all possible with patreon.  This also opens up the possibility for us to meet some of you at conventions like Origins and Gen Con in the coming years.  If we can put together a fund, it opens up new opportunities.  We have kicked around this idea for over a year, and I felt like we should not ask for money, until we knew we could make a show people liked, and a show we could produce at SOME regular clip.  We think the new 3 week plan does exactly that.  We are still getting advice about the legal aspects of this, as well as, working on rewards and goals for funding levels.  We are hoping to have this worked out for an August launch.  Stay Tuned.  Questions? Please ask at all the ways you can find us, @partygamecast, @partygamecat, @brucecothinks, facebook, email, on the Board Game Geek Guild or call us on the hotline at 30 – PARTYGAME (you can leave off the last “e” for savings).      Thank you so much (and I mean this) for reading all of this,   Bruce

On Episode #70 of The Party Gamecast featuring the Party Game Cast, Bruce is joined by Mike, Rocki, Bryan and Chris to talk about the book related games Mad Libs: the Game from Looney Labs and Bring Your Own Book from Gamewright.    What the Food (sponsored by Steamworks Coffee at steamworkscoffee.net) We talk about a philly delicacy called Irish Potato Candy, and Cadbury Creme Eggs Cookies. We also go in depth about one of our sponsors coffee blends.   Mad Libs: the Game From Looney Labs we talk about this fill in the blank game, that might be just a little too much like the books it is trying to emulate.   Bring Your Own Book   From Gamewright Games is this party game that  requires each player to have a book, yes like a real book, like you find in a library.  Listen to our review to see if its worth not looking at an electronic device for a few minutes.   Thanks for listening!

Here is a rebroadcast of the April Fools Episode of Flip the Table, where we, The Party Game Cast did their show.   I can't thank the guys at Flip the Table enough for being a part of this.   Also I have added about 10 minutes at the beginning talking about the idea and such.   Thanks for listening!

It it not enough for me to put the episode out, I have to write about it to. GRRR. Snacks are covered, and so are Game of Things and Yahtzee Texas Hold Em.     Enjoy!

On Episode #67 Bruce is joined by Rocki, Mike, Mom and Bryan to talk about the word party games Duple and Stinker. On the What the Food Segment, the gang talks about some candy bars from Canada, and something called the Megaload.  Which can be found here: http://www.megaloadchocolate.com/   You can find Duple here: http://www.anomiapress.com/our-games.html and  You can find Stinker here: https://nickbentleygames.wordpress.com/2013/07/22/stinker-word-game-party-game-anagrams/   Thanks for listening!    

On this episode of What the Food ?!? the gang talks to Stephen Buonocore of Stronghold Games about what he is working on, as well as his opinions of fall holiday themed foods.   Remember you can always keep up with Stronghold Games on their website at www.strongholdgames.com You can also check out his podcast Board Games Insider here http://boardgamesinsider.com/   Thanks for listening!

On Episode #66 Bruce is joined by Mike, Rocki, Mom, Bryan, Chris and Maureen to conclude our current run of shows about kids games. This time we discuss the balancing games Animal Upon Animal and Animal Upon Animal Crest Climbers and the Kinderspiel 2015 winner Spinderella which is not easily described, its kind of a roll and move game, meets a claw machine. We also talk about snacks, because of course we do!   Thanks for listening!   If you want to help take the Ill out of Gil, here is the link - https://www.gofundme.com/y6hx4    

On this Episode of What the Food!?! Bruce is joined by Mike, Mom and Rocki, as well as, Quinten and Aaron from the Board Alive Podcast to talk about the Snack Brackets from Canada for 2015.  Just as a note, this episode might be slightly more risque than most of our episodes, we do not feel it is bad enough to warrant an explicit tag, but if you are listening with young children, you might want to pass on this episode.  Also if you want to hear about games, you might want to pass on this episode. You can find their show at https://boardsalivepodcast.wordpress.com/ and you can find the conclusion to this episode in Episode #40 of Board Alive, which you can find right here: http://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/3999093   Thanks for listening!

On Episode #65 of the Party Gamecast featuring the Party Game Cast Bruce is joined by Rocki, Mike, Bryan, Mom, Maureen and Chris to talk about a couple Haba kids games AND the dexterity game Klask.   WHAT THE FOOD!?! The gang tries White Chocolate Pringles and Turkey Pineapple Jerky.   You can find Klask here: http://www.marblesthebrainstore.com/klask.htm and you can find many great Haba games here: http://www.habausa.com/products/most-popular-board-games.html   You can find the Winter Game Fest here: http://emsps.com/wgf/ Check out the patreon for Flip the Table: https://www.patreon.com/flipthetable?ty=h and On Board Games: https://www.patreon.com/obg?ty=h and the Kickstarter for the Dice Tower here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tomvasel/the-dice-tower-2016-season-12?ref=nav_search   Thanks for listening!

On Episode #64 Bruce is joined by Rocki, Sammi, Bryan, Chris and Maureen to talk about the Thanksgiving favorites Farkle and Phase 10. We eat some food, and talk about some games.  Once again its a holiday, so the notes are sparse.   Thanks for listening!

On Episode #63 of The Party Gamecast featuring the Party Game Cast, Bruce is joined by Mike, Rocki, Brian, Maureen and Chris to talk about Retro Loonacy from Looney Labs and a Telestrations After Dark, Reverse Charades and Lift It Deluxe from USAopoly.   We also talk about a potato chip AND an oreo cookie on What the Food? Thanks for listening! Please pardon the shortened notes this time, we are getting ready for the holiday here in the US.  

For this episode of What the Food?  Bruce, Mike and Mom are joined by Paul Owen from Dice Tower News to talk about his game in development the East India Company, as well as his work on the DTN News and his blog at http://paulowengames.blogspot.com/   We also talk about two kinds of potato chips from Taiwan.     Thanks for listening!

On Episode #62 of The Party Gamecast featuring the Party Game Cast, Bruce is joined by Mike, Rocki and Mom to talk about the Thames/Kosmos games Ubongo and Dohdles!   KEEP IT TOPICAL The fine folks at Schmovie have just rebooted their game in a smaller box, with more family friendly content (not that I objected before, but I am also not a parent).  You can find it here: https://schmovie.wordpress.com/   WHAT THE FOOD We talk about Wolfgang Root Beer flavored Chocolate covered pretzels, you can find the company here:http://www.wolfgangcandy.com/  and another Wild Ophelia bar (this time with things you MIGHT put in a chocolate bar).   GAMES Ubongo is a game that is very familiar to fans of Tetris.  You can find it here: http://www.thamesandkosmos.com/index.php/kosmosgames/ubongo-   Dohdles! is a reprinting of Barbarossa, a game that won the German Game of the Year in 1988.  This is a reimagined version with extra changed made by the creator Claus Teuber, you can find it here: http://www.thamesandkosmos.com/index.php/kosmosgames/dohdles-   Thanks for listening. If you would like to join or help our Extra Life Team, it can be found here: http://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.team&teamID=23343 You can find out more about The Board and Brew (where we will be having our 24 hour event) here: http://www.theboardandbrew.com/

On Episode #61 of The Party Gamecast featuring the Party Game Cast, Bruce is joined by Rocki, Mike, Josh, Chris to talk about the hidden traitor games Saboteur 2 and Dark Moon. KEEP IT TOPICAL To keep it topical we do a quick review of the new Expansions for The Metagame, which you can find here: http://metaga.me/ the new expansions are Sci Fi and Film 101, our review for vanilla "The Metagame" can be found here: http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepartygamecast/review_the_metagame.mp3 WHAT THE FOOD? This time we talk about things that do not belong in chocolate bars and talk about a BBQ Potato Chip chocolate bar, and a Beef Jerky chocolate bar, both from Wild Ophelia which you can find here: http://www.wildophelia.com/#our-chocolate GAMES Saboteur 2 We talk about Saboteur 2 and compare it to Saboteur as best we can. Dark Moon The fine folks at Stronghold Games sent over their new "The Thing" themed traitor dice game that used to be a print and play called "BSG Express".   You can support us in our efforts for extra life here: http://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donordrive.team&teamID=23343   Thanks for listening, and please let us know what you think in the many ways you can reach us.    

On this review episode the gang talks about two games from the folks at Blue Orange Games. Thumbs Up - http://www.blueorangegames.com/index.php/games/thumbs-up and  Wink - http://www.blueorangegames.com/index.php/games/wink Both games from the same company, but for very different markets (or so we found out).   Let us know what you think,and thanks for listening!

So on this Episode of What the Food? The gang is talking about Cherry M and Ms and Chocolate Cherry Twinkies.   Thanks for listening, remember to use #whatthefood.

On Episode #60 (our Diamond Episode) Bruce is joined by Rocki, Mike, Bryan, Chris and Marueen to talk about the traitor games Saboteur and Good Cop, Bad Cop: Bombers and Traitors. LETS GET TOPICAL We will be at the congress of gamers, which you can find here: http://emsps.com/cog/partygamesschedule.htm We are doing extra life and you can find our team here: http://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.team&teamID=23343 The Hasbro Game Lab here: http://hasbrogaminglab.com/submit/   WHAT THE FOOD Kettle Brands Pepperoncini Chips, which can be found here: http://www.kettlebrand.com/our_products/potato_chips/#/our_products/potato_chips/?pid=68 and Beer Chips (Big thanks to @gamerinterface for these) which can be found here: http://beerchips.com/   GAMES Saboteur (a big thanks to Rich Yasi for this) which you can learn more about on BGG here: https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/9220/saboteur and Good Cop Bad Cop: Bombers and Traitors (a big thanks to Overworld Games for sending it over) which you can buy here: http://www.overworldgames.com/Games/BomberTraitor/Default.cshtml   Thanks for listening, and please let us know what you think, at all the places we can be found (and remind you about at least twice and episode).   P.S. - You can find Boards Alive here: https://boardsalivepodcast.wordpress.com/

On this review show Bruce is joined by Mike, Rocki, Chris, Maureen and Mom to talk about the newest offering from Looney Labs...Fluxx Dice. So you like the chaos of Fluxx, but was there enough luck involved?  Find out if it needed more, when we review Fluxx Dice. You can find Fluxx Dice at your local store or here: http://www.looneylabs.com/games/fluxx-dice   Thanks for listening!

We are back with What the Food? Friday #2, this time bringing back our Snack Brackets.  The Bracket Contest where we choose the best snack.  This time rather than the super tourney, we decided to just choose the best Lay's "Do Us A Flavor" chip from the US 2015 Lot.     Bruce is joined by Rocki, Mike, Don, Michele, Bryan and Marty.  They pick the best of the top 4 this year, which included: Biscuits and Gravy  vs  West Coast Truffle Fry  AND New York Style Reuben  vs  Greektown Gyro   You can find more details here:  https://www.dousaflavor.com/   Thanks for listening, and let us know what you think of the "What the Food?" logo.

Bruce is joined by Mike, Rocki, Mom, Chris and Maureen to talk about the newest Fluxx Game, Adventure Time Fluxx, based on the Cartoon Network show. You can find it here http://www.looneylabs.com/games/adventure-time-fluxx So Adventure Time Fluxx will never let you just Floop the Pig, it changes too much, but is it a game you want to play?  Listen to find out.        

On Episode #59 of The Party Gamecast featuring the Party Game Cast, Bruce is joined by Rocki, Mike, Mom, Maureen and Chris to talk about the biggest dexterity games to come out of Gen Con for 2014 and 2015. TOPICAL DISCUSSION The gang talks about some of the new games that came out of Gen Con 2015. WHAT THE FOOD The cast discusses Red Velvet M and Ms and Krave Black Cherry BBQ Pork Jerky. RHINO HERO - The HABA dexterity game of card stacking and Rhino Heroism and  FLICK EM UP - From Pretzel games a wooden dexterity game of sheriffs and outlaws.   Thanks for listening, and please let us know what you think. 

On this episode Bruce is joined by Rocki, Mike, Marueen, Chris and Mom to review Batman Fluxx from Looney Labs.   You can find the game here: http://www.looneylabs.com/games/batman-fluxx You can learn to play Fluxx here: http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepartygamecast/How_to_play_fluxx.mp3   Thanks for listening!

On this episode Bruce teaches you the how's and why's of Fluxx from our friends at Looney Labs, just in case you do not know how to play.   You can find Fluxx (and many of its themed brethern) here: http://www.looneylabs.com/games/fluxx   Thanks for listening.   NOTE: This was created largely as a jumping off point for those that are listening to another review, and want to know how to play.

On episode #58 Bruce is joined by Mike, Rocki, Chris, Marueen, Bryan, Don and Michele to talk about the "new hotness" games A Fake Artist Goes to New York (from Oink Games) and Pingo Pingo (from Iello).  A rare case where we play games that are getting some buzz.   What the Food!?! The gang talks about Janes Krazy Mixed Up Popcorn and Snyders of Hanovers Chile Lime Korn Krunchers.   We also take calls, and do a special What the Food, but you really have to listen to find out about that.   Thanks for listening, and let us know what you think!

Thanks for listening to the first "What the Food!?! Friday".  We are in need for a logo for this show, so if you have interest, let us know and we will work something out, for now it will hide under the review banner.   Bruce is joined by Rocki, Mike, Chris, Maureen, Michele and Don to talk about 3 types of Oreos.   Thanks for listening, and let us know what you think of the new show!

On episode #57 of The Party Gamecast featuring the Party Game Cast, Bruce is joined by Josh, Mike, Mom, Chris, Maureen and Bryan to talk about a variety of kids dexterity games.   WHAT THE FOOD!?! Today's what the food is a game/food hybrid, the gang covers the 7-11 exclusive Doritos Roulette.  Many chips in a bag, some are "normal" Doritos, some are "super hot", does this idea work, would you take it to a party?   COMMENTS FROM BOARD GAME GEEK STRONG STUFF Our first game, from the fine folks at Haba games, involved balancing blocks on a bears head.   RING-O FLAMINGO Our next game from Gamewright is a mix of Hungry Hungry Hippos and a Ring Toss from the country fair.   CRASH CUP A racing/bumper car game with a very unique dexterity element   CASTLE KNIGHTS A rare co-op dexterity game, that involves building castles with a hair tie (near as we can tell).   Also a long post episode story, and a few Donald Trump impressions.   Thanks for listening, and please let us know what you think with ratings on iTunes and Stitcher or by contacting us in one of the many ways we can be found.

On this episode of the Party Gamecast Reviews, Bruce is joined by Rocki, Mike, Chris Maureen and Bryan to talk about "The Metagame" from Local No. 12.  It touts itself as a game akin to Cards Against Humanity.....but is that a good thing?  Listen now to find out.   You can find the game here if you are interested http://metaga.me/   Thanks for listening!

On this episode of the Party Gamecast featuring the Party Game Cast, Bruce is joined by Rocki, Mike, Bryan and Chris to talk about a bunch of kids dexterity games, and also Penney Hockey a classic wooden flicking game made by Creative Crafthouse out of Florida.   We are back after a hiatus which we explain (as best we can).  We talk about Penney Hockey which you can find here: http://www.creativecrafthouse.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=680 The rest of the episode we talk about the Haba Games Iceburg Hustle, The Black Pirate and the long out of print Klondike.  You can find HABA games here: http://www.habausa.com/products/haba-games-for-kids.html We also do a What the Food, let you know about some milestones for the show, and apologize A LOT. Remember to contact us in every way possible and if you get the chance, rate us on iTunes.   Thanks for listening!

On this episode of The Party Gamecast featuring the Party Game Cast, Bruce is joined by Rocki, Chris and Maureen to talk about the potential convention games "25 Words or Less" and "Cranium Hoopla".   8:10 - The Peep Show: http://www.carrollcountyartscouncil.org/aa_peepshow.asp    WHAT THE FOOD!?! 12:12 - Peeps Mystery Chicks 16:40 - IKEA Festive Easter Drink   28:11 - 25 Words or Less 44:40 - Cranium Hoopla   We want to thank our sponsors for this episode:   Millennium Blades -  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/level99games/millennium-blades-the-ccg-simulator-board-game and The Nebula From Hell - http://www.thenebulafromhell.com/   Thanks for listening!      

On this LIVE from the WBC the gang is joined by Claire Brosius to talk about her experiences GMing Ticket to Ride at the WBCs.   Thanks for listening!

On Episode #54 of The Party Gamecast featuring the Party Game Cast, Bruce is joined by Mike, Rocki and Chris to discuss the drawing games Pictomania and Luck of the Draw. What the Food!?! 12:20 - Utz Butterfinger covered pretzels 15:36 - J Hooks Salmon Jerky   20:11 - PICTOMANIA 49:42 - LUCK OF THE DRAW   Thanks for listening!

In this interview the gang talks to Uwe Eickert from Academy Games, the pubishers of Freedom: The Underground Railroad.   We discuss many topics including the use of Freedom as a classroom tool.   Thanks for listening.

We continue our TableTop week with an interview from the archives Bruce interviewed TC Petty about Vivajava:the coffee game:the dice game.   Thanks for listening!

On this episode of The Party Gamecast Reviews, the crew looks at the very soon to be released (this Friday) Looney Labs game Just Desserts. You will be able to buy it Friday whereever you buy your fine games, or pre order at http://store.looneylabs.com/   Thanks for listening!

 Book Chat - April 1, 2015 A discussion of books and other topics important to readers.   Support us at http://www.cafepress.com/bookchat

On Episode #53 Bruce is joined by Mike, Rocki and Bryan to talk about the monkey themed games Coconuts and Spin Monkeys. TOPICAL CONVERSATION   4:40 Winner of the Golden Geek for Best Party Game   8:00 What the Food !?! - Candy Apple M and Ms AND Albanese Gummy Bears, you can find Albanese Gummy things at http://www.albanesecandy.com/  21:00 "The Next Great American Game" a Documentary which you can find at http://www.tabletopmovie.com/  36:25 COCONUTS  55:35 SPIN MONKEYS This episode was sponsored by 9-Shooter Quick Draw, which you can find on Kickstarter at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gamesalute/9-shooter-quick-draw-a-square-shooters-dice-game?ref=nav_search Thanks for listening!

On Episode #53 of the Party Gamecast featuring the Party Game Cast, Bruce is joined by Mike, Rocki and Bryan to talk about the music based games Encore and Songburst.  We get a little longwinded this time, so for that I apologize, we hope you enjoy the show.   TOPICAL CONVERSATION     7:39 The cast discusses the nominees for the Golden Geek awards for 2015  WHAT THE FOOD    17:50 The cast talks about Red Velvet Oreos and Cookie Dough Oreos    25:53 Christopher Onstad questions of the episode    46:29  ENCORE 1:08:56 SONGBURST   The show was sponsored by: The Burgle Bros on Kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fowers/burgle-bros-a-cooperative-heist-boardgame and 9-Shooter Quick Draw on Kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gamesalute/9-shooter-quick-draw-a-square-shooters-dice-game?ref=nav_search   Thanks for listening!  

On this episode of The Party Gamecast Reviews, the gang gets a gamecrafter game sent over and gives it a try. We do censor some stuff in this episode, we think it's still OK, and Mike edited it very funny, but if you offend easy, this might not be the episode for you.   The Game is Punchline, which you can find here http://www.punchlinegame.com/   Thanks for listening!

On Episode #51 (and the start of season #3) Bruce is joined by Mike, Mom, Rocki and Chris to talk about the trivia games iKNOW and Skosh. KEEP IT TOPICAL - The cast discusses the format change to a 20 episode season from a 25 episode season. - BGGs most anticipated party games for 2015 WHAT THE FOOD Utz Yuengling flavored hot sauce potato chips.  You can find them here http://www.getutz.com/get-snacks/potato-chips/regular-chips.html   27:18  iKNOW which you can find here http://www.iknowgame.net/   54:40  Skosh which you can find here http://www.goldbrickgames.com/games/skosh/   You can find our sponsors here: Bad Medicine - http://badmedicinegame.com/ and  Discount Salmon - http://water-bear-games.myshopify.com/   Thanks for listening!

On Episode #50B Bruce is joined by Rocki, Mike, Josh, Bryan, Chris and the Mom-Bot.  They talk about the Dice Tower Essentials game from Arcane Wonders, Sheriff of Notthingham.  The cast also fields a bunch of questions.   WHAT THE FOOD ?!? The cast also talks about half of the Thanksgiving Potato chip set from Boulder Canyon, and compare Pumpkin Pie chips from Boulder Canyon with Pecan Pie chips from Pringles.  You can find the Boulder Canyon chips here: http://www.bouldercanyonfoods.com/products/thanksgivingfeast   You can find Sheriff of Nottingham from Arcane Wonders here: http://www.arcanewonders.com/sheriff-of-nottingham   Thanks for listening!  

On episode #50A Bruce is joined by Mike, Mom, Bryan and Rocki to talk about the year in Review and Santa's Bag from Griggling Games.  The cast also takes a bunch of questions from the ol' Mail Bag.   WHAT THE FOOD?!? The cast talks about half of the Boulder Canyon Thanksgiving in a bag set of potato chips. You can find them here http://www.bouldercanyonfoods.com/products/thanksgivingfeast   We also discuss Santa's Bag, which you can find here : http://www.grigglinggames.com/shop/family-party-games/santas-bag/   Thanks for listening!

For this completion of Episode #49 Bruce is still joined by Mike, Mom, Rocki, Marty, Chris and Maureen.   We talk about the rest of the Jackbox (Lie Swatter, Fibbage, Drawful and Word Spud).   Thanks for listening, and have a Happy New Year!   You can find the Jackbox on most video game consoles and on Steam, or at http://jackboxgames.com/

On Episode #49A of the Party Gamecast featuring the Party Game Cast Bruce is joined by Mike, Rocki, Chris, Maureen, Marty and Mom to talk about the cell phone game Space Team and start our discussion of the Jackbox by talking about You Don't Know Jack 2015.  This is part one of a two parter, we had to split the full episode into two pieces because it was so darn long. Also in this episode, explanations are given by Mom of ALL GAMES, which WE think is quite funny, but let us know what YOU think.   TOPICAL DISCUSSION  5:36 Correction of rules issues in episodes #47 and #48  8:41  Letters from the Mailbox  What the Food!?! 16:53 Dark Chocolate Covered Lays 18:31 Milk Chocolate Flavored Pringles 23:28 Herrs Toffy flavored potato pop chips GAMES 32:07 Space Team 49:20 You Don't Know Jack 2015   You can find info for Space Team here: http://www.sleepingbeastgames.com/spaceteam/ and for the Jackbox here: http://jackboxgames.com/ Thanks for listening!

On Episode #48 of The Party Gamecast featuring the Party Game Cast, Bruce is joined by Rocki, Mike, Mom, Chris and Maureen to talk about Thanksgiving, and the grandaddy of them all.....Monopoly.  Many references are made in the episode to it coming out on Thanksgiving 2014, and that was the hope, but it came out a few days later, just as a note.   Topical Discussion What the Food!?!   4:50 - Ripples BaconCcheeseburger Slider Chips http://www.olddutchfoods.com/products#/ripples-appetizers-on-the-go/bacon-cheeseburger-sliders 13:10 - Lay's Milk Chocolate Covered Potato Chips http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/10/31/lays-potato-chips-chocolate-covered/3324377/ 27:53 - My apology for not getting this episode out on time (and calls) 32:27 - Our past experience with Monopoly  44:41 - Monopoly   Thanks for listening, and remember to let us know if you have any questions for our 50th episode, we would love to hear them, it will be a reunion AND a year end episode.    

On episode #47 of The Party Gamecast featuring the Party Game Cast, Bruce is joined by Mike, Rocki, Mom, Chris and Maureen to talk about the family classics Uno and Yahtzee. We discuss the merits of each game, and also give suggestions for other games you might want to suggest to your families.    Topical Discussion   5:32 - What the Food - Root Beer Float Oreos Here is a link to those cookies on the Fat Guy Food Blog, a blog I know nothing about, but has lots of pictures of the cookies. http://fatguyfoodblog.blogspot.com/2014/08/oreo-double-post-root-beer-float-banana.html 18:05 - Our version of the history of Uno 24:16 - Uno 50:02 - Our version of the history of Dice and Yahtzee 53:50 - Yahtzee   Our sponsor of the episode is Corked the game you can find them at http://www.corkedgames.com/ but to win the contest, you must find the game on amazon.com and send it in.   Thanks for listening, and please send in thoughts for our 50th episode to all the various places.

On Episode #46 of The Party Gamecast featuring the Party Game Cast Bruce is joined by Rocki and Bruce to talk about 4 of the Port a Party Games from Gamewright Games.   The cast introduces a new segment to the show, "What the FOOD" where the cast talks about a food item, on this episode we are talking about "Berry Creme Oreos" which you can find here : http://www.snackworks.com/products/product-detail.aspx?product=4400002692        8:00 What the Food - Berry Creme Oreos    30:50 Joe Name It    41:15 That's It    53:34 Over Under 1:04:58 Fitz It   We also announce our winners for Octobers Corked Contest, and announce a contest for November.  Here is the video we talk about in the first segment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1bOg3SGM1I Thanks for listening and please let us know what you think!  

On this episode of The Party Gamecast Reviews Bruce talks about the Zombie themed party game ZtoZ which is currently on Kickstarter from Peter Newland and Mind the Gap Studios.   You can find it here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/peternewland/ztoz?ref=nav_search   Thanks for listening!

On this episode of the Party Gamecast Reviews Bruce sits by himself and tells you about the adventures he has had with the social debate game, The Great Debate by Castle Productions created by Dave Ferguson.  You can find it on Kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1730079604/the-great-debate?ref=nav_search   Thanks for listening.   P.S. - Some members of the Cast may feel that this review is too generous, and there are certainly some pull quotes that could be taken out that might be misleading.  I do personally feel this is a fair and balanced review, but please listen to the whole review.

On Episode #45 of The Party Gamecast featuring the Party Game Cast Bruce is joined by Mike, Rocki, Chris and Maureen to talk about a few games for Halloween including Monster Fluxx, Ghost Blitz and Futterneid.  We also talk about the idea of points mattering in party games.   17:20 Do Points Matter in Party Games? 30:22 Monster Fluxx 37:06 Ghost Blitz 59:00 Futterneid   We would like to thank our sponsors for the episode 9 Shooter Quick Draw can be found here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/squareshooters/9-shooter-quick-draw-a-new-square-shooters-game?ref=nav_search and Corked, which you can find on many popular retailer websites including amazon.com and walmart.com   Thanks for listening, and please let us know what you think by telling us in all ways we remind you about on the show, including the hotline at 30PARTYGAME!    

So for Episode #44 we are doing some we never do, which is make an episode with no breaks, where we kind of ramble about a past experience.  Rocki and Bruce taped this a day after the CONgress of Gamers and Rockville, MD and for this episode they casually walk you thought the two day Party Game Mini-Con. They also talk about/review the new Fluxx 5.0, Holiday Fluxx and the Haba Kids game Klondike.   Let us know what you think of this very different episode.   Thanks for listening!

On Episode #43 of The Party Gamecast featuring the Party Game Cast Bruce is joined at the Board and Brew in College Park, MD by Mike, Chris, Maureen, Mom and Rocki (as well as special first segment guest Ben Epstein) to talk about the last games in this current run of dry erase games, when they talk about Captain Clueless and Doodle Quest. You can find the Board and Brew at http://theboardandbrew.com/ Remember we are a part of Extra Life this year, you can find our team at http://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.team&teamID=16583 and we will be having a live event on October 25, 2014 at the Board and Brew to support Extra Life and the Johns Hopkins Childrens Hospital. Time Marks Captain Clueless  24:44 Doodle Quest 46:25  You can find Doodle Quest at http://www.blueorangegames.com/index.php/games/doodle-quest We also want to thank our sponsors for the episode: Mystic Ape Games and their new game on Kickstarter Private Die.  You can find them at www.mysticape.com and the kickstarter at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mysticapegames/private-die-a-noir-dice-game?ref=nav_search and Corked the game and their contest to put a copy of Corked the Game in your hands.  Got to amazon.com, find the current price of Corked the game, send that with your name and address to thepartygamecast@gmail.com with the subject "Corked Contest" and at the end of October 2014 2 lucky winners will be selected to win copies. (the game will only be sent to addresses in the US) Good Luck, and a huge thanks to Corked the Game.    Remember to keep the party going on the Hotline at 30PARTYGAME, on Facebook, on Board Game Geek or on Twitter @partygamecast (or the cat @partygamecat)   Thanks for listening!