Too Dumb For Games

Travis and Paul were taking a little nap, so Jaccob and Nick do another quickplay episode and play a tiny little AEG game called Agent Hunters all by themselves. Agent Hunters, it turns out, is a nice little card counting game. It's really quick, it's cheap, and you'll probably enjoy it once or twice. It's like a candy bar at check out, but for game stores. Anyways, enjoy this little short form episode! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/toodumbforgames/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/2dumb4games Episodes: http://directory.libsyn.com/shows/view/id/toodumbforgames

Do you know what makes Jenga 1000x times better? The mind of Travis Abshear, and drinking, and party game rules, that is what. We play a game of Travis' own creation: Consequenga! Consequenga is a game about friendship, and breaking ice, and getting weird with your pals at parties. The Jenga pieces have numbers on the bottom, and when you draw a piece, you have to follow a rule matching your number. It's kind of like Captain Dickhead, or whatever you call it, only way more interesting. Travis gets pretty tipsy. Everyone reveals their deepest fears. Someone knocks over a tower. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/toodumbforgames/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/2dumb4games Episodes: http://directory.libsyn.com/shows/view/id/toodumbforgames

  We played the Back to the Future: An Adventure Through Time, and learned what "88 gigawatts of fun" feels like. It feels a lot like playing an awful cash grab of a board game, turns out. Do you remember all the times that Marty and Doc Brown murdered future and past versions of themselves and used their own time-blood as fuel for the Delorian? Because this game sure does use that as its primary mechanic. None of us could quite recall those parts of the movie, so I guess it's about time for a re-watch?  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/toodumbforgames/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/2dumb4games Episodes: http://directory.libsyn.com/shows/view/id/toodumbforgames

The Insane Clown Posse made a game. It's called Into the Echoside We played it. Nick has too many layers of clown makeup caked to his face to ever scrape it off, Jaccob murdered Travis with a hatchet in ritual sacrifice to the 12 faced Joker god, Paul was sent to hell after being judged a sinner in the Tunnel of Love at the Dark Carnival, and Travis pounds Faygo with his homies in Shangri La. The game was actually pretty all right. Nice job ICP.  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/toodumbforgames/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/2dumb4games Episodes: http://directory.libsyn.com/shows/view/id/toodumbforgames

  Turns out somebody made a Twin Peaks board game back in the early 90s. Season 3 just started, and it's our duty to unearth this weird cultural artifact. But maybe we should've just left it in the box. Travis, Nick, Paul, and Jaccob are now trapped in the Red Room. The game is a trap, perfectly crafted to be the worst board game we've ever played, and damning its players to an eternity in the Black Lodge. We'll see you in your dreams. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/toodumbforgames/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/2dumb4games Episodes: http://directory.libsyn.com/shows/view/id/toodumbforgames

We've returned to Nick's collection of childhood games again, with Dread Pirate, a game by Steve Edmiston and Front Porch Classics! Nick, Paul, Travis, and Jaccob compete to be the most dreadful pirate in a fantastical Caribbean analog! There are so many vibrantly colored beads and small metal coins, and you get to put them into vibrantly colored faux-velvet pouches! Everything here is so beautiful! It's a shame it's just not very good though. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/toodumbforgames/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/2dumb4games Episodes: http://directory.libsyn.com/shows/view/id/toodumbforgames

We've got Czech Games Edition (well, not the people [we'll get the people someday], but their game) in the studio this week, with Adrenaline! Adrenaline is a first person arena shooter distilled into board game form! Paul plays a reptilian, Travis becomes that blue opera alien from the Fifth Element, Nick's a fun loving murderbot, & Jaccob becomes generic space marine. Bloodshed and friendship ensue, and CGE, as always, makes some of the best games around.   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/toodumbforgames/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/2dumb4games Episodes: http://directory.libsyn.com/shows/view/id/toodumbforgames

Oh man it's another Too Dumb for Games QUICKPLAY ft. Poop: the Game, and Jaccob and Travis! Have you ever thought to yourself, gee, Uno would really be a lot better without the colors, but with poop jokes instead? No? I guess there were enough people out there thinking exactly that thought, because Poop: the Game got Kickstarted and found its way onto our shelf, into our hands, and into your ears. Poop is everywhere. We're sorry.  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/toodumbforgames/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/2dumb4games Episodes: http://directory.libsyn.com/shows/view/id/toodumbforgames

Here's a remaster of our review of the Fast & the Furious board game to celebrate the release of Fate of the Furious, featuring way better editing! This week, Jaccob, Travis, Paul, and Nick get right up in one of the greatest film franchises of all time: Fast and the Furious. That is correct, there is a Fast and the Furious board game. Why? Your guess is as good as ours, but wow is it fun.  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/toodumbforgames/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/2dumb4games Episodes: http://directory.libsyn.com/shows/view/id/toodumbforgames

 This week we play Eight Epics, by Seiji Kanai! We also goof up just about every fact about the game's development, so, uh, oops. Eight Epics is a game about math, and dice, with a theme draped over it! It's also a game that inspires obsessive discussion about the myriad benefits of regular, unstoppable granola consumption, so if you're a granola fan, check it out. If you're a fan of Seiji Kanai, this game, or people who know things about board games, beware, because we actually didn't like this one very much.  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/toodumbforgames/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/2dumb4games Episodes: http://directory.libsyn.com/shows/view/id/toodumbforgames

Travis went thrifting and brought us back something called Pointing Fingers, from Hasbro. Guess we have to play it. Pointing Fingers is a game that alleges to be a "hilarious game of who did what." We found it to be more of a very bad, boring game that inspires discourse on the proper useage of modal verbs, and difficult and terrifying metaphysical thought experiments. I certainly won't spoil anything for you, dear listener, but I'll just leave an image of the box art below and you can guess if Hasbro's assertions about its game are correct.  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/toodumbforgames/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/2dumb4games Episodes: http://directory.libsyn.com/shows/view/id/toodumbforgames

Too Dumb for Games is back with Space Hulk: Death Angel - The Card Game! Astartes, don your power armor and get ready to get sweaty in a highly homoerotic and deadly expedition into card games about cramped corridors. Travis, Nick, Jaccob, and Paul scrape together what little knowledge they have of the 40k universe to weave a tale of love, betrayal, and death, for you, dearest listener! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/toodumbforgames/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/2dumb4games Episodes: http://directory.libsyn.com/shows/view/id/toodumbforgames

We're back for another social party game with Monikers, a Kickstarter game by Alex Hague and Justin Vickers! Wish we'd read the rules better, because we might've played it kinda wrong? Just a little bit? Monikers is a game about getting your friends to guess words on cards, like Jareth the Goblin King, cocaine bears, and Phineas Gage. Travis and Paul dominate. Nick and Jaccob flounder. We try to get David Liebe Hart as a guest star. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/toodumbforgames/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/2dumb4games Episodes: http://directory.libsyn.com/shows/view/id/toodumbforgames

  2d4g gets violent with Superfight by Skybound Games! Who'd win in a fight? A UFC champ that can turn into water, or a boyband that kills with a kiss? Pikachu with a time machine or King Kong? You aren't gonna find out just sitting there, so stick in those earbuds and strap the fuck in, cuz 2d4g's taking you to the most improbable of arenas.  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/toodumbforgames/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/2dumb4games Episodes: http://directory.libsyn.com/shows/view/id/toodumbforgames

Too Dumb for Games has existed for one whole year, so we're commemorating our lil b-day with a Games of Our Year edition!  We take a trip down memory lane to look at the squalling, red-faced infant that was our podcast, and Travis, Nick, Jaccob, and Paul pick out their favorite games that we played for the podcast in 2016. We decided we'd extol the virtues of Mansions of Madness 2e, Betrayal at House on the Hill: Widow's Walk, Fast and the Furious: Full Throttle, and Cosmic Encounter. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/toodumbforgames/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/2dumb4games Episodes: http://directory.libsyn.com/shows/view/id/toodumbforgames

Happy New Year! Too Dumb for Games is bringing in 2017 with ep. 26: Badsketball, wherein we unearth the ancient curse of 1971's Harlem Globetrotters Game by Milton Bradley! If you ever find yourself dusting off a copy in some flea market or side-alley store full of mysterious Chinese artifacts, just put it down, walk away, and forget you ever saw it, because what lies inside is too powerful and evil for the weak souls of man. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/toodumbforgames/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/2dumb4games    

In Epic Spell Wars of the Battle Wizards II: Rumble at Castle Tentakill, Travis, Nick, Paul, and Jaccob once again don their robes and wizard hats and blast each other to bits. Cryptozoic really upped the game for this expansion, with better art, mechanics, and we put the Too Dumb for Games spin on it with a spiraling descent into Jaccob's past romances. 

Too Dumb for Games travels back to the old west and into the dark, earthy caverns of Nick's memories as a feral child with Eureka by Ravensburger Games. Eureka is a game about panning for gold and robbing your friend's, and inspires such thoughts as what was the Breakfast Club's prom like? Will Bob Dylan guest star on our podcast? And can Nick confront his dark past? Find your answers through the play button!

Wherein we play Portal: The Uncooperative Cake Acquisition Board Game by Cryptozoic! Nick accidentally ended this game way too early, so this officially makes our shortest episode ever. Expect a little game play, whatever we call a review, and some truly disturbing facts about alligator anatomy, courtesy of Jaccob. 

It's election day! Time to put on a topical episode of Too Dumb for Games, wherein we play Clintonopoly and the Trump Game, go out to the polls, and experience the existentially crushing discontent of voting in this election! Don't forget to have a great day!