In 2018 Wellcome fellow and comic book author Sara Kenney (Surgeon X) asked Mink to help design an ambitious immersive experience that would bring scientific discourse to several hundred comic convention attendees, through the medium of the wor

TTTT Guessing Games

Mar 21st, 2019 1h 15m

This episode we've got something a little bit different going on, can you *guess* what it is? Which is appropriate as this time we're talking about Guessing Games! Keen listeners may be able to whittle down the possibilities to figure out the m

TTTT: Spiel des Jahres winners

Mar 7th, 2019 52m 44s

They've won the prizes but have they won Mink and Fish's heart? This episode we're talking about our top 5 Spieles des Jahre winning games plus what games we've played most recently. ant to hear us talk about a specific subject? Send us questio

TTTT: Reiner Knizia games

Feb 21st, 2019 59m 23s

This episode Mink and Fish talk about their top 5 favourite games by prolific designer Reiner Knizia. We also talk about the curiously shaped games 'Here Comes The Dog' and 'Planet' and answer a listener's question about Legacy-style solo games

Table Top Top Table: Party games

Feb 7th, 2019 57m 37s

It's time to put out the bowls of twiglets, cover the light fitting in bacofoil and start listening to firm young melodies, kicking tunes, thumping bass... That's right! We're having a party* 🎉!!! (*game themed episode) We also talk Pantone an

Table Top Top Table: Dice games

Jan 24th, 2019 1h 4m

A jam packed episode as Mink and Fish talk dice game and are joined by two of their boardgame buddies, Leo and Rob, for an in-car reflection on the highlights of the 2018 autumn LobsterCon. Warning; this episode contains gratuitous loud gigglin

Deckbuilders

Jan 10th, 2019 59m 13s

We're back! New year! New games! New us! ok, not new us, we're the same THE SAME GREAT BOARD GAMING PAIR OF TALKING PEOPLE YOU KNOW AND MAYBE LOVE! This time we tackle deckbuilders and realise we maybe bit off more than we can chew this time. P

Table Top Top Table: Obscure games

Nov 29th, 2018 54m 51s

Like an enigma wrapped in a mystery encased in a box still in its original shrinkwrap, this week we go all exotic by talking about Obscure Games. What do we mean by obscure? Do we even know? Find out this and hear our thoughts on Burgle Bros, S

Table Top Top Table: Mean games

Nov 15th, 2018 58m 55s

After last episode's foray into the lovely happy world of playing nicely together, this time Mink and Fish get mean! They've picked out their top 5 low down dirty backstabbing games of cruelty and betrayal to entertain you. You big meany! There

Table Top Top Table: Cooperative games

Nov 2nd, 2018 58m 34s

A true head-to-head this time around, as we delve into co-operative games, one of us loves them one of us hates them, can we co-operate long enough to get to the end of the podcast? Tune in to find out the answer to this as well as to our liste

Table Top Top Table: Pocket games

Oct 4th, 2018 56m 50s

Far more than you'd expect could be crammed into a normal sized pocket, this episode is coincidentally also about pocket sized games which Mink and Fish think give the most fun per square inch. Plus some excellent listeners' questions. Send us

Table Top Top Table: Dexterity games

Sep 20th, 2018 45m 21s

Get yourself to exactly the right angle to flick this episode right into your earhole as Fish and Mink line up and knock down their teetering towers of favourite games of dexterity. Plus games gossip about Fog of Love and Callisto, places to bu

Table Top Top Table: Childhood games we still play

Sep 7th, 2018 48m 45s

This episode Mink and Charlie take a misty-eyed look back down memory lane to find the top 5 games they couldn't bear to leave behind in their childhoods. Plus what we've played recently and answering listeners' questions about morality and lur

Tabletop Top Table: 2 player games

Aug 23rd, 2018 56m 27s

Charlie and Mink pit their favourite two-player games head-to-head against each other to see whose top table is the tops. Games "news" from ukge, answers to (future)listeners' questions and chat about what games they've been playing recently. S

Cheating and backstabbing, The Genius - Quintin Smith

Nov 26th, 2017 31m 1s

Betrayal, cheating, suspicion and double-crossing, Mink and Quintin Smith put all of these things aside for an afternoon in order to discuss their shared love of bamboozling TV game show The Genius. Quinns being of Shut Up and Sit Down fame, we

Gardens, Games and Ghost Poison with Ricky Haggett

Nov 17th, 2017 55m 46s

Game designer Ricky Haggett of Hollow Ponds (Loot Rascals, Wilmot’s Warehouse, Hohokum) kicks back with Mink one sunny afternoon to talk gardens, game design and ghost poison. Listen to the sounds of Ricky’s North London garden while they remi

A Tourist's Guide To North Korea with Nick Moran

Nov 10th, 2017 1h 23m

Escape Room designer Nick Moran creator of the celebrated Time Run, chats to Mink about his favourite Escape Rooms in the UK, gets geeky about clue systems before telling his remarkable account of the time he visited North Korea as a tourist an

The Live-Action-Role-Player Always Rings Twice

Nov 3rd, 2017 53m 18s

Creative Director & Theatre maker Annette Mees and RPG publisher Cat Tobin of Pelgrane Press, tell each other and Mink about their different worlds of Experiential Theatre and RPGs and LARPs, and find out where they rub up and overlap. Place yo

Happy Halloweening with Laura E Hall

Oct 28th, 2017 54m 1s

It's the weekend before Halloween, and all through the house, creepy creatures were stirring, some eating a mouse. Mink talks to Laura E Hall about her love of halloween, what it means to be creepy and a little bit about spookiness in Escape Ro

The Curious Incident of the Boat in the Night Time

Mar 23rd, 2017 44m 4s

Why start your podcast with a pilot when you can start it with a sailor? Mink interviews Kass Schmitt, a computer games and meteorology programmer, who is about to single-handedly race across the ocean from the UK to the USA. Delving* into her

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