"I don't need to explain it you get the reference you're watching tabletop""You fast forwarded through this because you're watching tabletop" exactly true both times 😂
It's been years and years since I've watched this, but I'm realizing that this was the origin of my insistence that Travis Willingham is a full on goddamn genius
Moose totally have fur, and they don’t “have” leather. Their hide only becomes leather after the fur has been removed, and it’s been skinned and tanned.
Which is cool and all, but, um, actually, a male moose is not a buck. A male moose is a bull moose, whereas a male deer is a buck (as are male rabbits). Never the less you are correct. Player is very confused with where leather comes from, or at the least how it is made. Deer have hair...which must be removed prior to tanning the hide to make leather. :)
Being a spymaster is really tough, especially early on when a lot of the words are on the board. They rarely interconnect in the most natural ways, and always one enemy word trips you up. But definitely reveal the assassin at the end of rounds if you play again.
True that. This game has become a smash hit in my family and their coworkers, and all of us are in agreement that spymaster is a much harder and more stressful role than a random field agent. I usually get picked for spymaster.
Cards against humanity is a bad game that can be a lot of fun with the right group but there are more better games that use this mechanic while still encouraging creativity because you have to argue your point - like Snake Oil and Superfight. But I agree - unless you can come up with one that is totally different, another slight variation on those games is pointless.
Like WHAT? Part of the definition of a mammal is to have fur or hair in some form. And this also means never seeing hanging a deer head, even in a movie. Knowing the word "venison" and not even guessing most every leather HAS FUR ON IT is more offensive.
Love watching Tabletop. This was the first episode I laughed so hard I almost started to cry. Thanks for making me laugh and almost cry Wil Wheaton. Thanks.
I've been waiting for you guys to do Codenames for so long! I love this game, it's the most played in my Library. Glad to see you guys having as much fun coming up with clues and guessing them correctly as I've had.
I've got three groups that I play board games with. One of them mostly plays strategy-heavy board games like Eclipse while the other two groups are more casual and would struggle with a game that complex. Codenames is one of the few games I have that is loved by all three of these groups. I highly recommend Codenames as it gets everyone involved to stretch their minds in unusual ways. My personal favourite moment I've had so far in a Codenames match was one where I was the spymaster and my team was slightly behind. I needed to find some connection somewhere between my remaining words but right when I was about to give up and provide a hint for one word, hoping the opponent would screw up, inspiration struck. "Mao - Three," I said, trying to hold back a grin. There were only four of us playing so when I see my partner confidently start with "China" I know we've got a hope to come from behind and win this. When I look at our opponents I'm shocked at first because they both seemed totally confused. If either of them had been the one on my team instead, the clue would have been wasted and my team would be doomed. My teammate takes his time but before long he correctly gets the second word - "Force". I'm starting to worry as he seems to hesitate on the last agent but I finally see in his eyes the moment he makes the connection and picks "Chair" to win us the game. We then spent about five minutes explaining to our opponents who Chairman Mao is and I found out that out of the two of us he actually knew far more about the man than I did, so it was educational for me, too.
Once I was codemaster, two of my words were "Cat" and "Box", so I gave the clue of "Schrodinger 2" One team immediately caught it and laughed. It was, alas, the other team. My team, "He was a scientist, wasn't he? Let's look for something related to science. Next clue, I did "Litter 2", and they got cat and box. So they had the extra guess. "Let's go back to the scientist"
hey my friends and i played the picture version. do you know if there is a penalty for using a codename that isnt vague enough? (for example saying "bird 1" when one of the cards is a picture of a bird?)
Travis!!!! Vast knowledge of shapes and colors!!!! Also holy crap he played that coat hint extremely well, too bad they used the guess on tail. Edit: And then the reveal. Genius appreciated!
Though that wasn't his clue for Czech. He said only two words matched his 'coat' clue and they got both of them. How they would even think that there was likely a third word that could match a clue for two is beyond me - both Tail and Czech could easily have been the assassin. Travis gave absolutely no hint that there was another word pertaining to his earlier clue, so they were extremely lucky that was the case. Pretty much nothing more than a random guess. If he had said Coat (3), then yes it might have been genius if there weren't a rule against it.
@Riley Steidel It’s a play on words. Coat checks, in older and/or ‘fancier’ locations, i.e. an opera houses, or exhibits, would have a coat/hat check person take a patron’s overcoat, rain jacket, cloak, top hat (for gentlemen’s attire) et cetera, in exchange for a small ticket. The ticket would be exchanged in return for their items upon the patron leaving. At times, the coat check person would memorise to whom the coat belongs. Either way, this would free the patron to enjoy whatever is in the facility without a bulky outer covering getting in the way.
As someone who was rooting for Blue Ops from the very beginning, this episode was almost _overkill_ levels of gratifying. (That being said, John's sarcastic reactions to its team being continually plunged to its icy death was easily one of the prime standout points of the game! He and Wil should team up more often! :D)
+InvictusByzantium - You make refreshments with lemons to be served in your party. Isn't that what a "Lemon party" is? I am a little bit apprehensive about googling its meaning.
And he did not disappoint. "Coat Czech", coupled with the idea that "that's the largest stretch I can see on the board, let's not include it in the mandatory guesses." Genius.
Possibly my favourite episode this season! I love these conversation/word association games! I'm so glad you include them in with your strategy games. Thank you!
And then he keeps it going with the baseball explanation. "Why am I even explaining this? You're fast forwarding through this because you're watching Table Top."
The upside to Spyfall is that it's a FFA game instead of team-based. The downside is that playful chatter can be discouraged. Not always, but in basic terms, casual chatter is discouraged to avoid hint-dropping or inside references. The same could be said for Codenames, but the only real masters of information are the team leaders for that round.
"Millionaire" and "Limousine" DON'T go with "Famous"?! Really, Will?! 30:31 "So everyone gets a chance-" "To choke?" Of course, because Will is here. XD 41:46 "I'm willing to throw me dropping ANY sort of ball onto you." Really? No 'WILLing' pun?
I play a lot this game during society games evening I host in some dedicated pubs on weekend and I'm glad to find it's english counterpart on this show, I like Whil Weaton and glad to see Travis Wilingham here
29:57 Right this second it played me an ad with "always look on the bright side of LIME". Thanks overlord algorithm. I humble myself that you let me live yet another day.
Great playthrough every one! I love moments in this game that have pure brilliance with the word choice like with Coat Czech and it's even better when other people have that brain sync.
Good gane. Good gane, indeed. (I wanted this joke in there so much that I originally heard Wil say "play more ganes" at the end, but on re-listen, he probably said "games". Nissed opportumity)
I caught both the "wimmers their trophies" and "play more gains", and was SO glad to see that others also caught the fun! It's not as much fun to always be the only person that catches the fun stuff! :)
Ok one slight rule thing. Code masters are not allowed to give any hints at all and aren't allowed to speak as well. So if a person guesses a word right it may or may not correlate with the hint given so the the part where John confirmed the buck thing is technically illegal.
It is definitely more fair if the game is played that way but I've found when I've played that it's really hard for the spymasters to stay totally silent. With the groups I've played with, I try to start very forgiving of slip ups like that and just gently remind everyone that providing 'extra information' like that isn't allowed. As we keep going and everyone gets more comfortable and more familiar with the rules I start to crack down on it. And although the rules recommend against it, when the spymaster starts with "It's a bit of a stretch, but...." or something similar, I don't even bother to tell them that's against the rules. It doesn't really give that much extra information, so if it makes the spymaster more comfortable to make those kinds of meaningless remarks then the game ends up being more fun, in my opinion, if a little less strictly competitive.
yes the buck thing and the czech but it's fine it didn't make much of a change and they where all new. But yes. Also sam youd on't have to stay silent but you have to act like every guess a player makes that is right is the ended one and that is it. I do agree that the rules are usually looser with newer players it makes it more fun. It's like in sports. You'll let kids get away with the rules a bit more because otherwise the stopage would be incredible, as they know how to play you become more strict.
The timer thing was house-ruled too. The official rule is that anyone can flip the timer on anyone and they have to act before it runs out. 90%+ of the timer use in the games I've played have been by a team on their cluemaster or vice-versa - only occasionally does the other team bother. When it comes to the cluemasters talking, my rule is that any discussion of their clues waits until the end, but they aren't required to sit in stoic silence either.
It really should be a rule that the other clue master puts down the cards. That would also get rid of the additional hint where they guess something and then the clue master has to take a few seconds to go through the clues before he puts down a card. Even if it was right the clue master didn't expect it so it wasn't one he was thinking about
If the clue master's taken by surprise by their team's guess, then they really should be paying attention to their discussion... Having the opposing clue master play the tiles (and do all the talking on a team's turn) is an easy fix, but, in my experience, it's more of a distraction than it's worth - the opposing clue master should be taking the time to think about their next clue...
16:18 Im so glad Wil pointed out the radiation belt. That was the first thing that popped into my mind and it was hilarious that he knew it but the cluegiver didn't, she totally blundered into what would've been a legit match! :P
OMGOSH! This may be for the first time that I actually bought a game before this show reviewed it.... Now all my games in my game bag have been reviewed by Table Top!!!! Man!
I got to play this game last weekend, and it was awesome. I had a blast despite losing both rounds we played. I had never heard of this game before I saw this video and now I love it.
"Go to image search and grab every single standing ovation gif that exists on the internet and just send one to Travis every day for the rest of his life." *1,307 gifs have been sent to this day*
I mean, damn. I get cities can be isolating from nature, but you could also have seen Bambi as a child,.Or a My Little Pony cartoon. Or ever had a mammal as a pet. I mainly find it humorous, but it's pretty strange, too.
John totally hates Jackie. It’s hilarious. But I gotta say, red team is a mess of wordplay and personalities. Jackie just sucks at games or teamwork. Travis is 💛.
"I'm hoping to contribute with my vast knowledge of shapes and colors" - Travis Willingham XD
Travis "I have an intelligence of six I know what I'm doing"...don't sell yourself short sir. :)
He left out ale and establishments to rent lady favours.
Holy Critical Roll Prequel
Long live Grog
"I don't need to explain it you get the reference you're watching tabletop""You fast forwarded through this because you're watching tabletop" exactly true both times 😂
How u know if u fast forwarded
Call us nerds without calling us nerds. XD XD XD
LOVE the Grog reference "vast knowledge of shapes and colours" :D
My immediate reaction: "also, ale."
I was like "Don't do this to me, I've been off Critical Role for 2 months, I got my life back on track, I can't go back, I have exams, please."
they are coming to the end of Vox Machina's story, you sure you wana miss it?
Nikos Tsakas Jr. come back you can't resist the crit
He could go back after his exams and go on a glorious, days-long catching-up-binge!
Travis' face during Ashley's 'revelation' was just delightful.
It's been years and years since I've watched this, but I'm realizing that this was the origin of my insistence that Travis Willingham is a full on goddamn genius
15:40 "I don't have to explain that to you, you're watching Table Top." :'D I about choked on my food! HAHAHA
Moose totally have fur, and they don’t “have” leather. Their hide only becomes leather after the fur has been removed, and it’s been skinned and tanned.
Which is cool and all, but, um, actually, a male moose is not a buck. A male moose is a bull moose, whereas a male deer is a buck (as are male rabbits).
Never the less you are correct. Player is very confused with where leather comes from, or at the least how it is made. Deer have hair...which must be removed prior to tanning the hide to make leather. :)
Coat Czech.
Intelligence of 6, my arse. Travis Willingham, you brilliant madman.
I love the fact that the guys are so amazed/impressed with the wordplay that they no longer care that they are losing
Am I the only one who doesn't get this reference
@@Farpezio no, im missing it too :'D
@@endfinum It pertains to Travis' first character in Critical Role, his Intelligence score was a 6.
Dude is so intelligent though.
@@BrettVaa I am not getting what the hell a 'Coat Czech' is.
Can we talk about how Will drops a "Lemon Party" reference in the example XD
Yes!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I paused the video when he said party, then saw lemon and was like oh nooo, he cant mean... Then he used it as the only confirmed example!!! Haha
I made the mistake of Googling that.
@@EightThreeEight welcome to the internet days of 2000s hah. Will went old school on us.
I was more surprised when he didn't follow it with a 'Key Party'
Being a spymaster is really tough, especially early on when a lot of the words are on the board. They rarely interconnect in the most natural ways, and always one enemy word trips you up.
But definitely reveal the assassin at the end of rounds if you play again.
True that. This game has become a smash hit in my family and their coworkers, and all of us are in agreement that spymaster is a much harder and more stressful role than a random field agent. I usually get picked for spymaster.
"I'm not a spy". That's exactly what a spy would say Will
lol, we use that all the time when our group plays 'The Resistance' board game.
Here's the thing: I'm a liberal. And I believe Wil might be a cylon.
Never trust a redhead... We're all spies.
Wowcrendor right there
Wrong game :D
Everything that came out of John and Travis in this episode was pure gold.
I LOVE that Wil said the "impress the judge" mechanic is overused.
Why?
SapphireDragon357 because those games are literally terrible. Always.
Right as I read your comment I got to Wil saying that lol
Cards against humanity is a bad game that can be a lot of fun with the right group but there are more better games that use this mechanic while still encouraging creativity because you have to argue your point - like Snake Oil and Superfight. But I agree - unless you can come up with one that is totally different, another slight variation on those games is pointless.
I agree that Snake Oil is great. And its good for younger kids too in most cases. Red Flags is also quite good... but for the adult crowd. ;)
Travis' face at 37:04 when he realizes that THEY found out his secret little clue is priceless!
"A buck is meat and leather."
Wow Jackie; reductive. Those bucks have families and aspirations, too.
And they totally have fur, lots and lots of fur.
Why would anyone think a buck doesn't have fur? Jesus.
Yeah 100% has fur
A buck has a family, an aspiration, meat, leather, and also enough letters to make a four letter word ending with -uck.
Like WHAT? Part of the definition of a mammal is to have fur or hair in some form. And this also means never seeing hanging a deer head, even in a movie. Knowing the word "venison" and not even guessing most every leather HAS FUR ON IT is more offensive.
37:11
Travis face is pure happines
Love watching Tabletop. This was the first episode I laughed so hard I almost started to cry.
Thanks for making me laugh and almost cry Wil Wheaton. Thanks.
John's snide commentary is my favorite thing, I wish he'd be in more episodes
I always find stuff like this interesting. The reason you want more John is the reason I don't like this episode.
"Our agents have successfully identify lemon as going with party"
Wil stop please my sides
Yep, it’s official. I’m in love with Travis. Not just lust any more. Real, true, glorious love.
I've been waiting for you guys to do Codenames for so long! I love this game, it's the most played in my Library. Glad to see you guys having as much fun coming up with clues and guessing them correctly as I've had.
"Gandalf the grey not Gandalf the white... I don't have to explain that to you you're watching Tabletop!" Haha yeah that's pretty accurate
Ha, I heard that sneaky Princess Bride reference. 'He's only slightly dead' 'to blaythe'.
As a 13-year-old Red Sox fan during the '86 world series, I listened to John's entire explanation of the Buckner reference. With a tear in my eye.
I love to play this game, and this was one of my favorite recent episodes of Tabletop to watch. Well done!
Dan Zehner i
Bring this back !!!
I've got three groups that I play board games with. One of them mostly plays strategy-heavy board games like Eclipse while the other two groups are more casual and would struggle with a game that complex. Codenames is one of the few games I have that is loved by all three of these groups.
I highly recommend Codenames as it gets everyone involved to stretch their minds in unusual ways.
My personal favourite moment I've had so far in a Codenames match was one where I was the spymaster and my team was slightly behind. I needed to find some connection somewhere between my remaining words but right when I was about to give up and provide a hint for one word, hoping the opponent would screw up, inspiration struck. "Mao - Three," I said, trying to hold back a grin.
There were only four of us playing so when I see my partner confidently start with "China" I know we've got a hope to come from behind and win this. When I look at our opponents I'm shocked at first because they both seemed totally confused. If either of them had been the one on my team instead, the clue would have been wasted and my team would be doomed.
My teammate takes his time but before long he correctly gets the second word - "Force". I'm starting to worry as he seems to hesitate on the last agent but I finally see in his eyes the moment he makes the connection and picks "Chair" to win us the game.
We then spent about five minutes explaining to our opponents who Chairman Mao is and I found out that out of the two of us he actually knew far more about the man than I did, so it was educational for me, too.
wow what an amazing code word
Once I was codemaster, two of my words were "Cat" and "Box", so I gave the clue of "Schrodinger 2" One team immediately caught it and laughed. It was, alas, the other team. My team, "He was a scientist, wasn't he? Let's look for something related to science.
Next clue, I did "Litter 2", and they got cat and box. So they had the extra guess. "Let's go back to the scientist"
hey my friends and i played the picture version. do you know if there is a penalty for using a codename that isnt vague enough? (for example saying "bird 1" when one of the cards is a picture of a bird?)
Muy buenas anécdotas.
Wil I am so glad you do this show, you are one of my favorite people.
Travis!!!! Vast knowledge of shapes and colors!!!! Also holy crap he played that coat hint extremely well, too bad they used the guess on tail.
Edit: And then the reveal. Genius appreciated!
Though that wasn't his clue for Czech. He said only two words matched his 'coat' clue and they got both of them. How they would even think that there was likely a third word that could match a clue for two is beyond me - both Tail and Czech could easily have been the assassin. Travis gave absolutely no hint that there was another word pertaining to his earlier clue, so they were extremely lucky that was the case. Pretty much nothing more than a random guess. If he had said Coat (3), then yes it might have been genius if there weren't a rule against it.
@@BeatstruckBeatstruck could you please explain what he means by 'Coat Czech' I am not getting the reference.
@Riley Steidel It’s a play on words. Coat checks, in older and/or ‘fancier’ locations, i.e. an opera houses, or exhibits, would have a coat/hat check person take a patron’s overcoat, rain jacket, cloak, top hat (for gentlemen’s attire) et cetera, in exchange for a small ticket. The ticket would be exchanged in return for their items upon the patron leaving. At times, the coat check person would memorise to whom the coat belongs. Either way, this would free the patron to enjoy whatever is in the facility without a bulky outer covering getting in the way.
As someone who was rooting for Blue Ops from the very beginning, this episode was almost _overkill_ levels of gratifying.
(That being said, John's sarcastic reactions to its team being continually plunged to its icy death was easily one of the prime standout points of the game! He and Wil should team up more often! :D)
This episode made me proud as a Czech :) I love the way Will says Chvatil :D
Very smooth, Mr Wheaton
Grog the SpyMaster, Grand Poohbah in Charge of This and That, Slayers of Cakes...... Critters, add to the list.
not just this and that, aaallllll this and that
Yan Tse First of His Beard
Grand Poohbah of all Dis and Dat. That's important because it means he's grand poobah of the city of Dis
Yan Tse Bidet to you critters.
Codename: Phillip
This episode was so fun!!! with host Wil Wheatom! Words can kill...Czech!
"Loved you in Flubber" killed me
LOVE the Princess Bride reference. Now I just wanted to Carol Kane to come out yelling, "Liar."
If you don't know what lemons have to do with parties, you don't want to know.
Lemon parties are actually in reference to old broken down cars....
InvictusByzantium lemon party is not that bad there are worse things on the internet
+InvictusByzantium - You make refreshments with lemons to be served in your party. Isn't that
what a "Lemon party" is?
I am a little bit apprehensive about googling its meaning.
Stay far away unless you like pictures of old men giving each other oral sex.
Totally hahaha, who would want to see a bunch of people throwing lemon pies at themselves, right?
For being a TH-cam thing. Extremely good entertaining, incl. camera and the side interviews make it so much fun.
Travis Willingham! Oh how I have waited for this :D
Magnus Flodberg the dude is so much fun :)
And he did not disappoint. "Coat Czech", coupled with the idea that "that's the largest stretch I can see on the board, let's not include it in the mandatory guesses." Genius.
Possibly my favourite episode this season! I love these conversation/word association games! I'm so glad you include them in with your strategy games. Thank you!
Lemon party... Hahahahahaha
Will is a troll LOL
XD..... It's funny because I don't get it
Don't look it up.
Just google lemonparty. Or don't. Actually, definitely don't. Unless you want to. But you probably don't.
that's why Will is a troll.
“I don’t have to explain that to you, you’re watching Table Top” 😂😂😂😂😂
And then he keeps it going with the baseball explanation. "Why am I even explaining this? You're fast forwarding through this because you're watching Table Top."
I'd love to see a group like this playing Spyfall on tabletop!
Amelia Lillieman Spyfall would be great.
The upside to Spyfall is that it's a FFA game instead of team-based.
The downside is that playful chatter can be discouraged. Not always, but in basic terms, casual chatter is discouraged to avoid hint-dropping or inside references. The same could be said for Codenames, but the only real masters of information are the team leaders for that round.
Really liked this game. Fun
Finally played this game this weekend and it was a blast! During one round, the range of the clues went from Ephesians 5 to William Shatner!
Ok, but "Loved you in Flubber!" was AMAZING. I mean, who even remembers that Wil was in Flubber?
I'm so late to this, but I love how Travis high fived his trophy.
I miss this show!!
Travis, the sleeper genius. NGL, though, I still had a genuine twinge when Wil said "Jif."
This game is a favorite with our family! So much fun. I liked watching it a lot because it's fun to try and guess the answers along with the video.
I miss TableTop so much
Me too buddy, me too.
“No Rolls Barred” is like the British version of Tabletop, they have been making videos for a few years. I totally recommend
I just played this game this past weekend and LOVED IT! So I'm glad to see that they played it on tabletop too! Very fun.
"Millionaire" and "Limousine" DON'T go with "Famous"?! Really, Will?!
30:31 "So everyone gets a chance-"
"To choke?"
Of course, because Will is here. XD
41:46 "I'm willing to throw me dropping ANY sort of ball onto you."
Really? No 'WILLing' pun?
Wil is famous, and he experiences that fame via fans, and his agent. It makes perfect sense from his perspective.
"Millionaire" and "Limousine" goes with "Rich", but that doesn't make someone "Famous".
@@spacewarpphotography1667 Yeah but Shakespeare you cannot deny that one.
Travis is just really the best. An inspirational human being really fun episode :D
Grog is best polar bear.
This game is so amazingly fun to play... I played it with another 9 people, and God, was it hilarious! Watching it here was super!
I'm kinda sad no one picked up on Wil saying "Play more ganes" at the end, haha
We need more of these videos!! Wil you made me get into the hobby of board games! Please make more of these!!! Please!!
TRAVIS!!!
FLAME ALCHEMIST!!
KNUCKLES!!!
GROG!!!!!
DAT VOICE!!!!!!
...
Did I break it?
To my understanding Colonel Mustang is dead sexy! In a mini-skirt!
The amount of shade thrown in this episode is like one of my game nights. Shade thrown at the other players, yourself, and even the viewers xD
@37:52 will pronounces GIF as "Jiff" and that makes me sad.
I play a lot this game during society games evening I host in some dedicated pubs on weekend and I'm glad to find it's english counterpart on this show, I like Whil Weaton and glad to see Travis Wilingham here
25:29 "trying to tie together: belt, lead, and microscope..." Oceanographer?
Wumbology?
Lemon party then key party reference in the first 5 minutes. I love you guys...
John Bowie is fun to watch. I hope he does more games!
This was so fun an episode I won't mention the rule errors. I love this game and it was a joy to watch y'all play it!
Did anyone else realize the transition screen for the third game said “expedition” and not “exhibition”
29:57
Right this second it played me an ad with "always look on the bright side of LIME".
Thanks overlord algorithm.
I humble myself that you let me live yet another day.
"I'm gonna give the WIMMERS their trophy"
"Until next time, play more GANES"
CL4-TP: Zing!
Lady, leather has had all the hair pulled out! Fur is hair! Leather is literally just the skin! How do you not know that?!
Great playthrough every one! I love moments in this game that have pure brilliance with the word choice like with Coat Czech and it's even better when other people have that brain sync.
What that COAT CZECH means? Im not native speaker and i dont get it... :(
When you walk into a large/fancy party you check (pronounced the same way) in your coat to be held for you until leave. It is called a coat check.
I've never heard the term "coat check" in my life. Took some scrolling but now I see the brilliance.
Lytane Variety Show q
Thank you for teaching me the ways. We appreciate it, ❤ San Diego
Good gane. Good gane, indeed.
(I wanted this joke in there so much that I originally heard Wil say "play more ganes" at the end, but on re-listen, he probably said "games". Nissed opportumity)
He did say play more ganes! ^_^
I'm surprised people missed it when he said he was going to give the wimmer's their trophy
I caught both the "wimmers their trophies" and "play more gains", and was SO glad to see that others also caught the fun! It's not as much fun to always be the only person that catches the fun stuff! :)
I did catch and appreciate the 'play more gains', but I missed the wimmers. Thanks for that!
NISSED opportunity, I see what you did there
I LOVE TABLETOP, ITS SO MUCH FUN TO WATCH.
As a print journalist I was one of those 16 people that went "awwww, that was mean Travis" to the newspaper jokes. ;(
Possibly one of your best intros Wil. Great episode
Ok one slight rule thing. Code masters are not allowed to give any hints at all and aren't allowed to speak as well. So if a person guesses a word right it may or may not correlate with the hint given so the the part where John confirmed the buck thing is technically illegal.
It is definitely more fair if the game is played that way but I've found when I've played that it's really hard for the spymasters to stay totally silent. With the groups I've played with, I try to start very forgiving of slip ups like that and just gently remind everyone that providing 'extra information' like that isn't allowed. As we keep going and everyone gets more comfortable and more familiar with the rules I start to crack down on it.
And although the rules recommend against it, when the spymaster starts with "It's a bit of a stretch, but...." or something similar, I don't even bother to tell them that's against the rules. It doesn't really give that much extra information, so if it makes the spymaster more comfortable to make those kinds of meaningless remarks then the game ends up being more fun, in my opinion, if a little less strictly competitive.
yes the buck thing and the czech but it's fine it didn't make much of a change and they where all new. But yes.
Also sam youd on't have to stay silent but you have to act like every guess a player makes that is right is the ended one and that is it. I do agree that the rules are usually looser with newer players it makes it more fun. It's like in sports. You'll let kids get away with the rules a bit more because otherwise the stopage would be incredible, as they know how to play you become more strict.
The timer thing was house-ruled too. The official rule is that anyone can flip the timer on anyone and they have to act before it runs out. 90%+ of the timer use in the games I've played have been by a team on their cluemaster or vice-versa - only occasionally does the other team bother.
When it comes to the cluemasters talking, my rule is that any discussion of their clues waits until the end, but they aren't required to sit in stoic silence either.
It really should be a rule that the other clue master puts down the cards. That would also get rid of the additional hint where they guess something and then the clue master has to take a few seconds to go through the clues before he puts down a card. Even if it was right the clue master didn't expect it so it wasn't one he was thinking about
If the clue master's taken by surprise by their team's guess, then they really should be paying attention to their discussion...
Having the opposing clue master play the tiles (and do all the talking on a team's turn) is an easy fix, but, in my experience, it's more of a distraction than it's worth - the opposing clue master should be taking the time to think about their next clue...
16:18 Im so glad Wil pointed out the radiation belt. That was the first thing that popped into my mind and it was hilarious that he knew it but the cluegiver didn't, she totally blundered into what would've been a legit match! :P
And nobody reacted to the Super Mario castle theme :(
I was hoping he would do the next part of that, and then they probably would've gotten it!
I thought it was the underground theme
He meant to do the castle theme but that is in fact the Underground theme.
This game is such a great crowd pleaser! Love It
OMGOSH! This may be for the first time that I actually bought a game before this show reviewed it.... Now all my games in my game bag have been reviewed by Table Top!!!! Man!
This isn't a review series though............
One of my favorite episodes thus far! So fun to watch this!!
I'm a simple man, I see Travis Willingham, and I'D LIKE TO RAGE!
I got to play this game last weekend, and it was awesome. I had a blast despite losing both rounds we played. I had never heard of this game before I saw this video and now I love it.
"Go to image search and grab every single standing ovation gif that exists on the internet and just send one to Travis every day for the rest of his life."
*1,307 gifs have been sent to this day*
One of the best episodes ever lol brilliant
wow. there should be more standing ovations when playing board games.
I once used Volkswagen to tie 'van' and 'tick' and my team got it (volkswagen ...beetle.. bug... tick!). I was proud of us! :)
25:30 Belt, Lead and Microscope. Surly Metal (3) would combine all together?
Princess Bride shout out, Cthulhu shout out, Mario music, Gandalf talk, Game of Thrones, Indiana Jones reference... this was a great episode.
Did Wil just make a lemon party reference.......nice one Wil..nice
In the intro too xD
Love the casual lemon party at the start. And also, "expedition" game fail. Not even sure what that would be, lol
Michele Morrow is 39?! Those are some fine genetics!
Fantastic episode!
Did anyone else notice that Will said, "Play more gaNes" at the end. Ahh, codenames, your word play is epic.
he also said at the end, "im going to give the "wiMers" their trophy
We need a Mansions of Madness episode!
these are probably the funniest guests in the show so far. Great episode
O.o my face when she thought bucks are covered in leather....
Right!?
yes, you can use it to make leather....leather is made from the skin of some animals........
Bucks are covered in leather, which is covered in fur.
I mean, damn. I get cities can be isolating from nature, but you could also have seen Bambi as a child,.Or a My Little Pony cartoon. Or ever had a mammal as a pet. I mainly find it humorous, but it's pretty strange, too.
I literally cheered when they said New York. And now I'm just laughing at all the sarcasm lol
John totally hates Jackie. It’s hilarious. But I gotta say, red team is a mess of wordplay and personalities. Jackie just sucks at games or teamwork.
Travis is 💛.
Coat Czech... Travis Willingham you GENIUS!!!