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Too Dumb for Games
by Travis Abshear, Nick Knaebel, Paul Saxon, & Jaccob Hearn
Too Dumb for Games is a show about four best friends and our adventures playing table top games. We're a review show, so sometimes we even rate the games we play!
Episodes
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2d4g 40: Agent Hunter Quickplay
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...
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2d4g 39: Drunk Jenga: Consequenga
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…
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2d4g 38: Clamp to the Future (Back to the Future Game)
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…
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2d4g 37: ICPlease Help Me (Into the Echoside)
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…
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2d4g 36: 2d4g in the Black Lodge (Twin Peaks Murder Mystery Game)
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...
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2d4g 35: Dreadful Pirates (Dread Pirate)
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...
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2d4g 34: Of Fifth Elements & Testosterone (Adrenaline)
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...
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2d4g 33: Poop Quickplay (Poop: The Game)
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…
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2d4g 11: 2 Furious 4 Games Remaster (Fast & the Furious: Full Throttle)
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…
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2d4g 32: Eight Epics of Granola (Eight Epics)
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,...
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2d4g 31: Eldritch Fingers (Pointing Fingers)
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...
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2d4g 30: Space Hunks (Space Hulk: Death Angel Card Game)
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…
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2d4g 29: Hank Hill vs Predator (Monikers)
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...
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2d4g 28: Smackdown in Rowdy Town (Superfight)
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...
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2d4g 27 2k16 GOOY Edition
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…
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2d4g 26: Badsketball (The Harlem Globetrotters Game)
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,...
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2d4g 25: Battle Wizard Brigade Reprisal (Epic Spell Wars of the Battle Wizards II)
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…
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2d4g 24: Childhood Nightmares (Eureka)
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…
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2d4g 23: Portal Alligator Cocks (Portal)
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,...
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2d4g 22: America Special (Trump Board Game vs Clintonopoly)
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!
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2d4g 21: Too Dead for Games (Halloween Special 2k16)
From the MPD evidence locker: "This is a recording of the kidnapping of Jaccob Hearn, Nick Knaebel, Paul Saxon, and Travis Abshear, in the games dungeon of Henry Perkins. Mr. Perkins, a friend and one time guest of the podcast, Too Dumb for Games, is believed to have abducted and poisoned the...
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2d4g 20: Spoopier Rendevous (Betrayal at House on the Hill: Widow's Walk)
Wherein we play Widow's Walk, the first ever expansion to the much loved Betrayal at House on the Hill! It's still pretty much one of the best games ever, but now with twice as much content. Our content is a couple teens and one really fast dude exploring a haunted house, only one of us turns out...
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2d4g 19: Mansionmost Madnessing (Mansions of Madness 2e)
Was that an Ayn Rand opening? That was an Ayn Rand opening. Welcome to Too Dumb for Games' second episode featuring Fantasy Flight's Mansions of Madness, with Paul, Jaccob, Nick, Travis, and Mansions of Madness 2.0! Fantasy Flight's gone and blasted board gaming into the future with a Mansions...
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2d4g 18.5: Quickplay (Tic Tac Toe)
In lieu of episode 19, which turned out like balls, just-Travis plays Tic Tac Toe, a two-player game invented by a people time forgot. It turned out slightly less like balls.
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2d4g 18: Fragalicious (Frag)
So delicious, so delicious, we're fragalicious, it's so delicious. Oops, hello, welcome to 2d4g 18, where we play Frag by Steve Jackson Games, an allegedly fast paced action board game that emulates early PC arena shooters. It ain't great, but boy, does it take you back to a time of Unreal Engine...
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2d4g 17: Dead Winter is Coming (Dead Winter)
There's zombies afoot in this episode of Too Dumb for Games! We're playing Plaid Hat Games' Dead of Winter: A Crossroads Game, which is all about trying to survive a bad winter in the middle of a zombie apocalypse. It's about as hard to do as it sounds like. Listen as we find a bunch of weirdos...
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2d4g 16: Queue
Come get in line, and make sure the commissar doesn't see that extra ration of vodka in your coat pocket, cause it's time to play Queue! Listen in as our hosts try to check every item off their shopping lists in the desolate mercantile past of communist Poland
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2d4g 15: Mansion Madness pt. 2 (Mansions of Madness)
Here's the unfortunate conclusion into our unfortunate time playing Mansions of Madness! Listen to our cries of agony as the minds of Gloria Goldberg, Joe Diamond, and Michael McGlen encounter a proper Cthulhian conclusion. Check out part 1 if you haven't heard it yet, elsewise this episode wont'...
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2d4g 14: Mansion Madness Pt. 1 (Mansions of Madness)
Welcome to part 1 of our first two part episode! We're playing Fantasy Flight's Mansions of Madness, a game that has done us wrong so many times over the years, yet we keep crawling back. We're going to roleplay our little hearts out this time, and maybe, just maybe, overcome all the Lovecrafty...
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2d4g 13: Forced Clue (Clue: Discover the Secrets)
This week we have on our first guest, our good friend Henry Perkins! We were planning on playing Mansions of Madness, but, under threat of violence, Henry made us play Hasbro's universally panned Clue reboot, Clue: Discover the Secrets. No one has a good time, this game usurps Cult Classic for...
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2d4g 12: Back to Baghdad and Back Again (Tales of Arabian Nights)
Wherein Travis, Nick, and Jaccob play Tales of the Arabian Nights and travel back in time, then to the middle east, and then quantum leap into the bodies of Sinbad the Sailor, Ali Baba, Scheherazade, and, um, an Indiana Jones time traveling SS officer? Hey, also, heads up: we played around with…
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2d4g 11: 2 Furious 4 Games (Fast & Furious: Full Throttle)
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.
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2d4g 10: Cult Classic
In this episode we play 2013's relatively-obscure Cult Classic, a Kickstarted card game by Addle Brain Games, which should probably update their name since it's been three years and this is still the only game they've made. As a pantheon that includes a stated promise of dog armageddon, an...
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2d4g 09: Spooky Rendevous
In this episode we play Avalon Hill's cooperative horror exploration game, Betrayal at House on the Hill! Don't expect to hear anything scary in this episode though, because all you're going to hear is us gushing about how much we love this game for an hour. Seriously though, this game is great.
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2d4g 08: Couporate Takeover
This week we're back in corporate dystopia (sure is starting to feel like the pool of available settings for tabletop developers is awfully small, huh?) with Coup by Rikki Tahta! This time we play the corporate overlords and set out to crush not only the proletariat, but each other, and become…
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2d4g 07: Timefiltration
In this, the most confusing episode, Jaccob, Travis, Paul, and Nick play Infiltration, turning into dystopian cyberpunk spies and attempting to steal corporate information before the cops show up. It seems like this episode already went up, but it couldn't have, right?
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2d4g 06: Slimefiltration
In this, our most concise episode, Jaccob, Travis, Paul, and Nick play Infiltration from Fantasy Flight, turning into dystopian cyberpunk spies and attempting to steal secrets from a shady(?) corporation before the cops show up. Get ready to listen to a bunch of corporate espionage experts/slimy...
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2d4g 05: Slippery Salesnakes
The 2d4g boys are at it again in their 5th episode (I never thought they'd make it this far). This week they dive head first into a flask of oily snakes in the game Snake Oil. The boys will have to lie, charm, and bargain as they try to sell their worthless products to a chump dumb enough to buy...
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2d4g 04.5: Cosmic Outtakes
Keeping with our intended format, we can't keep every joke we like in our podcast to keep time constraints intact and avoid rambling off-topic tangents. These are the outtakes from Cosmic Encounter, a game wherein a slime cowboy, with the help of his friends Space Witch, the Evangelist voice from...
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2d4g 04: Cosmic Encounter
Jaccob, Nick, Paul, and Travis play Paul's favorite game: Cosmic Encounter, in which the galaxy's fate is decided by who breaks the rules the hardest. Out of cosmic pagans, entropy-loathing androids, ooze cowboys and worshipers of the true Lord Jesus Christ (in space), only one race can dominate...
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2d4g 03: Battle Wizard Brigade
Wherein Travis, Nick, Paul, and Jaccob throw down the glove and turn into wizards for an all out, no holds barred spells war in EPIC SPELL WARS OF THE BATTLE WIZARDS: DUEL AT MT. SKULLZFYRE. Don't slip on all the gore and magic slime left over after this episode.
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2d4g 02: The Metamorphosis of Dr. Laura
In today's episode the 2D4G gang takes on Dr. Laura in an all out battle of wills. As Dr. Laura attempts to destroy their minds and devour their souls will our heroes be able to withstand her inflamed scrotal sacs. Can they stop her? Will the world be devoured by her all encompassing mass? Listen...
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2d4g 01: Master Race for the Galaxy (DIEHARD FANS ONLY)
Welcome to our first episode! This is a Megaman podcast. No it isn't, this is a board game podcast. Got you good, chumbstick. Jacob, Pow, Dr. Avis, and Nork explore Race for the Galaxy, a game about eugenics, space sex, and anthropomorphic women. Hope you enjoy our searching for ourselves out...
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Too Dumb for Games is a show about four best friends and our adventures playing table top games. We're a review show, so sometimes we even rate the games we play!
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Too Dumb for Games is created and hosted by Travis Abshear, Nick Knaebel, Paul Saxon, & Jaccob Hearn.
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