Episodes

  • #13 - Component Quality and Solo Gaming
    Aug 2 2021

    Seigen and Spencer talk about recent gaming experiences, including Decktective, Betrayal Legacy, Micro Macro: Crime City, The Captain is Dead: Dangerous Planet, The Night Cage, and Now or Never.

     

    Topics of discussion include: Setting up your board games, component quality, and solo gaming.

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    Less than 1 minute
  • #12 - Lowest Rated Popular Board Games
    Jul 18 2021

    Seigen and Spencer are back after a hiatus to talk about board games and why they are fun! The show begins with discussions of The Mind, The Goonies: Never Say Die, We Care, Summer Camp, Taco Bell: Party Pack Game, and Escape: Roll and Write.

    Topics of discussions include opening and punching new games, lowest-rated popular games on BoardGameGeek.com, and Gloomholdin and other micro versions of larger games.

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    45 mins
  • #11 - Top 10 Board Games of All Time
    Apr 2 2021

    What are the best board games? Seigen and Spencer share their favorite games in this top 10 board games video.

    The audio of this episode was taken from Seigen and Spencer’s 10 Best Board Games of All Time video on The Lighten Up Initiative.

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    37 mins
  • #10 - Most Anticipated Games of 2021
    Feb 8 2021

    Seigen and Spencer are back with some recent gaming experiences! We’ll talk about whether we buy games locally or online. And we finish off the episode by listing the 10 games we are excited for the most in 2021.

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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • #9 - 5 Best Games of 2020
    Dec 21 2020

    Seigen and Spencer discuss some recent plays including Chiseled, Betrayal at Baldur’s Gate, Pandemic: Fall of Rome, Marvel Splendor, and Chronicles of Crime: 1400. We play the alphabet game and analyze a board game suggestion article from Today.com. Finally, we end the show by listing our top 5 games (and experiences) of 2020!

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    54 mins
  • #8 - Wishlists and Board Game Expansions
    Dec 4 2020

    We are back to talk about fun board game experiences! We discuss our thoughts on all the games played at our epic gaming weekend. Then, we’ve been very good this year,’ so we talk about what we want for Christmas. Finally, we end the show talking about our overall thoughts on expansions and name some of our favorites. (Apologies for the poor audio quality. Spencer’s microphone is dying. We’ll have that fixed in the next episode.)

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    55 mins
  • #7 - Is this a Game?
    Nov 13 2020

    Spencer and Seigen are back to chat about fun and board gaming! In this episode, we talk about our most recent plays, play a couple of silly games, and talk about Analysis Paralysis and Storytelling in games.

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    52 mins
  • #6 - Mechanisms, Strategies, and Horror Movies
    Oct 29 2020

    Seigen and Spencer recorded episode six of Board Games Are Fun live! We had some great interaction with the audience. In this episode, we discuss some recent plays, our favorite board game mechanisms, how we strategize when playing news games, and which horror movies we’d like to see adapted in a board game!

    Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/heylightenup

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    56 mins