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Trumix.com listings available of The Spiel Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. The Spiel #64 - Vox Populi, Vox Ludorum The voice of the people is the voice of games. Populism rules the day. We pander to the Roman public for seats on the council in Municipium and follow up with Gridstones and Gubs, two titles by new and independent game designers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #63 - T For Two Volcanos and snake-haired gods. We build towers and temples on a fiery island in Taluva and guide ancient Etruscan oracles to a sacred altar in Tuchulcha, a wacky Parcheesi variant. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #62 - Killer Blimps Dirigibles by gaslight. We race to build the Hindenburg wiith dice playing Airships and take turns tracking down Jack the Ripper or plotting his escape in Mr. Jack. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #61 - GenCon 2008 - Part 2 Please, sir, may I have some more? The second half of our convention coverage features nine interviews about new games from the blasphemous to the sublime. We wander from ancient Rome and Troy to the gritty tech-noir streets of Murder City. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #60 - GenCon 2008 Spiel on! The greatest four days in gaming... right in our back yard. In addition to interviews and reports from the Spiel-a-thon, we invite three other Spielers to a round table discussion about the convention. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #59 - There and Back Again Mordor or bust! Each year we allow our listeners to program every segment of one show. This year's episode features an in-depth look at War of the Ring, a strategy board game pitting two players in a struggle to rewrite the history of Middle Earth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel - Scribbler #2 - My Favorite Pastime- Period! Crossword puzzle created by David Coleson. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #58 - Origins 2008 It's Convention season. That means we dive into the trade shows to bring you the latest. We have 15 interviews covering no less than 30 games! From party games to war games and everything in between, I bet there's a title that'll catch your attention. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #57 - Spiel des Schpiel 2008 - Part 2 I'd like to thank the Academy... Part 2 of our special Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year), coverage. We play all five nominees and try to predict the winner. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #56 - Spiel des Schpiel 2008 Envelope, please. In anticipation of the Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year), one of the most prestigious awards in the board game world, we play all five nominees and try to predict the winner. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #55.5 - When It Rains, It Pours Timber! A tree falls on our padded cel, so the next full episode will be in two weeks. We discuss our upcoming summer schedule, including the Spiel des Jahres spectacular, Origins, Gen Con, and Listener's Choice shows. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel - Scribbler #1 - BGG Top 50 A new feature for The Spiel! Print and play puzzles. First up, a word search. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #55 - Just For The Halibut Gone fishin'. The bait: wooden penguins and little rubber worms. We strike bargains with talking fish and dive under the ice looking for the big catch playing If Wishes Were Fishes and Hey! That's My Fish! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #54 - The Short List Eight quickies. Whether you need a game for a lunch break at work or to play with your kids for half an hour, it's good to have some filler games in your bag of tricks. We reach into our bag give you the scoop on eight titles, each reviewed in 5-7 minutes Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #53 - Reds & Feds Stand down from DEFCON 2! We rewrite history, replaying the Cold War not once, but twice in this superpower sized episode. We tackle Twilight Struggle and Cold War: CIA v KGB. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #52 - Noble Niblicks Break out your nine iron and flibberty-gibbets. The Spiel turns two! We take on Coppertwaddle a medieval card game with a rich (fake) history and we roll our way through Box of Golf in all its wooden splendour. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #51 - Take Me Out to Olympus Play ball! But forget the steroids; we've got Divine Intervention. Just in time for Spring Training, we play Pizza Box Baseball, a light card-driven simulation. Then we ascend to the heavens to protect four mythical races in Age of Gods. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #50 - It's In The Bag Much better than a pig in a poke. We reach into our bag of tricks and find two light but surprising little games: the abstract award-winning Qwirkle and the latest from German designer Freidemann Freise, Felix the Cat in the Sack. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #49 - Great Wall of Dice Barbarians at the gates? Get rolling! We build a small but great wall in Chang Cheng and use dice to hire advisors to protect His Majesty's realm in Kingsburg. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #48 - Worker Bees Roll up your sleeves. Time to get your hands dirty. We chop wood and cut stone to build Kingsbridge Catehdral in Pillars of the Earth and send our swarms out to surround Queen bees in the strategy classic Hive. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #47 - 26.2 (Marathon!) Not miles... hours! 24 of them. We set out to play games for 24 consecutive hours in order to get our unplayed list of games below 200. This episode was recorded as we played and documents the events of our day including session reports on a truckload of games both large and small. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #46 - Stoned Woah! Five games, five designers... all in one box. The stars align for us to play Stonehenge: The Anthology Board Game. We review all five games, each by a different renowned designer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #45 - Chicago Dogs & Duck Heads Holiday hodge-podge. Reports and interviews from CHITAG (Chicago Toy & Game Fair) plus a review of Piratenbillard, a game where players use duck headed mallets to pop cannon balls across a wooden grid. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #44 - Finger Flicking Good Crack your knuckles and loosen up. We knock heads and little plastic men in our first Subbuteo Table Soccer match and then twist our fingers into pretzels balancing little foam balls playing Handy. Arthritis here we come! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #43 - Unwrapped: 2007 Holiday Gift Guide Say no to lame gifts. Give a game instead. We recommend over 50 games in twelve different categories to fit almost any person or budget. With this great list, you might even make a wish list of your own! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #42 - Yo! Hemp Chicken Baby needs a new pair of shoes. We build a casino empire in Vegas Showdown and climb the long ladder from Hemp Chicken to Dragon in the modern card classic Tichu. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #41 - Boo! Everything's better with Zombies. From a shooting gallery with garlic grenades to our very own zombie baseball team, we shamble our way through Vampire and Zombie Fluxx, two games that include a festival of undeadly delights. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #40 - Board Game at the End of the Universe Don't Panic. But get comfortable. Grab a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster from the bar settle in for our take on Twilight Imperium, a game of galactic conquest whose play time could be measured in light years. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #39 - Changelings Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #38 - Valhalla or Bust! Y is for Yggdrasil. We load our longboats and set sail in search of adventure on the stormy North seas, playing Fire & Axe and Vikings. Surely, an episode worthy of the sagas! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #37 - Off The Map Cue the Indiana Jones music.We build routes for a very lazy London Passenger in On the Underground and globe trot from Cypress to Taiwan in 10 Days in Asia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #36 - Gen Con 2007 Part 2 This time it's personal! You've heard the interviews (well most of them!), now hear from us. We give our report on our event, the Spiel-a-thon, panel discussions, Dealer's room hits and misses, and a game book that is not to be missed! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #35 - Gen Con 2007 Part 1 Global geeks, global games. From Israeli brainteasers and Italian game publishers to carved dice from little Polish elves, part one of our convention coverage includes over a dozen interviews. Part Two will be released a week from today. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #35 - Gen Con 2007 Global geeks, global games. From Israeli brainteasers and Italian-American Game publishers to carved dice from little Polish elves, part one of our convention coverage includes over a dozen interviews. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #34 - Bullet Barons Click, Click, Boom! Our nerves of steel are put to the test playing Russian Roulette in Kablamo! and bidding for a coal powered empire in Industria. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #34 - Bullet Barons Click, Click, Boom! Our nerves of steel are put to the test playing Russian Roulette in Kablamo! and bidding for a coal powered empire in Industria. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #33 - Origins 2007 Wood burning, Richard Borg, and dismembered robots. We take an inside look at Origins International Game Expo. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #32 - Spiel des Schpiel And the winner is... We play all five games nominated for the Spiel des Jahres (German Game of the Year) and then we try to predict the winner! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #31 - Samurai Slum Lords Sayonara, squatters. We play Shogun and Landlord, proving that the best evictions often come at the end of a katana (or a tower full of little wooden cubes). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #29 - My Hacienda For A Vowel! Fire up those branding irons! There's livestock to round up and words to bluff or spell when we play Hacienda and Letterhead. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #30 - The Golden Hippo Skullduggery! Sometimes sneaky is better than strong. We fight over carcasses in Scavenger Hunt and pilfer treasure from lost tombs in Incan Gold. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #28 - Listener's Choice Turn the tables! We let you call the shots. From The List to The Game Sommelier, every segment in the show comes from listener suggestions and submissions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #27 - Diceversary The Spiel is one year old! To celebrate, we roll our way through two games with loads of dice: Battleground Fantasy Warfare, and To Court the King. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #27 - Diceversary The Spiel is one year old! To celebrate, we roll our way through two games with loads of dice: Battleground Fantasy Warfare, and To Court the King. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #26 - Machiavelli's Mullet Business in the front, party in the back. We plot and scheme to elect the Pope in The Prince, spaz out combining cornrows in Wig Out, and nibble our way from plankton to sharks in Chomp. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #26 - Machiavelli's Mullet Business in the front, party in the back. We plot and scheme to elect the Pope in The Prince, spaz out combining cornrows in Wig Out, and nibble our way from plankton to sharks in Chomp. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #25 - You Look Marbleous! Driven to abstraction. From archaeology to pachinko in less than two hours, we play Mykerinos and Marvin Marvel's Marvelous Marble Machine, two fast fun abstract strategy games. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #25 - You Look Marbleous! Driven to abstraction. From archaeology to pachinko in less than two hours, we play Mykerinos and Marvin Marvel's Marvelous Marble Machine, two fast fun abstract strategy games. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #24 - Sic Transit Gloria I didn't know Gloria was sick. Ancient Rome is crumbling as the Goths swarm down from the north. We play Senators racing to escape the Eternal City in Gloria Mundi, the first collaborative effort from James Ernest and Rio Grande Games. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #24 - Sic Transit Gloria I didn't know Gloria was sick. Ancient Rome is crumbling as the Goths swarm down from the north. We play Senators racing to escape the Eternal City in Gloria Mundi, the first collaborative effort from James Ernest and Rio Grande Games. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #23 - Tony Danza & Co. Cue the laugh track. We play Conquistadors in Pizarro & Co. and Capitalist pigs in I'm the Boss, two games that lead to big deals and big piles of cashola. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #23 - Tony Danza & Co. Cue the laugh track. We play Conquistadors in Pizarro & Co. and Capitalist pigs in I'm the Boss, two games that lead to big deals and big piles of cashola. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #23 - Tony Danza & Co. Cue the laugh track. We play Conquistadors in Pizarro & Co. and Capitalist pigs in I'm the Boss, two games that lead to big deals and big piles of cashola. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #22 - You Bet Your Asp Bet like an Egyptian. We get a good dose of corruption, cash, and deadly crocodile gods playing Wits&Wagers and Cleopatra&the Society of Architects. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #21 - Ewe Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry Lou Ferrigno, eat your heart out! It doesn't take gamma rays to make us see green, just two sets of horribly organized rules. We play Shear Panic and Marvel Heroes. One's a keeper, the other's a dud. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #18 - Wrap It Up 2006 Holiday Gift Guide A special holiday game gift guide! Over 50 game recommendations for gamers of all ages and games of all flavors. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #19 - Cold Fusion Recycle, reuse, replay! We warm up with a Mah Jongg variant called Forbidden and then tap into Power Grid, a game where garbage and wind can lead to vitctory. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #16 - In The Cards Shuffle up, and deal! We look back 400 years to play Scopa, a classic card game that feels modern and then play Parlay, the secret love-child of Scrabble and Poker. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #15 - Mmm... Brains! George Romero would be proud. First we hack our way through waves of the living dead in Zombies Widescreen Edition and then we play poker as zombies in Dead Money. Just remember to aim for the head! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #14 - Nosferatu Grab your garlic and wooden stakes, we take a trip through Transylvania to play Vampire Hunter and Dawn Under. Who says the undead are no fun? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #17 - I Coulda Been a Contenda! All class, no bums. We play two prize fighting games: Buccaneer and Aqua Romana, both runners up for the 2006 Spiel des Jahres, the German Game of the Year. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #13 - Expand-o-Matic But wait, there's more! Our first all expansion edition. We play cards with green haired punk hobbits in Blue Moon and take on a weather changing beaver in Spirits of Niagara. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #12 - Going Postal Strap on the mailbag and hitch up the wagon! We deliver our verdict on Thurn&Taxis, the 2006 Spiel de Jahres winner, and Big Top, a circus themed variant of a card game classic. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #11 - Gen Con Part 2 - Rio Grande A Rio Grande Games extravaganza! Listen for a play test report on five new games from Rio and then our interview with Jay Tummelson, the founder of the company and architect of the euro game revolution. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #10 - Gen Con Part 1 Nerd up! Put on your badges and head for the dealers room, we're going to give you a geek's eye view of Gen Con, the world's largest game convention. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #9 - Myth&Match Release the Kraken! We take an in-depth look at Mare Nostrum with the Mythology Expansion and go for a short cruise with Reiner Knizia's Loot. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #8 - Whodunnit?! Put on your Deerstalker and massage those grey cells, we dive into three mystery games: Inkognito, Mystery on the Nile, and 221 B Baker St. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #7 - Power to the Meeples! Serfs up! Get ready for guild power struggles and try to keep your farmers our of prison. We take on Flandern 1302 and Carcassonne: The Tower, two medieval themed games where the peasants, the meeples, take center stage. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #6 - Monkey Pirates Two bargains, one steal. From the high seas to ancient jungle temples, we fight our way through Tortuga and strike gold with Monkey Mission. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #5 - Renaissance Rockets We play our way from the past to the future, covering Klaus Teuber's Anno 1503 and Richard Garfield's Rocketville. Two great designers, but alas, only one great game. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #4 - Cheese Canister We circle the wagons to play Go West and then head for Sid Sackson's Bazaar. The title, you ask? Dave has a Lactaid moment discussing dice games. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #3 - Cry Havoc Let slip the dogs of war. We play a card game that combines an early Renaissance war with poker. Seriously. We're not kidding. We also play Clippers. Be glad it was us and not you! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #2 - King Me Crack open that bottle of Cabernet and pass the Camembert! We play and discuss Louis XIV, an influence based, tile-flipping game from Alea/Rio Grande Games. Truckloads of Goober makes its debut with Britannia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #1 - Second Pilot The original pilot for the Spiel was lost, so this is our fresh start! You'll find out who's behind the Spiel and why we're doing this. We discuss/review Trias&King of the Beasts, the two latest games off The List, our decade old challenge is to play down our ever-growing list of unplayed games. We also discuss new game releases, and introduce several new segments including the Backshelf Spotlight, Truckloads of Goober, and the Game Sommelier. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiel #20 - Lore &Ladders Chock full of goobery goodness! We click with Lexio, a Korean tile game with Chinese roots, and charge head long into Battle Lore, waging table top fantasy battles with hundreds of miniatures. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website