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Board Game Brunch: Back and Saving Our Oceans

After a short hiatus, Board Game Brunch is back. This week we’re exploring one of our GenCon2022 impulse buys. Conesy and I try to control the oil spill, rescue marine animals, and enjoy some ocean inspired treats.

The Game…The Spill

The Spill, By Smirk and Laughter has you cooperatively trying to contain an oil spill, remove oil from the ocean, and rescue marine animals.

Reminiscent of Pandemic by ZMan Games, The Spill, has each player performing the role of a different specialist with unique abilities to aide in the ultimate goal. Even with a limited amount of action points per turn, the game can lull you into a false sense of competency, until the oil spill starts spiraling out of control. This is aided by the randomness of the dice drop before each turn.

This game was an impulse buy at GenGon 2022 for us. We enjoy playing cooperative games as a couple and and this one caught our eye with the oil rig dice tower and colorful marine animals. Initially, I was not expecting much from it, but a fun, medium weight game to pull out occasionally. Well, I have now played it 5 times in just under 2 weeks. I’ve only won twice, but the losses have not kept me from wanting to try again. Next game I plan to crank up the win conditions to the hard level.

The Food…Ocean Inspired Treats

Brunch consisted of various snack like foods with inspiration from multiple websites. We had banana dolphins playing in a sea of blue gelatin. An orang octopus surrounded by krispy treat star fish covered in oil (chocolate0 and sand (crushed graham crackers). We also enjoyed some fish swimming near the beach (pudding with gummy fish). And of course, a cup of oil (coffee) to wash it all down!

And Beyond…

Looking for other Board Game Brunch Games and Food Parings? Check them out here: https://wiscodice.com/category/games/board-games/board-game-brunch/. Have a game or food you would like to see paired for an upcoming Board Game Brunch? Let us know via social media.

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Board Game Brunch: Turning the World Upside Down

Chronicles of Crime: Welcome to Redview Game box and Pineapple Upside Down Cake
Game Box and Cake

This week’s Board Game Brunch features Consey and Suzanne working together to solve a mystery in small town Redview. We paired Chronicles of Crime: Welcome to Redview and a pineapple upside down cake.

Board Game Brunch: WiscoDice Ain’t Afraid of No Ghosts

Image is of the box art for Ghostbusters Board Game, the burnt Stay Puff Marshmallow Man, and a Plate with the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man, Strawberries, and Twinkies with green slime
Board Game Brunch: Image is of the box art for Ghostbusters Board Game, the burnt Stay Puff Marshmallow Man, and a Plate with the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man, Strawberries, and Twinkies with green slime

For today’s Board Game Brunch we played Ghostbusters published by Cryptozoic Entertainment for Board Game Brunch. This cooperative game is based on the 1984 film. Ghostbusters is a great game for fans of the movie, you play as one of the Ghostbusters. With each Ghostbuster having unique abilities and ghosts springing up at you, the movie feel definitely comes through.

Board Game Brunch: Ghostbusters Game Set-up
Board Game Brunch: Ghostbusters Game Set-up

Our scenario objective was to trap the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man. All four characters needed to contribute to corralling him. Towards the end, tt got a little tricky as our actions were limited while we were covered in so much slime. Nonetheless the Ghostbusters prevailed and sent the Stay Puff Marshmallow man away.

Stay Puff Marshmallow Man in Ghostbusters Game
Stay Puff Marshmallow Man in Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters Game Play

Not the healthiest brunch, but a fun one. Egon used the Twinkie in an analogy to explain how extreme the current psychokinetic energy (PKE) levels were during the first Gozer incident. So, of course, that has to be included. Additionally, to commemorate our defeat of the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man, we roasted him over fire.

Image is of Twinkie, Stay Puff Marshmallow Man, and strawberries
Board Game Brunch: Twinkie, Stay Puff Marshmallow Man, and strawberries
Image of Burnt Stay Puff Marshmallow Man
Board Game Brunch: Burnt Stay Puff Marshmallow Man
Image is of Twinkies, roasted marshmallows, and strawberries
Board Game Brunch: Twinkie and Roasted Marshmallows

Looking for other Board Game Brunch Games and Food Parings? Check them out here: https://wiscodice.com/category/games/board-games/board-game-brunch/. Have a game or food you would like paired for an upcoming Board Game Brunch? Let us know via social media.

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