Spit

SpitSay it, don’t spray it! Tonight, we attempt to play the classic card game, Spit. It turns out there are a ton of variations to playing this game, so if you have any tips for us, let us know! We also discuss Thanksgiving, Black Friday & Pie Party.

Congratulations to our Codigo Cube contest winners Tim & Jon!

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Doodlebops Get On The Bus Board Game

This week’s game is based on a Canadian children’s television show and cost a whopping penny. It’s called Doodlebops Get on the Bus Board Game.

Things we talk about this episode include: Brian’s special Amazon wish list just for Curtis, the new Kindle Fire, Rerun Reintroductions and the Foul Monkeys upcoming 400th episode.

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Coffee Talk

Coffee Talk is a game that has very little to do with coffee but is much more about talking. While playing the game, our conversation turns to the All Souls Procession in Tucson, meeting the lovely Nessa from the Hello Nessa podcast and the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.

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Codigo Cube

It’s trivia night here on Game Night Guys. Tonight we play a game called Codigo Cube. It’s a QR coded die that uses an app on a smartphone to give you trivia questions and keep score. Nifty, right?

Big thanks to Todd at Four Clowns Game and Toy Company in Scottsdale, Arizona for sending us this game to play. Learn more about Codigo Cube at codigocube.com.

Win a Codigo Cube by either leaving a comment on this blog post or retweeting this tweet.

One entry per person. Deadline to enter is November 25, 2011.

We also give shout outs to a few podcasts: Linoleum Knife, Live It Up!, and The Satyrsphere.

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Dominoes

Kandi, who was on the show when we played Left Center Right, returns to school us in the ancient tile game, Dominoes, otherwise known as Bones. Also, we get a recap of her recent nuptials to Kristin, Curtis tells us about his brief stint as a movie extra and Brian shares what’s not so great about having a birthday right before the school year starts.

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Quiddler

This week we play a game that combines the word play of Scrabble and card play of Gin Rummy. It’s a fun short word game called Quiddler.

Sadly, Mike won’t be joining us regularly for game nights so he can focus on some other projects he’s working on. You can keep in touch with Mike on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube (just look for MrMikeLawson) and his blog WhatSomeWouldCallLies.com.

Joining Game Night Guys is our friend and frequent guest Curtis. Things we discuss this week include Curtis’s new PS3, Brian’s trip to the Phoenix Food Truck Festival, and his friend Korina’s all-natural ice pop cart, Frufrupops.

We also dis Morgan Freeman.

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Backgammon

BackgammonEveryone has heard of Backgammon but has anyone ever played it? Tonight we tackle this staple game found in multi-in-one game sets. We also talk about strippers we’ve seen recently. No, really.

Also this week, Mike gives a shout out to a new favorite podcast. Be sure to check out I Can’t Believe I’m a Loser at icantbelieveimaloser.com and on iTunes.

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Carcassonne

Listeners Amy & Greg from New Zealand sent us one of their favorite games to play. Carcassonne is a clever tile-laying game that builds cities, roads and monasteries in the South of France.

Things we discuss include Mike’s recent adventures in manscaping, Brian seeing The Weepies in concert and we coin a new term that rhymes with Hoister Duck.

Big thanks to Amy & Greg for sending us this game to play. We really appreciate it.

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GLBT Grand Prix

This week’s show was recorded LIVE as a part of the Pride 48 Podcast Marathon. For this special show, we invited our friends Jon & Paul from Secretly Timid to play a game we made up about gay pop culture and current events we call the GLBT Grand Prix!

Big thanks Jon & Paul for joining us early on a Sunday to record. Listen to Secretly Timid at secretlytimid.com or on iTunes.

Also, thanks to everyone who was in the Pride 48 chat room during our broadcast, including Romo from Pod Cubs’ POV.

We want to give a shout-out to the fabulous LaLa Lauren for the Pride 48 show art.

Also a huge hat tip to the whole gang at Pride 48 for helping us get online and ready for the event. Be sure to check out the Pride 48 shows for some great GLBT and GLBT-friendly podcasts on pride48.com.

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Listen to Game Night Guys Live!

As we mentioned in our last episode, we are going to be broadcasting LIVE this weekend as a part of the Pride 48 Podcast Marathon.

Pride 48 is a community of GLBT & GLBT-friendly podcasts and podcast listeners. The live shows will be streamed on pride48.com starting Friday, September 16th through Sunday, September 18th.

Game Night Guys will be streaming live on Sunday, September 18th at 11 AM EDT / 8 AM PDT & Arizona Time.

We will be joined by very special guests, Jon & Paul from one of our favorite podcasts, Secretly Timid.

For more info and find out how you can listen, go to pride48.com.

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