Welcome to the long-awaited podcast all about the UKGE 2024 (NEC). Joel, Nick, Lewis, and Sam go through the thoughts and stories from the event this year and give you their opinions on whether it was the best it has ever been.

• • Meeples™ Choice Awards winners announced – Nucleum, Earth, Sky Team, White Castle (and runners up: Darwin’s Journey, Forest Shuffle, Faraway, Age of Innovation, Great Western Trail: New Zealand, Apiary, and Hooky)
  • Attendance figures (as mentioned the last pod): 39,306 unique; 65,281 total attendance.
  • UKGE Judges Awards / UKGE People’s Choice Awards £18,000 raised for charity at UKGE 2024

• General chat about the event: Tickets, Bring & Buy, Met Craig v87 from our Discord server, live shows Knightmare Live show, The Dark Room, see news games coming: Alley Cat Games’ new games coming, Ada’s Dream, Luthier, WTIIA live show
• Lewis’s Family Day at UKGE: Family Zone, Getting some family games, Hunting down them bargains, New Diamant: £12, Lost Ruins of Arnak: £40, One big punt…One regret
• Joel’s show reviewed:
  • pickups: Zuuli promo (buy), Forest Shuffle: Alpine,Medici, Age of Comics
  • Claire buying game: Return to Dark Tower
  • Played: Sea Salt & Paper, Marvel Remix, Looot!
  • Demos: Invincible the board game, Hamlet , Rebirth, To Glory! gimmick, Heat: Heavy Rain 2nd expansion, HeroScape, Towers of Ra!, Monsters of Loch Lomond, Windmill Valley, Deep Regrets,