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Tonight on NPI - 2+ hours of board game coverage. If you want to find out what games are worth looking at from Essen Spiel - we have you covered.
video thumbnail featuring Elaine and Efka on the sides of a very big pile of board games
November 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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that picture of a trashed street in front of the Arndale with police, drunkards and other insalubrious personae strewn about like reeds after a hurricane
November 6, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Hi, I hate doing self promo so I'll just say that this indie board game coverage channel that could is about to hit a milestone of sorts.

There is no skeet that can summarize who we are or what we do, but we do cool work and you should check us out. www.youtube.com/@NoPunIncluded
Screenshot of text. It reads: Current subscribers 99,777
November 5, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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This summer I went back home for the first time in nine years and sometimes I keep wondering why it takes me so long to go back.
a clipper ship docked in a river. the sails are translucent and you can see the clouds through them. it looks like a beautiful sunny day. the ship's name is Meridianas
November 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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help my ears
Eugene Hutz of Gogol Bordello, on stage, holding a mic mid song.
October 31, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Anyway, this was game of the con
October 26, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Please, I know I'm not allowed to do something, but wot? 😭
A red circle sign saying don't do this, and it's depicting a chairtaur, unholy union of man and chair, holding a stick above his head.
October 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Ah, a podcast you say? In my younger days, I too listened to podcasts. One of them was even about board games.

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October 17, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Why does the new version of No Thanks look like the cyber truck?
A card from the new version of No Thanks. The background colour is shiny silver, and the colour of the number is slime green. The tokens on the card are pepto-bismol coloured smily faces
October 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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new feature on youtube, you can now serve multiple title and thumbnail combinations simultaneously to see which fares better.

personally, i'm glad that youtube is giving us the ability to dismantle the death of the author because now the author can crawl out of the grave and change the thumbnail
the upload screen on youtube for a new video. the title bar now has a button called A/B Testing the A/B Testing function in detail. it has options for three titles, and toggles for setting "title only" "thumbnail only" and "title and thumbnail"
October 13, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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a podcast? about board games??? what will they think of next!
October 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Vantage is a perfect game. Naturally, I had to find problems with it.
thumbnail for a video review of a board game called Vantage. It features the game box, me looming from the side of it. the caption reads NO* NOTES and then in a smaller font *some
October 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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okay boomer
a screenshot of a video on youtube from Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell. the title is AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel and it has 3.9 million, I REPEAT, million views in 21 hours geeeeeeez
October 8, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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tomorrow, 5pm BST tune in to No Pun Included
thumbnail for our next video, featuring me in a yellow shirt and cap. next to me is a board game called Vantage
October 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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sorry folks, not gonna do board game reviews no more - pivoting hard to motivational speaking
me, next to an A0 chart of Maslow's hierarchy of needs
October 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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direct quote
Speaking to this paper, Polanski said that the party’s next leader needs to be “bolder” in its approach to policy, beginning with a plan for the UK to withdraw from its longstanding military alliance inside NATO.
October 4, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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fuck you, bot buddy
The frontrunner to become the next leader of the Green Party of England and Wales has called on his party to abandon its commitment to the UK remaining in its military alliance with America and other European nations, telling Byline Times that Donald Trump’s presidency means that “the age of NATO is now over”. Current Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer announced her intention on Thursday not to stand in the upcoming contest, after her current deputy Zack Polanski announced his own intention to stand earlier this week. Speaking to this paper, Polanski said that the party’s next leader needs to be “bolder” in its approach to policy, beginning with a plan for the UK to withdraw from its longstanding military alliance inside NATO.
October 4, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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so close
screenshot of an email Title: Article Idea: Hive Dive from Adam C (full name and email address redacted) The email starts: Hello Space Biff,
October 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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this is where I fell from my chair
A modern gamer would have glanced at this, and basically ran away. Except, in their terorr, they’ll have missed a key thing. Look at the top right. “Broadsword.”
September 30, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Crediting a developer on the box but neglecting to credit the artist in the same location is an active decision and I think it's very NOT cool.
Screenshot of the back of the box of Magical Athlete. It lists player count, play time, ages, logo, QR code for the tutorial video, etc. It credits the designer as Takashi Ishida and states that it was updated by Richard Garfield
September 26, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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reporting this for making me want it too much
screenshot of the Slay the Spire: The Board Game: Downfall kickstarter campaign announcement on the website kickstarter.com with a button below that says "Report this project to Kickstarter"
September 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Read Iain Banks, they said. He's a master of sci-fi they said.
extract from a book: "He had mistaken the giant for a pyramid of golden sand the previous day, when he had seen the litter and its huge burden from the CAT's shuttle. Now he could see that his first impression had been close in shape if not in substance. Whether the vast cone of human flesh belonged to a male or a female Horza couldn't tell; great mammary-like folds of naked flesh spilled from the creature's upper and middle chest, but they drooped over even more enormous waves of nude, hairless torso-fat, which lay partly cradled in the vast beefs of the giant's akimboed legs and partly overflowing those to droop into the canvas surface of the litter. Horza could see no stitch of clothing on the monster, but no trace of genitals either; whatever they were, they were quite buried under rolls of golden-brown flesh. Horza looked up to the head. Rising from a thick cone of neck, gazing out over concentric ramparts of chins, a bald dome of puffy flesh contained a limp and rambling length of pale lips, a small button nose, and slits where eyes must be. The head sat on its layers of neck, shoulder and chest fat like a great golden bell on top of a many-decked temple. The sweat-glistened giant suddenly moved its hands, rolling them round on the end of the bloated fat-bound balloons of its arms, until the merely chubby fingers met and clasped as tightly as their size would allow. As the mouth opened to..." extract cuts off here
September 14, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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I guess we do have some pull, huh? Although, honestly, this brings more questions about what is even BGG's audience if a second rate board game youtube channel can punch a game up that high?
The Hotness tab on BGG, featuring the Old King's Crown - a game we recently covered - in second place.
September 13, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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This is how I signal the start of the weekend
September 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Or if not a play, then at least an ogle of all that wonderful art. I already want a spinoff where boss baby and owl team up to solve murders.
a card from the old king's crown. the artwork on it displays an uncomfortable but intriguing combination of owl and human, with headlight eyes a card from the game, it features a child king that wears an absurd crown, thrice larger than his head, which it partly subsumes.
September 12, 2025 at 8:43 AM