It’s time once again to play TL;DR, the game of hasty summaries and reckless connections where two teams battle against the clock, each other, and a sometimes surprising paucity of pop culture knowledge. Will anyone ever get those elusive bonus points? The answer will shock you! Antony Johnston with Aleen Simms, Brian Hamilton, Tony Sindelar and Kelly Guimont.
We didn’t get to play Random Pursuit at the Gallifrey One convention this year, so we got the group behind last year’s wacky installment back together virtually to play again. Will Liz go for the Prosecco? Did Deb get enough cheese and crackers? Is Jason cheating at dice? Your definition of “geography” will be changed forever! Erika Ensign with Steve Lutz, Steven Schapansky, Deborah Stanish, Lizbeth Myles, Jason Snell and Chip Sudderth.
Welcome back to “Inconceivable!”, the show that tests two teams’ knowledge of the nerdy, the useless, and the obscure. We’ve returned to quiz our panelists on a variety of topics, including books of chronological conveyance, a panoply of people with personas, and a slew of slapped-together sci-fi and spy stories of the screen. The “J Team”—James Thomson, Jean MacDonald, and Jason Snell—match wits against the “People with E in Their Last Names Team”—Annette Wierstra, Monty Ashley, Erika Ensign. D...
Once more unto the breach, dear elflock, and raise the chirogymnast! Steve Lutz is back with more stupid real words and the even stupider fake definitions supplied by a bunch of confused panelists. And it’s almost baseball season, so the host is also probably drunk. Steve Lutz with Kathy Campbell, Brian Hamilton, Kelly Guimont, Tiff Arment and Annette Wierstra.
It’s time to try out a new game show; one we only just invented, and have never played before! Antony Johnston leads the charge into the unknown as we play a game of hasty summaries and reckless connections. Antony Johnston with Kelly Guimont, Annette Wierstra, Dan Moren and Kathy Campbell.
Perhaps it’s just his British charm? Perhaps it’s the rolled Rs? Somehow, Antony Johnston has once again convinced a group of North Americans to answer questions from a decades-old UK 20th Anniversary Edition of Trivial Pursuit, leading them into a sick world of cricket and boy bands. Who will hit it off the pitch for six? (Did we do that right?) Antony Johnston with Erika Ensign, Steven Schapansky, Jean MacDonald, Steve Lutz and Kathy Campbell.
Welcome back to “Inconceivable!”, the show that tests two teams’ knowledge of the nerdy, the useless, and the obscure. After a long hiatus, we’ve assembled two teams to match wits when it comes to the first lines of well known books, decipher the origins of monstrous creatures, and identify some movies where a letter has gone missing. Quinn Rose, Scott McNulty, and Jean MacDonald face off against Brian Hamilton, Kelly Guimont, and Steve Lutz. Dan Moren and Lex Friedman with Quinn Rose, Scott McN...
Scheming elves, desperate reindeer, and strung-out misfit toys—what could this be? Why, it’s a very special Christmas-themed game of Fiasco! We bring disaster and misfortune straight to the North Pole for your delight and amusement. Tony Sindelar with Brian Hamilton, Dan Moren, Kathy Campbell, Kelly Guimont, Monty Ashley and Scott McNulty.
Deck the halls and pour the egg nog, it’s time for the return of a vaguely Christmas-themed episode of Low Definition, a game where players come up with inane definitions of ridiculous words. Plus there are diversions into cultural Christmas traditions, Hallmark TV movies, and unusual Christmas Carols. Steve Lutz with Tiff Arment, Jean MacDonald, Brian Hamilton, Allison Truj, Jason Snell and Chip Sudderth.
For our 100th episode spectacular, Kathy Campbell hosts a gigantic panel of players as we play mini versions of numerous Incomparable Game Show games, from Low Definition to Random Pursuit to Feuding Families to Inconceivable and beyond. Kathy Campbell with Tiff Arment, Steve Lutz, Monty Ashley, Allison Truj, Kelly Guimont, Jean MacDonald, Joe Rosensteel, David J. Loehr, Dan Moren, Brian Hamilton and Chip Sudderth.
Break out your utility belt, dust off your high school bookshelf, and step into the nearest available time machine, because we’re one episode short of the big Game Show 100th Episode Spectacular! To fill the time, let’s play one more round of Feuding Families, the game where our panelists try to guess your ridiculous answers to our stupid questions! Jason Snell with Chip Sudderth, Cicero Holmes, Brian Hamilton, Aleen Simms, Kathy Campbell and Monty Ashley.
The trivia questions are random, the topics even more random, and yet the players keep coming back for more punishment! It’s the return of Random Pursuit, where it turns out that fandom is great, but trivia boxes designed to serve fandom are not. Not at all. Erika Ensign with Antony Johnston, Jean MacDonald, Kelly Guimont, Monty Ashley, Steve Lutz and Steven Schapansky.
If a train leaves from Montreal at five past the hour, how many cats will catch 100 mice in the barber shop? It’s time for Mindtrap, a game of brain teasers, puzzles, and atrocious puns. Brian Hamilton with Tony Sindelar, Jean MacDonald, Dan Moren, Kathy Campbell, Marisa McClellan and Scott McNulty.
We’re back with even more randomly selected trivia questions from even more random editions of Trivial Pursuit! Star Wars! Doctor Who! Religion questions for kids! No subject is too obscure, and no question is too easy. Erika Ensign with Annette Wierstra, Dan Moren, Deborah Stanish, Kat Griffiths, Scott McNulty and Steven Schapansky.
You stand among the ruins of the once-glorious Action Castle (castle castle castle). All that’s left is this courtyard, a lonely tower, and a few crumbling walls. A rickety wooden stairway leads up to the tower. A dark stairwell descends to the dungeon. Exits are: UP, DOWN, and WEST. Tony Sindelar with Dan Moren, Jason Snell, Aleen Simms, Kathy Campbell, Steve Lutz and Monty Ashley.
Time for another Fiasco! This time our collaborative storytelling game goes to a research station in Antarctica, where there are penguins and broken relationships and illegal medications, as you might expect. Tony Sindelar with Erika Ensign, Brian Hamilton, Dan Moren and Kathy Campbell.
Welcome back to “Inconceivable!”, the show that tests two teams’ knowledge of the nerdy, the useless, and the obscure. For this episode, recorded live at the World Science Fiction Convention in San Jose, CA, it’s a North American face-off, as Team USA takes on Team Canada. The panelists must identify fictional foods, figure out what character a group of actors have in common, and play a little game of musical mash-ups. Helene Wecker, Adam Rakunas, and Navah Wolfe represent the U.S. while Warren ...
It’s time once again for Low Definition, a game show featuring a panel of guests trying to guess the definitions of dumb words. In this episode we borrow a book from a Little Free Library, go to see an American movie in Italy, and try to figure out nerds. Steve Lutz with Brian Hamilton, Chip Sudderth, Kathy Campbell, Tiff Arment, Monty Ashley and Adal Rifai.
Cruel Brit Antony Johnston uses nostalgia-filled trivia meant for nostalgic UK players to confuse a collection of non-nostalgic North Americans. Antony Johnston with Erika Ensign, Steven Schapansky, Steve Lutz, Jason Snell and Dan Moren.
Welcome back to “Inconceivable!”, the show that tests two teams’ knowledge of the nerdy, the useless, and the obscure. It’s a nail biter this time around, as our panelists try to identify movies of the NATO alphabet, attempt to determine which items come next in mysterious sequences, and decipher mashups of movies and…stores? Shannon Sudderth, Justin Michael, and Kathy Campbell tee off against rivals Antony Johnston, Aleen Simms, and Steve Lutz. Dan Moren and Lex Friedman with Shannon Sudderth, ...
Inside a clerk’s office in a hotel in the old west town of Boomtown comes a story so dramatic and confusing that it must have been made up on the spot. Join host Tony Sindelar as he guides four players through a tale of greed, betrayal, and weird old-timey accents in the improvisational game Fiasco. Tony Sindelar with Mikah Sargent, Aleen Simms, Glenn Fleishman and Monty Ashley.
We return with yet more stupid guesses about your stupid answers to our stupid questions! Two “families” of Incomparable panelists compete for glory and adulation, and also something about Cool Cat. Jason Snell with Brian Hamilton, Dan Moren, David J. Loehr, Erika Ensign, Jean MacDonald, Tiff Arment, Mikah Sargent and Steve Lutz.
Based on a survey of Incomparable listeners, it’s time once again for a battle between two “families” of podcast panelists, who will attempt to guess the strange answers our listeners gave to innocuous questions! Along the way we’ll build a hamburger, discover monsters, and ponder the mysteries of Benedict Cumberbatch. (Kathy had the baby the next day. She has returned to Team Pacific Northwest.) Jason Snell with Glenn Fleishman, Kelly Guimont, Monty Ashley, Aleen Simms, Shannon Sudderth, Tony S...
On this episode, we play the new game, You Think You Know Me, created by Ami Baio, a card game in which you win by knowing facts and beliefs of the people with whom you’re playing. If Cards Against Humanity is “a party game for horrible people,” You Think You Know Me is somewhere on the other end of the scale. This trans-Atlantic episode features notable cultural confusion, accidental personal insights, and discussions of mortality! Hilarity, as they say, ensues. Glenn Fleishman with Antony John...
Welcome back to “Inconceivable!”, the show that tests two teams’ knowledge of the nerdy, the useless, and the obscure. Smug and acrimonious are the watchwords in this installment, as our two teams butt heads while trying to figure out the difference between medieval weaponry and dairy products, identify Star Trek movie scores, and expand some tricky abbreviations. Mikah Sargent, Alyssa Franke, and Chip Sudderth team up to take on Kelly Guimont, Brian Hamilton, and Liz Myles for bragging rights. ...
We return to the game of strange words, stranger idioms, and the strangest mixed drinks of all time! This time we dip our toe into international waters, with three European guests who join us in being flummoxed by the English language. But it turns out that the strangest thing about Low Definition may be the listeners themselves… Steve Lutz with Anže Tomić, James Thomson, Lizbeth Myles, Brian Hamilton, Jason Snell and Monty Ashley.
Welcome back to “Inconceivable!”, the show that tests two teams’ knowledge of the nerdy, the useless, and the obscure. Recorded in front of a live audience at Emerald City Comicon 2018! Warning: This episode contains explicit language. Two teams of all-star authors face off for our second-annual ECCC show. They’ll have to tell us the difference between everything from medieval weapons to astronomical phenomena, figure out famous books with letters missing from the end and, oh yes, we made them s...
It’s a text-adventure journey into horror, as our human players enter the mental hospital in search of the truth about their sister. They’d better tell the computer to SAVE GAME every now and then. You never know what might happen… Tony Sindelar with Aleen Simms, Justin Michael, Monty Ashley, Steve Lutz, Brian Hamilton and Dan Moren.
Look, not every Game Show features a bunch of us in a room in person drinking alcohol and answering trivia questions. But this episode, recorded live in Los Angeles at the Gallifrey One convention, absolutely does. The explicit box has been checked, so go to bed, Glenn’s kids, as Erika Ensign asks us trivia questions from a randomly shuffled set of cards from a dozen different Trivial Pursuit games. Erika Ensign with Deborah Stanish, Steven Schapansky, Chip Sudderth, Shannon Sudderth, Lizbeth My...
And again we cross the pond to Jolly Old Blighty, where Antony Johnston will confuse and confound a collection of North Americans with questions about the United Kingdom in the 1980s. From Andrew Ridgeley’s bandmate to old BBC sitcoms, we have literally no idea what Antony is on about. Antony Johnston with Aleen Simms, Erika Ensign, Glenn Fleishman, Kathy Campbell and Jason Snell.
