Steve: Okay, quick four-word plot to start us off. Which board game is this? Tiny houses earn money.
Lovella: Oh, that's gotta be Monopoly.
Steve: Correct. Collect $200.
Lovella: Welcome to Kids vs. Parents. This is the trivia podcast where there are four questions for the kids and four tougher ones for the parents.
Lovella: I'm Lovella.
Steve: And I'm Steve.
Steve: Today, we are playing Four Word Plot, and our theme is board games.
Steve: This episode was requested by Lovella.
Steve: Your sister, Bonnie, requested this, along with Laurel from New York, New York.
Lovella: Oh, thank you, Bonnie and Laurel.
Steve: That's right.
Lovella: This is very exciting.
Steve: So we play a lot of board games.
Steve: We do.
Steve: Family board games, so this will be a fun one.
Steve: We got a bunch.
Steve: Four Word Plot.
Steve: We're going to give you four cryptic clues that describe the gameplay or the plot of a board game,
Steve: and you have to guess which one it is.
Steve: All right.
Steve: What does the winner get today, Lovella?
Lovella: Today, the prize for the winner,
Lovella: they get to pick the next family board game.
Steve: Of course they do.
Steve: So they get family board game choice.
Steve: What will you pick if you win this?
Lovella: There's a lot of great options.
Lovella: I do like my Disney trivia board games
Lovella: or even like the What Do You Meme game or Monopoly.
Steve: Yeah.
Lovella: Some of the classic ones.
Steve: I am picking Monopoly, but we have a Muppets-themed Monopoly
Steve: that none of my kids ever want to play.
Steve: No, please.
Steve: So if I win this, we are playing Muppets Monopoly.
Steve: Yes.
Lovella: I better win this.
Steve: Before we get into the game, a little teaser for the end of the episode.
Steve: We've got an announcement to make about the rest of the month.
Steve: So stick around for that.
Steve: Stick around.
Steve: We've got something exciting to share.
Steve: It's pretty big.
Steve: That's right.
Steve: All right, who's going to go first then, Lovella?
Lovella: Today, it's going to be the parents.
Steve: Parents up first.
Steve: I love it.
Lovella: All right.
Lovella: Plot number one.
Lovella: Railroads unite distant empires.
Steve: Okay.
Steve: This is, um, what's the game?
Steve: It's the train game.
Steve: We have it.
Steve: What's it called?
Steve: Ah!
Steve: No, Ticket to Ride.
Steve: You are correct.
Steve: Ticket to Ride.
Steve: That is a fun, flamely game.
Steve: I like that one.
Lovella: I'm not a big fan of that one.
Lovella: You don't like that one?
Lovella: No, it's kind of boring.
Steve: Too much strategy for you?
Lovella: I like fun, you know.
Steve: It's just boring.
Steve: Trains are boring?
Lovella: Yeah.
Steve: And railroads?
Lovella: Whatever, whatever.
Steve: Okay, not a favorite.
Steve: I like that one.
Lovella: All right, plot number two.
Lovella: Naval secrecy meets probability.
Steve: Naval secrecy meets probability.
Steve: Oh, okay.
Steve: Naval, that's battleships.
Steve: That is.
Steve: Correct.
Steve: Yes.
Steve: Come on, you got to give me some harder ones.
Steve: I'm good with board games.
Steve: Keep them coming.
Lovella: Okay.
Lovella: All right.
Lovella: Plot number three.
Lovella: Negotiation determines global domination.
Steve: Negotiation determines global domination.
Lovella: Yeah.
Steve: Big words.
Steve: Is this Risk?
Steve: Is this Risk, the board game Risk?
Steve: I haven't played Risk before.
Steve: What was it again?
Lovella: Negotiation determines global domination.
Steve: Negotiation determines global domination.
Steve: I don't know.
Steve: I'm going to say Risk is my guess because I don't really know any other board games that are like this.
Lovella: That is correct.
Steve: Oh, yes.
Steve: Nice.
Steve: What?
Lovella: This is actually annoying.
Lovella: Okay.
Steve: I'm going for a clean sweeper.
Lovella: All right, here we go.
Lovella: Plot number four.
Lovella: Vocabulary becomes competitive warfares.
Steve: this is pretty simple yeah this is um scrabble correct yes nice one okay four out of four four
Steve: out of four. Clean sweep. Here we go. I would want to hope I know my board games. All right,
Steve: kids. It's your turn next. Get your dice. Here we go. All right, kids. Plot number one.
Steve: Last card causes panic.
Lovella: Last card causes panic.
Lovella: Oh, that's Uno.
Steve: Correct.
Steve: Yes.
Steve: Nice.
Steve: Well done.
Steve: All right.
Steve: You got this?
Steve: Okay.
Steve: Yeah.
Steve: Feeling good now?
Lovella: A little bit.
Steve: All right.
Steve: You're one on the board.
Lovella: All right.
Lovella: Here we go.
Lovella: Just give me the next question.
Steve: Just give me the next one?
Lovella: Just give me the next one.
Steve: All right.
Steve: Here we go.
Steve: Plot number two.
Steve: Fast chomping wins marbles.
Lovella: Fast Chomping Wins Marbles
Lovella: Oh, that's the hippo game
Lovella: It's called Hungry Hungry Hippos
Lovella: Correct
Lovella: Yes
Lovella: I loved playing that game
Lovella: I know
Lovella: That was so fun
Lovella: Wasn't that a fun game?
Lovella: You just got to smash like the thing
Lovella: And you're just trying to get all those like balls, marbles
Steve: You just take your hanger out on a hippo's tail
Steve: I love it
Steve: Just chomp chomp chomp chomp
Steve: I'm so angry at this hippo.
Steve: Eat more marbles.
Steve: Okay, moving on.
Steve: Moving on, yeah.
Steve: Okay, plot number three.
Steve: Guests solve mansion murder.
Lovella: I know this one.
Lovella: It's Clue.
Lovella: I love this game.
Steve: Yeah.
Lovella: It's so fun.
Steve: Did you know in Australia, I think it's called Cluedo?
Steve: Cluedo?
Steve: Cluedo.
Steve: Clue.
Steve: Cluedo.
Lovella: Cluedo.
Steve: I grew up calling it Cluedo.
Lovella: I love playing Cluedo.
Lovella: It's just so fun.
Steve: You're trying to figure out something before everyone else.
Steve: Yeah.
Lovella: Yeah.
Lovella: That's a great game.
Lovella: I love that one.
Steve: Mr. Green did it in the lounge room with the dagger.
Lovella: Yeah.
Steve: Yeah.
Steve: Who's your favorite character?
Lovella: Probably Miss Scarlet.
Steve: Oh, yeah.
Steve: Miss Scarlet.
Steve: Yeah.
Steve: She's a good one.
Lovella: Miss Scarlet.
Steve: I always like Mr. Green.
Lovella: In the dining room with the wrench.
Steve: Oh, goodness.
Steve: Dun, dun, dun.
Lovella: No, I usually win most of the clue games.
Steve: Do you?
Steve: I do.
Steve: That's why you like the game.
Lovella: Yeah, I like to win.
Steve: All right, plot number four.
Steve: Here we go.
Steve: Last one, Lovella.
Steve: You've got everything right so far, just like me.
Steve: I've got to try and stump you.
Steve: Okay.
Steve: Players guess hidden faces.
Lovella: oh that's an easy one guess who ah yes yes ah well done you get four as well so that's a clean
Steve: sweep which means tiebreaker time okay or it could be a bonus question in your car if you just need
Steve: to get a couple extra points we usually make the bonus question worth two points first team to buzz
Steve: in with the correct answer wins the points. Here we go. Lovella, do you want to read this one out?
Steve: Sure. Okay. Read out our bonus tiebreaker plot. Okay. Bonus tiebreaker plot.
Lovella: Steady hands. Avoid buzzing.
Steve: Buzz. Oh, yeah. That's, um. Yep. I know it. What is it, Lovella? I got it. Operation.
Lovella: Operation. Operation. I got that. You got it. Well done.
Steve: For a second, I was thinking it was Jenga, steady hands.
Steve: That's kind of where I went to immediately.
Lovella: But then when you hear avoid buzzing, you're like, oh, what a patient.
Steve: And then there's another game called Kaplunk, too, where you have to pull sticks out and marbles fall down.
Steve: I thought that was the other one that jumped into my head.
Steve: I played that game?
Steve: That's fun.
Steve: I like that one.
Steve: Because you have to be really slow and steady hands.
Lovella: Yeah, you have to be really careful.
Steve: But there's no buzzing.
Lovella: Well done.
Steve: You won it.
Steve: Good job.
Steve: Congratulations.
Steve: Oh, yeah.
Steve: That means you avoid Muppets Monopoly.
Steve: Ha ha.
Steve: Man, I'll have to play that another time.
Lovella: Or never.
Lovella: We're never playing that.
Steve: Oh, bummer.
Steve: Before we wrap up, we have a very important announcement.
Lovella: Next week, we start our Disney series.
Steve: That's right.
Steve: That means for the rest of the month, right?
Steve: The rest of the month of June, we are going to be doing Disney themed episodes.
Lovella: Yeah, we've got Disneyland trivia, Disney villains, Bluey, Disney TV shows, and maybe even Toy Story.
Steve: Because Toy Story comes out this month too.
Steve: I know.
Steve: How exciting.
Lovella: Yes.
Steve: so if your family loves Disney theme parks maybe maybe you love Disney villains or talking dogs
Steve: or talking toys either way there should be something for you in this next month I think
Lovella: personally that the kids are gonna like smash these episodes right kids come on you're probably
Steve: right except us parents we know probably more about Toy Story than you I feel like just because we
Steve: yeah most of us parents have you know we've been training for this since 1995 we've been
Steve: researching Toy Story since then.
Steve: So I think we've got that one.
Lovella: I don't think people have researched Toy Story.
Steve: Oh, yeah, they have.
Lovella: Okay.
Lovella: So if you're not already, follow the show
Lovella: so you can get ready for the happiest battle on Earth.
Lovella: That's right.
Lovella: We'll see you next week for Disney Month.
Lovella: Woo!
Lovella: Thanks for listening.
Lovella: Bye.