wil wheaton: when most peoplethink of a small world, they think of being on a boatsurrounded by creepy dolls who won't stop singing. but when gamers think of a smallworld, they imagine a fantasy-filled land full ofcrazy races with outrageous powers, where the world iscovered in blood as we battle to see who can take it overand win the game. today on tabletop, grantimahara, sean plott, and jenna busch are here as we visit myvery favorite small world.
[music playing] wil wheaton: small worldcombines the military strategy of risk with the delightfulart and fantasy races of cosmic encounter. whoever has the most pointsat the end of nine rounds wins the game. we earn points by conqueringand holding territories. empty territories costtwo units to conquer. every item in a territorycosts one
more unit to conquer. for example, one defender,that's three units. one mountain, that'salso three units. a mountain plus a defender,that's four units. at the beginning of every game,each player will choose a fantasy race, like orcs,elves, or the dwarves. each race is combined with aunique special power, like seafaring, flying, or heroic. these power and racecombinations change every
game, giving small worldtremendous replay value. no empire lasts forever, sodon't get too attached to your diplomatic skeletons. you will inevitably run outof units to conquer new territories. but don't worry. when that happens, you simplyput your active race into decline and choose a new onefrom the board and begin conquering all over again.
it's a very small world, andonly one person can be the victor atop the bloody,stinking heap of his vanquished opponents. who will that be tonight? we will soon find out,because it is time to play small world. grant imahara: my name is grantimahara, and i'm one of the hosts on discovery channel'smythbusters, where we basically blow things upin the name of science.
jenna busch: i'm jenna busch,and i am an online blogger. i do on-camera interviews. i interview celebrities andcover comic books, video games, tv, and film. sean plott: my real nameis sean plott. but on the internets i'mknown as day[9]. i'm mainly known because i dostarcraft ii commentary. jenna busch: yes. wil wheaton: you getto go first.
jenna busch: nice. all right. i wanted to be a sorcererbecause i usually play magic users. it's just a thing that i'vebeen doing since i started playing d&d. wil wheaton: ok. you want the hill sorcerers,so you pay one tax to the halflings.
sean plott: what? jenna busch: yeah. wil wheaton: then you takethe hill sorcerers. go ahead. grab them. those are for you. sean plott: god, i'm alreadyon [inaudible]. i wanted the hill sorcerersso bad. wil wheaton: you'regoing to get the--
so you choose a section of theboard that is on the edge of the board to come in. jenna busch: all right. i'm starting here. wil wheaton: coming inon the mountains. jenna busch: uh-huh. wil wheaton: so that'llbe three, right? jenna busch: mm-hm. wil wheaton: you putin one too many.
jenna busch: oh, i did. wil wheaton: there you go. there's three guys. wil wheaton: ok? jenna busch: hmm. there. well, no. wil wheaton: all right. so that's another three.
jenna busch: three. and you killed the lost tribes. oh, no. i love living in the forest. jenna busch: i'm murdery. grant imahara: theywere lost, anyway. wil wheaton: i know. wil wheaton: you'revery murdery. very murdery.
and then three there. hills. wil wheaton: and three thereto claim that hill. all right, so and we'llscore you up at the end of your turn. one, two, three points. sean plott: all right. straight up have myheart set on the wonderful alchemist giant.
i'm going to startlooping around. sean plott: this is my order. i'm going to eliminate theseguys momentarily. wil wheaton: that's two. sean plott: and this is wherethe gambling comes. sean plott: oh, wait. if i-- wil wheaton: you stilldon't have to gamble. you're good.
that's two. sean plott: and then-- wil wheaton: that's one. sean plott: --this is wherethe gamble comes in. wil wheaton: and here's yourreinforcement die. sean plott: i need-- oh, god,i need this so bad. wil wheaton: when sean's talkingabout gambling, what he means is on your very lastmove, you can roll this reinforcement die.
it has three blank faces andthe numbers one to three on the remaining three faces. and that tells you howmany mysterious reinforcement guys you get. so since he's trying to conquerthat mountain, that space is going tocost him three. he only has two guys. so if he rolls that die and getsa one, two, or three, he conquers the mountain.
so basically you havea 50% chance of conquering the mountain. conquer that mountain! grant imahara: feeling lucky? sean plott: now, the thing is ijust want to say, i could go here, but that doesn'tlet me [beep] gamble, which is theimportant thing. i understand. wil wheaton: kids,gambling is cool.
also, so is smoking. go ahead and roll your dieand see what happens. sean plott: oh! grant imahara: denied. sean plott: notice how littledots there are. grant imahara: yeah,that's terrible. sean plott: it looks[inaudible] so go ahead and takethat giant back. that lost tribesmen actuallydefends you.
off my land, giants. sean plott: and nowi redeploy. wil wheaton: and now yougo ahead and redeploy. so go ahead and count upyour points there. sean plott: one, two, three,four, five, six, seven, eight. grant imahara: eight. sean plott: fromthe alchemists. wil wheaton: dude,the alchemists. grant imahara: excellent.
good turn. here you go. so there's two 3s-- sean plott: [inaudible]. wil wheaton: --for sixand two ones for two. grant imahara: oh my god. wil wheaton: there you are. congratulations. sean plott: i'm nowaccumulating--
wil wheaton: and now, grant,it is your turn. let's see who you'regoing to be. you now can choosethe pillaging-- oh my god, the pillaging orcs! you don't want thepillaging orcs. they're terrible. terrible. grant imahara: because i knowthat wil wants it so bad-- wil wheaton: really?
grant imahara: --i mighthave to take it just to deny you that. wil wheaton: it's going tobe that kind of game. listen, imahara, if that's thekind of game you want to play, i will play that kind of game. oh, i will play thatkind of game. grant imahara: you'regood to go? you're good to go? wil wheaton: bring it.
grant imahara: all right. let's do it. ok. sean plott: so if you want tojust start here, that's very not here, then that's great. grant imahara: i know. you know, that's looking reallyattractive to me. i think i'm actually goingto go here because you're doubled up.
sean plott: yeah. yeah. for this turn. so i'll take this. wil wheaton: so you'recoming in there. grant imahara: plus one. wil wheaton: uh-huh. good. i regret nothing!
grant imahara: bye. i'll take two here. wil wheaton: tell mywife i love her! come to me, bonuses. fly to me. two to here. wil wheaton: i can't believei wasted time watching drive angry 3d. [laughter]
grant imahara: every time iconquer someone, i get one coin for the territory, one coinbecause i'm an orc, and another one becausei'm pillaging. wil wheaton: nice. grant imahara: bang. wil wheaton: congratulations,grant. well done. grant imahara: i'm rakingit in right now. wil wheaton: those of you athome who play this game are
going, why in the worlddo you have pandemic guys in this game? well, because we havea camera crew. so that you can enjoy this, wewant people to know where things are happeningon the board. so i think i'm goingto actually go for the wealthy dwarves. grant imahara: really? sean plott: really?
on turn one? wil wheaton: i'm goingto come in here. that's three, two for the space,one for the mountain. grant imahara: andyou get a mine. wil wheaton: so i started withwealthy dwarves because i get seven coins just forhaving them. but i knew that i would havevery little difficulty grabbing and holdinga couple of mines. and i can just leave thosedwarves there, and they're
paying me two coins a turn. i'm going to go ahead andscore and redeploy. i get two because there'sa mine there. i get, oh, three. i get four, five. i also get seven becausei'm wealthy. so i get 12 this turn. but the most importantthing is-- jenna busch: the voice.
wil wheaton: oh, but gimliwas my favorite. so they go away. jenna busch: who waswaiting for that? wil wheaton: and nowa little redeploy. [inaudible] there. so what did i say? did i say 12? i said 12, didn't i?
sean plott: that is sucha thinly-veiled brag. wil wheaton: math. sean plott: can i justdouble check that i got a 12-point turn? can you guys hold up as manyfingers as i have points? it might take two of you. grant imahara: wil reallyknows this game well. i think he might pullit out in the end. but we'll see.
jenna busch: wil isvery strategic. he's very calm. he's very helpful tonewbies like me. sean plott: i'm going to leantowards wil because he just seems to know not only all thegood strategies but also all the voices. wil wheaton: please, go ahead. conquer. sean plott: whatever youdo, no, no, no, no, no.
no, no. these are sorcererson the backside. jenna busch: yeah, don't messwith the sorcerers. sean plott: swamp? wil wheaton: that's goingto cost you three. sean plott: it's goingto cost you three. grant imahara: and what? wil wheaton: bam. grant imahara: at the moment,my wrath is focused on sean.
but that's just because he wasin the wrong place at the wrong time. sean plott: thisis a massacre. jenna busch: you look upset. sean plott: my strategy in thegame is try to avoid the fact that grant is a dick. wil wheaton: this isgoing to be ugly. grant imahara: gosh, that forestlooks awfully tempting. i'm hoping that beating up onhim early in the game is not
going to come aroundand backfire on me later in the game. sean plott: are you kidding? my next race is goingto start here. i'm just going tohollow you out. grant imahara: no! you're an orc and you'rerampaging. you got to do whatyou got to do. sorry, sean.
oh, well. two for that. wil wheaton: he's goingto play the pillaging roto-rooters in the next one. that's conquered. and one more. and then roll. sean plott: god, i hopeyou get a blank. wil wheaton: dice of blank.
jenna busch: diceof blank, sir. grant imahara: it's horrible. two or a-- sean plott: pleaseget a blank. oh god, i'll be sohappy, i'll die. wil wheaton: oh! sean plott: yes. wil wheaton: people who playsmall world a lot call this the dice of rolling blanks.
but just to show you, look,there's actual numbers on it. look, you see that, jessie? grant imahara: where? they only appear whenyou're not rolling-- grant imahara: --apparently. wil wheaton: you get two,four, five, six, seven points this turn. sean plott: wait. doesn't he get three forthese because he's
the pillaging orcs? jenna busch: are youhelping him? wil wheaton: yeah, iwas giving him two. oh, three! you're right. my bad. jenna busch: don't help him! sean plott: wait a minute. [beep]
you, grant. jenna busch: i think you'vebecome that guy. grant imahara: youare a sportsman. wil wheaton: so three, six-- grant imahara: damn myrules knowledge. sean plott: in defenseof the rules. grant imahara: and toprotect my borders. sean plott: my race could bethe pacifist children. i would send all ofthem your way.
next time i go into decline,which will happen because i'm awful, i'm goingto invade him. grant imahara: ooh. sean plott: he'll be pickingup his teeth like pokemon cards. i see you, drinkingyour diet coke. this is going to be supergamble mania 9,000. are you ready? sean plott: look,not this side.
wil wheaton: this is my-- sean plott: no. you just don't-- grant imahara: wait,do i see any mines? no. sean plott: it's going tobe gamble mania, sean. i'm like no, no, no, no. don't gamble. what?
these are my giants. wil wheaton: and now-- sean plott: ohh! jenna busch: there'sflailing happening. wil wheaton: yes! sean plott: he's going to stoprolling threes eventually. then i'm going to wreck him. wil wheaton: (singing)"we are the dwarves. we like to mine.
we get our gold, and we put itin our pocket." it's the song that the dwarves sing. grant imahara: youtook a beating. sean plott: i don't reallylike that song. grant imahara: yeah. and i'll just put this here soeverybody knows where my little guys did their thing. sean plott: well, i'lljust move this back. wil wheaton: and that willbe the end of my turn.
all right, jenna. wil wheaton: it is your turn. jenna busch: i did pretty wellnot attacking certain people, just saying. because everyone sortof left me alone. wil wheaton: welcometo round three! grant imahara: hey. jenna busch: and i'm goingto begin round three by-- wil wheaton: flipping a dwarf!
grant imahara: oh. sean plott: get him. get him. wil wheaton: flip the dwarf! good for you. good move. i was so focused on protectingmyself from sean's giants that i completely forgot to defendmyself against the sorcerers. nothing makes me happier thanseeing a new player come in
and just completely exploit atotal screw-up by a veteran. jenna busch: i try not to pickon weak people in real life. i like to beat up thereally tough guys. it's more fun. wil wheaton: it lookslike sean's putting the giants into decline. grant imahara: decline. sean plott: dude, theyhad their moments. wil wheaton: i thinkthat's a good move.
that's a super good move. sean plott: it's thequickest move ever. wil wheaton: yep. so you get four pointsthis turn. grant. it's time to go a'pillaging. sean plott: if you can goa'pillaging, like, that way. grant imahara: no. i think i'm going toleave that one--
sean plott: god bless you. grant imahara: --andtake this. wh--? wil wheaton: does thedie help grant? jenna busch: you did not. grant imahara: it jumpedup my arm. wil wheaton: wow. that was like, i'mgoing for it. i'm kissing him.
sean plott: ok. that's fine. wil wheaton: that countsbecause it was awesome. sean plott: dude, it'slike, blank, blank. who are we invading? sean? look, another three came up. isn't that funny? wil wheaton: did you dosomething horrible to like the
die maker's family? jenna busch: are you drawingpictures in the velvet? sean plott: i'm trying to do anunhappy face, but instead it looks like that boy who'sjust starting puberty and grows like a little bitof side mustache. grant imahara: what was that? sean plott: it's,like, so tragic. let's count up your points. sean plott: this is actuallyeither a simple
three from this way. wil wheaton: you give 3, 6, 7,8, 9, 10, 11 points to grant. sean plott: now there's the endgame victory condition. and there is the user definedvictory condition, which is invading grant from rightthere on my next race. grant imahara: that's right. the orcs are goingto go in decline. wil wheaton: thedeclining orcs? grant imahara: yes.
wil wheaton: they'vehad a great run. grant imahara: we did. we pillaged a lot. let's see. so we'll take thesetwo off the map. let me just say that everytime i come home and my roommates have tivoedmythbusters, i'm going to get red in the face and be like-- grant imahara: oh,that grant guy.
he pillaged me. right through the back door. sean plott: i can'tdo it direct. i have to be, like,passive-aggressive. i'll be like, it'snot real science. grant imahara: it'stv science. one, two, three, four, five,six, seven, eight. sean plott: these orcs aregoing to go into decline. wil wheaton: eightpoints for you.
sean plott: and then we're justgoing to blow them up. wil wheaton: duh, duh,duh, duh, duh. we're going to eat youfor first breakfast. ta, dah, da, dah. we're going to eat yourfor second breakfast. la, la, la, la, la. and for elevensies, we're goingto try to roll in here and see if we can get youwith the die roll. is that tilted?
oh my god. jenna busch: oh, it is. it is. wil wheaton: no, it's not. awesome in the pants. so let's see. that means that i gettwo, three, four-- sean plott: that's justa blow to humanity. wil wheaton: --five, six,seven, eight, nine
points for that turn. and that'll be theend of my turn. jenna, it's your turn. and you get to choosea new race. and also, welcome to roundsix, everyone. this round is not a number. it is a free man. jenna busch: you know whichone i'm picking, right? wil wheaton: whatare you taking?
jenna busch: dragon. sean plott: oh, youlove dragons. wil wheaton: where you going? jenna busch: i'm goingto go here. wil wheaton: one, ok. it normally would cost you two,but because it's adjacent to water, it onlycosts you one. jenna busch: i'm going to go-- jenna busch: --here.
wil wheaton: two. because there's a dude there. so put one more down there-- jenna busch: oh, right. wil wheaton: --forthe lost tribe. jenna busch: dude. grant imahara: got it. wil wheaton: but i love fishand things that have forks. so is this technically--?
wil wheaton: yes, thisis adjacent to water. yep. it sure is. grant imahara: i'm gettingpushed out of here. jenna busch: yep. wil wheaton: orc,orc, orc, orc. sean plott: that's what that'slike, pillaging orc grant. grant imahara: is thisthe payback i was-- jenna busch: mm-hmm.
i think-- grant imahara: you've just gota giant stack over there. jenna busch: i do. wil wheaton: she has a lot. this is going to be ahuge turn for her. orc, orc, orc, orc. sean plott: can you go, like,here and then here, in terms of conquering? wil wheaton: yeah.
as long as you're adjacent,you can attack. jenna busch: do it again. wil wheaton: orc, orc, orc,orc, orc, orc, orc. now how many dudesdo you have left? jenna busch: i have two. wil wheaton: ok now, if you'regoing to attack with your dragon, a dude has to accompanyyour dragon. he's the guy who keeps thedragon on a leash. jenna busch: oh.
oh. wil wheaton: and he's like,no, don't kill them. kill the hobbits over there. jenna busch: dragon wrangler. wil wheaton: so whatyou want to do-- i can't believe i'm goingto tell you this-- jenna busch: tell me this. wil wheaton: but you probablyjust want to take your dragon there and there.
because those areyour [inaudible] sean plott: i thinkshe bought it. wil wheaton: but listen, whatyou're trying to do is-- sean plott: got her. wil wheaton: she's not evenlistening to me that much. she's like, keep talking,wheaton. that's adorable thatyou said-- jenna busch: i'm justso psyched i got to play with a dragon.
wil wheaton: so now what happensis the hobbits get burninated. one of them goes intothe land of death. and i get to keep two of theones that are still alive. and i'm going to try-- sean plott: oh, sad timing. jenna busch: i shouldn't. you're on a roll. sean plott: come on!
come on! wil wheaton: so normally youwould need four there. wil wheaton: you need three. you have one, so you need toroll a two or a three. sean plott: come on. come on, three. jenna busch: oh my god. it hasn't worked for me yet. sean plott: hurt him.
grant imahara: oh! grant imahara: bye-bye. wil wheaton: [inaudible]the shire, samwise. you should have just ridden onthe eagles to take the rings back to mordor. why are you so stupid? ahh. now let's count your-- you had a sorcerer.
that's one. i don't think you have any moresorcerers on the board. jenna busch: no. that's it. wil wheaton: two, three, four,five, six, seven, eight. eight. eight points for jenna. jenna busch: whoo. grant imahara: big round.
jenna busch: why, thank you. wil wheaton: i believe the turnnow belongs to you, sir. sean plott: i'm gonna take it. go into decline. wil wheaton: you lose heroic. so heroic goes away. you're no longer heroic. but we'll put your ghoulsinto decline. but what's awesome about that isthat they still behave like
an active race. so go ahead and conquersome territories with your declined ghouls. sean plott: oh, i get todo that afterwards? that's why the ghoulsare badass. wait. you actually played ghoulsreally well. i thought you were beingsuper strategic. that's what you do.
sean plott: i superstratege-did-did. wil wheaton: you grab theghouls, you roll as quick as you can, and then you hop intodecline immediately. sean plott: and theni'm, like, done. sean plott: race numberthree en route. let's hear. who's coming in next? so you have a race in decline. you're going to attack me.
why would you do that? i can't believe-- grant imahara: i haven'tselected anything. sean plott: i can't believe it. hold on. i'm going to try to rollfor that back one. wil wheaton: roll forwhich one here? sean plott: for that forest. wil wheaton: for here?
go. you need to roll-- actually,you have a 50% chance of making it. sean plott: oh, god. that's so low for me. oh, god. grant imahara: come on. oh! you got it.
sean plott: i pulledwhat we call a college, the bare minimum. done. what. will i choose? i think it's going tobe swamp ratmen. wil wheaton: swamp ratmen. grant imahara: i shall beentering on the swamp. grant imahara: there you go.
that's right. i'll move over here. do it. wil wheaton: go next. go next. sean plott: you can't put thecapitals next to each other. this is like east and westgermany here, man. wil wheaton: oh, no. i'm a dead ghoul now.
life was good a minute ago. grant imahara: can my tworaces attack together? wil wheaton: no. you can attack one afteranother, but they can't all join up. it can't be like ghouls andthese other guys are friends. it sucks to be a ghoul. grant imahara: i needto march that way towards the other swamp.
so i will take you. wil wheaton: i've been actuallykeeping track in my head of score. and yeah, you're actually reallyfar ahead of everybody. you're the barefootkenyan guy. sean plott: with no arms. wil wheaton: at the [inaudible] marathon. grant imahara: i'm feeling verystrong at this moment.
i've got an early lead. i'm keeping it. wil wheaton: welcome, myfriends, to the last round of the game. jenna. wil wheaton: you have the honorof choosing a new race and doing what youwill with it. grant imahara: she'sgoing for amazon. wil wheaton: amazons.
jenna busch: i call themcrazy bitches. sean plott: this is likemy consolation prize for dead last. wil wheaton: ok, two. now roll again. i love this. grant imahara: wow. that's a really powerful-- grant imahara: oh my gosh.
so if you wanted to,oh i don't know, squash all those ratmen. grant imahara: oh, no. wil wheaton: it's likeyou're getting three. so you would normally haveto attack with four to get there, right? but you get to squashit for one. my ratmen are sittingducks out there. this is bad.
this is really bad. jenna busch: i'm going to makea necklace of ratmen. wear it everywhere. so that ratman goes away. grant imahara: my ratmankingdom is quickly evaporating. sean plott: i've spentall game-- jenna busch: i'm sorry. wil wheaton: roll again.
wil wheaton: three. grant imahara: ahh. jenna busch: huh. wil wheaton: oh, dude. wil wheaton: normally you'd needfour, but you actually only need one. aw, man. jenna busch: oh, this is fun. i like the crazy bitches.
grant imahara: they are-- wil wheaton: shut up! sean plott: how doyou run so good? wil wheaton: did yousee that, grant? jenna busch: because i suckthe rest of the game. grant imahara: it'sright on the edge. wil wheaton: she rolleda three again. wil wheaton: go ahead. grant imahara: you'rekilling me.
wil wheaton: that goes there. keep collecting ratmen. jenna busch: thank you. sean plott: this is, like,probabilistically impossible. jenna busch: i'm goingto go there. grant imahara: jenna, please. please. sean plott: berzerkingamazons. grant imahara: youlove ratmen.
come on. that's totally worth it. sorry, grant. let's count up the pointsyou have now. 1, 2, 3, 4 tritons. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11,12 total for amazons. sean plott: or as grantwould say, par. grant imahara: oh, right. sean, you're up.
sean plott: i'm choosing thetop race with the tokens sitting on it. commando trolls. so let's go ahead and justdo some invading. so one. or is this for any territory? sean plott: wow. that's-- wil wheaton: every territory'sattacked at lesson one.
wil wheaton: interesting thatyou went there instead of after the ratmen. a little sympathy forthe ratmen now. wil wheaton: you didn't comeup with a backstory for me. sean plott: here, let me justput this with my collection. grant imahara: oh, youfilthy swamp rats. so i'm doing one of those. grant imahara: kids, let thisbe a lesson to you. if you're mean to all the otherplayers at the beginning
of the game, they willgang up on you. and at the end of the game, yougot three lousy ratmen. sean plott: i'm goingto make it intense. wil wheaton: all right, grant. grant imahara: swamp ratmen. where are they going? grant imahara: they'regoing on the swamp. just to grab that last-- wil wheaton: amazon comesoff the board.
grant imahara: --bonus. wil wheaton: so here you go. you get one, two, three,four, five. sean plott: 6, 12,13, actually. somehow. amazingly. wil wheaton: you know what? you sold that so well, i waslike oh, god, did i mess up? wow, grant.
you only got five pointsthat turn. i'm really disappointedin you. you've let us all down. grant imahara: that's ok. wil wheaton: bad fish. you go squish now. and let's see if we cansquish one last fish. may i have the die, please? grant imahara: theone last fish.
wil wheaton: one last fish. guys, this is the lastthing that's going to happen this game. sean plott: oh. wil wheaton: no victoryfor me. all right, everybody. i'm going to score my points. sean plott: the gameends with a dud. wil wheaton: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,8, 9, 10 points for me at the
end of the game. let us now count our scores. wil wheaton: andthen we will-- sean plott: leave someof them face down. everyone pick five chipsand put them face down. are we all counted up? does everyone know how manypoints they have? sean plott: i have60 right now. but i haven't flippedthese last five.
wil wheaton: so ok. you're at 60. flip your guys. 60. 62. oh, 72. wil wheaton: 72! sean plott: 82. wil wheaton: 82.
sean plott: oh, please. huh, 87. grant imahara: 87. wil wheaton: grant. so this is 10, 20, 30, 40. sean plott: god, my heartis beating so fast. grant imahara: 41. wil wheaton: 51, 61. you did this on purpose.
grant imahara: i sure did. wil wheaton: 71. jenna busch: woah. wil wheaton: 81. hey, whoa. what the [beep]? wil wheaton: 10, 20, 30,40, 50, 60, 70, 85. wil wheaton: jenna. sean plott: oh my god.
jenna busch: 74. i could be dramatic,but it's-- yeah. wil wheaton: 74. sean, you win the game! sean plott: i didn'teven know. i thought i was in dead last. grant imahara: ohh. wil wheaton: do you wantto take a lap around the table or something?
jenna busch: i thinkthat you should. wil wheaton: it feels good. sean plott: i started outenraged because grant kept invading my territory andgetting, like, 11, 12 point turns back to back to back. however, jenna kindly invadedhis homelands, giving me the chance to catch up inthe last few rounds. grant imahara: i was completelyparalyzed. i think i scored the lowesti had the entire game.
jenna busch: i'd also like topoint out that i took him down with the only female characterin the game. wil wheaton: i had no idea thati was going to lose this by just two points. sean plott: total luck for me. i was just a participator in thecoincidence that wound up giving me victories. wil wheaton: whata great game! wil wheaton: you know, theonly thing worse than me
thinking you were going to winwas actually thinking i was going to win. jenna busch: i never thoughti was going to win. wil wheaton: and then losingby two points. grant imahara: right in the lastround, that's where it went wrong. no! wil wheaton: will youplay it again? wil wheaton: that's awesome.
tabletop mission accomplished. thanks lot, you guys, really. i mean it. please enjoy. you can sit on this couchas long as you need to. i'm going to go downstairs, andi'm going to talk to sean about the victory that i thinknone of us thought we would be talking about today. jenna busch: cool.
jenna busch: i kickedyour ratmen's asses. grant imahara: ugh. jenna busch: i did. grant imahara: rightin the last round. jenna busch: with mycrazy bitches. wil wheaton: i don't knowwhich one of us is more surprised that we're bothstanding here right now. because i was expecting grant tojust be light years ahead. sean plott: and then when thegame ended, i was like, i've
been such an assholeall game long. wil wheaton: not only didyou win the game, you also won a ratman. sean plott: i did? i'm going to of courseget the two earrings. maybe i'll have a thirdone so i can get the nose piercing as well. wil wheaton: i think that'sa great idea. and when you do that, ifyou would just send us
a picture of it-- wil wheaton: --so that we canput it on the website. but listen, you get a realprize for having won today on tabletop. we have spared no expense tobring you this incredible tabletop trophy of awesome. sean plott: is that real tape? wil wheaton: it is, in fact,actual real tape. listen, we do not cut cornersfor guys like you.
so let me just make sure thateveryone knows that this belongs to sean. sean plott: that isi. and may i? wil wheaton: yes, please do. is there anything you'd like tosay to the folks at home? sean plott: i would like tothank everyone who plays german-style board games forunderstanding the complex rules to that game so they canappreciate this trophy. and of course to jenna, becausewithout her, she would
not have appropriately mauledgrant in the last round. wil wheaton: well,congratulations. you absolutely earnedthat trophy. and now i have totake it back-- wil wheaton: --because we don'thave enough budget for more than one trophy. sean plott: may i at least geta departing handshake? wil wheaton: yes, absolutely. you can also have a departingpiece of tape--
sean plott: oh, yeah. wil wheaton: --withyour name on it. so all day long everyone gets toknow that you are sean, and you are a winner. sean plott: i can't wait to goto the nearest coffee shop. wil wheaton: congratulations. sean plott: thank you. wil wheaton: we will see younext time on tabletop.
