Let's Play THE ESTATES

## ★ ADAM'S CHALKBOARD ★

**Let's Play THE ESTATES** is a video in the Board Game Club series.

"*Won't somebody think of the house prices?*"
―Sullivan
## Notable moments

* The first rule of Board Game Club is "the road to success is always under construction".
* Who is going to be *living in the penthouse* and who is going to be *buried in the foundations*?
* Gotta love a BGC episode which starts with the description 'it's a mean and nasty time'. Checks cast. Oh yeah... here we go.
* Slightly West Country hellos and a special greeting for Dom - this one is right up his street.
* All hail the Tower of Destiny! Dom's charming the dice.
* Dom has unravelled - "I've Jon Graceyed in the first five minutes!" he's muttering all the quiet parts out loud and claiming red is for winners.
* Dom: "We're property owners, you're just some guys hanging round a building site." Sullivan: "Yeah, but people keep paying me millions - I just earned 9 million pounds!"
* Blair's enticing Laurie into her fiendish plan. But Dom has the ears of a bat, so he can hear anyway.
* Dom gets the first complete building but has spent all his money. We'll take our own champagne to the launch party.
* Sullivan needs to decide who to screw over - Laurie or Blair. And they'll both make him pay.
* Laurie: "I'll shit in every room of this building if you build on this... shit in every single room. And you'll never get the smell out...You'll have to change the windows... you'll have to install air conditioning. You're going to have to install Glade Touch and Fresh in every single room. " Sullivan does it anyway, brave but dumb. He's now claiming this as a strategy.
* Lots of embezzling going on.
* Now Blair's made a Laurie-based mistake. That's going to come back to haunt her.
* Adam: "It will be my life's aim to make sure that none of you fuckers score points."
* Adam to Dom: "You're allying yourself to Sullivan, because you're actually his good friend and you don't hate him... you actually really care about Sullivan's happiness." Dom's still denying it - he hates Sullivan.
* BROOKE OF THE DAY! We're allowed one - Dom called Blair 'Brooke'. He claims it was because of the brook on the gameboard. Even he doesn't believe that. Laurie says we need another chalkboard but that would fill up too quickly.
* Dom's actually losing it at this point. Sullivan: "I've never seen a man think so hard, in my life." He's genuinely unhinged.
* Laurie's playing his usual strategy while the rest of them flail. He's holding most people's lives in his hand. He's going to sow chaos in the group.
* Adam: "You need to see this, Mr. Mayor - they're eating each other!"
* Dom's grumbling about the past and modern architecture, I think. It's very unclear.
* Blair: "OH! I didn't embezzle!" She's got a lot of cash, but it may not be enough to win if the rest stand against her.
* Time and pieces are running out - everyone seems to be looking nervously at their over-extended portfolios. Except Adam who appears to be playing a slightly different game than everyone else.
* Blair: "Oh, it's the fuck Blair over game, I see."
* Sullivan: "Sometimes you've got to make a tough decision and that tough decision usually leads everyone to fuck over Blair. But let's face it, she deserves it. She's an angry, hateful person who hates everyone she's ever met. That's what I hear."
* Dom was right, but there's no way that Adam is able to say it to camera. Fair enough.
* That unfinished row is going to kill Blair...
* Laurie: "Vengeance feels so good."
* Blair: "Don't build in parks, it will just ruin everything."

## Scores

* Blair - 3
* Adam - 6
* Sullivan - 8
* Dom - 9
* Laurie - 22

## Talking Heads

Talking heads are available this episode. Timestamps:

* 9:26 - Dom
* 19:27 - Laurie
* 21:58 - Sullivan
* 24:30 - Adam
* 27:17 - Dom
* 31:46 - Brooke of the Day
* 37:37 - Big Blair Dot Co
* 40:15 - Laurie
* 47:18 - Sullivan
* 52:11 - Laurie
* 54:51 - Adam
* 1:00:48 - Dom
* 1:02:32 - Blair
* 1:02:42 - Adam
* 1:13:49 - Sullivan

## Trivia

* Game introduction and rules are presented by Adam.
* Chalkboard is updated with a loss.
* An extended version of this episode is available on the No Rolls Barred Patreon.

1. ↑ Timestamps provided by Peter on the Patreon Discord