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Speaker 1: In a world of high tech, the good old board

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Speaker 1: game is on some sort of resurgence. Globally, board games

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Speaker 1: are now worth thirty one billion plus thirty one billion

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Speaker 1: another five billion. The reckon is going to be added

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Speaker 1: to that by twenty twenty nine. Anyway, that were talking

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Speaker 1: about all of this at Weallykono over the weekend. CD

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Speaker 1: Doyle as the organizer of that and is with a

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Speaker 1: CD morning, Hello, how are you very well? Indeed, some

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Speaker 1: big crowds.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely and ever growing.

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Speaker 1: As you say, good old favorites. Are a lot of

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Speaker 1: new material out there.

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Speaker 2: Well, there's been a huge wave of what we call

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Speaker 2: modern board games. So most people know Monopoly, cludo that

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Speaker 2: kind of thing. And these days modern board games have

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Speaker 2: a lot less luck involved and a lot more strategy

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Speaker 2: or end or interaction and playing with other people.

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Speaker 1: Are they tied with video games at all or not?

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Speaker 2: Well, I guess if you compare them. Obviously, in New Zealand,

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Speaker 2: the video gaming industry has just boomed in the last

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Speaker 2: five years, and I understand that it's around four hundred

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Speaker 2: million dollar industry. If you compare that with board games,

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Speaker 2: we're around forty five million industry. And I think in

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Speaker 2: most people's minds. That's actually pretty good.

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Speaker 1: Do we produce our own board games and sell them

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Speaker 1: to the world that we had that sort of industry

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Speaker 1: like we have in the video game.

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Speaker 2: Department, one hundred percent. We're actually really fortunate. I live

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Speaker 2: in Wellington and we're actually very fortunate to have two

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Speaker 2: of the top designers in the world actually living here

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Speaker 2: in Capiti.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic. What have they produced? Would I know them?

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Speaker 2: Yes, Well, if you go to any board game you're

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Speaker 2: most likely to see them. One is shen Phillips who

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Speaker 2: produced a whole series of games called the Raiders Games

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Speaker 2: or the North Sea Saga and they're really he was

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Speaker 2: nominated for the top award in the world. And Jarrett

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Speaker 2: Gray who did Endeavor the See just released last year

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Speaker 2: that has indeed actually won the best game in the

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Speaker 2: world this year.

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Speaker 1: Gosh, So we are from New Zealand, the bottom of

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Speaker 1: the world producing the best board games in the world.

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Speaker 1: Isn't that exciting? So a growing industry. Appreciate your time.

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Speaker 1: CD Doyle Wealthycome, by the way, is New Zealand's largest

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