About

What’s up with the site name? What is a chit?

Here’s some text that I stole from Wikipedia:

Chits are a type of wargame counter that are generally not directly representational but used for the following purposes:

  • Tracking, being placed on a numeric runner to indicate turn status, as in some rule variants for Squad Leader. In Axis & Allies Revised Edition, chits can be used to track air unit movement, indicating how many spaces fighters or bombers can move after combat.
  • Randomization or chit drawing, as in Air Baron, where at the start of each round, one color-coded chit per player is placed in a cup. The chits are drawn sequentially to determine the current order of play. Chit drawing is also used in Air Baron to pay income. Every purchased airline spoke, plus all hubs, have a unique chit placed in a cup. At the start of every turn, the player randomly draws two chits, paying the owner appropriately. Chits are replaced at the end of each round.
  • Fog of war, with some chits marked with question marks or placed over unit chits, allowing the opposing player to see where opposing forces are but hiding the type of unit.
  • Terrain attributes, where numeric chits are randomly distributed over the terrain to indicate the frequency that resources are available in The Settlers of Catan.

In addition to being a piece in many board games, it also happens to be half of the phrase chitchat, which means inconsequential conversation. I’d say that pretty well defines who we are and what we do.

Who’s behind this? Who are you people?

We’re just some board game nerds geographically located near GenCon. You shouldn’t take anything we say seriously, especially these bios, but we do sometimes have legitimately good opinions about board games (and sometimes food).

Jared is a seasoned board game enthusiast with a passion for strategic gameplay and enjoys almost any strategic game from classics to modern gems. His board game acquisition addiction is extremely out of control and he needs to be stopped.


Jondi is a board game industry professional who loves cats, theater, sci-fi, and video games. She loves to talk about board games, even when Jared [allegedly] takes her words out of context to make her sound like an idiot!


Mandi has played over 800 hours of the digital version of Wingspan so you should listen to her when she tells you a bird fact.


Tony is a food eating champion best known for eating 37 slices of pizza in as many seconds. Known to his friends as Pizza King, Tony travels the world seeking what he has called “Pepperoni on a Pole Matches” and board game bargains. Tony plays 1st edition D&D with his parents and has 47 children (so far).


Kat is the only thing holding this podcast together. She’s the only one of us that can read a calendar. Plus, one time she got to train a coatimundi.


Honorable mentions go out to Jeremy and Troy who could not be reached for comment and were absent on school photo day.

Some boring legal info:

Images and game info blocks are pulled from BoardGameGeek‘s API.

Our logo was designed by Max Holliday.

Our theme song by Jeremy Burke.

The license we are using for our (own) content is Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International.  You can read about it here, or a more human friendly version (with much simplified terms) here.

Eat Chit & Dice is an independent production of SWIN Media, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.