Cards and CubesIn Episode 40 of Cards and Cubes, we talk about games we’ve recently played including Carnegie, Glasgow, and Treasure Hunter. Then we have a discussion about board game streamlining prompted by Pingyao: First Chinese Banks, mentioning a variety of Vital Lacerda games, CGE games, and others. Highlights include simplicity vs streamlining, thematic integration, flow, smaller […]
Join Trevor and Hristo as we play Carnegie – the newest Kickstarter board game by Xavier Georges!
In Episode 39 of Cards and Cubes, we talk about some recent experiences in the board game online world, and then go into some games we’ve played like Village Green, My Village, Targi, 7 Wonders Duel: Agora, and Fast Sloths. Then, we have an extensive discussion about the evolution of deck building in board games […]
Join Trevor and Hristo as we play Darwin’s Journey – the newest Kickstarter board game by Simone Luciani and Nestore Mangone!
In Episode 38 of Cards And Cubes, we talk about some games we’ve played, like Praga Caput Regni, Bonfire, and Glenn’s Gallery. Then we mention some upcoming games, a couple of which we have already partially previewed – Darwin’s Journey, CloudAge, and Kanban EV. We then go onto a particularly difficult section of poorly described […]
Just played Nanga Parbat on Board Game Arena! Neat little abstract-like, quick-playing game from “Dr. Finn’s 2021 Games Kickstarter.” Reminds me of little-known Fire and Ice (2006) published by Pin International.
In this episode of Cards and Cubes we discuss board game meetups. How do you find people to play with? How do meetups happen? We will also talk about our top three two-player games. Listen to Episode 16: Board Game Meetups byCards And Cubes on hearthis.at 0:00 – Intro First Impressions1:29 – The King’s Dilemma […]
Coming back to Pulsar 2849 after a while of not playing it reminded me of how great this game is. Relatively straightforward, but so good. Nails the feeling of exploration, and it has outstanding decisions with drafting and pacing your game in many interesting, different ways. It has a dash of luck, but I feel […]
This is what a rough game of Terra Mystica with Merchants of the Seas expansion looks like. I was playing the alchemists (black) and an unfortunate sequence of opening placements and further choices ended up with me being completely surrounded inland on 2 terrains which were 2 and 3 shovels away from my home terrain. […]
In this episode of Cards and Cubes we are talking all things randomness. What makes randomness enjoyable in games? What are our top three games that involve randomness? Listen to Episode 15: Randomness byCards And Cubes on hearthis.at 0:00 – Intro Games Played2:32 – Brandon: Masters of Renaissance: Lorenzo Il Magnifico – The Card Game6:53 […]