It’s time to get schooled! Always wanted to say that and finally I have a good reason because today’s guest on the show is none other than Zoe Bee who’ll teach us about board games as educational tools.
Oh but wait, there’s also board game reviews. A hot new release that asks us to save cats (again) - Race to the Raft, a hot old classic that’s got a shiny new coat - Ra, and a hot hidden gem that we finally got around to playing - Obsession.
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On to the timestamps:
00:00 Cold Open
3:01 Audience Correspondence - NPI Geometry
8:28 Race to the Raft
31:08 Audience Correspondence - Hidden Movement
33:24 Ra
45:59 Board Game Education with Zoe Bee
1:12:47 Obsession: Pride, Intrigue, and Prejudice in Victorian England
Everybody always says, “Talk Cardboard is paving the way in board game podcasting!” and this episode it’s certainly true. We have biking, hiking, kayaking, train-ing, and hunting (along routes), which is the most path in any board game podcast ever.
On today’s episode we’ll cover the cute but deadly Trailblazers, the old fashioned but sleek Isle of Trains and the gorgeous, voluptuous and strange Beast.
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On to the timestamps:
6:12 Audience Correspondence: Methods of Teaching Games
9:32 Trailblazers
29:53 Isle of Trains: All Aboard
47:11 Audience Correspondence: Imperial Onions
52:26 Beast
1:17:15 Elaine hates Hidden Movement games
Sometimes you sit down to play some board games for a future podcast episode and you find yourself not particularly digging any of them? It happens. It’s a thing. It could happen to you. This week it happened to us.
Whilst we weren’t especially jazzed about Hamlet, didn’t find Undaunted: Battle of Britain worth the trouble and at least one of us really didn’t get on with Autobahn, that doesn’t necessarily mean you won’t like them either. Or maybe you’ve already played them and disagree - dear listener, you should write in.
If you have personal experiences to share about any games discussed in this episode or any topic that's dear to your heart - we’d love to hear from you. Please write to: elaine@nopunincluded.com
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On to the timestamps:
5:55 Audience Correspondence: Past Games
10:21 Undaunted: Battle of Britain
33:44 Hamlet
46:17 Audience Correspondence: How do you learn games?
51:07 Autobahn
Welcome back, welcome back, it’s like we’ve never been gone. After a brief interruption Talk Cardboard returns to your ears and consequentially to your brains to deliver all the board game that it needs.
Today’s brain ticklers include drawing a map of the London Underground in Next Station: London, a dose of helium 3 in Skymines and some good ol’ fashioned resisting in Maquis
If you have personal experiences to share about any games discussed in this episode or any topic that's dear to your heart - we’d love to hear from you. Please write to: elaine@nopunincluded.com
On to the timestamps:
2:12 Audience Correspondence – Crispy Pancake Foods
10:37 Next Station: London
28:39 Skymines
58:36 Audience Correspondence - Board Game Canon
1:08:26 Maquis
Every Talk Cardboard episode is a journey, and in this episode that journey is competitive card games, competitive card games with engine building and destroying the engine with hard alcohol (not necessarily in that order).
Today we’re taking a look at Distilled, an aspirational game about being a small time distillerer in a world of big alcohol, Wordlbreakers: Advent of the Khanate, a magic the gatheringalike card battler that’s punching very far above its weight and Res Arcana, a distillation (no pun intended) of Race for the Galaxy style card engine building with the world’s smolest deck.
If you have personal experiences to share about any games discussed in this episode or any topic that's dear to your heart - we’d love to hear from you. Please write to: elaine@nopunincluded.com
On to the timestamps:
4:14 Audience Correspondence – Past Games
23:13 Res Arcana
42:25 Worldbreakers: Advent of the Khanate
1:03:05 Distilled
You can find the study on game component rolling probabilities here https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/12119/components-dice-tossing-meeples-houses
Building building building. If you like building (or buildings) you will enjoy at least one of the board games covered in this episode in which you build buildings, buildings and also cars. How's that for a build up? No? Let me construct some clarity.
Today we'll talk about Ginkgopolis, a tile laying city building classic hidden gem, Rolling Heights, a city building game where you roll meeples and Horseless Carriage, a car constructing game from famed board game publisher Splotter Spellen. And finally, a real treat, an interview with famed speculative fiction author Adrian Tchaikovsky who reveals which modern board games he wrote into his novels.
If you have personal experiences to share about any games discussed in this episode or any topic that's dear to your heart - we’d love to hear from you. Please write to: elaine@nopunincluded.com
On to the timestamps:
2:49 Audience Correspondence – Past Games
18:04 Ginkgopolis
34:48 Rolling Heights
52:40 Interview – Adrian Tchaikovsky
1:08:09 This is the timestamp to avoid the spoilery question (it will make sense when you listen)
1:15:53 Horseless Carriage
Has it been two weeks already? Time flies when you’re reviewing board games. Or when you’re riding whales for that matter. In real life and also in the game! Does it fly when you’re under Soviet occupation or working for Mr. Carnegie? Who’s to say, but we can at least tell you whether the games based on these events and/or entities are any good and/or bad.
If you have personal experiences to share about any games discussed in this episode or any topic that's dear to your heart - we’d love to hear from you. Please write to: elaine@nopunincluded.com
On to the timestamps:
8:57 Wir Sind Das Volk!
30:17 Whale Riders
40:38 Audience Correspondence: Fueling Consumerism
1:01:12 Carnegie
There are many famous Paul Deans in the world, but today we’re only interviewing one of them. Maybe one day we’ll get a chance to talk to some of the others, but honestly, why bother, we already got the best one. We got a chance to talk to Paul about what it’s like having left the board game industry and how he feels about board games right now.
This is far from the end though. Brace yourselves because you are entering the land of numbers, voxels and vertices and you can only emerge by listening to us review three abstract board games (which may or may not be card games).
If you have personal experiences to share about any games discussed in this episode or any topic that's dear to your heart - we’d love to hear from you. Please write to: elaine@nopunincluded.com
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On to the timestamps:
5:53 Audience correspondence - GWT: Argentina, Aeon Trespass Publisher Write-in, Colour Vision Difference
16:06 Wind the Film! (Photograph)
31:11 That Time You Killed Me
44:16 Intereview Guest: Paul Dean
1:19:56 Koi Koi
1:43:48 Audience correspondence - Torturing Efka
This episode is jam packed with exciting board games and has a reference to clotted cream - that's right - it's the scone episode! A tasty delicious dessert for your ears full of rich indulgent cardboard. What's especially exciting is that we've got a little bit of everything for everyone - from very light to very heavy, all pretty great in their own ways so if you're looking to enrich your collection - this week is definitely full of good recs. Enjoy!
If you have personal experiences to share about any games discussed in this episode or any topic that's dear to your heart - we’d love to hear from you. Please write to: elaine@nopunincluded.com
On to the timestamps:
4:00 Audience correspondence - Historical Wargames and MILDA MATILDA
13:02 Yokai Septet
23:23 Audience correspondence - Rulebooks
30:10 Star Wars: The Deckbuilding Game
44:58 Great Western Trail: Argentina
1:04:12 Aeon Trespass: Odyssey (first impressions)
Every day people stop us on the street and say “But, Elaine and Efka, why did you rename the podcast?” What an excellent question real person on the street - we renamed it because Talk Cardboard is all about talking to OTHER PEOPLE about cardboard. All kinds of cardboard. Flat, corrugated and even board game. So we talk to you, dear listeners, especially when you write in. But we also talk to our guests! And today’s episode features our very first and so far very best guest. That’s right, it’s Jessie Gender, you can find more of her things on https://www.youtube.com/@JessieGender1
Also in today’s episode: Heat, Votes for Women, Turncoats and Canvas.
If you have personal experiences to share about any games discussed in this episode or any topic that's dear to your heart - we’d love to hear from you. Please write to: elaine@nopunincluded.com
On to the timestamps:
4:53 Canvas
14:06 Heat: Pedal to the Metal
38:24 Jessie Gender a.k.a. Jessie Earl Interview
1:03:35 Turncoats ( https://mildamatildagames.wordpress.com/turncoats-2/ )
1:20:17 Votes for Women
It’s so great to be behind the microphone again talking about something you love! Especially when the thing you love is pancakes. But we also spend a good amount of time talking about what’s fresh in board games, including a sleeper solo hit Resist! from the people that brought you Undaunted, the little asymmetric arena battler Knight Fall and the somewhat sprawling choose your own adventure on a map game Lands of Galzyr.
Today’s bonus feature is the three contenders for Efka’s game of the year title that didn’t quite make the cut.
If you have personal experiences to share about any games discussed in this episode or any topic that's dear to your heart - we’d love to hear from you. Please write to: elaine@nopunincluded.com
On to the timestamps:
9:00 Resist!
32:52 Knight Fall
48:30 Meaty Questions
1:04:18 Efka's Runners Up for GOTY 2022
1:12:22 Lands of Galzyr
1:27:26 More Write-ins
Welcome back to the newly named board game podcast from the duo at No Pun Included! In this new iteration we're starting small and building up each episode, so if you've enjoyed this - there's more to come every second Friday. Today we're taking you through Efka's most anticipated board games of 2023, four board game reviews and lots of words from our listeners.
If you'd like to write in about any of the games discussed or any topic that's dear to your heart: elaine@nopunincluded.com
On to the timestamps:
2:13 Scout
19:14 Evergreen
29:03 Efka's Most Anticipated Games of 2023
45:13 Artisans of Splendent Vale
1:02:47 Write-ins
1:15:52 Ostia
Hey everybody - it’s a calculator party! Bring out your Casios and we’ll get down with spreadsheets like it’s 1799. On today’s podcast not only do we tackle the mini-beast that is Arkwright: The Card Game but give an early scoop on Mind MGMT and a brief glance at Murano: Light Masters.
Timestamps:
Murano: Light Masters - ( 03:04 )
Arkwright: The Card Game - ( 20:00 )
Mind MGMT - ( 37:35 )
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Three board games enter, one board game leaves. But only having endured the harsh nature of Elaine’s and Efka’s critique. That’s the No Pun Included podcast and it’s back once again for the twenty ninth time.
Timestamps:
Dinosaur World - ( 06:50 )
Exit Advent Calendar: Mystery of the Ice Cave (no spoilers) - ( 28:31 )
Magnate: The First City - ( 41:16 )
You can find more of the No Pun Included podcast, and leave a comment on nopunincluded.com/podcast
Cult of the new? More like “cult of the game that I’ve already played but haven’t played in ages and now there’s a new version so I bought it again just so I could play it and not play the copy I already had!” That’s right, today we discuss three board games that are renditions, re-editions, reimplementations or maybe just second editions.
Timestamps:
A Brief Note on our Too Many Bones Video - ( 00:55 )
Dinosaur Island: Rawr'N Write - ( 07:56 )
Mobile Markets: A Smartphone Inc Game - ( 30:59 )
Great Western Trail: Second Edition - ( 45:53 )
If you enjoyed this episode and would like to discuss any of the games featured on this episode, you can always leave a comment on our website: https://nopunincluded.com/podcast
Ah, rulebooks. Don’t you just love sitting down with a cup of hot beverage and an arcane manual written by what you assume is a “game wizard” and spend four hours of your day trying to understand what exactly phrases like “spend your faucet token to activate the hyrdraulics action space” actually mean, to only inevitably give up and desperately search YouTube for a Watch it Played video?
Well, this episode of the No Pun Included podcast is delivered to you by this exact feeling. Not all games in today’s episode have bad rulebooks - but the ones that do excel at it.
Timestamps:
Sheepy Time - ( 04:00 )
Beast - ( 18:21 )
The Great Wall - ( 40:19 )
For more of the No Pun Included podcast visit https://nopunincluded.com/podcast where you can leave a comment if you'd like to discuss any of the games featured in this episode, or any terrible rulebooks you've encountered in your life.
What two things would you miss if you were to live on the moon? That’s right, it’s coffee, and the ability for sound to echo whilst you’re doing a moonwalk in vacuum. With that tenuous link between this episode’s board games established, I can tell you a little bit more what to expect from each. Luna Capital is yet another spin on the tableau building formula, Echoes brings something fresh by giving us our very first audio mystery game, and Coffee Traders is this episode’s chunky boy, giving most euro games a run for their money in terms of complexity.
Timestamps:
Luna Capital - ( 08:35 )
Echoes - ( 24:23 )
Coffee Traders - ( 38:45 )
You can find more episodes on https://nopunincluded.com/podcast
Toot toot, the No Pun Included boat has docked, ready to unload three stormy board games into your harbour. Are these board games fresh as the fruit of the sea, or do they perhaps smell a bit fishy? Quick, someone take away the analogies from me because I’ll starting waxing on about how we spill the board game guts. Oh no. It’s too late - the board game guts - they are everywhere.
Timestamps:
Fleet: The Dice Game - ( 02:39 )
The Crew: Mission Deep Sea - ( 19:59 )
The Adventures of Robin Hood - ( 36:05 )
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Following from our Reiner Knizia Special video, here's more Knizia games, this time, all out of print and all (hopefully) coming back soon.
07:51 - Tigris & Euphrates + Yellow & Yangtzee
32:57 - Ra
43:24 - Winner's Circle
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