Today on Two Wood for a Wheat, we review the Guild of Merchant Explorers, the medium weight flip and place filler about exploring new lands and creating settlements before the end of the age. Then we’re discussing ugly ducklings, the ugly board games that we love.

00:02:23 Merchants of the Dark Road
00:04:11 Wonderland's War, Rising Sun, Quacks of Quedlinberg
00:05:41 Space Station Phoenix, Race for the Galaxy, Beyond the Sun
00:06:32 Messina: 1347
00:08:06 FEATURE REVIEW The Guild of Merchant Explorers
00:16:27 Kingdom Builder, Trails of Tucana
00:17:52 Tiny Towns
00:19:34 Hallertau
00:22:14 Gloomhaven
00:28:52 FEATURE DISCUSSION Ugly Ducklings
00:29:23 Acquire
00:29:59 Anno: 1800
00:31:22 My City
00:32:02 Kingdom Builder
00:33:04 Beyond the Sun
00:34:06 Tasty Humans
00:34:57 Castles of Burgundy
00:35:59 Terra Mystica
00:36:51 Boonlake, Cloudage, Maracaibo
00:38:47 Signorie
00:39:58 Imperial Steam
00:42:40 Steam, 18XX
00:43:28 Beyond the Sun
00:44:32 Coffee Trader
00:46:57 Carpe Diem
00:48:56 Food Chain Magnate
00:49:37 Horseless Carriage
00:50:38 Tyrants of the Underdark
00:52:59 Race for the Galaxy
00:56:53 Space Station Phoenix

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