Plays Well With Two

Kristen and Spin saw this game at Dice Tower West two years ago and were intrigued -- a game where you get to roll dice and use them as supports to build a tower, cool spells, and meeples (that can also be used to hold up the tower if necessary)? We were in. Unfortunately... we also forgot the name. Years later, we found a copy of this game in the clearance section and jumped at the chance to play it. Will this game build on the promise that your hosts saw at Dice Tower West, or will it crumble under its own weight?

If you've been to your Friendly Local Game Store lately, you've probably seen Cubitos- that weird game with a block of cheese wearing lederhosen on the front of it. What you might not know is that this is a game by John D. Clair, designer of several of Kristen and Spin's favorite games. Get ready for dice rolling, highly variable cards, and luck pushing in this racing game. Is Cubitos ready to race... or does it stumble at the finish line? Come for the review, and stay for Spin making an extremely tortured cheese metaphor!

Check out the abstract area control board game CTRL (Control). Purchased from Target clearance, will the colorful cubes stack up or was it discounted for a reason? Come find out if it Plays Well With Two!

Take a nice autumn stroll through the leaves in the Bosk board game. In this area control nature game, landscape trees and then help the leaves fall across the board to claim the most spots to be victorious! Grab your pumpkin spice and chill in this relaxing tree game review.

We've got a large game collection (about 400 games), but how does it rank on BoardGameGeek.com? Spin gives Kristen the top 10 games per BGG, then the lowest 10. Do you like data and numbers? We've got 'em for you!

Kristen and Spin look at Delve, a tile-laying dungeon-crawling treasure-snatching board game. Is this game precious treasure, or does it get left for the dungeon yetis? That's not all, though... we take a look over our additions, subtractions, plays, Game(s) of the Month, and Dishonorable Mentions for February 2021.

Are you into super-tight, limited engine builders? If you answered yes, this episode is for you! Res Arcana, from Sand Castle Games in 2019, is all of that wrapped up in a fantasy theme. Spoiler but board games we both love this much don’t come around too often!

Travel with us under the sea to labs, octopods, submarines, research and more with the OctoDice roll and write board game ... was it worth pulling out of the bargain bin? Should we have left it? Is it both??? Find out now!

From the sun-scarred, radiation-glowing badlands emerges ... a review of Wasteland Express Delivery Service. Drive your armored, cobbled-together rigs from settlement to settlement, get $crap, upgrade your truck, and pick up and deliver essentials for survival. Will this game survive Kristen and Spin's scrutiny, or will it simply be a board game that was picked up by us and delivered to the Sale Shelf? And to that you say, "But those Game Trayz, though!"

A game table divided in our newest two player game Curious Cargo. Get you factory up and running with tile laying to load and offload cargo from trucks. One of us loved it and the other wanted to flip the table ... find out which is which! Also this episode, we introduce a new Roundup segment. In Roundup, we take a look at our stats and plays from January. What new games did we play? What were our favorites? Big disappointment? Find all that out and more! ..... Games mentioned in this epiosde: Curious Cargo, Deus, Dune: Imperium, Dinosaur Tea Party, Kero, Cacao, The Crew, Kingdomino, and more!