Today we're joined by Board Boy Campbell to review Stonemaier's latest mana from heaven, Red Rising. Will this card combo game dethrone classic filler Fantasy Realms?
Then there's hope in our eyes as we see our first ventures out into post-COVID gaming, including the games that will make up our perfect game day and our expectations for a return to gaming in real life.

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01:56 Hadrian's Wall
02:10 A Feast for Odin
02:36 That's Pretty Clever
06:15 Dominant Species: Marine
07:39 Egizia
08:41 Mercado de Lisboa
10:24 Brass: Birmingham and Ginkopolis
11:15 Empyreal: Spells and Steam
12:49 Argent: The Consortium and Harvest
13:30 Nidavellir and Thingavellir
16:05 FEATURE REVIEW - Red Rising
16:15 Wingspan, Scythe, Fantasy Realms
20:43 Terraforming Mars
36:13 Agricola
38:49 Tapestry
39:20 Hallertau
41:52 FEATURE DISCUSSION - A Return to Gaming IRL
42:42 Dominant Species: Marine
47:37 Just One, Rising Sun, Eclipse, Men at Work
47:37 Carpe Diem, Bonfire, Castles of Tuscany, Carnegie
53:46 Coffee Roaster
55:02 Hallertau, Overboss, Calico, Cascadia
56:05 Slay the Spire
56:32 Agricola and Anachrony
57:12 Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion, Gloomhaven, 7th Continent
59:50 Terra Mystica
01:01:13 Trismegistus
01:01:57 Marco Polo and Pipeline

Be your own boss, dad said. Make your own decisions, dad said. Well dad, today I finally did it. Today I'm not only my own boss, today I'm an Overboss. And I don't event have to pay self-employment tax.
Today it's Aaron Mesburne and Kevin Russ' Overboss, a pixelated followup by designer of beloved tile-layer Calico. Then it's the aspects of a game that make us bring it out 20, 30, 40, 50 times to play. What makes a game replayable?

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01:51 Red Rising
03:31 Hallertau
04:33 Mandala
04:45 Marvel: United
05:05 Ankh: Gods of Egypt
05:30 Rocketmen
08:04 John Company
08:33 After the Empire
11:04 FEATURE REVIEW Overboss
14:30 Calico and Tasty Humans
23:55 Hallertau
25:37 FEATURE DISCUSSION Replayability
27:13 Go, Chess, Stupid Chess
32:23 Race for the Galaxy
33:09 Res Arcana
33:45 A Feast for Odin and Agricola
34:35 Tainted Grail, Near and Far, and Above and Below
35:29 Rising Sun and Gloomhaven
38:21 Gons Schon Clever
38:51 Tapestry
39:45 Calico
41:49 Mandala and Anno: 1800
43:06 Tyrants of the Underdark
44:11 Clans of Caledonia, Gaia Project, and Terra Mystica
44:55 Tiny Towns
45:59 John Company and This War of Mine
46:45 Abomination: The Heir of Frankenstein
47:37 Scythe and Scythe: Rise of Fenris
49:19 Charterstone
50:43 Red Rising
51:12 Sea of Clouds
52:26 Praga Caput Regni

More farming! Four grains! Hallertau is a veritable cereal box of tensions! Play it! But love it? We'll see.
Then, what's the point of all these grains, these bits and bobs? We list our top 5 favorite resources in all of board games. This was way more fun than I thought it would be.

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02:34 Nidavellir
03:43 Brass: Birmingham
06:15 Calico
07:11 FEATURE REVIEW Hallertau
09:47 Agricola and A Feast for Odin
28:42 Le Havre
31:12 FEATURE DISCUSSION Our Favorite Resources
35:55 Everdell
36:05 Wingspan
36:14 The Lost Ruins of Arnak
36:32 Abomination: The Heir of Frankenstein
38:37 Agricola
39:03 Praga Caput Regni
39:42 Eclipse
40:58 Harvest
42:05 Beyond the Sun
43:25 Barrage
45:20 Agricola
46:48 Gaia Project
48:53 Brass: Birmingham and Brass: Lancashire
52:51 A Feast for Odin
55:14 Scythe
55:47 The Voyages of Marco Polo, Marco POlo 2, and Kingsburg

I bet you didn't know that in an unknown era of prehistoric history, tigers could only eat frogs, dinosaurs could only eat turtles, and the gods above competed across grand continents to make the most of their favorite carnivorous tyrants. It's Gods Love Dinosaurs on the review-platter today, and we're serving up juicy them up like juicy dino-burgers. Can this three-tier, pseudo ecological tile-layer hold up?
Then it's unintuitive games, those that zig when you think they'll zag.

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01:32 Dinosaur World, Dinosaur Island, Dinosaur Island: Rawr & Write
04:58 Cloudage and Maracaibo
06:41 Dungeon Petz, Tyrants of the Underdark, Lords of Waterdeep
08:19 Kanban: EV
09:08 FEATURE REVIEW Gods Love Dinosaurs
13:34 Magic Maze
25:12 FEATURE DISCUSSION Counterintuitive Games
25:45 Terra Mystica, Gaia Project, Clans of Caledonia
26:03 The Estates
28:49 Just One
30:03 Food Chain Magnate
31:56 Mandala
33:25 Twilight Struggle
35:07 Tiny Towns
37:19 Glen More II: Chronicles
39:08 Terra Mystica
42:00 Steam Time
42:52 Hive
45:04 Rising Sun, Blood Rage, Blood Bowl

Today we hang with Mr. Pfister, or at least we make nice with his design pedigree, as we review Cloudage, a strange mash-up between Pfister's lite push-your-luck fare and his heavy deterministic euros. Does this comingling of randomness and strategy work? Find out!
Then, as if we're inspired by Cloudage's stickers, rulebook, orange sherbert color palette, and cloudy card sleeves, we discuss our production pet peeves. Or, in more optimistic terms, our production 'Do's and 'Don't's.
Thanks for listening!

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02:06 Dungeon Petz
05:40 Draftosaurus
05:59 FEATURE REVIEW Cloudage
06:05 Great Western Trail, Isle of Skye, Broom Service, and Maracaibo
22:16 Port Royaleand Oh My Goods!
37:23 FEATURE DISCUSSION Production Pet Peeves, or Production Dos and Don'ts
39:15 Underwater Cities
39:40 High Rise
40:30 Glen More II: Chronicles
41:40 Everdell and Praga Caput Regni
42:17 Tekhenu
42:44 Tzolkin and Return to Dark Tower
43:33 Parks
44:31 Rococo, Rococo: Deluxe, Tainted Grail
45:28 My City
47:09 Tawantinsuyu
48:28 Renature, NYZoo, and Curious Cargo
48:57 Blackout: Hong Kong, Maracaibo, and Underwater Cities
52:03 Yamatai and the Oracle of Delphi
53:08 Eclipse, Kemet, and Empires of the Void II
54:56 Santa Monica and Race for the Galaxy
56:49 Clans of Caledonia and A Feast for Odin
58:01 Just One, Rome & Roll, and Sprawlopolis
01:00:27 Barrage, Curious Cargo, and Atheneum
01:01:33 Race for the Galaxy, Gaia Project, Harvest, and Tapestry
01:06:08 The Godfather

Today on Two Wood for a Wheat it's Renature, the domino laying game by classic duo Kiesling and Kramer. This game may look innocent, but it plays as slimy as a swampbottom.
Then it's our most anticipated games of 2021! The games we're most excited to play and review this year.

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02:05 Abyss
02:19 La Granja
03:10 Carnegie, Troyes, and Black Angel
05:13 Draftosaurus
6:19 Glen More II: Chronicles
08:29 Oceans, Race for the Galaxy, and Race for the Galaxy: Gathering Storm
09:44 Res Arcana and Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition
11:19 FEATURE REVIEW Renature
11:40 Heaven & Ale, Azul, and Tikal
26:08 DISCUSSION 2021 Most Anticipated Games
27:28 Frosthaven
28:34 The Great Wall, Ankh, Chu Han, Dark Ages, Rocketman, Mercado de Lisboa, and Venice
29:39 Legacy of Dragonholt and Sleeping Gods
31:03 Glow
31:34 Lewis & Clark
33:05 Transcontinental
34:10 Golem, Lorenzo il Magnifico, and Grand Austria Hotel
35:12 Twilight Struggle: Red Sea Conflict in the Horn of North Africa
36:13 Canopy and Sea of Clouds
37:37 It's a Wonderful World and Guards of Atlantis II
38:52 Coffee Trader, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria, Old West Empressario, Lockup, and Endless Winter
40:00 Tabunnusi and Tekhenu
40:28 Origins: First Builders
40:55 Lords of Hellas and Nemesis
41:21 Dominant Species: Marine
43:15 Merchants of the Dark Road and COldwater Crown
44:16 Horseless Carriage
44:56 WOnderland's War, Tidal Blades, and Orleans
46:14 Velocity: Vanguard
47:39 Cascadia
48:35 Pacifico
49:49 Now or Never
50:45 Frosthaven, Gloomhaven, and Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion
52:10 Darwin's Journey
53:21 Hallertau, Agricola, Return to Dark Tower, Agropolis, Sprawlopolis, Whale Riders, and My City
55:14 Ankh, The Whatnot Cabinet, Biblios, After the Empire, Micro Macro Crime City, and Red Rising
57:18 Planet Unknown and Dice Realms
58:15 7 Wonders Duel: Agora, Glen More II: Highland Games, On Mars: Alien Invasion
59:11 Tainted Grail: The Red Death and Tainted Grail: The Last Knight
59:41 Rome & Roll: Gladiators
01:00:14 Rising Sun: Province & Clan Cards
01:00:59 Zapotec, Merv, Kalimara, Mission Red Planet, Hybris: Disordered Cosmos
01:01:46 Dollars to Donuts
01:02:04 Furnace and Brazil: Imperial

Today on Two wood for a wheat, we say goodbye to 2020 by expressing our favorite games of this magical hobby.
But first, we review Praga Caput Regni, the extremely intricate euro puzzle by Underwater Cities designer vladimir suchy.

And with this episode, we say goodbye to 2020, a year surprisingly full of amazing games and plays.
We detail the best ones of this memorable year.
But first, we review Vladimir Suchy's Praga Caput Regni, a mind-bending and enigmatic puzzle of a thing, so large that you can slip into it for hours.
Happy 2021!
- Pat & Tony

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2:35 FEATURE REVIEW Praga Caput Regni
2:46 Shipyard, Pulsar 2849, Underwater Cities, Prodigals Club, Last Will
30:54 FEATURE DISCUSSION 2020 Top 10
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32:17 Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion and Frosthaven
33:37 Athenaeum
35:11 The Castles of Tuscany
36:06 Tasty Humans
37:52 Tawantinsuyu
39:19 Dune: Imperium
41:07 Beyond the Sun
43:10 My City
44:26 Lost Ruins of Arnak
45:39 Anno: 1800
46:57 Mandala
48:32 Praga Caput Regni
49:12 Honeybuzz
51:07 Rome & Roll
52:43 Calico
54:16 Mandala
55:12 My City
56:15 Tekhenu
58:42 Praga Caput Regni
01:00:36 Calico
01:02:13 Coatl
01:02:40 Beez
01:03:12 The Red Cathedral
01:04:33 Imperial Struggle, Oceans, On Mars
01:05:39 The Isle of Cats and Dwellings of Eldervale
01:07:02 Marco Polo II, Pandemic: Season 0, High Frontier 4 All
01:08:13 Glen More II
01:09:04 Rococo: Deluxe Edition
01:09:36 Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion

On this episode of two wood for a wheat, we're reviewing My City, a loving legacy devotion to tile laying games by the Dr. Reiner Knizia.
Then, we imagine the games that we would have loved had we played them in 2020.

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07:57 High Society
09:29 My City
10:46 Oceans
13:20 Alhambra
13:37 Ticket to Ride
14:21 Red Cathedral
17:07 FEATURE REVIEW My City
25:05 Welcome To
37:37 FEATURE DISCUSSION 2020 Games We Missed
39:51 Hallertau, Renature, and Cloudage
40:09 Praga Caput Regni
40:36 Honeybuzz
41:18 Viscounts of the West Kingdom, Architects of the West Kingdom, and Paladins of the West Kingdom
42:05 Margraves of Valeria
42:42 Unicorn Fever
43:38 The Crew
44:45 Gods Love Dinosaurs
46:10 Lost Ruins of Arnak and Dune: Imperium
47:00 Bonfire
47:40 Paris and Whistle Mountain
48:06 Merv
49:33 Kalimala & Ragusa
49:39 Forgotten Waters
50:40 Seafall
51:13 Red Cathedral
52:40 Cosmic Frog
53:44 My City
54:07 Oceans
54:44 Evolution
55:27 Empyreal: Spells and Steam and Argent the Consortium
57:12 Ankh
57:33 Imperial Struggle and Twilight Struggle
59:14 Whistle Mountain
59:28 Cafe
59:47 Manhattan Project: Energy Empire, Dwellings of Eldervale, Sorceror City, and Whistle Stop
01:01:02 Hot Rod Racer: 3022

While you're waiting for the belated release of Denis Villeneuve $165,000,000 Dune movie, soothe yourself with our review of Dune: Imperium for free!
Tony and I also try to rewrite Love in the Time of Cholera for 2020 as gaming in the time of COVID.

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02:37 Kanban: EV
03:59 Tekhenu
06:24 Imperial Struggle
06:42 Beez
06:47 Azul, Reef, Century: Golemn Edition, Century: Spice Road
08:19 Undaunted: North Africa
09:24 The Crew
11:04 Oh Hell
11:50 Lost Ruins of Arnak
12:30 FEATURE REVIEW Dune: Imperium
15:06 Underwater Cities
18:02 Rococo
18:40 Lords of Waterdeep and Tyrants of the Underdark
36:18 Lost Ruins of Arnak
44:00 FEATURE DISCUSSION Gaming in the time of COVID
44:55 Calico, My City, Sprawlopolis, and Race for the Galaxy
50:15 Underwater Cities
51:21 The Voyages of Marco Polo and Terra Mystica
52:05 Race for the Galaxy
56:47 Imperial Struggle

Today we climb a tech tree to travel Beyond the Sun. Dennis K. Chan focuses an entire game around the usually-ancillary tech tree to develop something very unique.
Then we discuss where the majority of our attention is during a game. A game board can sprawl across half a dozen areas, and sometimes our focus is across all of them. We explore games that overfocus on one part, overproduce parts that don't get enough attention, and talk about where the game is really played.

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02:26 Dune: Imperium
02:29 Praga Caput Regni
02:34 My City
04:09 Project L
06:09 Under Falling Skies (print and play)
07:28 Moonrakers
09:34 Super Pinball 4Cade
10:15 Pandemic Legacy: Season 0
12:09 Welcome to...
12:47 Welcome to New Las Vegas
13:45 FEATURE REVIEW Beyond the Sun
17:07 Empires of the Void II
24:23 Terraforming Mars
33:51 FEATURE DISCUSSION What are You Lookin' At?
38:55 Underwater Cities
39:22 Marco Polo
40:01 Race for the Galaxy and Calico
40:35 My City
40:55 A Feast for Odin
42:07 18XX
42:34 Eclipse
43:10 Barrage
43:29 Terra Mystica
45:06 Agricola
45:28 Under Falling Skies
45:48 Tiny Towns
46:48 Beyond the Sun
47:37 Rising Sun
48:20 Everdell
48:41 Tainted Grail
49:41 Star Realms
50:00 Tyrants of the Underdark
50:08 Clank!, Trains, and Supermotherload
51:22 Food Chain Magnate
51:40 Kemet and Cyclades
51:55 Tekhenu
52:50 Pipeline
54:07 On Mars and Lisboa
56:52 Curious Cargo
58:33 Ex Libris
59:57 The Gallerist