Two Wood for a Wheat

What's up with Wizards of the Coast? What are they doing to get so much negative attention from their Dungeons & Dragons AND Magic the Gathering players and collectors? What can we do as players to show our approval or dissapproval of big gaming companies and their business practices? Do the Giants have a chance in the NFL playoffs? All this and more and of course some Frosthaven updates on this week's episode with Tony and Mitch.

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Should auld euro games be forgot,
and never brought to mind?
Should auld euro games be forgot,
and auld lang syne?

Today we review Tiletum, the brand new dice drafting game by the iconic duo behind the Voyages of Marco Polo and Tzolkin. Then, we begin our long goodbye to 2022 by announcing all of our regrets, all of the games that we left unplayed.

00:01:04 Frosthaven, Gloomhaven
00:07:46 Tiletum
00:08:16 Bosk
00:10:57 Battlesheep
00:12:58 Tenpenny Parks
00:15:23 Planet Unknown
00:27:33 Marvel: Remix, Fantasy Realms
00:18:27 FEATURE GAME Tiletum
00:18:39 The Voyages of Marco Polo, Tzoklkin, Tekhenu, Teotihuacan, Barrage, Lorenzo il Magnifico, Newton, Grand Austria Hotel
00:27:26 Messina: 1347
00:49:35 FEATURE DISCUSSION 2022 Games We Missed
00:50:53 Tenpenny Parks
00:51:29 Empire's End
00:51:40 Discordia
00:52:04 Heat: Pedal to the Metal
00:53:34 Skymines, Blackout: Hong Kong, Mombassa, Maracaibo, Maracaibo: The Uprising
00:54:56 Hoplomachus: Victorum, Hoplomachus, Frosthaven
00:55:56 My Father's Work
00:57:02 Terracotta Army, Woodcraft
00:57:24 Dice Realms, Race for the Galaxy, Dominion
00:58:25 Twilight Inscription, Twilight Imperium
00:59:49 Endless Winter: Paleoamericans, Resurgence
01:00:38 Wayfarers of the South Tigris
01:00:46 Architects of the West Kingdom, Paladins of the West Kingdom, Raiders of the North Sea, Stone Age
01:01:28 Revive, Atiwa
01:01:52 Kites
01:02:02 Lacrimosa
01:02:33 Orianenberger Kanal, Tabannusi
01:03:20 Mosaic: A Story of Civilization
01:04:11 Hamlet: The Village Building Board Game, Scout, Photograph, Bohnanza, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Pandemic, Joan of Arc: Orleans: Draw and Write, Turing Machine
01:05:25 Planted, Summer Camp
01:05:50 Isle of Trains: All Aboard

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Mitch and Tony discuss the 2-player dueling card game Mindbug from Richard Garfield designer of Magic the Gathering. Is this magic without the gathering? What's going on with the Frosthaven campaign? Find out in this episode!

Time Stamps
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0:50 EXIT the Game Advent Calendar The Golden Book
2:10 Summer Camp
3:30 FEATURE REVIEW: Mindbug
27:45 Frosthaven campaign stories


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It's a podcast within a podcast! Introducing Too Frost for a Haven, our excuse to publish more episodes about Frosthaven.

This episode will contain spoilers about the end of the main campaign, specifics on starting character classes, and two unlockable characters.

Thanks for listening and happy holidays.

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Happy holidays everyone! Tony and Mitch discuss board game Christmas gifts, games they've played at Christmas, and go on misanthropic holiday related rants. Plus, some spoiler-filled bonus coverage of tough decisions in Frosthaven.

After waiting two and a half years, we finally play Frosthaven.

We'll be providing first impressions of this enormous lifestyle game. In the first half of the episode, we will talk about nothing more than what's in the box and broad impressions and delving into specifics on the starting six characters and our experiences so far in the second half.

00:00:49 Barrage, It's a Wonderful World
00:01:42 Gloomhaven
00:03:20 Forge Wars
00:03:33 Twilight Struggle
00:12:53 Legacy of Dragonholt
00:21:14 Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion
00:27:33 WARNING Here be spoilers
01:05:35 Join our Discord and play Barrage, It's a Wonderful World, Castles of Burgundy, and Can't Stop with the hosts of Two Wood for a Wheat
01:06:19 Tiletum

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Tony and Mitch discuss their trip to Philadelphia for PAX Unplugged. Hear their wondrous stories of game demos and prototype Dungeons & Dragons campaigns. Then they review EXIT Shadows Over Middle Earth the Lord of the Rings themed EXIT game. The episode and review are SPOILER FREE but after the credits, there is a complete review with spoilers for those interested in hearing about the puzzles and how we solved them.

TIME STAMPS
0:30 PAX Unplugged
3:52 Amsterdam
7:10 Fit to Print
9:35 Wolves
13:15 Applejack
14:29 Dungeons & Dragons
16:50 FEATURE REVIEW : EXIT SHADOWS OVER MIDDLE EARTH (NO SPOILERS)
37:00 END CREDITS
37:25 SPOILERS : Puzzle-by-puzzle review of EXIT Shadows Over Middle Earth


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It's our four-year anniversary! Time flies when you're reviewing board games. Thanks for listening to us and join us in conversation on our discord: https://tinyurl.com/2wood4wheat

Today we're reviewing Evergreen, the app-like sunlight soaking puzzle game that is ripe with conflicting tensions. But first, it's a mad dash of first impressions and mini reviews.

00:02:25 Announcing the Two Wood for a Wheat Discord
00:02:49 It's a Wonderful World, Race for the Galaxy
00:04:10 FEATURE DISCUSSION Mini Review & First Impression Extravaganza
00:04:21 Terra Nova
00:05:19 Gaia Project
00:10:00 Tiletum
00:10:22 Tzolk'in, The Voyages of Marco Polo
00:10:48 Tekhenu
00:15:43 Marco Polo 2
00:17:22 Book: Blood Horses: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1254588.Blood_Horses
00:17:58 Frosthaven
00:18:46 Gloomhaven
00:20:39 Ready, Set, Bet, Long Shot: The Dice Game
00:24:05 Winner's Circle
00:24:30 Dead Reckoning, Mystic Vale
00:24:33 No Thanks!, Kickstarter: Empire's End: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/brotherwise/empires-end
00:24:51 Autobahn
00:27:40 It's a Wonderful World
00:28:51 Discordia
00:28:59 Anno: 1800, Hadrian's Wall
00:31:25 Hallertau
00:32:32 The Mirroring of Mary King
00:34:02 Cosmic Frog
00:34:36 The Voyages of Marco Polo
00:35:25 Trailblazers, Curious Cargo, Pipeline
00:37:24 Verdant
00:37:58 FEATURE REVIEW Evergreen, Photosynthesis
00:38:07 The King's Dilemma, The Queen's Dilemma, Railroad Ink, Kickass: The Board Game
00:40:26 Wingspan
00:40:40 Mandala, Subastral
00:55:34 Living Forest
00:58:24 Terra Nova, Tiletum

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Tony and Mitch discuss all their favorite games played with a deck of playing cards. From casino games to the national card games of Italy as well as social deduction games, all with only a standard deck of cards.

TIME STAMPS
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00:21 Thanksgiving Recap
01:45 EXIT: The Stormy Flight (no spoilers)
07:11 Project L
10:00 Evergreen
10:50 Its a Wonderful World
12:41 Terra Mystica
12:55 Magic the Gathering Arena
13:20 PAX Unplugged
14:30 FEATURE TOPIC: A Deck of Cards
17:10 Briscola
26:10 Scopa
31:40 500 Rummy
32:57 Oh Hell
35:05 Boo Ray
38:14 Egyptian Ratscrew
40:10 I Doubt It
41:00 Spit
42:20 Cribbage
44:57 Mafia
45:29 Murder in the Light / Murder in the Dark
46:12 Regicide
46:35 Palace
52:00 Spades, Old Maid, War, Spoons, Go Fish
53:38 Card Sharks

On another sleepy episode of Two Wood for a Wheat, we review Verdant, the new entwined drafting game by Flatout. This game was definitely designed by people staring at their houseplants during COVID lockdowns.
Then, we're discussing what we've built at the end of a game and what leaves us with a feeling of accomplishment.

00:01:32 Autobahn, Brass: Birmingham
00:04:15 Artemis Project (actually a really quick game)
00:07:41 Weather Machine, Lisboa, On Mars, Kanban
00:12:13 It's a Wonderful World, It's a Wonderful Kingdom
00:14:56 Just One, Frosthaven
00:15:58 Evergreen, Living Forest, Photosynthesis, The King's Dilemma
00:17:33 FEATURE REVIEW Verdant
00:17:39 Calico, Cascadia, Point Salad
00:24:19 Planted, Flourish, Flowar, Herbaceous, Floriferous, Three Sisters
00:25:32 Calico, Cascadia
00:35:48 Everdell
00:39:06 Planted
00:39:15 FEATURE DISCUSSION Building Something
00:43:02 Through the Desert, Tigris and Euphrates, Acquire
00:45:11 Agricola, A Feast for Odin, Hallertau
00:48:09 Meadow
00:48:30 The Isle of Cats
00:49:01 Race to the Raft
00:49:46 Evergreen, Photosynthesis
00:52:01 Santa Monica
00:52:54 Abomination: The Heir of Frankenstein
00:54:59 Cascadia
00:55:37 High Rise, Manhattan, Steampunk Rally
00:56:27 Museum
00:57:24 Bunny Kingdom
00:58:03 Reef
01:00:19 Autobahn, Frosthaven, Terra Nova, Terra Mystica
01:03:38 Korean Zombie Movie and Zombie Book Recommendations
01:03:41 Train to Busan, World War Z, The Zombie Survival Guide, Kingdom, #Alive

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