Cards and Cubes Pod Cauldron

In Season 2, Episode 7 of Cards and Cubes, we talk about our Top 5 Heavy Games.

Games mentioned include Teotihuacan: City of Gods, Alchemists, Lisboa, Dominant Species, Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar, Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula, On Mars, Lisboa, Brass: Birmingham and Lancashire, Terra Mystica and Gaia Project.

We talk about some games on the horizon including Die Macher, Weather Machine, Pax Transhumanity, Pax Renaissance, Perseverance: Castaway Chronicles – Episodes 1 & 2, Arkwright: The Card Game, and Imperial Steam.

Season 2, Episode 6 of Cards and Cubes is about Card Games: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.  Well, not so much about the Ugly, but we have plenty to say about all kinds of different card mechanics and game examples which feature them.

Games mentioned include Port Royal, Ark Nova, Race for the Galaxy, Boonlake, TEN, Alma Mater, Eschaton, Terramara, Firenze, Tekhenu: Obelisk of the Sun, Arboretum, Fort, Mombasa, Blackout: Hong Kong, Mottainai, Glory to Rome, Gloomhaven, 51st State: Master Set, La Granja, Cryo, Lewis & Clark: The Expedition, Nyet!, Belote, Tichu, Brian Boru: High King of Ireland, Ginkgopolis, Nidavellir.

We then focus only on Ark Nova, with a more detailed discussion, having played it several times now.

In Season 2, Episode 5, we begin with some trivia about the Top 10 most viewed games on BGG.

Then, we talk about our experiences playing Azul: Queen's Garden and Boonlake.

Our topic this time is Meta-Gaming.  We talk about our understanding of meta-gaming and go into a discussion of times when we have experienced meta-rules in various games including partnership card games, Root, drafting games, Puerto Rico, and others.

Season 2, Episode 4 is all about our Top 5 Catan Killers.

While Catan is an old favorite, we talk about games which are a step up including Machi Koro, Machi Koro 2, Machi Koro Legacy, Isle of Skye: From Chieftain to King, Bad Company, Solenia, Valeria: Card Kingdoms, Ginkgopolis, Call to Adventure, Via Nebula, Space Base, and Ragusa.

We also have some honorable mentions including My Farm Shop, Catan: Seafarers, Catan: Cities & Knights, Dice Forge, Lords of Vegas, Irish Gauge, and Flotilla.

In Season 2, Episode 3, we share our experiences at SaltCON Spring 2022.

We talk about pretty much all the games we played, including Great Western Trail (Second Edition), Witchstone, MicroMacro: Crime City – Full House, Cape May, Ark Nova, Bitoku, So Clover!, Mystic Paths, Cascadia, Legacies, Founders of Teotihuacan, Brian Boru, Paris: l'Étoile, Milestones, Zapotec, Meeple Party, The Hunger, El Grande Big Box, Khôra: Rise of an Empire, Deep Blue, Red Outpost, The Manhattan Project 2: Minutes to Midnight, and Tabannusi: Builders of Ur.

In Season 2, Episode 2 of Cards and Cubes, we start with a challenging trivia about the bottom 10 games with logged plays on BGG for January 2022.

We continue with a discussion about Serial Games - game series which have mechanical or otherwise closely related "sequels."  We give some examples of "serialization" including mechanical, thematic, designer-related.

In particular, we focus on the "Century" and "Azul" series in depth, including our favorites and what we like or dislike about them.