Cards and Cubes

About Cards and Cubes

Welcome to Cards and Cubes - a podcast about games you didn't grow up playing. We are Hristo and Trevor - two friends who love to play and talk about board games.

Publisher

Pod Cauldron

Category

leisure

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

1 Aug 2019

Latest episode

20 May 2022

Latest episodes

65 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   20 May 2022

   Season 2, Episode 7: Top 5 Heavy Games

   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.

2. 

   6 May 2022

   Season 2, Episode 6: Card Games: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

   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.

3. 

   22 Apr 2022

   Season 2, Episode 5: Meta-Gaming

   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.

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

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