Talk Cardboard

About Talk Cardboard

A Board Game Podcast by No Pun Included

Publisher

No Pun Included

Category

leisure

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

2 May 2019

Latest episode

10 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

23 of 81 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   10 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The Last Episode

   Host [Host Name] discusses the surprising continuation of "Talk Cardboard" in its final episode, revealing future plans.

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   8 Nov 2025TRANSCRIPT

   All the Games We Played at Spiel Essen 2025 Ranked

   Just for reference, the population of Klaipėda, the third largest city in Lithuania is approximately 161 000 people. The number of attendees in this year's Spiel Essen was 220 000 people, meaning they managed to cram the entirey of Klaipėda and much more into just eight convention halls and every one of those people were buying board games. I appreciate that that is maybe not everybody's jam, and aspects of it are not our jam either. But getting our mitts into a jar of Bonne Maman filled with gooey new board game releases - put a bib on me and fire up the toaster! In this special joint episode of No Pun Included and Talk Cardboard we cover 16 new releases from Spiel Essen 2025, which you can either listen to here or partake in the video version https://youtu.be/NHVLn-ZxVWs If you’d like to check out our bonus episodes - become a patreon supporter on https://patreon.com/nopunincluded SHIRTS! Find them on https://no-pun-included-shop.fourthwall.com/ On to the timestamps: 0:00 Cold Open2:46 Intro5:42 Night Soil (Unranked)9:11 Bouba Kiki14:14 Nocturnis17:56 Formidable Farm/Formidabel!22:00 Tax the Rich27:44 Echoes of Time36:30 Fearless41:30 National Economy48:23 Thesauros1:00:34 biD Coin1:07:20 Kikai/Bricolage Heads1:16:46 Tag Team1:26:59 Recall1:36:14 ???1:56:10 ??2:03:33 ?2:14:53 Outro

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   17 Oct 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Panda Spin, Primates, Tycoon: India 1981

   Spinning pandas, evolving primates, and... Capitalism! We have all three for you in this episode - thankfully not all in the same game.We could have had three games about mammals, but we didn't think this through.  If you’d like to check out our bonus episodes - become a patreon supporter on https://patreon.com/nopunincluded SHIRTS! Find them on https://no-pun-included-shop.fourthwall.com/ Onto the timestamps: 00:00 Cold open02:09 Intro03:45 Panda Spin18:34 Primates32:51 Tycoon: India 198148:25 Correspondence

Inside a recent episode

The Last Episode

Published 10 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] I love it now. It's so good. I really like it. This edition is also very cheap. It's like 30 quid or something like that. Did you pretend the containers had anything in them? Well, my fancy, the non-30 quid version, because I'm acting on Kickstarter, comes with metal containers. And so they feel really chunky and that's good. I normally hate these blinked up versions, but I think maybe Container is the one game where it's worth it. Because it's so fun to move these boats around and load them. It's just like a toy. It's like a really good toy. It combines gaming with toys with ruthless cutthroat capitalism. […]

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

10,778,574

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

129 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 52 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

28

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

96

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Guest appearances

Does not typically book guests

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