Talk Cardboard

Building building building. If you like building (or buildings) you will enjoy at least one of the board games covered in this episode in which you build buildings, buildings and also cars. How's that for a build up? No? Let me construct some clarity. Today we'll talk about Ginkgopolis, a tile laying city building classic hidden gem, Rolling Heights, a city building game where you roll meeples and Horseless Carriage, a car constructing game from famed board game publisher Splotter Spellen. And finally, a real treat, an interview with famed speculative fiction author Adrian Tchaikovsky who reveals which modern board games he wrote into his novels. If you have personal experiences to share about any games discussed in this episode or any topic that's dear to your heart - we’d love to hear from you. Please write to: elaine@nopunincluded.com On to the timestamps: 2:49 Audience Correspondence – Past Games 18:04 Ginkgopolis 34:48 Rolling Heights 52:40 Interview – Adrian Tchaikovsky 1:08:09 This is the timestamp to avoid the spoilery question (it will make sense when you listen) 1:15:53 Horseless Carriage

Has it been two weeks already? Time flies when you’re reviewing board games. Or when you’re riding whales for that matter. In real life and also in the game! Does it fly when you’re under Soviet occupation or working for Mr. Carnegie? Who’s to say, but we can at least tell you whether the games based on these events and/or entities are any good and/or bad. If you have personal experiences to share about any games discussed in this episode or any topic that's dear to your heart - we’d love to hear from you. Please write to: elaine@nopunincluded.com On to the timestamps: 8:57 Wir Sind Das Volk! 30:17 Whale Riders 40:38 Audience Correspondence: Fueling Consumerism 1:01:12 Carnegie

There are many famous Paul Deans in the world, but today we’re only interviewing one of them. Maybe one day we’ll get a chance to talk to some of the others, but honestly, why bother, we already got the best one. We got a chance to talk to Paul about what it’s like having left the board game industry and how he feels about board games right now. This is far from the end though. Brace yourselves because you are entering the land of numbers, voxels and vertices and you can only emerge by listening to us review three abstract board games (which may or may not be card games). If you have personal experiences to share about any games discussed in this episode or any topic that's dear to your heart - we’d love to hear from you. Please write to: elaine@nopunincluded.com Our patreon campaign can be found on https://patreon.com/nopunincluded and our pledge drive video can be found on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrhnOHw-akc On to the timestamps: 5:53 Audience correspondence - GWT: Argentina, Aeon Trespass Publisher Write-in, Colour Vision Difference 16:06 Wind the Film! (Photograph) 31:11 That Time You Killed Me 44:16 Intereview Guest: Paul Dean 1:19:56 Koi Koi 1:43:48 Audience correspondence - Torturing Efka

This episode is jam packed with exciting board games and has a reference to clotted cream - that's right - it's the scone episode! A tasty delicious dessert for your ears full of rich indulgent cardboard. What's especially exciting is that we've got a little bit of everything for everyone - from very light to very heavy, all pretty great in their own ways so if you're looking to enrich your collection - this week is definitely full of good recs. Enjoy! If you have personal experiences to share about any games discussed in this episode or any topic that's dear to your heart - we’d love to hear from you. Please write to: elaine@nopunincluded.com On to the timestamps: 4:00 Audience correspondence - Historical Wargames and MILDA MATILDA 13:02 Yokai Septet 23:23 Audience correspondence - Rulebooks 30:10 Star Wars: The Deckbuilding Game 44:58 Great Western Trail: Argentina 1:04:12 Aeon Trespass: Odyssey (first impressions)

Every day people stop us on the street and say “But, Elaine and Efka, why did you rename the podcast?” What an excellent question real person on the street - we renamed it because Talk Cardboard is all about talking to OTHER PEOPLE about cardboard. All kinds of cardboard. Flat, corrugated and even board game. So we talk to you, dear listeners, especially when you write in. But we also talk to our guests! And today’s episode features our very first and so far very best guest. That’s right, it’s Jessie Gender, you can find more of her things on https://www.youtube.com/@JessieGender1 Also in today’s episode: Heat, Votes for Women, Turncoats and Canvas. If you have personal experiences to share about any games discussed in this episode or any topic that's dear to your heart - we’d love to hear from you. Please write to: elaine@nopunincluded.com On to the timestamps: 4:53 Canvas 14:06 Heat: Pedal to the Metal 38:24 Jessie Gender a.k.a. Jessie Earl Interview 1:03:35 Turncoats ( https://mildamatildagames.wordpress.com/turncoats-2/ ) 1:20:17 Votes for Women

It’s so great to be behind the microphone again talking about something you love! Especially when the thing you love is pancakes. But we also spend a good amount of time talking about what’s fresh in board games, including a sleeper solo hit Resist! from the people that brought you Undaunted, the little asymmetric arena battler Knight Fall and the somewhat sprawling choose your own adventure on a map game Lands of Galzyr. Today’s bonus feature is the three contenders for Efka’s game of the year title that didn’t quite make the cut. If you have personal experiences to share about any games discussed in this episode or any topic that's dear to your heart - we’d love to hear from you. Please write to: elaine@nopunincluded.com On to the timestamps: 9:00 Resist! 32:52 Knight Fall 48:30 Meaty Questions 1:04:18 Efka's Runners Up for GOTY 2022 1:12:22 Lands of Galzyr 1:27:26 More Write-ins

Welcome back to the newly named board game podcast from the duo at No Pun Included! In this new iteration we're starting small and building up each episode, so if you've enjoyed this - there's more to come every second Friday. Today we're taking you through Efka's most anticipated board games of 2023, four board game reviews and lots of words from our listeners. If you'd like to write in about any of the games discussed or any topic that's dear to your heart: elaine@nopunincluded.com On to the timestamps: 2:13 Scout 19:14 Evergreen 29:03 Efka's Most Anticipated Games of 2023 45:13 Artisans of Splendent Vale 1:02:47 Write-ins 1:15:52 Ostia

Hey everybody - it’s a calculator party! Bring out your Casios and we’ll get down with spreadsheets like it’s 1799. On today’s podcast not only do we tackle the mini-beast that is Arkwright: The Card Game but give an early scoop on Mind MGMT and a brief glance at Murano: Light Masters. Timestamps: Murano: Light Masters - ( 03:04 ) Arkwright: The Card Game - ( 20:00 ) Mind MGMT - ( 37:35 ) If you enjoyed this episode, leave a comment on https://nopunincluded.com/podcast

Three board games enter, one board game leaves. But only having endured the harsh nature of Elaine’s and Efka’s critique. That’s the No Pun Included podcast and it’s back once again for the twenty ninth time. Timestamps: Dinosaur World - ( 06:50 ) Exit Advent Calendar: Mystery of the Ice Cave (no spoilers) - ( 28:31 ) Magnate: The First City - ( 41:16 ) You can find more of the No Pun Included podcast, and leave a comment on nopunincluded.com/podcast

Cult of the new? More like “cult of the game that I’ve already played but haven’t played in ages and now there’s a new version so I bought it again just so I could play it and not play the copy I already had!” That’s right, today we discuss three board games that are renditions, re-editions, reimplementations or maybe just second editions. Timestamps: A Brief Note on our Too Many Bones Video - ( 00:55 ) Dinosaur Island: Rawr'N Write - ( 07:56 ) Mobile Markets: A Smartphone Inc Game - ( 30:59 ) Great Western Trail: Second Edition - ( 45:53 ) If you enjoyed this episode and would like to discuss any of the games featured on this episode, you can always leave a comment on our website: https://nopunincluded.com/podcast