Two Wood for a Wheat

Two Wood for Wheat is a board game podcast. We review and criticize board games, diving deep into the strategies and mechanisms that make them great or make them forgettable.

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Update frequency: every 6 days
Average duration: 57 minutes
Episodes: 184
Years Active: 2018 - 2024

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B-Sides 51. Isle of Cats Explore and Draw

Tony and Mitch and guest Bill/Varianor discuss The Isle of Cats: Explore and Draw. Then we move on to discuss our most (and least) loved roll and write, dice game, and card game spinoffs of existing …

01:02:03 | Mon 03 Apr 2023

111. Splendor Duel & Duel Games

Today we're reviewing Splendor: Duel, a gem-infused two player engine building game redesigned by Bruno Cathala.
Then we're discussing what we find in the best duel games.

:01:20 Splendor: Duel
00:01:27…

00:50:30 | Mon 27 Mar 2023

B-Sides 50. Memorable Board Game Experiences

Join us in the conversation on discord: https://tinyurl.com/2wood4wheat

Mitch and Tony reminisce about their most memorable board game moments.

01:07:32 | Mon 20 Mar 2023

110. Atiwa

Nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh BAT GAME
Today we review Atiwa, one of Uwe Rosenberg's newest games about balancing human expansion and forest growth in Ghana.

00:04:24 Anachrony
00:06:33 It's a Wond…

00:41:48 | Mon 13 Mar 2023

B-Sides 49. Obsession by Kayenta Games

Mitch and Tony review Obsession, a five year old board game about social climbing in Jane Austen's England. We examine both the mechanisms and what's made this game grow in popularity as time has gon…

00:55:46 | Mon 06 Mar 2023

109. Terracotta Army & End-of-Round Objectives

The Terracotta Army is a collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China. It is a form of funerary art buried with the emperor in 210–209 BCE wit…

00:52:14 | Mon 27 Feb 2023

B-Sides 48. Unintentional Cheating

Mitch and Tony discuss the many times they’ve gotten the rules of a game wrong, and how unintentional cheating or other inaccuracies are inevitable parts of the board game experience.

Join our Discord…

00:35:29 | Mon 20 Feb 2023

108. Most Anticipated Games of 2023

We're revealing our most anticipated games of 2023.

00:02:00 Unconscious Mind, Darwin's Journey, Horseless Carriage, Annunaki: Dawn of the Gods, Revive
00:02:48 Frosthaven (mild item spoiler)
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00:58:01 | Mon 13 Feb 2023

B-Sides 47. Too Frost for a Haven 2

More spoiler filled rants on the latest state of the Frosthaven campaigns being run by Pat, Tony, and Mitch. Listen to Mitch talk about why he'll never quit the Banner Spear, Pat Geek out on the huge…

00:54:22 | Mon 06 Feb 2023

107. Woodcraft & Top 10 Games of 2022

Have you ever wanted to live your life as a Keebler elf? What? No, me neither. I mean, not until I played Woodcraft.

Join us for our review of this brand new dice manipulation euro by Vladimír Suchý a…

01:24:31 | Mon 30 Jan 2023

B-sides 46. What's up with WotC? (and How to Deal with Crappy Gaming Companies)

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…

00:58:55 | Mon 23 Jan 2023

106. Tiletum & 2022 Games We Missed

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 V…

01:08:34 | Mon 16 Jan 2023

B-Sides 45. Mindbug

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?…

00:34:24 | Mon 09 Jan 2023

1. Too Frost for a Haven

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, specif…

00:31:45 | Mon 02 Jan 2023

B-Sides 44. Xmas Special 2022

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 o…

00:57:34 | Mon 26 Dec 2022

105. Frosthaven First Impressions

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…

01:08:49 | Mon 19 Dec 2022

B-Sides 43. PAX Unplugged & EXIT: Shadows Over Middle Earth

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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 c…

00:55:22 | Mon 12 Dec 2022

104. Evergreen & Mini Review & First Impression Extravaganza

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 reviewi…

01:00:40 | Mon 05 Dec 2022

B-Sides 42. A Deck of Cards

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…

00:56:07 | Mon 28 Nov 2022

103. Verdant & Building Something

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 …

01:06:03 | Mon 21 Nov 2022

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