Cardboard And Wine

The best way to highlight how we feel about NMBR 9 is we decided to buy it about halfway through our first play with a friend’s copy. At least two other friends we have introduced it to have also gone out and purchased their own. So I guess don’t listen to this episode if you’re … Continue reading 11 | NMBR 9 (THS GM S FN)

We love our weekly game group, and we love winding down our day with a two player board game before bed. However, there’s just something special about getting away for a long weekend of board gaming with friends. In this week’s show, Josh gives a recap of his gaming getaway weekend in the mountains. Games … Continue reading 10 | Board Game Getaways (Fireflies, Dice Rolls, and Train Games)

You are a spice trader along the famed Spice Road, risking your life and fortune to trade two red cubes for a green and three yellows. Ok, so Century: Spice Road is a game where you collect cubes, which you trade in for better cubes, which you use to claim victory points. Typical Euro stuff … Continue reading 9 | Century: Spice Road (Trading Cubes for Other Cubes)

Terra Mystica in space! Whether that’s a good thing or not depends on how you feel about Terra Mystica or whether you’ve played it at all. It is tempting to avoid comparison altogether, though the designers have gone so far as to subtitle Gaia Project, “A Terra Mystica Game”. Which actually begs the question – … Continue reading 8 | Gaia Project (A Game of Currencies)

Kingdomino won the Spiel des Jahres – Game of the Year – in 2017, but is it any fun for our KIDS? Is it any fun for our heavy gaming FRIENDS? Is it any fun for US? Spoiler alert: yes, yes, and YES! This game is super fun. We love it more than we probably … Continue reading 7 | Kingdomino (Extra Shiny Tiles)

Are you an attention seeker? Then setup a game of Azul in your local coffee shop and see what happens. This game is gorgeous on whatever table you prefer to play on. The tiles, the boards, even the bag. But beautiful components a good game does not make. Is Azul a quality GAME? On this … Continue reading 6 | Azul (The Literal Tile-Laying Game)

It’s our first Listicle™ episode! Last year was a formative year of gaming for us; we played loads of new games and filled in our collection from the gaming gap brought on by graduate school and having babies. Even though it’s already April, we discuss our favorite “new to us” board games of 2017. It … Continue reading 5 | Top Five Games We Discovered in 2017 (Actually, Top 6!)

It’s Gloomhaven. What more can be said about the 7th Wonder of the World… or at least the 7th game ever to hit #1 on Board Game Geek? Well, we’ll take a half hour or so and see what we can add to the conversation. There are many things to enjoy about Gloomhaven: the extensively … Continue reading 4 | Gloomhaven (Adventures in Plano Boxes)

Way back in 2006, we placed our first board game order. Yesterday we received another game order in the mail, and we still get just as excited twelve years later to cut the shrink wrap off and punch out brand news games as we did way back when! In that very first game order was … Continue reading 3 | Lost Cities (Handshakes and Shuffling Bliss)

If binge-watching Netflix had a homolog in the board game world, it would be Pandemic Legacy. I mean, it’s even called “Season 1”, so besides providing obvious forecasting of intentions to continue monetizing the Pandemic cash cow, the title invites you to jump in and consume. Consume we did. In this episode, we provide our … Continue reading 2 | Pandemic Legacy (Do We Toss it in the Trash Now?)

It’s not every day that we’re drawn to a game JUST because of how it looks on the table, but Sagrada was one of those games. The dice and player boards are stunning, but does the gameplay live up to the flashy components? We discuss, this week on the show! The star of the show … Continue reading 1 | Sagrada (Fun with Grozing Pliers)

Welcome to Cardboard and Wine, a podcast about life and the board games we love. We are a wife and husband duo who love playing games with friends, family, and especially each other. In this episode, we introduce ourselves and what Cardboard and Wine is all about. Grab a glass, pull up a chair, and … Continue reading 0 | Greetings and Salutations (It’s Episode Zero!)