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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Today we’re reviewing Tony’s favorite game of GenCon, Forest Shuffle, a small box game card game with a big deck

Today’s a special episode of Two Wood for a Wheat where we’re joined by Jon Gortat, a great friend of

We review War of the Ring The Card Game, and talk about how to balance theme and mechanisms in IP-based

We review After Us, a post-apocalyptic deck builder with monkeys! Then, we discuss the evolution of apocalyptic themes in board

Today we’re reviewing Shake that City, the new city building game published by AEG with a box like no other.

Today we answer the question, can a euro be too euro-y? We also discuss games that could have been an

In this retro review, we examine what makes this fashioned themed euro from Matthias Kramer, Stefan Malz, Louis Malz, an

We review Garphill’s new solo design Legacy of Yu and look at the elements of punishing games. Join us in

Today we review another hot game – Revive, the new combo-chaining quasi-deck building game. Then we’re discussing ‘reset turns’ in

Happy Earth Day! Tony and Pat review Earth, the new enormous-deck tableau building game. Then we discuss the benefits and