Tony and Mitch discuss their games played at the 2024 Level Up Con in Woodbridge, NJ. Also, Tony and Mitch discuss their top 10 most antcipated games for 2024. Join us on Discord: https://tinyurl.com/2wood4wheat ..read more

Today is Two Wood for a Wheat's final episode of regularly scheduled programming and we go out with a critical flourish. We review and offer first impressions on eight hot games before diving deep into our understanding of the state of the hobby, and our continued stake in it as shaped by our time as gamers and our time on the podcast. Thank you for listening with us for all these years. We hope to be back with more reviews whenever our passions can't keep us away from the microphone. Join us in the conversation on discord: https://tinyurl.com/2wood4wheat Ask us a question at TwoWoodForAWhea ..read more

Let's keep it simple. This is the 2023 Essen Top 10 Most Anticipated Games episode, the games that we're most excited for, many of which we'll play in 2024. Join us in the conversation on discord: https://tinyurl.com/2wood4wheat Ask us a question at TwoWoodForAWheat@gmail.com Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwV0sl_H14NfaB8SpL9tg9g Leave us a review on Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/two-wood-for-a-wheat/id1447901771 Read Tony's blog: https://boardgamegeek.com/user/maxlongstreet/blogs Thanks to God Street Wine for our intro and outro music: https://www.facebook ..read more

Extra! Extra! Step right up to the latest scoop on Two Wood for a Wheat! Join us in the rollicking rumpus of the gaming parlors as we bring you the skinny on "Fit to Print," the real deal in real-time tile-laying amusements. It's a hootin' good time where you'll be puttin' together the front page of your weekend newspaper, not by the book, but with cunning and swiftness, the cat's pajamas of newspaper layout, if you will! But hold on to your fedoras, folks, for that's not all she wrote! In the back pages, we're dishing on the bee's knees of gaming: time restrictions! We'll spill the beans on h ..read more

Today we're reviewing Tony's favorite game of GenCon, Forest Shuffle, a small box game card game with a big deck and an even bigger depth of play. Then, we're discussing Card Cost Curves, how games with large decks structure the costs and benefits of their cards. Join us in the conversation on discord: https://tinyurl.com/2wood4wheat Ask us a question at TwoWoodForAWheat@gmail.com Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwV0sl_H14NfaB8SpL9tg9g Leave us a review on Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/two-wood-for-a-wheat/id1447901771 Read Tony's blog: https://boardgamegeek ..read more

Today's a special episode of Two Wood for a Wheat where we're joined by Jon Gortat, a great friend of the podcast. Tony and Jon had a wonderful time at Gen Con and have so many games to tell us about. Join us in the conversation on discord: https://tinyurl.com/2wood4wheat Ask us a question at TwoWoodForAWheat@gmail.com Leave us a review on Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/two-wood-for-a-wheat/id1447901771 Read Tony's blog: https://boardgamegeek.com/user/maxlongstreet/blogs Thanks to God Street Wine for our intro and outro music: https://www.facebook.com/GodStreetWine/ 0 ..read more

The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. The opening words to the Lord of the Rings movies are a lot better than the opening words to the books. They prepare us for the changes brought on by a new age, to the rise of men and the fall of elves, and the shifting and forgetting of history, of great battles and small acts of bravery. It's all very Lord of the Rings. The book's opening lines are about Hobbiton getting excited for Bilbo's birthday party. Although they do introduce the "eleventy-first" to the english language, which makes it all a ..read more

Shake Box. Shakey Boy Box. Randomness Plunger. Infinite Input Randomness Generator. What the hell do we call this thing? Today we're reviewing Shake that City, the new city building game published by AEG with a box like no other. Nearly without fail, it produces a three-by-three grid of colored cubes to lay onto your city board. Does this box make a game? Come find out. Along those lines, we discuss different design elements that engender input randomness. Join us in the conversation on discord: https://tinyurl.com/2wood4wheat Ask us a question at TwoWoodForAWheat@gmail.com Leave us a rev ..read more

Today we answer the question, can a euro be too euro-y? Also, we're discussing games that could have been an email AKA heavies that could have been mediums. Looser edit today, folks. Pat's running on 8 total hours of sleep over two days and is aiming for a a base level functioning. Join us in the conversation on discord: https://tinyurl.com/2wood4wheat Ask us a question at TwoWoodForAWheat@gmail.com Leave us a review on Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/two-wood-for-a-wheat/id1447901771 Read Tony's blog: https://boardgamegeek.com/user/maxlongstreet/blogs Thanks to God ..read more

The Rococo period, which emerged in the early 18th century in Europe, was a highly ornamental and elegant artistic and architectural style that replaced the grandeur and formality of the Baroque era. Characterized by delicate and asymmetrical designs, pastel colors, and a focus on frivolity and pleasure, Rococo art sought to create a sense of lightness and enchantment. It celebrated the aristocratic lifestyle, depicting scenes of leisure, love, and nature, often incorporating elements of fantasy and mythology. The period's intricate decoration was seen in lavish interiors, furniture, sculpture ..read more