Episodes
Episodes
Friday Oct 15, 2021
Legacy Episodes - Ambitious Kickstarters with Bad Rulebooks
Friday Oct 15, 2021
Friday Oct 15, 2021
Ah, rulebooks. Don’t you just love sitting down with a cup of hot beverage and an arcane manual written by what you assume is a “game wizard” and spend four hours of your day trying to understand what exactly phrases like “spend your faucet token to activate the hyrdraulics action space” actually mean, to only inevitably give up and desperately search YouTube for a Watch it Played video?
Well, this episode of the No Pun Included podcast is delivered to you by this exact feeling. Not all games in today’s episode have bad rulebooks - but the ones that do excel at it.
Timestamps:
Sheepy Time - ( 04:00 )
Beast - ( 18:21 )
The Great Wall - ( 40:19 )
For more of the No Pun Included podcast visit https://nopunincluded.com/podcast where you can leave a comment if you'd like to discuss any of the games featured in this episode, or any terrible rulebooks you've encountered in your life.
Friday Oct 08, 2021
Legacy Episodes - Coffee Coffee coffee coffee
Friday Oct 08, 2021
Friday Oct 08, 2021
What two things would you miss if you were to live on the moon? That’s right, it’s coffee, and the ability for sound to echo whilst you’re doing a moonwalk in vacuum. With that tenuous link between this episode’s board games established, I can tell you a little bit more what to expect from each. Luna Capital is yet another spin on the tableau building formula, Echoes brings something fresh by giving us our very first audio mystery game, and Coffee Traders is this episode’s chunky boy, giving most euro games a run for their money in terms of complexity.
Timestamps:
Luna Capital - ( 08:35 )
Echoes - ( 24:23 )
Coffee Traders - ( 38:45 )
You can find more episodes on https://nopunincluded.com/podcast
Friday Sep 17, 2021
Legacy Episodes - Boats Boats Robin Oats
Friday Sep 17, 2021
Friday Sep 17, 2021
Toot toot, the No Pun Included boat has docked, ready to unload three stormy board games into your harbour. Are these board games fresh as the fruit of the sea, or do they perhaps smell a bit fishy? Quick, someone take away the analogies from me because I’ll starting waxing on about how we spill the board game guts. Oh no. It’s too late - the board game guts - they are everywhere.
Timestamps:
Fleet: The Dice Game - ( 02:39 )
The Crew: Mission Deep Sea - ( 19:59 )
The Adventures of Robin Hood - ( 36:05 )
For more of the No Pun Included Podcast visit our home - https://nopunincluded.com/podcast
Thursday Sep 02, 2021
Legacy Episodes - The Reiner Knizia Special - Part Two - Out of Print Edition
Thursday Sep 02, 2021
Thursday Sep 02, 2021
Following from our Reiner Knizia Special video, here's more Knizia games, this time, all out of print and all (hopefully) coming back soon.
07:51 - Tigris & Euphrates + Yellow & Yangtzee
32:57 - Ra
43:24 - Winner's Circle
For more No Pun Included, visit https://nopunincluded.com
Thursday Jul 29, 2021
Legacy Episodes - Destinies Vs Descent
Thursday Jul 29, 2021
Thursday Jul 29, 2021
In todays episode we'll talk about two games that share a common ancestry: Destinies and Descent: Legends of the Dark.
Fun fact, we mention comparing these two games at the end, and then totally forget to do that. But the comparison points should be clear as we go along.
Timestaps:
Destinies - ( 02:43 )
Minor Mechanical Destinies Spoilers - ( 16:29 )
Spoilers end at - ( 17:50 )
Descent: Legends in the Dark - ( 41:24 )
If you enjoyed this episode, visit https://nopunincluded.com/podcast
Monday Jul 19, 2021
Monday Jul 19, 2021
Hello cheese fans! Hope you brought your cheese along cause it's about to get stinky! Join us in this heatwave for another episode of the NPI Podcast where we'll indulge you in some board game talk.
On today's episode we discuss:
Summoner Wars ( 05:33 )
Khora: Rise of an Empire ( 22:17 )
Kemet: Blood and Sand ( 48:05 )
If you enjoyed this episode and want to find more, you should definitely visit our podcast home - https://nopunincluded.com/podcast
Monday May 24, 2021
Legacy Episodes - Sleeping Gods
Monday May 24, 2021
Monday May 24, 2021
Today we discuss one game and one game only - Sleeping Gods. For more information, or to leave a comment, visit:
nopunincluded.com/podcast
A review copy of Sleeping Gods has been provided by the publisher Red Raven Games
Tuesday Apr 13, 2021
Legacy Episodes - My Cheese City
Tuesday Apr 13, 2021
Tuesday Apr 13, 2021
In this episode we’ll discuss Overboss, a tile laying city builder masquerading as a pixelated fantasy game, Cubitos, a psychedelic game about racing cubes on an alien cube planet, and My City - a Reiner Knizia polyamino tile-laying legacy game.
Overboss ( 02:48 )
Cubitos ( 20:50 )
My City ( 35:30 )
If you enjoyed this episode, leave a comment at https://nopunincluded.com/podcast
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