Hello boardgamers and boardgamees, how are your MEEPLES? Do they need feeding? Watering? Some TLC? Or do they just need a good dose of the Talk Cardboard podcast to refresh that wooden noggin? Well worry not young meeple trainer, we’ve got a new episode digitally bumbling its way to you right now.

A real smorgasboard of delights this week as we take a look at three very different games to suit very different needs. Spectral is a strange melange of deduction and Keyflower style bidding? Does that even work? Does it make sense? Is Ryan Courtney the only designer that can pull this off?

Talking of designers that can pull things off, how about none other than Reiner Knizia himself, who, believe it or not, designed another game. Except he designed this one quite a long time ago and also made a very fresh expansion for it right now. Through the Desert is a mean mean classic and Bazaar is a mixed bag of modules to add some zest.

And finally, a board game based on a beloved video game (unofficially) that doesn’t just work but maybe even surpases its insipiration? Leviathan Wilds is the tabletop version of Shadows of the Colossus and there are moments when it towers above it.

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On to the timestamps:

0:00 Cold Open

1:05 Intro

3:03 Spectral

30:25 Through the Desert (+Bazaar Expansion)

56:55 More letters on Salton Sea

1:01:40 Leviathan Wilds

Episode ID: 1000659289486

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Release Date: 17/06/2024, 17:00:07

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A Board Game Podcast by No Pun Included

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Apple Podcasts: Customer Reviews

2023-11-25

Brilliant!

Fab guide to the hobby. Insightful, warm, funny and passionate. Great hosts that I trust to professionally produce wonderful content to guide and entertain me all at the same time. 10 outta 10!!

2020-03-05

The real them!

Having watched quiet a few of your review videos I finally got round to listening to your podcasts which are SO MUCH BETTER.

Don’t get me wrong, I like the reviews, they are funny and well edited however you can tell they are well planned and scripted, whereas your podcasts are so much more YOU. A joy to listen to you both chat over, and rebuff/reaffirm each other as you discuss things on the fly.

Keep it up folks :)

2019-10-01

No puns - all fun

Elaine and Efka are such a great team, which is lucky for them, but also makes the whole podcast a pleasure to listen to. Hearing about the games they played and get an initial opinion that is eloquent and detailed is great. Give it a listen. You won’t be disappointed.

2019-06-17

Much Fun Included

No Pun Included are myfavourite board games critics, and from the ashes of the Last Place podcast a phoenix has arisen. Elaine and Efka have the snappy repartee that comes from being completely in sync with each other (you’d hope so too). Funny and informative, with all the NPI trademarks that you will love unless you’re some kind of garbage human. Listen to it!