Episode 23 - Are Simple Games Just for Babies

Cardboard Cave is a board game podcast focusing on one game per episode. Listen as Trevor and Anna cover everything from the hottest hits and modern classics to forgotten games you just never hear about anymore. Welcome to the Cave!

On this episode, Trevor ponders if it's okay to be a seasoned gamer who enjoys super simple games, or if we should grow up and only play the heavy stuff. There are TONS of simple games mentioned in this episode, some classics, some new.

Cardboard Cave Episode 22 - Dinosaur Island: Rawr 'n Write Surprise

Cardboard Cave is a board game podcast focusing on one game per episode. Listen as Trevor and Anna cover everything from the hottest hits and modern classics to forgotten games you just never hear about anymore. Welcome to the Cave!

Surprise! Cardboard Cave isn't dead, again. Trevor is back to quickly discuss a host of games, then review the quicker, smaller version of the beloved Jurassic Park-like game Dinosaur Island. Games mentioned this episode, in order: Fleet: The Dice Game Marvel United Mining Colony Dice Miner Stella: Dixit Universe Nidavellir Dune: Imperium Biblios Dinosaur Island: Rawr 'n Write.

Episode 21 - Gaming in the Early Days Versus Now

Cardboard Cave is a board game podcast focusing on one game per episode. Listen as Trevor and Anna cover everything from the hottest hits and modern classics to forgotten games you just never hear about anymore. Welcome to the Cave!

In this nostalgic (read: crusty, old fashioned, fuddy duddy) episode, Trevor talks about some of the first games he ordered, talks about a receipt he found for a game order from 2006 (talk about exciting), and compares board gaming in the early 2000's to now, 20 years later. Games mentioned this episode: It's a Wonderful World Tiny Towns Fleet the Dice Game Cupcake Empire Then LOTS OF OLD GAMES.

Episode 20 - Solo Games with Gaby Moraga

Cardboard Cave is a board game podcast focusing on one game per episode. Listen as Trevor and Anna cover everything from the hottest hits and modern classics to forgotten games you just never hear about anymore. Welcome to the Cave!

Gaby of the Boardgame Snobs is back in the cave as we discuss a whole pile of solo games (or multiplayer games with solo modes) we've played recently. Games mentioned include:

-Newton
-PARKS
-Bonfire
-Underwater Cities
-Fields of Arle
-Coldwater Crown
-Monster Expedition
-Mining Colony
-NEOM
-Final Girl
-Hostage Negotiator
-The Castles of Burgundy: the Card Game
-Genotype
-The Red Cathedral
-Yukon Airways
-Fast & Furious: Highway Heist
-Nations the Dice Game
-Pocket Landship
-Villagers
-Imperium Classics

Episode 19 - Bonfire-and is Stefan Feld Any Good?!

Cardboard Cave is a board game podcast focusing on one game per episode. Listen as Trevor and Anna cover everything from the hottest hits and modern classics to forgotten games you just never hear about anymore. Welcome to the Cave!

On this episode, Trevor brings a flaming hot (harhar) review on Stefan Feld's Bonfire, a medium heavy weight Eurogame from 2020. Then he takes a look at Stefan Feld as a whole and casts judgment on his merits as a designer. Tune in to hear a fool judge a genius.

Episode 18 - Top 5 Weird Game Boxes

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On this episode, Gaby Gaby of Board Game Snobs is back to talk about our top 5 games with odd boxes. Though this episode ends up all over the place and ends with two grown men peeing. Intrigued? Better listen.

Episode 17 - Top 10 Two Player Games w Gaby Moraga

Cardboard Cave is a board game podcast focusing on one game per episode. Listen as Trevor and Anna cover everything from the hottest hits and modern classics to forgotten games you just never hear about anymore. Welcome to the Cave!

On this episode, Trevor is joined in the cave by Gaby Moraga of the Board Game Snobs Podcast. Trevor relentlessly drills Gaby with hard hitting questions before they each share their list of the top 10 board games to play with two players. Check out Board Game Snobs wherever you get podcasts, and on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Episode 16 - Everdell and Kickstarter Exclusives

Cardboard Cave is a board game podcast focusing on one game per episode. Listen as Trevor and Anna cover everything from the hottest hits and modern classics to forgotten games you just never hear about anymore. Welcome to the Cave!

On this episode, Trevor reviews Everdell, complains about Kickstarter, and mentions a bunch of other games. Other games mentioned include:
Ticket to Ride Europe 15th Anniversary
Coldwater Crown
Lords of Waterdeep
Fields of Arle
Abyss.

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Episode 15 - Underwater Cities

Cardboard Cave is a board game podcast focusing on one game per episode. Listen as Trevor and Anna cover everything from the hottest hits and modern classics to forgotten games you just never hear about anymore. Welcome to the Cave!

Welcome back to the cave where Trevor is joined by his sister-in-law Kelby, who has rapidly taken to this great board game hobby. They briefly discuss a couple of recent plays, review Underwater Cities in depth, and even find time to bash on Stefan Feld’s Aquasphere. Games mentioned:
Ticket to Ride Europe
Ticket to Ride Amsterdam
Aquasphere
Underwater Cities
Underwater Cities: New Discoveries

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Episode 14 - Brutal Honesty & Isle of Cats Review

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In the first half of this episode Trevor goes off format to express some things he's been feeling. In the second half he reviews Isle of Cats, the critical darling cat themed game with Tetris shaped cat tiles and card drafting. Welcome back to the cave. Sorry if this one gets too deep.

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Episode 13 - Introduction to The Lord of the Rings the Card Game

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This episode is a reasonably short introduction to The Lord of the Rings: the Card Game. This massive hit is a "living card game" which has been getting regular expansions since its release in 2011, and has a massively dedicated following both from solo gamers and cooperative game lovers, and especially lovers of LOTR. Trevor tries to give you just enough, both the good and the bad, to help you decide if this is a world you want to dive into.

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Episode 12 - Santa Maria Review

Cardboard Cave is a board game podcast focusing on one game per episode. Listen as Trevor and Anna cover everything from the hottest hits and modern classics to forgotten games you just never hear about anymore. Welcome to the Cave!

In this episode Trevor discusses recent games played and reviews Santa Maria, a dice drafting, dice placement Eurogame about colonizing the island of Santa Maria. Games discussed this episode: Carcassonne, Ticket to Ride: New York, Biblios, The Quacks of Quedlinburg, Fantastic Factories, Santa Maria. Welcome to the Cave!

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Episode 11 - Nusfjord and Skull King

Cardboard Cave is a board game podcast focusing on one game per episode. Listen as Trevor and Anna cover everything from the hottest hits and modern classics to forgotten games you just never hear about anymore. Welcome to the Cave!

This week, Trevor welcomes you to the cave to review and discuss Nusfjord, the 2017 Uwe Rosenburg game about running a fishing company in Norway. Before that, he briefly discusses Skull King, a massive break out hit at his recent family beach trip. Welcome to the cave. Watch your head on the way into the game room. That stalactite over the entrance really is quite pointy.

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Episode 10 - Santa Monica Quick Review

Cardboard Cave is a board game podcast focusing on one game per episode. Listen as Trevor and Anna cover everything from the hottest hits and modern classics to forgotten games you just never hear about anymore. Welcome to the Cave!

This week, Trevor gives a quick review of Santa Monica, a lovely new card drafting game about building the best beach front in California. Welcome to the Cave. Feel free to use our underground wading pool after we play the game. Just don't get the cards wet, please.

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Episode 9 - Shelf of Shame Part II with Guest

Cardboard Cave is a board game podcast focusing on one game per episode. Listen as Trevor and Anna cover everything from the hottest hits and modern classics to forgotten games you just never hear about anymore. Welcome to the Cave!

Cardboard Cave has special guest Johnny Townsend as Trevor reviews another 4 games that have sat shamefully unplayed on his shelf. Then he forces Johnny and Anna to play a super nerdy board game quiz show. Please join us in the cave, and let the cave dog back in on your way out. Games covered in order: Steam Torpedo Martinique Perry Rhodan the Cosmic League For Crown & Kingdom

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Episode 8 - My Shelf of Shame

Cardboard Cave is a board game podcast focusing on one game per episode. Listen as Trevor and Anna cover everything from the hottest hits and modern classics to forgotten games you just never hear about anymore. Welcome to the Cave!

Cardboard Cave is back and Trevor discusses the exciting (?) state of the podcast before diving into the topic: his shelf of shame. These are a pile of games collecting dust on his game shelf, some literally for a decade, that he has now played for the very first time. Will he keep any of them? Were there any hidden gems? Join us in the Cave to find out. Games discussed this episode: Sunken City The Bridges of Shangri-La Dream Home Rob n' Run Portobello Market Aquasphere.

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Episode 7 - Grand Austria Hotel

Cardboard Cave is a board game podcast focusing on one game per episode. Listen as Trevor and Anna cover everything from the hottest hits and modern classics to forgotten games you just never hear about anymore. Welcome to the Cave!

In this episode, Trevor is all alone in the cave due to self isolation. He briefly discusses recent games played, including some good isolation options. Then he gives his full review of the hotel managing Eurogame Grand Austria Hotel. Games mentioned in this episode, in order - 10 days in Africa, Wonders, Jaipur, Last Will, Rallyman GT, and Grand Austria Hotel. Please remember to shut the gate when you leave the cave. We don’t want our pet cave lizards running away.

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Episode 6 - Top 10 Worst Games Ever

Cardboard Cave is a board game podcast focusing on one game per episode. Listen as Trevor and Anna cover everything from the hottest hits and modern classics to forgotten games you just never hear about anymore. Welcome to the Cave!

After a small hiatus between episodes, Cardboard Cave returns with a special episode: The Top 10 Worst Games Ever (that Trevor has played, in his humble opinion) Be sure to interact with us on Facebook or Instagram to let us know what you'd like us to cover or what direction you'd like to see the show go. We need your help! Oh, and watch out for the bats. They've been bad in the cave this season and like to steal hats and toupees.

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Episode 5 - Last Will

Cardboard Cave is a board game podcast focusing on one game per episode. Listen as Trevor and Anna cover everything from the hottest hits and modern classics to forgotten games you just never hear about anymore. Welcome to the Cave!

This week, Trevor and Anna invite you into the Cave as they dive deep into the game Last Will. In Last Will, you have inherited a small fortune and are tasked to blow all your money, destroy all your property, and lead a generally wasteful and riotous life until you hit bankruptcy. This is surprisingly harder than it sounds in this worker placement, hand management game from Vladimir Suchy.

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Episode 4 - Christmas 2019 Gaming Extravaganza

Cardboard Cave is a board game podcast focusing on one game per episode. Listen as Trevor and Anna cover everything from the hottest hits and modern classics to forgotten games you just never hear about anymore. Welcome to the Cave!

On this episode, Anna and Trevor had way too many games they played over the holidays to cram into a normal episode, so they made a whole episode just sharing their thoughts on the games played over the last couple of weeks.

Games discussed on this episode: Last Will, Le Havre, Ice Cool, Steampunk Rally, Trains, Quacks of Quedlinburg, Raccoon Tycoon, and Asking for Trobils. If you want to hear their quick takes on a BUNCH of games, this is the episode for you!

Welcome to the Cave: please ignore the colony of bats nesting near the upstairs bathroom. They moved in last week due to a new lake forming in their prior cove of the cave.

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