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Plays Well With Two

Kristen H

64 episodes

3 days ago

A pair of married board gamers are on a quest to find the games that work best with two players while also trimming down their collection so only the cream of the crop are left. Plays Well with Two asks ... Can there be a balance between old classics and the new hotness? Will we find an engine builder that the wife likes and a real-time game that won't make the husband pull out his hair? Expect strong opinions, playful banter, and interesting perspectives on board gaming every Wednesday (or therabouts)!

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A pair of married board gamers are on a quest to find the games that work best with two players while also trimming down their collection so only the cream of the crop are left. Plays Well with Two asks ... Can there be a balance between old classics and the new hotness? Will we find an engine builder that the wife likes and a real-time game that won't make the husband pull out his hair? Expect strong opinions, playful banter, and interesting perspectives on board gaming every Wednesday (or therabouts)!

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Episodes (20/64)

Plays Well With Two

Nidavellir Review

Nidavawhat? Kristen and Spin put on their Dwarf helmets and get to work recruiting the best army money can buy in this bidding/set collection board game. Stick around for some ruminations on game expansions too!

4 years ago

49 minutes 29 seconds

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April Roundup... plus a Podcast Announcement

April was a busy, busy month for Kristen and Spin. Not a lot of games played, but some great new finds and surprises... and LOTS of new additions. Stay dialed in, though, because there's also a (hopefully) exciting new announcement about something coming soon for Plays Well with Two!

4 years ago

37 minutes 56 seconds

Plays Well With Two

Review: Nanga Parbat

Kristen and Spin brave the heights as Sherpas setting up base camps and collecting sets of animals in Nanga Parbat, a two player game by Steve Finn. This semi-abstract game comes in a small box but is chock full of strategy... but will the lure of animeeples and the promise of a thirty-minute playing time be enough to help this game reach the highest peaks of our collection, or will it be left behind at base camp?

4 years ago

48 minutes 19 seconds

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Talking Point: Digital Versus Physical Board Games

What do you prefer, a pile of cardboard or pixels on a screen? The pandemic has people flooding sites finding a place to game. Will the fad stick? Kristen and Spin discuss the pros and cons of playing board games online and the major platforms where they can be played: BrettSpielWelt, Yucata, BoardGameArena, and Steam.

4 years ago

59 minutes 51 seconds

Plays Well With Two

Spell Smashers : Bargain or Bust?

What happens when a game about fantasy heroes defending a town from monsters loves a word game very much? Spell Smashers. Kristen and Spin picked up this unique card-driven spelling/monster bashing hybrid for half off. Did they stumble on hidden treasure, or do the cards spell "wasted money"? Listen and find out!

4 years ago

21 minutes 55 seconds

Plays Well With Two

Triple Threat: Three Roll and Writes Reviewed

Kristen and Spin take a looks at three more roll and writes. Yes, there are some we hadn't played yet! Be excited! Taking a look at Lanterns Dice, Bravo! and Rajas of the Ganges: The Dice Charmers. Be charmed and shout Bravo! while lighting lanterns ... OK, that fell apart. Should you add these into your collection? Do you hoard them like we do? Will one get a rating of 10??? 😲 Listen to find out now!

4 years ago

39 minutes 48 seconds

Plays Well With Two

Gaming Roundup for March 2021

It's roundup time again! Kristen and Spin discuss what we played last month. The surprises, the disappointments, and the "did we really play Cubitos that many times?"

4 years ago

30 minutes 19 seconds

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Top 10 2 player only games

Top 10 time!!! What board games made only for two players are the best? Lots of games tout as being playable with 2 but these ones are MADE for only 2. Which ones should you check out? Does your favorite make the list? Which ones are we missing? SPOILERS: Games mentioned in the episode (not in order) are Kero, Memoir 44, Nanga Parbat, Klask, Keyforge, Magic, Watergate, Seastead, Stratego, Othello, Backgammon, Claim, Fox and the Forest, Santorini, Mancala and more!

4 years ago

1 hour 17 minutes 49 seconds

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Carcassonne: Star Wars Edition - Bargain or Bust?

Game companies using popular IP to make special editions of beloved games? This is the way. Kristen and Spin look at 2015's Carcassonne: Star Wars Edition. The task at hand in everyone's favorite galaxy far, far away is to build trade routes, assemble asteroid fields, and fight for control of planets as one of five classic characters, with some unique twists on the classic Carcassonne game formula. Is the force with this twist on the beloved tile-layer, or will a tie-in edition of the game have failed us for the last time?

4 years ago

17 minutes 23 seconds

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Space Base Review and Welcoming Games Explained

ENGINE... BUILDERS... INNNNNN... SPAAAAAAACCCCCEEEE. John D. Clair's Space Base is going under the eye of Kristen and Spin today. Chewing gum-sized cards, tossing dice, and a surprisingly pleasing aesthetic definitely look like things that appeal to us, but is Space Base's beauty more than just skin deep? Then, we discuss what, exactly, a welcoming game is.

4 years ago

26 minutes 58 seconds

Plays Well With Two

Towers of Arkhanos — Bargain or Bust?

Kristen and Spin saw this game at Dice Tower West two years ago and were intrigued -- a game where you get to roll dice and use them as supports to build a tower, cool spells, and meeples (that can also be used to hold up the tower if necessary)? We were in. Unfortunately... we also forgot the name. Years later, we found a copy of this game in the clearance section and jumped at the chance to play it. Will this game build on the promise that your hosts saw at Dice Tower West, or will it crumble under its own weight?

4 years ago

13 minutes 54 seconds

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If you've been to your Friendly Local Game Store lately, you've probably seen Cubitos- that weird game with a block of cheese wearing lederhosen on the front of it. What you might not know is that this is a game by John D. Clair, designer of several of Kristen and Spin's favorite games. Get ready for dice rolling, highly variable cards, and luck pushing in this racing game. Is Cubitos ready to race... or does it stumble at the finish line? Come for the review, and stay for Spin making an extremely tortured cheese metaphor!

4 years ago

27 minutes 23 seconds

Plays Well With Two

CTRL : Bargain or Bust?

Check out the abstract area control board game CTRL (Control). Purchased from Target clearance, will the colorful cubes stack up or was it discounted for a reason? Come find out if it Plays Well With Two!

4 years ago

17 minutes 45 seconds

Plays Well With Two

Bargain or Bust?: Bosk

Take a nice autumn stroll through the leaves in the Bosk board game. In this area control nature game, landscape trees and then help the leaves fall across the board to claim the most spots to be victorious! Grab your pumpkin spice and chill in this relaxing tree game review.

4 years ago

16 minutes 44 seconds

Plays Well With Two

Best and worst board games we own (according to BoardGameGeek rank)

We've got a large game collection (about 400 games), but how does it rank on BoardGameGeek.com? Spin gives Kristen the top 10 games per BGG, then the lowest 10. Do you like data and numbers? We've got 'em for you!

4 years ago

57 minutes 39 seconds

Plays Well With Two

Delve Review & February RoundUp

Kristen and Spin look at Delve, a tile-laying dungeon-crawling treasure-snatching board game. Is this game precious treasure, or does it get left for the dungeon yetis? That's not all, though... we take a look over our additions, subtractions, plays, Game(s) of the Month, and Dishonorable Mentions for February 2021.

4 years ago

1 hour 6 minutes 34 seconds

Plays Well With Two

Res Arcana Review

Are you into super-tight, limited engine builders? If you answered yes, this episode is for you! Res Arcana, from Sand Castle Games in 2019, is all of that wrapped up in a fantasy theme. Spoiler but board games we both love this much don’t come around too often!

4 years ago

17 minutes 25 seconds

Plays Well With Two

Bargain or Bust?: OctoDice

Travel with us under the sea to labs, octopods, submarines, research and more with the OctoDice roll and write board game ... was it worth pulling out of the bargain bin? Should we have left it? Is it both??? Find out now!

4 years ago

23 minutes 11 seconds

Plays Well With Two

Wasteland Express Delivery Service Review

From the sun-scarred, radiation-glowing badlands emerges ... a review of Wasteland Express Delivery Service. Drive your armored, cobbled-together rigs from settlement to settlement, get $crap, upgrade your truck, and pick up and deliver essentials for survival. Will this game survive Kristen and Spin's scrutiny, or will it simply be a board game that was picked up by us and delivered to the Sale Shelf? And to that you say, "But those Game Trayz, though!"

4 years ago

37 minutes 29 seconds

Plays Well With Two

Curious Cargo First Impressions + Roundup of January

A game table divided in our newest two player game Curious Cargo. Get you factory up and running with tile laying to load and offload cargo from trucks. One of us loved it and the other wanted to flip the table ... find out which is which! Also this episode, we introduce a new Roundup segment. In Roundup, we take a look at our stats and plays from January. What new games did we play? What were our favorites? Big disappointment? Find all that out and more! ..... Games mentioned in this epiosde: Curious Cargo, Deus, Dune: Imperium, Dinosaur Tea Party, Kero, Cacao, The Crew, Kingdomino, and more!

4 years ago

59 minutes 34 seconds