Two Most Difficult: Recent Episodes
Two Most Difficult
Paul and Laura plumb the depths of their overloaded shelf of board games and tell you about each and every one of them.
Three sides good. Four sides OK. Five sides? No. Get out of here with that junk. Everyone knows (or ought to know) that hexagons truly are the bestagons. To celebrate them, we have all six games in the GIPF series. (And one garbage one.)
Timestamps
4:05 – GIPF 18:43 – TZAAR 31:21 – ZÉRTZ 44:00 – An Urgent Message 48:12 – DVONN 1:01:09 – PÜNCT 1:17:39 – YINSH 1:31:20 – LYNGK 1:52:33 – GIPF Potentials
Music Acknowledgments
https://twomostdifficult.wordpress.com/2022/10/11/18
Sometimes, after you've amassed a collection of 200+ board games, the perfect combination of games for a theme just falls into your lap. (And breaks both your thigh bones.)
Timestamps
3:07 - Ark Nova 43:26 - Nova Luna 1:04:56 - Luna Capital 1:29:19 - An Urgent Message 1:32:08 - Capital Lux 2: Generations
Music Acknowledgments
https://twomostdifficult.wordpress.com/2022/10/11/17
In which we try (and fail way more times than we're comfortable with) to pronounce "Yurg's Excursions".
Timestamps
2:39 - Merchants of the Dark Road 45:00 - Monsters on Board 1:15:07 - Hidden Leaders 1:31:30 - Petrichor
Music Acknowledgments
https://twomostdifficult.wordpress.com/2022/07/08/16
This episode, we have not three... not two... but a SINGLE review! And then, after not thirty, but FORTY-FIVE minutes of answering but a small selection of the deluge of your e-mails, we'll announce the winner of our contest from the last episode.
Timestamps
3:17 - Terraforming Mars 36:00 - Mailbag 1:18:37 - Winner, Winner, Gift Card Dinner
Music Acknowledgments
https://twomostdifficult.wordpress.com/2022/06/24/15
A two-hour episode is fitting for a designer of this magnitude, we think. All of the content, just barely enough theme to make it all work. PLUS: Another giveaway!
Timestamps
4:00 - The Castles of Burgundy 29:21 - Trajan 57:47 - Bonfire 1:22:41 - Carpe Diem 1:44:48 - Notre Dame
Music Acknowledgments
https://twomostdifficult.wordpress.com/2022/06/09/14
The Rise & Grind culture may convince you to make extra money at home by constructing a mysterious factory in your attic, but take it from us - it's a really bad idea.
Timestamps
02:46 - Shamans 20:53 - Lawyer Up 47:54 - Factory Funner 65:16 - Witchstone
Music Acknowledgements
https://twomostdifficult.wordpress.com/2022/05/17/13
When the smoke machines go off and the music starts, you know you've just kicked up the difficulty a notch. Gird your loins.
Timestamps
3:42 - Planet Unknown 28:40 - Super Fantasy Brawl 50:42 - Return to Dark Tower
Music Acknowledgments
https://twomostdifficult.wordpress.com/2022/05/08/12
When naming your new city, be sure to follow all applicable rules and regulations, including the one about joke names. Trust us - it's there.
Timestamps
3:06 - Tabannusi: Builders of Ur 26:48 - Babylonia 39:54 - Founders of Gloomhaven
Music Acknowledgments
https://twomostdifficult.wordpress.com/2022/04/11/11
In which Paul woefully underestimates the Accent Enforcement budget of various international police forces.
Timestamps
3:27 - Haggis 20:37 - Lost Cities 33:45 - Schotten Totten 44:08 - Kompromat
Music Acknowledgments
https://twomostdifficult.wordpress.com/2022/03/26/10
I've heard that if you win ten different games of his in a row, Uwe Rosenberg throws M. Bison off the screen and challenges you to a fight.
Plus: A Giveaway! Listen and win! Right now!
Timestamps
3:01 - Agricola 24:26 - Cottage Garden 37:15 - Bohnanza (And Bohnanza: The Duel)
Music Acknowledgments
https://twomostdifficult.wordpress.com/2022/03/05/9
Based on the length of this one, we maybe should have had our Spectacular four or five episodes ago.
Timestamps
3:24 – One Night Ultimate Werewolf (and Werewords!) 11:45 – Between Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig 24:22 – Three Sisters 44:22 – Four Gardens 1:01:55 – Five Tribes 1:18:23 - 6 Nimmt! (aka Take 5) 1:27:07 - 7 Wonders 1:39:05 - Eight Minute Empire
Music Acknowledgments
https://twomostdifficult.wordpress.com/2022/02/23/8
We're only one step away from needing a lamination intervention over here.
Timestamps
2:36 - Sagrada 15:12 - Gambler 24:44 - Qwixx, Harvest Dice and Ganz Schön Clever 41:37 - Rolling Realms 57:36 - Troyes
Music Acknowledgements
https://twomostdifficult.wordpress.com/2022/02/14/7
Answering the question on everyone's mind: Who Gets to Paint the Butt?
Timestamps
4:24 - Fresco 23:46 - Modern Art (Auction and Card Game) 41:28 - The Gallerist 1:11:37 - Canvas
Music Acknowledgements
https://twomostdifficult.wordpress.com/2022/02/14/6
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cathala Haute-Savoie (near Geneva, Switzerland) wgah'nagl fhtagn.
Timestamps
2:35 - Dice Miner 16:00 - Exit: The Gate Between Worlds 23:05 - Just One 29:36 - 7 Wonders Duel
Music Acknowledgements
https://twomostdifficult.wordpress.com/2022/01/22/5
I mean, maybe not anything. Diet Moxie is pretty much right off the table.
Timestamps
5:45 - The Search for Planet X 23:05 - Alchemists 41:40 - Houston, We Have a Dolphin!
Music Acknowledgements
https://twomostdifficult.wordpress.com/2022/01/20/4
If you love thievery, then boy do I have a phone number for you to call and a place for you to meet some people who are definitely also into thievery.
Timestamps
2:15 - Ponzi Scheme 14:40 - Stop Thief! 23:20 - Clue: The Great Museum Caper 33:38 - Escape Plan
Music Acknowledgements
https://twomostdifficult.wordpress.com/2022/01/07/3
Paolo Mori knows when you don't pronounce the name of his game with the appropriate amount of gusto.
Timestamps
1:38 – Caesar!: Seize Rome in 20 Minutes 12:35 – Fox in the Forest (Duet and Regular) 25:02 – The Duke
Music Acknowledgements
https://twomostdifficult.wordpress.com/2021/12/31/2
Join us as we take our first step. Into what, we won't really know until after that fourth or fifth step.
Timestamps
10:40 - Mantis Falls 22:40 - Maglev Metro 33:05 - In Too Deep
Music Acknowledgements
https://twomostdifficult.wordpress.com/2021/12/26/1