Full Tuck: The Wingspan Podcast
by The Full Tuck Team
Welcome to Full Tuck: The Wingspan Podcast! We are two fans from the UK and we've created this show to celebrate the award-winning board game from Elizabeth Hargrave. In each episode we take a look at strategies, opening hand conundrums, and some of our favourite stats and stories that keep us coming back to the game. We welcome all listeners - from new starters to competitive birders - and would love to hear your thoughts along the way. So join us every Thursday for your weekly dose of birds!
Episodes
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61. Hot Takes: Part 2
Welcome back to our hot takes and these were something special! Thanks for all of your strong opinions on the game, they've led to some great debate between us. If you want you can keep sending them in, we've got a few more we want to finish with next week. We are [email protected]. We…
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60. Hot Takes: Part 1
This week we open up the floor to you guys - what are your hot takes, the things you've been desperate to get off your chest? Well here is your platform! Given our opening hand we only had time for four but we've got a load more planned next week so if you want to get yours in then send it to...
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59. Yellow Powers and We Need Your Voice Notes!
Welcome to a jam packed Full Tuck episode! Some amazing fan feedback, we discuss yellow powers, and most importantly we want your hot takes, hills you will die on, or current opinions. And we want them as voice notes! More info is at the end of this episode with a nice example for reference. Send...
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58. Birds of Continental Europe Fan Expansion
The third fan made expansion has made its way to the online game, so we decide to take it on and leave our review! We'd love to know your thoughts on this fan expansion and how it changes the game. Have you used any of the birds yet? Of course, we also discuss our opening hands, so if you think...
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57. Wings of The Oasis
Welcome to Full Tuck, episode 57. This week we finally get round to our discussion around the campaign Adam recently played. Listen (or watch) as Adam tries to explain it without giving away any spoilers! Of course we also discuss our opening hand, and learn about Aidan's latest Austrialian...
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56. The Greater Snow Goose, Pocket Feedback, and Flan Gives his Opinion!
It's a jam packed episode this week! So much to cover! Return of our bird of the week segment with the Greater Snow Goose. We also reveal the outcome of how people setup the game of Wingspan pocket. Is this something Stonemaier need to clarify? And our opening hand last week was so good we…
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55. Automa and Our Biggest Ever Disagreement!
This week we talk Automa, pocket, and we have probably our most interesting opening hand ever. However the most important thing today - who has interpreted the Pocket rules correctly? Answer in the poll below! As always, please like and subscribe and get in contact, we are…
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54. Q+A Part 2: Are there any cards that have completely lost their utility as the game has progressed?
Welcome to part two of our two part Q+A special. This week we cover board games other than wingspan, what alternative podcasts we could host, and what other guests we would like on the show! Listen now and get in contact at [email protected]. If you like more and want to get our shows...
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53. Q+A part 1: What are the birds that powers best match their real life behaviour?
Welcome to part one of our two part Q+A special. We cover a multitude of topics both regarding the game and not regarding the game! Questions such as our favourite bird powers that match the birds real life behaviour, and our criminally underrated birds grace the show. Listen now and get in…
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52. One Year of Full Tuck
Today is our one year birthday! And we decided to celebrate by looking back at our favourite moments this year. Let us know if you loved any particular moments that we might've missed out on. Also keep on sending us your Q+A questions to [email protected]. Opening hand for this show...
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51. Drafting, The Andean COR, and Huntsman Spiders
We finally get round to talking about drafting this week, but not before we cover some of Aidan's recent travels through the Australian rainforest. We also have a return of The Bird of The Week segment. This week we are asking you to send us your questions for a future Q+A episode we will be...
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50. Wingspan Pocket Review
This week we give our definitive guide to the new release from Stonemaier, including a quick summary of the rules, our hot takes, tips on how to win, and our favourite birds. We also discuss our opening hand dedicating it to our new emailers! See if your email got read out this week. Of course if...
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49. Additional Asian Avians Review
With the release of the latest fan pack to the online game this week we decided to give it our honest review. Additional Asian Avians really is a wonderful set of birds and we'd recommend giving us a listen to see what our thoughts are. Of course, we discuss our opening hand which leads to some...
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48. A Beginner's Perspective & Wedding Updates
We are back after a one week hiatus! Aidan has completed his trip back to England and Adam is back from his honeymoon. We thought you guys deserve an update over what our movements have been over the last few weeks and we also get an opening hand opinion from a beginners point of view. Tune in…
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47. Australian Ibis MVP? Three Player Match vs Our Fans
You've been emailing in from far and wide requesting some matches, so we're taking on two of our fans today, Paul from England and Joe from the USA. Indeed it's a three player game, so a whole new set of tactics for Aidan and Adam to argue about. Tune in to see how we get on! If you want to have…
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46. Pocket Wingspan!
EMERGENCY POD - we were completed blindsided by the Pocket Wingspan release. Hear today's episode to find out our initial thoughts, learn about how it works and some of the birds in it. As ever we chat about our opening hand plans and this week we announce that Adam is getting married next week!…
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45. The New Best Card in The Game?
After some wonderful feedback about our special episode with Adam's mum last week it's back to just the two of us this week! Listen now as we discuss recent matches, question the new strongest card in the game, and as always discuss an opening hand. We love hearing your thoughts and feedback, if...
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44. World Cup Fever, and Adam's Mum Guest Appearance!
What an episode we have for you this week. Not only are we trying our hand at football predictions through the medium of Wingspan, we've also managed to get Adam's mum as a guest on the show! Listen now for our preview of England vs Panama and USA vs Turkey, and Adam's mum's opinion on our weekly...
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43. Online Gameplay Updates
The British Birds Fan pack is out and we couldn't have timed our review better. Listen today for our musings on online gameplay and how the slow drip feed of the packs will change the online game over time. It's on special discount for a few days so snap it (and the rest of the game) up soon…
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42. The British Birds Fan Pack
We've been promising for a while that we'll dive into the different fan packs, so we thought we'd finish off our Flan era by discussing his British Birds pack in a bit more detail. Let us know what you think via all the usual routes and let us know how you'd play next weeks opening hand. We are...
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41. Flan Feedback, High Scores, and What Do We Call Our Fans?
We return to our usual format this week and we want to know the answer to one question and one question only, what are you guys called? Full Tuckers? Tuckites? Let us know what our fans should be nicknamed so we can affectionately name you for henceforth! We also discuss Adam's highest ever score...
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40. Full Tuck Takes on Flan!
We've defeated friend of the show Paul in a best of three online series and we've decided to continue our merry romp through the online world of Wingspan. Next stop, none other than previous Wingspan world champion, Flan! Flan has a wonderful youtube channel Wingin' It where he uploads matches…
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39. A Challenging Opening Hand and Friendly Birds
Welcome back to Full Tuck. We take a real deep dive into our opening hand this week, which is no doubt full of exceptional birds but they struggle to come together to form a cohesive plan. The opening hand can be found below but will also be on screen if you are watching. Aidan also presents some...
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38. Bird of The Week, Extinct Birds, and Automarazzi
Episode 38 sees the return of our bird of the week feature - this week featuring the Great Kiskadee. We also pontificate on an extinct bird card expansion and discuss some truly crazy scores in a co-op game mode. If you're not listening on Spotify please head on over there to answer our poll this...
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37. Aidan Returns!
We welcome Aidan back into the fray this week as we attempt to cover some wonderful feedback from the fans about our recent episodes. We however got slightly waylaid and so only managed to cover some excellent fan designed bird cards in response to the bird cards that we designed. Fear not, your...
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36. Jeff (aka JK49ERFAN) guest host!
We couldn't let you go a week without the show whilst Aidan is on his holidays so we've roped in our good friend and resident stats man Jeff (aka JK49ERFAN) to co-host the episode this week. Jeff made some predictions when Americas first came out and we recapped them today to see if they have...
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35. Q+A (2 of 2): What are your highest scores?
Welcome back to the second part of our Q+A episodes, listen now to find out our most hated birds, our high scores, and how Americas has changed some birds values. Please let us know what you think for next weeks opening hand, and as always like and subscribe and follow us on socials! We love your...
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34. Q+A (1 of 2): What card would you design?
Thank you so much for all of your questions, we’re going totry to get through as many as possible. Listen now to find out our self designed cards, our most fun cards, and how we first got into the game! Any questions we don’t manage to read this week we’ll cover next week! Please let us know what...
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33. CMV: Nanday Parakeet
Do you have a controversial Wingspan view that you want to defend yourselves to against us? Listen to our hot takes this week, our final week before our bumper Q+A episode! As ever we'd love to know what you think, and if you like us then why not subscribe! We are [email protected] and we...
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Submit your questions for our Q+A/AMA
Aidan is continuing his jolly travels around Australia for three weeks very soon. He won't have any internet access so we're recording some content for you now. We received great feedback on our Q+A episode last time so if you've got any questions you'd like to submit to us then follow the usual...
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32. Paul rematch: the final showdown!
If you're up to speed with Full Tuck then you know we're locked in a titanic struggle against one of our fans, Paul. After Paul bested us in an online Christmas bonus episode, we took revenge just before Aidan moved to Australia. Tune in today to see how we get on in the final showdown with Paul!...
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31. Takeaways and tips from Americas
Get stuck into our episode this week on our main learning points from Americas. Safe to say it's not left any aspect of the game unchanged, and we like that. Join us as we share our observations, and dont forget to like and subscribe, as we have something very special coming next week. Opening…
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30. Hall of Fame Winners
Welcome to our awards episode! Watch or listen now to findout who the Wingspan Hall of Fame winners are, and who will be getting their hands on an exclusive Full Tuck coaster. Links to the submissions are below and the boards are also visible in the show notes. Next week we are returning with an...
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29. Beginner tips: our top seven tips for success
This week is for the fans, in particular the beginners. If you've played a couple of games of Wingspan and want some tips on how to improve then listen to the first 15 minutes of this show and your opponents will not know what's hit them! Links to topics discussed in the show: Weaker power cards...
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28. Predator powers revisited
This week we revisit our first ever topic of discussion, predatorpowers! Predator powers have changed significantly with the two most recent expansions and we thought it was worthwhile revisiting some of our thoughts to see howthey’ve changed over time. Tune in especially if you’re thinking about...
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27. WIN! Our first ever competition!
Welcome back to Full Tuck, and you've picked a good week to listen because we are running a dual competition this week! We've been so impressed with (1) the amazing places you are listening to us from, and (2) your Wingspan insights that we want to hear from you! 1. Where do you listen to us…
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26. Your initial thoughts on the Americas expansion
Welcome back and thank you to everyone who has contacted us over the last week. We have loved hearing your responses and discuss just a few of your opinions regarding the latest Americas expansion on the show. We also cover a rather exciting opening hand and consider why Stonemaier released their...
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25. You'll want to hear our thoughts on the new Americas expansion
The Americas expansion has arrived and there are some rather hot takes on this weeks episode of Full Tuck. Listen now to get all our latest thoughts on this gamechanging expansion. Also this week: the return of our bird of the week, an update on Aidan's birdwatching journey, and of course our...
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24. Hello from Australia!
Our first inter-continental episode! Listen as we dissect Aidan's new life in Australia, Adam defends his dream opening hand, and we talk some more stats. Have you received your copy of the Americas expansion yet? How does it play? Let us know your thoughts by commenting or emailing in...
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23. Rematch: Adam and Aidan team up again!
Watch as we take on Paul for an online rematch. Paul bested us last time around and has kindly agreed to a rematch. How do we get on working together this time? Any comments/questions/advice over mistakes we've made? Email in at [email protected]! As always, don't forget to like and...
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22. Full Tuck is going international!
This week on Full Tuck: Aidan reveals some quite shocking news which will change our show forever, we discuss Aidan's dream opening hand and plan for our dream opening hand match off, and the famous stats segment makes its long awaited return! We would love to know your dream opening hands and…
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21. Engagements and Expansions
We're back to the usual format this week after a whirlwind few weeks. Thank you for all the lovely feedback for each of our recent special episodes! We are back with some musings about the upcoming expansion as well as an important announcement... As ever please like and subscribe and leave a...
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20. Jamey Stegmaier Interview: Americas Expansion Discussion
This week we interviewed Jamey Stegmaier about the upcoming Americas expansion! Jamey is the president of Stonemaier games and we absolutely loved having him on the show to discuss the features in the next expansion, how it was designed and playtested, and what his favourite aspects of the game...
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19. Online game: watch us play!
Our second festive period bonus episode. This week Aidan and Adam have teamed up to take on one of our fans, Paul, in an online game. Watch to see how we get on! Leave your comments and (likely) criticism below! Let us know what you may have done differently and vote in the poll below. Did you…
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18. Christmas Quiz BONUS episode
Merry Christmas to all of our fans around the world! We've recorded this very special episode with Savi's Warblers biggest supporter, our very good friend Jack. Jack is an excellent wingspan player and has come on the show to partake in our Christmas Wingspan Quiz. Listen now and play along. Can...
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17. Expansion speculation: what do we think will be in the upcoming release?
Welcome to an episode that we have been looking forward to covering for quite some time. We've collated all your thoughts on what the next expansion should cover and we've interspersed it with our thoughts too. Listen for new powers, modular add-ons, new birds, and new bonus cards, only on the...
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16. Send us your next expansion speculation
Next week we are dedicating our entire episode tospeculation about the next expansion, in advance of the official announcement on New Years Eve. Tell us what continent you would like, what birds you want, or what changes to the game you would like by emailing [email protected] or leaving…
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15. Adam's Oceania board revelation and co-operative play
This week on Full Tuck: Reflections on our first few months and a little bit about our listeners How did you do in our opening hand challenge? Adam has a revelation about the Oceania board Co-operative wingspan The return of our data segments! If you want to hear more then don't to like and...
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14. Q+A. Our favourite episode yet!
This week we answer some of the fan questions that we've been sent in! This was our favourite episode to record yet and your fantastic questions have stimulated some excellent points! We will do another episode in the future for the questions we weren't able to answer this week as there were just...
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13. Flan Guest Appearance!
We are joined by the almighty Flan this week. We have had lots of requests to get him on the show and it was an absolute pleasure to spend time with him, what a guest he is! Flan's wingspan accolades are unmatched and it truly shows, watch now to learn about his British birds fan pack, his online...
About this show
Welcome to Full Tuck: The Wingspan Podcast! We are two fans from the UK and we've created this show to celebrate the award-winning board game from Elizabeth Hargrave. In each episode we take a look at strategies, opening hand conundrums, and some of our favourite stats and stories that keep us coming back to the game. We welcome all listeners - from new starters to competitive birders - and would love to hear your thoughts along the way. So join us every Thursday for your weekly dose of birds!
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