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Hardback – Board Game Review
I've been running this blog since January 2021, and in that time I've published over 200 reviews, which is kind of mind-boggling to me. One thing I'm not very good at, however, is keeping an index of all the games I've already reviewed. Sometimes I'll sit down to...
Things in Rings – Board Game Review
I’m not going to bury the lede here. It’s a special moment when I play a game with my wife at our local board game café and she immediately grabs a copy off the shelf to bring home. Things in Rings is that game. Designed by Peter C. Hayward and published by AllPlay in...
Flip 7 – Board Game Review
There’s no denying that Flip 7 has absolutely captured the attention of the board game media. I can see why, it's really easy to evangelize. You buy five copies of the game, toss it into every bag you own, and bring to every gathering just in case people want to play...
Illiterati – Board Game Review
There’s a certain kind of chaos that only real-time games can create. It's the moment when your brain suddenly forgets every skill you've ever worked on the moment the time pressure is on. I delight in this feeling, and this is exactly where Illiterati shines for me....
Viticulture: Bordeaux – Board Game Expansion Review
Disclaimer: A copy of Viticulture: Bordeaux was provided by Stonemaier Games I’ve always found Viticulture to be a bit of a fascinating contradiction. On one hand, it presents this warm, inviting fantasy of running a Tuscan vineyard, slowly cultivating grapes,...
Pirates of Maracaibo – Board Game Review
I have a complicated relationship with Alexander Pfister games. And by complicated relationship, I mean I actively dislike most of his designs. Great Western Trail, Blackout Hong Kong, and Maracaibo all illicit feelings of frustration and hatred from my heart when I...
Kabuto Sumo – Board Game Review
Sometimes, I come into a game with no expectations at all, and then am pleasantly surprised when the game turns out to be amazing. Take Time, Scout, and No Thanks are all examples of games that I knew almost nothing about before playing utterly falling in love. The...
Tatsumi – Board Game Review
I’m a pretty antisocial kind of guy, which is not exactly conducive to building a community. I’m the perpetual lurker: always reading, always watching, rarely commenting. I show up to public events and hover near the wall, sticking close to the people I already know,...
Hungry Monkey – Board Game Review
I don’t know what’s changed about me lately, but I often found myself preferring the shorter card games instead of the big, heavy, rules-dense board games that used to dominate my life. Maybe it’s just the phase of life I’m in, the fatigue that comes with raising...
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