by Alex McKenzie | May 4, 2024 | Board Game Reviews, Reviews
It’s difficult trying to review a game like El Grande. For one, it’s quite revered. Some of the biggest names in board games call it their favourite game. El Grande was released in 1995, and to this day still sits in the Board Game Geek’s top 100 games list. My...
by Alex McKenzie | May 2, 2024 | Blog
Want to hear my voice read this post? Catch it on Episode 7 of the Talkin’ Tabletop Podcast! For the purposes of this discussion, I’m going to define what I consider to be the “Big Box” trademark. A Big Box edition of a game is a single release that contains the base...
by Alex McKenzie | Apr 30, 2024 | Book Reviews, Reviews
Spoilers ahead “Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: Its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues. Within the labyrinth of halls, an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded...
by Alex McKenzie | Apr 27, 2024 | Board Game Reviews, Reviews
There aren’t a lot of deduction games that I enjoy. At least, competitive deduction games. I really enjoy solo logic puzzles, but when deduction becomes a competition, I freeze up and my brain becomes a puddle. It probably doesn’t help that the people who make up my...
by Alex McKenzie | Apr 20, 2024 | Board Game Reviews, Reviews
SCOUT by Kei Kanjino and published by Oink Games has got to be one of the most widely popular little box of cards Oink games has published so far. Each card in SCOUT is double-sided, with different numbers on either side. Each round begins by dealing out the whole...