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Bandido – Small Box, Big Table
I'm often looking for games that travel well, which generally leads me to amassing many games that come in tiny boxes. But an important aspect to a travel game is how much table space it takes up. A few times I've packed a small box game into my backpack, and pulled...
Brian Boru: High King of Ireland
Designers: Peer Sylvester Artist: Deirdre de Barra Release Year: 2011 Mechanics: Trick Taking, Area Majority Players: 3-5 Introduction Brian Boru: High King of Ireland is an area majority game utilizing a trick-taking mechanism as a way for players to earn the right...
Applejack
In Applejack players are... actually, don't worry about the theme. The goal of the game is to earn the most honey by growing cultivating collections of apples in your orchard, and arranging beehives to produce the most honey. I think it's safe to say we're firmly in...
Mind Space
Roll & Write games! Remember when these little gems were considered novel and few and far between, just a few years ago? Well, Nao Shimamura's first kick at the can is a little title called Mind Space and is being published by Allplay. Is it a mind-blowing...
Rainforest
Have you ever walked through a jungle and thought to yourself, "I love how colourful this place is! The vibrant green, red, purple, and blue ferns?" and "Wouldn't this bright yellow fern look lovely if it had an equally yellow parrot on it?" No? Me either. Rainforest,...
My City: Roll & Build – Board Game Review
I've never made anything that's been massively popular, and as a by product, I've never had to follow up a massively popular project. I have sympathy for those who have, like Patrick Rothfuss and Scott Lynch, both of whom are authors who created excellent and popular...
My City
Legacy games get a bad rap around my table. I've started more than half a dozen and completed only 2. It seems my thirst for discovery goes beyond incremental rule changes and I find it burdensome to feel the obligation to play a game, rather than picking it because...
Kites
Introduction Kites, designed by Kevin Hamano and published by Floodgate Games, is a real time cooperative card game about keeping your kites in the sky, or rather, sand in the timers. Honestly, if a game has a real-time component, I'm instantly down to give it a shot,...
Beast – Board Game Reivew
Beast is a hidden movement game, designed by Aron Midhall, Elon Midhall, and Assar Pettersson, and published by Studio Midhall. As many Kickstarter darlings are, it's an absolutely gorgeous production. The box art depicts a massive hydra before a lone warrior, weapon...
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