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World Order – First Impressions
I spend a lot of time looking at crowdfunding campaigns. I can't really help it, they pop up in my social media feeds, or my friends send me the ones they like so we can ooh and ahh over them together. But I don't back very many crowdfunding campaigns at the end of...
Kingsburg – Board Game Review
It's kind of fascinating going back and playing older games. I get that in the grand scheme of the universe a mere 20 years is a blink of the eye, but in the board game hobby, a lot has changed in 20 years. Aesthetic preferences have evolved, who mechanics have fallen...
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...
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