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Race for the Galaxy
Plays: Physically, 2. On Board Game Arena, 148 Game Length: Physically, 30 – 45 minutes. On Board Game Arena, 10 minutes Mechanics: card drafting, tableu building Release Year: 2007 Designer: Thomas Lehmann Artist: Martin Hoffmann, Claus Stephan, Mirko Suzuki...
Bullet❤️ – Multiplayer Review
Designers: Joshua Van Laningham Artist: Collateral Damage Studios, Sebastian Koziner, Usanekorin, and Davy Wagnarok Release Year: 2021 Mechanics: Pattern Matching, Push Your Luck Players: 1-4 Introduction I've been playing hobby board games since about 2015. I started...
Viticulture World: Cooperative Expansion
Designer: Mihir Shah and Francesco Testini Artist: Andrew Bosley Publisher: Stonemaier Games Mechanics: Worker Placement, Cooperative Release Year: 2022 Introduction Viticulture has the privilege of being a top 10 game for one of my most frequent gaming partners (698...
Maglev Metro
Designers: Ted Alspach Artist: Alanna Kelsey, Ollin Timm Release Year: 2021 Mechanics: Pick up and Deliver, Tile Placement, Route Building Players: 2 to 4 Introduction Some signs of a man rapidly approaching middle age may include weight gain, hair loss, and a sudden...
Fugitive – Board Game Review
Number of Plays: 6 (since I started recording my gameplays, I have dozens more from 2017 and 2018 that are lost to time) Game Length: 15 minutes Mechanics: Hand Management, Hidden Movement Release Year: 2017 Designer: Tim Fowers Artist: Ryan Goldsberry Introduction...
Viticulture Essential Edition with Tuscany Essentials Edition – Board Game Review
Designers: Jamey Stegmaier and Alan Stone Artist: Jacqui Davis, David Montgomery, and Beth Sobel Release Year: 2015 Mechanics: Worker placement Players: 1-6 Introduction Viticulture has a storied past. It started out as a project on Kickstarter way back in 2012, long...
Kings of Israel
Designer: Lance Hill Artists: Tim Baron, Matthew Ebisch, James Lyle, Kaysha Siemens, Adam Stoak Release Year: 2014 Mechanics: Cooperative, Set Collection, Hand Management A copy of Kings of Israel was provided by the publisher for review purposes Introduction There's...
War Chest – Chip Based Tactical Warfare
Designers: Trevor Benjamin and David Thompson Artist: Brigette Indelicato Release Year: 2018 Mechanics: Bag Building, Hand Management, Area Control Players: 2 or 4 Bigfoot and I played War Chest by Trevor Benjamin and David Thompson as it had been on both of our 'want...
Pandemic – Board Game Review
Introduction Well, it's May 2022 and my family and I have contracted COVID-19 for the first time. I thought I would spend our isolation time reflecting on the series of games with the name that no one really thought remarkable until it overtook our world; Pandemic....
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