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Lost Cities – Don’t Start What You Can’t Finish
Number of Plays: 8 (Plus 30 games on Board Game Arena) Game Length: 20 – 30 minutes Mechanics: Hand Management, Set collection Release Year: 1999 Designer: Reiner Knizia Artist: Anke Pohl, Thilo Rick, and Claus Stephan Intro Once upon a time I had a roommate. He and I...
Can’t Stop – Won’t Stop, Don’t Stop!
Number of Plays: 15 Game Length: 30 minutes Mechanics: Push your luck, Dice Rolling Release Year: 1980 Designer: Sid Sackson Artist Heiko Günther, Gabriel Laulunen (II), Walter Pepperle, Klaus Wilinski Intro I am not a gambling man. Back when I lived in Winnipeg, I...
Arboretum – Mean Trees
Number of Plays: 11 Game Length: 30 – 45 minutes Mechanics: Tableu building, hate drafting Release Year: 2015 Designer: Dan Cassar Artist: Philippe Guérin, Chris Quilliams, Beth Sobel, Waldo Ramirez Intro In this wonderful hobby, lots of games exist with lots of...
Kingdomino – My Kingdom for a Crown!
Game Length: 10 - 15 minutes Mechanics: Tile Laying, Set Collection Release Year: 2016 Designer: Bruno Cathala Artist: Cyril Bouquet Intro In 2016 I had been into hobby board games for a couple of years and was rapidly searching out the heaviest games I could find,...
A Tale of Two Expansions
Board game expansions come in two flavours. One type adds small twists to the existing gameplay, enhancing the existing mechanisms and perhaps addressing some of the complaints of the base game. The other type of expansion makes huge changes. The mental toll of the...
Dutch Blitz – A Vonderful Goot Game
Number of Plays: 13 (since I started recording games, I'm sure actual number of plays is 50+) Game Length: 5 minutes - 3 hours (however long your group feels like playing Mechanics: Real-time, Card game Release Year: 1960 Designer: Werner Ernst George Muller Intro...
Isle of Skye
Number of Plays: 27 Game Length: 30 – 50 minutes Mechanics: Tile laying, auction Release Year: 2015 Designer: Andreas Pelikan, Alexander Pfister Artist: Klemens Franz Intro I come from a Scottish family. My grandpa proudly displays our family crest emblazoned with the...
MicroMacro: Crime City
Game Length: Each mission is between 5 and 15 minutes Mechanics: Where's Waldo/Wally, Cooperative Release Year: 2020 Designer: Johannes Sich Artist: Daniel Goll, Tobias Jochinke, Johannes Sich Intro As a kid, I was a big fan of Where's Waldo. The cornucopia of colour...
Calico – Board Game Review
Calico by Kevin Russ is the first physical board game that I purchased since the COVID-19 pandemic ended my in-person gaming group in March 2020. It's also the first game I've purchased since I launched MeepleandtheMoose.com and started playing my physical games solo....
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