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Great Heartland Hauling Co. – Next Stop: Profit!
Number of Plays: 12 Game Length: 30 minutes Mechanics: Pick up and Deliver, Hand Management Release Year: 2013 Designer: Jason Kotarski Artist: Brian Buckley, Christopher Kirkman Preface Great Heartland Hauling Co., designed by Jason Kotarski and published by Dice...
Takenoko – Get Your Damn Dirty Paws Off My Bamboo!
Number of Plays: 8 Game Length: 45 minutes Mechanics: Dice Rolling, Tile Placement, Action Selection Release Year: 2011 Designer: Antoine Bauza Artist: Nicolas Fructus, Picksel, Yuio Introduction - How I found Yin and Yang Takenoko was among the first designer board...
Qwirkle
Number of Plays: 12 Game Length: 30 - 45 minutes Mechanics: Tile Laying, Hand Management Release Year: 2006 Designer: Susan McKinley Ross Qwirkle! Travel-sized for your convenience! There are few games in my collection that get the chance to leave my doors once its...
Journal #3 – Bullet♥︎ – Boss Rush
Bullet♥︎ exploded into into my life from seemingly nowhere and consumed my soul for nearly 3 weeks. I was drawn in by the promise of fast paced shoot-em-up (SHMUP) action and a gorgeous anime aesthetic. What I got instead was a compelling puzzle game where the player...
Paperback – A Deck Builder for Book Worms
Number of Plays: 21 Game Length: 45 - 60 minutes Mechanics: Deck building, word building Release Year: 2014 Designer: Tim Fowers Artist: Ryan Goldsberry Before I Talk About the Board Game When asked about my hobbies, one of the first activities that I choose as the...
Super Motherload – There’s Gold in Them Planets
Number of Plays: 14 Number of Players: 2 - 4 Game Length: 60 – 90 minutes Mechanics: Deck building, tunnel digging Release Year: 2015 Designer: Gavan Brown, Matt Tolman Artist: Gavan Brown, Scott Carmichael, Lina Cossette, David Forest It Always Goes Back to Games...
10 Days in Europe – A Pleasant Journey
Number of Plays: 25 Number of Players: 2 - 4 Game Length: 10 – 30 minutes Mechanics: Hand management, Route Building Release Year: 2002 Designer: Alan R. Moon, Aaron Weissblum Artist: John Kovalic, Cathleen Quinn-Kinney Alan Moon is a prolific game designer. With a...
Tiny Epic Quest – Thematically Pleasing, Mechanically Lacking
Number of Players: 1 - 4 Game Length: 30 – 60 minutes Mechanics: Push your luck, Dice Rolling, Area Movement Release Year: 2017 Designer: Scott Almes Artist: Miguel Coimbra, Adam P. McIver Intro - In where I try to not talk about The Legend of Zelda If you walk around...
Now Boarding – People don’t get angry if they’re moving
Number of Plays: 6 Game Length: 30 – 60 minutes Mechanics: Pick up and Delivery Release Year: 2018 Designer: Tim Fowers Artist: Ryan Goldsberry Publisher: Fowers Games It's hard to imagine the mind of a person who sees a busy airport, full of delayed planes and the...
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