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Brass: Birmingham – Board Game Review
I've never dreamed of running a coal and beer fuelled canal empire in industrial era England, but the creative team behind Brass: Birmingham decided that the dirty, dark background was the best idea for an award-winning board game, so here we are. Brass: Birmingham is...
Crokinole – The Good Old Disk Flicking Game
Introduction Being from the northern Canadian prairies means I was culturally isolated for most of my youth. It didn't even cross my mind that some people go their whole lives without seeing the northern lights (or, aurora borealis) on an almost nightly basis. That...
Cretaceous Rails – Board Game Review
A copy of Cretaceous Rails was provided by Spielcraft Games for the purposes of review As someone who has never actually sat down to watch a Jurassic Park movie, I don't necessarily understand how the dinosaur theme and the theme park aesthetic have become so...
Shipyard (Second Edition) – Board Game Review
I've been on quite the Vladimir Suchy kick lately. He's a prolific board game designer that has had some hits and misses with me, but more often than not, I find joy in his games. As I said in my Suchy Round Up, a Suchy game is generally a tight economic euro game...
Mesos – Board Game Review
I have somewhat mixed feelings on games designed by Simone Luciani. I disliked Tzolk'in for quite a while before coming around to the side of appreciating its complexities. I find The Voyages of Marco Polo, and it's sequel to be quite satisfying, but I fail to see the...
Cockroach Poker – Board Game Review
I generally don't like bluffing games. They're hard to start, as it usually requires everyone at the table to have such a firm grasp on the rules and potential outcomes, that I don't think they're worth overcoming that barrier to entry. Also, I just don't like lying...
Cryo – Board Game Review
Cryo starts with a disaster. A mission gone wrong. A colony ship crash landing onto a desolate, frozen planet. The ship utterly broken with crew in cryostasis pods strewn about the mountainside. Players take on the role of separate, hostile factions, competing to...
Paleo – Board Game Review
Cooperative games can be a bit tricky for my group. Otter, absolutely loves them. He specifically loves the discussion and collaboration that comes from working together to solve a problem. He wants to analyze every possibility to arrive at the correct conclusion that...
Mountain Goats – Board Game Review
Mountain Goats was pitched to me as a competitor to Can't Stop. Let me be upfront. It's not. Can't Stop has pure tension and excitement in the push your luck mechanism. The moments when you're rolling and rolling and rolling, crawling towards the top, the table...
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