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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine – Book Review
Eleanor is an accounts receivable clerk for a graphic design company in Glasgow, and has been for 9 years. She lives alone, she doesn’t socialize with her coworkers, she eats the same lunch and dinner every day, each Friday she gets a plain pizza and 2 litres of vodka and drinks herself to sleep each night.
Indonesia – First Impressions
Indonesia is a game about getting rich. Yes, you’ll acquire companies, produce and ship goods, and even merge companies. But the goal of the game isn’t necessarily to sell the most items, the goal is to get the most money.
Top 5 Vladimír Suchý Games (That I’ve Played)
Over the last 6 months my table has been somewhat inundated with the works of Vladimír Suchý. This wasn’t entirely on purpose, but his games have just happened to come into our possession. Last night (at time of writing) I played my 5th game of his, so I felt the urge to make a quick list of the games I’ve played, and their rankings!
Isle of Trains: All Aboard – Board Game Review
Not many games do this very well, but one of the mechanics that I absolutely adore is positive player interaction. When someone does a thing, and everyone benefits. Concordia does this incredibly well, a couple birds in Wingspan benefit all players, but give extra benefit to the player who played the card, Brass: Birmingham has brilliant mutually beneficial relationships, where you can use other players things to fulfill what you’re trying to do to earn stuff for you, and the player whose stuff you used also benefits. I could go on, listing a ton of games as examples of this, as it’s one of the mechanics that when I hear it’s in a game, it makes me sit up and take notice.
Verdant – Board Game Review
Growing up, we joked that my mom not only had a ‘black thumb’, but a black aura. That any houseplant that came into our home was destined to die. This may be because she was a single mother raising 3 kids, or because we grew up in frigid northern Manitoba, but in any case, being unable to care for houseplants was a common joke in our home.
Every game is a 7 – Why I Don’t Include Numbers as Part of my Reviews
Otter and I have had a few arguments about how we each rank and rate the board games we play. We both use Board Game Geek’s collection feature, and add our rankings to each game we play. If you’re unfamiliar with BGG’s system, there’s a 10 point rating scale, and they publish a guideline on how they suggest you rate a game, although admitting that ratings are completely subjective.
Agricola – Board Game Review
It’s hard to imagine that Agricola has existed since I was in high school. The things I would have done to have known about Agricola’s existence during the years when I was living with my primary gaming buddy. I can guarantee you, we would have been playing Agricola over and over again, as it feels like the kind of game that you can replay endlessly and just get better and better at.
That Time You Killed Me: Episode 1
As the story goes, you’ve invented time travel! Yay! Except someone else is claiming that they also invented time travel. And they’re going to kill you to keep you silent. Unless you kill them first to silence their claims. Unfortunately, because time is all wibbly wobbly, there are several copies spread out amongst the timelines, so you’re gonna have to do a lot of murdering before the job is truly complete.
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