The main article can be found on https://www.werenotwizards.co.uk/a-guide-to-buying-board-games-online/ Whether you're an active player looking for that next hot board game, or a collector looking to fill a gap on the shelf. There's so many different ways to purchase games that it can be confusing. Sometimes chasing that 'must have' can put you into the potential situation of being scammed out of your cold hard cash for card board. You want to buy from the right sellers and avoid refunds and returns.  Here's a simply guide to keep your bank account safe and your collection f ..read more

The Binding of Isaac is a hugely successful videogame, and thanks to two extremely lucrative crowdfunding efforts that netted around $8 million, you could argue that its a highly successful card game as well. The videogame fits almost too perfectly into begin turned into cardboard, with its roguelike genetics being suited to the randomness of dungeon crawler, variable bonuses and and player powers sitting well within the tabletop realm. There's around eighty thousand people who have some kind of variation of the tabletop game. So surely its extremely good because well funded games are always ..read more

It's maybe pure ignorance on my part but I've never seen a huge number of board games that sit within the organised crime genre. There seems to be more Sci-Fi than Scarface. I own The Godfather: Corleone's Empire, which was a grail game for me and was its own tale of negotiation and acquisition and offers that couldn't be refused. Wise Guys from Gale Force Nine enters the fray with a Goodfellas attitude on how you win at life, which is to gather up as much money as possible, without effecting your influence and clout and your ability to make money on the black market. It is a rem ..read more

Power Hungry Pets by the Exploding Kittens team is essentially Love Letter, but in an Exploding Kittens flavour. Love Letter is such a staple in my collection that when I'm thinking about culling the collection it doesn't even make the pile for consideration to be considered for the pile that will be considered potentially to even look at culling. I think it is one of those games that sits well in being both easy to teach but has enough meat on the bones to make it worthwhile playing. My own copy of Love Letter has been played so many times and through so many hands that when you see another ..read more

"A Solid Title" is a phrase that I am guilty of using alongside some of my peers. To me, it is where something is very dependable in what it is offering. There are no welcome or unwelcome surprises. You get exactly what you expect and therefore don't walk away disappointed. You are maybe less likely to feel wowed. As I play more games and look at those that introduce mechanics to be 'different' or 'an escape' from the normal 'expected', it is sometimes marvellous just to have something that lands on your table as a solid title. Solid doesn't necessarily mean dull, but it means to me that don't ..read more

Demigods eh? You think every thing is going well and life is nice and quiet, then all of a sudden you're reminded that you've actually got to go and prove yourself and show how powerful you are in order to ascend to some kind of Pantheon type thing. Well, in Divinus you need to. Now, I don't want you to cringe when I mention this game, but Divinus from Lucky Duck Games seems to have crawled from the same evolutionary pool as Charterstone. Now that might be enough to have some of you wince slightly but hang fire. I'm very aware that not everyone had the best time from that game and time has ..read more

Imperium Horizons is almost like a director's cut of a popular film. You are pleased that you are getting more of what you like, but are sometimes left wondering why certain bits that could have been tidied up were left as they were. For those not familiar, the Imperium games are a deck builder based around the development and evolution of your own civilisation as you move it from being a barbaric nation to being one who merely scream and shout at the television. The original Classics version was daunting in terms of its ambition and offered an experience that far extended over a normal ..read more

Nawalli creates a curiosity as soon as you have the box sitting in front of you. I'm so used to seeing dramatically overstated attraction artwork, that the colour scheme and simplicity of the Nawalli box was a refreshing change. When you remove the lid and start going through the cards I'll be surprised if you don't spend time appreciating the style of art on offer here. Nawalli's theme is based around traditional Aztec artwork which means you have extremely strong images and line work, strong colours that often clash with each other in a delightful way. The artwork and theme alone was enou ..read more

CLeM is gently unsettling from the very start. As you begin to explore the cartoon style mansion you find yourself in, you start off with only a diary with the word CLeM embossed on the front cover. You also don't seem to be human, instead you walk around the halls looking like some kind of sad sack cloth doll, mismatched eyes and slow of purpose. The only thing guiding you onwards is a voice making demands to be shown examples of various qualities, the first one being 'beauty'.  CLeM calls itself a 'Puzzlevania' which is meant to mean it mixes exploration and puzzle solving but also ..read more

I don't where to even start with this. The Name Trevor comes from a number of sources. In Welsh it derives from the words Homestead or Settlement (tre) and Big (fawr). So technically Bad Trevor means Bad Big House. It's ridiculous, silly and make no sense whatsoever. I've known a few Trevor's in my time. My dad had a work colleague called Trevor who was one of those people who I remember having pile and pile of pirated spectrum games. Whatever you wanted, he could get it for you. They didn't always work and often the tapes lasted all of ten goes before they refused to load at all, or were ..read more