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1y ago
Below you’ll find my Top 10 board games of 2013. It was another great year, having praised 2012 last time out. You’ll find four games that were in my last Top 40, three of which were in the Top 20. …
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1y ago
The Starship Captains board game is an unashamedly Star Trek-themed euro game for one-to-four players which takes about one-to-two hours to play. The box lists it for ages 12-plus, but proper junior gamers a little younger than that should be able …
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1y ago
The Two Heirs board game is a one or two-player tile-laying game that takes around 30-60 minutes to play. The box suggests an age range of 10-plus, which feels about right. Thematically you play as two heirs vying to take your …
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1y ago
This is something of a record for me, managing to get through three books in less than four months. It certainly helped that two of them were real page-turners. While the third I probably only read about two-thirds of, as …
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1y ago
The Triggs card game is a 20-30 minute family card game for 2-4 players that are aged roughly eight and up. It’s a colorful abstract game you can teach to anyone, and is undoubtedly family-friendly. Plus, the kind of addition players …
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1y ago
It was a very different Essen Spiel 2022 for me this year. I didn’t pitch any games or have a single meeting. I worked a couple of short shifts on the Surprised Stare booth (which was fun) and went in …
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1y ago
It will be a very odd Essen Spiel for me this year. I’ll be working on a stand in Germany for the first time (just a few cover shifts at Surprised Stare). I have no designs to pitch, have no …
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1y ago
This is something of a record for me, managing to get through three books in less than four months. It certainly helped that two of them were real page-turners. While the third I probably only read about two-thirds of, as …
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1y ago
Paris: La Cité de la Lumière is a gorgeous two-player-only tile-laying game, released in 2019 (and reviewed by me in 2022 – linked above), that plays in 20-30 minutes. It’s a game of two distinct halves, with the players essentially …
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1y ago
The Origins First Builders board game is a worker placement tableau building euro game for one-to-four players. It is a complex game with lots of moving parts, but the 14+ age limit suggested is a bit steep. I’d say 12+ is …
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