As a florist, you must always strive to meet your customers’ desires.  If they want four blue flowers, you’d better not give them three blue flowers and one orange!  Worse yet, you’re in constant competition with other florists, and are trying to use up all of your flowers before they use theirs!  Will you be able to be the most successful at keeping your flowers in Bloom? Overview Bloom is a roll-and-write game about creating groups of flowers.  Like most roll-and-write games, setup is simple: Give each player a scoresheet and a writing utensil, get out the dice, and you’r ..read more

Everyone enjoys a good roll-and-write game, right? Making good use of the dice you’ve rolled and being able to use them to effectively chain several effects can be tough, but if you can pull it off successfully you’ll be having everyone at the table saying, “That’s Pretty Clever!” Overview That’s Pretty Clever (also known in German as Ganz schön clever) is an abstract roll-and-write game for 1-4 players.  Over the course of the game, players will use the six colored dice rolled both on their turn and other players’ to fill in their sheets and score points!  All that’s needed to set u ..read more

The life of a rancher is not an easy one.  In addition to managing the animals on the ranch, including ensuring they all stay in their own pens, you also have to worry about constructing the buildings essential for the ranch’s viability.  On top of that, your rival ranchers always seem to be one step ahead of you when it comes to filling their pens, so you must try your best to keep up!  Can you keep your ranch a-rolling? Rolling Ranch is a roll-and-write game for two or more players, with an official solo variant.  Each round, players draft either an animal or building mat ..read more

The United States of America is made up of 50 different states, each with that own special something that makes them unique.  But while all the states have their differences, they have similarities too.  In this roll-and-write game from Gamewright, you must insure that neighboring states are filled in with similar numbers, or else you’ll be penalized!  Grab your dice and let’s go for a trip all around the country in Rolling America!  The goal of Rolling America is to fill in all of the states on your map with numbers while following the constraint that neighboring states ca ..read more

The Annual Harvest Tournament between the animal kingdoms determines which kingdom will rule Pomme for the coming year.  However, on the eve of the 3000th festival, something amazing happens.  The Airship Kai, long lost to the ages, suddenly reappears, bringing Fox and Owl Seekers along with it.  Will the Seekers for the upcoming tournament be able to leverage the legendary airship to help them win the tournament? Gameplay The core mechanics of My Little Scythe are mostly unchanged with the addition of this expansion, so check out our review of the base game here for those detai ..read more

As planets form, natural habitats develop and animals find their homes.  In Planet, you control the development of your own planet, working towards developing habitats and attracting as many animals as you can.  Can you make your planet the most hospitable? Game Play In this game, players construct their planets over the course of 12 rounds, in the hopes of maximizing their natural habitats and attracting as many animals as possible.  Each player starts with an empty magnetic dodecahedral planet.  The magnetic continent tiles are shuffled and divided into 10 stacks of 5 eac ..read more

While we keep ourselves quarantined, we’ve been thinking back to the game nights of before. Reminiscing on these times had us thinking, wait a minute, we never posted our top lists for 2019! With time now abundant, we got to work, crafting the words to describe the wonders of the year before. What games did Ethan love from the year 2019? Read below to find out! Honorable Mention: Just One This one isn’t officially on the list because it is technically a 2018 release according to BGG, but I don’t think it was released worldwide until this year, and in any case it was new to us. This game has be ..read more

On January 16th, 2016, Two Board Meeples put our first post out into the world. We created this blog because we’re passionate about board gaming and want to share this passion to make a connection with gamers of all backgrounds. In the past four years, we have written many articles about things we loved, but in focusing the lens on ourselves, we’ve neglected entire groups of people in the board gaming world. Since our first post in 2016, we’ve written specifically about 46 titles; out of all those titles, there was only one Black designer represented and no black artists. If we looked closely ..read more

In a world where territory comes in sets of 2, your goal is to ensure that your kingdom is more prosperous and prestigious than that of your rival. In Kingdomino Duel, players will draft dice to place various coats of arms in their domains, scoring points from the high dignitaries that occasionally accompany the influential houses. In addition, players race to unlock special spells granted by each of the houses. Will you be savvy enough in mapping out your territory to win the duel of Kingdominoes? The objective in Kingdomino Duel is to maximize your score by creating domains of the same coats ..read more

In the forest, when resources become scarce, predators must work hard to find food and assert their dominance over their hunting grounds.  This is not lost on the wolves of the land, who must try to find enough food to feed themselves while not running afoul of or losing their prey to other packs in the region.  Because in the end, when hunting for food only one pack can come out on top and be: The Alpha. Overview In The Alpha, players control competing wolf packs, trying to become the most dominant, “alpha” pack in the area.  To set up the game, each player takes a den board an ..read more