Chess you can be bad at
A well-made chess set will always turn my head, even though I’m not actually any good at the game. I found a couple games where that doesn’t matter so much.
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Category: Board Games
Where are you going to keep all those?
Board game expansions are a trap. You shouldn’t buy them for you’ll never satisfactorily recapture that magical first encounter with the game you love. Never. And yet…
Continue reading“No hitting each other.”
RAMPAGE, also known as TERROR IN MEEPLE CITY, is a dexterity-based board game. My review of this silly (and possibly terrible) board game.
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Become the Most Average Farmer
A review of the board game, AGRICOLA. Farming ain’t easy. Animals insist on eating EVERY day.
Continue readingRooting For, Or Against the Setting of the Sun
The best games are those that artfully balance the tension of losing versus the hope of victory. I was eager to break out the board game Last Night on Earth as it seemed to do the things I was felt was missing from “Zombies!!!” and appeared to have a nice mix of cooperative and competitive game mechanics. …
Continue readingThe Slog to the Helipad
As I’ve written before about video games, it’s easy for games with a zombie theme to go wrong. Recently becoming the owner of two board games with zombie themes I got to see examples of either side, where one game has what I’m looking for and the other does not.
Continue readingDay of Days and dice
For a long time I’ve been itching to play “war” board games. Sure, Risk and Stratego were staples in my house growing up but there’s a whole other degree of game that I didn’t even know existed…
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My fiancée and I play a lot of games together. Quiet weekends and weekday evenings while we wait for dinner to cook are great times to get in some board games. As such, I’m always on the lookout for good two player games.
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Risk + Lord of the Rings = Win
Risk: Lord of the Rings is the best version of Risk there is. Why? Because it’s Risk plus Lord of the Rings.
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Working Together, Part 2
Time for my top three favorite cooperative board games!
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