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Dec 112 min read
Akropolis Lux
Akropolis is a slightly abstract building game where you score sets of colour hexes collected as parts of tri-omino style tiles. You...
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Nov 281 min read
Hey Thats My Way to Fish
Hey Thats My Fish is a classic example of a game aimed at kids but actually clever enough for adults. Go in straight lines, where ever...
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Nov 211 min read
Building a better Tiny Town
Tiny Towns is a nice little puzzler. Put coloured blocks together in the right pattern on a grid, and then replace them with a building...
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Nov 71 min read
The Painted Desert
I don't paint miniatures. Too fiddly and difficult to undo if it goes wrong. I won't show you my one attempt (to be fair it was before...
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Oct 311 min read
The Splendor of Century Spice Road
Both these games are bare-bone engine builders. Use cards to get coins to get better cards from the board to get more coins till you can...
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Oct 241 min read
Lego of the meeples
Meeples. Meeples meeples meeples. (Am I legally allowed to say meeples now?) Little wooden pieces. Shaped like a starfish...sorry humans....
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Oct 171 min read
Show me the Money
There are three basic ways of keeping score in a Victory-point game: Pen and paper - usually when the score is calculated at the end of...
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Oct 101 min read
Living the dream in Fantasy Realms
Fantasy Realms Review 2-6 players Fantasy Realms is a game that Peter C. Hayward on the rather lovely “Fun Problems” podcast would...
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Oct 34 min read
Epoxy Resin -ing your boardgame tokens. Part 2
Pre-prep Get somewhere bright! Maybe file off any burrs from the side of your tokens (they provide prime sots for the epoxy to leak over...
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Joost
Sep 263 min read
Epoxy Resin -ing your boardgame tokens. Part 1
Before I start, I want to thank https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2974746/deluxifying-your-cardboard-tokens-by-covering-them and...
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Joost
Sep 192 min read
Upgrading
I mentioned previously that I had been “upgrading” some of my games recently. I have two ways of changing games: Either I try to shrink...
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Sep 102 min read
Lostten Schotten Cities
Two 2-player games from the bow-tied master Reiner Knizia: In "Schotten Totten," you play 1 of 6 cards in your hand towards 9 brag...
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Joost
Sep 12 min read
Splito - Nice party if you don't mind flimsy
3-8 players, best at 5-6 Splito is a fun little party game where you start with a hand of 13 cards, play one then pass the rest along to...
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Joost
Aug 282 min read
Planning posting again - but what?
I am starting to post again. Why not? I noticed some typos on some old posts,a and while correcting them I wondered where my momentum...
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Jan 12, 20201 min read
Blokus - so simple, so elegant
So we've been playing a bit of Blokus recently. This is one of those games I wish I had come up with. So so simple - your next piece must...
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Joost
Nov 1, 20191 min read
Three of Clubs
Okay, so this maybe a bit of a cheat, but its a game that has given us much joy over the years. The rules are simple: 1 player takes a...
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Joost
Oct 25, 20191 min read
Shithead
Don't let the name put you off. Shithead, created by Gauthier Malzac in the not too distant past is great fun. This is a beating game in...
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Joost
Oct 18, 20191 min read
Rummy
Rummy has players trying to turn hands of seven or ten cards into groups of three or four sets of card that are either three/four of a...
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Joost
Oct 10, 20191 min read
Mustn't Brag but...
Basic Brag is a three card game. With each hand you make various three card hands whose strength resemble hand strengths in poker....
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Joost
Oct 3, 20192 min read
A variation on BlackJack
There are two games named Blackjack. One is played in Casinos where you get nearest to 21 in total face value without going over. I'm not...
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