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03  mars     14h00
King of Tokyo: Origins Game Review
Tom Franklin    King of Tokyo: Origins is a dice chucking game that pits monster against monster in the age old battle for Japan’s biggest city. The winner will either be the first person who reaches points, or be the last monster standing. Set Up All players take a cut out of a monster and sets it in the...
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King of Tokyo: Monster Box Game Review
Tom Franklin    Return to the beleaguered city of Tokyo now with the addition of Tokyo Bay as our monsters slug it out once again for domination and to claim victory. If you’re new to King of Tokyo, I went over the setup and gameplay in my recent review of King of Tokyo: Origins. Known from here as KoT: O That...
02  mars     14h00
Sequitur Game Review
David McMillan    sequitur noun : the conclusion of an inference: consequence Do you consider yourself a wordsmith, a connoisseur of lexicographical delights, a veritable exemplar of sesquipedalian predilection If reading that sentence really gets your blood flowing, chances are you’ve played a few word games in...
01  mars     14h00
Four Gardens Game Review
K. David Ladage    As a fan of the game Tokaido a game where one of the things you are trying to do is to create these beautiful panoramas when it was suggested that I check out the game Four Gardens, where panoramas are the focus, I jumped at the chance Of course, when an aspect of a game shifts to become the...
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Quick Peaks Vienna, Spellbloom, Agueda: City of Umbrellas, Villagers, Doomlings
David McMillan    Vienna David McMillan This past weekend, I finally got my copy of Vienna to the table. Vienna, for those not in the know, is the th game in the much lauded and also highly criticized Stefan Feld City Collection from Queen Games. Reimplementing La Isla, which I reviewed as part of my Focused on...
29  février     14h00
Senjutsu: Battle for Japan Game Review
Andrew Lynch    Senjutsu is a skirmish game for players, set in feudal Japan during the civil war that followed the fall of the Ashikaga Shogunate. Each player takes on the role of a samurai protecting their Daimyo, but the narrative doesn’t make its presence known. This is Street Fighter in three dimensions....
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Mori Game Review
Andrew Lynch    My first play of Mori was one of the least impressive gaming experiences of recent memory. Not for one moment did it work. All four of us were miserable. The rules were impermeable and the experience was entirely flat. I can’t believe I have to play this again, I grumbled as I took the subway...
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Freedom Rings
Will Hare    Let Freedom Ring Monopoly tends to be a hot button board game to discuss. Most people grew up with at least one copy floating around somewhere between their family and extended family, and it has remained ubiquitous since its release. There are hundreds of special versions and variations of the...
28  février     14h00
Cascadia: Rolling Hills Game Review
Andy Matthews    We’ve talked about Cascadia many times before, from our review of of the Cascadia base game, to our review of the Cascadia: Landmarks expansion, our inclusion of Cascadia in a list of games you can easily play with kids and a humorous list of games which include bears. But I don’t think any of us...
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Inventions: Evolution of Ideas Game Review
Justin Bell    Any time a new game by Vital Lacerda is about to hit, my assorted tabletop gaming networks come alive. There’s always a big negotiation on the front end. Who’s going to sink for the newest crowdfunding campaign Are the hardcore collectors going to jump in or wait for someone else to pull...
27  février     14h00
Border Reivers Game Review
Andrew Lynch    Border Reivers: Anglo Scottish Border Raids, has a terrific theme. This GMT game for players takes place on the border of England and Scotland, and concerns itself with the activities of the border raiders who populated the region. English and Scottish alike, the border reivers stole...
26  février     14h00
Pies Game Review
Andrew Lynch    I love old paintings and illustrations of fruit, like the kind you find in botany textbooks from the late s. The attention to detail is astonishing, the gradations of shade and form, the imperfections. The card art for Pies drew me right in, lovingly rendered in an identical style. I found...
25  février     14h00
Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza Game Review
Justin Bell    Here’s how popular the card game Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza is my wife’s parents had heard of it. These are people that don’t play games. Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza is the second most popular dedicated card game on Amazon. Higher than all the versions of UNO. Higher than Exploding Kittens....