City of the Big Shoulders
Rebuild Chicago in this game of stock manipulation, worker placement and resource conversion. A bit of 18XX without the railroads.
Hiew Chok Sien
Playing Innovation online
Play Innovation, the crazy card game by mad scientist designer Carl Chudyk, on Board Game Arena!
Priests of Ra
Priests of Ra is a new twist on the Reiner Knizia classic auction game Ra.
Carnegie
Make money and do charity in this heavy gamers’ game.
Unboxing: Priests of Ra vs Ra
How do the components of this variant of the Reiner Knizia classic auction game compare with the original?
Havana
The Game Havana is the capital of Cuba. The game Havana is a sister game of the game Cuba, but they are by different designers. Just same publisher. Havana was released in 2009. I was looking for low complexity games to play with younger daughter Chen Rui during […]
Sky Towers
The Game Sky Towers is a card game from Japan, designed by Charles Ward, winner of the BGG 2020 9-card nanogame design contest. The game is an entry in the BGG 2021 54-card design contest. The voting period will start on 1 Jul 2021. Charlie contacted me […]
Teotihuacan: City of Gods
The Game Teotihuacan is an archaeological site in modern day Mexico, famous for its many pyramids. It was once one of the largest cities in the world. It was most prosperous from 1AD to 500AD. Historians still debate whether it was the seat of an empire, but most […]
Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra
The Game Stained Glass of Sintra is the second of three games in the Azul series. I have played the other two and enjoyed them both. So I was not going to pass up the opportunity to play this one. The mechanism for claiming […]
Lost Ruins of Arnak
The Game Lost Ruins of Arnak is one of the hottest games in 2021. It has just been nominated for the Kennerspiel des Jahres. When I first heard of it, the setting did not grab me at all. It seemed like a very typical run-of-the-mill Eurogame. I hadn’t intended […]
The formula for hobbyist board games and heavy metal songs
I sometimes have a nauseating feeling that I am playing the same game over and over and over. I have been a board game hobbyist since 2003, and I mostly play heavy Eurogames. Board games is enjoying a golden age now. There are many new games being released […]
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