Revisiting Carcassonne
Always good to bring out a classic for a spin.
Give me Regicide, or give me death!
‘Regicide’, according to almost any dictionary you care to look up, is a word that simply means ‘the killing of a king’ and its earliest usage dates back to the 16th-century – I can only imagine it was happening frequently enough for them to come up with a […]
Spiel21: It’s Day Zero
The Day before Spiel. As we Malaysians look forward to entering an endemic phase for COVID-19, some are looking forward to waking up tomorrow to the largest boardgame convention in Essen!
Kaki Lima
Take a stroll in Georgetown, Penang and meet up with your friends.
Railroad Ink
A clever roll-and-write game of connecting railways and highways.
L.L.A.M.A.
An innocent-looking but devilish card game from Reiner Knizia.
How to win your girlfriend’s father’s approval if he’s a board gamer
Is it a good idea to play a Draw 4 on your girlfriend’s father?
The White Box – game design toolkit
What do you get inside this toolkit created for new game designers?
Nidavellir
O mighty dwarf lord, gather your brothers and sisters to form the mightiest army of all, and win the honour of slaying the ancient dragon.
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.
Playing Innovation online
Play Innovation, the crazy card game by mad scientist designer Carl Chudyk, on Board Game Arena!
Prêt-à-Porter : Sartorial Struggle
In Prêt-à-Porter, you are the head of a fashion house, competing in the cut-throat world of high stakes fashion and design. Your goal is to finish the game as the most successful and most profitable company, standing atop the ruins of your decimated competitors.
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?
Why Terraforming Mars: Turmoil is my favourite expansion in the entire series
Turmoil is the Terraforming Mars expansion that introduces something actually fresh into the mix: a solid dose of reality in the form of global events that can mess up your best-laid plans. In all fairness, these global events can also bring some lucrative windfall benefits – that is IF you’ve planned for it and taken stock of the unfolding situation. Keep an eye on the unfolding political upheavals taking place within the Terraforming Committee and position your delegates carefully and accordingly to welcome any winds of change that are inevitably coming.
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 […]
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