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The year 2025 marks the 40th anniversary of Dr Reiner Knizia’s career as a board game designer – his first published game, Complica, was released in a magazine in 1985 (although he’d self-published games before then as well). Since then, Knizia has designed and published over 800 games and expansions,… Read more »

Philly Gaming Marathon PAX Unplugged is the end cap to the year of gaming conventions, the last big hurrah before everyone slips into holiday travel mode and winter hibernation. This year carried a bit of uncertainty, landing both the weekend before Thanksgiving and right on top of the Philadelphia Marathon.… Read more »

The top of the SPIEL Essen 2025 Hotness list on Board Game Geek for about two weeks was the new exploration Eurogame Recall. One reason the game was so hot: the same people who designed Recall previously gave us Revive, a top-100 title on BGG and one of the best… Read more »

Whenever a bright and shiny new abstract game is released, people immediately begin comparing it to the 2017 juggernauts: Azul and Sagrada. It's difficult to peddle abstract games, because their themes are generally plastered over the top of the mechanics, so publishers and designers have to get creative by upping… Read more »

I don’t sit down to complex games more than a few times a year at this point. I rarely have time for a three- or even a two-hour affair. All current habits aside, though, I’ve been waiting for one bloated box to arrive at my door. Ada’s Dream has been… Read more »

Author’s Note: the game Wingspan has been covered in many reviews. This article assumes that you have a good (if basic) understanding of how the game works and how it is played. If you need a primer on the game, Meeple Mountain has you covered! You can check out Logan… Read more »

An expansion to a great game is not always cause for celebration. It’s easy for designers and publishers to get out over their skis, to add too much and disrupt the balance of whatever made the game great to begin with. For every Terraforming Mars: Prelude or Spirit Island: Branch… Read more »

You always need to read the small print. When the invitation arrived in the mail, you were so excited. An auction? You love auctions! Ever since you were a child, there was nothing that got your blood pumping like the sound of a gavel and competitive largesse. You wrote it… Read more »

When you put Reiner Knizia’s Purrramid in front of new players, the first thing they notice are the tiles. Thick, semi-transparent plastic rectangles with rounded corners, the material quality alone would make an impression. You want to handle them, to clack them together, to hold heaps of them in your… Read more »