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About two years ago, I picked up a copy of Beowulf: The Legend on the secondary market. I was in the waning days of my Knizia Era, still eager to try any and every title I’d heard mentioned in the context of his best work. Beowulf was one of the… Read more »

I don’t tend to do much in the way of planning before a trip. I never have. The first time I went to Paris, I woke up early, walked out the front door of the hostel, pointed myself towards the Eiffel Tower, and spent the rest of the day blowing… Read more »

Not every board game needs a new printing. We all have our favorite niche games, our cherished lost classics, our Oasis or Blue Moon, but it’s often better for them to stay in the shadows where they can remain under-appreciated gems. They often don’t hold up under the spotlight in… Read more »

In the Leder Games Extended Universe, you’ve got all the flavors of asymmetry. There’s my favorite, Oath, 1 vs. many shared tableau zany asymmetry; there’s Vast, which is quasi-dungeon-crawler asymmetry; there’s Arcs, asymmetry that builds over 9 hours (if you’re going campaign-style); there’s Root, which is DO YOUR JOB asymmetry… Read more »

Justin Bell - Allplay - Board Game Playmat – Medium Black (3’ x 5’) When the Allplay mat arrived at my home, I had a game night scheduled the next day, so the mat was thrown into the fray immediately. Between plays of games like Age of Rail: South Africa,… Read more »

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I recently got my hands on the new version of the classic word association party game Codenames, originally released in 2015. Czech Games Edition (CGE) recently re-released the game with a fresh coat of paint, including new art on the spy tiles, a more eco-friendly card stand for the spymasters… Read more »

Like many board game families, mine is a CATAN household. We’ve been playing as a family on and off for maybe five years, starting with CATAN Junior. I have been playing CATAN (base, as well as CATAN: Cities & Knights) for more than 20. The kids love trading, I love… Read more »

Spooky Speculation In the spirit of spooky season (at the time of this writing), it’s always great to find some new Halloween-themed or adjacent games. That’s the Spirit is a social deduction game where all the players have died, but no one remembers exactly how it happened. One of the… Read more »

Terrifying Techno Connor Wake and Always Awake Games have knocked it out of the park with the theme. I even love the humor of the studio name, as Connor is always a Wake (at least that’s my dad-joke interpretation). Club Spooky is another title that fits nicely as a spooky… Read more »