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As time goes on, I think of myself more and more as a professional tabletop critic. This is a change from when I first joined the Meeple Mountain team about three years ago, in part because of some of the things I recognize during the first readthrough of a game’s… Read more »

There we were, down to the wire…Friar Tuck really was in danger. The family had defeated two of the three Norsemen during the second half of the first chapter of Friar Tuck in Danger, the expansion to The Adventures of Robin Hood, published by KOSMOS. The game’s excellent action system,… Read more »

Pittsburgh, PA—Following the untraceable success of their 2023 releases, Ill-Conceived Games announced a new group of titles for the upcoming Board Game Con season. President, CEO, and ChatGPT journeyman David Rivative all but guaranteed nomination for the coveted VerspottenSPIEL award in his remarks.   Expected to draw the bulk of attention,… Read more »

For those of us of a certain age, there is only one, iconic cover of Mastermind: Bill Woodward, seated, with the fingertips of one hand touching those of his other hand, and Cecilia Fung, standing slightly behind him in her white dress, leaning, with one arm on the chair.  As… Read more »

Starship Interstellar has the parts that usually pique my interest in a game. It’s a murderer’s row of absolute bangers: abysmal graphic design, comically overlarge pieces, cubes of every shape, size, and color, and space exploration! That might sound sarcastic, but my too-cool-for-school brain is almost immediately titillated when I… Read more »

About two years ago, my buddy Johnivan showed up at a game night with a copy of the 2015 co-op game Healthy Heart Hospital. The cover looks like a newspaper ad out of the 1950s, right down to the game’s tagline, “Don’t miss a beat!” written in script just below… Read more »

“Daddy, you KNOW I’m always down to play more Disney Lorcana.” This was the introduction from my 10-year-old when the newest Lorcana decks from our partners at Ravensburger, Into the Inklands, arrived at my home a few weeks ago. My kids are massive Pokémon fans, so anything with the words… Read more »

I can trace my love of abstracts to Score Four. The game was released in 1967, and based on the cover art (seen in the header, above), my mother must have bought me a copy shortly thereafter. The box was an off-white, with a charcoal-like drawing of the board and… Read more »

Sometimes, a game is as good as gold. So much gold, in fact, that it wins an award called the As D’or (the gold medal), which is the national game award in France handed out at the Festival International des Jeux in the first quarter of each year. The overall… Read more »

I adore ROVE: Results-Oriented Versatile Explorer, the solo spatial puzzle published by Button Shy back in 2021. I don’t play it often, but each time I do, I’m charmed anew. The combination of adorable illustrations and nesting puzzles makes for a brisk and deeply satisfying experience. Each of the numerous… Read more »