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Board Game Review: Go Dotty

Jan 25, 2019
1 min

Board Game Review: Go Dotty

Go Dotty We have really been enjoying Go Dotty! We were lucky enough to have been sent a a pre-release copy of the game. This is a very clever abstract game for 2-players that involves placing tiles to make lines of 3 consecutive tiles of your colour. The trick is that each tile must be placed adjacent to another tile and the pips on the sides of the tiles that touch must be the same. Also it is not legal to make a line of 4 consecutive tiles and your opponent is trying to bl

Board Game Review: After the Virus

Dec 19, 2018
5 min

Board Game Review: After the Virus

After The Virus Bulbous, bobble-headed zombies are coming for your sweet, sweet, bulbous, bobble-headed brain. Don't let the cheeky cover art dissuade you, After the Virus is actually a tense and challenging cooperative deck builder and I'm here to tell you it's excellent. So excellent in fact that I found myself playing the solo game late into a work night; and I'm the responsible type. The game accommodates 1 to 3 players, which in itself is unusual and for me, part of its

Board Game Review: Lignum

Nov 8, 2018
5 min

Board Game Review: Lignum

How much wood could a worker placement chuck if a worker placement could chuck wood? After a session of Lignum I'm here to tell you! In Lignum (the Latin word for wood), players take the role of 19th century logging industry tycoons. The game spans two years and eight seasons. In spring, summer and fall of those years, the players race around a supply track picking up resources, tools and workers, to help them grow their wood working enterprise. In winter the players have to

Board Game Review: You Can Cut the Tension with a Knife in Bomb Squad Academy

Jan 12, 2016
5 min

Board Game Review: You Can Cut the Tension with a Knife in Bomb Squad Academy

Let us all hope that students learning to defuse bombs in real life are far less reckless than me and my play group were during this game. Bomb Squad Academy is a game for 2 to 5 players, designed by Josh Cappel and Daniel Rocchi. It’s another small-box game from Tasty Minstrel Games and offers more than it’s diminutive size would initially suggest. The Theme You and the other players are cadets at the Retro City Bomb Squad and the Academy instructor has rigged 3 training bo

Harbour is a Safe Choice for Fun!
(Review of Harbour by Tasty Minstrel Games)

Oct 13, 2015
3 min

Harbour is a Safe Choice for Fun! (Review of Harbour by Tasty Minstrel Games)

Harbour is a game for 1 to 4 players, designed by Scott Almes (designer of Tiny Epic Kingdoms, Kings of Air and Steam, and the very cute looking Best Treehouse Ever) and published by Tasty Minstrel Games. The Theme Players are entrepreneurs in the harbour town of Gullsbottom collecting, trading and manipulating a market of fish, livestock, wood and stone in an effort to buy buildings that provide victory points. The many different characters and races will seem familiar to fa