Gaming and Winning
If you are old enough to remember board games from twenty or even thirty years back, you probably don’t remember a lot of them. At least that is the case for me. There was Monopoly and some simple games like pachisi or checkers. And chess, of course. That’s pretty much where it ends for me. […]
Players: 2 to 4 players, ideally 2 Playing time: around 45 minutes (for 2 player game) Ages: 10+ Skill factor/game complexity: easy Luck/random factor: low My score: 8/10 Price: check on Amazon If you remember, I mentioned in my review of Forbidden Island, that I have bought some used games locally. The previous owner must […]
Players: 2 to 5 players Playing time: 60 minutes Ages: 12+ Skill factor: medium Luck factor: medium My score: 8/10 Link to BoardGameGeek site Price: check on Amazon When playing board games, one of the issues I always have, is finding time to play and getting people together, organizing everything. So, I’m always on the […]
End of October is here and the 31st is just days away. If dressing up and trick’or’treating is not your family’s kind of thing, but you would still like to experience Halloween horror – I have selected 7 best Halloween board games, that will get you into the right holiday spirit. In my research, I […]
I have been playing a fair amount of Forbidden Island recently. As I have said in my review, I think it’s a well-designed game and I and enjoying it. So I was curious if there is something more on offer – and sure there is. Forbidden Island has received two “sequels”: Forbidden Desert and Forbidden […]
Players: 2 to 4 players Playing time: about thirty minutes Ages: 10+ Skill factor: (upper) simple Luck factor: little My score: 7.5/10 Price: check on Amazon Link to BoardGameGeek site Last week, I have been browsing local ads. I do it now and then, just out of curiosity. And you never know, you might […]
Players: 2 players only Playing time: roughly thirty minutes Ages: 10+ Skill factor: simple Luck factor: moderate My score: 7/10 Price: check on Amazon Kahuna on BoardGameGeek Me and my girlfriend have had this game for a couple of years now and it wasn’t until recently that I pulled it out of the drawer to […]
Although you can play every Scythe faction as you like (they can all explore encounters, build buildings, enlist, deploy mechs and fight), this will only work against very weak opponents (I looked into basic strategy in previous article). Against better ones, you have to take into consideration your faction’s strengths and weaknesses and play accordingly. […]
So far, I’ve played around thirty games of Scythe (read my Scythe review here). I have been playing predominantly digital edition, since it allows me to play more games and play whenever I want. I have developed some Scythe strategy tips of my own, but I am still struggling to beat the AI at medium […]
Eurogame is a term often heard in board games terminology. It is also often used incorrectly or people don’t even know what it means and use it because someone else speaks that way and it sounds cool. We’re going to have a look at what is a eurogame, what characteristics are typical for a eurogame […]