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Best New (to me!) Games of 2016
Top ten lists are difficult – especially when I don’t get to play some of the “big new games” for 6 months to a year after they’re released… so a few years back, I listed my Best New (to me!) Games … Continue reading
Potion Explosion is the Italian Game of the Year
On Sunday 17th September the jury of the Gioco dell’Anno (Game of the Year) chose Potions Explosions as game of the year 2016. The game was devised by Stefano Castelli, Andrea Crespi and Lorenzo Silva and published by Horrible Games. … Continue reading
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Tricks and Trumps #3: Trick Taking Meets German Game Designers (1990-1995)
This is our third entry in an eleven-part series featuring trick taking games. This entry will focus on trick taking games from the early 1990s to 1995. During this era, German game designers started to put their own creative twists … Continue reading
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Tagged Card Games, Doris & Frank, Flaschenteufel, Foppen, Hattrick, Mü, Sticheln, Tricks & Trumps, Was Sticht?
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Tricks and Trumps #2: Variations on the Classics (1966-1990)
Tricks and Trumps #2: Variations on the Classics This is our second entry in an eleven-part series featuring trick taking games. This entry will focus on trick taking games from the mid-1960s to the early 1990s, which tended to closely … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Moon, Blacky Spy, Card Games, Coup d'etat, David Parlett, Ninety Nine, Wer hat mehr?, Wizard
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Tricks and Trumps #1: The Classic Trick-Takers Before 1965
This is the first entry in an eleven-part series featuring trick taking games. We put more than 150 such games into a ratings spreadsheet, giving each Opinionated Gamer the chance to offer their rating. We decided to write about any … Continue reading
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Tagged Bridge, Card Games, David Parlett, Euchre, Hearts, Oh Hell, Pinochle, Pitch, Spades
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2015 Year In Review
With 2015 now over, your intrepid Opinionated Gamers are taking a look back to answer the question on everyone’s mind about this time of year – what was the best game of 2015? Of course, all being opinionated, we can’t … Continue reading
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Goblin Magnifico: Wir Sind das Volk! won the award
After the recent birth of Gioco dell’Anno, Lucca Comics & Games award for the best gateway/family game that substituted Best of Show and the passing of Ludoteca Ideale, we miss a real award for gamers in Italy. We have one … Continue reading
Posted in Best Of, Convention Report
Tagged goblin magnifico, PLAY: The Games Festival, Wir Sind das Volk
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Golden Geek Madness
BoardGameGeek announced the winners of the Golden Geek awards last week, including the Game of the Year – Splendor. The Opinionated Gamers unsurprisingly have diverse opinions about Splendor. But we thought, why stop there? Let’s share our opinions about all … Continue reading
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The Half Dozen (or is it more?) Decent Essen Games
Nearly twenty years ago now, Mike Siggins wrote in one of his excellent Essen wrap-ups in Sumo: “What is certain is that on the evidence of Essen, the German hobby is still a hundred times more active than our own, … Continue reading
Posted in Best Of, Essen 2014
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Italian Games of the Year announced
And the winner is … Just a little break in the endless rush of Essen preview/review to announce the best Italian award … Two years ago Italian publishers and Lucca Comics & Games staff had a meeting concerning the evolution … Continue reading
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