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Hegemony, Earth, and Thunder Road: Vendetta Win Golden Geek Awards!

BoardGame Geek has just announced the winners of their annual Game of the Year awards, the Golden Geeks.  There are three categories–Light, Medium, and Heavy GotY.  The winner in the Heavy category is Hegemony, an asymmetric economic brain-burner in which … Continue reading

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Millenium Blades – Again! Revisiting this game from 2017, in a new format for me – Teamplay

Millenium Blades first hit the shelves in 2017 – and it was a mind-bender of an idea.  Let’s play a CCG like game that puts people in an imaginary universe where people battle in a CCG tournament!  It was a … Continue reading

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Dale Yu: Review of Chronicles of Crime

Chronicles of Crime Designer: David Cicurel Publisher: Lucky Duck Games Players: 1-4 Age: 12+ Time: 60-90 minutes per case Chronicles of Crime is a cooperative game of crime investigation, mixing an app, a board game and a touch of Virtual … Continue reading

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Matt Carlson: First Impressions of Euthia: Torment of Resurrection

If there are any Holy Grails in the boardgaming world, it is to find the perfect civilization-building boardgame and the perfect dungeon-crawl/RPG boardgame. Euthia has nothing to do with civilization-building but is a worthy attempt at an RPG style adventure … Continue reading

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Solo Gaming 2024: The First Four Months

I’ve been writing these solo gaming reports since March of 2020… yes, early on in the pandemic. But my solo gaming started a lot farther back than that. In junior high & high school (1977-1982), I played a lot of … Continue reading

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Dale Yu: Review of Tangram City

Tangram City Designer: Uwe Rosenberg Publisher: Capstone Games / Korea Board Games Players: 1-5 Age: 8+ Time: 30 minus Played with review copy provided by Capstone Games and OffDutyNinja As a prestigious city planner, you have been ordered by the … Continue reading

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