Dale Yu: Review of Jurassic Park: Digger

Jurassic Park: Digger

  • Designer:Carlos Gonzalez Vilar
  • Publisher: Gen X Games
  • Players: 2-4
  • Age: 8+
  • Time: 20-30 minutes
  • Played with review copy provided by Publisher

Dive into the exciting world of paleontology with this addictive and fun card game! Collect and combine dinosaur DNA, creating a unique Jurassic Park. Competition is fierce, and the goal is to revive as many dinosaur species as possible. Jurassic Park awaits you!

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Dale Yu: Review of Surfosaurus MAX

Surfosaurus Max

  • Designer: Ikhwan Kwon
  • Publisher: Loosey Goosey Games
  • Players: 2-6
  • Age: 10+
  • Time: 20 minutes
  • Played with copy provided by publisher


Outcooperate the competition!
Surfosaurus MAX’s cards come in seven suits, with values from 01 to 12. The higher a card’s value, the fewer victory points are on it.
When it is your turn, you play a single hand card and draw a new one immediately. Once the right number of cards has been reached, the one strongest possible combination out of all the cards played by all the players wins. If you contributed a card to the winning combination, you get to score it.

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Dale Yu: Review of Redwood

Redwood

  • Designer: Christophe Raimbault
  • Publisher: Sit Down!
  • Players: 1-4
  • Age: 10+
  • Time: 45 minutes
  • Played with review copy provided by publisher

From the rules: “At the fringes of a wild landscape, nature-loving photographers travel great distances and flex infinite patience to immortalize animals in their natural habitat.  In search of harmony, these trailblazers compose sumptuous shots that depict the marvels they encounter during their wanderings.”

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Dale Yu: Review of Challengers! Beach Cup

Challengers! Beach Cup

  • Designers: Johannes Krenner and Markus Slawitscheck
  • Publisher: Pretzel Games
  • Players: 1-8 (well, maybe 1-16!)
  • Age: 8+
  • Time: 45 minutes
  • Played with copy provided by publisher

Challengers! Was one of my favorite games of 2022. Challengers! Beach Cup is a followup, standalone expansion to this game which keeps most of the rules and feel of the original while adding a couple of things to spice it up.

We previously reviewed the original game here: https://opinionatedgamers.com/2022/12/15/simon-weinberg-review-of-challengers/

If you are unfamiliar with Challengers!, please read the above review and familiarize yourself with the game and how it works.  

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Dale Yu – Review of Waffle Time

Waffle Time

  • Designer: Maxime Demeyere
  • Publisher: AEG
  • Players: 1-4
  • Age: 10+
  • Time: 30 minutes
  • Played with copy provided by publisher

It’s a wonderful lazy morning and your stomach is grumbling. What’s that heavenly smell coming from the kitchen? It’s Waffle Time! Draft combinations of fruit toppings and whipped cream to load up your waffle. Create patterns to spread syrup for scoring points. What you draft not only affects your score, but also your turn order and how much syrup you can use. After eight quick rounds, the player with the highest scoring waffle is the winner!

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Dale Yu: Review of Z3bra

Z3bra

  • Designers: Dirk Hanneforth and Uwe Moelter
  • Publisher: Amigo
  • Players: 2-5
  • Age: 8+
  • Time: 15 minutes
  • Played with review copy provided by publisher

In the card game Z3BRA, all good things come in threes — because then you move closer to victory!

To set up the game, deal each player fifteen cards from the deck – it is made up of 7 suits, each with a single 0-9 and 2 copies of 10-12). Without looking at the cards, they lay out nine cards in a 3×3 grid, then place the remaining six in a personal stack.  When dealing, all cards are face down, and then once the 9 card grid is made, the player can flip any 2 cards over.   A communal discard pile is started by flipping over the top card of the deck.

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