Candygrams
- Designer: Johnny Landers
- Publisher: Candygrams LLC
- Players: 2-4
- Ages: 10+
- Time: 5-15 minutes
- Times played: 5, with review copy provided by the game designer
Word games fall into a funny spot in my game collection. It is a genre that I love, and I am a huge fan of clever word play. My shelves are filled with numerous gems including Montage, Boggle, Scrabble, Upwords, Buyword, Password, Codenames, Decrypto, Pick Two and Knock on Word – just to name a few! The problem, for me, is that many of these games simply don’t make it to the table very often (though Decrypto and Codenames seem to be making a name for themselves in the exactly 4 and 6+ player ranges for me).
When I was approached by the designer of Candygrams to try out his new invention, I was intrigued based on the name/theme alone… In this game, players have to build their own crossword in front of them, with the goal being that they need to be the first player to play all of their tiles.
Patrick Brennan: Game Snapshots – Jan 2018
Patrick Brennan: Game Snapshots – Jan 2018
An old school shot of Mr. Brennan
After working with the Electoral Commission on three different elections over the last 6 months, where time was not my own, gaming time is gradually returning to normal. When last we met, my co-op group had started a Pathfinders: Wrath of the Righteous campaign to see if the game improved over time. Sadly not and it’s on the trade pile, feeling sorry for itself in the corner. We’ve been working through Tragedy Looper scenarios in the meantime and while still enjoyable, each game seems to come down to a Vizzini moment where we try to outguess what the mastermind did, knowing he knows we’ll need to outguess him. We’ll likely come back to it at some point, but this week we began Pandemic Legacy Season 2 with the prologue, and its novel approach within the same structure is already appealing. Gloomhaven is finally in the house and that’ll start getting runs as well. And some interesting new decks for Lord of the Rings: The Card Game are being explored. Oh, and I sent my uber-solo dwarf deck into the Mountain of Fire for the first time and they got whipped and smacked every which way but Tuesday. Those final scenarios, my friends, are doozies, and provide a worthy finale to the “book” saga! It may be time to send in the eagles instead (which we all know should have happened from the start anyway, but then there’d be no story and so …). Continue reading →
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