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Medici The Dice Game (Game Review by Brandon Kempf)
Designer: Reiner Knizia Artists: Vincent Dutrait Publisher: Grail Games Players: 1-4 Time: 20 Minutes Times Played: 4 The Medici’s are back and they are still shipping goods and trying to have the most valuable cargo. This time though, there are … Continue reading
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Tagged dice game, Grail Games, Medici The Dice Game, Reiner Knizia, Roll and Write, Vincent Dutrait
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Congratulations to the 2020 Spiel des Jahres nominees!
The Spiel des Jahres jury announced their nominees and recommendations this morning. Congratulations to the nominees! We’ve listed them below, but we’ve only put in the names of the German publishers (or what we assume is the German publisher). Links … Continue reading
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Tagged Cartographers, Christian Stöhr, Corne van Moorsel, Daniela Stöhr, Die Crew: Reist gemeinsam zum 9. Planeten, Edition Spielwiese, Foto Fish, Hjalmar Hach, Jordy Adan, Kennerspiel des Jahres, Kinderspiel des Jahres, Kosmos, LOGIS, Lorenzo Silva, Michael Kallauch, My City, Nova Luna, NSV, PD Verlag, Piatnik, Pictures, Reiner Knizia, Reinhard Staupe, Speedy Roll, Spiel des Jahres, The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine, Thomas Sing, Urtis Šulinskas, Uwe Rosenberg, Wir sind die Roboter
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My City (Game Review by Chris Wray)
Designer: Reiner Knizia Publisher: Kosmos Players: 2 – 4 Ages: 10 and up Time: 30 Minutes Times Played: 28 (Full 24 Game Campaign, 4 “Eternal” Games) My City is a legacy game designed by Reiner Knizia. Released this spring, the … Continue reading
Surviving the Purge: Indigo (Game Review by Brandon Kempf)
Designer: Reiner Knizia Artists: Eckhard Freytag, Walter Pepperle, Stefan Wingen & Betty Yao Publisher: Ravensburger Spieleverlag GmbH Players 2-4 Time: 30 Minutes Plays: 22 By 2013, my family and I were playing a lot more board games. It had become … Continue reading
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Tagged Abstract Games, Betty Yao, Eckhard Freytag, Family games, Indigo, Ravensburger, Reiner Knizia, Surviving the Purge, Tile Placement, Walter Pepperle
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Brandon Kempf – Surviving the Purge 3
Over the next few months, instead of going with my Three Games articles, I am going to take a look at my collection and try to discuss why certain titles survived the great purge of 2019. During this process I … Continue reading
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Ten More 2020-2021 Titles I’m Eagerly Anticipating (Article by Chris Wray)
Back in April, I published a list of 10 2020 Titles I’m Eagerly Anticipating. Since then, we’ve seen convention after convention cancelled, and many game releases have slipped into 2021. But there are still several great games coming! So today, … Continue reading →