Posts By Dan Hinkin
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1.7KReviewsRear Window review – People Watching: The Board Game
When a magazine photographer, known for his harrowing action shots, breaks his leg and is confined to a wheelchair for weeks, he...
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1.4KReviewsWreck Raiders review – Grab your scuba gear and see if you can handle the “pressure”
The ocean has always been a mystical thing to me. The surface can be calm and serene or be moving with powerful...
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1.3KReviewsDungeon Scrawlers review – “Draw” a d20 for initiative
Seeing the Dungeons and Dragons logo on a box invokes specific feelings and thoughts. For me, I imagine a group of friends...
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1.3KReviewsMaster Word review – I’ve got 20 questions about how to make Mastermind with words.
Put forth your queries, use the clues to narrow down choices, make your guesses, and try to decipher the answer before you...
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1.8KReviewsLas Vegas Royale review – Come out, roll the dice, and press your luck the easy way
On my first visit to Las Vegas, I was immediately drawn to the craps table. Being 18, they immediately steered me the...
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1.4KReviewsCarpe Diem review – Seize the day and get this on your table.
When setting out to play Carpe Diem for the first time, I was prepared for a pleasant experience of tile placement with...
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1.9KReviewsHarry Potter: House Cup Competition review⏤Ten points to theme and mechanics!
When I was a kid, I blew through the first three Harry Potter books in a week. Then I had to wait...
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1.2KReviewsKardashev Scale review- Rock, Paper, Scissors, Galactic Civilization Building?
Back in the 1960s, a Russian astronomer, named Nikolai Kardashev, came up with a method of measuring a civilization’s level of technological...
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1.6KReviewsLibertalia: Winds of Galecrest review – Get “hooked” on a reimagined sky pirate adventure.
Take to the seas…I mean skies, with Libertalia: Winds of Gailcrest. You are the pirate captain of a skyship setting out on...
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3.5KFeaturesThe Force is with these eight Star Wars tabletop games
Levitate the rocks, light the lightsabers, and break out the blue milk- it’s May the 4th – Star Wars Day- once again!...
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1.3KReviewsOne Small Step review – We choose to go to the cardboard moon!
One Small Step for man, one giant leap for mankind. In the 1950’s and 60’s, the two great superpowers of the United...
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1.7KReviewsMaglev Metro review – Just when you thought subway travel couldn’t get any better!
The subway systems of New York and Berlin are in need of replacement and magnetic levitation train technology is the answer. In...
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3.0KReviewsLost Ruins of Arnak: Expedition Leaders review ⏤ The raiders of the doom temple crystal crusade get an upgrade!
The Expedition Leaders expansion for Lost Ruins of Arnak is everything an expansion should be. For a lot of games, an expansion...
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2.5KReviewsLost Ruins of Arnak review ⏤ Raiders of the doom temple crystal crusade!
Ever since I was a kid, I’ve wanted to strap a whip to my hip, don a khaki shirt, put on a...
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2.3KReviewsCity of Crowns expansion for Paladins of the West Kingdom review ⏤ Chunky meeple diplomacy
City of Crowns is the first expansion for Paladins of the West Kingdom, the second entry in the West Kingdom trilogy from...
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2.9KReviewsBitoku review ⏤ Mystical Japanese point salad
What happens when the great spirit of the forest decides to retire? Who is going to take their place? In Bitoku, you...
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1.8KReviewsEmbarcadero review ⏤ Whatever floats your houseboat
San Francisco: Mid-1800s. At the height of the gold rush, thousands of speculators made their way to the goldfields of California. As...
