Tabletop: BOARD GAMEs
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5.3KPlay This, Not That! – A Dozen Better Board Games
Eat This, Not That! is one of the bestselling books of the last decade. In its pages, you learn how to eat...
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904.4KLife and Death at the Top of the World – Review of Expedition: Northwest Passage
The HMS Terror. A frightening name–and a premonition. Along with the HMS Erebus, these mid-19th century science ships vanished in the Arctic...
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653.3KDead Panic surrounds you with zombies
There are many pieces of good advice if the zombie apocalypse breaks out. Don’t get surrounded by zombies would be the first...
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3.3KA new spin on Monopoly — A preview of Conglomerate the Game
In 1904, Elizabeth Magie patented a game about the evils of capitalism called The Landlord’s Game. Whoever earned the most money won,...
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804.6KOld-School Gamers Rejoice!! Colossal Cave Review
From the present perspective, summiting yet another peak among the vast range of ever-more fantastic achievements in the digital age, I stop...
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652.2KPerfect Zen or Perfect Flop: Zen Garden Review
The night is cool. A soft breeze pushes the fragrance of the flowers up into your room. Stepping out onto the balcony,...
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452.6KPlaying Global Mogul is work
Most people play games to escape from work. Whether that means being a knight, a spaceship captain or an Italian merchant, being...
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752.6KThe Spiel on the Spiel des Jahres 2012 – Kingdom Builder
Game awards tend to be an exercise in pretentious favoritism, where the flashier products of the big names tend to get the...
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2.2KPlaid Hat reinvents the co-op genre with Dead of Winter
Ever get the feeling that players in co-operative games are too willing to “take one for the team”? Do you worry that...
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855.5KOne does not simply walk into Vesuvius – The Downfall of Pompeii (2nd Ed.)
From the designer of Carcassone, Klaus-Jürgen Wrede, comes this meeple-placement/tile-placement game set in the doomed Roman city of Pompeii. At first, you move...
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804.3KThe Golden Spike of deckbuilding and railroad games – review of Trains
At a friendly, local, game store outside Osaka, Japan, board game night had one rule: First game fully set up on the...
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753.1KGet off my ship! – Walk the Plank
The Captain is angry. Angry enough that he has put all of you out on the plank. He wants everyone sent off...
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904.7KIf they mean to have a War, let it begin here! – 1775: Rebellion
Back in the day, you may recall from history class, some dudes got tired of the King’s laws and started a turf...
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803.6KRace down raging river rapids in the game Whitewater
One of the more thrilling things you can do when you’re not playing board games is go whitewater rafting. Actually that last...
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607.3KRabble and Ballots — Five Points Gangs of New York Review
The theme of Five Points: Gangs of New York appeals to people like me who are interested in American history. If you...
