Welcome to The Board Game Detective! The Board Game Detective is here to provide reviews of boardgames that are light on rules explanation and delve more into what the game feels like to play. Articles will centre on the author's praise and criticisms for the game. Each article will provide a brief theme and rules … Continue reading Welcome
Dinosaur Island + Totally Liquid
🎶 Familiar yet altered music plays 🎶 Welcome to Dinosaur Island! The Jurassic era themed park that is 100% legally distinct from any existing intellectual property! Visit to see our real, live dinosaurs brought to life by science. Stroll the park and maybe take a ride on a thrilling roller coaster! Enjoy our punderfully named … Continue reading Dinosaur Island + Totally Liquid
Tokyo Highway
Well into the age of the auto-mobile in Tokyo and traffic is starting to pile up on the city's streets. Construction companies have been contracted to fix the traffic calamity by building an elevated highway system. Land is expensive though, so to get from point A to point B, companies are going to take the … Continue reading Tokyo Highway
Guide to BoardGameGeek Weightings and Ratings, and How to Find Good Games
What's BoardGameGeek? BoardGameGeek (BGG) is the most popular website on the internet for people who are into boardgames to discover, discuss, and give feedback on games. If you aren't familiar with it, you can think of it like Wikipedia for boardgames, with additional community and social media features such as discussion forums, photo sharing, and … Continue reading Guide to BoardGameGeek Weightings and Ratings, and How to Find Good Games
Turing Tumble
I will preface this review for my regular readers: Turing Tumble is not a boardgame. It's an educational puzzle 'game'. The Turing Tumble is a piece of highly intricate, alien computing technology. Developed on a world where a complex phenomenon prevents the operation of conventional computers (maybe we are just in the wrong Zone of … Continue reading Turing Tumble
My Favourite Games For Each Player Count (Ten to One)
It's the start of 2019 and I was in the mood for making a bit of a list, but I find ranking things really hard. I think it's very situation dependant what game I want to play, drawing in many factors, one of which is the number of players that are around. Given a situation … Continue reading My Favourite Games For Each Player Count (Ten to One)
Now Boarding
It's the golden age of the skies! Air travel is cheap and plentiful, and airlines are competing to provide the most attractive tickets to prospective travellers. Despite this, air travel is relatively new, and as such the various companies involved in the industry need to work together in order to show a good face to … Continue reading Now Boarding
A Sentence About Every Game I’ve Owned – Part 2
This post continues on from A Sentence About Every Game I’ve Owned Part 1. I've copied this list from BoardGameGeek, and I'm sure I've probably missed some stuff. Games in red, I've since moved on. Games with links I've written reviews about! So - here is a short comment on every game I've ever owned. … Continue reading A Sentence About Every Game I’ve Owned – Part 2
