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
Exchange: A Stock Trading Game of Strategy & Wit Review
Stonks! It's time to earn some dollarydoos on Wall Street! You've been given a small, $1000 gift from your parents (modest, only enough to buy 20 banks). The wild world of securities trading awaits you and you will either end up much richer, or more likely, in jail because your heavy and highly publicised manipulation … Continue reading Exchange: A Stock Trading Game of Strategy & Wit Review
The Alpha Review
It's been a harsh winter in the mountains where wolves typically live. You are a pack of wolves. No, sorry. You are the head of a pack of wolves, the Alpha Wolf! The only thing that sets you apart from the other packs of identically shaped wolf packs is your cunning, and coloured paint coating. … Continue reading The Alpha Review
The 12 Most Annoying Things About Being a Boardgamer
You know something that annoys me? Articles with meaningless preamble. Games that don't fit well (or at all) on my shelves. Like all gamers, I have a trusty set of Ikea Kallax shelves set up prominently in my gaming area in which I store all my games. It's an attractive, functional and cost effective solution … Continue reading The 12 Most Annoying Things About Being a Boardgamer
Tapestry Strategy Guide
I've been playing Tapestry a lot lately! It's a very interesting game and I've been thinking a lot about it's strategy. I thought it might be interesting to lay my thoughts out here, and if you are a beginner or intermediate player, you might learn something that helps you out - or if your thoughts … Continue reading Tapestry Strategy Guide
Vast: The Mysterious Manor Review
You've been invited to a Vast, (the) Mysterious Manor up on the hill outside of town! Your secretive, magical Uncle has passed away and his will is being read today. To your surprise each of those gathered has been given an odd task to perform to prove worthiness - and if you succeed in your … Continue reading Vast: The Mysterious Manor Review
Rival Restaurants Review
Grab your spatula and start earning likes! It's 2020 and you're cooking for exposure. Everyone wants to be Number 1 on Instagram so photogenic dishes are the key to a modern restaurant success story. As a budding restaurateur, you will be doing anything it takes - even literally stealing from your Rival Restaurants - to … Continue reading Rival Restaurants Review
Mental Blocks Mini Review
I excitedly ordered Pandasauraus' new game Mental Blocks recently after being quite interested to try it since seeing a short 'pitch' of what the game was about a few months ago. Unfortunately the game didn't live up to my expectations, and so this is a shorter review than normal. After playing the game a few … Continue reading Mental Blocks Mini Review
Sorcerer City Review
Every year a bunch of Mages come together at the sacred site of Sorcerer City in order to take part in what can only be described by us mere mortals as some sort of magical Burning Man style event. They slap together a city in haste, have it assessed by the judges on various criteria, … Continue reading Sorcerer City Review
The Grimm Masquerade Review
You've been invited to The Beast's 2019-Masquerade-Secret-Santa-Ball-Annual-The-Bachelor-Night! Everyone will be dancing and exchanging gifts, trying to remain anonymous for the longest time whilst striving to collect all their favourite artifacts and avoid their most loathed items. And of course, the currency of the evening is roses, just like all good reality TV shows. 2-5 Players … Continue reading The Grimm Masquerade Review
The Grimm Masquerade Unboxing
Welcome to the Ball, friends! We shall all transform beneath our magical masks... 2 – 5 Players | 20 – 40 Minutes | Designed by Tim Eisner, Ben Eisner & James Hudson The Grimm Masquerade sees players pointing fingers and throwing accusations, all while trying to keep their own identity hidden. It is a bluffing … Continue reading The Grimm Masquerade Unboxing
