👨👩👧👦Players: 2-5⏳Time: 10-25 mins🎂Ages: 10+⚙️Mechanisms: Card Drafting, Placement “Hear ye!, hear ye! The King has declared a party…a COMBO party” We’ve been playing Castle Combo from Pandasaurus Games. It’s a card drafting and placement game where you get exactly nine turns to gather nobles and townsfolk together into a 3 by 3 grid. Each card … Continue reading Case File: Castle Combo
👨👩👧👦Players: 2-6⏳Time: 30 mins🎂Ages: 10+⚙️Mechanisms: Pick and Pass, Card Drafting Ours is a house divided. Steph is a lifelong Star Wars fan while I think it’s only logical to prefer another franchise that also starts with “Star”. That hasn’t stopped us from both enjoying Star Wars Bounty Hunters, a fantastic new release from Zygomatic Games. … Continue reading Case File: Star Wars Bounty Hunters
👨👩👧👦Players: 2⏳Time: 30-45 minutes🎂Ages: 10+⚙️Mechanisms: Card Drafting, Set Collection, Area Control, Racing We’ve been on an adventure in recent weeks, playing The Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle-Earth. Despite a name that’s almost as long as the walk to Mordor, it’s an absolutely fantastic boardgame that builds on the design of 7 Wonders Duel. … Continue reading Case File: The Lord of the Rings : Duel for Middle-Earth
👨👩👧👦Players: 2-5⏳Time: 20-30 mins🎂Ages: 8+⚙️Mechanisms: Set Collection, Take That A banquet with the Queen sounds fun right? Well it can be, as long as you don’t mind a little backstabbing, spying and some court intrigue with your food! We’ve been busy playing Courtisans, a 2-5 player game where you try to influence which families at … Continue reading Case File: Courtisans
👨👩👧👦Players: 2⏳Time: 20 Minutes🎂Ages: 8+⚙️Mechanisms: Dice rolling, Tug of War We’ve been busy playing King of Tokyo Duel. It’s a new version of the classic monster-battling dice chucker of the same name that’s been designed specifically for two players. For those who haven’t played any of the ‘King of’ games, they consist of rolling dice … Continue reading Case File: King of Tokyo Duel
👨👩👧👦Players: 2-8⏳Time: 15-30 mins🎂Ages: 8+⚙️Mechanisms: Card Shedding, Take That Steph and I like to think that we’re nice most of the time. Not all of the time though, because when it comes to games, we’re very competitive. We’ve recently had the chance to try out a new card game called Mean! that really let that … Continue reading Case File: Mean!
👨👩👧👦Players: 2-4⏳Time: 30-60 minutes🎂Ages: 12+⚙️Mechanisms: Action Selection, Tableau Building It’s a race…FOR THE GALAXY! We’re still fairly new to modern gaming, having only started in the past six or so years. It means we’ve played plenty of great newer games, but every so often we find we’ve missed a classic. Race for the Galaxy is … Continue reading Case File: Race for the Galaxy
👨👩👧👦Players: 2-5⏳Time: 30 mins🎂Ages: 14+⚙️Mechanisms: Hand Management, Card Counting, Luck Every so often we play a game and instantly fall in love with it, like we did with Mamma Mia. Designed by Uwe Rosenberg and published by Rio Grande Games, it’s a small box card game for two to five players where you take on … Continue reading Case File: Mamma Mia
👨👩👧👦Players: 1-6⏳Time: 45-60 mins🎂Ages: 14+⚙️Mechanisms: Hand management, Action Selection We’ve been having a blast playing Libertalia – Winds of Galecrest. In this game you are the captain of a flying pirate ship, part of a fleet that lands on a different island each day in search of treasure. It’s played over three rounds, each broken … Continue reading Case File: Libertalia Winds of Galecrest
👨👩👧👦Players: 2-4⏳Time: 20-30 mins🎂Ages: 10+⚙️Mechanisms: Hand Management, Area Control Spring has sprung here in Australia, so fittingly we’ve been playing Flowers from Lookout Games. It’s for 2-4 players and is a spin-off of the two player only game Mandala. In Flowers, players take turns adding coloured cards to the three mandala locations. Once all six … Continue reading Case File: Flowers (A Mandala Game)
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