Case File: Courtisans

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦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 →

Case File: Survive The Island

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Players: 2-5⏳Time: 45 minutes🎂Ages: 8+⚙️Mechanisms: Modular board, dice rolling, map reduction, take that, memory Survive: Escape from Atlantis is back with a new name - Survive the Island.This reimplementation from Zygomatic Games is very much the same game we know and love, with a few key differences. Can you Survive the Island? In Survive the … Continue reading Case File: Survive The Island →

Case File: King of Tokyo Duel

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦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 →

Case File: Medical Mysteries: New York Emergency Room

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Players: 1 - 4⏳Time: 30 - 60 minutes🎂Ages: 14+⚙️Mechanisms: Co-operative, deduction Have you found yourself watching medical drama shows like House or Grey's Anatomy, and trying to solve the cases before the characters on the show? Then you'll love Medical Mysteries: New York Emergency Room from Identity Games. In this game, you're working the graveyard shift … Continue reading Case File: Medical Mysteries: New York Emergency Room →

Case File: 6 nimmt! (30th Anniversary Edition)

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Players: 1-10⏳Time: 45 minutes🎂Ages: 8+⚙️Mechanisms: Hand management, simultaneous action selection, cooperative mode 6 nimmt! returns again, this time with a 30th-anniversary edition! If you're unfamiliar with 6 nimmt!, the aim is to finish the game with the lowest score. All cards have between 1-7 bullheads, worth 1 point each. Every turn, you will be playing … Continue reading Case File: 6 nimmt! (30th Anniversary Edition) →

Case File: Race for the Galaxy

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦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 →

Case File: The Gang

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Players: 3-6⏳Time: 20 minutes🎂Ages: 10+⚙️Mechanisms: Co-operative, limited communication, predictive bid It's been about 20 years since I last played poker. At no point in the last 20 years have I felt the urge to play poker again... That is until The Gang from Kosmos made its way to my table. Why am I talking about … Continue reading Case File: The Gang →

Case File: Mamma Mia

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦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 →