👨👩👧👦Players: 2-4⏳Time: 40 mins🎂Ages: 8+⚙️Mechanisms: Card Drafting, Worker Movement Deep in the forest, where no human has ever set foot, live the fairies. Dancing from mushroom to mushroom, they build their villages and visit their neighbours as they collect the mana needed to get them through the upcoming winter. In Fairy Ring, you are trying … Continue reading Case File: Fairy Ring
👨👩👧👦Players: 2-4⏳Time: 30-45 mins🎂Ages: 8+⚙️Mechanisms: Tile drafting, Combo Building Honey, I shrunk the Azul…again! About a year ago we reviewed Azul Mini over on our Instagram page. It's a pint-sized version of the original that’s proven perfect for traveling. This time around we’re taking a look at a tiny version of Summer Pavilion, the third … Continue reading Case File: Azul Summer Pavilion Mini
👨👩👧👦Players: 2-4⏳Time: 30 mins🎂Ages: 8+⚙️Mechanisms: Set collection, hand management, open drafting If you had told me a year ago that one of my favourite games this year would be Viking-themed, I would have told you "Knarr mate, you're havin' me on!" At its heart, Knarr is an engine builder - but you're building an engine … Continue reading Case File: Knarr
👨👩👧👦Players: 1-5⏳Time: 30 mins🎂Ages: 8+⚙️Mechanisms: Dice drafting, Set Collection, Combo Seeking Are you ready to Wok and Roll (and write)!!?? grab your guitar frypan, start your stove and get ready to cook up a storm! Yum Wok and Roll is a cute and compact roll-and-write game from Origame, a Singaporean publisher that has recently started … Continue reading Case File: Wok and Roll
The Boardgame Detective has been bringing you riveting articles for over 5 years now! It's time to shake things up, have a refresh, spill some new blood on the blog and draw some new chalk outlines around the resultant bodies! Uh, I mean, we are introducing a new short form review format and with that … Continue reading Introducing – Case Files!
We're off to the Lands of Galzyr! Adventure awaits us in this land of Daimyria where the anipeoples of near and far come together to live and prosper. You arrive in a bustling port, an unknown and lowly character. Seeking adventure and fame - by the end of your adventures, the folks of the land … Continue reading Lands of Galzyr Review
Space! It's divided into sectors. Arcs if you will. Be ambitious! Control them all! I'm not obligated to tell you anything about the quality of the gameplay in this 'unboxing' post, but TBGD is going to play a few games of Arcs and publish a review in a few weeks, so keep an eye out! … Continue reading Arcs: What’s in the box?
You've decided to open up a new coffee shop on the busiest street in town! In a wild coincidence, 3 other savvy entrepreneurs have decided to do the same! Well, the good news is you can all share the same supplier for the various exotic (and otherwise) ingredients you will use. The customers in this … Continue reading Coffee Rush Review
Wow, what a great time I had at PAX Australia 2023! I'm just back from a whirlwind weekend at the convention, and it's time to sit down and write about what I saw. I took the opportunity to experience some unreleased designs that people had brought to PAX to test and spruik. Of course, PAX … Continue reading 2023 Pax Australia Indie Tabletop Round-Up
You might find it surprising to learn that Sherlock Holmes wasn't really that brilliant of a detective after all. In fact, in a manner of speaking, he was more or less 4 small animals in a trenchcoat. Well... not literally. But as we will discover in our adventures with The Animals Of Baker Street, he … Continue reading The Animals of Baker Street Review
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