👨👩👧👦Players: 2-6⏳Time: 1 hour🎂Ages: 8+⚙️Mechanisms: Co-op, Memory, Real-Time Welcome to A5 Logistics, <employee name>! We look forward to extracting value from your skills and improving shareholder value this quarter! Will you be invaluable to the company, or expendable? Let's jump into your first week in the warehouse, and find out! Welcome to the family! Wilmot's … Continue reading Case File: Wilmot’s Warehouse
Rivages is a pass and write boardgame where you explore the islands in search of lost knowledge
👨👩👧👦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: 2-5⏳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
👨👩👧👦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: 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
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