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This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Lost Cities Designer: Reiner Knizia Year: 1999 Country: Germany Publisher: KOSMOS A two-player card game, Lost Cities is an interesting example of the relationship between the theme and the mechanics. Narratively speaking, each player mounts expeditions into various fabled lands, and the success Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Tokaido Designer: Antoine Bauza Year: 2012 Country: Ranska Publisher: Stonemaier Games Along with Azul, Tokaido is one of the games recommended to me when I asked people about beauty in boardgames. It’s a contemplative, simple game about traveling on Japan’s scenic East sea Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Kluster Designer: Paula Henning & Robert Henning Year: 2018 Country: U.S.A. Publisher: Borderline Editions Magnets are fun. The invisible fields of attraction and repulsion still feel as compelling as they did when I was a child playing around with them. Kluster is a Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Azul Designer: Michael Kiesling Year: 2017 Country: Germany Publisher: Next Move Games As a result of my project to play 100 new boardgames, I wondered about what it meant for a boardgame to be beautiful. What is beauty in this context? I asked Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Gaia Project Designer: Jens Drögemüller & Helge Ostertag Year: 2017 Country: Germany Publisher: Feuerland Spiele Gaia Project is a scifi-themed reimplementation of Terra Mystica, a game I also played recently. The players each represent a species seeking to make the galaxy livable for Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Gift Trap Designer: Nick Keller Year: 2006 Country: U.K. Publisher: GiftTRAP Enterprises Gift Trap is a very seasonally appropriate party game in which you win by choosing the right gifts for your friends and also by being obvious about what sort of gifts Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Zombicide: 2nd Edition Designer: Raphaël Guiton, Jean-Baptiste Lullien & Nicolas Raoult Year: 2021 Country: France Publisher: CMON The first Zombicide game I’ve played was Undead or Alive, but I wanted to try out the base game as well just to get a feel Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Slay the Spire: The Board Game Designer: Gary Dworetsky, Anthony Giovannetti & Casey Yano Year: 2024 Country: U.S.A. Publisher: Contention Games Slay the Spire is a 2019 digital game, a roguelike deckbuilder in which you play a fantasy hero trying to ascent a Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Terra Mystica Designer: Jens Drögemüller & Helge Ostertag Year: 2012 Country: Germany Publisher: Feuerland Spiele There are two types of games, those which incorporate luck and those where the players have access to full information about every aspect at all times. Most hobby Continue Reading