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This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Legend of the Five Rings: The Card Game Designer: Brad Andres, Erik Dahlman, Nate French & Tyler Parrott Year: 2017 Country: U.S.A. Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games Fantasy Flight Games has published a series of “Living Card Games”, expandable card games where deckbuilding is Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Age of Innovation Designer: Helge Ostertag Year: 2023 Country: Germany Publisher: Capstone Games Age of Innovation is a reimplementation of the same basic design that’s already been published as Terra Mystica and Gaia Project. Once again, each player controls a people who want Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Fury of Dracula (3rd Edition) Designer: Frank Brooks, Stephen Hand & Kevin Wilson Year: 2015 Country: U.K. Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games Set eight years after the events of the novel Dracula, Fury of Dracula has the Un-Dead monster rise once again and stalk Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Hallertau Designer: Uwe Rosenberg Year: 2020 Country: Germany Publisher: Lookout Games Hallertau is not the first worker placement game from Uwe Rosenberg that I’ve played. Agricola and A Feast for Odin came before it, making what would have otherwise been a pretty complex Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: The Shakespeare Game Designer: Ellie Dix & Mandela Fernandez-Grandon Year: 2022 Country: U.K. Publisher: Laurence King Publishing Ltd The Shakespeare Game is a light boardgame in which every player is Shakespeare, in London to put on plays to make money and find success. Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: A Game of Thrones – The Card Game (Second Edition) Designer: Nate French & Eric M. Lang Year: 2015 Country: U.S.A. Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games One of the goals I have for this project is to understand boardgames broadly enough so that when Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Tigris & Euphrates Designer: Reiner Knizia Year: 1997 Country: Germany Publisher: Hans im Glück Before we’d played Tigris & Euphrates, a friend told me that it was a bit like chess in that you only grasp the possibility space and understand what can Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Great Western Trail – Argentina Designer: Alexander Pfister Year: 2022 Country: Austria Publisher: eggertspiele We played Great Western Trail earlier during this project and I quite liked it. It’s a variation on worker placement where instead of placing the workers in static locations, Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Tapestry Designer: Jamey Stegmaier Year: 2019 Country: U.S.A. Publisher: Stonemaier Games Civilization games are an interesting genre in that the main touchstone is not a boardgame at all, but the venerable videogame series Civilization. It lays out the assumptions about how these games Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: A Feast for Odin Designer: Uwe Rosenberg Year: 2016 Country: Germany Publisher: Feuerland Spiele A Feast for Odin feels like a cathedral of work-placement design. It’s a game of huge scope and replayability simply because of the number of different tactics and pathways Continue Reading