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This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Harmonies Designer: Johan Benvenuto Year: 2024 Country: France Publisher: Libellud Based on the title, I assumed Harmonies had something to do with music but in fact it’s a game about building different types of animals harmonious habitats. It’s a pretty abstract game, somewhat Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Splendor Designer: Marc André Year: 2014 Country: France Publisher: Lautapelit.fi For my money, the most difficult type of game to design must be streamlined, elegant games based on a single mechanism. Azul is a wonderful example of these, and Splendor is another. In Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Dominion Designer: Donald X. Vaccarino Year: 2008 Country: U.S.A. Publisher: Lautapelit.fi One of the goals of this study project is to play those games “everyone has played”. It’s easier to talk about boardgames and card games when you know all the references! Dominion Continue Reading

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