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Kittens in a Blender
2-4 Players Durarion: Approximately 15 minutes Difficulty: Easy Gameplay: The object of the game is to save your own furry friends from the fate of a smoothie-bound banana, while ensuring the felines...
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2-5 Players Durarion: Approximately 40 minutes Difficulty: Medium GAMEPLAY The object of Ticket To Ride is to score the most points by connecting cities across the the United States via trains which is...
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Carnival
2-4 Players Durarion: Approximately 20 minutes (for two player) Difficulty: Medium GAMEPLAY The goal in carnival is to complete your carnival attractions before your opponents. Fortunately you don’t...
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Pandemic
2-4 Players Durarion: Approximately 60 minutes Difficulty: Challenging GAMEPLAY Pandemic is a cooperative game in which four diseases are breaking out across the world and your job as the disease...
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Citadels
2-7 Players Durarion: Approximately 90 minutes Difficulty: Medium GAMEPLAY In Citadels, you seek to expand your own city by building districts, which is accomplished by spending gold to play district...
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The Princes of Florence
2-5 Players Durarion: Approximately 60 minutes Difficulty: Medium GAMEPLAY In The Princes of Florence, you are tasked with getting artists to visit your Palazzi and inspiring them to create great works...
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Going Cardboard: A Boardgame Documentary
I went on a documentary binge a few months back and watched what seemed like every documentary available on Netflix streaming and then made this really awful scatterplot quadrant in Paintbrush...
View ArticleAdventures on the Tabletop: A Board Game Design Documentary
Kickstarter has a passionate group of tabletop gamers who love to support new games, but their profiles reveal they aren’t as inclined to back original films. Armed with this knowledge, independent...
View Article39th Annual Origins Awards Results
The Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design today announced the winners for the 39th Annual Origins Awards, which recognize outstanding achievement in design and production of games and...
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Ascension
1-4 Players Durarion: Approximately 45 minutes Difficulty: Complex but comprehensible GAMEPLAY This deck building game pits you against an attacking army of monsters and demons, which you work to...
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The Resistance
5-10 Players Durarion: About 20 minutes Difficulty: Easy, unless you suck at lying GAMEPLAY Your mission, should you choose to accept it (and you don’t really have a choice if you’re playing the game)...
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Takenoko
2-4 Players Duration: Approximately 45 minutes Difficulty: Medium Well GAMEPLAY The goal of this game is to win the Emperor’s favor by growing the most bad ass bamboo garden while simultaneously...
View ArticleBoard Game Genres
Let’s talk genres. After a quick (and I do mean quick) search with my Google-fu I have determined that everyone has a different opinion on what the genres of board games are. I still consider myself a...
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Forbidden Island
Players: 2-4 Duration: 30 minutes Difficulty: Entry level, but complex enough for all players. GAMEPLAY Tiles are placed randomly in a square pattern with the eight remaining tiles creating...
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Gravwell
Players: 2-4 Duration: 30 minutes Difficulty: Easy-peasy GAMEPLAY You are a spaceship that has entered a new dimension by way of a black hole. Everything you know about physics has changed. You must...
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Bananagrams
Players: 1-8 Duration: 15 minutes Difficulty: Beginner GAMEPLAY The game starts with a pool of face down tiles on the gaming surface in reach of all players. Each player draws tiles keeping them face...
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Dixit
Players: 3-6 (best with 5-6) Duration: 30 minutes Difficulty: Light weight GAMEPLAY Dixit is a game of story telling. Each person selects one of the six color rabbit meeple (Rabbeeples if you will) and...
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Concept
Players: 4-12 Duration: 40 minutes Difficulty: Easy GAMEPLAY In Concept, players work with a partner to get other teams to guess a word or phrase by associating that word with some of the dozens of...
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Lords of Waterdeep
Players: 2-5 Duration: 60 minutes Difficulty: Light weight GAMEPLAY Each player starts the game as a ruler of Waterdeep… with a secret agenda. Players fulfill their agendas by dispatching agents to...
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Love Letter
Players: 2-4 (best with 4) Duration: 20 minutes Difficulty: Light weight GAMEPLAY You are trying to win the favor of the fair Princess, but she has locked herself in the palace after the tragic passing...
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