Boardgame talk for Meeple & People
Dwarves, Goblins and Knights are all united in a trick-taking card game that sounds easy and simple, there’s not even a trump colour. But The Dwarf King has changing scoring rules, wacky special cards and the best illustrations I’ve seen in a card game recently.
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Essen is coming. We still have more than two months to go, but the torrent of announcements has started, and[…]
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Everything is peaceful in the small town in New England. Nothing bad has happened yet this week. But it’s only monday, 2:00 am. And there we go, a gate to another world opens, monsters start pouring out. The inhabitants of Arkham suffer through a lot, if anything bad happens, it happens to them. Every time. They feel the Arkham Horror.
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Atlas Games It is in the nature of card games to be easily expandable, and transparent card games are no[…]
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The Settlers of Catan have come a long way. From their little fictional island all the way to the USA in Trails to Rails and then all the way back to Europe to become Merchants of Europe. It’s been a long, strange trip.
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alea Saint Malo, alea’s city-building game with pens and erasable game boards is running into some delays and will only[…]
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Fog still lies over the Loch, the early morning was silent a minute ago. Now, the silence is disturbed by a stampede of photographers, running around the lake, setting up their cameras. Because, once more, Nessie has been spotted, and all the papers want the best photos.
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Days of Wonder I’m sure this one will make many people happy: Days of Wonder announced a reprint of Mystery[…]
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This week, we’re going on another trip to the past, specifically to 1988. Also to Venice. Incognito won the award for most beautiful game at the Spiel des Jahres awards that year, and it’s well deserved: it’s one of the prettiest deduction games I’ve ever seen, with all custom components. And it’s a clever game as well.
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Most of you will have heard it at this point: the Spiel des Jahres and Kennerspiel des Jahres have been[…]
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