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Dice

4 August, 2011 Kai Meeplepedia

Considering the side of humanity that likes to play games, these are some of our oldest companions. The oldest known[…]

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Collectible Card Games

21 July, 2011 Kai Meeplepedia

This week, the Meeplepedia is looking into Collectible Card Games. A big money-maker for many publishers, a popular pastime for millions of players. But what is so special about them?

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The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen

13 July, 2011 Kai All the rest

This weekend we strayed from the golden path of boardgames a little and once more went into Role Playing County.[…]

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Kennerspiel des Jahres – what is it?

7 July, 2011 Kai All the rest, Featured, News

The Spiel des Jahres jury published a video on their website this week explaining the differences between the Game of[…]

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Perfect Information

30 June, 2011 Kai Meeplepedia

Perfect Information is a term from game theory, the mathematical field concerned with modelling strategic decision making, ingames as well[…]

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Senet

23 June, 2011 Kai History of Gaming

Boardgames are not a recent phenomenon. I’m sure I’m not telling you anything new with that; I’m not thinking of[…]

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Roll and Move

16 June, 2011 Kai Meeplepedia

Roll-and-move games are, for many of us, the first boardgames we ever played. From all boardgames, pure roll-and-move games have[…]

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Fiasco

17 May, 2011 Kai All the rest

Between all the boardgaming, sometimes I feel like something else. Fiasco is my current favourite role playing game, let me introduce you to it.

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Deck-building Games

11 May, 2011 Kai Meeplepedia

Deck-building games are a relatively new family of board games, having emerged as recently as 2008. By necessity, deck-building games[…]

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Games and Toys at the Pitt Rivers Museum

22 October, 2010 Kai History of Gaming

Last weekend, we were at Oxford visiting a friend and gaming buddy who is now living there and working on[…]

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  • Discworld: Ankh-Morpork

    Space. The Final Frontier. These are the adventures of giant turtle Great A’tuin, her four elephant companions standing on her shell and the millions of people living on the world they carry. This is the Discworld, and that muddy brown spot over there is Ankh-Morpork, home to a million people and more drama than any other city in the multiverse.

  • Love Letter

    Very few board and card games come out of Japan. It’s not because they don’t exist there, they just don’t make it to Europe or the US. Alderac Entertainment is working on changing that with their Big in Japan series, games by Japanese designers, first published in Japan and for the first time translated to English. That’s why we get to play Love Letter.

  • Codenames

    I still think Vlaada Chvátil has this little check list on his desk where he goes “Oh, here’s a genre I didn’t make a game in yet” and then just sets out to design a game for that genre. And whatever genre he picks, he’s good at it. The latest example of that is Codenames, a word association game. And if you think that word games are boring, like I did, then maybe Vlaada can change your mind.

  • Undercover

    The life of a secret agent is tough. We know from James Bond’s biographical movies about the large number of people who to kill you while megalomaniac villains try to either kill everyone, enslave everyone or just take everyone’s money. But those movies gloss over the hardest part of the job: keeping track of who is who, and who they are working for. You think it’s easy, working with a bunch of double agents who all look the same because they wear stupid hats and trench coats and only meet in dark corners, anyway? Well, think again after you accidentally pass that briefcase to the wrong guy. He looked just like the right guy, but when he said “Thank you” you realized he was talking with the wrong stereotypical villain accent. But no more! With Undercover Doris and Daniel Danzer will help you understand just how hard the secret agent life is on your memory.

  • La Isla

    A mysterious island has recently been discovered in the middle of the ocean. In its own way, it’s a very wealthy island. Not with oil, or gold. The island is home to five species of animal that were thought extinct. And as you set foot on La Isla, your goal is to capture some of them.

  • Souvlaki Wars

    The restaurant business is harsh and the competition is fierce. This city is not big enough for more than one souvlaki restaurant. Souvlaki Wars is more peaceful than the name sounds, but not much.

  • Final Frontier

    Expensive game components, the final frontier for board game publisher. These are the games of Victory Point Games. Their continuing mission: to bring you new games, to seek out new authors, new genres, to boldly ship their games in a ziploc bag.
    You guessed it, Final Frontier is a science fiction game that keeps referencing a certain TV series. But is a good theme and paper components in a ziploc game enough to make a great game?

  • Perpetual-Motion Machine

    Perpetual-Motion Machine, the new game by Ted Alspach, has nothing to do with physics, despite the title. Instead, it’s a set collecting game shooting for poker hands, where playing a hand lets you improve one attribute of your game play.

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