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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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  • Escape: The Curse of the Temple

    Year2012PublisherQueen GamesAuthorKristian Amundsen ØstbyPlayers1 – 5Age8 – 199Time10StrategyLuckInteractionComponents & DesignComplexityScore The noise is deafening as the floor under our feet collapses.[…]

  • 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.

  • Dominant Species

    Dominant Species is on the upper end of long and heavy games for us – not something you unpack at the end of the gaming night, just before people go home. There is a lot of depth and a lot of detail to explore here.

  • K2

    Mountaineering is not much used as a theme in boardgames. After trying K2, I really wonder why because it’s tense, exciting and deadly. There are no empty moves here, every turn has important decisions. A worthy nominee for Kennerspiel des Jahres 2012?

  • 7 Wonders: Babel

    7 Wonders is still one of the most popular games out there. Simple rules, quick to play even with 7 players, different every time you play. It’s no wonder the expansions keep coming. They might not necessarily improve the game, just because it’s very good already, but they add enough to keep 7 Wonders interesting even after many, many games played. Babel is the latest expansion, and the one that changes the game the most yet.

  • Kanagawa

    In Kanagawa, all players are disciples of Master Painter Hokusai, trying to learn in his studio of art how to produce visual effects on canvas, capturing the mood of the different seasons as well as specific objects like trees, buildings, characters and animals. And while his wisdom is available to everyone, not every disciple can take away the same learning from the Master.

  • Mafia City

    In a city where the law is nothing but letters in a book, where not only city hall but even the police itself are under the control of rivaling gangs, in a city where everyone with a bit of importance is wearing a fedora – that’s where you play Mafia City.

  • 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.

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