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Tag: Essen

Essen 2015 – Internationale Spieltage SPIEL

11 October, 2015 Kai Featured

Another Essen fair has come and gone, and as always we’ve had a blast. Loads of great new games to[…]

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Essen 2014: Day 1

Essen 2014: Day 3

19 October, 2014 Kai Featured, News

That thing that I said about Essen seeming emptier than last year? Forget about it. Day 3 was more crowded[…]

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Essen 2014: Day 1

Essen 2014: Day 2

17 October, 2014 Kai Featured, News

The second day in Essen (see here for yesterday’s post, but most information is in the Flickr album) and we[…]

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Essen 2014: Day 1

Essen 2014: Day 1

16 October, 2014 Kai Featured, News

The first day of Essen is already over, and while we did see a lot of games and met some[…]

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Essen 2012: Wrapping it up

22 October, 2012 Kai Featured, News

The last day of Essen was short for us, we arrived late and many booths left early, but we tried[…]

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Essen 2012: Day 3

20 October, 2012 Kai Featured, News

Essen is odd this year, for reasons that completely escape me, the Saturday wasn’t much fuller than the weekdays –[…]

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Essen 2012: Day 1 and 2

19 October, 2012 Kai Featured, News

Although our Essen Saga started yesterday already, we could only start writing down the Chronicles of Essen 2012 today. Yesterday[…]

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Spiel 2011: Day 3 – A Banquet in the Arctic

22 October, 2011 Kai Featured, News

Today it was our own fault the day was short – we got up late to go to the fair[…]

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Spiel 2011: Day 2 – Evolved Dungeon Fiefdom

21 October, 2011 Kai Featured, News

Our hopes for the second day of Essen didn’t quite work out the way we wanted to – first we[…]

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Spiel 2011: Day 1 – A Fistful of Souvlaki

20 October, 2011 Kai Featured, News

Time flies when you’re having fun and our first day at Essen was much too short. Aren’t they all? Despite[…]

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  • Big Badaboom!

    Goblins no have bombs. That no good. Goblins need bombs. You Goblins will see bombs, will look at bombs, will learn bombs? Why? Because Big Boss Necromancer Goblin say, that why. Go learn bomb, not worry if bomb explode, Big Boss bring you back, no problem.

  • Mascarade

    Mascarade is proof that a good game doesn’t need many components. With just 13 cards and some paper coins, Bruno Faidutti created an intense game of bluff and confusion that works for up to 13 players.

  • Global – The Game

    Global is a modern day reborn Monopoly that attempts to stimulate discussion on environmental and socio-economic problems.

  • 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.

  • Dixit 2

    Sometimes, game expansion are best when they change nothing at all. If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it, as they say.
    Is this nugget of wisdom true for Dixit 2?

  • Lewis & Clark – The Expedition

    In 1804, shortly after president Jefferson purchased half the North American continent from Napoleon, the Lewis and Clark expedition set out to survey just what the president had acquired. Or should that be “the Lewis and Clark expeditions”? As it turns out, up to five expeditions may have competed to get to the Pacific coast first, and only the first to arrive, cleverly recruiting expedition members and managing their resources, will be remembered by history.

  • Blueprints

    “Light dice game” usually implies lots of rolling and very little influence over who wins the game in the end, it’s just whoever rolls better. Not so in Blueprints. There are many dice, sure enough, but you don’t roll them all that much and if you win or not depends less on how you roll them and more on how you use them.

  • A Game of Gnomes

    Every year Fragor Games releases one game, designed by the Lamont brothers and produced with ridiculously pretty ceramic miniatures. Last year, that game was A Game of Gnomes. It’s what it says on the box: a game, and about gnomes. Except the title and some puns in the rule book, it has nothing to do with that other A Game of …. Something that everyone is talking about, but it has a lot to do with mushrooms. And it has the largest single component in any game we have here at the Meeple Cave.

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