Boardgame talk for Meeple & People
Nothing is easy when the gods are against you. Especially not getting home across the sea when the god in question is Poseidon. And even less when Poseidon is a friend from whom you just stole the last piece of pizza. That’s the setup of Odyssey – Wrath of Poseidon: up four players are Greek navigators on their way home, one player is Poseidon who feels slighted by the Greek’s victory at Troy. Together, they play an asymmetric deduction game.
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Can you smell it? It’s that time of the year again, the time when the Spiel des Jahres nominees are[…]
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Just like previous years, the Spiel des Jahres jury is handing out two awards: the traditional Spiel des Jahres for[…]
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Today is the day many boardgamers all over the world are waiting for every year. No, it’s not the Essen[…]
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You don’t often have 25 players to fit into one game. But when you do, what are you going to do? Name one single game that fits that many people and doesn’t involve drinking. Well, we have one for you now.
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Fantasy Flight Games After Space Stations, there’s not so much more to say about Cosmic Encounter: Cosmic Storm, I guess.[…]
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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?
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Yet another easy, quick and very clever game: your only goal in Blokus is to place all your tiles on the board, and the only restriction is that they must touch your other tiles, but only by a corner. Oh, and three other people are trying to do the same and get in your way.
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