It’s that time of the year again! Spiel des Jahres nominations have been announced today. It’s no longer the only[…]
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It’s that time of the year again! Spiel des Jahres nominations have been announced today. It’s no longer the only[…]
Read moreSchilMil Games Here’s another character you’ll meet in Auztralia, SchilMil Games’s game about the late discovery of Australia in a[…]
Read moreAn Escape Room is a fun way to spend an evening where you and a couple of friends are locked in a room. Wait, it sounds weird when I say it like that. The point is to escape from that room, usually in an hour or less, by discovering useful items and solving puzzles, both leading to more items and more puzzles, until you finally unlock the Exit and escape. (Unlock the Exit. See what I did there?) Anyway, it’s a great way to spend an evening with friends, and you do it indoors without getting too sweaty.
Doing things indoor and without getting sweaty brings us to the next step in Escape Room evolution: Why would you even leave your living room? You could have a box full of puzzles to solve at home and avoid all that messy outside business. And that’s were Escape Rooms Inna Box come in, a new kind of cooperative game that lets you have the excitement of an Escape Room around your living room table. You could argue if they are boardgames or not, but we’re not going to nitpick that point right now: They’re produced by the same publishers, made by the same designers and enjoyed by many of the same people as more traditional boardgames. People like us, so we’ll review them when we feel like it.
Read moreThe winners for this year’s Spiel des Jahres and Kennerspiel des Jahres have been announced this week. The Spiel des[…]
Read moreAs we mentioned yesterday, it’s Spiel des Jahres season. We all know what that means, of course. The three Spiel des Jahres awards are still among the most prestigious in the world, and winning them is still a big deal. We already presented the nominees and jury’s recommendation for the Spiel des Jahres award yesterday, today we’ll have a look at the Kennerspiel. Without any further ado, here we go.
Read moreHorrible Games It’s a famous movie scene, often repeated: there are goblets of wine on the table, one of which[…]
Read moreThe problems with building pyramids don’t start with stacking big stones on top of other big stones. Sure, that’s one problem, but when you get to that point you solved a couple of other things already. Like how to get big stones when all you see around is sand. That part of the operation is the focus of Phil Walker-Harding’s Imhotep: get stones from the quarries down the Nile and to the construction sites, on ships you have to share with other architects working on the same project.
Read moreThe nominations for Spiel des Jahres and Kennerspiel des Jahres 2016 will have given you some new games to keep[…]
Read moreCan you smell it? It’s that time of the year again, the time when the Spiel des Jahres nominees are[…]
Read moreSome news of our own here today: if you like the Meeple art we post occasionally, created by the amazingly[…]
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