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Tag: Surprised Stare Games

Meople News: Very long and not obscure

9 August, 2019 Kai Weekly News

Renegade Game Studios / Dire Wolf Digital / Penny Arcade Isn’t it just the greatest when a few things you[…]

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Meople News: Necropolis of the Djinn

18 July, 2014 Kai Weekly News

The big news for this week: Spiel and Kennerspiel des Jahres have been announced. Spiel des Jahres 2014 goes to[…]

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Meople News: Flaming Daffodils

Meople News: Flaming Daffodils

11 July, 2013 Kai Weekly News

No news post this week could be complete without the big news of the gaming world: Spiel and Kennerspiel des[…]

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Palais de Sans Souci, Haiti

Meople News: Druid Super Hero of the Year

11 July, 2012 Kai Weekly News

Most of you will have heard it at this point: the Spiel des Jahres and Kennerspiel des Jahres have been[…]

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Bridge of Mostar

Meople News: South American Zombie Sea Monsters

30 May, 2012 Kai Weekly News

Portal Publishing Don’t you all know that moment? When the rules for a game you’re excited about are first revealed?[…]

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Meople News: Fortress in the Shire

24 April, 2012 Kai Weekly News

The news week was short this time, the last news roundup only being from last Thursday, but the news this[…]

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  • 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?

  • Welcome to the Dungeon

    Some games are huge and take a long time to play. Others are smaller and quicker. And then there are some games that advertise themselves as mini games: small box, small rules, short play time – all the fun. Iello have their own product line of such games, and Welcome to the Dungeon is one of them. A quick and simple bluffing game that has little in common with dungeon crawling style games, you will try to get the hero killed more often than you help him succeed.

  • Innovation

    Just when you thought that every way to play with cards had been published somewhere already, along comes a game like Innovation. With some – dare I use the word – innovative game mechanics and many ways to make sabotage your opponents’ strategy, you probably haven’t played a card game quite like this one before.

  • Copycat

    What comes out when you take two popular games, add some dashes of more games, and then run that mix through a cocktail shaker? That’s what Friedemann Friese wanted to know when he created Copycat from odds and ends of the Top Ten games on BoardGameGeek. And what came out … well, read for yourself.

  • Thunderstone: Starter Set

    How often has this happened to you? You are peacefully tending to your farm, and suddenly a hole in the ground opens up and monsters come streaming out. Next you know, a bunch of heroes are charging you a ridiculous fee to take care of the problem and then make off with the monsters’ treasures as well. Being a Villager in Thunderstone is little fun. But you, you’re one of those heroes.

  • Fields of Arle

    Fields of Arle is Uwe Rosenberg’s love letter to the home of his ancestors, East Frisia and especially the village of Arle. It’s a worker placement game that is unusual in not allowing more than two players, but is equally unusual in the number of options you have and factors to consider. It’s a big game, a long game, and a game that brings many aspects of medieval Frisia to life.

  • Ca$h’n’Gun$

    We all have played Cops and Robbers as kids. Pretty much all of us forgot the simple joy of pointing a toy gun at our friends and yelling "Bang! Bang! You’re dead!" Cash’n’Guns skips the cops for most of the game. but the robbers and toy guns are there.

  • Burger Up

    Warning! Do not read this review while hungry. You’re about to read a many words about burgers, which will make you hungry to play Burger Up, but also to go out and eat at that grass-fed beef only burger place across town.

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