CARPE DIEM looks to seize awards
Carpe Diem, designed by Stephen Feld and published by Alea, serves 2-4 players, is up for Kennerspiel Des Jahres (Connoisseur’s Board Game of the Year). The Spiel Des Jahres Awards, are given out by a jury of board game critics from Germany, Austria and Switzerland...
How Is MAGIC REALM Still A Thing?
Magic Realm was released by Avalon Hill, with the specific purpose of . . . wait for it . . . competing head-to-head with Dungeons & Dragons! Magic Realm initially sold well, becoming Avalon Hill's second best selling game of 1979. And many have continued to play...
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I FLIPPED WITH GIANTS – At the U.S. Othello Tournament
When I checked in at the lobby of the Manhattan address I’d been given, the doorman greeted me: “Oh, you must be here to play Othello.” I was looking for Vlad Petric, director of the Silvia Petric Memorial - U.S. National Othello Championship. Foxy met me at the door....
BLOODBORNE COMING TO YOUR TABLETOP
Like so many of folklore’s most dreaded monsters, the difficult, gritty world of Bloodborne has taken new form: Bloodborne: The Board Game. Its Debut Trailer, closing in on 4.4M YouTube views since its uploading almost five years ago, describes its product as an...
Plaid Hat Brings Legacy of Frankenstein to Life
The year is 1819, and a sinister darkness has descended upon the city of Paris. A mysterious benefactor, one with off-putting coloration and an array of ghastly scars, has created a competition to determine which studious soul can unlock the secrets of Frankenstein’s...
Designers of This War Of Mine Actively Seek to Portray Ordinary Folks
THIS WAR OF MINE: The Board Game, designed by Michal Oracz and Jakub Wisniewski, brought in over $600,000 British pounds in its Kickstarter project of May 2016 (over $700K American). In 2017, the game was released by Awaken Realms (and many other publishers). “Not...
Top 5 Board Game Covers That Didn’t Stand the Test of Time
5) VOICE OF THE MUMMY (1971)Published by Milton Bradley. (No designer credit.) This game has many merits. The components look great, and so does the board, with specific places to put the eerie green gems, and little stairs etched into the board to use when the mummy...
Why Are So Many Game Boxes Getting HUGE?
I haven’t done any measuring, but a lot of good boardgames are coming in humungous packages. Struck by the gargantuan boxes of Gloomhaven, Twilight Imperium and other boxed behemoths, I began to wonder whether boardgame boxes were actually increasing in size as much...
IT’S NOT MONOPOLY, IT’S YOU
Maybe the game so many love to hate is really not so bad I recall enjoying Monopoly as a child, but I haven’t wanted to actually play it in forever. The “high summer” of my discontent (in junior high), was my suspicion that the game was all about blind luck. But...