by Ryan | Mar 5, 2021 | Game, How to Play
Crown of Emara is a double rondel game with very few rules, but a surprisingly huge decision space. (click to view transcript) Hi! It’s Ryan from Nights Around a Table, and this is Crown of Emara, a 2-ring circus of a rondel game for 1-4 players. Let me show you how...
by Ryan | Feb 19, 2021 | Game, Unboxing
Publisher Pegasus Spiele was kind enough to send along a copy of their Crown of Emara board game, which enticed me with its lovely artwork and quadrants that puzzle piece together. Here’s a typically rambling unboxing with the added weirdness of being...
by Ryan | Feb 5, 2021 | Find the Fun, Game
It certainly looked fun when i unboxed it, but when the rubber hit the road, was Lost Ruins of Arnak worth my precious time? Let’s find out! (click to view transcript) Lost Ruins of Arnak is a hand management worker placement game set in the ruined remnants of a...
by Ryan | Jan 29, 2021 | Game, How to Play
i unboxed it and compared its customizable dice to the ones in Dice Forge, i covered its (much simpler) predecessor Roll for the Galaxy: Ambition, and now i tackle the second expansion to Roll for the Galaxy (which is the spiritural successor to Race for the Galaxy....
by Ryan | Jan 22, 2021 | Game, How to Play
The first expansion to Roll for the Galaxy (which i unboxed here) is called Ambition, and it adds a handful of tiles and dice – most notably the two-phase black Leader dice, and a stack of 20 goals for you and your space rivals to complete. (click to view...
by Ryan | Jan 17, 2021 | Game, Unboxing
The table strewn with the flotsam and jetsam of the Underwater Cities and New Discoveries wreckage, i set about righting the ship by organizing everything back into one box, with help from the Laserox wooden underwater insert. (click to view transcript) Hi! It’s...
