by Ryan | Mar 26, 2021 | Find the Fun, Game
My original edition of the much lauded Power Grid has been sitting on my board game shelf for over ten years, unplayed and collecting dust. What did it do to deserve such a fate? i cracked it open and gave it another whirl to see if i had really given the game a fair...
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...
