by Ryan | Feb 4, 2020 | Game, Unboxing
Lorenzo il Magnifico was illustrated by the inexplicably prolific Klemens Franz, who was also responsible for Agricola and Oh My Goods! and Orléans and seemingly every other board game in the known universe. This one’s published by CMON, who are known for their...
by Ryan | Jan 29, 2020 | Game, Unboxing
Rio Grande Games fronted me a copy of their family-friendly board game Butterfly, where you help Hudson the hedgehog collect insects in the meadow. i’m pretty sure that hedgehogs eat all of the insects in question, but the back of box demurely hand-waves past...
by Ryan | Jan 13, 2020 | Game, Unboxing
A busload of 5000 settlers is due on Kaimas-2, and your corporation’s gone there ahead of time to prepare the way. But your lander’s crashed, killing most of the people on board. You’re left with a skeleton crew of survivors to make a go of it....
by Ryan | Jan 9, 2020 | Game, How to Play
By viewer request, i produced this How to Play Oh My Goods! video. i surprised even myself that the game, designed by Alexander Pfister of Great Western Trail fame, took a full 22 minutes to teach, despite only taking an hour to play… something i didn’t...
by Ryan | Jan 9, 2020 | Game, How to Play
One of my viewers on YouTube suggested i make a How to Play video for the German-born card game Oh My Goods! by Alexander Pfister, which has long been on my board game wish list. So i pulled the trigger and gave it a shot. Here’s a chatty unboxing where i...
by Ryan | Dec 16, 2019 | Game, How to Play
If i were trapped at a family or social gathering with people who aren’t into board games, and i had to choose one game to introduce to them, it would be Century: Spice Road. But a close runner-up would be Splendor, a little set-collecting puzzle where...
