by Ryan | Oct 29, 2019 | Game, How to Play
i can’t be sure how many board games started life as pieces of art. (Dixit, perhaps?) With Scythe, artist Jakub Rozalski’s alternate dimension paintings depicting a first World War fought with mechs served as inspiration for the game’s theme, and...
by Ryan | Oct 14, 2019 | Game, How to Play
Bohnanza is a rare beast indeed: a quick-to-play-and-learn card game that looks like it’s for kids, but it isn’t… until it is. Kids can play it, adults can play it, and kids and adults can play it together, and it will still be just as interesting...
by Ryan | Oct 7, 2019 | Game, How to Play
There’s a lot of blah blah blah to get through before you’re fully ready to play Terra Mystica. Lucky for you, Ryan’s got blah blah blah in spades. (click to view transcript) Hi! It’s Ryan from nights Around a Table, and this is Terra Mystica,...
by Ryan | Sep 3, 2019 | Game, How to Play
When i asked Czech Games Edition if they could send me some copies of games from their back catalog, they wanted me to talk about Trapwords, but were nice enough to send along a few of the other games i requested. Last Will was one of those. It had always piqued my...
by Ryan | Jul 29, 2019 | Game, How to Play
The team at Genius Games is carving a niche out of quasi-educational board games, and Periodic is their latest offering. i say “quasi” not because the game’s not educational, but because it’s not capital-E educational. Whereas attempts at...
by Ryan | Jul 25, 2019 | Game, How to Play
Roll dice, place workers. Plenty of other board games do it, but the added twist that The Voyages of Marco Polo brings is a cast of game-breaking characters that majorly break one of the rules of the game. But if everyone cheats, no one does… right? (click to...
