by Ryan | Apr 2, 2021 | How to Play
Underwater Cities is most commonly compared to Terraforming Mars – fairly, i think. Both board games have you cozying up an inhospitable environment by playing cards to a tableau to build an ever-powerful engine. But unqiue mechanic here – matching a card...
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 26, 2021 | How to Play
If you don’t know much about this game, check out my How to Play Agricola video. But i suspect you DO know about it, and you want to know if the Laserox Farmer’s Organizers laser cut wood insert is a good way to organize the game’s many bits. Well,...
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 8, 2021 | Game, How to Play
Before i played Dead Reckoning, i would have told you that Merchants & Marauders was the best pirate board game on the market. Enter a new challenger! (click to view transcript) I’ve suffered a minor… injury … since we last spoke. It’s embarrassing. i...
