by Ryan | Dec 11, 2020 | Game, How to Play
Agricola hurts. It is known. But the farming simulator by renowned designer Uwe Rosenberg received a mea culpa follow-up in Caverna: The Cave Farmers, which takes a lot of the same elements as Agricola and leaves off some of the nail-biting tension. Whether or not...
by Ryan | Nov 28, 2020 | How to Play
i unboxed it. i played it. i bought the expansion. Now, i tackle teaching it. Here’s how to play the (very literally) epic Viking-themed board game A Feast for Odin, from the designer who brough you Agricola. (click to view transcript) Hi! It’s Ryan from Nights...
by Ryan | Nov 14, 2020 | Game, How to Play
You may have already discovered whether or not i find the venerable farming game Agricola any fun, but how do you actually play it? The game is reasonably simple to teach, and takes less time than i’ve spent here, because i made sure to cover off some variants...
by Ryan | Oct 5, 2020 | How to Play
Catan faces an existential threat, and it’s not cancel culture clapping out its colonization. Boatloads of barbarians are washing ashore, looking to tear down any tasty cities they find. Catan: Cities & Knights supplies two defenses against the fast...
by Ryan | Sep 18, 2020 | How to Play
Stemming from the work i did on the How to Play Trickerion video, Mindclash Games sent along a copy of Anachrony: Essential Edition and all the related bells and whistles from this year’s Kickstarter campaign (watch the unboxing!) so that i could make a few more...
by Ryan | May 15, 2020 | How to Play
Isabel joins me in unboxing The Way of the Bear as i try to atone from my sins a week earlier, testing more elements of my new live-to-tape setup. Get Your Own Copy of The Way of the Bear Do you love bears? Kung fu? Zen Buddhism? At this point, i have no idea if those...
