by Ryan | Feb 4, 2020 | Game, How to Play
Not to be confused with Terra Mystica, as my wife Cheryl would have it (“Don’t we already own that game…?”), Terraforming Mars is a near-future hard sci-fi game about making the red planet a cozier place, over several generations of effort by...
by Ryan | Feb 4, 2020 | How to Play
The already-solid 7 Wonders Duel two player board game has an expansion called Pantheon that adds a slew of gods from various Middle Eastern mythologies. Almost more importantly, it adds an action you can take that doesn’t burn a card in the tableau, opening up...
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 | Jan 8, 2020 | How to Play
Rio Grande sent along a copy of Beta Colony, which i dutifully unboxed, and then sat on for a year, until i finally released this How to Play video. Hooray for me (?)! (click to view transcript) Hi! It’s Ryan from Nights Around a Table, and this is Beta Colony,...
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...
