How to Play Innovation

How to Play Innovation

Imagine if the entirety of human civilization was distilled down into ten decks of cards. Here’s How to Play Innovation: (click to view transcript) Hi! It’s Ryan from Nights Arounda Table, and this is Innovation, an engine-building card game for 2-4...
How to Play Terraforming Mars

How to Play Terraforming Mars

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...
How to Play 7 Wonders Duel: Pantheon expansion

How to Play 7 Wonders Duel: Pantheon expansion

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...
How to Play Oh My Goods!

How to Play Oh My Goods!

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...
How to Play Oh My Goods!

Oh My Goods! Unboxing Reaction

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...
How to Play Beta Colony

How to Play Beta Colony

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,...