How to play Ticket to Ride: San Francisco
Ticket to Ride San Francisco shrinks its footprint and play time down to the size of the city by the bay, swapping its signature train cars for cable cars.
How to play Saboteur: the Dark Cave
The latest installment in the Saboteur card game series sees you escaping a flooded mine with your pockets stuffed with gold.
How to play Splendor Duel
7 Wonders Duel and Splendor had a baby! Let’s welcome the 2-player tyke into the world.
How to play Paperback Adventures
The spiritual successor to the word-spelling card game Paperback, this primarily solo outing is the marriage of Slay the Spire and Scrabble.
Is My Father’s Work fun?
My Father’s Work is Splendor with more steps, dolled up with undeniably fancy components and gothic Victorian prose recalling Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. But is it fun
The Mirroring of Mary King playthru – Live!
Ryan and Iz battle for the body of a Scottish woman facing possession by the ghost of her ancestor.
Scooby Doo! Escape from the Haunted Mansion playthru – Live!
Ryan guides four dirty hippies and their talking dog through some sort of home invasion. And he would have gotten away with it, too.
Great Western Trail : Argentina playthru – Live!
Ryan and Cheryl tour Great Western Trail : Argentina, the second entry in the cow-pokin’ series by Alexander Pfister, which adds a strength mechanic and ships to the existing ruleset.
Sea of Legends playthru – Live!
Sea of Legends has replaced Merchants & Marauders as Ryan’s favourite pirate board game of all time. See it in action.
How to play Astra
Astra is a casual connect-the-dots game where you compete to claim constellations.
Terra Mystica Solo Playthru
This new solo mode, available separately or as part of the Big Box, lets you play Terra Mystica by yourself against a cleverly designed bot.
First Look Live: Caverna Cave vs Cave The Big Box + Ark Nova insert
Ryan takes a quick peek at what you get in Caverna Cave vs Cave The Big Box, shows off a 3d printed Ark Nova insert in progress, and daydreams about summer board games.
First Look Live: Carnegie (retail) & Hansa Teutonica Big Box
Ryan explores the differences between the Carnegie retail edition and the Kickstarter deluxe edition before unboxing the Hansa Teutonica Big Box, both from Pegasus Spiele.
First Look Live: My Father’s Work
Ryan and Invisible Cheryl delve into the recently fulfilled Kickstarter delivery for My Father’s Work, a mad science themed worker placement board game with stunning components.
How to play On Mars
This take on terraforming Mars has you catching a space shuttle to the red planet to build greenhouses and oxygen condensers in a tightly designed brain-burning strategy game.
How to Play Disney Villains: Gathering of the Wicked
No more werewolves! Now it’s pirates vs gods vs queens vs murderous tigers!