Tag: Card Games
Posted on September 30, 2020
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I know I already told you it was coming (and judging by the hits on that post over the last couple of days, you’re all looking for it!), but now it’s here! Yesterday, the expansion to the wonderful tableau-building card game Fantastic Factories, designed… Continue Reading “Fantastic Factories: Manufactions Now on Kickstarter”
Category: Board Games, crowdfunding, NewsTags: Card Games, Deep Water Games, Expansions, Fantastic Factories, Fantastic Factories: Manufactions, Fantastic Factories: Subterfuge, Joseph Z Chen, Justin Faulkner, kickstarter, Tableau-building
Posted on September 23, 2020
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Evolution is a really vicious card game where players are adapting their animal species with card play. Food is scarce and it’s very possible, if you don’t play your cards right, that some of species will go extinct. Players may take all of the… Continue Reading “Evolution App Goes Asynchronous!”
Posted on September 2, 2020
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When I began this series about the Boardgame Geek rankings and talking about the games in them, I didn’t think it would be this difficult. The Top 100 was pretty static. So when I spent the first part of the week putting all of… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 200 – Play or Played – #190-181”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 1830: Railways & Robber Barons, 18XX, Abstract Games, Alexander Pfister, Andreas Pelikan, Andrew Veen, Area Control, Cambridge Game Factory, Card Drafting, Card Games, Carl Chudyk, Cartographers: a Roll Player Tale, Cédrick Chaboussit, Darwin Kastle, Deckbuilders, Economic Games, Ed Carter, Francis Tresham, Friedemann Friese, Gale Force 9, Gamewright Games, Glory to Rome, Hand Management, Hero Realms, HUCH Games, Isle of Skye, Jordy Adan, Kris Burm, Lewis & Clark: the Expedition, Line-Drawing Games, Lookout Games, Ludonaute, Peter Lee, Phil Walker-Harding, Power Grid Deluxe, Racing Game, Ravensburger, Reiner Knizia, Rio Grande Games, Robert Dougherty, Rodney Thompson, Sushi Go Party, The Quest for El Dorado, Thunderworks Games, Tile-Laying Games, Tyrants of the Underdark, YINSH
Posted on August 14, 2020
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Really quick post for Friday because, well, it’s Friday. I’ve already done two posts this week and I just returned from an 8-hour drive around British Columbia that was really beautiful but also really exhausting. So let’s talk about Fantastic Factories: Manufactions! I first… Continue Reading “Fantastic Factories: Manufactions Coming to Kickstarter”
Category: Board Games, crowdfunding, NewsTags: Card Games, Deep Water Games, Dice-rolling, Fantastic Factories, Fantastic Factories: Manufactions, Joseph Z Chen, Justin Faulkner, kickstarter, Tableau-building
Posted on August 4, 2020
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Even after all of this time, I’m still kind of on the fence regarding the idea of Alderac Entertainment Group and the OP teaming up to do an officially licensed Smash Up expansion. The idea is cool, and I’m sure the execution will be there,… Continue Reading “The OP & AEG Announce New Marvel Smash Up Factions”
Posted on July 6, 2020
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It was a month of horror in the Dude Take Your Turn household in June. Not because of anything bad, and certainly nothing virus-related. It’s just that 2 of the 4 new games played this month have to do with Ancient Evils trying destroy… Continue Reading “New to Me – June 2020”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, Card Games, Cooperative Games, Dice-rolling, Elder Sign, Fantasy Flight Games, Jaipur, Kevin Wilson, Richard Launius, Roll and Write Games, Sebastien Pauchon, Space Cowboys, Stronghold Games, Twice as Clever, Wolfgang Warsch
Posted on June 10, 2020
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With this post we’re half-way through the BGG Top 100 and I have to say that this has been a fun project for me. I hope you’ve enjoyed it as much as I have. One thing going through this list does for me is… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 100 – Played or Play? 60-51”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Area Control, Auction Games, Bruno Cathala, Card Games, Caylus, Chad Jensen, Clank, Days of Wonder, Deckbuilders, Dire Wolf Digital, Dominant Species, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Fields of Arle, Five Tribes, GMT Games, Huch & Friends, Keyflower, Lords of Waterdeep, Mancala games, Paul Dennen, Peter Lee, Race for the Galaxy, Renegade Games Studios, Richard Breese, Rio Grande Games, Rodney Thompson, Sebastian Bleasdale, Tableau-building, The Gallerist, Tom Lehmann, Underwater Cities, Uwe Rosenberg, Vital Lacerda, Vladimír Suchý, William Attia, Wizards of the Coast, Worker Placement Games, Ystari Games, Zman Games
Posted on June 5, 2020
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(Edit: Peter has graciously corrected a couple of things. Rather than mention them here, I’ll note the edit in each spot. I apologize for the errors. Thanks, Peter!) Mike Fitzgerald knows card games. My first exposure to his work was the brilliant trick-taking game Diamonds,… Continue Reading “App Review – Football Highlights 2052”
Posted on May 27, 2020
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It’s week 3 of our weekly look through the Boardgame Geek Top 100 to see what games I’ve played and which ones I may be interested in playing. Last week I got educated about Dominion, maybe even enough to try it again some day. What… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 100 – Played or Play? 80-71”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Aeon's End, Agricola, Alain Orban, Architects of the West Kingdom, Battlestar Galactica, Card Games, CodeNames, Corey Konieczka, Czech Games Edition, Dice-rolling, Fantasy Flight Games, Garphill Games, Helmut Ohley, Hidden Traitor, Indie Boards & Cards, Kevin Riley, Leonhard Orgler, Lookout Games, Marvel Champsions: the Card Game, Party Games, Patchwork, Renegade Games Studios, Rio Grande Games, Roll for the Galaxy, Russian Railroads, Sébastien Dujardin, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Tile-Laying Games, Tom Lehmann, Train Games, Troyes, Uwe Rosenberg, Vlaada Chvátil, Wei-Hwa Huang, Worker Placement Games, Xavier Georges, Zman Games
Posted on April 8, 2020
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Late last year came the news that Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG) and The OP (formerly USAOpoly) were joining forces to bring licensed characters to the Smash Up universe. Finally, yesterday, the announcement came as to what the first team-up will actually be: Smash Up: Marvel.… Continue Reading “AEG & The OP bring Marvel Comics to Smash Up”
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