Winter Has Arrived in Carcassonne

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Snow arrives in this Winter edition of Carcassonne. You continue playing the game as before in building the area around the city, one tile at a time and placing followers on fields, cities, roads and monasteries. These followers will respectively become farmers, knights, thieves and monks. The game uses the same 72 tiles, except these […]

Love Letter Card Game

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This is the 4th game in the Tempest Shared World Game series produced by AEG – a shared world that is home to a series of games sharing themes and characters, where politics, power and wealth come into play. In The Love Letter card game you are a suitor competing for the attention and love […]

Walk The Plank Pirate Card Game

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A prequel of sorts to the Get Bit game by Mayday Games – in Walk the Plank this is a card game with a pirate theme – ahoy my matey! (Sorry couldn’t resist it). It smashed its target on kickstarter earlier this year. The game centres around not the brightest of pirates and the captain […]

Village Board Game

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The award winning Village Board Game (in particular winner of Spiel des Jahres – 2012 Kennerspiel award) follows the cycle of life and death of villagers. It is a worker placement game with plenty of strategic, tactical elements to the gameplay. Each player will represent a family over 4 generations of workers looking to bring […]

Trains Board Game

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It is the time of the modern railway set in Japan in this 2013 AEG Edition of the Trains board game – bullet, express, mail, freight trains etc. keeping the economy of Japan on the go. In this board game, players are private railways companies looking to build bigger and better railways to eventually overtake […]

Dixit Jinx Card Game – new twist to storytelling

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A new game to the Dixit family, Dixit Jinx brings a new way to storytelling in this card game. First off the drawings are very different to the original Dixit game – no longer realistic illustrations depicting scenes instead images somewhere between abstraction and figuration (by a French artist Dominique Ehrhard).  This game will require […]