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Clash Royale: The Grand Arena - Exclusive Trailer - IGN
OverviewTypes of Board Games Popular Trading Card GamesTypes of Puzzles ... Dark Souls Board Game Kickstarter Ends With $5 Million in Funding - IGN News .
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The Stonemaier Strategy Magazine
In the early ‘90s, I was fascinated by a magazine called Nintendo Power. It was mostly a strategy guide for Nintendo video games, complete with vibrant visuals showing levels and hidden areas in games like Mario Bros.…
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The Stonemaier Strategy Magazine
In the early ‘90s, I was fascinated by a magazine called Nintendo Power. It was mostly a strategy guide for Nintendo video games, complete with vibrant visuals showing levels and hidden areas in games like Mario Bros.…
Read at Stonemaier Games (opens in a new tab)Fisher Hill Elementary School students design game, bringing 19th-century ... - Athol Daily News
The students built, coded and animated the interactive board game , highlighting the challenges that travelers faced while journeying on the Oregon ...
Read at Google (opens in a new tab)Tabletop Freecell Fun: Hats on Cats and Dogs in Blogs
Move cards from columns into foundations, taking care to untangle the puzzle in Freecell.
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Gruntz Review
Edwin Starr wrote an anti-war song in the 1970s with the famous chorus: “War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing!” This was likely in response to the Vietnam War, and it’s hard to argue that the chorus is wrong. …
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Hunt for Blackbeard Game Review
There’s some version or another of Peter Pan that has Captain Hook deliver a quick monologue to Pan just before the good captain is vanquished. “You’ve defeated my men, taken my ship,” that sort of thing. While I cann…
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Friendly Fishing Game Review
Friendly Fishing , a feather-light set collection game, was one of my most anticipated GenCon releases. This tiny box, from publisher GameHead and designers Bruno Faidutti and Alex Randolph, caught my interest with ar…
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ARC: The Underworld P500 Spotlight: “Into the Abyss — The Sewers and the Alien Lair”
The surface battle is over; the true nightmare lies beneath. GMT Games presents the third installment of our playthrough series with designer James M. Day (Panzer, MBT), dragging you down into the subterranean horrors…
Read at Inside GMT (opens in a new tab)Dundee cafe Cake or Dice has been named the best board game cafe in Scotland
A Dundee cafe that offers a variety of food, drinks and hundreds of board games has been named the best board game cafe in Scotland.
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Best 3 Games with…Designer Maurice Suckling!
During the summer of 2019, we were introduced to Maurice Suckling and his very interesting design Freeman’s Farm 1777 from Worthington Publishing and really enjoyed the mechanics and how they all came together to crea…
Read at The Players' Aid (opens in a new tab)Hello Kitty Party Land (Switch 2) Hands-on Preview - Nintendo World Report
A cuddly Sanrio board game for the whole family. Hello Kitty Party Land brings Sanrio's adorable charm to the digital board game genre. Billed as ...
Read at Google (opens in a new tab)Blue Orange Games Reveals Early 2027 Line-Up - Board Game Beat
French publisher Blue Orange Games reveals 2027 releases: Fifty Shells, Got Five ... Get Board Game Beat's free posts by email—no tracking, no spam!
Read at Google (opens in a new tab)Dale Yu: Review of Syzygy
Syzygy Designer: Asuka, IKE Publisher: EmperorS4 Players: 3-6 Age: 6+ Time: 15 minutes Played with review copy provided by publisher The solar system we live in exists thanks to a miraculous arrangement of planets. Ev…
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Board Game Arena, Roll20 and the rise of tabletop gaming in the browser ... Board Game Arena and Roll20 have helped move board games , card games and ...
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Zombie Princess Review
The Princesses are armed and ready for a fight with the undead in Zombie Princess, a trick-taking card game based off the classic game of Spades.
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Join Jamey for Stonemaier Games news, questions, answers, and random discussion topics! https://youtube.com/live/7Y5U936JxnE
Read at Stonemaier Podcast (opens in a new tab)Zenith Review – A planetary tug-of-war for two
Zenith is a tableau-building game with multi-use cards, tracks to climb, and five fronts to compete on, a la Lost Cities. If that sentence doesn't get your heart racing, you must be dead inside.
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The Jailbreak Questline had Gaudi plotting with Drops of Evil
by Steph Hodge [imageid=9200434 medium rep]▪️ Devir is releasing Gaudí this month both at Spiel and at retail. New game design from Dani Garcia ( Barcelona , Windmill Valley ...), this new title will surely look stunn…
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Stonemaier Games Charity Auction
Stonemaier Games are hosting their annual charity auction on October 14th to 16th and I've picked one of the charities to raise money for!
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Scales of Fate Game Review
Scales of Fate is a strange beast, an uneasy marriage of strategy, bluffing, and deduction. It gets points for originality, ambition, and aesthetic, but I’m not sold on the whole. It’s like eating a cake in which you …
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Panorama Game Review
I’ll be honest with you. Panorama had built up a bit of a negative reputation around the metaphorical halls of Meeple Mountain prior to its release. When Justin Bell and I played the prototype with publisher Scorpion …
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The Glorious Guilds of Buttonville Review
The village of Buttonville is undoubtedly the most glorious village of all time, aside from one small problem: There’s no one there! In The Glorious Guilds of Buttonville, you slip into the role of a guild master and …
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Castelnuovo 1539 from Draco Ideas – Action Point 3
In 1539, a small Spanish garrison of troops numbering 3,500 men held the Albanian village of Castelnuovo for 22 days against the massive Ottoman army consisting of over 54,000 Turk soldiers. This siege took place as a…
Read at The Players' Aid (opens in a new tab)An Early Summer Introduction to Winds of the North
Enter the Viking Age and survive through the seasons in the solo RPG within Winds of the North.
Read at Game Wardbound (opens in a new tab)Dale Yu: Review of Upside Town
Upside Town Designer: Quentin Quek Publisher: PlayByDesign Players: 1-4 Age: 12+ Time: 25-40 minutes Played with review copy provided by publisher In Upside Town, buildings rise rapidly from modular pre-fabricated uni…
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Empire of the Sun Midway Gambit Session Report
Preamble This article was originally meant to just be a session report, no more. However, recently there have been a few threads on Boardgamegeek (hereafter BGG) from new owners who are looking for a playbook or equiv…
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Werewolf in the Dark Review
Imagine playing hide-and-seek, with a killer in the mix. Werewolf in the Dark is a social deduction game that is played in the dark.
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Designer Diary - Nature: Climate - Redesigning a Classic
by Dominic Crapuchettes The Nature system currently has a BoardGameGeek rating of 8.6 - well beyond my wildest expectations! This designer diary tells the story of its most recent module, Nature: Climate . The first f…
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Namiji Review
Stonemaier Games recently acquired the rights to the classic white box game Tokaido and its follow-up Namiji. Tokaido is well known and loved around my house, as we have the collector’s edition that was on Kickstarter…
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Kano Game Review
Kano was a title that had a lot of buzz around the halls of Gen Con this year. Though the theme of the convention seemed to be small-box card games and RPGs, this tile-laying puzzle managed to squeak onto my radar. I …
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My Favorite Wargame Cards – A Look at Individual Cards from My Favorite Games – Card #98: The Balkan Wars from Imperial Elegy: The Road to the Great War 1850-1920 from VUCA Simulations
With this My Favorite Wargame Cards Series, I hope to take a look at a specific card from the various wargames that I have played and share how it is used in the game. I am not a strategist and frankly I am not that g…
Read at The Players' Aid (opens in a new tab)Flying Into the Moon Towers in Paupers’ Ladder… Literally
Explore Brighthelm on an adventure as a cursed Bodach with a bird in Paupers’ Ladder.
Read at Game Wardbound (opens in a new tab)Costly Complexity – the limits of complexity in board games (Topic Discussion)
There comes a time when you look at the rules for a new board game, when it suddenly stops feeling exciting and starts feeling intimidating. The rules are too long and convoluted, the main game board is cluttered, and…
Read at Tabletop Games Blog (opens in a new tab)Dale Yu: Review of The Amazing Journey
The Amazing Journey Designers: Lorenzo Silva, Hjalmar Hach Publisher: Horrible Guild Players: 2-4 Age: 8+ Time: 60 minutes Played with review copy provided by publisher The Amazing Journey is a globe-trotting game for…
Read at The Opinionated Gamers (opens in a new tab)Is Growth Good?
I’ll never forget a brief conversation I had with a friend in the game industry around 10 years ago. We were talking about a publisher with 20 employees, and they were looking to hire more people. I asked my friend, “…
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Is Growth Good?
I’ll never forget a brief conversation I had with a friend in the game industry around 10 years ago. We were talking about a publisher with 20 employees, and they were looking to hire more people. I asked my friend, “…
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Fossilium Board Game Review
Fossilium WBG Score: 8 Player Count: 1-4 You’ll like this if you like: Euros to be brown and about fossils Published by: Giant Roc, Sinister Fish Games Designed by: Julia Thiemann, Christoph Waage This is a free revie…
Read at What Board Game (opens in a new tab)Hamsters and Apothecaria: Another Witchy Week
Explore a magical world as a village witch tasked with healing a community with Apothecaria.
Read at Game Wardbound (opens in a new tab)Mini Rogue: The Council Game Review
Mini Rogue: The Council (2026, Nuts! Publishing) is a dream come true for rogue-like video game fans like me. Sometimes, I just want a quick-playing challenge to table by myself, and I now see why the Mini Rogue serie…
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Crowdfunding Campaigns of the Week – 10/12/26
Welcome to this week’s batch of crowdfunding campaigns. We have a variety of offerings here, so we hope you will find something that catches your eye. Also, if you want to chat with the BGQ team, join our Discord Serv…
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Interview with Brian Asklev Co-Designer of Napoléon 1870: The Collapse of the Second French Empire from Shakos Currently on Kickstarter
I do love a good Napoleonics wargame and The Conquerors Series from Shakos is really very good as we have played a few games over the years. They have a new volume in that series on Kickstarter that is designed by a t…
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Gattara: The Cat Magnet Preview
Gattara: The Cat Magnet is a fast-paced card game for feline loving families. This is a easy to teach game that has some claws from Disometric Games.
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Cross The Line Party Game Review
Cross The Line WBG Score: 7/10 Player Count: 2-8 You’ll like this if you like: Card games with interesting layers and scoring. Published by: Gray Matters Games Designed by: Joe Barron, Brady Peterson, David Yakos This…
Read at What Board Game (opens in a new tab)Dale Yu: Review of Bunny Kingdom Town
Bunny Kingdom Town Designer: Richard Garfield Publisher: iello Players: 2 Age: 10 Time: 30 minutes Amazon affiliate link: https://link.amazon/B0eqsbmxY Played with review copy provided by publisher Become the leader o…
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Hello, Old Friend
by Justin Bell Usually, I play games four days a week. Mondays, with my review crew; Wednesdays, with a group in Chicago I’ve known for years; Fridays with my wife; the occasional Saturdays with a group that gets toge…
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