#hand management

New to Me #boardgames - January 2023 @gmtgames @StrongholdGames @eggertspiele @thematic_games @FlatoutGames @alderac @BGTables @atlasgames

It’s a brand new year and hopefully it will be better than last year. Though last year wasn’t too bad, compared to the two before. It’s January (or February, but we’re talking about January) and that means a new beginning where we’re not sure what all we’re going to play for the year. Last year I played 111 games. When January came around, I had no idea what games those would be! I do have…

The Thing: Infection at Outpost 31 Review

Pencil First Games’s Sunset Over Water is a set collection card game for 1-4 players designed by Eduardo Baraf, Steve Finn, and Keith Matejka. In the game, players take on the role of landscape painters, roaming the countryside, sketching and selling

Junglo é um jogo da autoria de Toshiki Arao com ilustrações de Laura Michaud para 3 a 5 jogadores com mais de 8 anos e uma duração aproximada de 15 minutos. Mecanismos: Party Game / Hand Management / Trick-taking. Jungo é um jogo de gestão de mão e descarte em que o objetivo é obter a melhor combinação de cartas jogadas na mesa para ganhar a vaza. Quem tiver mais vazas no final de uma ronda será…

Putting Wood on the Biblical Fire @garphillgames @PlayRenegade

Reading the description of Ezra & Nehemiah when it first hit Kickstarter, I was intrigued. If you read this blog for more than just one or two posts, you know I’m a huge fan of Garphill Games and the games designed by Shem Phillips and SJ MacDonald. While I have enjoyed pretty much every “trilogy” game, I haven’t played many of their other games, including any of the “Ancients” line of games…

Expansion Review - Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition - Discovery & Foundations from @StrongholdGames and @FryxGames @tired_wings

Review - Viscounts of the West Kingdom by @garphillgames and @PlayRenegade - a great game!

New to Me #boardgames - December 2021 @RavensburgerNA @StrongholdGames @PlayRenegade @garphillgames

It’s the end of the year 2021 (or it was when I played these games, anyway). Having been able to go to game days again since August 2021, it was nice to have a bunch of new to me games to play each month! I know this blog has been much better for that. Still, December was a bit of a slow month, mainly because we didn’t have December 26 (Boxing Day up here in the Great White North and nobody…

App Review - Maracaibo - great game from @SpiralBurstLLC (original board game by @Capstone_Games).

Have you ever wanted to just get slammed upside the head repeatedly by a deck of cards? No, just me? Well, it’s a good thing that you probably don’t suck at Maracaibo as much as I do, so you’ll probably actually enjoy not having that feeling. Though some people pay good money for that… What’s Maracaibo? This was the “bit too optimistic” announcement page last year, but was it worth the…