King of Tokyo is a great party game and our copy has been used a TON. We’ve played it numerous times as a family, we play it regularly at Guys Game Night, and we’ve lent it out to neighbors and friends for some of their family gatherings.
So when we heard iello was working on an expansion for King of Tokyo, we quickly added it to our wish list.
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Our 3rd, and last, Carcassonne expansion board game review is for the mini-expansion: Carcassonne The River.
And since it’s a mini-expansion, this will be a mini-review because there isn’t a lot to say about it.
However, just because it’s mini doesn’t mean it isn’t great – because we play with the River every time we play!
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Carcassonne Traders & Builders is another great board game expansion for Carcassonne. There are even more ways to score points and additional elements to add to your strategy. It keeps this great family board game alive with more fun.
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Carcassonne Inns & Cathedrals is a great first expansion for Carcassonne! It adds new land tiles, new ways to score, and pieces for a 6th player to join in.
It’s also an expansion that we include every time we play Carcassonne.
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Board game expansions are becoming a much more common occurrence with modern board games. Look back just a decade and you won’t see many board game expansions. Sure Monopoly has spawned a ton of different versions, but they aren’t considered expansions. They’re just re-theming the same game and each game plays as a stand-alone.
Which board game expansions are worth getting?
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It’s hard to get around in the gaming world without hearing about Magic: the Gathering. It seems to be everywhere. Board game hobby stores worldwide have weekly Magic: the Gathering nights (or multiple nights). And Magic tournaments are held all over the world as well.
With the extreme popularity of the game, you’d think we would have tried it out by now. However, our family has yet to play Magic.
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Are you ready to find out what the best board games and card games are from 2012?
While we don’t quite have that answer for you yet, we do have the list of nominations. And it’s quite the list!
How on earth can we say which are the best?
There’s no way to play them all. So for that, we turn to game reviews and players around the world. And we’ve found the best compilation comes from The Dice Tower Awards.
Here’s the list of nominations for Best Board Games of 2012.
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I love it when I’m flipping through the newspaper while I eat breakfast and come across an article on board games! Even when it covers something I know well – like today’s article on the Family Benefits of Board Games – it’s just great to see it published for more people to come to understand.
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According to our 10 year old son, Caleb, Relic Expedition is “awesome!”
We had a chance to play a prototype of the board game Relic Expedition this week and Caleb loved it. Getting a prototype of a board game is something we typically don’t do. There are so many great board games and card games already on the market, that we typically turn down opportunities to play games in the making.
But there was something about Relic Expedition that seemed like it might be a great family board game that we’d enjoy. So I decided to give it a try.
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This week we heard about a new game company started from a couple of game designers that are local to
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