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Tiny Towns board game review

When you set out to build a City, you think big. When you set out to build a Town, you think a little bit less big.

But we imagine you still wouldn’t think about building a town as small as you do in Tiny Towns.

Tiny Towns is a new board game published by AEG that has players constructing their own towns on little 4×4 grids. The variety of buildings to place in those towns is huge. But the area is small.

You’ll have to make the most of your limited space to cram in as many valuable buildings as you can.

August 16, 2019 Trent 0 Comments 2-player, 3-player, 4-player, 5-player, 6-player, AEG, city building, solo, strategy, variable scoring, variable set up

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Layers family board game review

When you think of “layers” what do you think of?

If you’re a Shrek fan like us, you’ll immediately think of onions and ogres.

Of course, you might also think of cake, lasagna, Reese’s peanut butter cups, Adobe Photoshop, and the Earth.

Well, it’s also now a game!

April 12, 2019April 16, 2019 Trent 0 Comments 2-player, 3-player, 4-player, Asmodee, colorful, Ludicorn, racing, solo

Dead Men Tell No Tales: The Kraken board game expansion

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Dead Men Tell No Tales: Kraken expansion review

You’ve vanquished the skeleton crew, you’ve grabbed the loot, you’ve kept the deckhands in check, and you’re about to escape the burning ship to enjoy your spoils when it happens.

The ship starts to shake. The floorboards start to rumble. Then all of a sudden, tentacles start bursting through the boards all over the ship.

You and your fellow pirates stumble away from them the best you can when you notice the Kraken surface just off the bow of the ship and block your exit!

How will you survive? Start loading the cannons and take it down!

You can in Dead Men Tells No Tales: The Kraken expansion.

February 14, 2019February 14, 2019 Trent 0 Comments 2-player, 3-player, 4-player, 5-player, cooperative game, Minion Games, solo, strategy, theme

Board Games Family Games Game Reviews

Chroma Cube is a colorful puzzle game

There are a handful of things I love to do with regularity each day. And among those things are daily Sudoku and KenKen puzzles.

I love taking a break to challenge my mental muscles in solving puzzles. While both of those puzzles involve numbers, I love taking on a variety of such challenges.

So when I discovered brainteaser puzzles from Project Genius, I was immediately intrigued. And Chroma Cube fits the bill very nicely.

December 21, 2018 Trent 0 Comments Project Genius, puzzle, solo

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Can’t stop playing NMBR 9!

In our home, it’s very rare that one game gets played every day for weeks on end. But that’s exactly what’s happened this past month since we started playing NMBR 9!

And it’s not pulled out to play on our game table downstairs, it’s front and center kitchen table play!

Which is also why it gets played multiple times after dinner (and sometimes after breakfast).

December 1, 2018February 1, 2019 Trent 0 Comments 2-player, 3-player, 4-player, luck, puzzle, solo, tile-laying, Z-Man Games

Board Games Cooperative Games Game Reviews

It’s hard being Robinson Crusoe

Life sure isn’t easy on a deserted island. In fact, most of the time it can downright stink. But that isn’t to say there aren’t pleasures to be found.

Such is the case with the Robinson Crusoe 2nd edition board game from Portal Games.

It’s one of the hardest cooperative board games we’ve played. Yet it’s filled with so much adventuring theme and tough decisions, that we keep thinking about it long after we’ve played.

September 30, 2018February 1, 2019 Trent 6 Comments 2-player, 3-player, 4-player, adventure, cooperative game, luck, Portal games, risk, solo, theme

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Scarabya board game review

You’re an experienced archeologist, renowned from all the golden Scarab relics you’ve found all around the world.

Well, fame won’t last long without others trying to jump in on your claim as the best. It’s time to settle this challenge once and for all in Scarabya!

August 9, 2018August 13, 2018 Trent 0 Comments 2-player, 3-player, 4-player, Blue Orange Games, family, solo, tile-laying

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Catan’s digital rebirth: Catan Universe

One of the most popular board games published in the last few decades is Catan.

Well, it used to be called Settlers of Catan – but within the last few years officially shortened the name to just Catan.

A number of years ago, Catan also made it’s way to digital devices where it continued to find its way into new players’ hands. And now it’s been updated with a new look and feel with multiple modes of play across all digital platforms (browser, Steam, iOS, GooglePlay, and Amazon Appstore).

June 26, 2018July 8, 2018 Trent 2 Comments 2-player, 3-player, 4-player, cards, Catan, dice, digital, luck, Mayfair Games, solo, strategy, variable set up

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Unlock! Adventure Series game reviews

What does a submarine, train, buried treasure, hieroglyphics, mouse, and the emerald city have in common?

They’re all things you’ll discover playing Unlock! Escape Adventure games!

While the basics of how the games works may be the same, the elements and puzzles to solve within the games are completely unique. And they’re all loads of fun!

June 1, 2018February 1, 2019 Trent 3 Comments 2-player, 3-player, 4-player, 5-player, 6-player, Asmodee, cooperative, escape, solo, strategy, theme, Unlock

Board Games Cooperative Games Game Reviews

Go full stealth mode in V-Commandos

Regular visitors to our site may already know that one of my favorite board games is a WWII game called Memoir ’44. The game we’re reviewing today is also a WWII-themed board game – but it’s cooperative!

Instead of battling against each other, in V-Commandos players work together to take out enemy objectives in a WWII setting. Yet rather than relying on brute strength to take out enemies and objectives, this game hinges on stealth operations.

Let’s see if V-Commandos is a game that might strike your fancy.

April 28, 2018May 14, 2018 Trent 1 Comment 1-player, 2-player, 3-player, 4-player, cooperative, solo, strategy, theme