Over the past few years me and my partner MaFt have discovered a love of board games. We have quite a variety ranging from popular games with every household like Risk and Monopoly to less well known games like Splendor and Pandemic. The only problem we have is finding games which are interesting and fun Continue reading →
Category Archives: Board Games
Bananagrams *Review*
Bananagrams is a fast and fun word game that requires no pencil, paper or board. One hand can be played in as little as five minutes. Very similar to the non-standardized Anagrams game Gameplay involves arranging one’s tiles into a grid of connected words faster than one’s opponents. The object of the game is to Continue reading →
Carcassonne Board Game *Review*
Carcassonne is a tile-placement game in which the players draw and place a tile with a piece of southern French landscape on it. The tile might feature a city, a road, a cloister, grassland or some combination thereof, and it must be placed adjacent to tiles that have already been played, in such a way that Continue reading →
Abalone *Review*
Abalone is a beautiful and functional board has room for two teams of large marbles. Players take turns pushing the marbles around the board, with the goal of pushing six of the opposing player’s marbles off the board. The central idea is that a column of marbles has weight given by the number of marbles Continue reading →
Colt Express Board Game Review
In Colt Express, you play a bandit robbing a train at the same time as other bandits, and your goal is to become the richest outlaw of the Old West. The game consists of five rounds, and each round has two phases: Phase 1: Schemin’ Each player plays 2-5 action cards on a common pile, with the Continue reading →
Arokah *Review*
What is Arokah? Evocative symbols and intriguing designs. An air of antiquity that hints of a bygone age. Powers of creativity and intelligence casts our gaze beyond the stars… A new discovery revealed for the very first time, Arokah represents one of nature’s best kept secrets. A unique set of elements formed within the structure Continue reading →
Staccups By University Games *REVIEW*
Staccups is the fast-paced game for 2-4 players aged 8+ where you race your opponents to be the first player to stack all your cups – that sounds simple doesn’t it, however, it isn’t that easy you have to match the top of the bottom cup with the base of the cup you are putting Continue reading →
Pandemic *Review*
I’ve heard lots of excuses about why people don’t play board games, they’re too expensive, they’ve got long manuals with complex rules, friends who are so competitive you just can’t play board games with them. Pandemic is a co-operative board game so no one’s going to get too competitive, and it has you working at the Centre for Disease Continue reading →