I own "River of Gold" which has a lot going for it as a game. It also has a beautiful gold inlayed board. But after that the components...

A quick one: This is a shout-out to the artists that make some of the lovely decals ( /stickers /transfers) for the customised wooden...

I have avoided this game for years. It just gave the vibe of “old fashioned” - as in, fun for the family if you lived in a shack in the...

Caesar's Empire is a cool route-building game fromSynapses Games and Holy Grail Games. Easy to teach, really good at 3 or 4 players. Some...

A few months ago I wrote about items I use as coinage in games: real coins, fake gems, even gravel (in Akropolis)! Here's a quick follow...

Akropolis is a slightly abstract building game where you score sets of colour hexes collected as parts of tri-omino style tiles. You...

Hey Thats My Fish is a classic example of a game aimed at kids but actually clever enough for adults. Go in straight lines, where ever...

Tiny Towns is a nice little puzzler. Put coloured blocks together in the right pattern on a grid, and then replace them with a building...

I don't paint miniatures. Too fiddly and difficult to undo if it goes wrong. I won't show you my one attempt (to be fair it was before...

Both these games are bare-bone engine builders. Use cards to get coins to get better cards from the board to get more coins till you can...

Meeples. Meeples meeples meeples. (Am I legally allowed to say meeples now?) Little wooden pieces. Shaped like a starfish...sorry humans....

There are three basic ways of keeping score in a Victory-point game: Pen and paper - usually when the score is calculated at the end of...

Fantasy Realms Review 2-6 players Fantasy Realms is a game that Peter C. Hayward on the rather lovely “Fun Problems” podcast would...

Pre-prep Get somewhere bright! Maybe file off any burrs from the side of your tokens (they provide prime sots for the epoxy to leak over...

Before I start, I want to thank https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2974746/deluxifying-your-cardboard-tokens-by-covering-them and...

I mentioned previously that I had been “upgrading” some of my games recently. I have two ways of changing games: Either I try to shrink...

Two 2-player games from the bow-tied master Reiner Knizia: In "Schotten Totten," you play 1 of 6 cards in your hand towards 9 brag...

3-8 players, best at 5-6 Splito is a fun little party game where you start with a hand of 13 cards, play one then pass the rest along to...

I am starting to post again. Why not? I noticed some typos on some old posts,a and while correcting them I wondered where my momentum...

So we've been playing a bit of Blokus recently. This is one of those games I wish I had come up with. So so simple - your next piece must...