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Gomen nasai! Weeeeereeee is THE templeeeeee? No speak English? OK...
Let’s Go! To Japan Designer: Josh Wood Artist: Chaykov, Kailene Falls, Toshiyuki Hara, Magdalena Pruckner, Erica Ward Published: 2024Players: 1-4Playing Time: 45-60 MinsBGG Rating: 7.7BGG Ranking: 674Publisher: Alderac Entertainment Group Mechanisms: Closed Drafting, Simultaneous Action Selection, Solitaire Game Sleeves: BST 70x120mm Game Description: In Let's Go! To Japan, you are a traveller planning, then experiencing your own dream vacation to Japan. Quick play overview: The idea of the game is that players want to visit Kyoto and Tokyo in a week. Players will decide which sites to visit on each day of the week by placing drafted cards in...
I need some safran... I will give you a stick of cinnamon
Century: Spice Road Designer: Emerson Matsuuchi Artist: Chris Quilliams, David Richards, Fernanda Suarez Published: 2017Players: 2-5Playing Time: 30-45 MinsBGG Rating: 7.3BGG Ranking: 352 Publisher: Plan B Games Mechanisms: Action Retrieval, Deck Building, Hand Management, Open Drafting Sleeves: 70x120mm Game Description: In Century: Spice Road, players are caravan leaders who travel the famed silk road to deliver spices to the far reaches of the continent for fame and glory. Quick play overview: Players take turns doing one of the 4 available actions until one player finished 5-6 Victory Point cards. Possible actions: Take a card from the market place...
9 Quick Reviews - January 2025
Continuing the quick reviews of 9 games per month series. These will be smaller or children games that don't need a big review or games that I only played once and I cannot give a final review yet, but I would still like to share my initial thoughts on. Chants for the Old Ones Published: 2024 Players: 1-4 Playing Time: 60-90 Mins Publisher: Cthulhu ProjectMechanisms: Deck Building, Solitaire Game, Worker PlacementSleeves: 63,5x88mm, 70x120mm Gameplay & Replayability: 8/10 You are trying to make your cult the best one in town so that your boss-god would be the one who spawns...
This island is just a few priests and a few conquistadors away from a paradise...
Santa Maria Designer: Kristian Amundsen Otsby, Eilif SvenssonArtist: Gjermund BohnePublished: 2017 Players: 1-4 Playing Time: 45-90 Mins BGG Rating: 7.5 BGG Ranking: 474Publisher: Aporta GamesMechanisms: Dice Rolling, Network and Route Building, Open Drafting, Set Collection, Tile Placement, Variable Player Powers Game Description: Santa Maria is a streamlined, medium complexity Eurogame in which each player establishes and develops a colony. The game features elements of dice drafting and strategic engine building. The game is low on luck and has no direct destructive player conflict. Quick play overview: Players will mostly use dice from the common pool (and a smaller private...
9 Quick Reviews - December 2024
Continuing the quick reviews of 9 games per month series. These will be smaller or children games that don't need a big review or games that I only played once and I cannot give a final review yet, but I would still like to share my initial thoughts on. Alubari: A Nice Cup of Tea Published: 2019 Players: 1-5 Playing Time: 45-120 Mins Publisher: Studio HMechanisms: Contracts, Turn Order: Claim Action, Worker PlacementSleeves: 56x87mm Gameplay & Replayability: 9/10 This game is tight. Every action is important. Every chai gives you a massive boost… when to spend it?? One of...
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- Action Points
- Action Retrieval
- Area Majority
- Auction/Bidding
- Bingo
- Campaign Game
- Chaining
- Collectible Card Game
- Communication Limirs
- Contracts
- Cooperative Game
- Deck Building
- Dice Building
- Dice Rolling
- Drafting
- Dueling Game
- End Game Bonuses
- Engine Builder
- Flicking
- Follow
- Grid Movement
- Hand Management
- Income
- Kids Game
- Loans
- Market speculation
- Multi-Use Cards
- Network and Route Building
- Pattern Building
- Pick-Up and Deliver
- Push Your Luck
- Race
- Real-Time
- Rondel
- Set Collection
- Simultaneous Action Selection
- Solitaire Game
- Spelling
- Storytelling
- Take That
- Tile Placement
- Track Movement
- Trick-taking
- Tug of War
- Variable Player Powers
- Victory Points as a Resource
- Worker Placement