We played seven games of 7 Wonders this weekend, all with four or three players. Less is better, what comes to players. There’s more control, more cards come back to you and you can more easily focus on your opponents as well. The game plays fast with experience. It does feel a bit samey. Seven…
Rüben Rallye is published in Finnish as Kaniralli by Haba, and I received a free review copy from the Finnish distributor Tevella. The game: Rüben Rallye by Sylvain Ménager, published by Haba in 2016. Elevator pitch: Beautiful roll and move game for kids, but with an added element of distance approximation thrown in. What’s in…
…be fine, but in the long run simply doesn’t work. Fortunately there’s a solution. I was happy with a plugin called wpSearch for a long time, but eventually found it lacking – it couldn’t keep up with the blog. So I did my own search engine, and thus was born Relevanssi. After all, I’m a…
…bad. The system works really well. There are occasional inactive users who simply won’t respond to your requests, but it’s easy to cancel and request the book from someone else. Not every book is available, but I haven’t had any problems filling up my wishlists with interesting books. If you’re interested, getting started is easy….
…day. Dos Rios was on Tommy’s list of games to try. We played a two-player game, which I won by having four buildings on the river. Dos Rios is fun, nothing too special, a bit too tactical but still, fun. Looking at the Geek comments, Tommy likes it even more than I do, thanks to…
…Tampere so that all cards form a cross on the board (not a matrix, that would be unnecessarily complicated), but of course the new card can be placed between two cards already in play. This goes on for 15 cards, then there’s a “Intermezzo” phase where everybody must guess how many cards are placed incorrectly….
…but the kids seem to like this and my three-year-old daughter can play this. Indifferent. Geistesblitz. The winner of the Finnish Game of the Year this year. Nothing really special, but a fun little reaction test of a game. The extra rules about the book really make your head spin. Delightful, but I’m a wee…
Today I was able to test the other two games from the Russian board game publisher RightGames (see part 1 for the other two). Evolution: The Origin of Species is a fun card game, where players evolve animals by adding traits to them. Survival is of the essence: each winter the animals must eat. It…
…in the card game. Trading happens, but with the ports, like in the game: 3-for-1, 2-for-1 in special occasions. There are many superficial similarities and even more subtle differences. The card game is actually better, or at least more interesting. It’s quite unique as two-player games come, at least I can’t come up with other…