…like the puzzle in this game. What I find fascinating in Altiplano is how hard it can be to produce certain vital materials. There’s no always-available method of producing fish or alpacas, for example. You can have one on your individual character tile, or you can buy one during the game, but it may well…
…player will win. Abstract or thematic? The game is quite abstract. The theme is just decoration. It’s a game about mining crystals, yet what do you actually do? You try to fill the mine with crystals. Go figure. Solitaire or interactive? There’s some competition as the tiles come from a common pool, but that’s it….
Kakerlaloop is published in Finnish as La Cucaracha Loop by Ravensburger, and I received a free review copy. The game: Kakerlaloop by Inka and Markus Brand, published by Ravensburger in 2015. Elevator pitch: Roll and move your bugs across the board, but watch out for the Hexbug Nano cockroach that tries to bump the bugs…
…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….
…early on (church is one victory point, but no production). The second game was better for Olli, and he won it fairly easily — surprised me completely. Teaches me to check the VP situation constantly… The last game was a tougher match, a really good game. I won it in the end, but it could’ve…
…of board games in general. The contributors had a fairly free choice of what to cover, as long as it was something they really loved. That’s an interesting way to compile a list of 100 best games, and a successful, too. I think the list is very good and particularly for the euro games has…
…from my last match of this gem. I’ve rated it a perfect 10, so I suppose I should play it, too? We had three players, all experienced, and used both expansions. It was a crazy game, with tons of money, more than ever before (this was actually also the first time with 100% correct rules,…
After much work, the 2024 edition of my top 100 list is now available on BoardGameGeek. It takes some time to compile, but I find it interesting and useful, and since this is already the 11th edition of the list, there’s interesting long-term data in there. The top 100 list is long and has some…
Here’s a review of the latest historical Catan game. The same review in Finnish. Struggle for Rome is based on real-life history: it covers the time when the Roman empire was in decline and the eastern barbarian tribes came to loot and pillage Roman cities and then settled down and started their own kingdoms on…