It is safe to say that Uwe Rosenberg’s classic game, Bohnanza, is the best-selling and highest-rating board game about bean-farming. It is a bona fide classic and remains a high watermark of game design innovation, for it dares to create something that never existed before.
The mark of good board game art is how often you find yourself distracted during a game by the artwork. When you find yourself captivated by the intricate work of the brush, shade and pattern and colour combining; when the art beguiles such that you forget that it is your turn; when that clever strategy […]
Railroad Ink, by Hjalmar Hach and Lorenzo Silva, is a peaceful, puzzly roll-and-write game. You roll dice and use them to build a network of rail and roads, trying to connect the most end-points, fill the centre squares, and make as few mistakes and dead-ends as possible. Like many roll-and-write games, there is no direct […]
Coup is a devious little bluffing game for a medium-size group. Each player has two secret cards who could be any of 5 different characters, each of whom allows you to perform one or more special actions. These cards double as lives. There are two caveats: 1) you can pretend to hold any character and […]
There are many roll-and-write games that came out over the last few years (this article has a useful graph), but Qwinto, by Uwe Rapp and Bernhard Lach , is one of the purest examples of a good quick roll and write. You roll dice and enter numbers into a grid given certain constraints, and score […]
A few years ago, games artist, Roland Revenge rethemed Reiner Knizia’s Battle Line, taking from the ancient era to the mediaeval. The licensing around the original print run was small–only 500 copies were released, so if you were late to the party, it’s impossible to get. But now, here’s your chance. This is an excellent […]
The delightful Jordan Draper sent me this in the mail earlier this week: Tokyo Metro. It was such a delight to unbox that I wanted to share some photos with you before I even get a chance to play it.
