Tag Archive for boardgame

Tabletop Review: Pandemic – The Cure

Designers: Matt Leacock Artist: Bernard Bittler,Philippe Guérin, Chris Quilliams Publishers: Z-Man Games Number of Players: 2 – 5 Playing Time: 30 minutes Pandemic – The Cure is a dice game for 2 to 5 players that pits you against four diseases spreading around the globe. Using your character’s abilities and customized dice, you will travel the continents treating disease…

Tabletop Review: Game of Trains

Designers: Alexey Konnov, Alexey Paltsev, Anatoliy Shklyarov Artist: Reinis Pētersons Publishers: Brain Games, REBEL.pl Number of Players: 2 – 4 Playing Time: 30 minutes Ari and I got the chance to squeeze in a board game this Sunday before his bed time, and we chose to try Game of Trains.  Game of Trains is card game whereby you…

Tabletop Review: Machi Koro

Designer: Masao Suganuma Artists: Noboru Hotta, Ian Parovel, Mirko Suzuki Publisher: IDW Games Number of Players: 2 – 4 (Harbor expansion adds one more) Playing Time: 30 minutes My six-year old son and I try to get in a couple of games a week. This helps to get him away from electronics for a spell. One of the games that…

Tabletop Review: Why First?

Designer: Simon Havard Artist: Erkan Karagöz Publisher: Alderac Entertainment Group Number of Players: 2 – 6 Playing Time: 15 – 25 minutes   A couple of weekends ago, I had the opportunity to attend a game day with the Cardboard Edison couple at their house in New Jersey. I had a great time playing games and play testing their game — Sultana.…

Tabletop Review: Burgle Bros

Designer: Tim Fowers Artist: Ryan Goldsberry Publisher: Self Published Number of Players: 1 – 4 Playing Time: 90 minutes   Last weekend, I promised Ari (6 years old) that we would play a game. I told him that I had a “new” game for him to try and described as “stealing game”. We sat down together and broke open…

Tabletop Review: Best Tree House Ever

Best Treehouse Ever Designer: Scott Almes Artist: Adam P. McIver Publisher: Green Couch Games Number of Players: 2 – 4 Playing Time: 20 minutes This past weekend, I had the pleasure to break out Best Tree House Ever by Scott Almes with my six year old son, Ari. When I cracked open the box, I…

Working on a new game for the UnPub3 challenge

I have elect to take part in a mini contest at the Unpub 3 event. The goal is to make a game with 4 dice, 15 cubes, and 20 cards. I have a theme and mechanic idea. I stitched together a digital prototype. Now, I need to print and play test.