Grab your fishing pole and hit the islands in this fun family board game by Z-Man Games and Asmodee!
Of course, in Miaui, you’re not fishermen but instead you’re fisher-cats.
After all, isn’t it well known that cats love fish?
So why not have a game about cats catching fish?
There’s a fishing festival about to happen and the skilled Miauians are vying to bring in the most valuable fish from the lagoon.
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Living in the Western United States, we’re very familiar with Pioneers. In fact, many of our ancestors were pioneers who helped settle the West.
So games about pioneers have a certain draw for me. The good news is that The River, by Days of Wonder, is a good family board game.
It’s relatively quick to play, keeps players engaged throughout, and has a good balance of luck and strategy.
Check it out!
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Shadows: Amsterdam is a real-time, simultaneous deduction game played in teams. It’s full of colorful artwork, obscure clues, frantic racing, and lots of fun.
It also reminds us a lot of the movie Zootopia!
Just like in the movie, you’re trying to solve a crime by following clues all over colorful locations. The great thing is that you’re not alone. Work together with your teammates to make your way around the city to solve the case!
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What if you took a popular continental train game and compressed it into just one city?
Well, that’s what Days of Wonder has just done with their ever-popular, Ticket to Ride game!
It features similar game play to what you’re familiar with in Ticket to Ride games but in a compressed format – in size, scope, and game time.
If you think a game of Ticket to Ride takes too long to play. Or if you want a bit more of that bustling Manhattan pace in your games, Ticket to Ride New York may be the game for you!
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What does a submarine, train, buried treasure, hieroglyphics, mouse, and the emerald city have in common?
They’re all things you’ll discover playing Unlock! Escape Adventure games!
While the basics of how the games works may be the same, the elements and puzzles to solve within the games are completely unique. And they’re all loads of fun!
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Oh Captain is a quick bluffing game for a wide audience. In the game players try to keep the most valuable Loot for themselves by stealing coins, stealing cards, mutiny, and bluffing.
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In Dice Forge players customize their dice throughout the game to make them more powerful as they compete to gain the most Glory points.
But it’s not all about the Glory points.
Players gain Gold, Sun Shards, Moon Shards, and Heroic Feat cards to increase their powers and influence their outcomes.
There are many reasons why we’ve had a blast playing Dice Forge.
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Last week we reviewed one of our favorite board games in the last couple years – Abyss.
Well, we’re staying in the depths a little longer because we got a copy of Abyss: Kraken from Miniature Market earlier this year and it’s time to review it!
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Abyss was published in 2014 by Bombyx and immediately got a lot a buzz in the board game realms. Some of the buzz was about the game play. But most of the buzz was about the evocative artwork.
After taking a closer look, I added it to my ‘want to play’ list and anxiously awaited a chance to play it.
That chance first came for me at SaltCon 2016 – and I loved it!
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Every once in a while a game comes along that totally captures my attention.
Star Wars Rebellion is such a game!
It was released last year by Fantasy Flight Games and once again, the completely knocked it out of the park!
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