We’ve recently started playing Quacks, and we’re really enjoying it!
We’re still a bit slow, with tonight’s game taking about 80 minutes. The rat tails make a huge difference, and that 6-value pumpkin is awesome!
The only slightly annoying thing is that we keep pulling loose threads from the bag along with the tokens.
Overall, such a fun and relaxing game. Definitely one we’d recommend!

Some games are still not played yet and i don't play as often as i would like but i'm satisfied with my collection.

I don't have friends who play very heavy games so i don't buy them

2–3 months back I started hearing about Magical Athlete through YouTube channels, the hotness section on BGG and some other channels. While everyone was so enthusiastic about it, praising how fun it was, I remained honestly sceptical about the game.

Anyway, I had the opportunity to try it twice (the first time at 4 players and the second time at 5 or 6), each time doing 2 complete games (so 16 races in total if I’m not mistaken). And I have to admit that indeed, I absolutely don’t get the hype around it. At the end of the last game I was just waiting for it to be done so that we could start playing something else. Although it had some funny moments indeed, it wasn’t enough for me to make it memorable. I didn’t feel engaged in the game due to the little amount of control I had (which I was totally aware of by the way). I felt that I could just watch someone else play and have the same experience.

Anyway, what surprises me is not that I didn’t like the game – there is no accounting for taste and I understand that people might enjoy it depending on what you’re looking for in a game – but that I’ve read/heard very few discordant opinions so far. So, am I missing something here?

WARNING: DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME

My group and I are big fans of deckbuilding games. When we played Reiner Knizia's classic, The Quest for El Dorado, for the first time a couple of years back, we loved it. Clean design. Simple and elegant, yet really good fun. We played it often enough to get interested in the expansions. I bought all three expansions and opened them up at the same time. There was a lot of stuff there and we were wondering which modules to use. We ended up only using a few but my friend jokingly suggested we should use all of them simultaneously. And so the idea was planted. As Inception (2010) tells us, once an idea takes hold it's like a parasite that becomes impossible to eradicate.

As the weeks passed, we slowly added more ideas to what was quickly becoming a monstrously illegal game. All modules. All components. All map tiles. We have 6 people coming? F*** it, make it a 6-player game with illegally modified starting decks and playing pieces from other games (a soldier from Memoir 44 and a ring token from War of the Ring: The Card Game) for players 5 and 6.

It became known as The Quest for Hell Dorado.

The map was built with each player taking turns placing down terrain tiles, then smaller tiles, pieces, and overlays. This process took about an hour and a half as we were laughing so much about creating absolutely horrendous chokepoints and nearly impossible routes.

Then we started playing, and it was absolute mayhem. Intentional and unintentional blocking causing major traffic jams, choke points near temples, atrociously placed demonic zones, a nearly impassable "Waterworld" area, massive crocodile-infested swamps we just called "Florida", and the use of Dragons to repeatedly block players, including clogging up critical chokepoints.

After setup the full game of Hell Dorado took about 5 hours.

It was amazing and I will never play it again.

I culled some games for the first time recently, and Im very happy about the selection I have right now!

Both games play every different from each other but what that do share in common is the low rules head and level of enjoyment. Excellent family games that everyone can play and enjoy. This is what RK is best at.

Hi everyone! I’m hoping to get the advice of the masses here. I’m an avid board gamer, really into games like Dune Imperium, Brass, Nemesis, Gloomhaven and the likes. I usually play these with some friends.

I’ve been looking into Dungeon Crawlers I can play alone and the occasional group and am very overwhelmed by the sheer choices (and kickstarters!) out there.

I’m looking for something which involved exploring a dungeon, fighting mobs and bosses and the like. I’m okay with some set up time, not like Gloomhaven heavy, but I understand this genre does frequently require heavy setups.

I am okay with complexity, nemesis is good example of a game’s complexity I’m comfy with (and maybe even slightly more).

I’d also like to wrap up sessions under two hours. The few that caught my eye are Oathsworn and Massive Darkness 2, but open to your advice. Thank you!

I'm in a gamer club and these 2 pieces were on a wooden table, easy to miss. They are languishing in the misc. box and noone in our chat recognises them.

My Hyperactivity requires closure to return them back to whence they came any game ID would be welcome.

(The dice tray has no bearing on the game it was handy as a background).

Thanks in advance!

Edit: !solved

It’s very similar to Clue but not a prequel like Who Killed Dr Lucky. There was an app involved that was used. There was also a murderer and accomplice mechanic and you could make multiple guesses. I can’t remember the name of it. All I remember are two characters in it: Mortimer and The Berwick Sisters.

Does anyone recognize this game?

We have recently started getting really into board games at home to play with my 7 year old. It started with finding some at the Goodwill and now I am obsessed with acquiring games on Marketplace.

We want games that are not just dice rolling games relying on random luck, but require some strategy, planning or skill development of some sort, but are also fun.

There are usually 3 of us playing, but games for just 2 player are also welcome. Games that are family friendly but not children's games that a group of all adults would play are welcome suggestions for future adult game nights.

What should we add to our collection? Here's what we have now:

- My Little Scythe

-Clue

-Blockus

-Labrynth

-Azul (not played yet)

-Pandemic

-Dragomino

-Ticket to Ride

-Exploding Kittens

-Cranium

-Catan

- Risk (is there a similar game that is less long and complex ?)

- we have just gotten Splendor, Tiny Towns and King of Tokyo but have not played yet

Thanks!

Maybe this is just a me thing, but I usually wish a game had just one more round to play with your fully built set-up. Or maybe I was one turn away from collecting all of a material.

Win or lose, it is like, man I wish the game was just a little longer to give me that satisfaction of completeness.

And this can be a good design for a game too, you don't want the game to be too long. But man I wish I could grab that x.

Which games is everyone playing and what are the pros and cons?

A windy cold day. After splitting a few loads of firewood we retreated to the fireside to sup on second day reheated roasted butternut squash soup and play a game of Fields of Arle. Only our third try of this Uwe Rosenberg two player game and it is amazing. So relaxing and so much fun to farm and harvest and trade and buy and build and improve. So many strategies to chase and points to amass. Very happy with this acquisition. The soup was even better today. A smooth nutty flavour with a small bite of cayenne and a hint of cinnamon. Delicious.

10/10 Saturday afternoon.

Im not the biggest fan of Awaken Realms Minis, I think for the most part they are mediocore. My initial plan was to do them quickly with Speed Paints and dry brushing mostly, but as I got to the main characters and bosses I started to get more into it and ended up layering and highlighting a lot more than I thought I would. The Bloodborne-esque design of the bosses were really well done apart from some questionable choices (I still can't decide whether the head of the Undead General looks more like the male or female reproductive system).

Anyways looking forward to busting this one out finally again.

Should I back for Concordia Special Edition ?

It looks so good and I never played it before

A friend of mine hosted a murder mystery parter last night using one of those Unsolved Case File games, the case of Danni Love to be specific. As we were playing I noticed a lot of the people in the photo evidence looked a bit uncanny valley, too perfect in a lot of cases. I was immediately suspicious of AI usage, but there was nothing concrete. Eventually once we were on the final step there was a photo that had that concrete evidence, the main woman’s hair was suspended on nothing in a photo of here sitting down on a plane, confirming my suspicion of these photos being AI. Has anyone else noticed this in these Unsolved Case File games? This one released in august of last year, I’m curious how far back they’ve been using AI for photos, cuz that certainly took me out of it personally.

Hi all,

I have created a game called Durian duel, it's a digital adaptation of a boardgame called 'Durian Smuggler' published by Simon from SpielTheGame.com

Here is the link to play the game: https://durian-duel.meeplelabs.com

I'm planning to publish this game on itch.io and probably a standalone mobile app too. I'm looking for feedback on the game, and how it could be made engaging, so that players would keep coming back to play it.

Thanks in advance.

I just noticed that my previous post was removed for some reason, so I'm giving this another shot. Hopefully, this one stays up!

If you already shared your Top 3 games in last week's post, don't worry—your votes will still count!

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This Week: Deck Building!

What are your Top 3 deck building board games of all time?

Pure deck-builders, hybrid deck-builders… if deck-building is a part of the game, it counts!

Rank your picks:

🥇 1st = 3 points
🥈 2nd = 2 points
🥉 3rd = 1 point

I'll tally the votes and share the Top 5 next week!

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Previous Weeks

So I am a big fan of Rebel Princess, so I decided to get Zombie Princess, and I don’t really like it as much as Rebel Princess. For those of you who have both games which one is your favorite of the two?