Board Games

#WhatDidYouPlayMondays Whitehall Mistery

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Longish hidden movement game (think Fury of Dracula) with a very simple gameplay. Compared to the predecessor, Letters from Whitechapel, this title has been greatly streamlined. Mum and dad caught me a few steps away from my last kill ​:blobcat_sad:​ Right now I am waiting for Beast to be delivered, as I am trying to get more into the genre

https://www.giochiunitiinternational.com/project/whitehall-mystery/

I'll start: the solo system in A Feast for Odin. You just have to control two hands/colors that block each other's worker placement. No automa, no special rules.

Nemesis Lockdown

https://awakenrealms.com/games/awaken-realms/nemesis-lockdown

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Okay I know I keep playing/talking about this title but isn't it rad how the game lets you choose whether you will be a traitor or not for yourself? Sometimes I realise I don't have the mental energy for keeping the mask on throughout such a long game, so this is a lifesaver.

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Any game really

https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=ahoy

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It cane with cassette tapes. I remember having this board game when I was 10, or 11 so around 90, 91. Just don't remember the name of it. I do remember it was a lot of fun. Anyone have clue what the name was?

#WhatDidYouPlayMondays Feed The Kraken

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Pretty solid German social deduction game. It gives up on minimalism to achieve
great replayability and balanced games. The mechanics are reminiscent of big US
classics like The Resistance and Secret Hitler.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/271601/feed-the-kraken

Photo from the publisher's website.

Im familiar enough with board games to know that I’m asking a lot here. My goal is to have a game that I can carry around with me, walk up to people I meet in public, and ask them to play.

The most obvious path here I thought of would be some type of game played with a standard deck of cards. While I’m not opposed to this, I fear the randomness that comes with that might not be what I’m looking for. I want the game to be strategic with minimal luck but simple enough that a first time player could reasonably win against someone experienced.

Something like Hive comes to mind, as it has the pocket variation and seems like it could be easy enough to teach, but I have yet to play it so I fear it might be daunting to newcomers in ways similar to chess.

Thank you in advance for any and all answers, and if you would like further clarification I’d be happy to elaborate!

#WhatDidYouPlayMondays Prey Another Day

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Simplest bluffing game I know. If you hunt using animals from the top of the
food chain, you have greater survival chances, but don't get the highest score.
The strategic-depth-to-rule-complexity ratio is not low at all, and even
tiebreakers give everybody a shot at winning, so you are never really out of the
game.

A quicker Skull done right. Also, I love the artworks.

PH: @BG_Geek on BGG

Kinderspiel des Jahres (Children's Game of the Year)

Topp die Torte

Nominees:

• Cascadia Junior
• Le Clan des Souris/Die Mäusebande

Kennerspiel des Jahres (Connoisseur-gamer Game of the Year)

Endeavor: Deep Sea

Nominees:

• Faraway
• Looot

Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year 😉)

Bomb Busters

Nominees:

• Flip 7
• Krakel Orakel

I'm the sort of weirdo that sees a movie-length game review and am desperate now to find other weirdos who got just as excited about it to play Blighted Reach.

Innovation on BGG.

And I totally agree with his opening remarks about the early phase of Civilization being the best part!

So excited to play it

Hello everyone!

I made an app that allows you to create custom trackers (you can change the values of everything and even if they add, subtract, multiply or divide) the idea was to make it versatile (though it has a very ugly UI).

There's also the option to make notes for every tracker and the last thing I added was the ability to save! So you can even use it to save your games for playing later on.

In the beginning I just wanted to make a simple tracker without thinking too much for others to use but then I kept adding ideas and now hopefully is useful to someone else too.

If you have any feedback let me know and I'll see what I can do. I've made some apps but I'm not an expert!

#WhatDidYouPlayMondays John Company

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All other semi-cooperative #boardgames I know focus on a clearcut distinction between (semi-)good players and traitors, given by secret personal role/objective card(s). This game is innovative in that *everybody* is driven by personal gain, and the only reason players don't screw each other over all the time is that people still need the company to stay afloat.
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/332686/john-company-second-edition
Photo by @bladerunner007 on BGG.

I know, there are fancy editions with Swarovski, golden pawns, inlaid wooden boards etc. But what are the most expensive base editions?

Some games are complicated - they have really complex rules. Examples of this are games where you have to track many different types of tokens, with different rules for each.

Other games have really simple rules, but still manage to produce extreme complexity in they way they are played.

Go is the perfect example of this. It literally has 2-3 rules, but because you can play anywhere, the complexity it can produce is wide and deep, to the point that tomes have been written on how to play it.

What other boardgames exist that have very simple rules, but produce complex and interesting game play?

Panda has expanded its production operation outside of China for the first time by launching a joint venture in Brazil, as unpredictability over US tariffs continues to weigh on the tabletop industry.

Panda has manufactured more than 70 million board games from China since it was launched in 2007, for companies ranging from Asmodee, Stonemaier and Leder Games to first-time creators launching their projects on Kickstarter or Gamefound.