Azul: Review
Draft tiles from a shared market, fill your mosaic wall, and score before your rivals — but don't grab more than you need.
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Honest, in-depth reviews of board games for every type of player.
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Flip 7: Review
Flip 7 is a push-your-luck card game that fits in your pocket and plays in minutes. High luck, low strategy — but that's kind of the point.
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Wingspan: Review
You're a bird enthusiast trying to attract birds to your wildlife preserves. Each bird you play extends a chain of powerful actions. Simple to learn, genuinely hard to master.
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Danger The Game – Review
Danger The Game is described as "the storytelling party game of bizarre dangers and rescues." One player is in a ridiculously dangerous situation — it's…
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Raptor: Review
One player controls a mother raptor protecting her five babies. The other commands scientists trying to capture the babies and neutralize the mother. Only…
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Squirmish: Review
Draft ridiculous monster cards into a shared arena, position them strategically, then battle opponents' monsters using dice. First to defeat three enemy…
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Uprise: Review
Uprise is a local indie board game designed by Alex Racine, which we had the opportunity to playtest ahead of its Kickstarter launch. Players are members…
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Gloom: Review
Control an eccentric family of misfits and make their lives as miserable as possible. Heap tragedies and untimely deaths on your own family while cheering…
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Dimension: Review
Race the clock to stack coloured balls in a pyramid that satisfies a randomly drawn set of rules. Six rounds, one minute each. Fast-paced, decision-heavy,…
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The Gallerist: Review
You're an art gallery owner in a competitive market. Discover artists, promote them to fame, acquire and sell works, manage your gallery's influence, and…
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Zombie Fluxx: Review
The rules constantly change mid-game. Draw a card, play a card — but rule cards alter how many you draw and play, goal cards change the win condition, and…
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Hive: Review
Two players face off with hexagonal bug tiles. Protect your Queen Bee while surrounding your opponent's — using ants, beetles, grasshoppers, and spiders…
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Coloretto: Review
Match chameleons of the same colour to score points. The more of one colour you collect, the more they're worth — but collecting too many different colours…
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Lords of Waterdeep: Review
You are a powerful Lord sending workers across the city of Waterdeep to collect resources, complete quests, and build your influence. The Lord with the…
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Dragon's Hoard: Review
You're a dragon collecting treasure — coins, princes, wishing trees, and more. Steal sheep from farmers and spend them to buy treasure for your lair. Race…
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One Night Ultimate Werewolf: Review
One round. Everyone gets a secret role, the app guides the night phase, and then you have five minutes to figure out who the werewolves are before voting.…
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Forbidden Desert: Review
Your helicopter crashes in an ancient desert. Work together to excavate the parts of a legendary flying machine and escape before the storm overtakes you…
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Forbidden Island: Review
Four sacred treasures are hidden on a sinking island. Work together to retrieve all four, get back to Fool's Landing, and escape by helicopter before the…
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Cash 'n Guns: Review
You're a mobster divvying up stolen loot over eight rounds. Everyone's armed with a foam gun and a hand of cards — five "click" blanks and three "bang"…
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Count Your Chickens: Review
Mama Hen's baby chicks have gotten loose. Work together to spin the spinner, count your spaces, and collect chicks back into the coop before Mama Hen…
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Ghost Blitz: Review
The mysterious pictures taken in the ghost's house have errors. In this fast-paced game you must figure out which item in the picture is correct — or which…
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Hoot Owl Hoot: Review
The sun is rising! Work together to fly all the owls back to the nest before daylight. Play colour cards to move owls forward, but if you draw a sun card,…
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Love Letter: Review
The Princess is locked away in her tower. Suitors compete to get their letter to her first — using 16 cards and social deduction. Each turn you hold one…
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Deception: Murder in Hong Kong
Investigators work together to solve a murder — but one of them is the killer. A silent Forensic Scientist drops clues via coded boards. Everyone must…
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Cards Against Humanity: Review
The self-described "party game for horrible people." One player reads a question or fill-in-the-blank; everyone else plays an answer card face-down. The…
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Stone Age: Review
Lead a prehistoric tribe through survival and growth. Send your people to collect resources, build huts, grow your family, develop tools, and collect…
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Best Two Player Board Games 2017 (with Reviews)
Finding the best 2 player board games can be difficult. Many games have a tailored, two player variant that often involves a "ghost" player the other two…
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7 Wonders: Review
As the ruler of one of seven ancient cities, you must build your empire to defeat your enemies and reign supreme. Collect resources, build structures,…
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Catch Phrase: Review
Think you have a quick enough wit to give clues on the spot? Get your team to guess the phrase before the timer runs out — then pass it on. If the buzzer…
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Takenoko: Review
In imperial Japan, the Chinese Emperor has gifted you a panda. You must irrigate land, grow coloured bamboo, tend the gardens, and keep the panda fed — all…
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Time's Up!: Review
Teams compete to guess famous, historical, and fictional names across three progressive rounds — describing, one-word cluing, and finally silent charades.…
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Rack-O: Review
Get your rack of 10 cards sorted from lowest to highest. On each turn, swap one card in your rack with a card from the discard pile or deck. First to get…
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Sheriff of Nottingham: Review
You're a merchant trying to bring goods into Nottingham — legally or otherwise. Declare what's in your pouch, bluff the Sheriff, bribe them to look away,…
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The Resistance: Avalon – Review
Good versus evil — the future of Camelot hangs in the balance. You and your fellow players are split into secret teams: loyal knights of Arthur versus the…
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Splendor: Review
You're a Renaissance merchant collecting gem tokens to buy development cards. Use cards to buy more powerful cards and attract noble visitors. First to 15…
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Agricola: Review
Your two meeples are settled into their wood house on their plot of land — but harvest is coming and they have no food. Place your meeples to grow crops,…
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Dominion: Review
Build your deck, acquire resources, play action cards, and collect Victory Points to claim dominion before your opponents. The classic deck-building game…
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Pit: Review
You're a trader trying to corner the market on a single commodity. Shout out how many cards you want to trade, swap blindly with anyone who matches your…
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Codenames: Review
Two rival spy teams race to make contact with their agents. The only clues are one-word hints from your Spymaster — they connect multiple agents, but one…
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Pandemic: Review
Four deadly diseases are spreading across the globe. Work together as specialized disease-fighting operatives to contain outbreaks and cure all four before…
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Flash Point – Fire Rescue: Review
You and your fellow firefighters race to rescue victims from a burning building before it collapses. Fight fires, remove hazmat, and carry victims to…
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Exploding Kittens: Review
Russian Roulette with cats. Draw cards until someone pulls the Exploding Kitten. Use action cards to peek at the deck, shuffle it, steal from opponents, or…
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Bang! The Dice Game: Review
You’re in the middle of a wild west shootout with hidden roles — Sheriff, Deputy, Outlaw, or Renegade. Roll the dice to shoot enemies, collect beers for…
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Wits and Wagers: Review
Everyone guesses a numerical answer to a trivia question, then bets on which answer they think is closest (without going over). You don't need to know the…
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Camel Up: Review
Bet your hard-earned coins at the high-stakes camel track. Camels sprint around the course through legs of the race while you place wagers on who wins each…
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Carcassonne: Review
Carcassonne is a tile-placement game where you build the French countryside one tile at a time. Match roads, castles, and fields with existing tiles to…
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Betrayal at House on the Hill: Review
Betrayal at House on the Hill is a semi-cooperative game set in a haunted house. Three reviewers, three very different takes — one loves it, one hates it, one sold their copy.
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Cashflow Board Game Review — Is It Worth the Price?
Cashflow is Robert Kiyosaki's financial education board game — but is it actually worth $60+? Honest review covering gameplay, components, and who it's really for.
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Ticket to Ride Europe: Review
Collect coloured train cards and claim railway routes across Europe to complete your destination tickets. Longer routes score more points — but your rivals…
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Mammut: Review
Back from the mammoth hunt, your tribe must divide the spoils. Take what you need — but not too much, or the next player steals your whole pile. Manage…
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Coup: Review
In this micro-game set in The Resistance Universe, you hold two secret character cards with special abilities. Use them — or bluff having them — to coup,…
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Catan: Review
Collect resources, build settlements, roads, and cities, and race to become the most dominant colony in Catan. Trade with your opponents when you need what…
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