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ZOOM IN BARCELONA
Zoom around Barcelona, taking pictures of famous landmarks, beautiful skylines, and the occasional dragon!
2 min |
Winter 2022

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Your Turn!
A Spotlight on the Gaming Community
3 min |
Winter 2022

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METRO X
A fantastic flip-and-write game, Metro X is a clever puzzle that will leave you wanting to try again as soon as you reach the end.
2 min |
Winter 2022

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Your Turn! CG!
A Spotlight on the Gaming Community
2 min |
Fall 2021

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TREKKING THE WORLD
Explore the world as you tour exotic destinations, collect souvenirs, and plot your way across the globe.
2 min |
Fall 2021

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SHAMANS
In this trick-taking hidden role game, your role changes every round and only one player will emerge victorious.
2 min |
Fall 2021
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LOST CITIES: ROLL & WRITE
Lost Cities is a classic two-player card game that is now a roll and write!
2 min |
Fall 2021
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GORILLA MARKETING
Choose an item, come up with a great name, and add a catchy tag line. It’s all in a day’s work in Gorilla Marketing!
2 min |
Fall 2021
Reader's Digest US
13 Things Boredom-busting Facts About Board Games
We have been playing board games—in some cases, the same board games—for millennia.
4 min |
December 2021 - January 2022

The Atlantic
Everybody Wants to Rule the World
A new game builds on the addictive appeal of Sid Meier’s Civilization.
8 min |
October 2021

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UMBRA VIA
Umbra Via is an abstract silent auction, tile-laying, and area control game; an unusual blend that results in a challenging strategy game.
2 min |
Summer 2021

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QWIXX: How to Avoid Being Rolled by Luck
Maybe you’ve played Gamewright’s popular dice game QWIXX, but have you considered that you may not be maximizing your chances of victory? Whether you’re playing the dice or card version, understanding your options to maximize your point output can be the difference between a sizeable defeat or a close victory. Below you’ll find some tips to help you turn the luck of QWIXX in your favor. But first, a refresher on (or introduction to) the basic rules of the game...
8 min |
Summer 2021

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TINY EPIC GALAXIES: BLAST OFF!
A new take on Tiny Epic Galaxies, this is a smoother and more streamlined version of the original, featuring excellent components.
2 min |
Summer 2021

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On the Pitch
Soccer is a huge draw, pulling in the biggest crowds at the Rio Olympic Games in 2016, as host country Brazil finally won Gold for the first time in the men’s event. Flick-and-move veteran Subbuteo is an obvious favorite for this category, and its host of accessories even extends to Pegasus’s enormous athletics track. This large, 21-piece monstrosity that fits around the pitch was created for decorative purposes, but it’s also not beyond the imagination of the average sporting gamer to gather up a few Subbuteo players to hold their own track meet after the soccer medals have been decided.
2 min |
Summer 2021

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SMART 10
Smart 10 is a neat little trivia party game that enables all players to participate in every round.
1 min |
Summer 2021

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THE SHERLOCK FILES
Will you be a Sherlock Holmes, Doctor Watson, or Inspector Lestrade? Tackle each case and see how clever a detective you really are.
2 min |
Summer 2021

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Social/Interactive Party Games
Party games are a great way to break the ice and get to know people.
1 min |
Summer 2021

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Ready for the games?
We asked creators of sport-based games for opinions about the upcoming Olympic games.
2 min |
Summer 2021

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MAGLEV METRO: MAGNETIC LEVITATION RAIL
A TRAIN GAME REVOLUTION
2 min |
Summer 2021

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DUNGEON ACADEMY
Dungeon Academy offers a unique twist on the roll-and-write genre, adding a real-time racing element to the gameplay.
2 min |
Summer 2021

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CROSSED WORDS
Crossed Words is a party word game about coming up with unusual connections as quickly as possible.
2 min |
Summer 2021

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Getting on Track
Track and Field is the centerpiece of the games, drawing in some of the biggest crowds and containing some of the most memorable moments. For example, Usain Bolt — shoelaces undone, chicken nuggets for dinner — sprinting his way to the 100m world record in 2008. Curiously, there are very few athletics-based modern tabletop games.
2 min |
Summer 2021

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Cloud City is Major Fun!
MAJOR FUN REVIEW
6 min |
Summer 2021

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Casual Strategy Games
The following can be taught in under ten minutes and played in under an hour. This means you can play more games in a single game night or spend some time relaxing and chatting for part of the night.
1 min |
Summer 2021

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BRAVO!
Bravo! is an abstract roll-and-write game featuring multiple ways to score, bonuses to earn, and many paths to victory.
2 min |
Summer 2021

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Aquatics
Save for submerging all your components into a tub of water and frenetically splashing them to the other side of it, swimming isn’t an easy conversion to the tabletop arena. But it’s being attempted on Kickstarter in the form of Chlorination. Described by creator Filip Lindlof as “a worker placement...strategy game about swimming,” Chlorination sees players manage a swimmer’s journey through training, preparation and competing in swim meets.
1 min |
Summer 2021

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Gaming By Degrees: The Philosophical Journey of Dr. Finn's Games
Early in his career as a self-publishing game designer, Dr. Stephen Finn earned a reputation as a designer of filler games. In fact, Richard Ham, host of the well-known board gaming video series and podcast “Rahdo Runs Through,” has called Finn the “undisputed King of the Filler.” It was a title that Finn embraced. “There was a time,” notes Finn, “when ‘filler’ wasn’t a pejorative term, but I think it’s now becoming one. I was always proud to call myself the King of the Fillers, because I was thinking of ‘filler’ as just a quick thing.” “However, over time, I began to realize that it may be to my detriment and now, I try to avoid it.” Not completely. Finn continues to promote the phrase on his company’s website because “being King of anything is still a good thing.” “I was thinking maybe it would become something bigger.”
5 min |
Spring 2021

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PUBLISHING AMID A PANDEMIC: How Board Games Survived and Thrived in 2020
COVID’s lasting impacts on our health and economy are still far from being understood. It will take many of us years, perhaps even a decade, to unravel what has changed in the last year. But some patterns are emerging, at least in the board gaming hobby, that indicate many publishers were well ahead of the curve even before the threat of a pandemic affected their supply chains worldwide. As the world began locking itself down to quell the threat of COVID-19, people continued to find solace in hobbies. Soon, the business journals and magazines of the world began tracking the increase of sales across a wide swath of interests as people did anything and everything to take their minds away from the weight of a pandemic circling the globe. Turns out, everything from toys, guitars, crafts, and board games were selling well despite a deflated economy. Report Linker’s “Board Games Market - Global Outlook and Forecast 2021-2026” estimates that sales in the hobby will grow by 13 percent in the next five years, even with continued lockdowns. But what about the hobby as a whole? This article examines how 2020 affected the board gaming industry through three facets — big box stores, local board gaming cafes and stores, and the digital space — and how the pandemic has shaped them in the interim as well as moving forward. Is this projected forecast of its growth still as rosy?
7 min |
Spring 2021

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MYSTERIUM PARK
Attending a mysterious funfair, you start to have psychic visions. Can you catch a killer before the evening is through?
2 min |
Spring 2021

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Slide Quest
1-4 PLAYERS | 15-45 MINUTES | AGES 7+
1 min |