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The oldest known evidence of human habitation on the Orkney Islands, the archipelago off the northern coast of Scotland, is a charred hazelnut shell and some thousands of flint fragments, variously ...

Cyclades. Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time. Except, of course, I've heard it plenty. How could I not? Cyclades, along with Kemet and Inis, was the first member of ...

Perhaps the most appreciable thing about Xoe Allred's work is that it's so very human. Yes, even when we're talking about dinosaurs who would rather play board games than face the ...

You can tell that a designer is crushing it when I start mentally checking other games against theirs. Case in point, Jasper Beatrix -- a design collective, not a singular person -- has now crafted o ...

Everything I know about ofrendas I either learned from Coco or Spectre. Okay, it isn't as bad as all that -- twenty-five years ago, I also played Grim Fandango. Regardless, it's fair to ...

It isn't often that we can say that a board game has great sound design. When it comes to Corvids, another small-box offering from the creative collective Jasper Beatrix, that's possibl ...

How has it come to this? You've lost your house. Your family. The bank has issued a repo order on your car. Credit cards? Forget about it. You're the first person in your state to hold ...

I know this isn't a functional rubric for anyone whose output has been as prolific as Martin Wallace's, but I mentally sort his games into two broad categories. There's the tight,

The wheel has turned once more. Continuing with our sporadic tradition of revisiting previous Best Weeks in order to assess my ever-changing feelings about the year's best board games, not to ...