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Since all I play anymore is trick-taking games, it seems fitting that I should inaugurate the New Year by writing about two titles that have been occupying my winter break: Bottle Imp, the reissue ...

Another year, another Best Week. Below, you will find my favorite thirty tabletop titles of the year, ranked according to obscure criteria I found sensible at the time. Click any of the images to b ...

Board games: aren't they really about family? Friends? Togetherness? Eh, sometimes. But for those times, today we're talking about the best games of 2024 that thrive on positive human i ...

Combinations! Good stuff, those. When board games ask us to put things together, a special alchemy occurs. Sometimes we're even treated to surprising consequences. That's why today I wa ...

Adaptation, the process by which a work is transferred from one medium to another, is a delicate and skill-intensive art, prone to going wrong at either end of its metamorphosis. Licensed games oft ...

2024 has been another incredible year of board games. For the first day of Best Week, Dan Thurot brought to me the best snacks of the year! These are the titles that pack the most gameplay i ...

Volko Ruhnke's COIN System sure has come a long way since Andean Abyss. It's sobering to realize that it's been twelve years since we stalked the mountains of Colombia for drug ca ...

People often ask if I ever get tired of board games. Ninety-nine percent of the time, my response is no, because board games are a bottomless wellspring of joy and creativity. Then something like W ...

One of my favorite subgenres of speculative fiction is the first contact story. Whether it's the (hideously misguided) Prime Directive of Star Trek, the mimicked conversations in Blindsight,

Cards on the table: despite my affection for Sami Laakso's Peacemakers: Horrors of War and Dale of Merchants, I still can't get into Lands of Galzyr, the open-world adventure game he co ...