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Furnace is a board/card game by Ivan Lashin. The description at Board Game Geek starts like this: “Furnace is an engine-building Eurogame in which players take on the roles of 19th-century capitalists building their industrial corporations and aspiring to make as much money as they can by purchasing companies,…
Continue readingThis game is all about rescuing astronauts who are in cryogenic pods before it gets too cold out and they die from the cold. You would think that cryogenic pods would work well in a cold environment but that’s not the case in this game. There is a…
Continue readingLast night, I taught five other people how to play Viticulture. Here are the things that stood out: 6-plays works very well in this game. The only issues were that spaces ran out on the wake-up track and on the board filled up quite a bit. Note that…
Continue readingViticulture by Stonemaier Games is a worker placement game where players plant grapevines, harvest the grapes, make wine, and sell wine. Rules and Gameplay Summary Players in Viticulture first take turns picking a player order during the Spring season; this is their “waking” order. This fairly innovative feature…
Continue readingRaccoon Tycoon is a board game usually played with between 2 and 4 players. The Fat Cat expansion provides all of the materials needed to play with 6 players. I this post, I’m going to talk about the game’s randomness and how it is overcome, not by providing…
Continue readingAutomation Empire is a computer game where you create a production system to drill or mine resources and then sell them or refine and combine them into more profitable materials. I’ve spent about 8 hours, an hour or two at a time over the last week playing this…
Continue reading“Fleet is an exciting, strategic card game with in-depth decisions and thrilling game play that new and experienced gamers can enjoy! In Fleet, you’ll acquire licenses, launch boats, and fish the great briny blue. The player who best manages his resources and acquires the most VP via fish, licenses, and…
Continue readingUPS delivered the game a day early. That doesn’t make up for me being at the end of the list at the distribution center but it helps. I had Pax Pamir on my Christmas List last year and by the time my mom looked at the list, the…
Continue readingBarrage is a worker placement (euro) game where players compete to product power from hydroelectric power plants. In this review, I will describe my first impressions of the game starting with unboxing and finishing with me stopping a game against myself (me vs. me) at the end of…
Continue readingFor a little while last night, I worked on the Linkage program. I’m trying to report errors in mechanisms without marking every single element as broke. In the picture above, the inputs are the wrong length or on the wrong place and the mechanism binds. What I intend…
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