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Designer: Wolfgang Kramer, Michael Kiesling Artist: Michael Menzel Publisher: IDW Games, HUCH! & friends Category: Action Point Allowance, Tile Placement Players: 2-4 Price: $41.67 Amazon.com Torres is a 1999 release from game design duo Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling. In 2000, this midweight abstract game won the Spiel des Jahres, and in 2017, it was…
Designer: Anthony Burch Artist: Adam McIver, Weberson Santiago Publisher: Tuesday Knight Games Category: Bluffing, Push-Your-Luck Players: 2-6 Price: $24.99 Amazon.com Content Guide It goes without saying that a game called World Championship Russian Roulette has a dark theme. There is nothing overly graphic in the game, but there is no escaping the fact that it involves themes of suicide.…
Designer: Daryl Andrews and Adrian Adamescu Artist: Peter Wocken Publisher: Floodgate Games Category: Dice drafting Players: 1-4 Price: $39.99 Amazon.com Sagrada is a 2017 release from newcomer publisher Floodgate Games. It is a visually stunning game of dice drafting, in which one to four players represent glaziers creating beautiful stained-glass windows for a cathedral. Review Every so often,…
Designer: Kory Heath Artist: Looney Labs Publisher: Looney Labs Category: Abstract, Puzzle Players: 3-5 Price: $39.99 Amazon.com Zendo is a popular game of inductive reasoning from Looney Labs. One player is chosen as the “moderator,” and she establishes a secret rule. Throughout the game, players build abstract structures and learn whether or not they follow the secret rule, in…
Designer: Chris Dupuis, Mike Mearls Artist: Various Publisher: Wizards of the Coast/Avalon Hill Category: Exploration, Cooperative Play, Adventure Players: 3-6 Price: $46.98 Amazon.com Betrayal at Baldur’s Gate is the 2017 reworking of the classic board game Betrayal at House on the Hill. Once again published by Wizards of the Coast/ Avalon Hill, it features very…