https://www.boardgamequest.com Board Game Reviews, News and More Wed, 14 Jun 2023 13:21:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 38014872 https://www.boardgamequest.com/esc-welt-breakout-games-review/ https://www.boardgamequest.com/esc-welt-breakout-games-review/#respond Wed, 14 Jun 2023 13:21:28 +0000 https://www.boardgamequest.com/?p=53216 When I was young, I used to enjoy reading the Encyclopedia Brown mystery stories, where the namesake of the series would solve small-stakes mysteries while being protected from the neighborhood bully, Bugs Meany, by his friend Sally Kimball. In theory, there was always a way for the reader to solve the mystery before Encyclopedia Brown […]]]> https://www.boardgamequest.com/esc-welt-breakout-games-review/feed/ 0 53216 https://www.boardgamequest.com/top-ten-designers-with-free-to-play-games-on-yucata-and-my-favorite-yucata-game-by-each/ https://www.boardgamequest.com/top-ten-designers-with-free-to-play-games-on-yucata-and-my-favorite-yucata-game-by-each/#comments Fri, 07 Apr 2023 13:00:58 +0000 https://www.boardgamequest.com/?p=52282 I love playing games online and while Board Game Arena gets a lot of love these days, one of the best places on the entire internet is the game site called Yucata. Yucata was created by Kay Wilke, a.k.a. Sparhawk, but he now shares the duties with a group of dedicated volunteers. Yucata, which has […]]]> https://www.boardgamequest.com/top-ten-designers-with-free-to-play-games-on-yucata-and-my-favorite-yucata-game-by-each/feed/ 2 52282 https://www.boardgamequest.com/terra-nova-review/ https://www.boardgamequest.com/terra-nova-review/#respond Tue, 24 Jan 2023 14:39:00 +0000 https://www.boardgamequest.com/?p=52016 Terra Nova is an ostensibly new game from Captone Games (and venerable German publishing house KOSMOS in Europe). Authorship is credited to Andreas Faul, but a huge debt of the content is owed to the original creators of Terra Mystica, Helge Ostertag and Jens Drögemüller, because Terra Nova is not so much a truly new […]]]> https://www.boardgamequest.com/terra-nova-review/feed/ 0 52016 https://www.boardgamequest.com/sanssouci-review/ https://www.boardgamequest.com/sanssouci-review/#respond Tue, 13 Dec 2022 14:52:24 +0000 https://www.boardgamequest.com/?p=50719 When I was 20 years old and studying history in Berlin, I took a trip with my college classmates to Sanssouci, Frederick the Great’s palace in nearby Potsdam, with a French name that means “Carefree.” Even though today the trip is about 25 minutes by car across suburban Berlin, back then I had to cross […]]]> https://www.boardgamequest.com/sanssouci-review/feed/ 0 50719 https://www.boardgamequest.com/plutocracy-review/ https://www.boardgamequest.com/plutocracy-review/#comments Thu, 06 Oct 2022 13:10:59 +0000 https://www.boardgamequest.com/?p=50054 Euro games stand out from more pedestrian board games because Euros tend to have a lot less luck involved, and even when Euros do feature luck, they usually offer some way to hedge against a bad outcome. When I reviewed Khora, I lauded how nicely that game provided you with a way to buy your […]]]> https://www.boardgamequest.com/plutocracy-review/feed/ 1 50054 https://www.boardgamequest.com/that-old-wallpaper-review/ https://www.boardgamequest.com/that-old-wallpaper-review/#respond Thu, 22 Sep 2022 13:01:42 +0000 https://www.boardgamequest.com/?p=49947 Arlo Guthrie’s “The City of New Orleans,” relates the travels of the eponymous train as it heads south down the Mississippi from Illinois to Louisiana. For me, one specific couplet has always captured the romance of playing card games on a long train trip: Dealin’ card games with the old men in the club car […]]]> https://www.boardgamequest.com/that-old-wallpaper-review/feed/ 0 49947 https://www.boardgamequest.com/khora-rise-of-an-empire-review/ https://www.boardgamequest.com/khora-rise-of-an-empire-review/#respond Wed, 29 Jun 2022 12:14:25 +0000 https://www.boardgamequest.com/?p=48957 I have an old friend who lives in Zurich, but last Saturday, out of the blue he showed up saying he’d been in town for work and had the afternoon free. So we dove into a game neither of us had ever played, learning it old-school style by reading the rules together as we set […]]]> https://www.boardgamequest.com/khora-rise-of-an-empire-review/feed/ 0 48957 https://www.boardgamequest.com/rajas-of-the-ganges-the-dice-charmers-review/ https://www.boardgamequest.com/rajas-of-the-ganges-the-dice-charmers-review/#respond Tue, 14 Jun 2022 12:52:16 +0000 https://www.boardgamequest.com/?p=48916 My wife and I were heading down to visit my quietly brilliant 16-year-old niece, so I suggested we play a game. I needed something portable and easy to teach, but also a little more advanced than a typical gateway game because my niece could beat adults at Ticket to Ride when she was eight. I […]]]> https://www.boardgamequest.com/rajas-of-the-ganges-the-dice-charmers-review/feed/ 0 48916