Episode 14 of the Dice Tower has been posted... http://www.gamefest.com/news/news_detail/3127_0_4_0_C/ In this episode, we announce the winners for the Z-Man...
Interviews by an Optimist # 64 with Bill McQuillan, lead designer at Avalon Hill, is up. http://www.thedicetower.com/interviews/int064.htm (For those...
Catch the Match (Playroom Entertainment, 2004 - Reinhard Staupe) is a small, simple, easy game, thus getting a short review. But don't let that, or the...
Absolute chaos. A descent into unbridled madness. Anarchy in a board game form. I think that Tom Jolly's Camelot (Wingnut Games, 2005 - Tom Jolly) could...
When I first received Trump, Tricks, Game! (TTG) (Phalanx and Mayfair Games, 2005 - Gunter Burkhardt), I must admit that I was surprised. Phalanx isn't known...
"Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting, their fists were fast as…" - okay, I guess I should just stop now. But I challenge you to find a game of Kung Fu Fighting...
A person once commented to me that Hoity Toity (Uberplay, 2004 - Klaus Teuber) has one of the worst names of any game. This may or may not be true (I'm not a...
Franz Vohwinkel is probably the most well known illustrator amongst "German" games. His artwork is beautiful, and thus he is the person I interviewed for # 65...
(This review assumes that you already know how to play Warriors) If you've read my review of Warriors, you'll know that I detest the game, because it's a...
Bruno Faidutti is one of my favorite designers, so even though I heard that Knock! Knock! (Jolly Roger Games, 2004 - Bruno Faidutti and Gwenael Bouquin) was...
I had extremely high hopes for Warriors (Face 2 Face Games, 2004 - Alan Moon and Richard Borg.) Not only was the game designed by two of my favorite game...
Our latest episode of the Dice Tower has been posted here: http://www.gamefest.com/news/news_detail/3158_0_4_0_C/ In this episode, we discuss the results of...
When I first got married, I still played a lot of computer games, something I do very little of now. My wife couldn't understand how I could spend so much...
I first got to play Top Dog (Playroom Entertainment, 2005 - Maureen Hiron) at Origins and was immediately charmed by the simple gameplay. One of the things...
In this episode, we review Battlestations, Bitter Woods (4th edition), Frag, and the Settlers of Catan Card Game. We also discuss ways tointroduce people to...
My first experiences with "ladder climbing" games, Frank's Zoo and Dilbert: the Card Game, were fairly "blah" affairs. The themes were funny, making the games...
When BuyWord (Face 2 Face Games, 2004 - Sid Sackson) won the GAMES magazine's Game of the Year award, it was almost a given that controversy was going to...
I'm extremely pleased with the Bright Idea Games line from Playroom Entertainment. If you have a little tyke that you want to get hooked on board games and...
I didn't know what to expect when I first opened the box of WildLife (which is probably too big, by the way.) I had heard that Wildlife (Uberplay, 2003 -...
My friend Joe and I have the same problem with electronic sports games. For the most part, they do a good job simulating a game, but most of them tend to...
My sixty-eighth review is with Martin Wallace, designer of such classics as Age of Steam, Liberte, and Struggle of Empires. You can find the interview at ...
Dungeon Twister (Asmodee Editions, 2004 - Christophe Boelinger), while produced in 2004, didn't make it to America until 2005. Thus, I stand by my declaration...
Want to win a free copy of the beautiful Shear Panic by Fragor Games? Then listen to the latest episode of the Dice Tower, # 17, and enter our easy, easy...
(I'm assuming that the reader already knows how to play Battlestations) Galactic Civil War (Gorilla Games, 2005 - Jeff and Jason Siedak) is the first expansion...
