Earlier today I played one of my favorite collectible card games, Overpower. Even though I've played the game hundreds of times and had all of my cards sorted...
BauSquitMiao (Post Scriptum, 2005 - Matteo Panara and Mario Sacchi) is a name that is derived from the noises that a dog, mouse, and cat make, respectively....
Hunting Party (Seaborn Games, 2005 - Ben and Patrick Christenson) claims that it is "German Strategy meets American Fantasy". That is certainly a combination...
When I originally played Card Chess, I wasn't sure who would be interested in this version of four-player chess. While I enjoyed it, it certainly wasn't for...
The latest episode of the Dice Tower has been posted! In this episode, we ccontinue our contest for our "Pile of Games" contest. Joe and I jointly review...
(You may want to read my review of Squint before reading this one) When I first played Squint a while ago, I was very pleased by it, since I'm a horrible...
X-Machina (Blood and Cardstock Games, 2004 - Joan Wendland) reminds me a bit of one of my favorite comic strips - the wild and crazy machines of Rube Goldberg....
A "gimmick" is an easy way to sell a board game. Perhaps the theme of the board game is humorous, or there's some wonky mechanic, or a neat mechanical device....
Russian Rails was my first foray into the world of "crayon railway" games, and I enjoyed it enough that I picked up some miniature trains from Mayfair to run...
(I assume the reader already knows how to play Gemblo) The Gemblo Expansion (DG Games, 2005 - Justin Oh), is merely a set of cards that is added to the...
Gemblo (DG Games, 2005 - Justin Oh) was one of the surprise board game hits of 2005. For one thing, distribution was originally only in Korea, where the game...
I first played The Hottest Race in the World (Shaunequest Games, 2005 - Edwin Wong) at Game Con 1, a board game conference in Malaysia. My first glance at the...
Thanks to the terrific efforts of Sean Ahern, we now have an enhanced podcast. This means that if you listen to the podcast via iTunes or some iPods, you can...
http://www.boardgamenews.com/index.php/boardgamenews/comments/the_dice_tower_episode_34_our_top_ten_backback_games/ The latest DiceTower episode is up! In...
Okay, you're a game designer, and you want to come up with the perfect game. Why not take two ideas of a lot of popularity, and combine them? Actually, this...
Why Did the Chicken is one of my favorite party games, because of the hilarious answers to riddles that people write. It's produced some of the loudest...
I've never heard of Michael Feldman's show, but that didn't stop me from being interested in a party game from Out of the Box Publishing (Apples to Apples,...
I had heard about Rette Sich Wer Kann, also known as the "Lifeboat" game, on the 'net - often listed as an example of "mean and nasty" games. In the game,...
Just recently I reviewed the game Parlay, which successfully merged Poker and a word game. Dead Hand Chaos Poker (Smirk and Dagger Games, 2004 – Curt...
Go Fish has become the namesake of a game that adults really despise, but one that is tremendously popular amongst the younger set. As a child, I never found...
I first heard of Sneeze (Cambridge Games Factory, 2005 - Ed Carter and Carl Chudyk) from a review by Shannon Appelcline. He mentioned that it was a kids game...
Jim Doherty's game themes always make me laugh, and I'm always impressed at how he manages to mix clever mechanics with the most inane themes that one could...
It's hard to make a good racing game, yet that hasn't stopped dozens of designers and as many companies from attempting to do so. Most of the really fun...
10 Days in Europe (Out of the Box Publishing, 2005 - Alan Moon and Aaron Weissblum) is the third in a series - Europe coming after USA and Africa. The game...
In this episode, we review Marvin Marvel's Marvelous Marble Machine, and listen to the real voice of Grodnads! We have board game news both from Rick...
Every once in a while, I'll play a game that is so simple, yet works so well, that I think to myself, "Why didn't I think of that?" And the answer, of course,...
http://www.thedicetower.com/interviews/int086.htm In this session of Interviews by an Optimist, I interview Mark Johnson, asking him about his podcasting and...
