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Air, Land, and Sea.
Air, Land, and Sea is a great, simple, quick-to-learn, and highly portable two-player game that manages to bring something new despite the fact that the game is really just a deck of 18 cards. It’s...
View ArticleTop 100 boardgames, 2020 edition.
I believe this is now my thirteenth all-time board game ranking on this site, and it’s the fifth time I’ve ranked 100 games, which is probably a quarter of the total number of games I’ve played in...
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Fox in the Forest app.
The Fox in the Forest is a great trick-taking game for two players in a small box, working primarily with just a small deck of 33 cards, numbered 1 to 11 in three suits. Odd-numbered cards have...
View ArticleTop 100 boardgames, 2021 edition.
I’ve done board game rankings here every winter for fourteen years now, and this is the sixth year when I’ve ranked 100 games, which is a small fraction of the games I’ve played in my life (which I...
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Paris: La Cite de Lumiere & Eiffel.
Paris: La Cité de Lumière is a short but involved two-player game from 2019, bringing polyominos, tile-laying, and a unique drafting mechanism into a tight 30-minute playing time. It received a major...
View ArticleTop 100 boardgames, 2022 edition.
I’ve done board game rankings here every winter for fifteen years now, and this is the seventh year when I’ve ranked 100 games, which is a small fraction of the games I’ve played in my life (which I...
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Tokaido Duo.
I love the 2012 game Tokaido, from 7 Wonders designer Antoine Bauza, both for its gameplay and its art by the French illustrator known as Naïade, which echoes the Edo period of Japanese culture in...
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Hanamikoji.
I’ve owned the small two-player game Hanamikoji for probably seven or eight years now, and played it maybe twice when I first got it, but I set it aside and did what I unfortunately do with a lot of...
View ArticleMatch of the Century.
The World Chess Championship between Russian grandmaster Boris Spassky, the defending champion at the time, and American Bobby Fischer in 1972 was dubbed the “match of the century,” with Fischer...
View ArticleSail.
Sail was one of the most unusual new games I played in 2023: a cooperative trick-taking game where you’re trying to jointly steer a ship around obstacles and sea monsters to reach the end of the path...
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