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Archive for October, 2009

Treasure Deduction

My local board game supplier had something nice to show me a few weeks ago: a treasure hunting game that looked suspiciously like Catan from afar. It turned out to be something else; Tobago is a game in which you use deductive reasoning to find treasures and split them amongst those who helped find them.

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Tetris and handhelds go hand in hand. After all, it was the original portable brick – the Game Boy – that made it a common household name. So it was quite sobering to discover that the PSP didn’t have a version of Tetris to call its own. Initially I thought it was a weird typo I must’ve [...]

Random Stones

Over the years I’ve grown fond of boardgames that give the player control over his or her actions in some way. Games like the Game of the Goose and the Game of Life turned into extended dice-rolls with a lot of fluff for me. Games like Magic: The Gathering and Catan took over quite quickly as a result. Still, [...]