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Bealz
Feb 24, 20223 min read
Ohanami - Dastardly Review #145
Ohanami by Pandasaurus Games and Steffen Benndorf was a pleasant surprise to us. We first played it at a neighbors...and had our own...
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Bealz
Nov 26, 20213 min read
2021 Stocking Stuffer Games
We have 5 kids and 6 grandkids and my favorite task in December is to take care of all of the stockings. Besides candy, we love to get...
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Bealz
Nov 24, 20213 min read
ROVE - Dastardly Review #144
ROVE was designed by Dustin Dobson and Milan Zivkovic. It is Buttonshy's newest 18 card wallet style game. ROVE is a single player game...
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Bealz
Nov 23, 20212 min read
Lucky Numbers - Dastardly Review #143
Lucky Numbers was designed by Michael Schacht and released in 2012. It is a draw and place a tile game. You are filling out a 4x4...
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Bealz
Nov 7, 20212 min read
18 Months of Board Game Arena
We signed up for our Board Game Arena accounts 18 months ago. I just finished my 1,410th play. I play with strangers, friends, spouse,...
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Bealz
Apr 26, 20214 min read
Harsh Shadows - Dastardly Review #142
Harsh Shadows is a solo game designed by Rachel Bruner from Wonderspell. After the first couple games, play time was easily around 15...
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Bealz
Apr 12, 20213 min read
Rumski - Dastardly Review #141
Rumski is published by Play Cardboard Games at www.playcardboardgames.com. Rumski is for 2-6 players and takes 15-20 minutes. Rummy was...
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Bealz
Feb 7, 20212 min read
Dungeon Roll - Dastardly Review #140
Dungeon Roll was created by Chris Darden in 2013. It is a push your luck dungeon delver (with some really cool dice to chuck!) And the...
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Bealz
Feb 1, 20213 min read
Ganz Schon Clever - Dastardly Review # 139
Ganz Schon Clever (That's Pretty Clever for those of us that don't speak German) was designed by Wolfgang Warsch and published in the US...
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Mike
Jan 24, 20213 min read
Claim - Dastardly Review #138
Claim was designed by Scott Almes and published by Deep Water Games. Claim is a trick taking game but with a couple really cool twists. ...
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Mike
Oct 15, 20202 min read
Stick Em - Dastardly Review #137
Stick 'Em was designed by Klaus Palesch and has been published in Germany since 1993...almost 30 years. Capstone Games published Stick...
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Mike
Oct 9, 20204 min read
The Ranch - Dastardly Review #136
The Ranch is a collection of expansions for one of our favorite tile laying games - Fences. We first played Fences in June of 2018 using...
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Bealz
Sep 25, 20204 min read
Agropolis - Dastardly Review #135
We are huge fans of Button Shy's Sprawlopolis and were both excited and a little nervous to play our preview copy of Agropolis. Would it...
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Apr 17, 20202 min read
Age of War - Dastardly Review #134
Age of War (2014) by Reiner Knizia was published by Fantasy Flight Games. Age of War is set in feudal Japan. Age of War takes about 20...
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Apr 3, 20204 min read
One Deck Dungeon - Dastardly Review #133
One Deck Dungeon was designed by Chris Cieslik and published by Asmadi Games. I picked this game up at Gen Con a number of years...
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Mar 30, 20204 min read
Trapwords - Dastardly Review #132
Our youngest granddaughter asked for Trapwords for Christmas and we are very glad she did! Trapwords (2018) is published by Czech Games...
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Mar 18, 20203 min read
The Fox in the Forest Duet - Dastardly Review #131
We bought The Fox in the Forest Duet (2020) while on vacation in Phoenix. My wife and I asked the FLGS for a quick, fun, 2-player co-op...
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Mar 14, 20204 min read
Skulls of Sedlec - Dastardly Review #130
Normally we dive into talking about game mechanics and game play...except with Skulls of Sedlec. This theme is cool. Skulls of Sedlec...
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Mar 10, 20203 min read
Silver & Gold - Dastardly Review #129
Silver & Gold was designed by Phil Walker-Harding of highly successful games Sushi Go!, Imhotep and Gizmos among many. Oliver...
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Oct 20, 20193 min read
Oaxaca: Crafts of a Culture - Dastardly Review #128
Oaxaca: Crafts of a Culture was designed by Will and Sarah Reed. It is published by Undine Studios. Oaxaca is a state in southern Mexico...
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