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River Valley Glassworks: Review

River Valley Glassworks: Review Information: Mechanics:  Pattern Building, Drafting, Set Collection Player Age:  8+  Player Count:  1 - 5  Players Time to Play:  25 - 45  Minutes  Game Designer:  Adam Hill, Ben Pinchback, Matt Riddle Game Artist:  Andrew Bosley Publisher : AllPlay Year Published:  2024 BGG Weight:  1.51 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Introduction: River Valley Glassworks is a clever tile placement/drafting game where players collect glass pieces from the river to then build columns of unique colours across full rows. Players create drafting opportunities for other players as they place glass pieces into the river to collect all the pieces from an adjacent river tile. This is one of the games that is easy to understand but challenging to master.  This review is based on the wonderfully produced deluxe components.  Game Anatomy: G...
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Coloretto: Review

Coloretto: Review Information: Mechanics:  Drafting, Push Your Luck Player Age:  8+  Player Count:  2 - 5  Players Time to Play:  30  Minutes  Game Designer:   Michael Schacht Game Artist:  Michael Schacht, Guido Favaro, Oksana Svistun Publisher : Rio Grande Games Year Published:  2003 BGG Weight:  1.27 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Introduction: Coloretto is a fast, push-your-luck, set collection game where players choose to either take an existing card pile to keep, or draw a new card and place it in an available pile. At the end of the game, only three colours can score positively and other colours will score as normal but be worth negative points. Card Anatomy: Chameleons: There are seven colours of chameleons, each with nine cards.  There are also two wild (joker) chameleons that are put aside when collected and may be added to any pile at the ...

Dwar7s: The Lost Tribes - Review

Dwar7s: The Lost Tribes - Review Mechanics:  Assymetrical, Hand Builder, Cooperative, Action Points, Hand Management Player Age :  13+  Player Count:  1 - 4  Players Time to Play:    45 - 60  Minutes  Game Artist & Designer:   Luís Brueh Year Published:  2022 Publisher: Vesuvius Media BGG Weight : 3.00 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Introductions: Dwar7s: The Lost Tribe s is a unique expansion as it contains expansion material for all three released Dwar7s games. This comes in the form of three asymmetrical tribes. As I only have Dwar7s Winter , I will be focusing this review on the expansion for Dwar7s Winter . Tribes: There are three tribes that create asymmetrical characters for all released Draw7s games. In Dwar7s Winter, they add unique starting cards and legendary class characters that can be created by playing this card and spending two gold, swapping out any one generic cha...

Exit - Adventures on Catan Scenario:

Exit - Aventures onCatan Scenario: Information: Mechanics:  Cooperative, Escape Game Player Age:  10+ Player Count:  1 - 4 Players Game Designer:  Inka Brand, Markus Brand Game Artist:  Martin Hoffmann, Claus Stephan BGG Weight:  2.00 Publisher:  Kosmos, Asmodee Time to Play:  45- 90 Minutes  Year Published:  2025 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by Asmodee Introductions: Exit is an escape game franchise with one of the largest catalogues. Players will solve various puzzles that interact with all elements of the game including cards, flyers, the rulebook, and even the game box. Each puzzle will have a symbol linked to it and result in three digits that need to be entered on the decoder disk in a certain order. Once all the riddles have been solved, the players have solved the Exit game. Game Anatomy: Riddle Cards: The game will tell players when to interact with these cards. In doing so, the card...

Leviathan Wilds: Review

Leviathan Wilds: Review Information: Mechanics: Cooperative, Scenario Based, Action Selection Player Age:  10+ Player Count:  1 - 4 Players Game Designer: Justin Kemppainen Game Artist:  Samuel R. Shimota BGG Weight:  2.48 Publisher:  Moon Crab Games Time to Play:  45 - 90 Minutes  Year Published:  2024 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by Moon Crab Games Rundown: Leviathan Wilds appears as a boss battler game but is really a boss-saving game. Players are manoeuvring across these behemoths in pursuit of destroying binding crystals, represented by blue and purple dice, which are causing these creatures to lash out. The players will take turns selecting one card to determine the amount of action points they have then, if they choose to on their turn or another player’s turns, they may play cards from their hand for the text benefit below. Their hand is then redrawn back to three, however, if it is the last card th...