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Dic3 Hip Hop: Rapid Review Rundown : Dic3 Hip Hop is aiming to capture the rush of the match three genre of games that is a quite common type of phone game. Players have 12 rounds to fill in as much of their board as possible. Each round five dice are rolled. These dice can be added and subtracted together to create any number between 0 and 12 to fill as many spots on the board as possible.  The dice can be used without altering to fill as many spots on the board per turn as possible. The core rule players need to remember is if you fill three in a row another symbol will be filled in anywhere on the board. Using these combos and other ways to gain wild fills, players will score at the end based on how much of the board they fill. There are three different maps with the first map being introductory (rhythm and flow) introducing the engine for the game through an abundance of possible matches. Where the highest difficulty is the block, which will require play...

Gold Country: Review  Information : Mechanics: Market Manipulation, Tile Placement, Shared Board Player Age: 8+ Player Count:  2 - 2l4 Players Time to Play:  30 - 60  Minutes  Game Designer: Reiner Knizia Game Artist:   Beth Sobel Publisher: Bitewing Games Year Published: 2026 BGG Weight: 2.05 Disclaimer: A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Introduction : Gold Country is a reimagining of Reiner Knizia 2012 Spectaculum. This is a stock manipulation game masked by a fun theme of gold mining in the old west. Players have three claim tokens that they have to place each turn. These tokens will slowly close the available spots on the board while also manipulating the value of each mine.  Game Anatomy: Board: There are two boards included in the game the standard board.  As well a second side which contains rivers and tunnels.  As well as new tokens such as gems that score fiv...

Trails and Tails: Review Information: Mechanics : Roll and Move, Take That Player Age :  6+ Player Count :  2 - 4 Time to Play:  20 - 40 Minutes  Year Published: 2026 Basics : I have always enjoyed when current games bring back a mechanism from childhood. Mancala games or the games that do a twist on chess are easy examples. Trails and Tails takes the premise of snakes and ladders into modern gaming. More importantly Trails and Tails takes roll and move and really opens the decision space on the standard  not often used mechanism.  Trails and Tails has players moving up, well, a snakes and ladders board. This time there are no ladders but only falls (or animals eating).  To move players have a set amount of dice each round that they can add or minus two dice together each turn and move that amount. This counts for even negative values allowing the player to move backwards.  With two to four dice thi...

Red Panda Surprise: Review Information: Mechanics : Card Shedding, Filler, Simultaneous Play Player Age :  8+ Player Count : 1 - 7 Game Designer: Dylan Coyle Game Artist:  Dylan Coyle Publisher: Charming Games Collective Time to Play:  5 - 20 Minutes  Year Published: 2026 Introduction : Red Panda Surprise is a card shedding game, where players are combining the sums of two cards. Players with the highest combined value played, are discarding their cards. Everyone has mostly the same deck to shed. The catch is that whichever player plays the lowest sum gains a plus 10. When the standard set of cards only goes up to 11 this is a big sway of value.  Game Anatomy: Number Cards: Number Cards appear in seven sets featuring nine cards each. One for each player.  At lower player counts players will use two or three sets instead to create their deck.  The sets include numbered cards from 0 to 11 appearing once each. The exc...