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Dice Throne - Cursed Pirate: Character Spotlight Information: Mechanics: Engine Builder, Head to Head, Yahtzee Mechanism, Variable Player Powers, Take That Player Age: 14+  Player Count: 2 - 6 Time to Play: 20 - 40 Minutes  Game Designer: Manny Trembley, Nate Chatellier Game Artist:   Manny Trembley, Gavan Brown Publisher : Dice Throne Year Published: 2018 Disclaimer: A review copy for the game was provided by Let's Play Games. Introduction : The Cursed Pirate is the only character in Dice Throne that I am aware of with zero upgrade cards but instead designed as a double sided character. The Pirate side that will stay on the starting side until they have no doubloons left to lose.  Once flipped into the cursed mode they won't flip again but will slowly lose life until they either win or lose.  Complexity : The complexity is noted as a four. In my opinion the complexity of Cursed Pirate is closer to a five or a...

Cascadia Alpine Lakes: Review Information : Mechanics: Tile Placement, Variable Setup Player Age: 8+ Player Count:  1 - 4 Players Time to Play:  30 - 45  Minutes  Game Designer:  Randy Flynn Game Artist:   Beth Sobel  Publisher: Flatout Games Year Published: 2026 BGG Weight: 2.41 Disclaimer: A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher and Let's Play Games. Introduction : Cascadia has become Flatout Games evergreen franchise for good reason. The series is an engaging tile placement puzzle where players are balancing flora and fauna to create a wonderful landscape. The game has a great ease of play with a challenging strategic depth. The franchise has delivered the base game with its expansion, two compatible roll and write games and a junior edition. Alpine Lakes is the latest iteration. Alpine Lakes contains two main twists to the formula, instead of focusing on the animals players are now more (not fully) focused on the terrain. The ot...

Quagmire: Review Information : Mechanics: Abstract, Pattern Recognition, Pathway Player Age: 8+ Player Count: 2 - 4 Players Time to Play: 25 - 46  Minutes  Game Designer:  Chris Handy Game Artist: Magdalena Markowska Publisher: Perplext Games Year Published: 2026 BGG Weight: 2.00 Disclaimer: A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Introduction : Perplext games are famous for their Pack O Game  series that contains games in bite sized form to the size of a packet of gum. Over 20 games have been created in this format. A few of these games have had larger interpretations with more happening, larger production and altered player counts or mechanics. Quagmire is a reimplementation of BOG. Instead of being two players Quagmire opens the puzzle up to three and four players.  Quagmire is an abstract game of controlling the frogs path. Every turn a player has to do an action else they will lose points. These actions could be moving fr...

Star Trek Lower Decks Fluxx: Review Information : Mechanics: Abstract, Pattern Recognition, Pathway Player Age: 8+ Player Count:  1 - 6 Players Time to Play:  10 - 30  Minutes  Publisher: Looney Labs  Year Published: 2026 Disclaimer: A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Introduction : There have always been light filler games in this hobby that have hit the market well and created alot of different themed versions. Fluxx is one of these games I played fluxx originally when I entered the hobby and I was intrigued to see how it has progressed. Fluxx is a game that is simple have a goal played and meet the goal. That is how you win fluxx, this is done though by changing the rules in your favour and stealing keepers the cards needed to complete goals. There have been many different themed versions of fluxx with over 40 existing. Each contains their own wrinkle and unique cards for the system. The fluxx on display is Star Trek Fluxx...