Pond: Review Information: Mechanics: Area Control, Assymetric, Deck Building Player Age: 13+ Player Count: 2 - 4 Players Time to Play: 30 - 60 Minutes Game Designer: MingYang Lu Game Artist: PondHQ Publisher : Brother Ming Games Year Published: 2025 BGG Weight: 2.00 Disclaimer: A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Introduction : So far Brother Ming games seem to be focused on high interaction head to head games. This time they are exploring the calm nature of fwooogs, sorry frogs. Pond is an area control game with a good blend of light asymmetry and deck building. Game Anatomy: Frog Cards: Anytime during the game five frog cards will be revealed and available for purchase. The frog with big net and the frog with two knives will also always be available for purchase. Each frog card will have a berry cost on the top right, followed by points in the middle of the card. Each frog card ...
Use Up All Your Sick Days: Review Information: Mechanics : Card Shedding, Real-time, pattern matching Player Age : 6+ Player Count : 1 - 6 Game Designer: Dylan Coyle Game Artist: Andrei Ebreo BGG Weight: 1.33 Publisher: Charming Games Collective Time to Play: 10 - 20 Minutes Year Published: 2026 Introduction : Use Up All Your Sick Days (hence known as Sick Days) is a card shedding game, the main twist is the card shedding is a real time game. If a player plays illegally they leave the card on the stack and draw two replacement cards. If the player depletes a hand of seven cards three times they will win. Game Anatomy: Days of the Week Cards: There are 10 animal suits of cards,. Each animal has a identifying colour and a card for each day of the week going from Monday to Sunday. This is the main deck of cards that will need to be shed by players. Event Cards: There are seven unique event cards. Each game tw...