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 Tavern Masters: Review   Information: Mechanics:  Cooperative/Competitive, Hand Management, Simultaneous Action Player Age:  13+  Player Count:  1 - 6  Players Time to Play:  20 - 30  Minutes  Game Designer:  Dan Kriss Game Artist:  Galen Ihlenfeldt Publisher : Dan Kriss Games Year Published:  2019 BGG Weight: 2.00 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Objective: Throughout Tavern Masters you are trying to prove that you have the best bar at the tavern festival. This is done by stocking an abundance of food and beverages as well as hiring the best staff to serve as many patrons as possible and keep them there. Each patron has a want that will get them into the bar but giving them what they like will keep them at the bar between rounds. Each patron you attract will give you one gold and the first player to reach 20 unspent gold will be the tavern master. Card Anatomy: Tavern Card...

Euphoria: Rapid Review Information: Mechanics:  Dice Rolling, Hand Management, Set Collection, Worker Placement Player Age:  13+ Player Count:  2 - 6  Players Time to Play:  60  Minutes  Game Designer:   Jamey Stegmaier, Alan Stone Game Artist: Jacqui Davis Publisher : Stonemaier Games  Expansions:  Yes Year Published:  2013 BGG Weight:  3.12 Rundown: Euphoria is a dice worker placement where all players are working together to increase factions, dig tunnels and construct markets. However, this is not a cooperative game this is a competitive game. You may be building the board state together but ultimately you want the faction that matches your recruits to be in the best position and you want to play all of your stars to win the game. Stars are played; when markets are constructed, by reaching the end of a faction track, and worker spots such as markets.  Alteration: The main alteration comes from the markets and the recr...

Hordes High Command: Rapid Review Information: Mechanics:  Deck Building, Shuffle-Builder, Head to Head, Area Control Player Age:  12+  Player Count:  2 - 4  Players Time to Play:  60 - 90   Minutes  Game Designer:   David Carl Expansions: Yes Publisher : Privateer Press Year Published:  2013 BGG Weight:  2.58 Rundown: Hordes High Command is an area control game where players are sending their warriors and beasts to certain locations to win control of that area. Players will fight over these locations until they have two units more than any other player. If this occurs, at the start of their turn they will gain that location and score any bonus ability and the points for the end of the game. These units are contracted through the individual marketplace that each player has in front of them. These marketplaces are made up of three deployment decks that are determined by the warlocks that each player chooses before game starts. ...

The Brigade: Review Information: Mechanics:  Action Points, Modular Board, Area Control, Set Collection, Pick up and Deliver Player Age:  8+  Player Count:  2 - 4  Players Time to Play:  30 20 - 40   Minutes  Game Designer:   Ben Hoban, Alex Wynnter Game Artist: Alex Wynter Publisher : Red Genie Games Year Published:  2018 BGG Weight:  2.1.88 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Objective: Welcome to Tinderbox, a lovely town ablaze with culture, recreation and, well, fire. You are one of multiple firefighter brigades trying to stop the spread of flames and bring them under your control. Putting out the fires will gain you loyalty tokens on either blocks of the same type, or one of each block type. Gain the loyalty of five total blocks and the game ends. If the game ends for any other reason the player with the most points shown on loyal blocks will be the best firefighting brigade. Game An...

Welcome To...: Rapid Review Information: Mechanics:  Flip and Write, Pattern Building, Bingo Player Age:  10+ Player Count:  1 - 100  Players Time to Play:  25  Minutes  Game Designer:   Benoit Turpin Game Artist: Anne Heidesieck Publisher : Blue Cocker Games Expansions: Yes Year Published:  2018 BGG Weight:  1.82 Rundown: Welcome to.. Is a flip and write game where you are trying to score the most points by filling numbers in three streets in your neighbourhood. During the simultaneous play, all players will choose a number and the corresponding icon of the discard pile opposite to the number they chose. There will be three number+icon options available, for example the number 8 and a fence or the number 13 and a pool. Each of the icons has different effects such as the construction sign can add or negate 0, 1 or 2 from the number you write. The player that had the most construction in a game will also score 7 points at the end of the ...