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Tiny Epic Dinosaurs: Rapid Review Information: Mechanics:  Resource Management, Worker Placement Player Age:  14+  Player Count:  1 - 4   Players Time to Play:  30 - 60  Minutes  Game Designer:   Scott Almes Game Artist:  Nikoletta Vaszi Publisher : Gamelyn Games Year Published:  2020 BGG Weight:  2.62 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Rundown: In the age when dinosaurs live among humans dino parks are a thriving business but where do the dinosaurs come from? There is a lucrative business in dinosaurs ranching where you breed and care for the dinosaurs until the highest bidder comes along to grow their park. In this game, you are a dino rancher who must maintain your ranch. This is a worker placement game with a spatial and resource puzzle to do with maintaining your ranch. Every game has six rounds then players score. Each round consists of 6 phases, a lot of which can occur simul...

Château: Kickstarter Buzz Information: Mechanics:  R oll and Write, Print and Play Player Age:  7 +  Player Count:  1 - 99  Players Time to Play:  15  Minutes  Game Designer:   Martin van Rossum Game Artist:  Luis R. Blanco Publisher : Rolling Rhino Games Year Published:  2023 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Basics: Château is a french word that best translates to castle. In this game, each player is going to have a unique castle with a special layout, and unique rule or limited ability. The objective is so simple it is as elegant as a good Château, you simply want to fill in all the spaces on your board. To do this two dice are rolled every turn and the players will simultaneously use both of these dice to fill their board. On a dice roll of 2-5 the players use a polyomino shape to fill their board. The shape designated for numbers 2 and 3 are reusable the whole game, however, there are ...

Levity Sticker Collection: Review Direct Links: Creator:  Ammon Anderson Lost Ruins of Arnak Stickers:   Here Draftosaurus Stickers:   Here Tiny Towns Stickers:   Here The Loop Stickers:   Here Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Introduction: Today we are covering something board game adjacent. Levity Games is a company on Etsy that specialises in enhancing your meeples. They cover a range of games with their vinyl stickers and today we are focusing on Lost Ruins of Arnak, The Loop, Draftosaurus and Tiny Towns. Lost Ruins of Arnak: These stickers will cover all the meeples in the base game and expeditions expansion. Instead of giving you four stickers, it had given you six character stickers (front and back) based on the characters from the expeditions expansions so you can truly focus on enhancing the meeple of your favourite character. The base game of Arnak also has stickers for the book and magnifying glass of each pl...

ComboCone Paradise: Review: Information: Mechanics:  Open Drafting, Set Collection Player Age:  10+  Player Count:  2 - 5  Players Time to Play:  30 - 45  Minutes  Game Designer:  Steve Ng Wen Xi Game Artist:   Chantel Tan Yuan Lin Publisher : Mercat Games Year Published:  2022 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Objective: ComboCone Paradise, the well known ice cream parlor, has hired up to four new staff members. By the end of the shift the worker who has gained the most coins by fulfilling customer orders will earn a promotion and be the head combo artisan of the branch Throughout the game players are collecting ice cream cards to be used immediately or later to stack onto cones. Once completed these cones fulfill the customer orders displayed in the middle. When a player fulfills an order the ice cream on that cone will be discarded and the player will either gain the victory points on tha...

Hotpot Havoc: Rapid Review Information: Mechanics:  Open Drafting Player Age:  8+  Player Count:  2 - 5  Players Time to Play:  10 - 20  Minutes  Game Designer:   Steve Ng Wen Xi Game Artist:  Keryn Yue Publisher : Mercat Games Year Published:  2021 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Rundown :  Hotpot Havoc is a fun and frantic real-time game that has players trying to score the most out of their dishes each round. This is a combination of points gained on bowls, soups, and sauces.  - Sauces give you 2 points for every soup item that matches one of the three on the card. - Soups have a range of 1-3 points on each card and ladle. - Bowls have a certain amount of points for choice of bowl (can be negative), a certain amount of soup cards allowed and multiple variations of points based on the amount of ladles you get at the end of the round where the last one is negative if you have t...

Bad Doctor: Rapid Review Information: Mechanics:  Tile Placement, Take-That Player Age:  10+  Player Count:  2 - 4  Players Time to Play:  30  Minutes  Game Designer:   Dan Germain, Eric Magnan Game Artist:  Kristina Arwood, Bill Holbrook Publisher : Mayday Games Year Published:  2018 BGG Weight:  2.00 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Rundown : Welcome to the worst hospital around. Throughout Bad Doctor you will score points in two ways; cure a patient’s last ailment or if a patient dies on an opponent’s turn and you have cured some of their past ailments then you gain points. The rules are simple, keep the patient alive. To cure them is just a bonus. This is a tile placement game with simple rules of two actions per turn in any combination of drawing or placing cards. Alteration : The alteration comes from the patient tiles and treatment tiles. Patients have varying health concerns w...

Transformers the deck-building game: Rapid Review Information: Mechanics:  Head to Head, Team Based, Deck-Building, Co-Operative, Competitive Player Age:  13+ Player Count:  1 - 5 Players Time to Play:  45 - 90  Minutes  Game Designer:  Dan Blanchett, Matt Hyra Game Artist:  Matt Frank Publisher : Renegade Game Studios Year Published:  2021 BGG Weight:  2.60 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Rundown: Transformers the deck building game , has players in the role of Autobots facing down three Decepticon bosses and their many robot minions either competitively or cooperatively. There is a crucial part of this game that sets it apart from other deck building games though; instead of having a face-up card row to buy from. The cards are face-down to create a matrix on which players move. Here players run into allies (cards that when purchased will have ongoing abilities and stay attached to the player)...

Dice Kingdoms of Valeria: Review Information: Mechanics:  Engine Builder, Roll and Write Player Age:  8+ Player Count:  1 - 5 Players Time to Play:  30 - 45  Minutes  Game Designer:  Levi Mote Game Artist:  Mihajlo Dimitrievski Publisher : Daily Magic Games Year Published:  2022 BGG Weight:  2.00 Introduction : The vibrant world of Valeria has added another game mechanic to its extensive catalogue, roll and write. In the game you are filling the map in many ways including your gold reserves, monsters battled, and the roads traveled. Each time you traverse one of these tracks you may gain additional rewards that will have a cascading bonus effect to give a rush of rewards. Game Anatomy: Dice: There are six dice in total; two that will activate your citizens and be explained further in the harvest phase, as well as four action dice to be used in the action phase of a turn. The active player will choose one die and achieve the action associ...