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District Noir: Review Information: Mechanics:  Set Collection, 2-Player  Push Your Luck, Open Drafting, Hand Management  Player Age:  10+  Player Count:  2  Players  Time to Play:  10 - 20  Minutes  Game Designer:   Nobutake Dogen, Nao Shimamura Game Artist:  Przemysław Fornal,  Vincent Roché, Hinami Tsukuda Publisher : Pandasaurus Games Year Published:  Originally 2016 Pandasaurus Reprint 2023 BGG Weight:  1.89 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Objective: District Noir is a two players push your luck/set collection game that has two players vying for control of the city. If they gain the three city cards, they instantly win the game. Otherwise, players win by having the most points through alliance and support cards. These cards are gained by players taking a maximum 5 of the last played cards from the centre row once per round. Together the players are building this centre row by playing down the cards in their hand. Card Anatomy: Support Cards:

Codenames Card Stand: Review Introduction: Codenames is a deduction party game that has players split into two teams; Red and Blue. Each team has a spymaster that will have access to the key and will try to get their team to guess the correct words in a grid of seemingly random words. The team will fail if the opposition have guessed all their words or if the dreaded assassin has accidentally been guessed. This key is a pivotal part of the game and Game Maker has created an officially licensed product that gives this key the extra table presence deserving of such an important component.  Card Stand: The card stand is used to hold the key during the game. The piece can be adjusted into two methods, perfect for players close to the table and adjustable for the angled view. Four colours are available, one for the blue team and the red team, as well as a beige and cyan version. Game Maker has achieved an interesting way of printing it where there is the iconic game box spy silhouette desig

Mindbug Beyond Evolution: Review Information: Mechanics:  Head to Head Player Age:  8+  Player Count:  2  Players  Time to Play:  15 - 25  Minutes  Game Designer:   Skaff Elias, Richard Garfield, Marvin Hegen, Christian Kudahl Game Artist:  Denis Martynets Publisher : Nerdlab Games Year Published:  2023 BGG Weight:  1.97 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Introduction: Mindbug is back with two new expansions (Evolution and Eternity). This review focuses on Mindbug Beyond Evolution which expands the card roster by another 44 creature cards and brings in a new option on your turn; actions. Setup: There are double-sided evolution cards that will be set aside at the start of the game instead of being shuffled into the deck. Certain cards will have the opportunity to evolve into these cards during the game.  Unique Mindbugs: Purely as a cosmetic addition, four new mindbugs have been added with two lots of unique artwork. These mindbugs do not structurally

Funkoverse DC102: Review Information: Mechanics:  Skirmish, Variable Player Powers, Modular, Dice Rolling Player Age:  10+  Player Count:  2 and 4  Players Time to Play:  60   Minutes  Game Designer:  Prospero Hall Publisher : Funko Games Year Published:  2020 BGG Weight:  2.00 Introduction: This third set of DC Funkoverse includes a double-sided map, the four basic scenarios (control, territory, leaders and flags), two characters, one item and all the tokens two players need to play. Characters: Wonder Woman: Resources: Yellow and Red. Defence: 2 Ability Cost: 2-3 Wonder Woman is a fierce fighter but one of her strongest attributes in Funkoverse is defence. One of her abilities will allow her stand up when knocked down (while also pushing enemies away). Additionally, she is equipped with the champion dice that have 4 shields and 2 critical die faces. Whenever Wonder Woman or an adjacent ally would roll a die they can roll the champion dice as well and then place it on the ‘two’ locati

Sailing Towards Osiris - Govenors and Envoys: Review Information: Mechanics:  Pattern Building, Worker Placement Player Age:  14+  Player Count:  2 - 5  Players Time to Play:  60 - 90  Minutes  Game Designer:   W. David MacKenzie Game Artist:  Denis Martynets Publisher : Daily Magic Games Year Published:  2018 BGG Weight:  2.78 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Overview: Each of the below expansion modules can be added individually to the game or together at once. Envoy: The envoy meeple can only be used once per season and it will allow players to reserve a terrain or city spot for the build action later on, or to gather resources on a future turn. When an envoy is used it can cost any resource to play but this can help players meet scoring plans for their monuments. New Boon Card: A new boon card is added called 'Ra'. Each game will have players selecting five of the six boon cards to use and the other will be discarded at the start of the

Funkoverse: Rapid Review Information: Mechanics:  Skirmish, Variable Player Powers, Modular, Dice Rolling Player Age:  10+  Player Count:  2 and 4  Players Time to Play:  40 - 60   Minutes  Game Designer:  Prospero Hall Publisher : Funko Games Year Published:  2019 BGG Weight:  2.18 Disclaimer:  cover game system as a whole and includes expansion content. Rundown: Funkoverse is a skirmish game that includes content covering all of your favourite Intellectual Properties. Players will pick a map, scenario and pick two or three characters each with equal attachments (items or companions) to equip. These scenarios can range from simply defeating the other players to controlling specific areas. Some of the sets even include unique scenarios such as basketball or croquet. The gameplay is easy with each character having one turn in a round. Then everything on each player's cool-down track will move down one space and the first player will change. This will continue until a player has rea

Argent: The Consortium - Rapid Review Information : Mechanics:  Programming, Variable Setup, Worker Placement, Player Powers Player Age:  10+ Player Count:  2 - 5 Players Time to Play:  60 - 150 Minutes Game Designer:  Trey Chambers Game Artists:  Jennifer Easley, Eunice Abigael Tiu Publisher:  Level 99 Games Release Date:  2015 BGG Complexity:  3.79 Rundown: The Chancellor of Argent University has just stood down. This is the opportunity you have been waiting for to rise the ranks to Chancellor yourself. All you have to do is win the favour of the majority of voters by having the most of their specific criteria. Each game will have 12 voters out of the possible 18. Only two of these voters are revealed at the start of the game. More of these voters will be revealed throughout the game by gaining marks. Ultimately, whoever has the majority of voters on their side will be the winner. This is a worker placement and programming game with the potential for constant interaction between play