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Candy Hunters: Buzz Review Information: Mechanics:  Pattern Building, Tile Placement, Player Age:  8 + Player Count:  2 - 4  Players Time to Play:  30  Minutes  Publisher : Smart Flamingo  Game Designer:  Michał Gryń Year Published:  2024 Disclaimer:  A preview copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Basics: Candy Hunters is a tile placement and pattern-building game where you are trying to create neighbourhoods to match your pattern card. When you score the pattern card, a number of things will occur; you will gain a scare token for each ghost on any of the buildings in your pattern (these are negative points), the scored tile is collected and flipped to depict candy, you regain your character token as well as the tile(s) beneath the token. At the end of the game, you will score 2 points for every pattern card collected, 2 points to the player who collected the first candy of each colour, 1 point per other candy, and -1 po...

On Tour: Rapid Review Information: Mechanics:  Roll and Write, Flip and Write, Route Connection, Bingo Player Age:  7+  Player Count:  1 - 8  Players Time to Play:  20   Minutes  Game Designer:  Chad DeShon Game Artist:  Anca Gavril Publisher : AllPlay Year Published:  2019 BGG Weight:  1.45 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Rundown: On Tour is a unique blend of both roll and write, and flip and write. You and your band are going on tour! The aim is to track your tour route across different city/state/country locations. This is done by creating a line between locations, where each state/country’s allocated value is equal to or larger than the value of the previous state and without visiting a location a second time. When the route is created players score one point for each state plus one point per circled state. During a turn two dice are rolled to determine the two numbers that ...

Funkoverse DC 101: 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:  2019 BGG Weight:  2.00 Introduction: Funkoverse has three sets currently released in the DC franchise, one four-pack and two two-packs. This set particularly focuses on two allies of Gotham's Batman; Catwoman and Robin. Characters: Robin: Resources: Blue and Red Defence: 2 Ability Cost: 2-3 Robin is a support character, so much so that he is essentially an extension of another character. At the start of the game, he will give an ally his partner card. Two of his abilities will give his partner a chance to either move or attack out of turn. His last ability will allow him to return to his partner's side. This is a very interesting character and would be quite beneficial to a t...

Shields Up: Review Information: Mechanics:  Hand Management, Head to Head, Micro Game Player Age:  12+ Player Count:  2  Players Time to Play:  30  Minutes Game Designers:  Patrick McNeil  Year Published: 2018 BGG Weight: 2.00 P ublisher :  Concrete Canoe Games Disclaimer:  A preview copy for the game was provided by the publisher.  Introduction: Shields Up is an 18-card micro-game that has players vying for control of space as they try to assemble their weapons to blast each other out of orbit. If a player has all their shields removed and receives one more hit they will lose the game. Card Anatomy: The cards in the game will either work as shields, be built up to be a weapon or will be used straight away and discarded. Each card has a special ability at the bottom. Some of the weapons will have several circles on the left-hand side that will display how many of these cards need to be played to activate their ability. Some cards ...