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Dwar7s: The Lost Tribes - Review Mechanics:  Assymetrical, Hand Builder, Cooperative, Action Points, Hand Management Player Age :  13+  Player Count:  1 - 4  Players Time to Play:    45 - 60  Minutes  Game Artist & Designer:   Luís Brueh Year Published:  2022 Publisher: Vesuvius Media BGG Weight : 3.00 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Introductions: Dwar7s: The Lost Tribe s is a unique expansion as it contains expansion material for all three released Dwar7s games. This comes in the form of three asymmetrical tribes. As I only have Dwar7s Winter , I will be focusing this review on the expansion for Dwar7s Winter . Tribes: There are three tribes that create asymmetrical characters for all released Draw7s games. In Dwar7s Winter, they add unique starting cards and legendary class characters that can be created by playing this card and spending two gold, swapping out any one generic cha...

Exit - Aventures onCatan Scenario: Information: Mechanics:  Cooperative, Escape Game Player Age:  10+ Player Count:  1 - 4 Players Game Designer:  Inka Brand, Markus Brand Game Artist:  Martin Hoffmann, Claus Stephan BGG Weight:  2.00 Publisher:  Kosmos, Asmodee Time to Play:  45- 90 Minutes  Year Published:  2025 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by Asmodee Introductions: Exit is an escape game franchise with one of the largest catalogues. Players will solve various puzzles that interact with all elements of the game including cards, flyers, the rulebook, and even the game box. Each puzzle will have a symbol linked to it and result in three digits that need to be entered on the decoder disk in a certain order. Once all the riddles have been solved, the players have solved the Exit game. Game Anatomy: Riddle Cards: The game will tell players when to interact with these cards. In doing so, the card...

Leviathan Wilds: Review Information: Mechanics: Cooperative, Scenario Based, Action Selection Player Age:  10+ Player Count:  1 - 4 Players Game Designer: Justin Kemppainen Game Artist:  Samuel R. Shimota BGG Weight:  2.48 Publisher:  Moon Crab Games Time to Play:  45 - 90 Minutes  Year Published:  2024 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by Moon Crab Games Rundown: Leviathan Wilds appears as a boss battler game but is really a boss-saving game. Players are manoeuvring across these behemoths in pursuit of destroying binding crystals, represented by blue and purple dice, which are causing these creatures to lash out. The players will take turns selecting one card to determine the amount of action points they have then, if they choose to on their turn or another player’s turns, they may play cards from their hand for the text benefit below. Their hand is then redrawn back to three, however, if it is the last card th...

River Valley Glassworks - River Glass and Other Sundries: Review Information: Mechanics:  Pattern Building, Drafting, Set Collection Player Age:  8+  Player Count:  1 - 5  Players Time to Play:  25 - 45  Minutes  Game Designer:  Adam Hill, Ben Pinchback, Matt Riddle Game Artist:  Andrew Bosley Publisher : AllPlay Year Published:  2024 BGG Weight:  2.00 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Introduction: River Valley Glassworks already has a wide range of variability due to the way the puzzle is built. River Glass and Other Sundries offers a small pack of cards containing six different modules. It's recommended to use one or two per game. Each module has a complexity out of three stars shown in the rules for the module.  Orders From Afar: Orders from afar give players to opportunity to turn overflows into positive points. Each player has a new order from afar card that ...

Things in Rings: Review Information: Mechanics:  Party, Deduction, Word game Player Age:  6+  Player Count:  1 - 6  Players Time to Play:  20  Minutes  Game Designer:  Peter C. Hayward Game Artist:  Snow Conrad Publisher : AllPlay Year Published:  2024 BGG Weight:  1.36 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Introduction: Things in Rings is a fun deduction, word, and party game that is an approachable  card shedding game for a range of players. Players are trying to reduce their five-card hand by placing a thing (card) in the correct location of the Venn diagram. The card could match an attribute, word, or content; any combination of these three; or none of the above. Only one player knows the rules of these rings (called the Knower) and they determine if the card is placed correctly. The player to shed all cards is the winner.  Game Anatomy: Things: These a...

Apiary: Rapid Review Information: Mechanics:  Worker Placement, Point Salad, Tile Placement Player Age:  14+  Player Count:  1 - 5  Players  Time to Play:  60 - 90   Minutes  Game Designer:   Connie Vogelmann Game Artist:  Kwanchai Moriya Publisher : Stonemaier Games Year Published:  2023 BGG Weight:  3.00 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Rundown: In Apiary, players are building their hive with farms (engine-building), carvings (end-game scoring), recruits (ongoing benefits), and development tiles (one-off benefits). This is achieved through placing worker bees on locations. The longer a bee worker is used the stronger they become but after their last action at strength four, they must hibernate.  On a turn, a player will either play a worker to activate the location or retrieve all their placed workers. As you place a worker, no location is ever considered blocke...