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French Toast: Review Information: Mechanics: Deduction, Party, Cooperative, Word Game  Player Age:  6+  Player Count: 2 - 10  Players Time to Play: 5 - 10  Minutes  Game Designer: Peter C. Hayward Game Artist: Tina Bongorno, Frankie Clarkson, Laura Ekblad Publisher : AllPlay Year Published: 2026 BGG Weight: 1.33 Disclaimer: A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Introduction : French Toast is the latest twist to word association games. An alien has landed on earth. They are fixated on a single noun. Every round they can give a new clue that slowly reveals the properties of the noun. Besides this all the alien can do when responding to a guess is respond with the word that is closer to their noun, comparing the word just spoken and the previously repeated word. What's closer to the noun 'Book', is it a 'Tree' or 'TV'? This is a game that in concept doesn't sound like a game. Trust me there are a lot more decisions tha...

Alibi: Review Information: Mechanics:  Deduction, Party, Cooperative, Word Game  Player Age:  10+  Player Count:  2 - 6  Players Time to Play:  20  Minutes  Game Designer:  佐藤 雄介 (Yusuke Sato) Game Artist:  Albert Monteys Publisher : AllPlay Year Published:  2025 BGG Weight:  1.4 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Introduction : Alibis is a fast and fun word connection game, which has all the players cooperatively trying to deplete heat tokens by guessing the correct pairs of suspects and ultimately deducing the perpetrator. The twist is that each round every player is both the guesser and the clue giver. Game Anatomy: Word Cards: There are 91 word cards in the game, each double-sided. These are the words players are trying to connect. A maximum of 39 words is used in a game, so there is a vast array of variability. Suspect Boards and Perpetrator Board: Based...

River Valley Glassworks: 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:  1.51 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Introduction: River Valley Glassworks is a clever tile placement/drafting game where players collect glass pieces from the river to then build columns of unique colours across full rows. Players create drafting opportunities for other players as they place glass pieces into the river to collect all the pieces from an adjacent river tile. This is one of the games that is easy to understand but challenging to master.  This review is based on the wonderfully produced deluxe components.  Game Anatomy: G...

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...

On Tour - Paris and New York: Review Information: Mechanics:  Roll and Write, Flip and Write, Route Connection, Bingo Player Age:  10+  Player Count:  1 - 8  Players Time to Play:  20  - 30  Minutes  Game Designer:  Chad DeShon, Alban Viard Game Artist:  Gwen Keraval Publisher : AllPlay Year Published:  2022 BGG Weight:  1.80 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Introduction: On Tour is a fun game by Allplay that has already pushed its way into the inner sanctum of my roll/flip and writes for its tough decision-making but easy gameplay. For the full review click the link here . This review will focus on their second release, On Tour Paris and New York. This is a more advanced standalone game that I also see as an expansion to the original that adds two new maps. New York: New York has five boroughs, all of which, four of which requires a ferry to connect them to continue the tour...