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12 Rivers: Review Information : Mechanics : Drafting, Bid for Turn Order, Resource Management, Set Collection, Point Salad Player Age :   10+ Player Count :  2 - 4 Players Game Designer:  Romain Caterdjian BGG Weight:  2.00 Publisher : Good Games Publishing Time to Play:  45 -75  Minutes  Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher.  Year Published:  2025 Introduction : 12 Rivers is a point salad game, which involves card management to select pearls (marbles) as they roll down the stream of the rivers creating variable turn order. Each round as the players that resolve first will select the action last next round. Essentially players will use three tribe tokens a round to select where to block the pearls, this will either cost the player cards or gain them a card. When all tribe tokens are placed the dice will be released and each time a tribe token stops the pearl, that player will select one pearl ...

Surf's Up: Review Information: Mechanics:  Hand Builder, Engine Builder, Bidding, Bluffing Player Age:  8+  Player Count:  2 - 6  Players  Time to Play:  20 - 30  Minutes  Game Designer:  Jay Bendixen Game Artists:  Jay Bendixen Publisher:  Good Games Publishing Year Published:  2024 BGG Weight:  2.00 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher and  Lets Play Games. Introduction: Surf's Up has a players starting with energy cards of 0 - 5 bidding for the next wave (ocean card). The highest value gains the ocean card and the points connected to it, as a winner or runner up you may also buy more cards to add to your hand or improve your scoring. The catch is that anytime a player wins a bid they remove their used energy card from the game, so this is also a timer on the game. When a player has only the zero card left in their hand or five bluebottles have been bidded on, the game wil...

Mercurial: Rapid Review Information: Mechanics:  Hand Builder, Engine Builder, Resource Management, Hand Management , Dice Rolling Player Age:  14+  Player Count:  1 - 4  Players  Time to Play:  45 - 90  Minutes  Game Designer:  David Goh Game Artists: David Goh, Agus Setiawan, Thomas Tan, Jeannette Wang, Chen Wei, Yang Shao Xuan, Beverley Yim Publisher: Good Games Publishing Year Published:  2023 BGG Weight:  3.12 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher and  Lets Play Games. Rundown: Mercurial is a spell-slinging game where players are building a hand of alterations as they slowly channel the engine that is their spells. On a player's turn they will either take and play, or cast their spell. Once a player has gained a number of heroic cards based on player count (2, 3, 4 players = 5, 4, 3 heroics) the game will end and one last spell for each player will oc...