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Deer Lord: Review Information: Mechanics:  Party, Deduction Player Age:  12+  Player Count:  4  - 12 Players  Time to Play:  30 - 90   Minutes  Game Designer:  Dries Publisher  Lark and Clam, Monkeyshine Games Year Published:  2015 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Objective: Your aim is to reduce the cards in your hand to zero through the use of deception, out-manoeuvring and misleading your fellow players. How to Play: Deal each player five cards then the first player to declare a duel will start the game. On your turn you will either challenge another player to a duel, pass, or announce all the dupe cards you have achieved throughout opponents turns. This will continue until one player has no cards left. The first player to successfully complete all of their cards is the winner. Duel Card: These duel cards will prove who is better at certain crazy activi...

Codenames Deep Undercover: Review Information: Mechanics:  Party, Deduction, Word Player Age:  18+  Player Count:  4  - 8 Players  Time to Play:   15 - 30  Minutes  Game Designer: Vlaada Chvatil Game Artist: Stephane Gantiez, Tomas Kucerovsky Publisher  Lark and Clam, Czech Games Edition Year Published:  2018 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Objective: Everyone should know what codenames is by now, it is a unique game of trying to link words together to get your team of spies to guess your clues faster than the opposing team. Be wary of the assassin though, which if chosen by any team member will result in an instant loss for that team and end of game. Unlike the other codename games, deep undercover dims the lights and lets the innuendos fly as this is the adult version of this fun infamous game. Card Anatomy: There are three types of cards for this game: 1....

Flanx: Review Information: Mechanics:  Real time, Abstract Player Age:  6+  Player Count:  2  Players  Time to Play:   1 - 5  Minutes  Publisher  Lark and Clam Year Published:  2017 BGG Weight: 1.00 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Objective: The objective is simple, place one of your cards behind an opposing card or reach the opposite end of the table. Be careful though, if the cards reach both edges to the left and right of the table then a draw occurs. Card Anatomy: There are two symmetrical decks, one black and one white. Each card will have a puzzle-like shape (see below) and either a green or pink semi-circle. What does all this mean, well this will be explained more ahead. These icons need to be the same to play the cards next to each other. Setup: - Each player is given one of the two decks - One player will place their top card in the middle of the ...

Brown Chicken, Brown Cow: Review Information: Mechanics:  Party, Sculpting Player Age:  18+  Player Count:  2  - 6 Players  Time to Play:   15  Minutes  Publisher  Lark and Clam Year Published:  2018 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Objective: The objective is simple, gain the most points over the course of five rounds by either guessing players creations correctly or having your creations guessed correctly. So, let's hope you're the next Michelangelo. Setup: - place the voting board in the middle - deal each player a set of voting cards, these differ by colour - give everyone some playdough, after all, you can't be an artist without your material. How to Play: This game is played in real time, so there will be no separate turns for the players. The game consists of two phases; the sculpt phase and the match phase. The Sculpt Phase: Each player is dealt a ca...

Unrivaled: Review Information: Mechanics:  Party, Acting, Trivia Player Age:  18+  Player Count:   4  - 10 Players  Time to Play:   15  - 30 Minutes  Game Designer:  Kayla Van Ausdall, Matthew Dawkins, Jan Jurewicz, Staley Krause, Melissa Fountain, Sawyer Krause Game Artists:  Ping Publisher  Lark and Clam Year Published:  2018 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Card Anatomy: There are two types of cards: Challenge cards and Trivia cards. As the names suggest, challenge cards will require the player(s) to complete a challenge in order to win the card, and trivia cards will require the player(s) to correctly answer a question. Challenge Cards: There are two types of challenge cards; activity challenges and social challenges. Both of these can be group or solo challenges which may be physical, artistic or spoken. So you’ll want your creativity to be flo...