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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...

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...

Everything Ever: Review  Information: Mechanics:  Hand Management, Party Player Age:  12+  Player Count:  2 - 10  Players Time to Play:  20   Minutes  Game Designer:   Nathan Thornton Game Artist:  Danielle Deley Publisher : Floodgate Games Year Published:  2023 BGG Weight:  1.00 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Introduction : Everything Ever is a party game that finally uses of all that information in your head that is perceived as useless. This isn't a trivia game focused on a certain period, or form of entertainment, instead, this game is for those who know a bit of everything there ever was. Players will take turns saying something that belongs to each category displayed in the centre of the table, being careful not to say anything that has already been said.  Card Anatomy: Category Cards: 250 category cards are included that covers a vast array of topics including, well,...

Tarantula Tango: Review Information: Mechanics:  Party, Speed, Pattern Recognition, Real-Time  Player Age:  7+  Player Count: 2  - 5   Players Time to Play:  20  Minutes  Game Designer:  Jacques Zeimet Game Artist:  Rolf Vogt Publisher : Drei Magier Spiele Year Published:  2009 BGG Weight:  1.21 Introduction: Drei Magier Spiele has a series of animal/insect themed party games that play quick and come in an easy portable case. Tarantula Tango, otherwise known as Tarantel Tango, is a speed game where the beautiful female tarantula is looking for a dance partner. Each turn a player will respond to the last card played and then flip and place their top card. Any mistakes will see that player picking up all the played cards. Once a player has no cards left they are the ultimate dance partner and win the game.  Game Anatomy: Tarantula Board: In the centre of play will be a five-sided tarantula board and players will play ca...

Muffin Time: Review Information: Mechanics:  Party, Hand Management Player Age:  12+  Player Count:  2 - 6  Players Time to Play:  20 - 40   Minutes  Publisher : Big Potato Games Year Published:  2020 BGG Weight: 1.11 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Objective: What time is it? It's Muffin Time!!  The aim of the game is to start your turn with 10 cards in your hand. This is achieved by stealing, winning cards and catching your opponents in traps. Card Anatomy: Every card in the game is unique so there are no doubles in the deck. These cards consist of traps, counters, and actions. Action Cards: Action cards are the main way that players will draw, steal or have other players discard cards. The really engaging actions are the mini games. These get the players involved in a mini game such as everyone must stand up and the last player has to discard three cards or every player has to hold their bre...

NObjects: Review Information: Mechanics:  Party, Charades Player Age:  8+  Player Count:  3  - 6 Players Time to Play:  15 - 30  Minutes  Game Designer:  Ludovic Gimet Game Artist: Claus Stephan Publisher : Pegasus Spiele Expandable:  No expansions avaliable Year Published:  2019 BGG Weight:  1.0 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Objective: 'NObjects' is a new twist on the charades genre, where one player at a time will try to have players guess their word by drawing the object with their fingers on the table. No words or gestures allowed. Setup: - Each coloured deck (green, yellow and red) will be shuffled individually; these represent the difficulty of easy, medium and hard, respectively. - Place the die in reach of all players. - Use a timer or electronic device to keep track of time; set this timer to 60 seconds. - Choose a start player. How to ...

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...