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Star Chart: Review Information: Mechanics:  Simultaneous Play, Pattern Recognition Player Age: 13+ Player Count:  1 - 8  Players Time to Play:  15 -  30 Minutes  Game Designer:   Martin Brandel Publisher : Bigger World Games Year Published: 2025 Disclaimer: A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Introduction: Star Chart is a tableu builder where players are engineering a chart of constellations through a connected path. Players are aiming to create constellations shown on the multi-use cards to reach 15 points. This chart will grow every turn expanding on the left or right side, the real challenge for the players is building a chart where constellations are played in turn succession through a carefully planned chart.  Game Anatomy: Cards: Each card is multi-use it will contain multiple signs on the left hand side (each colour will remain in that specific row). The right hand side of the card will feature a conste...

Umbrella: Review  Information: Mechanics:   Pattern Recognition, Sliding Puzzle, Set Collection, Open Drafting, Abstract Age:  8+ Player Count:  1 - 4  Players Time to Play:  30  Minutes  Game Designer:   Flavien Dauphin, Benoit Turpin Game Artist: Vincent Dutrait Publisher : Pandasaurus Games Year Published:  2024 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Introduction: Umbrella is a pattern recognition game that will have players sliding umbrellas from four directions in pursuit of meeting figure tiles. Build the right patterns and you will score a cluster of bonus points in the standard way of scoring, while in the advanced way of scoring you can gain immediate bonuses based on the umbrella colours you score with. Game Anatomy: Umbrella Tokens: These wooden tokens come in four colours; blue, red, green and yellow. Personal Board: A player’s personal board will also hold their scoreboard, fig...