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Mechanica: Rapid Review Information: Mechanics:  Tile Placement, Engine Building, Recipe Fufillment Player Age:  12+  Player Count:  1 - 4  Players Time to Play:  35 - 75  Minutes  Game Designer:  Mary Flanagan, Emma Hobday, Max Seidman Game Artist:  Cisco Garrido,  Mariana Sosa, A nn-Sophie De Steur,  Spring Yu Publisher : Resonym Year Published:  2020 BGG Weight:  2.33 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Rundown : Mechanica is an engine-building bot fulfilment game. Players are trying to create paths for the bots that are generated on the left side of their board. Funnelling these bots through machines that generate duplicate bots, upgrades, downgrades or other ways to generate money or re-orient the bots until they reach the final truck. Bots can be sold at the trucks at their various levels white, orange, and purple bots can sell for 2, 4 or 6 money. Instead, the p...

Vitreum: Review Information: Mechanics:  Roll and Write, Pattern Building, Puzzle, Set Collection, Print and Play Player Age:  9+  Player Count:  1 - 99  Players Time to Play:  20  Minutes  Publisher : DicePen Year Published:  2023 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the Dice Pen they have more print and play games at their site  here .  Introduction: Vitreum is a roll-and-write game that has players designing a beautiful stained glass window. Each round players will add two colour fragments to their design, as denoted by the dice roll, then will score one of the 12 guidelines. Each guideline will have three different scoring possibilities. In the last round, the players will score their very first guideline a second time, scoring big points if planned effectively. Whoever has the most points after 13 rounds is the winner. Sheet Anatomy: Stained Glass: In the centre of the board is a 3x3 grid of stained gla...

Dice Raiders - Secrets of the Aztec: Review Information: Mechanics:  Roll and Write, Area Control, Puzzle, Set Collection, Print and Play Player Age:  8+  Player Count:  1 - 4  Players Time to Play:  20 - 45  Minutes  Game Designer:  Krzysztof Matusik Publisher : LizardKing Year Published:  2024 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the Dice Pen they have more print and play games at their site  here .  Introduction: Dice Raiders is a one-sheet roll-and-write game. In this game, players are using a shared sheet and trying to optimise four puzzles to gain the most points possible across all four. On your turn you roll two dice. The numerical faces will correspond to two specific symbols that are used across all 4 puzzles. You will choose one symbol per dice to use in one of the puzzles, with a total of two puzzles being activated each turn. Puzzle Anatomy: When looking at the sheet it appears that the game...