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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...

Alphabet War: Review Information : Mechanics : Card Shedding, Word Game Player Age :  6 + Player Count :  3 - 6 Players Publisher : Scrungo Games Time to Play: 10 Minutes  Disclaimer: A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher.  Year Published: 2026 Introduction : Alphabet War is part Uno part word Game. Players are trying to shed their hand of word cards by adjusting a communal centre word. At the end of each turn  the word still has to be an existing word, else the player wouldn't be able to have a turn and instead draws a card. Play the right letters and players can fill up their opponents hand while reducing theirs.  Game Anatomy: Letter Cards: The letter cards will cover letters across the alphabet. Each card contains unique art for the letter, and some instances of this even have some letters of the same type containing nothing and some force the next player to draw cards. For purposes of counting how many ...

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...

Cruxy: Review Information: Mechanics:  Word Game, Pen and Paper, Crossword Player Age:  10+ Player Count:   1 - 4 Players Time to Play:  20 - 30  Minutes Game Designer:   Charles Chevallier Game Artists:  Sonja Müller P ublisher : Red Cat Games Year Published:  2023 Disclaimer:   A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Introduction: Cruxy introduces a unique twist on word games where players are competitively filling a crossword sheet. The goal isn't to fill the entire crossword sheet, it is simply to meet all of their player's conditions. These conditions are; specific letters used, length of the word, and passing through certain objects to collect them. The first player to meet all their conditions is the winner.  Game Anatomy: Sheets: This game is filled with variety. There are 25 unique double-sided sheets with increasing difficulty and variance. This creates a whopping 50 different scenarios and the great thing i...

Kiitos: Kickstarter Review Information: Mechanics:  Word Game, Hand Management Player Age:  12+  Player Count:  2  - 4 Players Time to Play:  45  - 60   Minutes  Game Designer:  Matthew Thredgold BGG Weight:  1.00 Publisher : Ludogix Disclaimer:  A preview copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Objective: Kiitos is a unique word game that is reminiscent of trick-taking games. In Kiitos you are either trying to get your opponents to finish your word, therefore scoring you positive points, or leave your opponent with no letters that they can play, resulting in that player taking the letters already played as negative points. The way this works is the first player will announce the word that is being built and play the first letter, continued by the next player, each player must play the next letter in the word if possible. If they are unable to do this, they can now change the word by adding on ...

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....