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Isle of Cats - Explore and Draw: Rapid Review Information: Mechanics:  Roll (Flip) and Write, Polyomino, Set Collection Player Age:  8+ Player Count:  1 - 6  Players Time to Play:  30 - 45  Minutes  Game Designer:   Frank West Game Artist:  Dragolisco, Frank West Publisher : The City of Games Year Published:  2022 BGG Weight:  2.00 Rundown: In Isle of Cats: Explore and Draw you are filling your ship with numerous cats and treasures over seven rounds. Players will have four columns and three rows filled with eight green cards that commonly have cats and four blue cards that commonly have lessons. Each of these decks also has treasure cards and Oshax cards that act as a larger cat of your choice. Each round players will choose one of the columns and draw the three cards onto their ship. Within these seven rounds, you are trying to create a family of cats where a family consists of three or more of the same coloured cat connected on yo...

Between Two Cities: Rapid Review Information: Mechanics:  Set Collection, Drafting, Tile Placement Player Age:  14+ Player Count:  1 - 7  Players Time to Play:  25  Minutes  Game Designer:   Matthew O'Malley, Ben Rosset Game Artist:   Beth Sobel Publisher : Stonemaier Games  Expansions:  Yes Year Published:  2015 BGG Weight:  1.82 Rundown: In Between Two Cities , players are trying to build two cities; one shared between the opponents to the left and right. The game is divided into three rounds. In round one and three, each turn will have players selecting two tiles, then after discussing with the players next to them they will place one tile in the city to the left and one in the right. This will continue until there is only one tile left, which is then discarded. Round two has players drawing three duplex tiles (tiles that contain two tiles combined). They will select one duplex tile for each city and discard the third. ...

Disciple Detective: Review Information: Mechanics:  Hand Management, Cooperative/Competitive Player Age:  14+  Player Count:  2 - 5  Players Time to Play:  10 - 20  Minutes  Game Designer:  Lance Hill Game Artist:  Tazia Hall, Medea Phartskhaladze Publisher : Funhill Games Year Published:  2020 BGG Weight:  1.50 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Objective: In Disciple Detective your hand is a mystery to you, in a similar vein to games like Hanabi, your hand of cards will face outwards. Either cooperatively or competitively, you will use your deduction skills to effectively determine which disciples you hold in your hand. Card Anatomy: Disciple Reference Sheet and Note Card: These two references will be needed throughout the game. The note card can be used to eliminate suspects. The reference sheet will show every detail on every card including the traits, numbers and quirks. Disciple C...

Power Rangers Deck-Building Game: Zeo Rangers - Review Information: Mechanics:  Deck Building, Team, Head to Head Player Age:  13+  Player Count:  2 - 4  Players Time to Play:  30 - 70   Minutes  Game Designer:   Matt Hyra, T. C. Petty III Publisher : Renegade game Studios Year Published:  2021 BGG Weight:  2.67 Introduction: Zeo Rangers is a standalone expansion for the Power Rangers deck-building game. This review will be looking at the game as an expansion only, for a review on how to play the base game you can click ‘here’ . New Content: Zeo Sub-Crystals: This is a new card type that represents the main rangers that come in this set. These cards count as wild cards so they can be attached to any space on your character. The cards will give resources but they also have a very powerful move that can be activated only once, following this the card will be destroyed. An example of one ability is gaining maximum energy or doing ...

Tavern Masters Dockside: Review  Information: Mechanics:  Cooperative/Competitive, Hand Management, Simultaneous Action Player Age:  13+  Player Count:  1 - 6  Players Time to Play:  20 - 30  Minutes  Game Designer:  Dan Kriss Game Artist:  Galen Ihlenfeldt, Kelelowor, Anton Rosovsky, Samuel Manopo Publisher : Dan Kriss Games Year Published:  2019 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Introduction: The festival of taverns has now moved to the salty shores of the docks. In this expansion there are two new decks; the port and the song deck. Both of these will allow players to get cards played faster. Any patron or tavern cards dependent on these two new decks will have a blue icon on the left side of the card. Port deck: The port deck is drawn and played if a player has a helm icon (captain icon) in their tavern. The port cards let all players play a card of a certain type.  The port car...

 Tavern Masters: Review   Information: Mechanics:  Cooperative/Competitive, Hand Management, Simultaneous Action Player Age:  13+  Player Count:  1 - 6  Players Time to Play:  20 - 30  Minutes  Game Designer:  Dan Kriss Game Artist:  Galen Ihlenfeldt Publisher : Dan Kriss Games Year Published:  2019 BGG Weight: 2.00 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Objective: Throughout Tavern Masters you are trying to prove that you have the best bar at the tavern festival. This is done by stocking an abundance of food and beverages as well as hiring the best staff to serve as many patrons as possible and keep them there. Each patron has a want that will get them into the bar but giving them what they like will keep them at the bar between rounds. Each patron you attract will give you one gold and the first player to reach 20 unspent gold will be the tavern master. Card Anatomy: Tavern Card...

Euphoria: Rapid Review Information: Mechanics:  Dice Rolling, Hand Management, Set Collection, Worker Placement Player Age:  13+ Player Count:  2 - 6  Players Time to Play:  60  Minutes  Game Designer:   Jamey Stegmaier, Alan Stone Game Artist: Jacqui Davis Publisher : Stonemaier Games  Expansions:  Yes Year Published:  2013 BGG Weight:  3.12 Rundown: Euphoria is a dice worker placement where all players are working together to increase factions, dig tunnels and construct markets. However, this is not a cooperative game this is a competitive game. You may be building the board state together but ultimately you want the faction that matches your recruits to be in the best position and you want to play all of your stars to win the game. Stars are played; when markets are constructed, by reaching the end of a faction track, and worker spots such as markets.  Alteration: The main alteration comes from the markets and the recr...