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Power Rangers Deck Building Game - RPM Get in Gear: Review Information: Mechanics:  Head to Head, Team Based, Deck-Building Player Age:  14+ Player Count:  2 - 4 Players Time to Play:  30 - 70  Minutes  Game Designer:  Matt Hyra Game Artist:  Valeria Favoccia, Daniel Mora Publisher : Renegade Game Studios Year Published:  2022 BGG Weight:  2.71 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Introduction : The Power Rangers from the 17th season have joined the fray. A lot of the expansions so far have been more content based and this expansion does exactly that while also bringing a mechanism called RPM. This works as an interesting system that gives players a way to work around those pesky blocks. If you are new to the Power Rangers Deck Building Game this review is purely focusing on the new content. To learn the game I recommend going to my original review by clicking here . Content : The contents of ...

Voyages Rapid Review: Information: Mechanics:  Living Game, Print and Play, Role and Write Player Age:  14+ Player Count:  1 - 100 Players Time to Play:  20 - 30  Minutes  Game Designer:  Matthew Dunstan, Rory Muldoon Game Artist:   Rory Muldoon Publisher : Postmark Games Year Published:  2021 BGG Weight:  1.81 Disclaimer:   A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Rundown: In Voyages you are sailing your ship across the ocean to gain three stars. Throughout this pursuit you will be selling cargo, sailing across unknown oceans, sinking marauder ships, searching for legendary items and gaining and upgrading sailors.  Every turn involves rolling three dice. One is the amount of spaces you can move, one is the direction of movement and the last one goes towards your duties.  The duties will alter on every map and give you one time benefits or more long term rewards.  Once a player has three stars, ...

Groundhog Gambit: Rapid Review Information: Mechanics:  Escape Room Player Age:  13+  Player Count:  1 - 4  Players Time to Play:  120  Minutes  Game Designer:   Jonathan Chaffer Game Artist:  Jonathan Chaffer, Karl Juhlke Publisher : Grand Gamers Guild Year Published:  2022 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Rundown: Groundhog Gambit is the latest  theme added to the escape room game franchise that focuses on holidays called Holiday Hijinks. These games are always contained within 18 cards but utilise all the space necessary on the front and back of the cards to deliver a fun and challenging experience. Cards will either contain information or have a riddle/puzzle to solve. These answerable cards are denoted by a red question mark and will have answers that need to be written into the app. These answers may be numbers, phrases, or a single word. Alteration: As this game isn't repla...

Holiday Hijinks Collection: Review Information: Mechanics:  Escape Room Player Age:  13+  Player Count:  1 - 4  Players Time to Play:  60  Minutes  Game Designer:   Jonathan Chaffer Game Artist:  Jonathan Chaffer Publisher : Grand Gamers Guild Year Published:  2020 - 2021 BGG Weight:  2.00 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Introduction: Today will be a mini-review focusing on three of the Holiday Hijinks games. These are 18 card escape room games centred around your favourite holidays: Halloween, Christmas, and Independence Day.  Holidays: The Pumpkin Problem:  Someone is stealing all the candy within the neighbourhood. You are going door to door investigating kids to find out which dastardly fiend is doing this. Behind every door is a new puzzle that you have to solve in typical escape room fashion. Key Points: - Challenging puzzles that needed resources from information fou...

TEN Review Information: Mechanics:  Auction Bidding, Push Your Luck, Set Collection Player Age:  10+  Player Count:  1 - 5  Players Time to Play:  15 - 30   Minutes  Game Designer:   Molly Johnson, Robert Melvin, Shawn Stankewich Game Artist:  Shawn Stankewich Publisher : AEG Year Published:  2021 BGG Weight:  1.39 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Objective: In ‘TEN’ the goal is simple; create a numerical sequence of four different  colours. This is done by pushing your luck each turn to either gain currency or cards to fill your sequences. Both is important as the currency will let you buy the desired cards to complete your sequences or will allow you to participate in auctions for exciting wild cards. Game Anatomy: Cards: Number Cards: There are four colours that players can build sequences in ranging numerically from 1 to 9. Currency Cards: These dotted cards numerically r...

Marvel United - First Class: Review Information: Mechanics:  Modular Set-Up, Co-Operative, One vs Many, Team Vs, Variable Player Powers, Hand Management Player Age:  13+  Player Count:  1 - 4  Players, 1- 5 Player (X-Men Core Box), 1 - 6 Players (Blue, Gold Expansion) Time to Play:  40  Minutes  Game Designer:   Andrea Chiarvesio, Eric M. Lang Publisher : CMON, Spin Master Year Published:  2020 BGG Weight:  1.81 Introduction: The First Class expansion for Marvel United has a lot of content, new locations, five new characters, a new villain and a new danger room module that can be added to any game. Three New Locations: These locations have ways for players to heal and gain tokens. As well as a unique location of Cape Citadel that allows players to hurt thugs or henchman if a civilian is within that location. Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver Villain: First class adds a combined villain where you are facing Magneto’s twin offspring....

Valeria Card Kingdoms: Accessories Information: Mechanics:  Card Drafting, Deck/Pool Building, Action Selection, Dice Rolling Player Age:  13+ Player Count:  1 - 5 Players Time to Play:  30 - 45 Minutes Game Designer:  Isaias Vallejo Game Artists:  Mihajlo Dimitrievski P ublisher :  Daily Magic Games Year Published:  2016 BGG Complexity:  1.99/5 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Valeria Card Kingdoms is without a doubt my favourite Valeria game. So, I was eagerly awaiting these accessories to elevate the game experience even further, and they certainly didn’t disappoint. These accessories included dice, a game mat, bigger box and resource trackers. Game Mat: The wonderfully illustrated play mat is double sided. One is used for the brilliant new cooperative mode from the Darksworn expansion. The other is for the tried and true competitive game mode. This competitive side also includes the added locatio...