Potion Explosion is an entertaining, whimsical themed puzzle-like game that uses a unique component: an automatic sliding mechanic tray of marbles. If you’ve enjoyed playing digital games like Bejeweled or Candy Crush, you may enjoy this type of board game.
Gameplay
Each player receives two starter potions to place in their Brewer area. You will race to complete potions and use their abilities to help you obtain more ingredients (marbles) thus completing more potions. Ce...
Quadropolis is a tile laying game a little different from your typical tile laying games (where all players lay tiles and build adjacent around it as it grows outwardly). In Quadropolis, players build their own city on their player mat by choosing square tiles from a pool of tiles on the main game board. There are different ways you could earn victory points depending on which buildings you choose.
Gameplay
The setup varies depending on how many players are pla...
Bird watching is a hobby that some people have, apparently. We’re too busy playing tabletop games over here for additional hobbies, so we’ll have to take their word on it. Fortunately, Birds of a Feather brings the two together in what we can only assume is a rigorous simulation of the passtime.
Birds of a Feather is something like a friendly trick-taking card game, where everyone can score off the same hand. It’s also a game of timing, misdirecting and baiting your opp...
Yardmaster is an easy and fun filler game where players compete in loading their train with railcars and obtaining these railcars by collecting different types of cargo. And whoever can reach the score goal first wins. Point goals depend on how many players there are.
Gameplay
The game is set up with two kinds of decks. One for Railcars and one for Cargo. There are five types of cargo (Coal, Livestock, Oil, Timber, and Automobile) Each player starts with an engine ca...
Cast & Capture is an accessible, family-friendly game where each person plays a mage attempting to lure creatures for use in an Arcane Academy. Each mage uses certain cards in combination with a general available pool in order to “capture” creatures, depending on their power and specific element. Cast & Capture plays 2-5 players, and plays in about 30 minutes.
CONTENTS
The contents of the review version of the game included a full-color game rules insert, 5...
Village is a game that may seem complex at first but once you get your head wrapped around the rules, it plays quite well and offers plenty of strategy in earning prestige points in a variety of ways.
Gameplay
The game is setup depending on how many players there are, and at the beginning of every round, the board is seeded with influence cubes. There are five cube colors. Orange (Skill used for Crafts and Travel) Green (Persuasiveness used for Market and Council Chamber...
Sushi Go is a small great filler game that involves a drafting mechanic and set collection. It might look and sound quick and simple, but there is a lot of strategy in this compact game.
Gameplay
Every player is dealt anywhere from 7-10 cards depending on how many players there are and there are three rounds in every game. In the first round, all players will pick a card and place it face down in their play area and then everyone reveals their face down card altogether. ...
Is it worth it? I’m sure that is the question on a lot of your minds. The short answer is: absolutely!
Do you need this version if you already own the original and the 1910 expansion? Maybe not entirely, but if your copy is dinged up or you favor the larger board and new trains, then yes, certainly.
If you don’t already own Ticket to Ride, the 10th Anniversary Edition is definitely the version to pick up.
Here’s why.
For starters, the new trains look great. ...
