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Jul 11

One card wonders

The 2020 1-Card Game Print and Play Design Contest is up and running on BGG, with many designers submitting solo games. As the contest is...

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Jun 26

And on his farm he had an alien, e-i-e-i-oh

Blorg in the Midwest is a 9-card hand-management game, in which you are Blorg, who took the family saucer for a joyride and crashed it in...

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Jun 22

The Three Mouseketeers

Forest Guardians by Marta Viader (user Bunyol de Vent on BGG) is off to an impressive start. Winner in the 2020 - 9 Card Game Print and P...

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Jun 12

Enrol 'n' write in Night Class

In the roll & write game Night Class you are an aspiring superhero, trying to protect your neighbourhood. Taking on trigger-happy crimina...

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Athena

Jun 4

Bountiful dungeons

When Theo Peters, co-designer of Dungeon Bounty, sent us a mail the other day suggesting that we give his game a try, I thought about it ...

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Athena

Jun 3

Wasteland Wednesday - A4 Quest: Inhuman

I did a quick search for post-apocalyptic Print 'n' Play games, and only found one that almost fits what I'm looking for: the latest inst...

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Athena

Jun 1

XX72 Series: A Mapping Marathon

Drawing terrain on a hexed grid is an activity I find to be calming, engaging and immersive. I wasn't aware of the appeal of mapping unti...

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Athena

May 25

Vegetarian Prince

Have you ever played Barbarian Prince or its PnP derivative, Barbarian Vince? If you have, and have enjoyed this type of overland crawlin...

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Athena

May 16

A 10-minute mystery

Indie Boards & Cards recently made available the PnP files for a demo case of their 1-8 player cooperative game,The Sherlock Files: Eleme...

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May 13

Medium Rogue

Bummer. After a waiting period of over two years, Mini Rogue is not coming to Kickstarter. Of course it has been announced for 9 June - b...

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May 3

Home Alone 6: Looking out for number one

Now that the rest of the whole world is forced to act like the antisocial misanthropists we are, a lot of game companies suddenly take no...

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Athena

May 3

Entombed

You and a fellow Viking Earl have been trapped inside a chambered tomb in an attempt to protect yourselves from a raging storm. Since you...

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Apr 28

Unidentified Flying Mother***

There was a strange phenomenon in the sky this week. I saw a blinking light, getting bigger. More lights. Then it dawned on me... Earth w...

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Athena

Apr 22

Bomber Boys

Bomber Boys is a solitaire PnP game by Steven Aramini aka Mr. Sprawlopolis. If you are one of the numerous people who adore his abstract ...

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Apr 11

Deckbuilding in Flanders Fields

Some big battles took place at the Ypres salient during World War One, it's well known for the trenches. These battles are condensed in t...

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Athena

Mar 28

Retirement plans

The hero you get to play in Iron Helm is just a step before retirement. All they need to do is clear one last monster-ridden dungeon to c...

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Mar 25

Home Alone 3 (we're all in it together)

A lot of us have to stay home right now, but these weird and uncomfortable times bring out the best in people. Some publishers support br...

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Athena

Mar 24

Close encounters of the eighties kind

1981: The year yours truly was born, and the year Voyage of the B.S.M Pandora was published inside Ares magazine. What do we have in comm...

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Athena

Mar 19

Home Alone (time to Print and Play)

Many of us are stuck in semi-quarantine at home due to the coronavirus pandemic. The obvious thing for a solo gamer to do is work through...

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Mar 15

Kobayashi Maru

I am one of the happy few that backed Astroforce (as the Kickstarter campaign may be over by the time you read this). We are in for a tre...

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