Welcome to the first full report. To recapture: during Solotober 2021 my goals are: Play a different solo game every day Play at least 10 unplayed owned games ("the shelf of shame") And: digital plays don't count October 4: Space Empires 4X It may not be from my Shelf of Shame, as I've played it once before, but it was my first solo session, which also felt as an accomplishment. Me against the Doomsday Machines. Unfortunately I made some rules mistakes. The first few rounds I

After a successful Kickstarter campaign, 2018 Golden Geek Best Print & Play Board Game-winner Orchard has now been released. The game is played with nine cards (there are eighteen in the box, so you can play two games in succession). There are apple, pear and plum trees pictured on them. Every turn, you try to let your trees grow (by placing the same picture on top) - this will give you fruit. One fruit for the first time you overlap, three for the second time, six for the th

After an unfortunate but thankfully short delay, Orchard has launched on Kickstarter today and is already funded. Orchard is a nine card tile laying puzzly game, that won prizes on Board Game Geek ("Best 9-card Nanogame Print and Play 2018" and the "Golden Geek Best Print & Play Board Game 2018"). The Kickstarter campaign will run for 19 days and is well on its way towards the much coveted stretch goal of custom dice. Perhaps we can update this website's background image in J

Side Room Games was planning to launch a Kickstarter campaign for Orchard: A 9 card solitaire game on August 26. Unfortunately, the company announced today on Facebook that they have to postpone it until fulfillment of their previous project, Maquis, is complete. This means that Orchard will probably be launched in early November. The fact that mega-companies like CMON and Awaken Realms have never had to deal with this inconvenience is obviously coincidental. Update August 27

Orchard, the game that adorns our own Home page, will be brought to Kickstarter by Side Room Games on August 26. ' The aim of the game is to harvest fruit (score points) by playing cards so that their fruit trees overlap other trees already in the orchard that bear the same fruit. The more trees you can overlap, the more fruit you'll pick'. Orchard began its life as a Print-and-Play, eventually winning the 2018 Golden Geek Best PnP contest. #Orchard, #Tuck, #SideRoomGames You