Stop the presses! This just in. The Solitaire Times Official Revisioned Recommendation for 18-card tile laying games. I know it's just four days since our previous recommendation, but that's the modern age for you, blink your eye and the world as you knew it is gone. So. Where it said Sprawlopolis, please read Orchard. Where it said Agropolis, please read Grove. Where it said dull, now read dull-icious! Grove is our Solitaire Select for July 2022. Is it that good? No, it's ev

Update: Mechanical Beast has launched on Kickstarter and the campaign will run for 24 days. You may pledge for a copy of the game. You also have the option of getting your name inside of the box. Our preview post below was published on May 28. Mechanical Beast is a 1-4 player tile laying puzzle game in which your team of engineers is navigating a giant robot with the aim to deactivate it. It can be played solo, co-op, or competitively, and it will launch on Kickstarter on May

Update: Maquis has launched on Kickstarter and the campaign will run for 24 days. If you already have Maquis, you can pledge for just the new content. Otherwise, you may go for the full 2nd edition of the game. Our preview post below was published on January 27. Maquis, the solitaire worker placement game in which you control agents of the french Resistance in WWII, will hit Kickstarter on February 1 for a reprint campaign and the addition of extra content. The new edition wi

Update: Elements of the Gods is live on Kickstarter and the campaign will run for 26 days. You may pledge for a copy of the game or also choose to have your name written on the inside of the box. Our preview post below was published on November 4. Elements of the Gods is a 1-5 player abstract strategy game in which you play as a young god gathering worshipers with the power of the elements. It will launch on Kickstarter on November 10. In the solo mode, you play against an ar

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

Update: The Fair Youth expansion to Black Sonata is live on Kickstarter, and the campaign will run for 19 days. You have the option of backing either just the expansion or just the base game or both. Our preview post below was published on January 5. The Fair Youth, the first of two expansions to the single player hidden movement game Black Sonata is coming to Kickstarter on 7 January. The base game will be reprinted and also be available in this campaign. In Black Sonata you

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