While cleaning out the office, I noticed we get an awful lot of mail over here. And no one ever reads the stuff! So let's try out a new approach: delegation. Once a week I'll copy-paste what I find, then you do the reading for us. Deal? Cool. * Burn baby burn A new, more expensive, burncycle will be coming to Gamefound on 19 July. Time enough to read some first impressions of the happy few that are playing it right now, if you are curious. I must say I like the setting of thi

This month's Solitaire Select goes to the Donning the Purple: Votes & Virtue expansion, that is currently on Kickstarter. It adds fun new ways to die as a Roman emperor. As if the base game wasn't hard enough for solo. I made a Print and Play version of the prototype, to check out the new Senate phase of the game. And mainly because I was desperately in need of a specific new card for my plays. The event card "All is quiet". It says: "Enjoy it. This is the only break you will

In Donning the Purple (solo mode) you are the emperor of the Roman Empire in turbulent times. You've got to feed the population and keep them happy, while enemies invade and other families are out to bring you down. The game gets a much needed reprint and an expansion which adds a new phase to the game and a lot of new cards. The Kickstarter campaign will run for 24 days. Here's an example of how the base game plays: #DonningThePurple #Olsen #TompetGames

Donning the Purple will get a reprint plus expansion this month through Kickstarter. The expansion will add a fourth player option to the game, so for us solo gamers - who still will always take the emperor's role - it will be even more lonely at the top. Fortunately there will also be a new game phase that we can enjoy, where the Senate votes over important issues (my guess: they probably want to have us killed). There are rumours of including one new event card that is bene