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Review:  Flash Point

Review: Flash Point

Title:   Flash Point Publisher:  Indie Boards & Cards Designer:  Kevin Lansing Plays:  1-6 Ages:  10+ Time investment:  45 minutes   Flash Point is a co-operative game in which you are all fire-fighters trying to find and save victims before the building they are trapped in comes down around you.  Each ...

Review:  Isle of Skye

Review: Isle of Skye

Title:  Isle of Skye Publisher:  Mayfair Designer:  Alexander Pfister & Andreas Pelikan Plays:  2-5 Ages:  8+ Time investment:  60 minutes   Isle of Skye is a tile placement and auction game.  Each game will use four of the sixteen scoring chosen at random.  Over six rounds you will expand your ...

Review:  Hounded

Review: Hounded

Title:  Hounded Publisher:  Atlas Games Designer:  Clint Bohaty Plays:  2 Ages:  13+   Time investment:  15-25 minutes   Hounded is a two player bluff and escape game.  One player is the fox and your goal is to reveal all three time tiles or to evade the hunting party long enough ...

Review:  Istanbul

Review: Istanbul

Title:  Istanbul Publisher:  AEG Designer:  Rudiger Dorn Plays:  2-5 Ages:  10+ Time investment:  40-60 minutes Players move their merchant around a modular board consisting of mosques, post office, warehouses, and other things.  With the help of their assistants they will buy gems at the gem dealer or acquire the rarest ...