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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 ...

Review: Orleans

Review: Orleans

Title: Orleans Publisher: Tasty Minstrel Games Players: 2-4 Age recommendation: 12+ Time Investment: 90 minutes   Orleans is a worker placement game set in Medieval France. Your followers (workers) will be randomly drawn each round and placed to help you gain additional followers, move your merchant, gain goods, construct buildings, ...

Review: Dead of Winter

Review: Dead of Winter

Title: Dead of Winter Publisher: Plaid Hat Games Designer: Isaac Vega and John Gilmour Players: 2-5 Ages Recommended: 13+ Time Investment: 60-120 minutes   Dead of Winter is a recent addition to the zombie themed board game genre. It’s about a colony of survivors attempting to survive a harsh winter ...

Review: Colt Express

Review: Colt Express

Title: Colt Express Publisher: Ludonaute Designer: Christophe Raimbault Players: 2-6 Ages Recommended: 10+ Time Investment: 40 minutes Colt Express is a delayed action card game re-enacting a train robbery in the late 1800s. Each player takes on the role of a bandit trying to avoid the marshal and scoop up ...