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  1. Taleweaver

    Shards of Infinity

    Damage to infinity In shards of infinity, you play as battling mages. Each player starts with 50 life, (hardly) no experience and a deck of ten cards. The goal is to reduce the other mage (or mages)' lives to zero. Seven of those cards simply add one currency, the eighth card simply deals one...
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    Pandemic

    Pandemic is a game for (originally) 2 to 4 players wherein all participants are part of a medical team that set out to find the cure for four different diseases that threaten the planet. Each of you has to travel around the world map, gathering data and cleaning up diseases as you go. But...
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    Opus Magnum

    Overview Before we get to Opus Magnum, I have to point out that this is a Zachtronics game. Because open ended puzzle games are somewhat a niche market and this indie studio specializes in it, they're almost coining the game genre for themselves. And from what I've played, I consider Opus...
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    Age of rivals

    WTF did I just play? In terms of actions and end goal, age of rivals is deceptively easy: you are dealt three or four cards, of which you pick one. Then some stuff happens. Then you'll assign damage to your cards. Then prestige points are scored. If you have more prestige points at the end of...
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    Frostpunk

    Winter has come Frostpunk takes place in an alternative universe. We're writing about a steampunk-themed England in 1886. Without warning, the world has fallen in a never ending winter to which mankind wasn't prepared for. Entire nations have collapsed and fell into chaos. The only hope for...
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    Race for the galaxy

    A failed attempt at explaining the game If at all possible, I would suggest you take a look at the card game San Juan first. Like race for the galaxy, it's a management style game where you have a hand of cards of which you'll play some by using others as currency. In other words: each card has...
  7. Taleweaver

    Jaipur

    The layout Jaipur is a card trading game. You each start with five cards in hand, five open cards in the center, and a bunch of numbered coins in certain colors on the side. You and your opponent each take turns doing one (and only one) of the following actions: -draw one of resources of the...
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    Stone age

    Rule overview: The broad overview is simple: send out workers, collect resources and use these for huts or boats, which'll get you points. The player with the most points win. The how, what, when and who is best explained by means of the map. Look at it. Look at the little circles on specific...
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    Onirim

    Overview In Onirim, you play a shaman attempting to visit the land of dreams. To do this, you need to open eight doors, hidden within the deck of cards. These doors - as well as the majority of the other cards - come in four colors: red, blue, green and white. You start with a hand of five...
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    Settlers of Catan

    How it's played (quick rundown) One of the unique features of catan is the randomized board. You start by randomly laying a bunch of hexagons (these are the fields or resources) in a larger hexagon shape. In an equally random setup, the sea and harbors are placed around this land. After that...
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    Patchwork

    THE GAME IN MORE DETAIL Patchwork is one of the highest ranked casual board games on renowned site boardgamegeek.com. For reference: the same community rates it about 15000 spots above monopoly, so...you might want to think about this game instead if you want to buy your little nephew a...
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    Doki Doki Literature Club!

    Doki Doki Literature Club (hereafter abbreviated to DDLC) is an interactive story revolving around a pack of high schooling girls and an equally high schooling boy, who come together in - you guessed it - a book reading club. What follows is an intricate plot that mostly consists of people...
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