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Los Angeles Times: Board games are growing in popularity again
By Todd Martens Table-top games, once overshadowed by video games, are drawing people who want more social forms of entertainment. Still, it’s a tough business for publishers. Blockbuster board games are unusual, but Days of
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Deseret News: Pay Dirt is an immersive board game about modern-day gold mining.
By Ryan Morgenegg The board game Pay Dirt is about the gritty and competitive world of modern-day gold mining in frigid Alaska. In this worker-placement-style game, players take the roles of enterprising mining companies
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Deseret News: Versailles: a strategic palace building board game
By Ryan Morgenegg In the game Versailles by NSKN Games and U.S. publisher Passport Game Studios, legendary designer Andrei Novac creates a world where King Louis XIV of France hires two to five players
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The Boston Globe: Board games are back, and Boston’s a player
By Ethan Gilsdorf A Golden Age of tabletop games, from nerdy to mainstream, is afoot. WHEN WE WERE KIDS, we played games. I don’t mean games of make-believe or cops and robbers or video
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Deseret News: We are living in a board game renaissance
By Cody Carlson You may not realize it, but you are living in the middle of a board game renaissance. In a recent video post on his website Shut Up & Sit Down, British game
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NYT: At Play in the Cardboard Jungle
By Mary Pilon On a recent weeknight in Greenwich Village, amid the circus of New York University dive bars, comedy-show hecklers and the drummers of Washington Square Park, there was a different sort of
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The Atlantic: How Board Games Conquered Cafes
By Hana Schank As social life gets ever more digital, new coffee shops and bars encourage face-to-face interaction via the likes of Settlers of Catan and Connect Four. On a gorgeous fall day when
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Discworld – A Boardgaming Way Review
By Mitch Freedman Discworld: Ankh-Morpork Sometimes you buy a game thinking you will really enjoy it, but when you start playing, you find that the mechanics don’t work right, or the rules are too cumbersome
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WSJ: Green Bay’s Board-Game Obsession
By Kevin Clark Competitive Juices Fuel Lengthy Rounds of ‘Settlers of Catan’ Among Packers’ Players The weekly schedule of an NFL player is jam-packed and controlled to the millisecond. There are appointments that cannot
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Galaxy Trucker – A Boardgaming Way Review
By Mitch Freedman Trucker’s Guide to the Galaxy Game by Vlaada Chvatll Translation by Jason Holt Published by Rio Grande Games (2007) Its hard to decide just what to call the Trucker’s Guide, which
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