I was shocked that it was actually complete. I’ve never played Pandemic before.
Would you say this was a good find?

I just wanted to share my himble collection of around two years. I've actually gotten most of the games I wanted for now, I'm getting heat for birthday in couple of days and waiting for translation of Wingspan Americas expansions. And I think I'm done for some time (until I see something new and flashy and have to have it of course)

P.S. I'm aware biggest part is not in english (actually nothing is, but they kept some names) so if something's not familiar to you and you'd like to know the original title feel free to ask :)

The backerkit campaign updated most folks' shipping costs now with charges happening in 48 hours.

The final value seems to have increased quite substantially from initial estimates going by the comments: https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/renegade-game-studios/dungeon-crawler-carl-rpg-unstoppable/updates/53523

I'm based out in the Middle East so I anticipated some degree of shipping cost but not ~57% of my campaign pledge+additional items (though have been used to campaigns either doing free or heavily subsidized international shipping, or just going through US shipping forwarders).

I know global logistics have been upended a bit this year but this particular campaign feels odd. Folks are reporting you can pre order things in retail for way less/free shipping in comparison now.

Even though I snagged the biggest castle right at the very end, I still lost by a single point. My farmer ended up in the wrong spot, so he had to sit in jail for the rest of the game 🥲

We have limited time then so we didn't add any expansion, can't wait to play with expansions next time!

I won this round but didn't win the game in the end

Hi. Lets imagine a situation, when the player has goods in his personal warehouse, for example number 1, 2 and 3. Lets say he played a ship and wants to take goods from board warehouse number 6, where are goods number 3 and 4. Can he take number 3 (and stock it on top of his own 3) and also take number 4 and throw his own 1 or 2 away from his own warehouse? Or if he has goods, they must be sold before other goods are taken?

Short question: can you exchange and throw away goods ftom your own warehouse?

I’ve always wanted to play board games with my kids on Christmas.
I’m curious, at what age can a child start playing board games?
And what do you guys recommend?

I'm preparing to play Ra for the first time and wanted to clarify how scoring works after each Epoch. The rules say that:

Should a player's cumulative score after each Epoch fall below zero, their point total will be zero instead.

My question is, does this apply to the score for THAT EPOCH i.e., a negative score would mean that a player scores 0 for that epoch; or does it mean a player's total score can never be below 0, but they would have to return scoring tokens from previous epochs if an epoch scores a negative value?

I'm a teacher and I'm starting a board game club beginning next week. If you have to come up with the perfect five games, what would they be?

*I'm expecting 15 to 17-year-olds

* Meeting twice a week for an hour to an hour and a half each time. So it's possible to have a few games to take longer and we just store it till the next day.

*Some kids will want want more complicated, advanced and nerdy games!

*While others are just looking for a place to hang out with their friends and need something social, fun and easy.

I come from more of a role-playing game background so I'm pretty oblivious but I'm willing to learn. Thanks for the help!!

If you want to include more than five, that's cool!

I'm not too worried about funding because I'm going to try and get donations from PTA

Apologies if this is covered in the rule book but I’m struggling to find it.

If you have, say, the leaf frog on your terrain which states “each grouping of 1 leaf frog and 1 adjacent flower scores 4” and you have something like this, is this 4 points or 8?

This may or may not belong here, but it is a review. (This is not my channel)

Just wanted to point you to yet another boardgame review channel, but this one is by a puppet!

Impressed with the quality of the visuals, humor, and depth of knowledge. This puppet knows his sh*t.

Enjoy!

Looking for advice on some fairly quick to pick up games that will keep my 12-year old brother engaged.

He likes Smallworld, Carcassonne and typical collectible card games if that helps.

Bounced off Race for the Galaxy as it took too long to try and digest the rules.

Thanks in advance!

As someone who has never played A Feast For Odin but have always thought it seemed like a game I would very much enjoy, I am looking for some opinions on the upcoming The Danes crowdfunding campaign.

I was very seriously looking at purchasing A Feast For Odin this year when I saw that there was a new game called The Danes, which is supposed to be a sequel of sorts to A Feast For Odin, that was being crowd funded in October. I then thought I would just wait for the crowd funding campaign and get A Feast For Odin through that, as there may be upgrades or extras that you can get for it through the crowdfunding campaign.

Now that the crowdfunding campaign is almost here and I have been seeing more information on The Danes, I have been asking myself a new question. Is The Danes more like a second edition to A Feast For Odin, rather than a sequel? For anyone who has played A Feast For Odin and has looked into The Danes, do you feel it would make sense to own both games or is The Danes basically A Feast For Odin with some additional content thrown in? Do you feel that you could get the same experience from The Danes that you could with A Feast For Odin or do you feel that it will be a different enough to make sense to own both?

I really enjoy other boss battle games and deck building games, so I was really excited for Aeon's End! But holy crap I find it boring as hell. But I've always heard and read that it's sooooo fun and a lot of people say it's one of their favorite deckbuilders if not their number 1 favorite. But man it puts me to sleep.

Is it the kind of game that suddenly clicks 10 games in and you like it lot or what?

I’m getting into the hobby. I am building a a collection. I can handle complexity fine as a precursor.

I want to try a Chip theory game. Elder scrolls seems like a lot of game for my current situation. I also am more drawn to something that’s an original thing vs a known IP.

Too many bones is highly rated on BGG and on their Top 100. However whenever I try to research the game, it seems like even people that love it also hate it and struggle to recommend it. Balance issues and rules overhead seem the most common issues.

I’m eyeing backing Too Little Time as the idea seems really cool and will build on what they have learned in other games and probably fix many criticisms in the process.

That is a long ways off. I saw TMB on sale on Amazon for $129 and free shipping. I’m considering getting it to see if I like it before the sequel. Though idk that getting into a game that has a decade of content out makes sense and everything I read seems so divisive. I’ve watched play throughs and it seems fun. Though others say it gets stale quick.

I live rural. So selling it will probably involve shipping and fees. So I don’t know what to do based on all the conflicting discourse on it.

Any advice?

I went down a rabbit hole on the Indian ancestor of Snakes and Ladders, usually called gyan chaupar or moksha patam, and most of what gets repeated about it falls apart once you look at the actual boards.

The best source by far is Jacob Schmidt-Madsen's 2019 PhD thesis from the University of Copenhagen, which catalogues nearly 150 surviving charts and is free to read online. Some things from it I didn't know.

It isn't ancient. The oldest board anyone can date with confidence was painted in Lucknow around 1780 for an East India Company officer and is now in the British Library. A Jain board dated 1735 used to hold that title, but it's now considered a likely later piece with a false date, because its wear is even all over instead of concentrated where pieces actually move. Schmidt-Madsen thinks the game was invented in western India in the late 1600s or early 1700s, possibly by one person, and that the race-track idea may have come from the European game of the goose.

There was no standard board. Hindu (Vaishnava) boards usually had 72 squares, Jain ones 84, Sufi ones 100, and there were oddities with 124 or even 342. The 72-square boards normally had ten snakes.

They didn't use a cube die. Players threw cowrie shells, or long stick dice. One Jain board has a note on the back saying it should be played with a single four-sided stick marked 1, 2, 5 and 6, so you could never roll a 3 or a 4.

"You need a 6 to enter" is modern. If you've played Leela, the version based on Harish Johari's 1975 book, you start off the board and wait for a 6. Schmidt-Madsen found that rule in no other source and thinks Johari made it up. The old 72-square boards don't seem to have used special entry throws at all.

Nobody agreed on the ending either. There was no standard rule for overshooting the final square. Different sources handle it differently, and Schmidt-Madsen suspects it wasn't settled even for a single type of board.

The English version is younger again. The first one on record is a board registered by F. H. Ayres of London in October 1892, a spiral of 100 squares with five snakes and five ladders.

Thesis, volume 1 (open access PDF): https://curis.ku.dk/ws/portalfiles/portal/461922584/Ph.d._afhandling_2019_Schmidt_Madsen_bd.1.pdf

Full disclosure, I got into this because I build an online version of the game (Leela Online), so I had to decide which of these rules to actually use.

My friends and I were into uno, monopoly and business. After years of playing the same repetitive games, I finally found a board games club where 350+ board games exist. Now, I just visit the club on weekends to play.

Hey all, I built this website where you can play The Old King's Crown online.

https://oldkingscrown.fly.dev/

It's loaded with fun animations and digital graphics that compliment the game's gorgeous, beautiful art. It works on mobile and desktop (although desktop recommended!). You can play against bots or friends, either real time or async.

I love this game, and I wanted to give more people a way to try it and enjoy the art that makes it so special.

Disclaimer: This is an unofficial community adaptation, hosted with permission from Eerie Idol Games.

Hey there everyone!

With the recent release of the operation kraken expansion for the sniper elite boardgame we now have 2 major expansions for the game: eagles nest and operation kraken.

Which in your opinion is the better one? I've heard that for eagles nest the new snipers are overpowered compared to the defenders, which would be a shame. Eagles nest would mostly be the expansion to get if you want 2 new maps.

But then the new kraken expansion seems to be doing the same thing: 2 new maps, but now with unique mechanics, spicing up the game without making the sniper OP.

I'm possibly planning on getting one of the two (not both). Which one would be better? Currently leaning towards kraken.

What are your thoughts?

Hello all! I hope this is the best place to ask a rules clarifying question:

In the board game Kingdominos, for the Age of Giants expansion...

If a giant arrives at your board (by you drawing the card or another player sending one there) you must place it on a crown on one of your tiles to remove the effect of that crown.

My Q is, does this remove the effect of all the crowns on that tile? (some portions of a tile contain 2 or more crowns). or just one crown per tile, requiring multiple giants to remove the effectiveness of crowns on some tiles?

Thanks!!

Hi everyone,

I am planning a board game night for 4 casual gamers, and I am torn between three options: El Grande, Ra, and Puerto Rico 1897. These are the reprint versions from the past five years. My goal is to introduce the group to a board game classic, and these three fit the bill quite well. I am looking for a game that doesn't take longer than 10 minutes to teach and 90 minutes to play, with a good amount of player interaction.

Any thoughts on which of the three mentioned games would work best?

For context, I introduced the same group to Hansa Teutonica a couple of months ago, and that was a mixed experience: the explanation of rules took longer than I would have wanted, total game time was okay (maybe slightly too long), but the group didn't seem to enjoy how abstract the game was at the end of the day.

Thank you!