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JW
Apr 30, 2020
Solo modus Reparo!
Cooperative deck-building game Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle is a favourite family game of ours, but I'd never tried to play it solo. The...
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JW
Apr 29, 2020
Unidentified Flying Mother***
There was a strange phenomenon in the sky this week. I saw a blinking light, getting bigger. More lights. Then it dawned on me... Earth...
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Athena
Apr 27, 2020
Regicide on a King's birthday
JW told me that today is the birthday of the King of the Netherlands (a national holiday there). What better occasion than to play...
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Athena
Apr 22, 2020
Bomber Boys
Bomber Boys is a solitaire PnP game by Steven Aramini aka Mr. Sprawlopolis. If you are one of the numerous people who adore his abstract...
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Apr 17, 2020
The finest filler
Years ago, when I accidentally discovered playing board games solitaire could be fun, I bought Friday. It was cheap, translated to Dutch...
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Athena
Apr 15, 2020
No bride for Frankenstein
As soon as the solo mode for Abomination: The Heir of Frankenstein was announced by Plaid Hat Games, the game went straight to the top of...
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Athena
Apr 13, 2020
Home Alone 5: Liven up your minis
If you are a seasoned minis painter, please ignore this post, as it is written by an amateur. It is only meant to encourage people who...
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Athena
Apr 11, 2020
Bitten
In my early solo days, I wasn't drawn to the idea of zombie games, just as I wasn't interested in watching zombie TV series (The Walking...
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Apr 11, 2020
Deckbuilding in Flanders Fields
Some big battles took place at the Ypres salient during World War One, it's well known for the trenches. These battles are condensed in...
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Apr 10, 2020
Home Alone 4: SoloConning
No board game groups, no friends over for game nights: the social aspect of gaming is suffering. There are ways to share our experiences...
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Athena
Apr 5, 2020
Silly jello fight-out
One of the strangest creatures a hero has to fight in D&D-style dungeon crawls is the Gelatinous Cube. When you enter the Cube's space,...
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Apr 5, 2020
Rolling builds character
I had it all wrong with this one. After learning the game and losing three times with terrible scores, I figured I was ready to set up a...
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Apr 2, 2020
Crawling back in time
After 20+ years I dusted off an old favourite of mine, Warhammer Quest. A co-op dungeon crawler with tiles that make up a variable board,...
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Athena
Mar 28, 2020
Retirement plans
The hero you get to play in Iron Helm is just a step before retirement. All they need to do is clear one last monster-ridden dungeon to...
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Athena
Mar 24, 2020
Close encounters of the eighties kind
1981: The year yours truly was born, and the year Voyage of the B.S.M Pandora was published inside Ares magazine. What do we have in...
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JW
Mar 23, 2020
Musashi's useless nephew
In Way of the Samurai by Ÿøssef Fårhi, you are the famous Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi. Or perhaps his useless nephew, as I get...
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Athena
Mar 21, 2020
Persist, and you will be rewarded
What are the difficulty stages in a game? Easy-Medium-Hard-WTF. Except there is no Easy in Dragonfire. The game throws challenges at you...
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Mar 20, 2020
Home Alone 2 (tablet presence)
At the moment my "game room" is occupied as a work-from-home office from 7 am to early in the evening. My daughter is doing her...
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Mar 16, 2020
Kobayashi Maru
I am one of the happy few that backed Astroforce (as the Kickstarter campaign may be over by the time you read this). We are in for a...
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