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Author: Joel Lee
Joel is an omnigamer who unrepentantly lives for family-style board games, but also enjoys everything from lighter fare to midweight titles. All game mechanics are fair game and the entire spectrum of Euro-style to American-style games are fun under the right circumstances. He's based in the Philadelphia area and loves to play, watch, research, buy, trade, and write about board games and card games.
Review: Caper: Europe
Caper: Europe is a two-player card game about pulling off heists with card drafting, set collection, and tableau building.
Review: Dinosaur Island: Rawr 'n Write
Dinosaur Island: Rawr 'n Write is a pen-and-paper strategy game about building the most successful dinosaur theme park!
Review: Doodle Dash
Doodle Dash is a party game where players race to draw words as quickly as they can to lead the guesser towards the right answer.
Review: Heat: Pedal to the Metal
Heat: Pedal to the Metal is a racing board game in which smart card play and efficient maneuvering will get you across the finish line first.
Review: King of Tokyo
King of Tokyo is a classic game of dice chucking that's great for kids and adults alike. How does it hold up after all these years?
Review: One Deck Galaxy
One Deck Galaxy is a tableau-style dice game where you build up a space civilization and take down an Adversary before it's too late!
Review: Coffee Roaster
Coffee Roaster is a solo board game where bag-building represents the challenge of brewing a perfectly tasty cup of coffee.
Review: Ex Libris
Ex Libris is a whimsical strategy game that blends worker placement, tableau building, and hand management.
Review: New York Slice
New York Slice is the quintessential game of "I cut, you choose" where players split pizzas and try to grab the best slices for themselve
Review: Mission: Red Planet
Mission: Red Planet is a strategic game that blends area control with simultaneous action selection for tense mind games and conflicts.
Review: 7 Wonders: Architects
7 Wonders: Architect is a beautifully produced set collection game where you're racing to construct your Wonder of the World.
Review: One Deck Dungeon
One Deck Dungeon is a dice-rolling game that simulates a dungeon crawl, complete with items, skills, and a boss at the end of every dungeon.
Review: Fugitive
Fugitive is a two-player hidden movement game that blends bluffing with deduction to create a tense, thinky battle of wits.
Maquis is a solo worker placement game that feels like an abstract puzzle game with elements of push-your-luck.
Review: AQUA: Biodiversity in the Oceans
AQUA: Biodiversity in the Oceans is a spatial puzzle game using hex tiles. Build the best Coral Reef that attracts the best animals to win!
Review: Illiterati
Illiterati is a real-time, cooperative word-spelling game that puts a fun spin on classics like Scrabble and Bananagrams.
Review: Junk Drawer
Junk Drawer is a polyomino puzzle board game that's simple, fast, and elevated by its unique push-your-luck elements.
Review: First Rat
First Rat is a strategic family board game that blends action efficiency, set collection, and engine building to fantastic results.
[ENDED] Giveaway: Project L
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Review: Grove
Grove is a solo puzzle-style microgame that involves the strategic overlapping of cards and dice to score as highly as you can.
Review: The A.R.T. Project
The A.R.T. Project is a cooperative game of action efficiency where you're trying to recover stolen art pieces from the White Hand.
How to Sell Your Used Board Games: A Step-by-Step Guide
Do you have board games you want to get rid of? Here's a complete guide on how to sell them and ship them to buyers.
Tired of your cards and components getting dirtied up after every game night? Try serving these cleaner-to-eat foods instead!
Review: Caesar! Seize Rome in 20 Minutes
Caesar! Seize Rome in 20 Minutes is a two-player area control strategy game with some clever mechanisms that help it shine.
Review: Project L
Project L is an engine-building game where you solve polyomino puzzles to acquire more pieces to solve even bigger puzzles.
Review: Romi Rami
Romi Rami is a compact card game that puts a few modern twists on traditional rummy-style gameplay.
[ENDED] Giveaway: Kingdomino Origins
Learn more about this month's giveaway and how you can enter for a chance to win! Must be 18+ and live in the United States.
Isn't board gaming supposed to be a social experience? Why do people play board games on their own? Here's why!
Why I Don't Back Board Games on Kickstarter: 7 Reasons
Kickstarter isn't all bad, but I have zero interest in participating in Kickstarter culture. Here's why.
Review: Cartographers
Cartographers is a flip-and-write game where you draw polyomino shapes onto a grid-based map to score points.