Joel Lee

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.

Cartographers Review

Cartographers is a flip-and-write game where you draw polyomino shapes onto a grid-based map to score points.

Love Letter Review

Love Letter is a tiny game comprised of just 16 cards for 2 to 4 players. How well does it hold up after all these years?

Waterfall Park Review

Waterfall Park is a brilliant trading and negotiation game that pretty much nails everything. If you want player interaction, it's here.

FUSE Review

FUSE is a real-time dice drafting game played cooperatively. Can you defuse all the bomb cards together before time runs out?

Welcome To... Review

Does this acclaimed flip-and-write game deserve its status as a trendsetter? How well does it really hold up after five years?

Timeline: Inventions Review

Timeline: Inventions is a quick micro card game that's better than you might expect from its premise. It certainly surprised me.