reddit because the boardgame discussion on here is dead, boardgamegeek doesn’t do well unless you’re looking at a specific game (and CasualUK is pretty decent)

Facebook because that’s where the church tech discussion is and I can sell boardgames so fast on there on the main group for my country.

Both sites main feeds are dead to me though, if Lemmy ever picks up significantly I can see me moving over full time

Twitter/Instagram/Snapchat/LinkedIn have all never been used or deleted.

Take it off the shelf and put it on the table.

1. Did Dr Reiner Knizia design it?
2. Is it a Cube Rails?
3. Who will I play it with?
4. Does it cost under £50?
5. Does it play up to 5?
6. Is there a rulebook online?
7. Do my geekbuddies rate it highly?
8. What does it do in my collection?

I’m looking for realistic answers to 6 out of those, before I’ll consider it

Börenpark, was just boring.

No real competition for tiles, no real race to the finish.

• Gang of Dice, 3 player

• Carcassonne, 2 player

• Mind Up, 3 player

• Big City, 3 player

Basically anything my young ones like.

There’s no fighting other players in New Frontiers, exploring is abstracted to drawing from a bag, exploiting is two actions and expanding is paying the relevant cost for the tech/world

It’s nowhere near a 4X, barely a 1X IMHO. It’s a engine building game.

https://www.spiel-des-jahres.de/en/award-winners-2023/

Should you want to visit the announcement directly

Power Grid, accessible plenty of player interaction with loads of maps to mix it up

Race for the Galaxy, engine building without the fuss

6Nimmt wide ranging player count, plays pretty well at all of them and includes plenty of hilarious moments

I wonder if it’s a reimplementation of Risk Express/Age of War? - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/28086/risk-express

I don’t really like worker placement games but I really like Keyflower and Tzolk’in

I’d love to get a game of Doppelkopf in

Quest for El Dorado, having got the new Dutrait art with proper cards it was a delight to get this out. Myself vs my seven year old kid.

I won with a thin deck and taking the longer easy routes. Kiddo concentrates fully on the shortest possible path and often gets stuck on teh three symbol spaces waiting for the perfect card.

I always answer ‘tetris’ to this. Whatever maximises shelf space

Captain Sonar does 3v3 and 4v4 well.

Cyclades also has a 2v2v2 variant