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Piñatas is an unusual trick-taking game. That’s always a good place to start. I like the weird ones. But unlike, say, Ghosts of Christmas, or Cat in the Box, or Inflation!, Piñatas isn’t unusual as a result of some baroque approach to the card play. To the contrary, Piñatas is a must-follow trick-taking game with a trump suit. That’...

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My favorite type of trick-taking game is one that pits one or two players against the rest of the table. While this sort of design doesn’t come up much in contemporary releases—Mü & More is the only even vaguely recent example that leaps to mind—its origins can be traced back to the middle of the l...

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Classic, campy monster movies are a blindspot in my cinema knowledge. I know the general stories of the big ones—Dracula, Mummy, Swamp Thing—but I've never seen the original films. With Keymaster's release of Campy Creatures: Volume 1, however, I finally get to sink my teeth into those horror-laden worlds by taking on the role of a mad scientist showcasing their work...

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At Essen 2025, I picked up a review copy of Kingdom Legacy, the latest release from Swedish design Jonathan Fryxelius and publisher FryxGames. I hadn’t heard anything about it prior to the convention—nothing drives home the vastness of our ecosystem like counting the games at Spiel that you’ve never heard of—but I was intrigued by the idea of a solo six-hour legacy ga...

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Even though I’ve been heavily into board gaming for over a decade, and I’m a big fan of Reiner Knizia, I’d never heard of Botswana (or any of its previous incarnations: Quandary, Loco, or Irish Wolf). So with great delight I opened the slim box, gorgeously illustrated by Weberson Santiago. Inside I found even more beautiful cards and large, chunk...

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