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- Hey, That’s My Fish! (Board Game Arena Challenge #21)
- Friendsgiving 2025 Friday (Living Forest, Speakeasy, Dinosaur Island)
- Winter of Games 2025 – Dec. 15th – Don’t Let It Die (Board Game Arena Challenge #20)
- Winter of Games 2025 – Dec. 14th – Wandering Towers (Board Game Arena Challenge #19)
- Winter of Games 2025 – Dec. 13th – Cookie Addict (Board Game Arena Challenge #18)
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Published first in 2003, Hey, That’s My Fish just recently got a new edition on 2023, which was published by Next Move Games, designed by Gunter Cornett and Alvydas Jakeliunas. It was added to Board Game Arena on March 15, 2026. It plays 2 to 4 players, in 20 minutes. In Hey, That’s My Fish!,…
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Alright, I know I’m pretty slow at this, as we are now in January and this event was in November, but kids man, the take a lot out of me, especially with having Thanksgiving and Winter Breaks being practically back to back. However, I’m back with the rest of that weekend. Living Forest is a…
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Don’t Let It Die is a 1 to 4 player cooperative survival game where the players are a team of neanderthals that have found a fire, courtesy of a lightening strike. The goal is to keep the fire alive, survive, and research as a group to uncover the secrets of fire within 14 days. The…
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Wandering Towers is a game designed by Michael Kiesling and Wolfgang Kramer, with art by Michael Menzel. It is published and available here in the US by Capstone Games. This is a game that I am highly familiar with as I work with Capstone Games at conventions and sells tons of copies of Wandering Towers.…
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Cookie Addict is a small box tile laying game for two players by publisher Lubee Edition. The designer is Pierrick Lugen and artists Alexandre Brull and Martin Maigret. In this game, players are either the fox or the racoon that have escaped their enclosures at the zoo. They are competing to collect the most cookies…
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Coatl, published in 2020, by Synapses Games, was designed by Pascale Brassard and Etienne Dubois-Roy, with art by SillyJellie. This is a family level abstract strategy game with a fun toy factor in the plastic serpent pieces. While I played this on BGA, you don’t get the same table presence and toy element as the…
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Medu is a 2 player abstract strategy game, published in 2025 by Mindcastle Games. The game was created by Thai designer, T-raz Bank Piamdumrongsak. In this game, each player starts with a set of tiles the same as their opponent. You have size 1 through 4 of tiles, in four different colors. On your turn,…
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Asteria is a two player, 4X strategic card war game, where players compete to achieve several potential victory goals while playing cards to Extract, Expand, Explore or Exterminate on a range of planets, competing for dominance. The game is designed by Augusto Rocha, published by Brazilian company MeepleBR, with art by Harpy Studio. It was…
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Quattuor Reges, is a 2 player, head to head, chess style game, designed by Gauthier Fourcade. In this abstract strategy game, the player pieces represent cards from a deck, between 7 and the Ace, in the four suits. Each player controls two of the suits, either as the red player or the black player. The…
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Winter of Games 2025 – Dec. 8th – Moonlight: The Land of the Wolves (Board Game Arena Challenge #13)
Moonlight: The Land of the Wolves, is a 2-player head to head game, designed by Alexandre Aguilar and Thomas Favreliere, with art by Noemie Chevalier. This game was published in 2025, by French company La Boite de Jeu. In this game, players are taking on the role of opposing packs, battling for the control of…