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December 19, 2023
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I recently had the honour to be tasked with donating most of the 2023 Spiel des Jahres, Kinderspiel des Jahres and Kennerspiel des Jahres nominatio...
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December 12, 2023
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Most of the earliest card games were trick-taking games played in the 800s in China. These will have felt quite different to our modern eyes. They ...
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December 05, 2023
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Pretty much every hobby game contains some sort of score which measures who is in the lead and decides who wins the game. That's undoubtedly true f...
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November 28, 2023
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Card games date back to the 1400s with Karniffel, or Thuringian Karnöffel, often listed as the oldest one, at least the oldest in Europe that we kn...
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October 17, 2023
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I normally don't win, at least not when I play with my games group. That's not a problem and I still have a lot of fun, whatever the outcome. In fa...
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October 10, 2023
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An interesting question Phil Gross recently asked is why low-interaction games are so popular these days. Even though I'm not really sure whether t...
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October 03, 2023
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A "hobby", as defined by Merriam-Webster's online dictionary, is "a pursuit outside one's regular occupation engaged in especially for relaxation."...
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September 26, 2023
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I recently asked for some suggestions for board game topics I could write about. Phil Gross answered my plea and suggested I write about the best g...
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July 04, 2023
Mixing digital tools with analogue games isn't for everyone. Many of us in the modern hobby games community prefer to switch off our smartphones, g...
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June 27, 2023
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The concepts of replayability and variety are often considered to be one and the same. I have previously looked at whether replayability and variet...