Articles by Matt Thrower
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Matt Thrower
March 01, 2021
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Play Matt: Wavelength Review
Board Game Reviews
After me, the next member of the household to see Wavelength is the dog, and she doesn’t like it. It contains an extraordinary plastic device that ...
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Matt Thrower
February 22, 2021
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Play Matt: Railroad Ink Deep Blue Review
Board Game Reviews
Roll and write games are like junk food. Easy to pick up, easy to consume, and easy to forget about afterwards. So, like everyone else, we've been ...
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Matt Thrower
February 15, 2021
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Play Matt: The Old Hellfire Club Review
Board Game Reviews
Charles Darwin ate devilled kidneys washed down with a pint of gin before belching in front of a horrified Queen Victoria. He flew the scene in a h...
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Matt Thrower
February 08, 2021
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Play Matt: Pan Am Review
Board Game Reviews
“Let’s play the aeroplane game,” I say. Despite having been born twenty years after it’s collapse, my daughter knows the Pan Am logo well enough to...
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Matt Thrower
February 01, 2021
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Play Matt: Cultural Vacuuming
Rants & Raves
Have you ever seen My Left Foot? It’s a film in which Daniel Day-Lewis portrays an artist with severe cerebral palsy. Day-Lewis is phenomenal in th...
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Matt Thrower
January 18, 2021
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Play Matt: Wildlands The Ancients Review
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Atop the box of Wildlands: The Ancients is a window into another world. In faux stained glass, there are monsters and wizards, automata and minions...
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Matt Thrower
January 10, 2021
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Play Matt: Inkling Review
Board Game Reviews
It remains a constant source of astonishment how much game you can get out of a mere twenty-six letters. Word games have been a constant through th...
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Matt Thrower
January 04, 2021
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Play Matt: Paleo Review
Board Game Reviews
Stone Age life in Paleo starts off with a lot of card sorting and a confusing rules explanation. Perhaps that’s not surprising given our ancestors’...
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Matt Thrower
December 14, 2020
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Play Matt: Cosmic Frog Review
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Ever since I learned about Cosmic Frog, I’ve been tweeting about it. Someone asked what the mechanics were like. To which the only, incredulous, re...
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Matt Thrower
November 30, 2020
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Play Matt: Blitz Bowl Season 2 Review
Board Game Reviews
The crowd roars as the Blitz Bowl player unleashes the mother of all passes. It travels almost the entire length of the field, clearing the brazier...