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Matt Thrower
November 24, 2020
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Play Matt: Sherman Leader Review
Board Game Reviews
"Patience is a virtue”, runs the old adage, but it’s in short supply when it comes to solo games. So I dive in head-first, flipping out the mounted...
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Matt Thrower
November 08, 2020
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Play Matt: Isle of Cats Review
Board Game Reviews
Vesh Darkhand hates The Isle of Cats. It’s never quite clear why. Nor why the citizens of the fantasy world he wants to conquer seek to rescue...
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Matt Thrower
October 25, 2020
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Play Matt: Magic Maze On Mars Review
Board Game Reviews
I start Magic Maze on Mars in the worst place possible: at the back of the rulebook. This is where the solitaire version of the game is, and it doe...
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Matt Thrower
October 11, 2020
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Play Matt: White Eagle Defiant Review
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Getting White Eagle Defiant to the table involved a lot of dirt. First, there was dusting off my plexiglass sheet to sit over the paper map. It'd b...
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Matt Thrower
September 28, 2020
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Play Matt: Swatch Review
Board Game Reviews
When you read that a game is good for families, it means one of two things. First, it’s a super simple blast like Uno or a dexterity game like Pitc...
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Matt Thrower
September 14, 2020
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Play Matt: Village Green Review
Board Game Reviews
Growing up in rural England, some villages had fancy name signs. Ours did not, and provoked an early sense of injustice in my childhood self. Years...
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Matt Thrower
August 31, 2020
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Play Matt: Rise of the Orks Review
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Like every Games Workshop board game, Rise of the Orks starts with assembling miniatures. There are five in this box, chunky Space Marine Terminato...
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Matt Thrower
August 09, 2020
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Play Matt: Petrichor Review
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“Petrichor,” says my daughter after seeing the austere beauty of the white box with a shining raindrop. “That means the smell of rain”. I wonder if...
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Matt Thrower
July 26, 2020
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Play Matt: Miremarsh Review
Board Game Reviews
Miremarsh didn’t land with the swampy splash the designer must have hoped for. It bubbled under a lot of people’s radars and initial reports weren’...
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Matt Thrower
July 13, 2020
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Play Matt: The Artemis Project Review
Board Game Reviews
The Artemis Project is, let’s be honest, a box you’d walk past in a game store. The title doesn’t mean much. The lid, on which Skidoos zoom over a ...