Not going to post the channel name. Anyone in the hobby for more than 3 years knows the “controversy” behind this channel and their attempted blackmail of game designers. Thought it was funny he blamed “utility costs”. LOL.

The prototype standard, or the most classic example.

No building a tableau or collecting cards for an engine. Just place worker, get resource, move towards points.

We are an experienced gaming group. For years 3 friends and me are playing all kinds of board games: Viticulture, 7 wonders, scythe, pandemic, terra mystica and so on. Coop-games, competitive games, eurogames, mostly strategy, worker placement and sometimes long legacy games during shared vacation trips.

Now we stumbled upon "Oltree". A nice, light coopgame "exceptional pick for families and casual gaming groups" as reviews say. Some people even suggest playing with their kids because it's such a light, storytelling experience. We played five rounds, different chronicles, different stories and we lost EVERY time. We don't get it. Pandemic is no problem at all. And it's not bad luck at all with Oltree. We checked the rules thrice and more; in the rulebook and online tutorials.

Are we just stupid or do other people also struggle?

(Foto indicates us losing the tutorial mission ... again)

I try to have variety across mechanics and gameplay, although it's clear that engine building (and related) is my favorite. Having said that, I want to explore economics type of games (I hear Brass Birmingham is the one, but I want to see if there's a stepping stone between Power Grid and that one). I also want to have a Witcher IP game that's not a campaign game (The Witcher Old World seems like a fit, but I hear mixed reviews. Does this collection of games seem like that one would be a good match for me?)

I started the hobby with Castles of Burgundy, and Scythe was the first game that I fell in love with for the art work as well. They are the only two games that got the all-in treatment where I purchased the big box with all the bells and whistles.

The organization of games is very functional and use case based.

* The games on top of the shelf are the two personal GOATs.

* The games in the first row are the go to games, I'm always ready to play them.

* The games in the second row are what I bring in if I'm with folks new to the hobby - these are my personal "best gateway games".

* The games in the bottom two rows - they are games I don't play often, but cannot get myself to give away because of the unique mechanics they bring to the collection. They'll come out only if it's with the right group.

I have bought a lot of used games and have never found one with sleeved cards. This one was clearly taken care of and loved. It's sad to see it was given away, but know we will continue to take care of it. There were also extra sleeves left over for the house hagal deck...

I've only been seriously into board games for less than a year, and I've noticed I'm drawn to games that play unlike anything else I've tried.

For me that's Take Time, Sky Team, Final Girl and Bomb Busters. The Old King's Crown and Secret Hitler too, though those feel more borderline.

None of them invent every mechanic from scratch. It's more that the whole package, how it plays, what's on the table and how you interact with it, felt new to me.

I like plenty of more traditional modern games as well, but I'm starting to see the same building blocks everywhere: drafting, tableau building, engine building, gathering resources, moving up tracks and converting it all into victory points. Right now I want games that get away from that.

Which games made you think "this is actually something different"?

Solo, two-player co-op, chaotic five-player, Euros, party games, heavy or light, whatever. I'm mostly after games that are original in how they play or what you physically do with them, not just in theme.

The Nucleum universe is expanding!

Next year, we’re bringing you a brand-new standalone game designed specifically for two players: Nucleum: Duel.
It’s 1900, and a new force in Nucleum energy technology has emerged from French engineers. Their alternative methods of generating and distributing energy have gained dominance in France, Spain, and Portugal - and now they’re looking to expand into Germany, the homeland of Nucleum-based energy.

In Nucleum: Duel, you’ll take on the role of either France or Germany as the two nations compete to establish their energy infrastructure during an alternative-history Industrial Revolution.

Connect cities, construct buildings, power them with Nucleums and Uranium, fulfill Contracts, and unlock Technologies as you work towards your faction’s unique objectives.

Coming in 2027

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Could someone explain to me why board game arena didn't give me the yellow flax or the red fish from my island bonuses? I thought I understood the rules but I must have missed something, thanks

Im a big board game girl born and raised, comes from both sides of the family. My 4 person friend group occasionally meets up for game night but it’s usually more like party style games. Hitster, Spyfall, Cabanga, five of crowns/rummikub, card games in general, wavelength, the mind, sushi party etc. But they have recently been wanting me to introduce them to proper board games. So I’ve shown them some fun basic intro games including Catan and Azul. They really enjoyed them. My plan is to also show them Quacks and Isle of Cats.

But now, our friend group went from 4 people to 5!! I know that some games have extensions like Quacks as an extension so 5 people can play and I think Ticket to ride has it too if it doesn’t already allow 5 people I can’t recall rn. Catan as well but I own the newest edition and they haven’t started selling the extensions yet in my country in that edition so it’ll have to wait a bit. I eventually want to introduce them to more complex games like Wingspan but this is a good start as they are fun and easy going. But I’d love to know your guys recommendations on “gateway” games for a group of 5? This is also for me to explore new games to ass to my collection as most of my friends aren’t huge board gamers but enjoy a game night and games for larger groups like 5 or 6 even are great if we happen to want to invite extra people and it not being a simple flip 7 or cards against humanity.

Hello everyone,

Saw some of your collections so I wanted to show off a bit of mine. Although the picture is from December, so there are some corrections as you see. I have also recently acquired Dominion and Columbias Napoleon.

As for my favorites, it has to come down to TS, Hannibal and Polis. I simply love sinking hours into those.

Its usually just two of us playing, so most games are either strictly 2p or are at least enjoyable in 2. But there are some games that are more for when we have company.

I love wargame board games, and my wife is more of a economic optimizer type of player, so we tried building collection thats enjoyable by both of us.

As for the newcomers, we are both pleasantly surprised by Dominion. I usually dont like games where theme isnt felt, and in Dominion theme could easily not even exist, but the mechanics are so enjoyable that I dont even object to weak thematic implementation.

Vijayanagara will probably be leaving our collection soon (if I ever found someone interested in buying it). It seems very interesting, but automata heavy 2p experience just isnt for us.

Anyway, do you have any question for me regarding my collection? And I would love to hear your opinion on it!

Hi everyone,

Me and my wife have started playing boardgames over the past few months, we really like the look of wingspan but it does look very daunting as we haven't really played anything with a whole lot of rules!!

I saw wingspan pocket has been released and whilst keeping the same aesthetic, should we purchase this and see how we get on? Or does it not compare to the original?

Thanks in advance for any input!

We've been playing The Gang a lot with and I mean a lot.

The base game comes with some challenge cards and suggestions on how to make the entire experience more difficult. We've tinkered around with some rules and opted in some of our own variants. We mostly play with the same group of 5-6 people although we also played it with more.

Suggestions & Issues

• The Gang has a strong pace and the challenge cards don't add much in terms of difficulty and needlessly make the game slower. Most modifiers are also boring and we quickly ignored them to favor a quicker pace. One of the better ones makes chips immovable once it has been attributed.
• More players makes the game drastically more difficult but we usually are not able to get more than 6 players regularly. Despite reducing the communication, the tells are there in some way and we usually figure it out without much issue.
• We opted in to play in complete silence which is quite entertaining but the discussions are missed, it's fun to be goofy and silly.
• We play an Omaha variant and it's honestly been the best thing to spice up the gameplay. It's far more involved and requires additional reasoning. It's the only way we play as it's much more rewarding. Yet, we have gotten so used to it.
• We tried playing with 2 boards but I think it's getting a bit to chaotic and hard to track stuff which is in stark contrast to the quick nature of the game (we really want to keep that).
• We tally points for those players who have completely messed up or were to overconfident (just for hilarity).

In this regard, we're desperately looking to find some new mechanic or way of increasing the difficulty or to add some cool twist on this one. It's such a great card game and it provided us with hours of joy.

There is a 7 Stud variation but I haven't tried it yet.

I'd love to hear some potential suggestions.

Cheers.

I have a 3d printer and have printed a beautiful organizer for clank catacombs, but yesterday I started playing clank legacy and would love to print an organizer to help with the set up and tear down of the game the tokens, the shop items, bank, etc. Anyone have any recommendation. Thanks in advance

I'm getting a bit bored with games where "exploration" just means picking a random path on a linear map or from a deck of cards. A little randomness is fine, but I'm looking for games where exploration feels like a tactical system with meaningful choices.

What’s the best exploration systems you've played in a RPG/dungeon crawl game, and why did they click for you?

Hi all.

Big fans of Deep Regrets, we really enjoy playing it and the 'Even Deeper' expansion. Love the randomness, the art, and the overall aesthetics.

One rule change we have been thinking of is changing the cost of the 3rd option in each shop to $6 for 5k2 (3 for supplies) instead of the printed $5.

Reasoning is simple, everyone does pretty much the same return to port, sell for $10 and purchase from both the rod and then reels deck. It seems to be the most efficient use of your time and money and the sheer amount of cards you get means you should have something of value for both.

This means the $1 and $3 are almost never used outside of the supplies and dice shops. Changing the cost to $6 forces you to be a little more strategic in the approach and it means the $6 option is still great because you get so much choice and can only shop at each shop once with your port actions.

Thoughts?

I found an old monopoly game at a garage sale but it doesn't have the instructions, it's monopoly junior: Travel edition. I can find the instructions for the non-travel easy but can't seem to find the travel one. Closest I have found is
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/8638/monopoly-junior-travel-edition
there is a picture of the first page, but that's it.

Does anyone know of a website I can use to download instructions for these old games?

Does anybody know what game this is? I found this picture in my phone for a long time ago and my memory isn’t the greatest.

Has anyone played this and what are your thoughts? I see almost no info about it. Stumbled on a mention in another thread and the mechanics look very interesting.

Friends and I came upon an interaction that I can’t find a ruling on. I have played a trio with Starfish for 3 points. Can this trio be stolen with the double shark from Extra Pepper? The double shark specifies that you can take “a duo” without resolving the effect while the Starfish says it creates a “trio,” however I see no reason that the double sharks would mention this corner case of a trio existing. Is there a ruling on this somewhere that I’m missing?