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Category Archives: Board Game Reviews

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Non-alcoholic Beer for Beer-and-Pretzel Games

If you were invited to a beer-and-pretzels game night, but you’re the designated driver, here are my favorite “non-alcoholic” beers to consider, though technically some of these do have up to 0.5 alcohol by volume (ABV). For each of the last two Januarys, I set aside regular beer to drink these instead, which I tracked and rated on Untappd. These are sorted by my rating, with the global rating across all app users being the tiebreaker. (Good games need tiebreakers.) Anything I rated below 3.0, I personally won’t buy again. […]

The Golden Ages: An Epic Civ Light

Designer: Luigi Ferrini Publisher: Stronghold Games, Quined Games, et al Players: 2-4 (2-5 with expansion, Cults & Culture) Ages: 12+ Time: 90-180 minutes Times played: 10, with purchased copy I missed The Golden Ages by Luigi Ferrini when it came out in 2014, among the thousands of games that came out that year. I stumbled across it in reviews of Sid Meier’s Civilization: New Dawn among players who said they preferred it. Ten plays later, I can see how it compares favorably. In most civilization games, any hidden elements of […]

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