When Ticket to Ride was released on the iPad in May, I thought it was a fantastic adaptation of the game, but it was missing a few key features that would make it even better. In particular, the lack of …
Continue ReadingYes, that is, in fact, Ticket to Ride on the iPad. Days of Wonder announced today that their popular train-building board game is now available as an iPad app, which lets you play solo games against up to four AI …
Continue ReadingFictionaire Overview: Released last September, Fictionaire is a game about bluffing the other players — whether it’s making up definitions for obscure words, inventing stories about science and nature or coming up with strange-but-true tales. Players: 4 to 7 (or …
Continue ReadingOverview: Cargo Noir, the latest board game from Days of Wonder, pits five Families against each other as they smuggle cargo into their warehouses and then sell the cargo to acquire things like villas, yachts and militia. It’s scheduled to …
Continue ReadingOverview: It’s a small world—literally. A bunch of different races (halflings, dwarves, ratmen, skeletons, giants …) have decided to settle a territory which is sparsely populated by a few remaining tribes, but there’s simply not enough space for everyone, which …
Continue ReadingI always loved Clue. Okay, the die-rolling was largely unnecessary but I loved the deduction and record-keeping, the strategy behind deciding which cards to show which people to keep them in the dark. Well, now Days of Wonder is releasing …
Continue ReadingPlaying war games with your kids is an excellent way to build bonds with them. The back and forth pull of the action, seeing strategies work perfectly or fail miserably and the final grind down struggle of the last man …
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