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After a round, Fresco’s board appears tidy; however, your scorecard is rarely legible. You’ve bought some paints, placed that pesky bishop, and replaced several tiles, but reading your points doesn’t becomes easy until the final tally. Having an actual scoring device makes sense here, as it explains exactly what caused you to gain/lose points. After … Read more

New York Zoo can be a stressful game during those last few laps. You realize that your board has more fractured spaces instead of a carefully selected set of enclosures. Attraction tiles aren’t going anywhere. Animals is sitting in their houses. Your enclosures are everywhere. The calculator can shows you how much of your board … Read more

Step into fifth income turn in Tapestry, and suddenly it’s quiet in there. Cards get set down. Players breathe out. It’s time to do the real work. This game isn’t quite as simple as adding up a grocery list; it’s more like auditing books at a complicated business. For five eras, multiple systems was running … Read more

It’s at this point that Merv gets into a particular flavor of quiet panic. For three years, the game’s been an unfolding sprawl of resource management, spatial reasoning, and opportunistic maneuvering. And then boom: all of that compress into arithmetic. There are buildings sitting around the board, scroll cards hiding in the library, caravan cards … Read more

As we sit back down for the final round of Altiplano, there’s a hush on the table while everyone goes over their boards. Rows of filled-in warehouses, random tiles, and cards that could be worth something but also might not, this is where many player start questioning what they’ve done. Did I get the right … Read more

In most games, the last few minutes feel like strategy, but in Glen More II it’s more of a matter of accounting panic. In Glen More II it’s more of a matter of accounting panic. You spend three rounds moving Scotsmen around, stacking wood, and amassing piles of whisky casks. Finally, it comes down to … Read more

That’s why I get such a particular kind of panic when the High Council is full, and someone yells “Game’s over.” Racing heart, you look around the table: this is going to come down to numbers, not nice plastic bits. And that last phase of the game, the final scoring, will decide a winner … … Read more