Ark Nova‘s final round becomes almost a deep check of every aspect of your strategy. Tokens twitch as you try to recall what all the brown text on each sponsor card does, if you have any ticket icons in your hand that will count toward your total appeal, and most of all: Are there three … Read more
The Talisman calculator is a tool that will allow you to determine if your character are ready for the final stage of the game of Talisman. A player must make a decision of whether or not to advance forward in the game, and the calculator will help to provide a score to that individual. The … Read more
And then there’s the panic you feel on the last round of Earth, when everything about your island no longer look like what it was just 10 minutes before. There are tall trunk and sprouts everywhere, and compost cards is stacked in little piles that suddenly don’t look so little once you realize how many … Read more
In the last round of Evolution, there is a dozen species boards: some looking majestic and others barely clinging to life by a single cube. It’s the math after feeding that provides the nail-biting. One misplaced token or forgotten species, and what was once a winning score are now one point short. Get out the … Read more
Oftentimes the last few rounds of an Oceans game are a mess. The ocean board evaporates quicklyly. Your hand contains high-value cards that needs to be sacrificed at great cost. Species teeter at edge of destruction. It’s simple to get confused about what’s happening, are you winning? Are you merely scraping by? Luckily, the calculator … Read more
Above and Below’s final round tends to be more audit than race. Seventy minutes of tracking down resources, placing structures and ascending tracks has passed. Here’s the moment when everybody remember something they didn’t account for. This is a notoriously complex scoring game. There are eight slots with goods. There are different types of buildings … Read more
Every board game has that last turn. It is the turn where everything comes down to math rather than any of moves you took three turns before. And no, I don’t mean just because your camp are all in place or you’ve cut off the trade route or you’re like a Dragon defending its stash … Read more
