It’s Age II. The red card in front of you sports three shields. Your opponent’s military track are teetering just off-center, threatening to move into your capital territory unless you end this now. But the weight of that decision rest heavily on your hands. Should you play it? In 7 Wonders Duel, military almost never … Read more

For example if there are only 3 closers still in the deck and lots of open edges, it’s risky. You need to see what is coming up next. Just type in how many tiles there are, count your shields, and count your open edge. Each shield act as a point multiplier for the city. Shields … Read more

Sit down to play a game of Patchwork. Stare at top of deck. This one require 7 buttons. Two of them are income icons. Your hand contain 4 button. At this moment, most players pause. They’re deciding: do I spend money now? Or do I wait for it to pay off later? The calculator above … Read more

In Queendomino, there are dragons; you can use taxes on your turn to expand your kingdom. Or risk it all against a dragon who rids you of what you’ve built. You look down at your hand. Count your coins. Every decision feels like a gamble. Money is now just as valuable as land, not for … Read more

In Kingdomino, you lay your last domino, and you realize that math gets tricky. There are twenty-five squares containing water, mines, forests, and fields. When you finally count how many connected region you’ve got, those shapes don’t seem so hot. Hand-calculating turns can suck the joy right from the draft-and-build experience. This is especially true … Read more

So how do you play? What’s the right decision in the final round of Azul? Should you place your last few tiles on the floor, risking that they might prevent you from scoring a point? Or should you keep them so you can claim color bonus instead? It feels like a moment of high stakes … Read more

After three years playing through Gloomhaven, you finally pull out the campaign sheet and see that your favorite character has been stuck on level seven as everyone else inches closer and closer to nine. They’re within spitting distance of the cap, but the math just doesn’t seem to add up with how much longer you … Read more