When you finally score your game of Wingspan, it’s often quiet. It is not out of satisfaction but anxiety. Because everybody knows that this is there last chance to repeat everything. The beauty of these birds take a back seat to the drudgery of adding up victory points. You have eggs on cards, food in … Read more

Few games of Twilight Imperium ever end quietly in the final round. Typicaly it concludes after one player realizes he miscalculated exact moment his opponent pulls past him. Sure, maybe you’ve had control over most systems at any given time. Maybe you held strongest IOUs. Perhaps you won all arguments on strategy. But ultimately you … Read more

Finally, you have finished building your Verdant house, laid down the tokens like confetti, and looked it over. You say, “Okay! Time to do math.” That’s when you remember the elegant-but-messy rules. Add up some printed-out numbers? Check. Count how many things is unique? Check. How many green pairs? Check. Adjacency of room? Check. And … Read more

And then there is that last round of Cascadia when it always freaks you out. You’ve played your 20th tile. You’ve run a big forest corridor through the middle. Now you need to account for all those nature tokens, elk herd, and bear pairs before anyone else catches on that they goofed. Scoring doesn’t just … Read more

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