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In Suburbia, you put down a pretty tile. Income goes down. Population growth halt. That tile looks great on the board but the math doesn’t work. Your turn determines what happens next. See penalties coming so predicting the turn is important. Understand why they are moving. The math move. The winner understand the reason behind … Read more

For Notre Dame players there’s an additional level of dread: that rat marker on the board. Sure, it means giving up some prestige points; sure, it means shuffling around those cubes. But more than anything else, it feels like realizing you got the wrong answer to a math problem. The plague track doesn’t care how … Read more

In Troyes, you are sitting at the table looking at a yellow civil action card. It’s the type of merchant chain you require. Your district has a good die, one with a four on it. To advance to the next multiple to gain the cards yield, you must roll a six. In an opponent’s district … Read more

Rather than do the mental math yourself, the calculator weighs movement costs against clan board spots. In Glen More II, there are rivals to contend with and sometimes it’s a matter of seeing one turn ahead or three that means the difference between winning than losing. Understanding which inefficiencies you can afford is more important … Read more

Another thing that really bugs me is standing in the Jousting Field with my cloth in hand waiting to purchase a favor because I realize my marker is stuck at column one since Dungeon hasn’t scored yet. No, the game doesn’t care what you intend to use the gold for or how many points you’ll … Read more

And this isn’t simply a train track; it’s the Trans-Siberian railway. You’re laying down a network across a continent, limited by the laws of both bureaucracy and physics. Only your locomotive goes so far. Only your colors for rails go forward in such-and-such an order. And each point you earn relies completely upon the placement … Read more

The room falls silent. You sit at the table with your hand hovering above your resources. Other players appear to have their next move already decided. Do you take a landmark? Will you save your coins for income? The tension is in Tapestry’s moments like this, one where it isn’t just about who can gather … Read more