The Grizzled — fun but unwinable

The Grizzled is a co-operative card game set in the trenches of World War I.  This is not a combat game.  The focus of this war game is to help each other survive the terrors of war and come out of the conflict alive.  There are basically three “suits” and three values of cards and during play your group may only play at most two of any suit or value.  The suits are weather related:  Snow, Rain, Night.  The values are: Shells, Gas, and Whistles.  Each card has at least one set of suit and value; others have multiple of …

Machi Koro game

Machi Koro — review

Machi Koro is a card/dice game that sets you up as a mayor of a tiny vIllage. You have a wheat field and a bakery and the townsfolk want you to build four things: a train station, a shopping mall, a radio tower and a theme park. Your one wheat field and bakery aren’t big enough revenue generators to accomplish this so you spend your turns rolling a die (or dice) to see which buildings in your town activate and then you buy a new building. When you generate and/or save enough cash you can build the required building. First …

Red Dragon Inn 4 Review

The Red Dragon Inn series of games is a card game where the players are sitting around in an Inn drinking, gambling, and rough housing.  If you drink too much, lose too much gold, or get too beat up you’re out!  The last person standing wins. Number four is pirate themed.  That’s an almost must buy for me.  I wanted something fun and easy to play with the kids.   There are four big box sets, each with four characters, and five single character expansions.  The box contains: a deck of cards for each player a nice board you can …