Board Games

Chris Young

Chris Young @plunderbunny

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Colourbrain [Game] BGG
other title: Color Brain / Colour Brain
genre: Party Game / Trivia platform: Boardgame publisher: Big Potato Games / Game Factory
No good at quizzes? Great, because in this game we give you all the answers before you start. All you have to do is work out which of the eleven color cards in your hand correctly answers one of Colourbrain’s crafty questions.

Get it right and you could be in luck. Now you need the other teams to get it wrong to walk off with the points — while they turn green with envy.

Each turn a player draws a card that shows a word. The active player also chooses a color-card from his hand that shows the color best matching the word. The other players also choose a color-card from their hands. Answer correctly and your pawn moves closer to the finish.

Colt Express: 10th Anniversary Edition [Game] BGG
other title: Colt Express / Colt Express Η Ληστεία του Τραίνου
genre: American West / Fighting platform: Boardgame publisher: Ludonaute / Asmodee
On the 11th of July, 1899 at 10 a.m., the Union Pacific Express has left Folsom, New Mexico, with 47 passengers on board. After a few minutes, gunfire and hurrying footsteps on the roof can be heard. Heavily armed bandits have come to rob honest citizens of their wallets and jewels. Will they succeed in stealing the suitcase holding the Nice Valley Coal Company's weekly pay, despite it having been placed under the supervision of Marshal Samuel Ford? Will these bandits hinder one another more than the Marshal since only the richest one of them can come out on top?

In Colt Express, you play a bandit robbing a train at the same time as other bandits, and your goal is to become the richest outlaw of the Old West. The game consists of five rounds, and each round has two phases:


Phase 1: Schemin' Each player plays 2-5 action cards on a common pile, with the cards being face up or face down depending on the type of the round. Instead of playing a card, a player can draw three cards from her deck.
Phase 2: Stealin' The action cards are carried out in the order they were played, with a player's best laid plans possibly not panning out due to mistakes and oversights!


The game takes place in a 3D train in which the bandits can move from one car to another, run on the roof, punch the other bandits, shoot them, rob the passengers, or draw the Marshal out of position. The train has as many cars as the number of players, and each car is seeded with gems, bags of loot or suitcases at the start of play.

Each player starts a round with six cards in hand, with each card showing one of these actions. At the start of a round, a round card is revealed, showing how many cards will be played; whether they'll be played face up or face down, or individually or in pairs; and what action will occur at the end of the round (e.g., all bandits on top of the train move to the engine). You can pick up loot, gems or suitcases only by playing a "steal" card when you're in a train car that holds one of these items — but since everyone is planning to get these goods, you'll need to move, punch and shoot to get others out of your way. You can punch someone only in the same car as you, and when you do, the other bandit drops one of the goods he's collected and is knocked into an adjacent car.

Each player's character has a special power, such as starting the round with an extra card, playing your first card face down, or pocketing a bag of loot when you punch someone instead of letting it hit the ground.

You can shoot someone in an adjacent car or (if you're running on top of the train) anyone in sight, and when you do, you give that player one of your six bullet cards; that card gets shuffled in the opponent's deck, possibly giving her a dead card in hand on a future turn and forcing her to draw instead of playing something. If the Marshal ends up in the same car as you, likely due to other bandits luring him through the train, he'll be happy to give you a bullet, too.

At the end of the game, whoever fired the most bullets receives a $1,000 braggart bonus, and whoever bagged the richest haul wins!

Command of Nature [Game] BGG
genre: Animals / Card Game platform: Boardgame publisher: TeeTurtle / Unstable Games
Harness the magic of the forest and go head-to-head with your rivals in this strategic deck-building game for 2 or 4 players. You’ll play as a powerful Sage, summoning warriors from the Twig, Leaf, Droplet, and Pebble factions and fighting to prove your prowess. As the battle continues, you’ll level up and gain access to extraordinary abilities and fierce new recruits. Protect your Sage at all costs and vanquish your opponents to earn the title of Master of the Elements!



How to PlayYour turn is divided into four phases:

Phase 1
During Phase I, you’ll use daybreak effects denoted on the cards in your formation! You may use those effects in any order during Phase I of your turn. If you continue to Phase II without using a daybreak effect, you may not use it later in your turn.

Phase 2
During Phase II, you'll have 4 Action Points (AP) to spend doing any of the following:
- Summon an Elemental from your hand to the formation
- Play a Command card from your hand
- Swap the positions of 2 connected Elementals in your formation
- Draw a card from your deck

As the game progresses, you'll be able to unlock special Faction Actions after you've defeated 4, 6, and 8 of your opponents Elementals! Faction Actions are powerful abilities that give you a leg up during the game.

Phase 3
During Phase III, you may use your gold to buy cards from the markets, sell cards to collect more gold, and refresh the markets.

Phase 4
During Phase IV, you’ll clean up your hand before ending your turn. Do this by discarding any number of cards from your hand, then draw from your deck until you have 5 cards in your hand. If you have more than 5 cards in your hand when you reach Phase IV of your turn, you must discard cards until you have no more than 5.

The game ends when your opponent's Sage has been defeated!

-description from publisher

Concordia [Game] BGG
other title: Concordia: Sestertiusszal kikövezett utak / Oppida Romana
genre: Ancient / Economic platform: Boardgame publisher: PD-Verlag / 999 Games
Two thousand years ago, the Roman Empire ruled the lands around the Mediterranean Sea. With peace at the borders, harmony inside the provinces, uniform law, and a common currency, the economy thrived and gave rise to mighty Roman dynasties as they expanded throughout the numerous cities. Guide one of these dynasties and send colonists to the remote realms of the Empire; develop your trade network; and appease the ancient gods for their favor — all to gain the chance to emerge victorious!

Concordia is a peaceful strategy game of economic development in Roman times for 2-5 players aged 13 and up. Instead of looking to the luck of dice or cards, players must rely on their strategic abilities. Be sure to watch your rivals to determine which goals they are pursuing and where you can outpace them! In the game, colonists are sent out from Rome to settle down in cities that produce bricks, food, tools, wine, and cloth. Each player starts with an identical set of playing cards and acquires more cards during the game. These cards serve two purposes:


They allow a player to choose actions during the game.
They are worth victory points (VPs) at the end of the game.


Concordia is a strategy game that requires advance planning and consideration of your opponent's moves. Every game is different, not only because of the sequence of new cards on sale but also due to the modular layout of cities. (One side of the game board shows the entire Roman Empire with 30 cities for 3-5 players, while the other shows Roman Italy with 25 cities for 2-4 players.) When all cards have been sold or after the first player builds their 15th house, the game ends. The player with the most VPs from the gods (Jupiter, Saturnus, Mercurius, Minerva, Vesta, etc.) wins the game.

Cryptid [Game] BGG
other title: Cryptide / Kryptyda
genre: Deduction platform: Boardgame publisher: Osprey Games / 17wanzy (Yihu BG)
You've studied the footage, connected the dots, and gathered what meager evidence you could. You're close — soon the whole world will know the truth behind the Cryptid. A group of like-minded cryptozoologists have come together to finally uncover the elusive creature, but the glory of discovery is too rich to share. Without giving away some of what you know you will never succeed in locating the beast, but reveal too much and your name will be long forgotten!

Cryptid is a unique deduction game of honest misdirection in which players must try to uncover information about their opponents' clues while throwing them off the scent of their own. Each player holds one piece of evidence to help them find the creature, and on their turn they can try to gain more information from their opponents. Be warned; give too much away and your opponents might beat you to the mysterious animal and claim the glory for themselves!

The game includes a modular board, five clue books, and a deck of set-up cards with hundreds of possible set-ups across two difficulty levels. It is also supported by an entirely optional digital companion, allowing for faster game set-up and a near-infinite range of puzzles.

—description from the publisher

Note: some copies have a delta clue booklet with misprints in eight clues:

2,#9,#13,#64 states cougar, should be bear
3,#63,#72,#95 states bear, should be cougar


The official website with an online tool to randomly generate more clues is http://playcryptid.com/

Cthulhu's Vault [Game] BGG
genre: Adventure / Card Game platform: Boardgame publisher: Jolly Roger Games
Cthulhu's Vault is a card game for up to six players. Collaborative in nature, players work to tell the story of the monster's defeat, but unlike many storytelling games, the ending is not set. Within the storytelling are mechanisms for unexpected turns of events...

Players begin with a hand of cards, each an element to work into the story being told. As they tell their story, they play a card, and if they can link multiple cards from their hand together, they receive a bonus of some sort usable later in the defeat of the Great Old One (or his ascension if the player turns out to be a cultist). If something is mentioned and another player has a card matching what is mentioned, he takes over the story and uses his cards at that point.

The objective is to tell a great story and then reach the climactic fight between the investigators and the Great Old One which is told in story-format as well.

Cthulhu's Vault is co-designed by Richard Launius and Jim Dietz. Launius is the designer of the classic 'Arkham Horror' while Dietz is the author of 'The Cthulhu Rainy-Day Activity Book' and the Lovecraftian novel 'The Last Post'.

Deep Sea Adventure [Game] BGG
other title: Diepzee Avontuur / Ponorka
genre: Dice / Exploration platform: Boardgame publisher: Oink Games / 4 Kavky
A group of poor explorers hoping to get rich quickly heads out to recover treasures from some undersea ruins. They're all rivals, but their budgets force them all to share a single rented submarine. In the rented submarine, they all have to share a single tank of air, as well. If they don't get back to the sub before they run out of air, they'll drop all their treasure. Now it's time to see who can bring home the greatest riches.

Game Objective
The game takes place over 3 rounds, and the player to gain the most points over the 3 rounds is the winner. In order to gain points, you must bring the most ruins chips back to the submarine. You can only return to the submarine once per round, and you cannot progress more after returning. You cannot return to the submarine without bringing any ruins chips.

Turn Progression
On their turns, players conduct steps 1-4 listed below. Players take turns, going clockwise around the board, and the round ends when all players have returned to the submarine, or if the air runs out at the beginning of someone's turn.

1) Declare if you will turn back or not.
2) Reduce air.
3) Roll the dice and advance your game piece.
4) Search. (When you have stopped moving, select one of A-C below)
A) Do nothing.
B) Pick up ruins chip.
C) Place a ruins chip.

Dice Theme Park [Game] BGG
genre: Dice platform: Boardgame publisher: Alley Cat Games / Maldito Games
Dice Theme Park is a dice manipulation board game, all about creating and running your own park of fairground attractions.

In Dice Theme Park, you are the park managers, trying to create the most successful theme park in the area, by getting your customers on the most rides possible! The dice in the game represent the customers, with hex tiles representing the rides in your park. Employing a unique “Dice-cascade” mechanic once a customer has enjoyed a ride, their dice value is reduced, but they can still continue to enjoy more rides in the theme park until their value drops to 0 where they exit. This means the more efficiently you can move your dice around to activate the most rewarding rides, the more points and money you receive!

Dice Theme Park also features a card based turn initiative mechanic, decided by your special action role cards (with values 1-6), with players selecting two cards each turn. The lowest total will gain first choice of the customer dice draft and ride tiles that round. At the end of the round those cards will then be passed to the player on your left.

Dice Theme Park is more interactive and slightly more complex than Dice Hospital, so it’s perfect for those looking for a more challenging experience with more ways to score and play, whilst still keeping that same engaging and satisfying feel every time it is played.

—description from the publisher

Dino Days [Game] BGG
genre: Card Game / Prehistoric platform: Boardgame publisher: Farplace Animal Rescue
Fill your week of dinosaurs, scoring the most points in the process. Each dinosaur has unique rules of play, some cancel scores, some swap dinos, other special cards affect game play like the diplodocus where you need two cards to play and the giganotosaurus which each player starts with that can wipe out an entire opponent's board, but gives them 10 points. One deck is needed per two people playing.

—description from the designer

Dino Gardens [Game] BGG
genre: Animals / Farming platform: Boardgame publisher: (Self-Published)
In Dino Gardens, dinos compete to grow the largest, most delicious garden they can before the meteor strike and the end of the world.

Dino Gardens is a strategy game where you must grow and eat plants while forming alliances, battling other dinos, and protecting your garden from Terrible T-Rex. To help in growing their garden, each dino has a unique skill that may allow them to fly, run, swim, or have access to unique seeds.

In the Planting stage, dinos move freely around the land planting their seeds. In the Growing stage, dinos must tend to their seeds and grow them into mature plants by revisiting them. And finally, in the Eating stage, dinos must try to eat all the plants they can for precious dino calories. At the end of the three stages, the dino who has consumed the most dino calories is the winner!

In each stage dinos must make important choices. Planting in the wetlands will yield higher results, but other dinos may try and steal your plants. Visiting dino hot springs has restorative health benefits, but will take time away from gardening. In addition, Terrible T-rex is roaming the land looking for his lucky top hat, and if he finds it hidden in your garden, he will attack!

-description from designer

Dinosaur Island: Rawr 'n Write [Game] BGG
other title: Ostrov dinosaurů: Hoď & kroť
genre: Animals / Dice platform: Boardgame publisher: Pandasaurus Games / Catch Up Games
Dinosaur Island: Rawr 'n Write is a roll-and-write version of the critically-acclaimed game Dinosaur Island.

Dinosaur Island: Rawr ‘n Write is a unique game in which players draft dice and then use those drafted dice as workers in a worker placement phase. Then, a fun polyomino puzzle ensues as you try and fit all your attractions and Dinosaurs into your park while buildings roads and routes to the exits for bonus points. At the end of the game, have more victory points than your opponents to win!

Dodekka [Game] BGG
other title: 5 Voies / DAO
genre: Card Game platform: Boardgame publisher: AMIGO / Coiledspring Games
Your goal in Dodekka is to collect the highest score possible from one of the five suits, while ideally scoring nothing in all of the other suits as those cards count against you! The deck includes cards numbered 0-4 in each color, and three cards start face up on the table.

Game play is simple: Take the first card on display, or reveal a card from the deck and add it to the end of the row. If the sum of the cards on display now totals more than twelve, however, you must pick up all of the cards on display. Gameplay continues until the deck runs out, then the player with the highest score wins.

Dorfromantik: The Duel [Game] BGG
other title: Dorfromantik: Das Duell / Dorfromantik: Le Duel
genre: City Building / Environmental platform: Boardgame publisher: Pegasus Spiele / Gigamic
After the great success of Dorfromantik: The Board Game, the next part of the Dorfromantik world is no longer about working together, but about friendly competition. The basic principle of the Spiel des Jahres 2023 is retained, but now both sides continue to expand their own landscape with the tile they have just revealed. Two new types of assignments also come into play with double and all-around assignments, which can also be combined with Dorfromantik: The Board Game. Two independently playable modules also provide more challenge, more variety, more interaction. Four of the new special tiles can also be integrated into Dorfromantik: The Board Game and played cooperatively.

Dorfromantik: The Duel allows two players or two teams to compete. And with two copies even up to four people can play. Who will create the most beautiful world of hexagonal landscapes? Who will be better at fulfilling the villager's orders while also mastering the challenge of new assignments?

—description from the publisher

Double Quick [Game] BGG
other title: Double Quick!
genre: Real-time / Word Game platform: Boardgame publisher: Winning Moves Games (USA)
A word game where quick thinking pays off. Up to 4 players build a crossword out of their tiles. Every 30 seconds or so, a timer goes off and each player must draw 2 tiles and add them to their crossword. Using a letter in 2 words scores double points for that letter. Infrequently used letters (e.g. x,q,z) score higher amounts of points but are harder to use in your crossword.

Draconis Invasion [Game] BGG
genre: Card Game / Fantasy platform: Boardgame publisher: KEJI Inc
Battle the dark powers of Draconis in the ultimate medieval fantasy deck-building game.

With over five hundred beautifully illustrated cards, Draconis Invasion is a fast-paced deck-builder for 1-6 opponents, lasting approximately 45 minutes, with hordes of invaders attacking your kingdom, and players racing to gather armies, gold, and special action cards to fight the enemy. Unlike other deck-building card games, Draconis Invasion incorporates hidden campaign cards that reward points for killing specific Invaders, Terror cards and the Terror Die that add a doomsday clock so that your armies become tired and weak as time passes, and triggered Event cards that target the game-leader with potentially disastrous effects. Kill six Invaders or exhaust the Events cards to end the game. When the dust settles, only one hero will stand victorious as the realm's greatest champion.

Draftosaurus [Game] BGG
other title: Draftozaur / Драфтозаври
genre: Animals / Prehistoric platform: Boardgame publisher: Ankama / Board Game Box
Your goal in Draftosaurus is to have the dino park most likely to attract visitors. To do so, you have to draft dino meeples and place them in pens that have some placement restrictions. Each turn, one of the players roll a die and this adds a constraint to which pens any other player can add their dinosaur.

Draftosaurus is a quick and light drafting game in which you don't have a hand of cards that you pass around (after selecting one), but a bunch of dino meeples in the palm of your hand.

Dragomino [Game] BGG
other title: Dragomino: Sárkánytojások nyomában / Το Νησί Των Δράκων
genre: Children's Game / Fantasy platform: Boardgame publisher: Blue Orange (EU) / Blue Orange Games
The big moment has arrived. You have been named "dragon trainer", and you have the chance to meet them on a mysterious island. But you are not the only trainer sent to these lands. Who among you will discover the most baby dragons?

Dragomino features gameplay similar to Kingdomino, but with gameplay suitable for younger players. At the start of a round, you reveal four domino tiles, with each domino featuring two types of landscapes. Starting with whoever has the mommy dragon figure, players draft a tile and add it to their landscape. If the newly placed tile matches the landscape of one or more adjacent tiles, then you draw an egg tile for that type of landscape and place it face up where those tiles meet. Some eggs feature a baby dragon, which is worth 1 point; others feature an empty shell, which allows you to take the mommy dragon, giving you first pick next round.

After seven rounds, the game ends, and the player who holds the mommy dragon scores 1 additional point.

Dragon's Gold [Game] BGG
other title: Drachengold / L'Or des dragons
genre: Bluffing / Card Game platform: Boardgame publisher: Bard Centrum Gier / Descartes Editeur
In Dragon's Gold, each player controls a team of dragon hunters (two knights, a thief, and a wizard). Like all dragon hunters, they have only one goal: gold, silver, jewels and magic objects. As for actually killing a dragon? It's a piece of cake. But the most difficult part comes after the dragon is dead: the adventuring party has to figure out how to share the spoils.

As soon as a dragon is overpowered, then some additional gems are revealed, and the players who had participated in that hunting party start a negotiation over how to divvy up the gems. If the sixty-second sand timer runs out, then no one gets treasure. When all of the dragons have been slain and the treasure claimed or discarded, the game ends and players score for their holdings, with silver and magic objects worth 1 point each, gold worth 3, the Black Diamond worth 7, and the colored gems scoring 10-15 points for those players who hold more than everyone else. (In the Advanced game, the colored gems score 8-12 points in addition to a variety bonus of 5 points for each set of different colored gems a player holds. The Black Diamond is worth 19 points [in the 2011 edition], but negates a player's score for all colored gems.)

DragonFlame [Game] BGG
other title: Dragon Flame / 龍焰
genre: Bluffing / Card Game platform: Boardgame publisher: Minion Games / Shanghai Creative Tree Cultural Spreading Co. LTD.
You are a Dragon. Like all respectable dragons, you must find yourself a princess and hoard some treasure. There are some nearby towns just ripe for the plunder. You must strafe these villages with your dragonflame until they submit and hand over their treasures. But of course, you're not the only Dragon out there!

In DragonFlame you will take turns placing 3 cards on to the Castle cards in the center of the table. This will create piles of cards that you will get to choose from at the end of the round. The pile you choose will also determine your turn order for the next round.

Once you've taken a pile you place the cards in front of you for end game scoring. Any DragonFire cards you have acquired give you the ability to flame the villages for control over them (more victory points).

Since sometimes you may place a card face down, this becomes a game of reading the other players and choosing the right (sometimes poisoned) piles. Do you take that pile with a lot of cards and risk the minus points or just go for the safe face-up treasures?

There are several types of treasures to collect. You will only score 1 of the types of chests and the others count against you. Some treasures are just straightforward points. Some are even powerful magic items with special abilities.

Dragonkeepers [Game] BGG
other title: Čuvari Zmajeva / Drachenhüter
genre: Card Game platform: Boardgame publisher: KOSMOS / 999 Games
Anyone can herd sheep, but have you ever herded dragons?

In Dragonkeepers, you compete against each other as magicians. Two stacks of cards form the "Magic Book", which indicates which and how many dragons can be herded. With each card taken, this information changes, but luckily you can cast spells and return your cards to the Magic Book to change it in your favor and score! But which of your dragons can you spare to cast spells?

Created date: Aug. 6, 2024