Well here we are on the eve of Halloween so one more card game that fits…
Calvin’s Commentaries
Calvin’s Commentaries: Split Trick
Halloween lies ahead, so it seems a perfect time to cover a game themed to the…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Box of Spiders
This pre-Halloween offering comes from designer Stephen Tavener with Box of Spiders. This is among a…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Aridnyk
The Meeple Guild has been reviewing for quite some time, and playing games even longer, so…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Three Hags
Something for Halloween The Meeple Guild is going to be providing some added ‘mini’ reviews over…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Café
Ever get a game to the table and everything about it was fine, and yet nothing…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Odin
So a small box arrives containing the recently released card game Odin. That was immediately interesting…
I Love Comics (Blah, Blah, Blah….)
NEW COMICS 4 THIS WEEK (10/30/24) *All comics will be rated on a scale from 1…
Try to influence the Gurus
The theme in Kundalini – if theme matters greatly in a two-player card game, is a…
Game reflects truly Canadian theme
With the start of September we roll close to ‘Culture Days’ in Canada so for the…
Sinoda impresses at multiple player counts
When it comes to abstract strategy games – a genre this writer particularly enjoys – a…
Awaken the old trees
Every once in a while you can be wandering down an online rabbit hole and find…
One ‘ECK’ of a game
When it comes to card games, trick-taking might lead in terms of most games with it…
Learn something about aquatic life as you play
Continuing with a Canadian theme for September we take a look at Pacific Ocean from Timashov…
INYO
Wrapping up September’s tip of the hat to Culture Days with a month of Canadian-designed games…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Faraway
Some games cross The Meeple Guild table that prove quite frankly divisive in the sense not…
Calvin’s Commentaries: There be dragons in those caves
When it comes to print and play games some of the simplest ‘builds’ are abstract strategy…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Centurion
Regular readers will know this member of The Meeple Guild loves abstract strategy games. So I…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Fighting off kaiju
Admittedly I tend to gravitate to card-based PnP games as an easy build, but then you…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Harrow County
Some board games of course emerge from other places of popular culture – for example the…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Be an alien; find your way home
As we near the end of our ‘PnP Summer Series’ choosing what games to finish has…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Genesis: Battle of Champions
There are game reviews that are super simple to write – those games you love, or…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Take a quest at coffeetime
Quests Over Coffee is a simple little 18-card print-and-play. When a game is only a couple…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Seasons of Arcadia
Ah, such a pretty game is Seasons of Arcadia. Well, some might think it a bit…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Dice Deck
The great thing about print and play games is that there are so many to discover…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Meridians
Over the weeks we have reviewed several games by designer Kanare Kato; Estate, Stairs, Lines of…
Calvin’s Commentaries: For Northwood!
When you have played as many games as we ‘Meeple Guilders’ it can be difficult for…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Fandooble and the Dragon’s Eye
In every board game collection there will be games which are best described as ‘just silly…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Seven Waters
While this summer series is focused on print-and-play games, this week is sort of only print-and-play…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Estate
As has been noted in past reviews designer Kanare Kato is among the more prolific creators…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Battle Card
When it comes to print and play games simplicity of printing is rather high on the…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Alpina
If cuteness is a great game, then the recent release Alpina would score very well out…