![]() ![]() The wide range of strategies is critical to this game's wide appeal. And your strategy will have to be tweaked each game, and even each round, depending on the other players, what cards you draw, and how suspicious the current sheriff is of you. You can play it safe and only put legal goods in your merchant bag, or you can make bold plays and try to make deals with the sheriff to let your stack of crossbows through, or you can pretend to play it safe and slyly sneak through that barrel of mead. One huge plus for this game is that there is a wide range of effective strategies. Or whether they're expecting the double-reverse and you need to go all the way to the triple-reverse. So you have to guess whether they'll go for the reverse, and you should play the double-reverse. Much like rock-paper-scissors, you can spend all day analyzing what the other player is going to do, but they're also analyzing your move. It has a digital version as well that's available for less than $5.At it's core, Sheriff of Nottingham is a game about bluffing, tricking, and mind-reading. Star Realms - A classic space combat game in the form of a deck builder. The first to gather 15 prestige points wins. Players will collect gemstones and use them to attract noble patrons to their store. Splendor - A 30-minute game for 2-4 players, Splendor plays fast regardless of how many people sit at the table. ![]() One player takes the role of the Sheriff while others try to do business around him, alternately bluffing, bribing and brawling. Sheriff of Nottingham - Recently featured on Geek & Sundry's Tabletop, this Robin Hood-themed game has a lavish art style and a wicked sense of humor. There's an exhaustive review available from Board Game Brawl above. Roll for the Galaxy - A dice-based space exploration game where your dice represent your population, this is in many ways a spin-off of the classic Race for the Galaxy. Pandemic: The Cure - A dice-based version of the remarkably popular Pandemic, one of the most accessible and addictive hobby games around. It's received three nominations in this year's Golden Geek awards, including Game of the Year, Most Innovative and Best Strategy Game. Panamax - Named after the class of shipping vessels that travel through the Panama Canal, this game lets players manage their own shipping company. ![]() The deluxe version of this "bag building" game was funded on Kickstarter at over $250,000 just a few days ago. Orleans - In medieval France players will assemble a retinue of farmers, knights and monks to "gain supremacy through trade, construction and science." The game features a beautiful art style that feels like it could have come right from an illuminated period manuscript. This year's board game of the year category is crowded, with 20 nominees.Īlchemists - A strategy game for 2-4 players where each takes the role of a "budding alchemist" trying to discover the secrets of their "mystical art." It includes a bidding system, as well as elements of worker placement games and features a companion app.ĪquaSphere - Pictured above, players crew an underwater research facility and take the role of an engineer, a scientist, reprogrammable bots and exploratory submarines to "gather as much data as possible." It includes a modular board, as well as multiple sideboards for players to crew their stations from.Ĭastles of Mad King Ludwig - A tile-laying game that takes its inspiration from ostentatious Bavarian castles like Neuschwanstein, the structure that inspired Cinderella's Castle at Walt Disney World. Every year the community votes on the Golden Geek Awards, celebrating the best games of the year in many categories, broadly including board games, role-playing games and video games. If you're a fan of the hobby, or interested in learning more, this is a great place to start.īoardGameGeek is a massively popular gaming resource and online community, made up of board and hobby games fans. The community at, known hobby games tastemakers, have announced this year's nominees for board game of the year. ![]()
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