#Tzolk&039;in: The Mayan Calendar

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28th Movember 2023

What started out threatening to be a quiet night with the absence of Green, Lilac, Purple and Black, turned out to be quite lively in the end.  As Blue and Pink finished their supper, Pine, then Jade, Sapphire, Plum and Byzantium arrived, soon followed by Teal, Ivory and Lime.  Ivory was armed with his new, shiny copy of Apiary, which was to be the “Feature Game“.  This is a worker-placement,…

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Tzolk'in Board Game Review - One of the Best Games Ever

Tzolk’in Board Game Review – One of the Best Games Ever

My wife and I flew to Machu Picchuthis past summer on a whim and were able to see one of the most breathtaking sites known to man. We walked up the long and overly steep trail from Aguas Caliente to the top and had to stop once or twice (ok, maybe a few more times) just to take everything in (along with the limited amount of Oxygen in that altitude). The Indiana Jones movies were based on the���

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Deutscher Spiele Preis - 2019

Deutscher Spiele Preis – 2019

With “Essen” approaching, last week the Deutscher Spiele Preis list was announced. This is the result of an open vote by games clubs, gamers and people in the industry.  It typically rewards a slightly heavier game than the the Spiel des Jahres awards, but as the top ten are published, a range of tastes and complexities usually feature.  Last year number one on the list was Azul, the first game…

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21st March 2017

As usual, we started with a debate about who would play what.  Green picked out a load of games he fancied, including The Voyages of Marco Polo which he had only played the once before and fancied playing again.  Blue commented that it was the sort of game that Ivory would probably enjoy and with Black having spent quite a bit of time playing it online, he joined the others to make a trio.  The…

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31st December 2016

As is now traditional, we started our New Year’s Eve Party with the gorgeous, dexterity car-racing game, PitchCar, our “Feature Game”.  Everyone had played it before except Pine, and, as one of the first to arrive, he got the job of building the track.  Never having played it before, the track ended up as a single winding path rather than a circuit, but that didn’t matter, especially as there was…