Little Prince – Make Me A Planet

This game ties in quite well with the famous book (references at the bottom)! One of the videos said that they got the game first and then went and bought the book! We love the book, so I jumped at the chance to get a used copy of the game at I’m Board! Each player constructs a planet on a 4×4 grid so several of the videos compared it to Kingdomino (each player constructs a 5×5 land area)

=> BoardGameGeek
=> Rules
=> Lens One Page Rule Summary

=> Video Playlist

Playthrough – 2 player with one of the 3 selection tiles hidden (queued up to where they start playing the game)

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June 26, 2023 0

Inside Job (similar to The Crew)

A trick taking card game similar to THE CREW (published by the same company) but with a “traitor” as part of the team! So it is a coop game with the twist that the INSIDER can win the game instead of the team!

=> BoardGameGeek
=> Rules

=> Playlist of videos

How To / Review:

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June 10, 2023 0

Santorini New York

The New York update to the great game Santorini with three dimensional building pieces you use during game play! The New York update now is more fun with 3 or 4 players and has multiple special ability cards!

=> BoardGameGeek
=> Rulebook (Aug 12 2020 update)
=> Len’s One Page Rule Summary

=> Video Playlist

How To Play:

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May 14, 2023 0

Game (The Game – 2015)

Can play this game using the cards from the game The Mind (just add the cards placed in the middle of the table)

=> BoardGameGeek
=> Rules

=> Video Playlist

Explanation and Playthrough:

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May 11, 2023 0

Awkward Guests (a better Clue game)

If you like Clue, you should like Awkward Guests!

It plays longer with more people. With fewer people it misses the choice of who to trade with (so 3 players might be best). However, a 2 player game avoids the chance to keep getting the same cards over again because cards exchanged are then discarded. Solo mode is also quite good!

=> BoardGameGeek
=> Official Website
=> Kickstarter
=> Rulebook 10 Awkward Guests
=> Len’s 1 page Rule Summary v2
=> Keeping Track Of Turns and Actions

=> Official Clue Tracking Sheet

=> A written review of the game

=> Video Playlist

How to Play with Review:

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May 10, 2023 0

Earth Rising

Note: be careful watching videos about this game because some are referencing the original edition which was never published … it was cancelled and relaunched as a new updated edition which is now referred to as “First Edition”.

I made a video UNBOXING my game for Earth Day 2023:

=> BoardGameGeek
=> Kickstarter
=> Rules 1st Edition
=> Information booklet Earth Rising
=> Rule Summary 1pg
=> Len’s Rule Summary v2 (3pg PDF)

=> Video Playlist

=> Educational Resources (an excellent extensive list)

Interesting written review of the game:
=> Earth Rising Preview

Excellent Review:

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April 20, 2023 0

Four Corners

A puzzly game from the company that gave us Tsuro! It sounded so good I bought two copies :)

=> BoardGameGeek
=> Kickstarter
=> Updated GALAXY Rulebook
=> (just for kicks here is the OLD=> Kaleidoscope Rulebook)

=> Video Playlist

Overview (with apologies included in it):

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January 27, 2023 0

My City Roll and Build

This is the Roll and Write version of the game!

=> BoardGameGeek
=> Rules (rough draft)

=> Video Playlist

Paula tells how much fun it was to play during a train ride:

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January 26, 2023 0

Globetrotting

I put together (assembled) the globes and the game is ready to play!

=> BoardGameGeek
=> Kickstarter
=> Pledge Manager
=> Rulebook
=> Len’s 1 page Rules Summary v1

=> Video Playlist

How To Play (in less than 5 minutes):

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January 3, 2023 0

Railroad Ink Challenge

This is a roll the dice and write on your personal map game that can be played by any number of players – just print a map for each player and all players share the same dice roll for each round (excellent for play by video chat such as with Zoom or Google Meet).

There are two different base games – GREEN and YELLOW. Both have exactly the same base game but with different special “expansion” dice (which I have never used yet).

=> GREEN edition (Board Game Geek)
=> YELLOW edition (Board Game Geek)
=> Kickstarter
=> Rule Book
=> Print your own board=> Print N Play board

=> Video Playlist

Overview Explanation of the base game – she includes the GOAL CARDS, but they are not needed to play the game, and the game can be more fun without them (less thinking) Note that even experts make mistakes – she missed one error in her example of scoring a final game:

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July 17, 2022 0