Category: Easy (1-2 complexity)

Doomlings

Doomlings is a fairly quick game played with a unique card system (over 100 different cards). It is just going into manufacturing now and should be delivered in December.

I liked it so much that I created a website for it … which now has over 150 articles!

And the game designers even sent me a prototype of the game! So we can play it now! Anytime we want! I’m ready for a game of Doomlings!

More info about Doomlings? Just visit my website (use the Quick Guide links to get a taste for the game)

=> BoardGameGeek
=> Kickstarter
=> Rules
=> My Own Doomlings Website

=> Video Playlist

And let’s kick of the videos with one of my favorite game reviews of all time:

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Canvas

Board Game Geek (for all three editions plus Big Box):

  1. Canvas (original)
  2. Canvas Reflections / Deluxe (first expansion)
  3. Canvas Finishing Touches / Deluxe (second expansion – doesn’t look like it added much)
  4. Big Box (just a master link list system?)

Official Website=> RoadToInfamy.com
Rules=> Canvas / Reflections / Finishing Touches

Len’s 1 page rules summaries:
Canvas // Canvas Reflections // Canvas Finishing Touches and Big Box

=> Video Playlist

Tabletop Tolson (Kim Tolson) looks at all three … in three videos … first the original Canvas:

How To Play Canvas:

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Mill (an ancient two player game)

=> BoardGameGeek

I remember playing Mill in Grade School. It is not a game that you “buy”. You simply draw your own game board on a piece of paper or even in the sand at a beach. Just draw three squares, one inside another inside another. Then draw circles at the corners of all the squares. Then draw a line through the middle of each of the four sides to connect the squares to each other putting circles at the connection points. Voila. You have your game board:

Next … you need 9 markers for each of the two players. One could use pennies the other use nickels. Or one could use white poker chips and the other use red poker chips. Or use colored stones. Your choice :)

The game starts by alternating placing a marker on the board until all 18 markers have been placed. Then turns alternate moving a marker from one spot to another along a line.

Three of one players markers in a row or column is called a “mill” and is “safe” (ie, the opponent cannot take a marker that is part of a mill).

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Tsuro (very fast easy to learn game)

This is a game that you can setup and play in ten minutes or less.  And have lots of fun the whole time. Short but sweet. A casual glance at the game makes it look like everything is just random and you just see who is lucky. However, that is not the case. Yes, you can play it fast and more or less randomly … yet you also can spend just an extra 20 seconds and see some strategies to which tile you place and how you place it! There are definitely many strategies involved with Tsuro! Many!

=> BoardGameGeek
=> Tsuro 1pg Rules
=> Phase by Phase Cards (important – I use them all the time) v4

=> Video Playlist

Note: See the end of this article for notes about how to use the Dragon Tile.

How To Play in 1 Minute (Rules Girl):

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Castle Panic

=> BoardGameGeek
=> Original Rules / 2nd Edition Rules
=> Castle Panic Made Easy v1-3 (Len’s 2page Rule Summary with options for younger players)
=> Official FAQ

=> Video Playlist

You can add more types of monsters yourself (on your printer)=> Set 1 / Set 2 / Set 3

This is a quick cooperative game where all players try to hold off the attacking orcs :) The game play is interesting. The game was so popular that they now make a DELUXE fancy version of the game (with miniatures).

Watch Will Wheaton (yes, he was Wesley Crusher in Star Trek: The Next Generation) explain it and play it with three guests (a comedian, an actress and a voice actor) … here is the condensed version (you can watch their FULL game video at the bottom of this page):

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