How to Play
Popcorn Dice Game
Keep rolling 14 dice until you bust or choose to stop. Four burnt popcorn icons and you bust (your turn is over and you get zero points). 30 points or more wins OR roll all 14 dice with a single or double pop icon to be an INSTANT WINNER regardless of your score!
=> BoardGameGeek
=> Official Website
=> Popcorn 1pg Rules
=> Popcorn Scoresheets
=> Background Music while playing
Review:
Crew (The Crew): Planet Nine
=> BoardGameGeek
=> Official Website // Extra 3 Missions: The-Crew-The-Deimos-Adventure-1
=> The Crew Planet 9 Rule Book
How To Play:
Initiative
=> BoardGameGeek
=> The Initiative – Setup and Play Guide (PDF – Len’s 1 page guide)
=> Guidebook (intro)
=> The Key Rule Book
=> Official Website (more free missions, etc)
=> Bonus Missions (interactive code chart on screen)
=> Bonus Riddle Missions (interactive on screen chart)
Combines an Escape Room into a Strategy Game!
Kim Tolson’s #1 game of 2021 (queued to the right spot):
Micro Macro Crime City
This is a rather unique game … almost like a Where’s Waldo turned into a game! And the map is HUGE.
Quick How To Play:
Mandala Stones
Carcassonne (Big Box with 11 expansions)
=> BoardGameGeek
=> Official Website
=> Rule Book
=> VERY detailed rules (339pgs)
=> Scoring Small Cities & Farms (small cities get 4 points plus 2 extra points for each shield / farms are scored on the basis of fields, one field at a time (thus a city can be counted towards two or more fields)
=> Detailed Info and how to use: River / Phantom / Flying Machines / Abbot
=> Carcassonne Rules Wiki (use first to fine rules explained)
=> Video Playlist
See also the co-op stand alone=> Mists Over Carcassonne
NOTE: most expansion just add complexity (not fun) so choose carefully! Probably only choose 2 or at most 3 expansions because as you keep adding more and more tiles, they get diluted and you rarely see the new expansion tiles! PLUS with too many expansions, the game takes A REALLY LONG TIME TO PLAY!
***See bottom of this page for the expansions that I have (many with links)
Here is a playlist of over 90 videos about nearly all of the expansions!
=> Over 90 Expansion Videos (a playlist)
Analysis Paralysis and Play Time => the FIX: Draw tile at end of turn instead of start of turn
How To Play in 3 Minutes (Rules Girl):
Showdown Yahtzee
You likely already know how to play Yahtzee … so you then are ready for the super fun board and dice version, Showdown Yahtzee (one of the favorites for our Game Days).
For 2-4 players (best with 4). Instead of each player having their own Yahtzee score pad, there is just ONE and it is not a pad of paper, but individual large tiles that represent all the typical line items in the normal game of Yahtzee. Each player moves around a board and if you land on an empty square, you can try to get any of the available tiles and if you get it you take that tile and place it on the board on the square where your pawn is along with the stated amount of your chips. If your pawn lands on a square that already has a tile, if you can roll that, the tile becomes yours and you put your chips on it (if it was already yours, you just get a free turn to continue moving your pawn till you get to a spot that is wild or has a tile owned by another player). If you land on WILD, you can treat it as a blank square (try for any available tile) or as an occupied square (try to get it for your own).
I have FOUR boxes of this game (it really is that good). Someday it would be fun to have 16 people over for a Showdown Yahtzee tournament … 4 players at a table … the winner from each of the four tables then have a Showdown Showdown!
Review and examples:
Perudo (aka Liar’s Dice)
