… Play Nice (please)
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:
=> BoardGameGeek
=> Official Website // Extra 3 Missions: The-Crew-The-Deimos-Adventure-1
=> The Crew Planet 9 Rule Book
How To Play:
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).
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
Note: See the end of this article for notes about how to use the Dragon Tile.
How To Play in 1 Minute (Rules Girl):
=> BoardGameGeek
=> Rules (4 page PDF)
=> Player Boards (full page jpg)
Here is an overview of the game:
=> BoardGameGeek
=> Rules
This is a handy game … you can play it while holding all the cards – no table needed!
Continue reading “Palm Island (mainly solo, but with coop mode)”
Excellent 3D cards – just play the game wearing the red / blue glasses! If you have a pair of those red / blue glasses, put them on to look at this page as well while you watch the videos!
=> BoardGameGeek
=> Kickstarter
=> Rules
Next … check out these videos!
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In the Madison Area? Why not drop by and play a game? Just EMail me or use the CONTACT page to send me a message!
Yes, this is my favorite thing (well, one of them:)
=> My Favorite Thing
Need Help Choosing a Game? Once you are viewing a game, there will be a list of all the games in alphabetical order in the right panel (very nice way to scan the games, though you also can just type in a name in the search box).
That right side panel also has a cool selection list that is just like this:
Plus here are just SOME of the games here at our house (alpha order) with a quick summary about each game (how many players, estimated time to play and complexity rating):
