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A close up shot of cornbread and chili in a bowl with a clear drink behind it. The game Forbidden Desert is in the background.
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Forbidden Desert Game Review & Themed Dinner

Forbidden Desert Game Review & Themed Dinner By Variant Berry  | 01/24/2025  Forbidden Desert Designer: GamewrightPlayers: 2-5Playtime: 45 minutesAges: 10+ The Forbidden Desert game is the thrilling sequel to Forbidden Island, offering a fresh cooperative experience for fans of strategic teamwork. You and your fellow adventurers must recover a legendary flying machine from an ancient desert city while braving an ever-growing sandstorm. […]

On a wooden table stands the game Pantone the Game, next to a pepper mill. In front is a floral plate with spaghetti on it, topped with green leaves. Next to the plate is a glass covered in butterflies with a red drink inside.
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Pantone: The Game Review & Themed Dinner

Pantone: The Game Review & Themed Dinner By Variant Berry  | 01/24/2025  Pantone: The Game OverviewPantone: The Game is a fast-paced party game where players use color swatches to represent characters or figures from their selected cards. The goal is to create a visual representation within one minute or less, making it a fun and engaging option for

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Fort Board Game Review

Fort is a deck-building game from Leder Games for two to four players ages 10+ that plays in about 20-40 minutes (though I may have been missing something for this to play in only 40 minutes). That being said, it was our first play through and we probably took more time than necessary reading through

The board game cover for Wild Space is pictured on a wooden surface. The Pandasaurus logo is on the bottom left corner of the box. A bear, monkey and dragon dressed as astronauts are on the front of the box with a blue background of varying shades.
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Wild Space Game Review & Themed Dinner

Wild Space Game Review & Themed Dinner Wild Space is a fast-paced, exploration-based board game where players command a spaceship to explore a newly discovered galaxy. Your goal is to recruit the best crew of Specialists, Robots, and Emissaries, and earn the most credits by the end of the game. The game features 108 crew cards,

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Patchwork Express Board Game Review

Patchwork Express from Lookout Games is a 2 player version of their popular Patchwork Game. It is designed for players 6+ and plays in about 10 minutes, allowing for multiple plays per game session if you’d like. Players work to sew together a tapestry of fabric to make a detailed quilt.  What’s In the Box?

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Carcassonne Game Review

Carcassonne by Z-Man Games is designed by Klaus-Jurgen Wrede and was first published in 2000. It is a light weight tile placement game for 2-5 players, ages 7+ and plays in about 35 minutes. In the base game, players work together to build out a landscape consisting of cities, towns, roads and monasteries in Southern

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Horrified Game Review

Horrified by Ravensburger is a creepy, cooperative board game in which players attempt to defeat up to seven classic monsters from Universal Studios. Players can defeat The Creature from the Black Lagoon, Count Dracula, Frankenstein and the Bride, The Invisible Man, The Mummy, and The Wolf Man. The amount of monsters in the game is

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That Old Wallpaper Game Review

That Old Wallpaper is a quick and engaging game where players compete to piece together patterns of vintage wallpaper. With simple rules and a mix of strategy and luck, it offers a delightful experience that scales well from 2 to 5 players. The game centers around secretly selecting cards to claim wallpaper tiles and match

A game box with the words DragonRealm written at the top. A purple dragon flies towards a castle above the sea. The works A Game of Goblins and Gold are written in the right center of the box top.
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Dragonrealm Game Review

Overview After having such a fun experience with Dragonwood, our house picked up the next version- DragonRealm by Gamewright. This game provided a lot of additional gameplay value, such as location cards, goblins to compete against, and gold to collect! Rated for two to four players aged ten and older, the game takes about 30

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