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Dam, what a lovely game. Timber Town is a very cute, two-player only, head-to-head game of planning, picking and placing. You and a friend each take the role of a beaver architect, trying to build the

There are very few things in the world nicer than sitting out in a garden, under a shady wooden roof, enraptured by nature. Pergola tries to import that experience to your game table by offering you t

Born in 1959 in south-west France, Serge Charles Jean Laget was one of the first French board game designers to make a real impact on the modern hobby. His 1984 bluffing and negotiation game Le Gang d

If you’ve ever been inside a casino, you’ll know that the odds are always stacked against you. The house plays unfair, the drinks are there to bamboozle you and the exits are hidden somewhere near the

There aren’t an awful lot of games that can lure my child to the table these days, since he morphed into a gorgeous yet absent teenager. Dinosaur Island still sparks an interest (largely because he is

When you include all the different maps under one game heading, Ticket to Ride is my second most played tabletop game (behind Race for the Galaxy). The fact that the hobby’s best-selling game is often