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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

You’ll have heard people say, “Never judge a book by its cover.” Well, a similar sentiment – if you’ll bear with this tenuous link for a moment – could be applied to tabletop games: “Never judge a gam

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

Now that we’ve all got Bucks Fizz lyrics stuck in our heads, let’s focus on this lovely little game. Mind Up is a light card game with about as many rules as it has words in its title. Each game is pl

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

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