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This month we’re heading back to the Levant region of West Asia – specifically, Lebanon. This is an ancient region, with cities dating back to 8800 BC and evidence of habitation for over 14,000 years.

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

Three people who have declared themselves to be a “lost African tribe” have set up home in woodlands near Jedburgh in the Scottish Borders, proclaimed it to be the “kingdom of Kubala”, and changed the

There were demos aplenty! Star Wars: Battle of Hoth was always popular, recent Kickstarter Even Deeper Regrets hooked in players and expanded worker placement game Oranges and Lemons (see page 46) bro

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

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