Hitster: guilty pleasures

Some games reward strategic thinking and careful planning. Then there’s other games, like CMYK’s Hot Streak, which compel incessant hollering and raucous laughter. This is an exercise with little stra

Expectation, as Billy Bob Shakespeare once mused, is the root of all heartache. Yet while it is important to be open-minded when testing board games for review purposes, it is a challenge at times to

Like it or loathe it, there’s a reason UNO has been a bestseller since the 1970s. The standard version has bold colours that are easy to recognise and the rules are so incredibly simple they can even

Dying Message comes in a small box, reminiscent in size of a video cassette – if anyone remembers those. A bit bigger than a DVD? It’s a cinematic feeling that the game is going for from the off, as i

This game brings the magic of LEGO into the world of tabletop gaming. It is a remake of a previous game – Brick Party – from a decade ago by the same designer, but this time with LEGO’s official invol

Sometimes I really fancy playing something a bit like chess. A game that’s strategic and completely without luck; a two-player puzzle where we can outwit one another. I just don’t want the overwhelmin