Lifeboats is a 1993 game. That's more than 30 years old! I am pretty sure I have heard about it before. The version I recently played is a 2024 remake. This is a negotiation game for up to 7 players. This is the kind of game which I would cheekily say can destroy friendships, and I wouldn't be lying. Be prepared for hurt feelings.  There is a disaster at sea. The ship is sinking, and

When I was younger, somewhere between five and eight years old, my family took a few road trips that I still have fond memories of. The era in which these trips took place, the early ‘90s, is worth noting as it’s part of what made these trips memorable.

Before cell phones, tablets, and portable gaming systems were widely available, long road trips were often a struggle to answer the question “How can I entertain/distract myself for X hours?” Surprisingly, my family found a variety of answers, including a “game” involving license plates.

The game consisted of identifying license plates, on cars driving by, from various states in an attempt to find as many as possible during the drive. It was a race of sorts where the first person in our car to point out a new state license plate earned a point and added to their total. When the drive was finished, we tallied up points and declared a winner.

Not only did VNTYPL8S send me on a nostalgic trip down memory lane, but it also turned out to be a fun, laugh-inducing experience for everyone that had a parking spot at the table.

Y00SYRBRN (Use Your Brain)

Gameplay in VNTYPL8S takes place in two phases, a writing phase and a guessing phase, across 3 rounds.

The writing phase…

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Dirty Work is a party game from Thailand. This is a simultaneous action selection game, and it is very much about guessing your opponents’ intentions. You are all miners mining gold, contributing to a stash of gold, one nugget at a time. Sooner or later someone will be tempted to steal from the stash. However such thieves can be caught by miners who decide to play guard. So these are the

During the lifetime of a game taster, once in a while we stumble upon unheard of games which take us by surprise. This Game is Killer: Frozen Horror is one such game for me. It is not a ground-breaking genre nor is it a highly unusual setting. It is just how well the game is put together in a concise way, plus some genius ideas thrown in.  First and foremost, this is a