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Jun 24, 20182 min read
Codenames - Dastardly Review #084
Codenames was created by Vlaada Chvatil and published by Czech Games Edition in 2015. Codenames quickly became one of the top party games....
Bealz
Jun 24, 20182 min read
Fences - Dastardly Review #083
Fences, designed by Tim Forbis and Adam Collins with artwork by Andrew Sallwasser, is a deceptive game. At first glance Fences looks like...
Bealz
Jun 23, 20182 min read
10 Minute Heist The Wizard's Tower - Dastardly Review #082
10 Minute Heist The Wizard’s Tower was a 2016 successful Kickstarter campaign by Daily Magic Games. Whether creating a program or a...
Bealz
Jun 23, 20182 min read
The Thing Infection at Outpost 31 - Dastardly Review #081
The Thing Infection at Outpost 31 was released in 2016. It quickly made my top 5 games of that year. Normally we don’t like games that...
Bealz
Jun 22, 20181 min read
Sushi Go! - Dastardly Review #080
Sushi Go! Came out in 2013 and got nominated for some well earned awards: 2015 UK Games Expo Awards Best General Card Game Winner 2015...
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Jun 21, 20181 min read
Escape Room The Game - Dastardly Review #079
We love escape rooms and were very excited to buy Escape Room the Game. Released in 2016 this game has great art and features a special...
Bealz
Jun 21, 20182 min read
Family Plot - Dastardly Review #078
Family Plot is easily in our top 10 favorite Kickstarter games. The Kickstarter campaign was in 2017 by White Cherry Productions. Why is...
Bealz
Jun 20, 20181 min read
Campy Creatures - Dastardly Review #077
Campy Creatures was a successful Kickstarter campaign in March 2017. Campy Creatures is NOT a game of luck and dice rolling. All players...
Bealz
Jun 20, 20182 min read
Lost in R'lyeh - Dastardly Review #076
Lost in R’lyeh Disclaimer 1: We bought our first copy (now everyone in our group has bought their own copy!) at San Diego Comic Con. We...
Bealz
Jun 20, 20181 min read
Bears vs Babies - Dastardly Review #075
Bears vs Babies is from the same wonderfully insane group that brought us Exploding Kittens. Bears vs Babies by Elan Lee and Matt Inman...
Bealz
Jun 20, 20181 min read
Star Fluxx - Dastardly Review #074
Draw One. Play One. Quite possible the simplest rules ever for a game. Until you play cards and the rules become Draw 5 Play 2 Hand...
Bealz
Jun 20, 20181 min read
FOIL - Dastardly Review #073
FOIL is a 3M bookcase game from 1968. FOIL is a wonderful make words card game. There are 108 letter cards and four card racks. All of...
Bealz
Jun 20, 20182 min read
Ploy - Dastardly Review #072
Ploy is a very cool space chess game. My brother and I played it hundreds of times. Ploy is one of the great bookcase games that 3M...
Bealz
Jun 20, 20181 min read
Twixt - Dastardly Review #071
Twixt is one of the great bookcase games of the 1960s and 1970s. Twixt was invented by Alex Randolph in 1957 to be played with pen and...
Bealz
Jun 19, 20181 min read
Chinese Checkers - Dastardly Review #070
Chinese Checkers is an ancient game from the remote region of Tibet and was played by Tibetian monks on the slopes of the Himalayan...
Bealz
Jun 19, 20181 min read
Mastermind - Dastardly Review #069
Mastermind was invented in 1970 by Mordecai Meirowitz. Mordecai was an Israeli postmaster. Mastermind is based on an old paper and...
Bealz
Jun 19, 20181 min read
Don't Scramble the Egg Game - Dastardly Review #068
Don’t Scramble the Egg came out in 2012 and was an instant favorite in our house. The game is absurdly simple: a stack of cards each...
Bealz
Jun 19, 20181 min read
Jenga - Dastardly Review #067
It seems like Jenga has been around forever...nope just since 1986. Jenga was created by Leslie Scott. Leslie grew up in Ghana. The...
Bealz
Jun 19, 20181 min read
Code Master - Dastardly Review #066
Code Master is a great concept of a game to teach logic. The design is clean and the quality of the product is high. Basically you build...
Bealz
Jun 18, 20181 min read
Eye Found It! - Dastardly Review #065
Another great Disney based game, Eye Found It! was released in 2013 and became a hit with our smaller grandkids. Eye Found It! is a very...
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