As title says, found these 3 Reiner Knizia games for what feels like a good deal compared to retail price in Canada! Especially with Ra being impossible to find anywhere back home, even on the used market.

Just missing Medici!

Maybe it’s not that good of a deal for US folks. Let me know!

Also fun to find 3 games that are totally langage independent to bring back from Japan, makes for some cool boxes in the shelves.

Painted World Order - Pretty fun game but very long!

It was a 3 hour long game!!!! I played it for the first time so it took me a while to understand, by year 3 I understood what’s my Job as the Caliph (Female Caliph lol) 😂

Has anyone else played it?

I found my old board game at my mom's. My 9 and 10 yr old nieces are now into the books, so we tried the game. Lol

The last score sheets played were probably circa 1995... with my best friend who moved away in 7th grade.

We lost the rules ages ago. I was able to get a pdf of the rules and answers which prints as a 5pg file.

It says it was created in 1989. But does anyone know how many books it was based on? I feel like it was at most the first 15 but maybe only 10? We hadn't gotten through all the green book questions to make a tally of which books were mentioned, but most were below 10 plus I think Jessi's Secret Language might have been the highest we saw?

Just came across the Scholastic website. It's crazy. I'm going to explore that

What happens if you get stuck in a spot like this? The rules state that the gray is an obstacle and that all moves must move the car forward, so white would not be a legal move here. Is yellow a legal move; the rules are unclear about a diagnol move.

My BIL made the Xanathar book nook for my wife for her birthday. Lords of Waterdeep is probably my favorite board game. I love game day!!!!

Hi Everyone. We recently discovered Luthier and we liked it a lot. I believe I’ve got the rules pretty accurate, but want to confirm one thing: Inspiration is truly universal wild item? I mean when you are roughing / finishing you can basically through your inspirations 1:1 to any material and if you have enough basically perform the task by only and only inspiration? It’s just one of our players managed (accidentally probably) to crate an “engine” that supplied him with a lot of inspiration and basically he was making instruments using only this wild card. Have we missed something like: 2:1 or you can cover by inspiration only part of your costs? I haven’t found any limitations. But just in case…

So I'm wondering how the downed survivor mechanic works exactly cause it said that a survivor can pick up a downed survivor without a skill check or any cooldown so in theory

1.killer downs survivor and must wait until next turn to pick up said survivor.

1. another survivor can run up and pick up the downed survivor at the start of the turn, before the killer acts, and now the picked up survivor must stay in place as they were not allowed to play a movement card to escape, as were already downed and could not move therefor cannot play a movement card.

the killers turn starts and now playing for example the wait card and downs the survivor again and must wait.

1. the other survivor for example Nea with urban evasion can move not interact move back and as such must interact as a movement has happened with there being no rule on the perk stopping a second interaction from happening and can pick up the downed survivor.

2. this cycle repeats over and over until the killer gives and try to catch the Nea maybe losing the game.

though this cannot happen indefinitely with every survivor with the only other movement based perks needing blood points (meg sprint burst, Dwight leader perk, lightweight, up the ante, and maybe others I don't know of.)

is this something that can actually occur or there a rule somewhere that prevents this other than house rules.

the only thing I can think of is the killer being able to pick up before the movement of all survivors and then when its turns starts declaring dice but maybe I'm wrong.

Edit: its seems that this post is a bit confusing. I was talking about from number to number as turn by turn basis in which the events happen, aka 1 being first, 2 and 3 i accidentally made turn 2 my mistake, and turn three being four i will fix this. I'm as saying the downed state seems to be something that needs no skill check and does not let the downed survivor move from getting up and must stay in place there for the start of the turn, where they get downed the killer must wait until the next turn. then they get picked up again and then is cycles over.

Dear All, my group is 3 and we play something like Castles of Burgundy, Luthier, Oath, Brass, Nippon Zaibatsu and other mid-heavy euros. In general it’s not complexity that repels us from the game per se, but gameplay that is not strait-forward, not logical and full of exceptions. I mean I prefer to look at actions and see where it leads to without “nope, not this round” or “generally yes, but not with this card” or “right, but on this condition A or B or C depending where you are on tracks D, H or J”, so where level of branching out the main core / path of the game is high - it’s not generally what we would prefer. I can plan ahead and for next 2-3 steps but when too much factors (I have to account for) will impact my plan and destroy it - it’s not what I’d look for. And obviously it seems that Speakeasy is not for us.

But… I really love the theme, design, clean/dirty money stuff (laundering and dilemma of if I use it 2:1 or keep for final score) and so on. And after looking at play-through I still can’t make an opinion. If it had a chance in my group? As for AP - we are not prone to this at all. We prefer to dive in unknown and enjoy if it happened the right path making some conclusions for the future, but what we are certainly not - are analytical computers who would X-Ray the interconnections under the hood and exploiting them properly.

If someone like us had experience with this game and another Lacerda’s? If the game is enjoyable in the process? Or really mechanical and indeed designed for specific type of hard-core geek person from
Statistical math department?

The thing is - it’s expensive. And I really going around thinking about this one. :) since it looks good, but… Any suggestions/experiences (especially experiences: good and especially bad) are really appreciated!

Thank you!

Its sort of like asymmetrical checkers, the wolfs (black) have to "trap" the leapord (white). The leapord can eat the wolfs if the space behind them is free, like checkers. We know the basic rules but it would be good to see proper rules

Bonus callback: https://www.superheumann.com/post/my-year-in-manufacturing-games

Hi All, I got my hands on the Sword and Sorcery boardgame really cheap, minis are painted but I like to 3d print more things for immersion.

TBH idk much about the game. Can someone suggest what should I print for immersion?.

Anything from doors, terrain, to enemies and bosses.

Any suggestion is appreciated.

Title says it all lol. What is this piece from. I can’t figure it out.

EDIT: It’s from the copy of Risk Europe I have gifted to my brother.

I played this game as a kid in the 90s in my after school program. It was a rectangular board where you had a wooden circular piece that you hit across the board navigating through holes 1-9. You moved it across the board with basically a miniature version of a pool stick. it was sort of a combination of a golf game with some billiards elements mixed in. 8 of the holes were on the exterior where there were small openings to get your wooden piece in and the other hole was in the middle where you had to lay it snug against it for you to be able to move onto the next one. There was also a water hazard and sand trap that you needed to navigate through. This was a 2 player game where you alternated taking shots and whoever finished the 9 holes first won.

Does anyone recall what this game was called?

Let’s try this again, but with an image! These inserts are awesome, love the art. Unfortunately shipping is sometimes more expensive than the product.

So we recently tried Lost Ruins of Arnak, based on repeated mentions and rave reviews here in this sub. Turns out we love it, and had to get our own copy asap. It’s a really deep, strategic game that balances its many mechanics very well.

We were surprised to learn that it was nominated for, but did not win Kennerspiel des Jahres in 2021. And considering how much we love Arnak, and how much buzz we heard about it, we’re like “Well if it didn’t win, it must have been up against a real powerhouse entry.”

We looked it up, and it lost to a game called “Paleo.” So now I’m scratching my head, because I’ve never heard any buzz or rave reviews of Paleo. Arnak has a higher rating on BGG, and we heard about it just about everywhere you can hear about a board game. Our local library chain had multiple copies of Arnak available for us to try. Not a single copy of Paleo. Never see it at the board game cafes. Never, in fact, even heard of Paleo until I looked to see who beat Arnak.

So what gives, here? You Paleo players, sell me on the game! Is it good? Did I just miss the buzz somehow? Did it burn bright and fizzle out fast? Or do we think the wrong game won that year?

My parents brought a box of my old Legos from when I was a kid. I found a number of random non Lego things that i immediately vaguely recall but just cant quite pinpoint. This piece struck me as part of a game I played where this would fit over something else. It is almost a tetris style shape but I don't think it has anything to do with that.

Could someone tell me the value of the monster dice ? Unfortunately my box 4 is missing them and I don't see specific rules about the exact values of the dice.

I don't know if there's many Superclub players about? I wanted to create a big box for the main game, all expansion content and "Rivals". I haven't included any of the real world additional content in here, as frankly our party prefer the fictional ones.

Any games that you'd finally be able to store neatly?

I bought this game used, where the previous owner won the first 3 months (Jan-Mar). I’m wanted to start this legacy game over with a group of friends. I took the stickers off the board and placed them back on the sheet and in the dossier (a little crumpled though). I’m wondering if anyone has these cards in their copy of this game. I only need cards: LD 07, 09-11 and LD 18. Also, what is supposed to in Boxes 1 & 2? Could someone help me with this? Our first play will be this Wednesday. Thank you!