Growing up, I played a lot of tabletop games with my parents and brother. Yes, there was Monopoly of course, as well as other roll-and-move games such as Winnetou, but also tableau builders like Ogallala and a stock market game called Das Börsenspiel which required a little more strategic thinking. It was mostly my brother who would teach us these sort of games, and my parents would teach us trick-taking games like Skat and Doppelkopf. So in this article I want to look at how I learned those games and how the rules were taught.

Read the full article here: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2020/02/04/home-teaching-topic-discussion/

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After finishing my shift in the press room at the local newspaper, I had returned home. As I entered the apartment block’s communal hallway and went over to collect my post, I saw that someone had changed the padlock on my letterbox. I knew that my own padlock had never been very secure, and I always expected someone to cut it with a bolt cutter to steal my post. However, I never thought anybody would go through the trouble of replacing my own lock with theirs, but clearly someone had done just that. Then I saw a sticky note written by my friend Henry. It seemed that I had to solve a little puzzle to work out the code of the new padlock, which, unbeknownst to me at the time, was going to lead me down a rabbit hole of puzzles of ever-increasing difficulty which would eventually help me uncover a major conspiracy in Escape Room Puzzles by Carlton Books.

Read the full article here: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2020/02/01/escape-room-puzzles-saturday-review/

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Intro Music: Bomber (Sting) by Riot (https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/)

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We all play games for different reasons, and we all approach them differently. In fact, we may play the same game differently on two different days, just because we're in a different mood. However, I'm not talking about playing a different strategy or choosing a different character or even just playing with a different player colour. I'm talking about something different altogether.

Read the full article here: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2020/01/28/play-styles-topic-discussion/

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You sit quietly in your hide, binoculars in hand, peering out over the lake, with the grassland on the other side and the woodlands in the background. You have already spotted a fair number of birds that frequent this nature reserve regularly, but suddenly you spot something new. You think you glimpsed a read head and black and white back. Slowly scanning the woodlands, you see it again, hanging onto the trunk of a dead tree. It's a white-backed woodpecker, which is a new visitor and comes with 80 other birds in Wingspan: European Expansion by Stonemaier Games.

Read the full article here: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2020/01/25/wingspan-european-expansion-saturday-review/

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• Wingspan: European Expansion: https://stonemaiergames.com/games/wingspan/wingspan-european-expansion/
• Stonemaier Games: https://stonemaiergames.com/
• Unboxing video: https://youtu.be/nUjttWsgiPg
• Wingspan review: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2019/03/16/wingspan/
• Top 5 Tabletop Games of 2019: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2019/12/28/top-5-tabletop-games-of-2019-saturday-review/

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Tabletop game designers want to create an enjoyable experience for people - whatever enjoyable means in this context. From that starting point, they create a game that is balanced, flows well and meets the desired complexity requirements, as well as meets other criteria. They may use the skillset of developers to refine everything, and if a publisher is involved, there will be additional criteria that have to be met. However, in this article, I want to focus on enjoyment, what it means and whose responsibility it is to make a game enjoyable.

Read the full article here: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2020/01/21/enjoyable-design-topic-discussion/

Links

• Yogi: http://www.brainbox.co.uk/game/yogi
• Fog of Love: https://www.fogoflove.com/
• Article about my journey as an alpha player: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2019/12/03/alpha-one/
• Unboxing videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUjttWsgiPg&list=PLU5Vut7xXvcIGkbx6vTtHJ9yfdPHlpXke

Intro Music: Bomber (Sting) by Riot (https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/)
Music: Midnight Stroll by Avalon (https://soundcloud.com/freebmusic/avalon-midnight-stroll)

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