Hilarious Czech game where you have to make bunny ears and moose antlers under pressure.

Ušáci a paroháči.

Lucky to have Czech speaking friends to run the game.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/59149/bunny-bunny-moose-moose


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Camel up Boardgame Review:

It’s the final round. Your prized camel 🐫 has nearly made it to the finish line. All the bets are about to payoff! Then from behind a competitor closes the gap. Oh know now he’s on top of your camel! Literally riding yours across the finish line 🏁 stealing the first place.

So goes the fun mix of gambling, stacking camels on top of each other, and shaking the pyramid dice box game that is Camel up. Good fun definitely adding it to the wishlist.


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Cafe board game review:

The second game we tested at Spielweisen.

As you can see by her website, https://mariashears.com/coffee/, my wife is extremely deep into coffee. Naturally we picked out this game to try because of the attractive theme. Opening it up and getting started we saw it not just a coat of paint.

Game mechanics reflect coffee production. You start by growing beans, then drying them, roasting them, and ending by shipping to a warehouse or cafe. This is accomplished by stacking cards, partially covering other cards. Building out a production chain / card stack which grants you a number of actions. Moving the small wooden cubes between roasty and cafe for example. All this seem great on paper. As did the helper women at the convention who helped explain the rules. The trouble comes with scoring.

Besides some simple victory points for getting the requested bean combinations to cafes you score beans in the warehouse. Something along the lines of, you score for beans in the two colors of which you control the least, 🤷‍♂️. We didn't find it very intuitive.


Despite the great theme ☕️ this one didn't make our Wishlist ❌.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/284936/cafe

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Concordia Boardgame Review:
After being on my list for a while I finally got the chance to try it at Spielweisen.

Filling out a big map of Europe: building houses in cities, collecting resources, and taking over providences is a common element in complicated German strategy games. Concordia takes this concept and adds a deck building aspect that makes it both more simple and completing. A great game with many things to like.

For me playing on a map of Europe has appeal all its own. Our table got a lot of looks from passerbys. Another draw is the diplomacy card that lets you copy your opponent’s last played card. This keeps things from feeling unfair if they have a good card or took one from the store you wanted to buy. Games not perfect though.

The intermediate scoring was confusing. Rather than wait to the end of the game the rules recommend beginners calculating it several times during play, after tribute cards are played. The first step in the calculation was to sell all resources back to bank??? No thanks. Maybe we got this wrong so we just left scoring to the end. Our next playthrough will be fine since we now understand victory points. Here is to hoping there will be a next time.


Concordia has been added to my wishlist ✅.


https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/124361/concordia

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