Opinionated Gamers

  • Rainbow: The perfect restaurant game?

    Rainbow Designers: Mito Sazuki Artist:  別府さい (Sai Beppu) Publisher: allplay Players: 2-6 (2p variant in the rules) Age: 7+ Time: 10-20 minutes (3 min per player) Played with a copy I bought A restaurant game is a game you pull … Continue reading →

  • Dale Yu: Review of Rainbow

    Rainbow Designer: Miko Sazuki Publisher: allplay Players: 2-6  Age: 8+ Time: 10-20 minutes Amazon affiliate link: Played with review copy provided by publisher Rainbow is a card game with some climbing characteristics where you strive to have the most … Continue reading →

  • Bomb Busters, Endeavor: Deep Sea, and SETI Win 2024 Meeples Choice Awards

    The winners of the Meeples Choice Awards for the 2024 calendar year have been announced.  The voters’ three favorite games from last year are: BOMB BUSTERSENDEAVOR: DEEP SEASETI The votes for all three of the games were clustered closely together.  … Continue reading →

  • Alison Brennan: Game Snapshots – 2025 (Part 16)

    Here are a few more things that struck me as I spent my last few days travelling to the Gathering of Friends:         Roads in America are amazingly good. Back home every drive is a game of … Continue reading →

  • More of a Good Thing: The Expansions We Can’t Stop Playing

    15 Opinionated Gamers enter, 1 expansion wins.  What is the best board game expansion ever?  It’s time to find out. Adam, Alison, Ben, Craig, Doug, Fraser, Joe, Jonathan, Larry, Mark, Matt, RJ, Ryan, Steph, and Talia voted on their favorite … Continue reading →

  • Dale Yu: Review of Corps of Discovery

    Corps of Discovery Designer: Jay Cormier + Sen-Foong Lim Publisher: Off the Page Games Players: 11-4 Age: 14+ Time: 45-75 min Amazon affiliate link: Played with review copy provided by publisher Lewis and Clark are tasked not only with … Continue reading →

  • Dale Yu: Review of Please Don’t Burn My Village!

    Please Don’t Burn My Village! Designer: Simon Weinberg Publisher: Fireside games Players: 2-5 Age: 10+ Time: 20 minutes Amazon affiliate link: Played with review copy provided by publisher A fearsome dragon is threatening to burn all the villages in … Continue reading →

  • Dale Yu: Review of Lure

    Lure Designer: Satoru Nakamura Publisher: Allplay Players: 2-5 Age: 7+ Time: 15 minutes Amazon affiliate link: Played with review copy provided by publisher Welcome to the world of competitive fishing! Will you play aggressively and use fewer dice? Or, … Continue reading →

  • Nominees for the 2024 Meeples Choice Awards

    The Meeples Choice Awards is an annual game award that has been voted on by a group of gamers since 1995. The purpose of the award is to select the group’s three favorite designs from the previous calendar year. The … Continue reading →

  • Alison Brennan: Game Snapshots – 2025 (Part 15)

    So I’m driving from Brunswick to Bar Harbor (in Maine). And every time I see the golden arches I hear the devil and the angel in my ears. On my left shoulder, fellow OG’er RJ Garrison is cajoling “McLobster. I … Continue reading →