Description
It has been many a year since our early days, our salad days when we were younger and dumb and didn't know what we were doing. Much has changed, in that we are now older and dumb and don't know what we're doing. But the inexorable march of time has at least offered many new offerings in the broad tent of dexterity games, and so it is past time that we focus on one of our preferred genus of toy.
01:26 AYURIS: Golem (Flaminia Brasini, Virginio Gigli, & Simone Luciani, Cranio Creations, 2021)
Games Played Last Week:
04:19 -Anachrony (Dávid Turczi, Mindclash Games, 2017)
11:11 -Welcome to the Moon (Alexis Allard & Benoit Turpin, Blue Cocker Games, 2021)
15:44 -General Orders: World War II (Trevor Benjamin and David Thompson, Osprey Games, 2023)
22:16 -Sail (Akiyama Koryu & Korzu Yusei, Allplay, 2023)
25:25 -Burned (Jon Moffat, Stone Circle Games, Unpublished)
28:39 -My Island (Reiner Knizia, KOSMOS, 2023)
34:50 -Bloodstones (Martin Wallace, Wallace Designs, 2023)
News (and why it doesn't matter):
39:59 Mythic Games sells Anastyr and Hel: The Last Saga to CMON; backers will get base game only
41:44 Renegade Games' Axis and Allies: G.I. Joe
44:19 Ads for Votes for Women pulled from Facebook because they apparently think women's suffrage is contentious
47:00 Carolingi pulled from Gamefound, pre-orders directly from Sea Cove Games
47:59 7 Empires from Mac Gerdts
49:27 Star Trek: Away Missions goes Original Series
51:52 Topic: Dexterity Games Revisited
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