Telestrations Upside Drawn is a team-based drawing board game for four to twelve players. Here's a live unboxing of this new version of Telestrations from The Op.
Why? "Why" is perhaps the most important question of all. Why do people play board games? That's the question I'm going to try to tackle today, based on one of the best Ask The Bellhop questions we've ever received.
One recent change in the board game hobby is that we are now seeing a number of excellent licenced board games. By which I mean fantastic, fun to play, games that are based on an existing property. For years boardgames based on an established licence were mostly trash. Jaws is the perfect example of a modern licenced board game, a game that lives up to its name and is a great game at the same time.
Katana: Samurai Action Card Game which was self-published by Tracy Alan after a successful Kickstarter is a non-collectable card game for two players.
Just like the title says, it's Amazon's big yearly Pre-Gen Con Sale.
For Sale - Getting the most from your unwanted games, a follow up to last week’s topic of deciding which games in your collection to get rid of. Also a detailed review of Bastille from Queen Games and Family Secrets the first episode of Escape Mail an escape mail experience delivered to your door. Finally, a number of games in our Bellhop’s Tabletop week in review including a first look at Eclipse Second Dawn for the Galaxy, plus Maki Stack, Katana, Jaws, Codenames Duet and Medium.
A live unboxing of Katana: Samurai Action Card Game from Tracy Alan. This two-player single box, card game was funded on Kickstarter in 2019 and features a very striking aesthetic.
Last week I talked about how to decide which games in your collection you should get rid of. This week I'm looking at the next step of actually getting rid of those games. Where to sell your board games and RPGs, how to determine the right price, alternatives to selling, like trading, and more.
The escape room phenomenon seems to have really taken off, with rooms popping up all over the world. Along with this there have been a number of "escape room in a box" games released. Escape Mail seems to be the next step, an escape room experience delivered by mail.
In today's board game review, I look at a boardgame with a unique worker placement system that also combines bidding using influence, Bastille from Queen Games.
