Death of Monopoly

Any game where players are each DRAGONS has to be a fun game! Every dragon needs a cave full of treasure. Also, any fierce dragon needs to flame down some little cute cottages, avoid knights, and...

http://www.deathofmonopoly.com/2014/11/dragonflame.html

If you're in the Toronto area this weekend and find yourself attending the massive FanExpo convention downtown, make sure you stop in and say hello.  On Friday, my co-blogger Daryl and I will b...

http://www.deathofmonopoly.com/2014/08/fanexpo-2014.html

Really, really freaking good .  Two weeks to release.  TWO weeks....

http://www.deathofmonopoly.com/2014/08/okay-new-days-of-wonder-game-is-good.html

Agricola is definitely an obsession forming game, deep, complex, but utterly thematic with tons of variety.  It was sort of the start of Uwe Rosenberg's nose dive into complexity.  I mean, t...

http://www.deathofmonopoly.com/2014/08/first-play-caverna-or-agricola-dwarf.html

Okay, Daryl may have spent this past weekend at GenCon playing brand new swanky titles.  But at least I saw a gigantic arcade Operation .....

http://www.deathofmonopoly.com/2014/08/seen-at-canadas-wonderland-this-past.html

This will be my first year attending Gen Con , "the best 4 days in gaming." The convention takes place this week, from August 14-17, in Indianapolis. Gen Con is the original, longest-runnin...

http://www.deathofmonopoly.com/2014/08/before-gen-con-top10s.html

Daryl (me) just recently was hired as a game experts at Games On Tap board game cafe in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. So it only seemed appropriate to bring the Pack O Games to work with me. ...

http://www.deathofmonopoly.com/2014/08/pack-o-games.html

Board games have definitely hit the mainstream and our little corner of Ontario is seeing it as well (must be since I moved here....)  Two board game spots are opening and my co-blogger Daryl ...

http://www.deathofmonopoly.com/2014/07/new-board-game-cafes-opening-in.html

Here's a lovely and very well-researched article by Joe Huber of The Opinionated Gamers on Sid Sackson's Acquire , one of the greatest and most influential board games ever made (IMHO).  A...

http://www.deathofmonopoly.com/2014/05/on-development-of-acquire.html

North Star Games has released some of the most enjoyable party games that have come out in years.  To be honest, Wits and Wagers  is about the only trivia game that I think is worth playing...

http://www.deathofmonopoly.com/2014/05/on-horizon-evolution.html

For the last month, I have been missing my usual Sunday evening board game group as HBO is once again playing Game of Thrones , a fantastic show my friends and I are obsessed with.  Now I've pla...

http://www.deathofmonopoly.com/2014/05/winter-is-coming.html

I'm always looking for simplicity in games, especially the lighter ones.  Much like the mathematical proofs I studied in the yesteryears of my graduate work, the simplest were always the most ...

http://www.deathofmonopoly.com/2014/04/a-review-of-splendor.html

I realize it sounds like bragging whenever I mention the Gathering of Friends (GoF) to my friends or family. I don't apologize. It is one of the great highlights of my year. If I could I wou...

http://www.deathofmonopoly.com/2014/04/the-night-before-gathering-of-friends.html

...for the delightful new jewel-collecting (engine-building) game Splendor .  However, after 5 games this past Saturday won by the same damn player using the same damn strategy, I'm concerned. �...

http://www.deathofmonopoly.com/2014/04/i-was-about-to-write-review.html

(Link here .  Thanks for the tip, Kelly!)

http://www.deathofmonopoly.com/2014/04/clearly-i-dont-take-uno-seriously-enough.html

It's no surprise to anyone who has read posts on here when I say that I really enjoy train games.  Usually it's the lighter fare - Ticket To Ride , Chicago Express , and the like - but I do enjo...

http://www.deathofmonopoly.com/2014/03/first-play-1830.html

This past holiday Monday, the Board Game Bash went down and saw 3 times as many people as were expected (170+!!!).  Despite some minor hiccups like not enough tables and chairs in the buildin...

http://www.deathofmonopoly.com/2014/02/board-game-bash-huge-success.html

A couple nights ago I was able to play the only prototype in North America (says Daryl) of the new Pandemic dice game as well as a couple rounds of the upcoming delightfully vicious Kramer & K...

http://www.deathofmonopoly.com/2014/02/first-plays-pandemic-cure-and-abluxxen.html

One of the great games of 2013, Hanabi , was also one of the fiddliest.  If you don't own Hanabi, well, firstly, why not?  It's 8 bucks!!!!  Secondly, you might not have played it so you won...

http://www.deathofmonopoly.com/2014/02/hanabi-mahjong-style.html

Exciting News! It is official, Daryl Andrews (one of the writers for Death Of Monopoly), with the help of co-designer Stephen Sauer, have announced their upcoming game "The Walled City: Londonder...

http://www.deathofmonopoly.com/2014/02/the-walled-city-londonderry.html

I would argue there a few more important types of gamers like me, "The Bad Rules Explainer", who always seems to miss a key rule somewhere.  But still, this list of 6 types of gamers is pretty ...

http://www.deathofmonopoly.com/2014/01/what-type-of-gamer-are-you.html

Really, Spiel des Jahres jury? This little dice game (little in every sense) got the nom for game of the year in 2013, beaten out by the well-deserving Hanabi.  And after a couple rounds, I'...

http://www.deathofmonopoly.com/2014/01/first-plays-qwixx.html

Through The Ages was quite the hit last year with our group of friends.  As a deep and complex civ-building game, it may be the best.  But it's also a dry, EXTREMELY long game with tons of a...

http://www.deathofmonopoly.com/2014/01/first-play-nations.html

Well, I suppose it was bound to happen.   Check out this article about "Wood For Sheep:  The Unauthorized Settlers Cookbook " which is filled with tons of Catan inspired recipes.    I wo...

http://www.deathofmonopoly.com/2014/01/the-cookbook-of-catan-seriously.html

Well.....   about time I write a blog post, eh?  Life kinda got away from me the end of last year - serious operations for our dog and work stress and everything else just made this here bloggy...

http://www.deathofmonopoly.com/2014/01/best-games-of-2013-eric.html