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Milton Bradley's Vampire Hunter, featuring a large glowing tower in the center of the game board.

What You See in the Dark: Night and Day in Vampire Hunter

By Orrin Grey • November 15th, 2023

Vampire Hunter is a fairly straightforward board game with one exception – you play it in the dark.

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Close up photo of the board game Warhammer Execution Force with an overarmored necro priest facing off against several assassins on a very confusing board

Stealth Mission: Exploring the Corners of Warhammer 40K in Execution Force

By Orrin Grey • November 6th, 2023

Execution Force is a relic of a specific point in GW’s release history – in this case, the year 2015.

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a screenshot of the box for The Muppet Show Board Game with Kermit the frog front and center in front of the logo for the show with the rest of the cast mugging behind him. Text at the bottom says It's a Game! Directed by Kermit the Frog.

It’s Time to Raise the Curtain on the The Muppet Show Game

By Orrin Grey • September 7th, 2023

The game itself is a relic of a time when board games were something very different than they are today.

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crop of the box cover for King of Monster Island with a big four-armed lava guy in the center getting shot at by a boat while volcanoes rage in the background

Collaborative Chaos: Being on the Top of the Heap in King of Monster Island

By Orrin Grey • August 13th, 2023

This bigger kaiju is trying to open a portal with the help of a variety of adorable minions, and the “good” kaiju need to put a stop to it.

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Close-up of the cover for Scooby-Doo The Board Game with the whole gang sitting in the front of the Mystery Machine van. From left to right we have beatnik poet, anxious dog, rational map-reader, equally smart friend, and ascot driver

Wacky Hijinks: Similarities and Differences in Scooby-Doo: The Board Game

By Orrin Grey • July 6th, 2023

It is also ironic that, in many ways, Scooby-Doo: The Board Game feels less like Scooby-Doo and more like a board game than Betrayal at Mystery Mansion, which was already repurposing the mechanics of another game and yet managed, in so doing, to create an almost perfect evocation of a Scooby-Doo episode.

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A photo from Orrin featuring a few of the mixed up monsters from Fearsome Floors, with a fancy lad with an eyeball for a head and a top hat on the left, a melty jawn in the middle, and a skinless skull with milky eyes on the right, all pointing at leach other like three spidermen

Fleeing Fast from Freaky Fiends: Finding Fun with Fearsome Floors

By Orrin Grey • June 7th, 2023

Indeed, Fearsome Floors is one of those European imports, hailing from eccentric German game designer Friedemann Friese, whose fixation on the color green and massive use of alliteration of the letter F can sometimes get lost in translation but certainly helps to set his games apart.

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Box art for the board game 13 Dead End Drive, featuring cartoon depictions of a sour old man as the butler and a shifty-eyed maid, as well as a swinging chandelier over a nervous chef, a bumbling tennis nephew, spooked librarian, worried psychic, and other money-hungry family folks

A Dark and Stormy Night: The Old Dark House Vibes of 13 Dead End Drive

By Orrin Grey • May 2nd, 2023

The traps are pretty much the game’s whole gimmick but, ironically, you don’t need any of them to play.

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