tabletop

Ticket To Ride-First Journey is the junior variation of the popular Ticket To Ride game. As in the original, players must make various lengths of train route connections between cities across the U.S. and Canada in order to complete secretly drawn route goals. Coloured cards are collected from a communal draw pile, and when players … Read more

Based on the (excellent) Wild Kratts television show, Race Around The World pits players as some of the show’s characters racing each other through four types of environment. The show is based on real life animal enthusiast brothers Chris and Martin Kratt, and it spins from them somewhere around the world into a related but … Read more

A murder was committed in a local manor and a group of psychics has opted to visit the residence on Halloween to make contact with the restless spirit of the deceased in order to divine who killed him where and with what weapon.Let the seance begin… So goes the (here less eloquent) setting opener for … Read more

In Spy Alley, everyone is a randomly determined spy working for one of six countries. Each player knows who they are and what country they work for, but it’s a secret from others. As you roll the die to move your character around the board, you’re trying to buy/collect your own password, disguise, code book … Read more

In Labyrinth, each player is a wizard seeking secret treasures in a maze where the hallways and walls are always shifting. The game board is designed with square maze pieces that are adhered to create an open grid pattern where loose modular maze tiles are randomly placed. Some of those tiles (both adhered and loose) … Read more

Qwirkle is a game of creating lines of like colours or shapes but not both. Each player gets six small tiles with a coloured shape on it: One of a combination of six shapes and six colours. On every turn, the players will seek out the best placement for as many of their tiles as … Read more

Carcassonne is a competitive yet collaborative game where players build up a 2D region using modular tiles to get points as the game goes on as well as at the end. Players take turns flipping tiles from a communal deck (or various decks for easier access) one at a time and adding them to the … Read more

It was finally the time to try out 3 Wishes, a game we got at Christmas but which had sat unopened since. But of course, what better time than indefinite self-isolation to crack open something new to play? The game is simple in concept but takes focus to play well. From a very small, curated … Read more

Sushi Go! is a fun, quick game that’s easy to pick up and is flexible enough that it works for two or more players. The goal of the game is to get the most points by accumulating sets or combinations of point-value cards (with a few standalone singles) over three rounds. At the start of … Read more