MayX Part Deux

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The Darkest Timeline

Last night I tried to work on a new game I’m brainstorming, but it’s really hard to create something for the future when that future looks so grim. I mostly just found myself staring bl…

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The Math of Tariffs

In the whirlwind surrounding the 54% tariff paid by any company importing goods from China to the US, I consistently saw questions, confusion, and even accusations of greed regarding the math of ta…

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We Are Suing the President

We are joining a lawsuit that will challenge the unchecked authority of the executive branch to impose tariffs. We will not stand idly by while our livelihoods–and the livelihoods of thousand…

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MAYX Part Deux

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Everdell Duo

Use resources to play cards and create your own woodland city.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/425005/everdell-duo

In Everdell Duo, you either compete against your single opponent or play co-operatively with another player to earn the most points. You accomplish this by placing workers to gather resources, then use those resources to play cards face up in front of you, creating your own woodland city.

Cards may be played from your hand or from the face-up area on the board called the meadow. However, only cards touching the sun or moon token may be played from the meadow, and players move these tokens each time they perform a turn. Therefore, planning for and timing which cards you play is critical.

Each game you try to achieve various events, the requirements of which differ from game to game, making certain cards and combinations more important to pursue.

The game lasts for four seasons, then players add their scores to determine the winner. If you're playing co-operatively, check the requirements for the chapter you are playing to see whether you have won.

—description from the publisher

La Fleur

Botanists create their dream gardens in Rococo-era France.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/402817/la-fleur

Grandeur, love, and flowers! La Fleur is a strategy board game where you take on the role of a French Rococo garden enthusiast as you build your château, host garden parties, and gain prestige to hold the greatest of all garden gatherings, the Grande Soirée. Each player begins the game as one of a multitude of characters with a château that is rather, well....plain and empty. How will you ever attract visitors to your château and build your reputation if there are no fountains to admire, no paths to wander, and, most importantly, no flowers!

Each round you will send your artisans to different parts of Paris to acquire floral beauties, hire additional help, earn coins, commission new garden features for your château, and do many other things that artisans generally do. But be quick! Resources each round are limited, and the first artisan to each location gets their pick of the crème de la crème. Each round ends with a garden party, where visitors from across the globe come to shower you with prestige and opportunity. Be wary of your neighbors, though! If their château is more attractive than yours, some visitors may be more enticed to attend your neighbor’s garden party than yours. Sacrebleu! As word of the beauty of your competing châteaus spreads, more and more visitors will flock to your gardens. When one player gains enough Prestige, all players add their bonuses from their objectives and garden features, and the player with the most Prestige is declared the Host of the Grande Soirée!

—description from publisher

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Party Games for Game Night

ito

String your thoughts together!

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/327778/ito

ito is a cooperative game where you and your friends will each get your own secret number you then have to try to put in order as a group based on the clues you give related to the chosen theme.

At the start of the game, each player gets a secret number card that can have a value between 1 and 100. Remember, it’s a SECRET, so of course the other players can’t tell you directly what number they have, and neither can you!

The trick is for everyone to understand their intentions just by hearing theme-based clues. Do you and your friends see eye to eye in how you view the world? Have fun finding out in this exciting party game!

The Gang

Bet together the order of your hands in Texas Hold'em Poker to win together.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/411567/the-gang

Round up your gang and get ready to pull off a series of bank heists using the power of poker!

In The Gang, a co-operative version of Texas Hold'em, players bet on how good they think their hand of cards will be relative to the other players, then try to make their predictions a reality.

Early in a round, without talking to each other, each player chooses a chip indicating how good they think their hand is. Then they begin dealing cards into the middle of the table and have a chance to reassess their hands as more cards are revealed. At the end of the round, players see whether they correctly evaluated their hand. If all players did, you get to open one of the bank vaults! If not, you trip the alarm! If you manage to open three vaults before you trip the alarm three times, your gang wins!

—description from the publisher

So Clover!

Work together using one-word clues to disentangle word pairs.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/329839/so-clover

So Clover! is a cooperative word-association game. Play as a team to get the highest score. Get Keywords and secretly write their common features on your Clover board; these are your Clues. Then work together to try to figure out each player’s Keywords. At the end of the game, add up your score according to how many Keywords you found and write it in the Record of Legends. Try to beat your high score each game!

• description from the publisher

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