Hello again Gallery Owners!

Our Kickstarter is over 170% funded and we are now in the final leg of the campaign. To celebrate this success, we’d love to give away our Highest Pledge Tier ($259): Gallery Gambit Deluxe and ALL OUR FUTURE GAMES.

Also, a super big shoutout to our artist Julia July, who made all 54 unique pieces of art.

WHAT YOU’LL WIN:

• Gallery Gambit Deluxe
• All our future games(!!)

Worldwide shipping included for Gallery Gambit.

ABOUT THE GAME

In Gallery Gambit, you are starting a gallery, and so is everyone else at the table. Draft from a shared market of 54 original paintings across four art movements: Pop-Art, Cubism, Fauvism and Bauhaus. Fill your three walls with the most exquisite art pieces. But also make sure not to fall behind your rivals. Succeed and become the finest gallery in town.

It plays with 2 to 5 people and takes around 20 minutes.

For more information about the game you can check out the Kickstarter page!
Please give it a follow while you’re there.

GIVEAWAY RULES:

• Comment on this post to enter. (Replies to other comments do not count.)
• In your comment, tell us which what is a cool thing hanging on your wall right now? Is it a painting, a print, a vinyl, a sword, or a lamp or something else? Let us know! (This is just for fun and is not a requirement beyond making a comment.)
• Only one entry per person. (Account must be at least 10 days old.)
• This giveaway is worldwide!
• The contest will remain open for 48 hours. We will randomly select one winner and contact them through Reddit. We will also post their username here.
• The winner will receive Gallery Gambit immediately.

And if you wouldn’t mind, please give this post an upvote so more folks can see it and enter!

Thank you, and we can't wait to hear all about the cool things on your walls from your comments :-)

Hello.

I bought this on an impulse, as I am a fan of the pc-game!

How do I paint the figures, and which paint would be best?

(manual brush, airbrush, tamiya, citadel, etc.)

TiA

Made for my brother’s 40th birthday. It is sadly too big to fit in the box, but i think it looks good, and it works.

Hi everyone!

My first board game as a designer has recently been released, and it’s now available to play on Board Game Arena.

I’d be very happy to invite anyone interested to give it a try — especially fellow fans of trick-taking games.

The game is available to play without a Premium subscription, so anyone can join.

boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=tricknchef

Since this is my first published game, I’d really appreciate any feedback you’re willing to share. And if you enjoy it, I’d also be very grateful for a rating or comment on BoardGameGeek.

Thanks a lot to everyone who gives it a try, and I hope you have fun with it!

This round was super fun! Although I came in way last haha. What’s your favorite ingredient books to use that make Quacks less luck based (or swingy I should say) and more strategic? This time around I was behind by like 20 VP points and the one in first place was well ahead of the others.

lived in Japan for awhile now, never knew this was a thing so made my way today. spent a bit, but hopefully got some good ones

Rolling and placing dice to fight against the space invaders!

I played Under Falling Skies, which is one of the most popular games in the genre of solo games. I finally understand why it’s a solo classic and recommended all the time. Setting? A defense base where Earth people use their energy and weapons to defeat the alien invasion.

You roll dice and place them in spaces for actions you can do but there are some conditions: a) You can only place one die per column, b) the space ships will move down the same number of spaces as the die in their column (you strengthen yourself but also your enemies move), and c) you’re limited to choose only a certain level of actions unless you upgrade your base.

There’s also a resource economy. You have to produce energy to activate weapons to destroy the alien ships coming at your base but you also need energy to move upwards in the research track and win the game before you’re defeated by the invaders.

This is a game where all the systems are so nicely interwoven that I somehow end up satisfied even if I lose. It’s a game where you have to make calculated sacrifices but also engage in push-your-luck tactics to get a good result. Sometimes you can bait the enemy ships into the target zones and if everything goes right, you can perform a nice killer combo and live another day.

As you can see in the picture, I was one turn away from defeat by mothership invasion and two turns away from defeat by base damage. If the mothership or the red cube reach the skulls on the right side of the board, you lose. If you reach the top of the green reserach track on the left, you win. A race against the aliens: Two ways to lose, one way to win. Also, I like how the mothership descends each turn and despair begins to form because you don’t know if you can succeed. It creates a feeling of dread despite being a ‘puzzly‘ game.

I like the fact that the alien ships are made of plastic and the earthling dice are made of wood. It makes the ‘us vs them‘ distinction really stand out. Kind of like in Spirit Island and Ironwood where different sides/factions use different materials for their components.

Maybe it’s just a phase but I’m really enjoying my time with it so far and I can’t wait to explore the remaining content of the box since I’ve only played the base game but not the multiple scenarios of the campaign (the box is heavier than expected!).

Conclusion: This is a fun game, really well designed, fun decisions, puzzly nature, ‘aha’ moments. Score? I’m bad at giving scores, but I’d say, in its genre (solo games), I’d give it like an 8/10 for creativity and enjoyment. Recommended if you want a relatively simple solo game and love dice games. Let me know if you know similar games I could like.

My girlfriend and I looooove Sidereal Confluence, and it is probably our favorite board game. She is not as much into video games, but it can be hard to get enough people together to play Sidereal Confluence regularly, so I'm looking for a video game that is similar that we could both play.

It being competitive or cooperative are both fine, just wondering if you guys know of anything that scratches a similar itch!

My wife and I LOVE OG nemesis and we have a pair of friends that love it too and that play it with us somewhat frequently.

I got Nemesis Retaliation during their first wave shipment and have yet to play it more than solo.

My question is that I have a good amount of friends who haven't played Nemesis and want to, but I'm not sure if I should introduce them to OG or go straight to Retaliation? Retaliation seems to be rated higher and might be the better of the two mechanically? Or does it just come straight down to themeing and whether you want to play "Alien" or "Aliens"?

Anybody have any experience with both of these games?

I went to trade school for woodworking, I haven't done a project in a few years due to lack of workshop space access. But recently have some again. I want to make a gaming table as my biggest hobby in the last few years has been a mix of TTRPGs and board games.

What are the features you use the most if you have a table? What are the ones you look at the most if you don't?

I'm trying to put a lot of forward planning into this to make it as cool as can be

10.17-18

Makuhari Messe, Chiba Japan

Oink, Itten, Gotta2, Epoch, GP, Sashi, Playte, Yellow Submarine, Bookoff, Nanawari, Mandoo, and thousands authors...

This game is just chaos, you never really know how it’s going to end and you really can’t assume anyone is out. Today we played with 2 lore cards making things even more chaotic. I found myself pretty fortunate getting the Rebel Leader and being able to draft galactic rifle and repair drones, thought it was a great pairing for a leader who lacked in movement.

This is not a game that you just play with anyone and not a game I go around recommending. It takes a dedicated group with an acquired taste, that can laugh off the frustration, and there’s plenty of laughter.

For anyone who’s played, have you found an interesting pairing between the leaders and lore? I’d love to hear them.

I finally got around to unboxing and playing around with the components of A Dream of Splendor in Song Dynasty: Travel Edition from Yaofish, and I'm so happy with the tiny shop houses. This is basically the budget, cheaper version of their full game. Afaik, the gameplay is the same. Everything is just smaller.

They're so itty bitty and adorable! The game comes with sticker sheets, that you're supposed to diy with all the different storefronts. It took me a while to get everything set up, especially with my little helpers, who somehow manage to create more work the harder they try to help.

The little shops are so beautiful! I haven't had enough time with the game to form any proper gameplay opinions yet, but I can already tell the cloth gameboard is going to be a pain. It gets all over the place when I pick up cards from it. I wish it was a more solid game mat, but it has to fit into the travel pack and it is a budget version so I get it. The container to put all the cards are just perfect though. Makes me happy to see everything fit in it's proper place.

Another thing I'm worried about is the language barrier. The instruction booklet and all the shop names are in Chinese, and I'm going to have to figure out how to identify what the customers want when I'm playing. I kind of wish the customer-demand icons were also printed on the shops themselves for easier identification, rather than having to rely on the Chinese names. With components this tiny, I can already imagine myself squinting at everything!

I actually emailed Yaofish after purchasing the game to ask whether they had English instructions, and they were really nice about responding. Unfortunately, the instructions they sent were linked through WeChat, which I don't have. Thankfully, I managed to find the English rules on BoardGameGeek, so that's one problem solved!

Yaofish will be at SPIEL Essen, but I'm not entirely sure whether they'll be bringing this particular game. They also make a regular (more expensive) boxed version of A Dream of Splendor, and from what I've seen, the components are even prettier with metal coins and even fancier shop houses.

Yaofish seems to make quite a few children's games, and they also translate some English-language games into Chinese, which is pretty cool. They translated zombie kidz, wandering towers, and modern art! Their version of modern art is so pretty!

Anyway, I'm mostly here to gush over these adorable little shops. I really hope I can get past the language barrier and enjoy the actual game as much as I enjoy looking at the components.

Has anyone here played this edition? I'd love to hear what you think of the gameplay or if you've played anything else by Yaofish. They have a lot of beautifully made games with lovely components.

Just played Quacks for the first time last week and LOVED it. I bought my own copy and would like some 3D printed inserts for all the game pieces.

I found an amazing looking file for the All In edition here, but I think there are a few pieces too many since the Deluxe version I bought doesn’t include the expansion like the All In does.

Does anyone have a recommended file for a similar quality of 3D printed insert for the Deluxe version of Quacks specifically?

I’m not 3D printer savvy at all, and don’t own my own printer, I was hoping to pay a friend to print this for me or try and print some of this at the local library.

Any thoughts or help would be greatly appreciated!

having played both, I find sub Terra feels similar to nemesis OG but is a lot more streamlined and less of a crunchy game. to me, sub Terra is largely underrated. thoughts?

I’m curious how many people played Lotería as kids. I took it for granted that this was a common game but realize now it was more common for Hispanic families. Has anyone played later in life to learn Spanish? I’m also curious if anyone actually played with the person calling cards doing it the traditional way. Instead of just calling out the card (ex. El sol / the sun), did you ever make a little rhyme or joke with the word? Let’s share our lotería stories!

Is Boktor just... Zombicide lite?

I actually don't mean that strictly as a criticism. I love Zombicide, but I have a hard time getting it to the table sometimes because of how much table space it requires, and setup can be a bit cumbersome. Once you get rolling with it, gameplay is silky smooth... but it can be daunting when we just want to get something out fast and start having fun.

Boktor seems to have some interesting differences:

• Simultaneous movement, which allows players to better adapt to quickly-changing circumstances
• Tile-by-tile exploration
• Kind of a boss battler dungeon crawl like One Deck Dungeon, instead of a mission-based scenario like Zombicide
• Ability to store energy from turn-to-turn, which creates more fun 'power turns'

And a big one for me: it seems to use less table space?

But even still, at the end of the day, I wonder if this will feel a bit redundant with Zombicide. What are your initial impressions, for anyone who has spent some time researching/reading or even playing both games?

I've seen an instagram post about chemistry mahjong that would be an excellent fit for my students.

https://www.instagram.com/reels/DIx3NU-vo1h/

However, I can't seem to find it anywhere.I've checked numerous pages and all seem to be out of stock.

Does anyone know where one could find this game? Or, as an alternative, could anyone provide pictures of the game tiles? If the game is no longer in print, I guess I could try and make a print and play version of it, or print the symbols on stickers and put it over a regular mahjong set.

Thanks in advance.