Monthly Archives: December 2020

Here is a link to the official solo mode for Carcassonne: https://www.hans-im-glueck.de/_Resour… Amazon Affiliate Link to Carcassonne: https://amzn.to/38CB7DV

If you could only have 10 board games for the rest of your life, and you didn’t have a bunch of friends or family nearby with collections of their own, which 10 board games would you keep? Here is my answer to this question. Here are some things about me that might give insight for …

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SpaceShipped is an 18-card space-trading game published by Button Shy Games, and designed by Lucas Gentry (that’s me!) It can be purchased at: https://buttonshygames.com/products/s… SpaceShipped — A solo space trading game of buying and selling resources, upgrading your ship, crew, and equipment, dealing with pirates, and making deals. A card game with over 30 random …

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Maiden in the Forest is a solitaire card game, published by Button Shy Games in their Wallet line of games, but also available on BGG as a free Print-and-Play game. I made a tutorial video with a playthrough, but I also made an Intro to Print-and-Play gaming tutorial, where I teach you how to make …

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Hive Pocket is a game I always describe as playing Chess with a bag of bugs. It’s a great 2-player strategic game that you can play anywhere — even outside in the dirt — and it will be just fine, because it’s made of hard tiles and no cardboard. Here’s a playthrough video I made …

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Valley of the Kings: Afterlife is a deck builder card game with an Ancient Egyptian theme. I put together a tutorial. It’s an older video, but you might be interested: Valley of the Kings: Afterlife is a fun little deckbuilder card game with an Egyptian theme. Your role is to try to pack the pharaoh’s …

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I put together a list of roughly 10 board games that can fit in your pocket. This video was made quite a while ago, so the items on the list have changed, but I’m keeping the video up for posterity, I suppose. Here are several of the games mentioned in this list: Quick List, in …

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Sprawlopolis is an 18-card city-building game by Button Shy Games. Here is a direct link to their product page for their Wallet version, but they also have Print-and-Play versions available: I made a Tutorial video with a playthrough.

Card Capture is a Solitaire Deck Builder card game using nothing but a single standard deck of playing cards. Here is the BGG Link to the files, if you’d like to download it for free: https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/173125/card-capture-rules-2018-solitaire-print-and-play-c Also in the BGG files section is a French translation, and a couple other rethemes that people have made. …

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