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Has to be Mansions of Madness. My

partner fell in love with this game

and knowing she enjoys playing it as

much I do makes it a must on our

board game date nights!

Tom Gorner

BattleLore! Or if feeling ‘old-

school’, Stratego.

Garett Seebruch

Anything! Getting her to play a game

is a challenge, but she’s quite fond of

Azul. I’ve ordered Cat Lady and she’s

keen to give it a go!

Rob Jones

Splendor! The most affordable

way for her to get her hands

on diamonds!

Kriss Coackley

You can’t beat a clash of civilisations

in 7 Wonders Duel for us!

Richard Westley

Arhkam Horror: The Card Game

two-player is perfect. Light a few

candles and get on some thematic

music for atmosphere. Defeat

some cultists and kiss your partner.

Works a charm.

Kevin Ogilvie

Nothing increases sexual tension

like slaying cultists together.

Claire Ogilvie

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THE TABLETOP GAMING PODCAST

Games of the Year 2018 episodes

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Wolfgang Warsch had a busy 2018.

The designer was nominated three

times across the prestigious Spiel des

Jahres and Kennerspiel des Jahres

awards, winning the Expert Game of

the Year prize for his bag-builder The

Quacks of Quedlinburg. Meanwhile, he

left players in a tizzy with his divisive

Spiel des Jahres-nominated social

card game The Mind and counting

dice in Kennerspiel-nominated roll-

and-write hit Ganz Schön Clever.

2019 looks to be just as crammed

for Warsch, with the reveal of a follow-

up to Ganz Schön Clever, Doppelt so

Clever (‘Double so clever’), the first

expansion for Quacks and a new game

called Die Tavernen im Tiefen Thal

(‘The Tavern of the Deep Valley’).

Doppelt so Clever adds a new

action to the options of Ganz Schön

Clever, while Quacks of Quedlinburg:

Die Kräuterhexen adds bits for a

fifth player plus ingredients and

books inspired by its ‘herbal witches’.

Die Tavernen im Tiefen Thal,

meanwhile, sees players attracting

visitors to their drinking hole by

carefully

picking dice

and crafting

their individual

decks of

cards.

The game

includes five

modules to customise the

level of difficulty.

With the promise of more games

from one of last year’s hottest

designers, Warsch already looks set

to be one of 2019’s talking points too.

The studio behind Clank! has

announced a new series of games

designed for just one player.

The first instalment in

Renegade’s Solo Hero series

is Proving Grounds, a real-time

solitaire dice game designed

by FUSE and Flatline creator

Kane Klenko.

As well as including six

different modules that can

be combined together for

unique challenges, the game

comes with a novella written

by RPG designer and author

Monica Valentinelli that lays

out the fantasy world and

its characters, serving as a

prologue to the gladiatorial

arena combat of the gameplay.

Only the Strongest Has the

Heart of a Wizened Queen

follows Maia Strongheart,

a fighter framed for the

death of her mother, the Sun

Queen. Players take control of

Stongheart in the arena during

each half-hour play session,

battling to prove her innocence.

Proving Grounds is due

for release this April, and

will cost $35 (£27) in the

US – that’ll get you some

cards, dice, tokens and

the game’s storybook.

The next entry in the

Solo Hero series is yet to

be announced.

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