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Happy Salmon... especially the

one time we played it in a limo...

switcheroo?!?

Lucy Mitchell

Coconuts is hands down my

favourite late-night party game.

Silly bounces, stealing cups, calling

your shots. It’s amazing.

@zach

Cockroach Poker! Never had a game

where we haven’t laughed out loud!!

Tom Gorner

Cards Against Humanity. It’s

sometimes much more entertaining

to play answers you KNOW they

hate saying aloud. The initial look on

their face – tightened lips, squinted

or bulging eyes, blushing. It’s like you

are watching their very soul grapple

with the effort to even speak.

@rbraxxo

Sheriff of Nottingham because of

our use of innuendo! We don’t call

them chickens...

Rob Jones

The Resistance... only because if

you don’t laugh, you cry.

Katie Ng

Mountains of Madness, when

everybody has three madness cards.

Steven de Graaf

For us, its Telestrations It’s that

moment when the penny drops, when

what their word prompt was versus

the monstrosity you just drew...!

@competitiveduo

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Number-counting social card game The Mind and

app-enhanced mystery Detective have been named the

big winners at this year’s As d’Or awards – France’s

answer to the Spiel des Jahres.

The ‘all public’ As d’Or is the awards’ headline

trophy for a widely-accessible release. 2019’s award

was claimed by The Mind, which was also nominated

for the Spiel des Jahres. It beat Codenames-y, Dixit-y

deduction game Shadows: Amsterdam, Sébastien

Dujardin’s gorgeous Solenia and pirate scavenger hunt

Treasure Island (find our review on page 66).

The expert As d’Or was picked up by Detective: A

Modern Crime Board Game, which uses a companion

app to power along its interlinked tales of murder,

mystery and conspiracy.

The win meant Detective triumphed over

KeyForge: Call of the Archons, the ‘unique deck’

card game created by Magic: The Gathering

designer Richard Garfield. Also in the running in the

particularly heated category was subversive co-op

board gameSpirit Island.

Over in the children’s category, memory-based animal

challenge Where’s Mr. Wolf? came out on top, beating

self-proclaimed ‘first legacy game for children’ Zombie

Kidz Evolution, emotional dice game The Color Monster

and Who Did It? – a card game about working out which

animal crapped on the living room floor.

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The Mind and Detective triumph at

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The first tabletop Magic: The Gathering Mythic

Championship – the evolution of the card game’s long-

running high-level Pro Tour format – was one for the

history books.

The three-day tournament saw almost 500 players

compete for a prize pool of $500,000 in Cleveland,

Ohio, reportedly making it the second-biggest single

Pro Tour equivalent ever held behind last November’s

Guilds of Ravinca Pro Tour – the final event to use

that name.

It was a showcase of some of the best pro-level

play Magic had to offer, too. The last eight players

in the tournament shared more than 20 Pro Tour/

Mythic Championship Top Eight appearances

between them, with the final match seeing a

showdown between consecutive two-time English

national titleholder Autumn Burchett – playing

for the first time in a day three at a premiere

tournament – and Japan’s Yoshihiko Ikawa, who

claimed his second Top Eight placing.

As well as making Burchett the first winner of the

rebranded Mythic Championship format, the win

made them the first British winner of a Pro Tour-level

event. As a transfemme non-binary person, Burchett

is also the first non-male winner of a top-level Magic:

The Gathering competition.

MYTHICAL LEGEND

British winner makes history at

Magic: e Gathering tournament

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