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7 of the best short board games that take less than 30 minutes

Glenn JaumeMay 5, 2018

A guest post from the wonderful Gemma! You can read her previous post on the weird Chavo-poli here. Perhaps it’s my dwindling millennial attention span or ma...

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Admitting You Have a Pile of Shame and How to Fix it

Glenn JaumeApril 14, 2018

It's weird, but sometimes it feels like hearing about a cool new board game, buying it and maybe even going as far as opening the box is more exciting than act...

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Our top 5 favourite co-operative games

Glenn JaumeApril 6, 2018

Board games aren't all about throwing dice at someone's head or setting fire to the board to stop anyone else winning. Nope. Some games are about working togeth...

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6 Great Tips for Saving Shelf Space

Glenn JaumeMarch 3, 2018

We've talked before about how yuuuuuge board games can be. They have a habit of slowly taking over your home until you can hardly see the TV anymore. They don't...

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The fool proof guide to buying the board games you never knew you needed

Glenn JaumeJanuary 19, 2018

Buying board games. It's not like the old days, down the market, haggling and bartering. Trading your punnet of strawberries for a Catan expansion. You just go ...

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Welcome to 2018

Glenn JaumeJanuary 13, 2018

Welcome to 2018! Oh. You weren't waiting for us to say that, you already did your big day. Well fine. We have big plans for this year (probably) but before w...

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Which Escape room board game is best?

Glenn JaumeDecember 10, 2017

Here at Best Play we love an Escape the Room. Those real-world things where you and your mates have to solve a series of ever elaborate puzzles to get out o...

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The Big Best Play Board Game Christmas Gift Guide

Glenn JaumeDecember 5, 2017

"Is it a bottle?" your Dad jokes. You nod at him encouraging him to open the large rectangle box. He smiles and chuckles to himself, he knows what it is, he...

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Training a Neural Network on 80,000 Board Games

Marcus BeardDecember 1, 2017

No awards were ever given to the 1989 classic board game Indust and Glonty: Referidon. Holding a solid BGG.com rating of 7, the game can facilitate play from 2 ...

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Introducing a Board Game That is Almost Literally Magic

George FoxNovember 17, 2017

We were very excited to discover 'The Wilson Wolfe Affair' so here is George Fox from Simulacra Games to tell you all about it. Find our more and back on the Ki...

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