Game Overview: Speed Colors, or Color Madly, Young Kids

Erwan Morin's Speed Colors from Lifestyle Boardgames is a real-time game about coloring images quickly.

That's it. Each player has a black-and-white image on a plasticized card, with a colored image on the reverse side. At the same time, everyone looks at the colored side of their card, remembers where the six colors are in that image, then flips the card and tries to color the B&W side as quickly and accurately as they can, scoring points based on how well they color. Do this four times, then count your points to see who wins.

There's not much to Speed Colors, but it does what it's trying to do well, which seems like what you want to do as a game designer. Me, I want to make up more subtitles for this post: Race the Rainbow, Hue'll Want to Win, Learn How to Make Your Markers...

Crowdfunding Round-up: Rambo and the Scarlet Pimpernel Mystery Draft Status Reports

Jan 28, 2018

Another week, another five hundred board game projects launched on Kickstarter. Well, it seems that prolific sometimes, but the actual number is probably no more than a few dozen — which is...

New Game Round-up: NY Toy Fair 2018 — Return to Jurassic Park, Slam More Words, and Exit Even More Places

Jan 27, 2018

• NY Toy Fair usually has far more to offer in terms of mainstream games aimed at children than modern games aimed at older players, but the variety of games on display at that show has been...

Game Overview: LOT, or Lining Up Tokens in All the Wrong Places

Jan 26, 2018

In 2012, designer Néstor Romeral Andrés released the abstract strategy game LOT, a.k.a. Line of Three, through his own nestorgames brand, then German publisher Clemens Gerhards picked up the...

Zoch Verlag Welcomes 2018 with Witches, Cows, Ghosts, Monsters, and Tall Cylinders

Jan 26, 2018

• German publisher Zoch Verlag has released info on a half-dozen titles that it plans to release in the first half of 2018, and as is often the case for this publisher, the games are a mix of...

Episode #2 of The BoardGameGeek Show — Now with Show Notes

Jan 25, 2018

Thanks for all the comments and feeedback on The BoardGameGeek Show, which debuted on January 11, 2018 and the second episode of which went live today. We've made a few changes to the recording...