Review: Gardens of the Alhambra

The trees have it

Queen have taken advantage of the success of their Alhambra franchise to re-release one of their classic abstract game Carat as The Gardens of the Alhambra. This simple tile-laying game is a struggle for area control where every move you make, helps another player and where the only way to get the big points is to ensure you are only the barest fraction ahead.

This battle is fought over garden tiles as players reconstruct the orchards, groves and pathways of the famous Alhambra of Granada.

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Review: Six

Pieces of six! Pieces of six!

There are many abstract games in which players create a row of pieces to win. Six is, at most, a distant cousin to these games who lives in a much better part of town. In Six, players place pieces trying to create one of the three possible winning formations (including a line) while playing for position in two different phases of play forcing them to walk a delicate balance of attacking and defence.

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Review: Mord im Arosa

Eight floors, one guess. A novel murder mystery

In Mord im Arosa, the players take the roles of amateur detectives attempting to investigate (or at least doing their best to make sure that one of the other players is arrested for the two murders that have been discovered tonight at the Hotel Arosa.

In this light abstract crime game for 2-6 players, sharp ears are the key to making sure someone else takes the fall.

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