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      <title><![CDATA[7 Wonders Duel]]></title>
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*Because the best way to resolve an argument with your spouse is a brutal Mediterranean arms race.*


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      <title><![CDATA[A Feast for Odin]]></title>
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*Because true Vikings prefer extreme logistics puzzles over actual combat.*


When someone invites y...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Apiary]]></title>
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Ah, Apiary. Stonemaier Games' attempt to make us care about space bees. Because regular terrestrial agriculture simply was...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ark Nova]]></title>
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*Basically, it's managing a zoo without the unmistakable smell of the monkey enclosure.*


Let me tell you about A...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Arkham Horror: The Card Game]]></title>
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*An incredibly immersive simulator of a 1920s librarian slowly going insane in a dark basemen...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Barrage]]></title>
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*Because destroying a friendship over imaginary water flow is arguably the purest form of gaming.*


Right, listen car...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Brass Birmingham]]></title>
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*The Industrial Revolution shoved into a box. Sooty, sweaty, and entirely majestic.*


Right then. B...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Brass Lancashire]]></title>
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*Because building the Birmingham canal network was simply not miserable or ruthless enough.*


Right...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Camel Up]]></title>
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Right. Gather round. What we have here is not a serious simulation of Middle Eastern commerce. It is not an elegant ...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Catan]]></title>
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Now, Catan. Some say it's the grandfather of modern board gaming, the very reason we no longer spend our evenings subjugated...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Clank! Legacy: Acquisitions Incorporated]]></title>
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*Because nothing says 'fantasy adventure' quite like filling out corporate HR pap...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:52:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Concordia]]></title>
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*Selling cloth in ancient Rome has never been this mathematically graceful.*


Right, look at this box. Be honest...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:52:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Crokinole]]></title>
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*It’s just aggressively flicking wooden discs, but it is inexplicably the greatest pub game ever invente...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Daybreak]]></title>
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*Because occasionally you want to panic about global warming cooperatively instead of just screaming at the ...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:52:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Dune Imperium]]></title>
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*It’s not just about controlling the spice, it’s about sending a terrifying message.*


Dune: Imperium. T...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Dune: Imperium - Uprising]]></title>
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*Because the original just didn’t have enough colossal, uncontrollable sandworms.*


Ri...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Eclipse: Second Dawn for the Galaxy]]></title>
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Stop what you are doing. Look at this box. It is not merely a board game, it is a gravitatio...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Everdell]]></title>
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*A ruthless, highly aggressive engine builder hiding underneath a massive distraction of a 3D cardboard tree.*


L...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:52:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship]]></title>
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Listen, we have all played the Pandemic system. You cure the blue disease, you cure the re...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:52:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Food Chain Magnate]]></title>
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*Because nothing destroys a long-term friendship faster than aggressively undercutting the pric...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:52:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Frosthaven]]></title>
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*It’s colder, it’s heavier, and it secretly wants to bury you alive under a mountain of cardboard tokens.*...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:52:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Gaia Project]]></title>
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*Terra Mystica in space, featuring aggressive plastic planets and a tech tree that practically requires an a...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:52:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Gloomhaven]]></title>
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*Not so much a board game as a structural integrity test for your dining table.*


Look at the sheer, terrify...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:52:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion]]></title>
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*Finally, a version of Gloomhaven that doesn't require structurally reinforcing you...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:52:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Great Western Trail]]></title>
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*Delivering cows via train has absolutely no right to be this unbelievably stressful or fun.*...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:52:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Heat: Pedal to the Metal]]></title>
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*Because nothing says ‘casual racing’ quite like aggressively ruining your engine block.*

...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:52:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Hegemony: Lead Your Class to Victory]]></title>
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*Finally, a board game that lets you legally simulate a devastating national economic s...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:52:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Kanban EV]]></title>
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*Because playing a board game specifically to be yelled at by an angry factory manager is apparently fun.*


Look, th...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:52:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Lost Ruins of Arnak]]></title>
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*Indiana Jones the Board Game, if Indiana Jones spent most of his time carefully managing his f...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:52:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Mage Knight: Board Game]]></title>
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*A fantasy adventure game that mathematically punishes you for casually strolling through a forest....]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:52:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Marvel Champions: The Card Game]]></title>
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*Finally, a card game that accurately simulates the administrative burden of paying for...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:52:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Nemesis]]></title>
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*Because exploring a damaged spaceship in deep sleep shouldn't end with getting ripped in half by an alien.*


Lo...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:52:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Orléans]]></title>
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*Because apparently deck-building isn't stressful enough unless you do it completely blind in a velvet bag.*


Right ...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:52:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Pandemic Legacy: Season 1]]></title>
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*It’s Pandemic, but with the terrifying realization that your mistakes are permanent.*


Right the...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:52:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Root]]></title>
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*Aggressive, brutal woodland warfare painted over with aggressively cute Disney-style animals.*


Right, if you glance...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:52:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Scythe]]></title>
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*It looks like massive, brutal combat, but it's actually an extremely tense potato-farming simulator.*


Scythe. Look at...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:52:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence]]></title>
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*Because scanning deep cosmic static for three hours is actually more excit...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:52:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Sky Team]]></title>
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*Finally, a two-player game that actively simulates the sheer terror of aggressively failing to land a commerc...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:52:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Slay the Spire: The Board Game]]></title>
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*Because playing it for three thousand hours on a computer simply wasn't ruining ...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:52:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Spirit Island]]></title>
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*Because sometimes you just want to violently throw an entire colonial expedition straight into the sea.*

...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:52:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Star Wars: Rebellion]]></title>
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*Because sometimes, negotiating trade routes is boring and you just want to blow up a planet....]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:52:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Supremacy: The Game of the Superpowers]]></title>
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*Finally, a completely authentic simulation of destroying the global economy right before aggressively plung...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:52:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Terra Mystica]]></title>
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*You are a fantasy race trying to forcefully alter the physical landscape purely to spite your neighbors....]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:52:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Terraforming Mars]]></title>
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*Turning a cold, dead rock into a slightly less cold, slightly damp rock.*


Terraforming Mars. T...]]></description>
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*The most visually washed-out game about incredibly exciting dice manipulation.*


Stefa...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Crew: Mission Deep Sea]]></title>
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*Because nothing breeds silent, seething hatred quite like someone playing the wrong co...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle-earth]]></title>
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*It’s 7 Wonders Duel, but with aggressively more aggressive Hob...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization]]></title>
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*A spreadsheet so mathematically flawless it practically builds pyramids in...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Too Many Bones]]></title>
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*An incredibly heavy, premium box of high-stakes poker chips masquerading as a fantasy adventure.*


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      <title><![CDATA[Twilight Imperium: 4th Ed]]></title>
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*It is not an afternoon activity. It is a legally binding contract.*


Stop whatever you are doing. L...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Twilight Struggle]]></title>
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*Three hours of deeply paranoid, sweat-inducing political tension masquerading as an area con...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Underwater Cities]]></title>
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*Terraforming Mars but severely damp, considerably tighter, and infinitely more stressful.*


Right...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Viticulture Essential Edition]]></title>
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*Because pretending to drink wine while crushing tiny wooden grapes is deeply, beautifully...]]></description>
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*Because sometimes you just need to drop a massive army of Nazgul onto a poor, unsuspecting Hobbit.*

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      <title><![CDATA[Wingspan]]></title>
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Right, so we're talking about a game about birds. BIRDS. Not invading Russia in winter, not managing an intergalactic empire...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:52:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Top 5 Board Games to Play at a BBQ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The absolute best cardboard to throw onto a patio table while trying not to burn the sausages.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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