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This Week’s Explorable Games

This round of Explorable Favorites is from BoardGaming.com member Ladycovichi. The games selected from their Favorites shelf were:

  • Village
    Tasty Minstrel Games | Published: 2011
  • War of the Ring
    Ares Games, Fantasy Flight Games | Published: 2004

These games will be explorable until next Monday, January 12th.

After you’ve explored these games, let us know what you think about them in the comments below!

Comments (12)

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Gamer - Level 8
Novice Reviewer
Bronze Supporter

Village sounds interesting- added to my ever growing wish list!

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Miniature Painter
Rosetta Stone
Advanced Reviewer
BoardGaming.com Beta 1.0 Tester

@Hai

Congrats on your new lovely mask!

War of the Ring has had my eye for a while. There is nothing wrong with Village that I can see, but the WotR definitely is more interesting of the two for me.

Thanks for yet another installment of exporables!

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8
El Dorado
I'm a Gamin' Fiend!
Rated 100 Games
Paladin

…and now it worked for me all of a sudden.

Just one game away from the Rosetta Stone! So close!

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10
Canada
Sentinels of the Multiverse fan
Plaid Hat Games fan
Platinum Supporter

Gaze on the Face of Agamemnon! For I wear the Mask today!!!!!

Mwaauuhahahaha!

Thank you @Ladycovichi for I couldn’t have done it without your Sacred Shelf spotlight.

Banner day – snazzy mask and up an Explorer level so more wish list shelving. 🙂

I am surprised that War of the Ring hasn’t gotten more past reviews in this joint- it has got legs. Didn’t FanFlight once put out a nifty collector’s super deluxe painted set to be gazed upon with envious eyes …and then ball the whole thing up for a reboot a year or two later?

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I play black
Guardian Angel
Platinum Supporter
Marquis / Marchioness

@thegordonshow – they should definitely work for you. I completed the exploration with those links. If it’s just not working for you, we’ll need input from Jim…

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El Dorado
I'm a Gamin' Fiend!
Rated 100 Games
Paladin

So clicking on the Game Site and the Rulebook doesn’t work to give me exploration points for the War of the Ring.
Is that happening to anyone else?

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USA
Platinum Supporter
Petroglyph
BoardGaming.com Beta 1.0 Tester

@Bit and Bot Massacre

These are both games that could definitely fall flat for various game group tastes. This is the problem for someone, such as myself, who enjoys everything from heavy Euros like Kanban to simple fair like Sushi Go. I also enjoy abstracts and roll-heavy Ameritrash (Ingenious and Descent respectively). Many party games I like only go over well with non-gamer guests from out of town. I have several game groups I foster for this reason…one of them being my own family. What a wonderful world we gamers live in. Game on!

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10
USA
I play blue
El Dorado
Guardian Angel

I sooooo wanted to like War of the Ring since I’m a big LotR fan. The game is simply gorgeous. However, IMHO it is too scripted and long for what it is.

I like Village but have trouble getting it to the table. It’s a fairly heavy game which presents many options. It takes a few plays to sort through everything.

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Detective
Stone of the Sun

@Bit and Bot Massacre

That is the mystery 😉

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Miniature Painter
Rosetta Stone
Advanced Reviewer
BoardGaming.com Beta 1.0 Tester

@Andross,

Which is which?

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8
Detective
Stone of the Sun

Interesting choices, one is a game I will refuse to play again, the other is a game I’ve been dying to find anyone willing to play again. 😛

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9
USA
Platinum Supporter
Petroglyph
BoardGaming.com Beta 1.0 Tester

Whereas last week the explorables were very close in engine-building gameplay…these games are pretty far apart. One is a Worker placement Euro. The other is basically a war game in a fantasy setting. Both are excellent games in their genre.

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