Category Archives: Gateway games

Kingdomino board game review: It takes 15 minutes to build a kingdom

Many boardgamers might agree that Carcassonne is the game that has made tile laying games very popular. It was published in 2000 and has a ton of expansions.  For some reason, I have never been a fan of it so my first reaction to Kingdomino was pretty much “it is just another Carcassonne clone”. Then one of my favorite board game reviewers, Zee Garcia said this is one of the best games of 2016. That made me watch a gameplay and right after I was done watching the video, I immediately ordered it online.

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Las Vegas Board Game Review: Dice Rolling Gateway Game

When you initially discover the world of designer board games, you quickly realize it can be quite overwhelming to decide what game to buy, or even play to see if you like it. The number of games that are available out there is enormous not to mention the hundreds of new games that are published every year.  Even a game like Pandemic, which plays very smoothly, can be a bit intimidating for someone that has never played a modern designer game before.

My solution to this problem was to find a game that had game mechanisms I was already familiar with. For me, that was a dice rolling game. From Monopoly to Sorry, from Yahtzee to Risk, pretty much every mass market game you can find at a big box store has some kind of dice rolling in it.

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