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17 Jul 2011

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(jcrog)

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Jaipur is a fairly light two player card game. You and your opponent are traders, but only one of you can claim two seals of excellence and win the game.

http://www.play-board-games.com/jaipur-board-game-review/

Guardians of Graxia is a fantasy-themed, card-based war game. You must conquer or guard lands by summoning mythic creatures to fight for you.

http://www.play-board-games.com/guardians-of-graxia-review/

Asara is a game about building towers. As an architect you must send buyers to get parts and try to build the tallest (or most) towers as you can.

http://www.play-board-games.com/asara-board-game-review/

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Sun Jul 17, 2011 2:08 pm

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Kevin B. Smith

(peakhope)

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Margate
Florida

Jaipur is our favorite non-cooperative couples game. It is light, but plays surprisingly deep. I love that on each turn, you can only do one thing: Take OR trade OR sell. Each game offers several painful choices.

There seems to be an error in your review. You say "On your turn you can take cards from the face-down draw pile or five face-up cards. You may only take one card from the draw pile." But that's not correct. You can never draw directly from the face-down pile. You can take one of the 5 face-up cards OR you can trade for 2 or more of the face-up cards.

Aside from that, it's a nice brief review that I pretty much agree with. I don't know your scale, but I think I would give it a 4/6 on the luck scale, rather than 5. Perhaps the incorrect rule above would change your rating. I might also give interaction a 3/6 instead of 4.

I was going to post a reply in the blog itself, but it's not clear whether or not my (required) email address would become public.

Posted Sun Jul 17, 2011 5:12 pm
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Oops that is an error in my description of the rules. I will go fix that now. Good catch!

Also I will not share your email or even email you (unless you subscribe). I will have to make sure that is clearly stated on the site.

Posted Sun Jul 17, 2011 6:34 pm
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