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Five word reviews - games beginning with the letter Z
Joe Huber

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This is a list for five word reviews of games beginning with the letter Z. Please feel free to add your own five word reviews to games already on the list or add additional "Z" games with reviews.

As an incentive to do so, I'll send 15 GeekGold to the originator of my favorite entry provided by the end of the day on Friday, 1/20/06. FWIW, I tend to prefer reviews that come as close as possible to covering the scope of the game, rather than focusing on one aspect of the game; humor also tends to help. If I can't make up my mind as to a favorite, I reserve the right to divide a pot of no less than 15 among my favorites.

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1. Board Game: Zahltag [Average Rating:5.72 Overall Rank:4133]
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Use workforce to win contracts.
2. Board Game: Zankapfel [Average Rating:6.13 Overall Rank:3715]
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Joe Huber

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Buy and sell apple harvest.
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Somewhat straitjacketed, but nice apple.
3. Board Game: Zaubercocktail [Average Rating:5.73 Overall Rank:4205]
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Pit variant; incomplete sets score.
Mike Romigh
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Lansing
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Cocktails involved?!?!? Can't be bad!
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Civilization has shown the way.
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Needham Heights
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Be first to finish negotiating!
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Trading game: loud, chaotic, exciting
4. Board Game: Zauberschwert & Drachenei [Average Rating:6.22 Overall Rank:1977]
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Dungeon crawl in tiny box.
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Bad art hurts my eyes.
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Not needed: another wizard game.
Dave Wilson
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Pleasanton
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Bidding magic earns power stones.
5. Board Game: Zendo [Average Rating:7.30 Overall Rank:218]
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Stab yourself with pieces instead.
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The answer begs the question
Cool bits, zen mind-fest.
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Pipped plastic pyramids pointing? Possibly.
Daniel Szukalow
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Sort shapes to solve sample?
I only played this one time and this is all I remember from it.
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The Buddha nature is elusive.
6. Board Game: Zero [Average Rating:6.48 Overall Rank:2332]
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Bland name; bland card game.
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Maddeningly interesting Knizia - multiplayer Gin.
7. Board Game: Zoff in Buffalo [Average Rating:6.41 Overall Rank:1795]
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Pleasant bluffing game with cows.
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Assonant title; shorter, sillier Vino.
8. Board Game: Zoon [Average Rating:5.40 Overall Rank:5081]
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Joe Huber

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The other Stratego card game.
9. Board Game: Zug Nach Westen [Average Rating:5.03 Overall Rank:5280]
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From Chicago to Kansas City.
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Leave it at the station.
10. Board Game: Turn The Tide [Average Rating:6.86 Overall Rank:372]
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Keep cuckoos away to win.
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Weird mechanics inform Dorra triumph.
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(Duplicate) Duplicitious Dodos Deceive Daddy
11. Board Game: Zwergen Ziehen [Average Rating:5.57 Overall Rank:4664]
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Joe Huber

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Garden gnome tug of war.
12. Board Game: O Zoo le Mio [Average Rating:6.75 Overall Rank:440]
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Cumberland
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(ZooSim)

Win auctions and gain patrons.
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Fierce creatures? Bid early, often.
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Impress visitors with birds, benches.
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Why not just play Alhambra?
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Because Alhambra takes no skill.


Okay, now for my real entry:

Tied? The flagpole will decide.
Robert Eno
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Lions, Tigers, Bears OH MY!
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Loops, links, lemurs -- love it!
13. Board Game: Zombies!!! 5: School's Out Forever [Average Rating:6.47 Unranked] [Average Rating:6.47 Unranked]
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Zombies, Students--which is which?
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three zombies games too many
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Brainless, dead, slow moving, B-Grade
14. Board Game: ZÈRTZ [Average Rating:7.41 Overall Rank:112]
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Beautiful brain burner by Burm.
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Nice alliteration, Matt!
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Kris-created crowded cranium cruncher.
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I thought I was white . . .
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Seems Simple, is there more?
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. . . with a drop of Retsin.
15. Board Game: My Dwarves Fly [Average Rating:5.65 Overall Rank:4346]
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Fight and Finagle for Gold!

Yes look I've added it to another list!

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does not start with z
16. Board Game: Zapp Zerapp [Average Rating:6.13 Overall Rank:1983]
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Shaking makes Ludo more fun.
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Shake, guess and get tinnitus
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This game needs more cowbell!!!
17. Board Game: Zopp [Average Rating:7.55 Overall Rank:1296]
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Fabulous fiendish football flicking fun.
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Improvisers say Zipp Zapp Zopp
18. Board Game: Techno Witches [Average Rating:6.36 Overall Rank:1284]
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Zauber Stauber:

Game roughly about Harry Potter

or:

Game for Harry Potter fans

(You get the idea...)
19. Board Game: Magic Hill [Average Rating:6.18 Overall Rank:2415]
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Kobold wizards climb magic mountain.
20. Board Game: Circus Flohcati [Average Rating:6.64 Overall Rank:626]
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The last part of RA.

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Flip & Floh
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Sometimes no theme is preferable.
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Mix and match colorful cards
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Bug based Barnum and Bailey!
21. Board Game: Zocken [Average Rating:5.85 Unranked]
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Relatively thoughtful, as dicerollers go.
22. Board Game: Frank's Zoo [Average Rating:6.65 Overall Rank:523]
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Brilliant climbing game, cute hedgehogs.

(Zoff im Zoo)
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Eat 'em up and win

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Know the animal kingdom hierarchy

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Learn the animal pecking order
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Never open with two foxes!
23. Board Game: Zeppelin [Average Rating:5.20 Unranked]
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Poor rules and insufficient development.
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led world of explosive airships
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All that glitters is gold.

(Geek Gold)
24. Board Game: Zombies!!! 3: Mall Walkers [Average Rating:6.36 Unranked] [Average Rating:6.36 Unranked]
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David McCarson
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Zany Zombies Zap Shopping Zealots
25. Board Game: Ticket to Ride [Average Rating:7.51 Overall Rank:55]
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(Zug Um Zug)

Collect sets. Block competitors. Bland.
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Yummy trains make funny trails.
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Connect the cities to win
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This starts with Z how?
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Alan R. Moon's Retirement Fund
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Have traveled these tracks before.
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Just another balloon game, right?
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Hey Joe,

Would you mind posting the past winner(s) from your other lists?
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Ready to move onto "X". :)
Joe Huber

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I have not forgotten that I need to pick a winner here - I just haven't had the chance, and don't expect to for another day or two.
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OK, here we go...

My favorites:

Zauber Cocktail - Trading game: loud, chaotic, exciting

Zauberswert & Drachenei - Bidding magic earns power stones.

Zendo - The answer begs the question

Zendo - I'd rather be playing Eleusis.

ZooSim - Win auctions and gain patrons.

ZooSim - Loops, links, lemurs -- love it!

Zertz - Beautiful brain burner by Burm.

Zauber Stauber - Game for Harry Potter fans

Zocken - Relatively thoughtful, as dicerollers go.

Zug Um Zug - Alan R. Moon's Retirement Fund

Zaxxon - Instead ebay for Coleco Vision

(though ColecoVision was always given as a single word...)

Zepter von Zavandor, Das - Outpost rethemed, with technology tracks.

Zicke Zacke Hühnerkacke - Where did that hedgehog go?

Zirkus Flohcati - Bug based Barnum and Bailey!

(Overall, the entries here are wonderful - while the above are favorites of mine, there are dozens of others close behind.)

In the end, I think my three favorites are:

Zendo - The answer begs the question

Zertz - Beautiful brain burner by Burm.

Zepter von Zavandor, Das - Outpost rethemed, with technology tracks.

Thanks again for all the great entries - they make for wonderful reading!
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Thanks Joe, what a blast :)
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