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Part of being a GM at the World Boardgaming Championships is agreeing to submit a recap of the tournament for inclusion on the website and i...

Monday had the A Few Acres of Snow demo at 11am as the first thing on my agenda. I didn't want to sleep through it, so I set the alarm i...

Sunday starts off with Through The Ages at noon. All of last week I'd been going to bed around 9pm, so Saturday night I ended up going t...

I've been thinking a fair bit recently about how bidding systems should be dealt with at the World Boardgaming Championships. I managed ...

Monday featured three events I really wanted to enter. San Juan started at 10 and would go for likely 6-7 hours. A Few Acres of Snow started...

Saturday started off with the long drive to Lancaster from Waterloo. I don't know if it was leaving earlier in the morning or that the c...

The World Boardgaming Championships have posted their event previews for this year. The very first thing I looked for was the write up for ...

A Few Acres of Snow has a very interesting mechanic that is part increased hand size, part permanent trash pile. That mechanic is the reserv...

We've covered most of the mechanics of A Few Acres of Snow thus far. All the ways of scoring points. All the ways of ending the game. Th...

We've previously covered the mechanics behind ending the game through expansion and through military conquest but there remains one fina...

As discussed last time a very strong strategy in A Few Acres of Snow is to focus on military power and just conquer the other player's c...

Ok, so now we know how to go around expanding on the board, building more cities, adding cards to our deck, and scoring points. That's a...