In this edition of Two Rex Plays we’re discussing CuBirds, a set collection card game designed by Stefan Alexander and with artwork by Kristiaan der Nederlanden. Players select cards from their hand to add to a shared 3x4 grid which sits in the centre of the table. If you surround cards with the same type of bird, you capture these and add them to your hand. Build up enough of one species of bird and you have a ‘flock’ which enables you to permanently set aside cards and work toward the end game condition.

In this edition of Two Rex Plays we’re discussing the roll & write version of Woodcraft, a dice drafting, contract fulfilment game designed by Ross Arnold and Vladimír Suchý and published by Delicious Games. Complete carpentry orders by matching the spots on your drafted dice to the orders in your workshop, using a variety of tools and workers to help you achieve your goals.

In this edition of Two Rex Plays we’re discussing Point City, an engine building card game designed by Molly Johnson, Robert Melvin, Shawn Stankewich and published by Flatout Games. Using a single deck of cards, you create a marketplace where players choose from five different construction resources and a variety of buildings. These buildings either provide permanent resources for future construction phases, score end game points, or earn special civic tokens that act as personal scoring objectives.

In this edition of Two Rex Plays we’re discussing Lost Ruins of Arnak, a deck building, worker placement game designed by Michal Štach and Michaela Štachová and published by Czech Games Edition. After discovering the lost island of Arnak players have 5 turns to send their meeples out on expeditions to find golden idols, fight guardians in ancient temples, and research the island’s mysterious past.

In this edition of Two Rex Plays we’re discussing Trekking Through History, a set collection card game which doubles up as a bite sized history lesson. The game is designed by Charlie Bink and illustrated by Eric Hibbeler and takes place over three ‘days’ of time travelling tourism. On each day of the trip, the players will take turns to select a series of cards representing a significant historic event, with a restriction is that the cards must be collected in chronological order (running forward in time). The longer you can extend your run, the more points you score.

In this edition of Two Rex Plays we’re discussing Fantastic Factories, a worker placement, engine building game designed and illustrated by Joseph Chen and Justin Faulkner. At the start of each turn, chose between buying a blueprint or hiring a specialist contractor, then role your worker dice to determine what resources you’ll have at your disposal. Those resources are then used to construct the blueprints and build out your industrial empire or use existing factories to manufacture goods.

In this edition of Two Rex Plays we’re discussing Silver & Gold, a flip & write treasure hunting game designed by Phil Walker-Harding and illustrated by Oliver Freudenreich. Explore treasure maps by drawing expedition cards that allow you to mark-off polyomino shaped areas, taking special actions when you discover coins, palm trees, and ‘x marks the spot’ symbols.

In this edition of Two Rex Plays we’re discussing Cascadia, a tile & token placement game designed by Randy Flynn and illustrated by Beth Sobel. Using an entwined drafting system, players select terrain hexes to build diverse natural habitats which their animals will inhabit.

In this edition of Two Rex Plays we’re discussing Dicey Dungeons, a digital worker placement, deck building, dungeon crawler. Choose from one of six anthropomorphised dice avatars and battle your way through a battle your way through an eclectic cast of enemies in a procedurally generated dungeon to face off against the final boss.

In this edition of Two Rex Plays we’re discussing Life of the Amazonia, a bag building, tile placement game designed by Jamie Bloom and published by Bad Comet Games. Draw from a bag of tokens to build your own custom jungle and populate it with a series of exotic animals, trees, and aquatic flowers.

In this edition of Two Rex Plays we’re discussing Leaf, a tile placement game designed by Tim Eisner and published by Weird City Games. Collect cards to create a connected network of leaves which allow you to score points by growing mushrooms, collecting sets of woodland animals, and sending squirrels spiralling up a tree.

In this edition of Two Rex Plays we’re discussing Floriferous, a flip & collect card game designed by Eduardo Baraf and Steve Finn with artwork by Clémentine Campardou. Pick from a selection of immaculately illustrated flowers and gardening paraphernalia as you look to score points by satisfying a variety of collection tasks.

In this edition of Two Rex Plays we’re discussing the original Dice Throne, a roll & fight game designed by Nate Chatellier and Manny Trembley and published by Roxley Games. Pick from a diverse cast of characters, roll custom dice to activate an attack from your thematic move set, and chip away at your opponent’s health whilst defending your own.

In this edition of Two Rex Plays we’re discussing Dungeons, Dice and Danger, a roll & write dungeon crawler designed by Richard Garfield and illustrated by Cam Kendal. Roll dice to determine how you move through one of four handcrafted dungeons, with the aim of seeking out treasure and fighting monsters.

In this edition of Two Rex Plays we’re discussing Fliptown, a wild west themed flip & write designed by Steven Aramani and published by Write Stuff Games. Saddle up and hit the trail for a variety of period appropriate activities including cattle rustling, stagecoach robbery, mining for gold, and grave robbing!

In this edition of Two Rex plays we’re discussing Deep Space D-6, a dice placement, spaceship simulator designed by Tony Go and published by Tau Leader Games. Choose your ship, tailor the difficulty, complete away missions, and fight-off a series of enemy ships until help arrives.

In this edition of Two Rex plays we’re discussing One Card Dungeon, a dice placement dungeon crawler designed by Barny Skinner and published by Little Rocket Games.  Playing on a single card, roll your adventure’s stats and see how far you can delve into a series of monster infested dungeons.

In this edition of Two Rex plays we’re discussing Harvest Dice, a roll & write designed by Danny Devine and published by Grey Fox Games. Roll different coloured dice to plant carrots, lettuce, and tomatoes in your vegetable plot, manipulate the price of these goods at market, and feed any surplus food to your pet pig to generate special effects.

In this blog we’re discussing the card game Exploding Kittens, a 2015 Kickstarter mega-hit that raised almost $9m and has gone on to sell over 10 million copies. The base game has since inspired a number of expansions and special editions, a mobile game and even a Netflix animated series which is on the way next year. Essentially this is every independent board game designer’s fever dream of success, so we thought it was worthwhile reaching back a few years to see what made this one work so well.

In this edition we’re discussing the original version of Welcome To… designed by Benoit Turpin and published by Blue Cocker Games. In this flip & write you’re transported back to 1950’s America to build the houses which will accommodate the baby boom from the golden age of capitalism.