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Submissions - The Abstract Rat
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Abstracts at Essen 2011. Abstracts at Essen 2010. I welcome submissions of abstract games for review, but ask publishers to get in touch with me at reviews@theabstractrat.com for mailing address and other details. I commit to writing and publishing reviews and commentary about games I solicit, but can only offer best-effort for unrequested submissions. Priority is always given to newly-published titles.
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Abstracts at Essen 2010 - The Abstract Rat
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Abstracts at Essen 2011. Abstracts at Essen 2010. Abstracts at Essen 2010. This year's Essen was a good one for abstract titles. Here are a couple of new games that I was looking forward or picked up for the show and have had a chance to write some reviews of along the way. Simple abstracts make a refreshing change from the rules-heavy and complex Euro and thematic games filling most of the halls, so it's great that many publishers are bringing out new ones every year. Scho K. O. A new game from Steffen ...
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Six - The Abstract Rat
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Abstracts at Essen 2011. Abstracts at Essen 2010. Review: Pieces of six! There are many abstract games in which players create a row of pieces to win. Six is, at most, a distant cousin to these games who lives in a much better part of town. In Six, players place pieces trying to create one of the three possible winning formations (including a line) while playing for position in two different phases of play forcing them to walk a delicate balance of attacking and defence. It's worth noting that the standa...
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Rat Hot - The Abstract Rat
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Abstracts at Essen 2011. Abstracts at Essen 2010. Review: Stacks of Rats. Rat Hot is the Queen small-box release of Michael Schacht's Dschunke: Das Legenspiel, an abstract tile game that was developed from the goods-tile-laying element of Dschunke. In the game, players stack 3 by 1 tiles with crates on them to create large connected areas of goods in their own colour while trying to avoid (or cover up) rats. In Rat Hot, groups are checked after each tile lay to see whether any groups have been created or...
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Notes and News - The Abstract Rat
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Abstracts at Essen 2011. Abstracts at Essen 2010. Articles about board games, recent events and publishers. Abstracts at Essen 2011. I didn't make it to Essen this year, but I'm still hunting down copies of some of the interesting new games that came out at the show so I can get reviews up. Abstracts at Essen 2010. The annual Spielmesse in Essen is the central trade show for the Euro game industry. Fortunately, it's also a great place to find out about interesting new abstract games.
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Abstracts at Essen 2011 - The Abstract Rat
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Abstracts at Essen 2011. Abstracts at Essen 2010. Abstracts at Essen 2011. There were several interesting abstracts due to come out at the Essen show this year, but I didn't make it there myself. I'll be filling out these notes as I get more details about the games that I missed seeing in person and add links to review as soon as I've had a chance to find and play them. And several other interesting games from Nestorgames released in the run-up to Essen. Shibumi is a game system with multi-coloured b...
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Reviews - The Abstract Rat
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Abstracts at Essen 2011. Abstracts at Essen 2010. These are all the abstract game reviews currently available on this site. I'll be regularly adding new reviews that will appear here as well as on the front page. Some of these reviews have been published elsewhere, mostly BoardGameNews.com or Board Game Geek, but I consider these to be the definitive versions. May 9, 2011. April 25, 2011. Gardens of the Alhambra. January 23, 2011. January 2, 2011. January 1, 2011. December 21, 2010. December 6, 2010.
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Caminos - The Abstract Rat
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Abstracts at Essen 2011. Abstracts at Essen 2010. Review: A chunky connection game. Caminos is the the latest game by Stefan Kögl, being mostly released this Essen. With more. Resemblance to his earlier Rumis/Blokus 3D than the more fiddly Arktia it’s a simple game of using your chunky wooden pieces to create a connection across the board. As a fan of Rumis, I was excited to hear the news about a new wooden abstract. Once you’ve played a couple of games on the basic square board, yo. There are also varia...