Hiew's Boardgame Blog

Plays: 4Px1. Hansa Teutonica , published in 2009, took most gamers by surprise. It didn't look like much. It wasn't from a hot des...

17 Apr 2015 was expansion night at Boardgamecafe.net , which was a good idea, because otherwise it would not have occurred to me to bring T...

Sometimes when I run out of things to write about, my mind wanders to introspective topics. I find myself gravitating back to how we as boar...

Plays: 4Px1. The Game Kingsport Festival is a remake of Kingsburg with a completely different setting and some changes in gameplay. It...

Plays: 4Px1. The Game New Amsterdam is the old name of New York, or more precisely, Manhattan, which was originally a Dutch colony. It w...

My collection of concise reference sheets continues to grow. See the full list of games for which I have done such reference sheets here (m...

14 Mar 2015. Playing Ubongo with the whole family. In this round Chen Rui (8) could not complete her puzzle when time ran out on the hourg...

Plays: 3Px1. The Game Thunder Alley from GMT Games is a team racing game based on NASCAR racing. Each player manages a team of cars, a...

27 Feb 2015. China is my favourite Michael Schacht game. I have played its predecessor Web of Power , but only once or twice, on the inter...

For elder daughter Shee Yun's 10th birthday, I organised an outing to Meeples Cafe . I asked her to invite some friends along, but unfor...