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Tag: SmirkAndDagger

Boop the Halls

November 27, 2025 theratholereviews

As this review goes live, it’s American Thanksgiving. Or, as we call it in Canada, Thursday. (That joke never gets…

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Posted in: 2-Player Games, Board Game, Christmas Games, Holiday Games, Review by David Chapman, Strategy Games Filed under: Boop, Boop the Halls, Christmas, Christmas Games, Holiday Games, SmirkAndDagger, SmirkAndLaughter

Shōbu (Debra’s Thoughts)

August 1, 2024 theratholereviews

The first thing I noticed when I saw Shōbu by Smirk and Laughter Games (a division of Smirkand Dagger) was…

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Posted in: 2-Player Games, Board Game, Review by Debra Savage, Strategy Games Filed under: 2 Player Games, Abstract Strategy Games, Board Games, Boardgames, Shobu, Smirk&Dagger, SmirkAndDagger, SmirkAndLaughter, Strategy Games, two player games

Tesseract

August 31, 2023 theratholereviews

  Every now and again I take a few minutes to think about how society consumes things. We, as a…

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Posted in: Board Game, Cooperative Games, Dice Games, Review by David Chapman Filed under: Board Games, Cooperative Games, Dice Games, Smirk&Dagger, SmirkAndDagger, Tesseract

The Spill

February 21, 2023 theratholereviews

Spill The date was April 20, 2010. The place was the Macondo Prospect in the Gulf of Mexico. At approximately…

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Posted in: Board Game, Cooperative Games, Review by David Chapman Filed under: Cooperative Games, Smirk&Dagger, SmirkAndDagger, SmirkAndLaughter, The Spill

Boop

January 5, 2023 theratholereviews

Let’s start with all the cards on the table. Boop was easily my most anticipated game of 2022. I had…

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Posted in: 2-Player Games, Board Game, Review by David Chapman, Strategy Games Filed under: 2 Player Games, Abstract Strategy Games, Boop, Cat, CATS, Smirk&Dagger, SmirkAndDagger, SmirkAndLaughter, Strategy Games, two player games

The Night Cage

November 9, 2021 theratholereviews

October is over and so is “Spooky Season” but that doesn’t mean we can’t continue to enjoy games that are…

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Posted in: Board Game, Cooperative Games, Review by David Chapman, Solo Games Filed under: Board Games, Cooperative Games, Halloween, Halloween Games, SmirkAndDagger, SmirkAndLaughter, Solo Games, The Night Cage

Nut So Fast

July 14, 2020 theratholereviews

So my 80s friends, growing up on 90s tv, do you all remember that awful moment when Buffy the Vampire…

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Posted in: Board Game, Card Game, Family Games, Review by Trish Koning, Special Guest Review Filed under: Family Games, Nut So Fast, Smirk&Dagger, SmirkAndDagger, SmirkAndLaughter

The Deadlies (video)

March 21, 2020 theratholereviews

Steeped Games brought me out to SaltCON to help them out, so I took the opportunity to sit down with…

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Posted in: aired on The Watch, Card Game, Video, Video by David Chapman Filed under: Card Games, Paul Saxburg, Smirk&Dagger, SmirkAndDagger, SmirkAndLaughter, The Deadlies

Shōbu (Dave’s Thoughts)

November 5, 2019 theratholereviews

Abstract Strategy games are probably the world’s oldest tabletop genre. You’d think after a few millennia we, as a species,…

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Posted in: Board Game, Review by David Chapman Filed under: Abstract Strategy Games, Board Games, Shobu, SmirkAndDagger, SmirkAndLaughter, Strategy Games, two player games

Tower of Madness

October 25, 2018 theratholereviews 1 Comment

So, I sat down to try out Tower of Madness at a gaming con recently. It has a great 3D…

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Posted in: Board Game, Dice Games Filed under: Board Games, Cthulhu, Cthulhu Mythos, Dice Games, Halloween, Horror, SmirkAndDagger, Tower of Madness

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