Al Cabohne: Bohnanzing By Yourself. Bohnanza is probably my favourite chaotic multiplayer card game by my favourite designer Uwe Rosenberg. Bean planting isn’t the most exciting part—the fierce bidding wars and possibilities to cheat when the opponents aren’t looking is. We’ve had ample Bohnanza sessions devolve into yelling and slamming cards on the table. It’s a classic three player or more game that everyone knows and loves, and that was treated with ample expansions and alternat...| jefklakscodex.com
Robin of Locksley: Weird Chess Set Collection. Robin of Locksley is a weird Uwe Rosenberg game. It’s one that’s difficult to categorize given his other games: it’s not about farming, it’s not a sandbox game, and there’s no resource conversion or worker placement happening. Instead, Locksley is a weird—did I mention the game is weird?—combination of chess-like L-horse moves resulting in set collection resulting in selling your set to race to the finish. It’s weird! Via Jefklak'...| jefklakscodex.com
Oranienburger Kanal: On Bridges And Ditches. Oranienburger Kanal (or just Kanal) is a very weird entry in Uwe Rosenberg’s repertoire. For starters, the original edition is put out by Spielworxx, a questionable publisher that is known for cutting corners when it comes to box and component quality—unfortunately, they live up to that name for this game as well. Then there’s the whole limited availability of the game as it was a small Kickstarter-like batch that initially got printed and ha...| jefklakscodex.com