Growing Vegetables in Loyang Uwe Rosenberg has created three fun board games which have been dubbed the “Harvest Trilogy”. Those games are Le Havre, Agricola, and today’s subject, At the Gates of Loyang. They each have an element involving harvesting
Agricola, the Farmer
How to Play Agricola In Agricola, your job, as a Medieval farmer and his wife (and later their children too), is to improve and expand your farm by plowing and planting fields, fencing pastures to hold a variety of animals,
Build a Castle in Arkadia
How To Play Arkadia Arkadia includes some of the more unusual pieces you are likely to see in a game. There are tetris-like cardboard buildings, castle “tiles” complete with parapets, seals that look like coins, coins that look like rectangles,
Build Your Own Alhambra
Alhambra is a hand management game involving both cards (money) and tiles (your Alhambra). Each of the 3 to 6 players begins with a fountain tile around which you will build your personal Alhambra of tiles you acquire. Tiles come
Slow and Steady Wins the Race with the Hare & Tortoise
Will You Be the Hare or the Tortoise? The racing game, Hare & Tortoise, is themed after the classic Aesop fable, The Tortoise and the Hare. You are a hare (a circular token in one of six colors) in a