Episode 204-Ankh:Gods of Egypt
September 27, 2021Episode 206: Unfathomable
October 25, 2021In Episode 205, Blue Peg Pink Peg offers up their The Night Cage Review as well as discussing their most recent board game plays.
The Pegs also discuss their recent plays, including:
- Verdant
- Furnace
- Glass Road
- Paint the Roses
- A deep dive The Night Cage review
- A look back at our Trismegistus Review in the ReRoll
The Night Cage Board Game
The Night Cage Rules Gist
The Night Cage is designed by Christopher Ryan Chan, Chris McMahon and Rosswell Saunders. Published by Smirk and Laughter Games. The Night Cage is a fully co-operative, horror-themed tile-placement game that holds 1-5 players in about 40-60 minutes. To win, players must each collect a key, find a gate, and escape as a group before time runs out. Tiles will be drawn from a stack which represents the amount of time players have to escape and be placed onto the board throughout the game. Since players only have a candle to light their path only the tiles orthogonally adjacent to the players tile will remain on the board. Meaning that as players explore around, tiles will be removed from the board and discarded; always changing the landscape of the board. On your turn players Either stay or move: Stay- in which you gain a nerve and draw a tile, placing adjacent to you. Nerve tokens can be discarded to reduce the damage by monsters or to move again. Move-Move 1 space orthogonally along a connected path. If you move onto a key, take one. Then draw tiles according to how many connected paths your tile has; thus exposing more of the board. There are a lot of different monsters in this game that all play differently however the common theme is that when their tile is drawn it is placed on the board and when triggered they will either cause players to fall into a pit, snuff out their candle and/or deplete tiles from the stack.
If all 4 keys and all players are at the same gate, you win!
If the 4th gate tile is discarded, you lose.
If too many keys have been discarded, you lose.
If you cannot assemble 4 keys and everyone at a gate before time is up, you all lose.
00:00Banter
7:25 - World Series of Board Gaming-October 2022
10:58 - Origins and the best purse on the planet!
29:28 - Balloon Festival33:12Plays
33:12 - Verdant* - Flatout Games;
39:30 - Furnace - Arcane Wonders;
48:48 - Glass Road - Capstone Games;
56:42 - Paint the Roses* - Northstar Games;1:04:30News
1:04:30 - Bonfire Expansion!! & new game from Designer of Root/Oath to Make Arc
1:10:24 - HABA Animal Upon Animal Advent Calendar OMGGGGG, New Game-Gutenberg New Designers: (Shoak) and Wisniewski
1:16:22 - PAXUnplugged Vaccination Requirements! PAXU-Dec.10-12th. Philadelphia, PA1:21:25Board Game Review
1:21:25 - The Night Cage Rules Breakdown
1:23:20 - The Night Cage Review
1:43:58 - The Night Cage Ratings1:52:12ReRoll
1:52:12 - Trismegistus - Board & Dice;
Check out our original Trismegistus review back in Episode 180.
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