Some games send you straight back to your first video-game loves. As I laid down the opening cards of Lost in Adventure: The Curse of Jack Parrot, I rediscovered the feeling of a good old point-and-click, that "click here, pick up this object, talk to this character" I used to do as a kid in front of a screen. Except here, everything happens on the table, one card after another. My problem is that I never managed to finish it in one sitting. Short on time, I picked it up agai

The story of a masterful slap It was 10:30 PM on a Wednesday night when I put away the Arcs box with a feeling I hadn't experienced in years: absolute humility in the face of a board game. Me, who plays Pax Pamir, who tackled Root and isn't afraid to take on challenging games, I had just been taught a masterful lesson by an opponent. The difference? He had already played the game before. I had charged in headfirst with my veteran space gamer confidence. That evening marked th