Author: Mark M.

So far, I’ve been writing some reviews about tabletop games, including card games. A lot of tabletop games tend to offer their own customized components whether the pawn, dice, markers, boards or cards.

However, there is a part of the industry that will try to develop a game by utilizing a Standard Playing Card deck. The deck of cards that we can usually find when playing a game of Poker, Bridge, Hearts, Solitaire, Black Jack and many other. This deck of cards usually consists of 4 suits and each suit has 13 cards plus 2 Joker cards or so.

There is even a annual design contest on BGG to develop a new game that use this deck as the main component. Designers can still add other game pieces to play but the goal is so that other players can just try the game out using any Standard deck any people probably already have.

One of the winners of that contest from recent years was a game called Regicide. This one won the contest for the Best Cooperative game but also very popular as a solitaire game.

So, what is this Regicide game? How do we play Regicide? What else besides the Standard deck that we need to play the game?

Those are probably just a few questions that came to mind after hearing about the game. Well, in this article, I’m going to share my Regicide game review based on my experience on playing the game.

Hope this helps. Is Regicide the best way to play a game using Standard Playing Card Deck?

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Previously, I wrote about TheALGOFaucet.com, which is a cryptocurrency faucet that try to support ALGO users. By giving away some ALGO coins, this can help not just people who are interested in ALGO coins as investment but also supports any ASA project developers.

It turns out there is a similar one called ALGODrops.org. In this one, not only we can find ASA projects but we can also get their rewards with those projects instead of just ALGO.

So, who is this ALGODrops.org? Is ALGODrops.org legit or scam? How can we earn from them and how do we get paid?

Those are probably just a few questions that came to mind after hearing about the program. Well, in this article, I’m going to share with you my ALGODrops.org review based on my experience on using their platform and what I can find from the internet.

Hope this helps. Is ALGODrops.org going to be the best cryptocurrency faucet out there?

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I’ve written several reviews about some tabletop games with civilization or city building theme in the past. Most of those games are competitive and the goal is only to score more points than the opponents while trying to develop our tableau. Probably with some screwing between each player every turn.

Usually the game itself will not contribute anything to the players other than giving random cards or items that the player may not need it, slowing the progress.It turns out there are games that can be considered as very harsh. punishing, that they will somehow ruin all of the players.

In this kind of game, not only we have to deal with the opponents, we also need to be prepared with what the game may throw at us, randomly. If we are looking for such games, Peloponnes Card Game is one example that we should try.

It is a competitive civilization building game in a small box. Players will have to balance the development of their civilization and at the same time mitigate some disasters that might ruin it. Survival is probably the best word to describe the game.

So, what is Peloponnes Card Game? How do we play it? Is there any expansion for the game?

Those are probably just a few question that came to mind after hearing about the game. Well, in this article, I’m going to share with you my Peloponnes Card Game review based on my experience on playing it and what I can find from the internet.

Hope this helps. Is Peloponnes Card Game going to be the best card game?

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In order to get more adoption to any cryptocurrency, usually the developers must share a small amount of that coins for free. If more people have those coins, they can then start spending them to buy a product or pay a service. Hopefully, if they are satisfied with what they can do with the coins, they may purchase more.

That is how we get a cryptocurrency faucet as one of the ways to get coins for almost free. It’s like a giveaway. The thing is, everytime we want to send a coin as payment, we also need to pay a network transaction fee using that coin as well.

Unless we have more than the amount we want to send, we probably cannot complete the transaction. So, this next one, TheALGOFaucet.com, as the name suggests is offering to give Algorand coins or ALGO.

Algorand itself is one of the ecosystems cryptocurrencies with other different cryptocurrency projects in it. We can even stake the coin like an investment and gain some return.

But to get that staking reward, we need to have ALGO coins to pay the transaction fees. That is the purpose of TheALGOFaucet.com, to give extra coins to cover those fees. Hopefully, more people will start using the coins and the staking option.

So, who is this TheALGOFaucet.com? Is TheALGOFaucet.com legit or scam? How can we earn from them and how do we get paid?

Those are probably just a few questions that came to mind after hearing about the program. Well, in this article, I’m going to share with you my TheALGOFaucet.com review based on my experience on using their platform and what I can find from the internet.

Hope this helps. Is TheALGOFaucet.com going to be the best cryptocurrency faucet out there?

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Back then, I wrote a review about Hero Realms. It is a game with just cards, very compact, small box, easy to play anywhere.

However, that is officially a competitive game where we will need at least one other players to play against. Then I found One Deck Dungeon: Forest of Shadows. It is a game which offers something similar, has a fantasy theme, like an RPG and basically a multiplayer solitaire game.

But there is a tradeoff compared to Hero Realms. While the entire game can fit in even smaller size box, it requires using other components aside from cards.

So, what is One Deck Dungeon: Forest of Shadows? How to play the game? Is there any expansions?

Those are probably just a few question that came to mind after hearing about the game. Well, in this article, I’m going to share with you my One Deck Dungeon: Forest of Shadows review, based on my experience playing the game and what I can find from the internet.

Hope this helps. Is One Deck Dungeon: Forest of Shadows going to be the best tabletop games?

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Thanks to Covid-19 in 2020, people have started to consider Bitcoin or cryptocurrency as an option for investment. This is mostly because countries will have to deal with economy recession.

Fiat money will lose its value while cryptocurrency will rise. At the same time, any programs who are offering to pay money have shifted back to using fiat money because some of the cryptocurrency become unaffordable and unpredictable.

The program’s owner can suddenly have to pay double or even triple the value if they keep offering cryptocurrency.  Which is why I stick with investing programs that use fiat money, as also a way to diversify.

This next HYIP, Funds-Broker.com is another long timer HYIP. We can still invest with fiat money and get reasonable interest rate.

So, who is Funds-Broker.com? Is Funds-Broker.com legit or scam? What are the investment plans? How do we get paid?

Those are probably just a few questions that came to mind after hearing about the program. Well, in this article, I’m going to share with you my Funds-Broker.com Review based on my experience and what I can find from the internet.

Hope this helps. Is Funds-Broker.com going to be the best investment program out there?

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Maybe you have read my previous game review about Imperial Settlers which was a great game. The game feels like four smaller game within a big box with all of their factions.

Even though the components are mainly cards, sometimes it feels too big to take them back to the table. I just wish I can find a way to simplify the storage into a smaller box.

Nowadays, with thousands of board or tabletop games coming out every year, we can find one or two that offers similar gameplay. Some can even come with smaller size of box, easier to setup and to bring to other place, play with friends.

If you are looking for such game, you might want to try Villages of Valeria. A similar game to Imperial Settlers but with just small box, fantasy theme but offers different way of player interactions.

So, what is Villages of Valeria? How do we play the game? Does it have a solo mode? Are there any expansions?

Those are probably just a few question that came to mind after hearing about Villages of Valeria, the card game. Well, in this article, I’m going to share with you my Villages of Valeria Game review based on my experience and what I can find from the internet.

Hope it helps. Is Villages of Valeria going to be the best tabletop game?

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I’ve said many times in almost every review that we cannot earn much from these online earning programs like cryptocurrency faucet. Our time to actively use those earning features is limited.

One of the solutions that I can think of is to utilize referral commissions offered by those programs. By inviting other people, we can earn something passively, even when we are asleep through those commissions.

The other solution was to invest money. At least until a couple of months ago, CryptoWin.io became one of the most popular cryptocurrency faucet programs because they offered Revenue Share feature. We can buy a share in a small amount of Bitcoin and then for 180 days, we will get profit payment daily.

I thought it was a good idea and they seemed to be able to stay in business for 2 years or so. I can earn from their other features and then invest those earnings. By keep buying more shares, eventually, I could afford to purchase 1 share more each day using just the profit payment.

Before that one turned into scam, I found an alternative, similar to that called SatoshiTap.com. This one also offers investment plan but instead of using Bitcoin, they use Dogecoin.

So, who is this SatoshiTap.com? Is SatoshiTap.com legit or scam? How do we earn and how do we get paid? What is the investment plan from this one?

Those are probably just a few questions that came to mind after hearing about the program. Well, in this article, I’m going to share with you my SatoshiTap.com review based on my experience on using their platform and what I can find from the internet.

Hope this helps. Is SatoshiTap.com going to be the best cryptocurrency faucet program with investment feature out there?

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The problem with physical tabletop games compared to a video game is the physical components. This will take space to store and cost a lot of money from the manufacturer to whoever buys the game. Because of that, the price can go very high without generating that much profit for the developer or designers.

This got even worse during pandemic. Not only people couldn’t get together and play, the production process and shipping anything got delayed heavily. The price of games went up and led to bankruptcy for some small publishers.

On the other hand, there is a genre within tabletop games called Print and Play (PnP) games. Even until now, some people just love creating some games and they share the file of their game’s components. This way, more people can download it, print them and then play the games without buying a produced retail copy.

Some designers may charge some prices for the file. While some others are sharing for free or ask for any amount of compensation from the players.

Then, during pandemic, one publisher, Postmark Games came out with a new model. They ask for 1 time payment to buy the file for their game but they make a promise that buyers will get access to any future contents for that game.

Voyages, their first game, was a success. That idea inspired a lot of other game designers to use the same approach. As a PnP, players must do a bit more effort printing the components. However, they also encouraged the idea of playing the game digitally.

So, what is this Voyages game? How do we play it? Is it too much effort to print the game ourselves?

Those are probably just a few questions that came to mind after hearing about the game. Well, in this article, I’m going to share my Voyages game review based on my experience on playing the game.

Hope this helps. Is Voyages the best Print-and-Play game out there?

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Like Hero Realms game from my previous review, there are a lot of other tabletop games that use just cards as their components. We can easily bring them anywhere and play with anyone, no need to worry about losing any small pieces of the game.

Some may not like the cutthroat or battle nature of the game where player will try to defeat their opponents by destroying their progress in the game. However, there are games where player can just mind their own progress, just competing for points at the end of the game but still have enough player interaction.

If you are looking for such game, you might want to try Tybor the Builder or as in German version, Tybor de Baumeister. Another game with just cards in small box.

So, how do we play Tybor the Builder? Can we play the game solo? Are there any expansion for the game?

Those are probably just a few question that came to mind after hearing about the card game Tybor der Baumeister or Tybor the Builder. Well, in this article, I’m going to share with you my Tybor the Builder review based on my experience for playing it.

Hope this could help. Is Tybor the Builder the best card game out there?

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