We swap stories with Tiffany from Tiffs Board Games and share the best “new to us” plays that defined our year, from gentle family co-ops to solo epics and evergreen euros. The thread that ties them together is clean design, strong arc, and table moments that stick.

• Victorian engine-building and gossip in Obsession 
• Family laughs and tension in First Orchard 
• Trinket Trove’s turn-order bidding and quick teach 
• Rebirth as a clean, scalable Knizia tile-layer 
• Castles of Burgundy’s timeless flow and upgrades 
• Card crafting and player counts in Ruins 
• El Grande’s live-table edge over async 
• Solo depth in Hoplomachus: Victorum 
• Sandbox chaos and expansions in Western Legends 
• Acquire’s stock-and-merge elegance across editions 
• Fromaggio’s wedges and scoring nuance 
• Blue Lagoon’s interactive routing best at four 
• Critter Kitchen’s market mind games and roles 
• The Hobbit roll-and-write’s chapter variety 
• Old King’s Crown’s auctions and bluffing automa 
• Yokohama’s point salad without the bloat 
• Dominion’s base-box replay and on-ramp 
• Sanctuary as a streamlined Ark Nova sibling

Go check her Instagram out @Tiffs.Board.Games. All of her posts are amazing.

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