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Quick Peaks – Glass Garden, Mü & more: Revised Edition, Raising Chicago, Boxtop Pinball: Haunted House, The Gang

Glass Garden - Andrew Lynch

In Glass Garden, you cultivate a garden of succulents while contending with a pesky interloper, one variety of pest or another. Whether a snail, an ant, a worm, or a fly, they all try to get in your way. None of the included pests is a cat trying to eat your succulents, so I can’t quite relate. Like most Button Shy solo designs, Glass Garden offers a satisfying puzzle, though I found this one easier to master than expected. Unlike my beloved ROVE, or even Button Shy’s other recent solo release A Nice Cuppa, Glass Garden doesn’t compel me to return, though I had a great time figuring it out.

Ease of entry?
★★★★☆ - The odd bump or two
Would I play it again?
★★★☆☆ - Wouldn’t suggest it, but would happily play it

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Mü & more: Revised Edition - Justin Bell

Our team accidentally picked up not one, but two copies of the updated trick-taking game Mü & more: Revised Edition at fall conventions last year. That meant my buddy Andrew Lynch wrote a full review of the game a couple months ago,…

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