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🛎️ New Rule: Lunchtime gaming has to use the in-game food. Sardegna has cheese, wheat, olives, and I'm here for it!

🔱 Our graphics team touched nearly every Ostia tile. This is because our playtests identified that the immediate and endgame icons consistently improved a player's understanding of how and when benefits are gained and used. craftygames.pledgemanager.com/projects/ost...

🔱 Ostia details: With the Construction Track boards - we aimed to simplify. We decluttered the background texture, moved the Triumph icons into both the tracks and added the immediate icon to them, and swapped the shipbuilding and construction tracks.

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Thank you!

We used a much cleaner font for all the city names in our Ostia: Mariner Edition. We labeled the Local Sea and Distant Sea on either side of the dotted line. We also adjusted the colors of the Initial Port / Port tiles & spaces to aid low vision players. #boardgames #preorder

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We need a good band name!🤩 Humpy landed at Essen with his friends...and their pic kind of looks like a boy band reunion picture. Best suggestion gets a bucket of hay. #essen #boardgames

🔱OSTIA ICON CHANGE: We replaced and renamed one of the six core action icons - originally called Order and represented by the Amphora in the action frame - because we thought it was unnecessarily confusing to have the same icon representing both an action and a resource. #boardgames

Packing the gamenight bag and I'm starting to detect a theme.

FAQs about Ostia US Preorders | Ostia Hi everyone! With Ostia preorders now open, we wanted to take a moment to answer some of your most frequently asked questions: How long will the preorder be open? There is no current end date, but ...

Ahoy, Merchants! 🔱 Questions abound, we have answers! Check out our latest updates to the Ostia FAQs on BGG:

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🔱Ostia Preorders are now open! 🔱 craftygames.pledgemanager.com/projects/ost...

#boardgames #tabletop #ostia

YouTube video by Two Sheep One Wheat Abstract Academy | 2022 Board Game Overview, Review & Playthrough

We like to think of the box as part of the gameplay.🧩 We timestamped the review to where it matters - the final review and box thoughts 🤣:

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Thematic Integration🛕: Did you know that the Buru First Player Emissary token is based on a real place? That's right. It's Wringin Lawang, aka the "Banyan Tree Gate" at Trowulan, the original Majapahit royal compound! #boardgames

🔱 We love the Ostia insert. The deluxe feel, the demure color, and the intuitive placements make setup and break down a breeze while setting the tone for great gameplay ahead. There must be other inserts just as good. Do any others come to mind? #boardgames

🎶Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip! #ostia

YouTube video by The Dice Tower Tabriz Review: Carpet Cubed

I was not expecting a Dice Tower review of Tabriz today!

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Unfortunately not.

Tabriz prototype game components setup for play on the dinner table.

Prototype card game components setup on a playmat.

Tabriz playtesting at home in 2017.
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Tabriz: The Card Game playtesting at home 2 days ago.
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It's one thing when accessories are functional, but another when they are art. The resource bowls for Buru might be the epitome of elegance.

Pick of the Day: Buru Deluxe!

Our next game, Batam, will be heading your way later this year, and to set the mood, here is a fun fact:

🌴 Batam isn’t just one island but part of an archipelago of 3,000! Good luck placing your workers on ALL of those. #boardgames

✅ Merchants and Patronus Mini-Expansions INCLUDED
✅ Two Deluxe Content Tiles INCLUDED
✅ New Separate Base Game and Solo Rulebooks INCLUDED
✅ New Reference Cards for all Players INCLUDED
✅ Updated Graphics and Text for Improved Consistency & Clarity

Preorder Here 👉 tinyurl.com/OstiaPreorder

Bonus points if you can guess the voice used in the sample! #boardgames #tabletop #abstractacademy

Go play Sardegna. You deserve it.

YouTube video by The Board Adventurers Tabriz Board Game Review: Fresh off the Shelf

👀Check it Out👀 This review by Fresh off the Shelf points out EXACTLY why Tabriz is the perfect game for the right crowd. 📺
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I think you're probably right.

Real Question For You: What do you expect publishers to do for their 2026 line-up? Do you think that games will go bigger, stay the same size, or go smaller to keep prices down? I've seen theories all over the place. #boardgames #tabletop

YouTube video by Rahdo Runs Through Top 12 Games of 2025 (So Far) ►►► The R&R Show Episode 105

Ray has great things to say about Tabriz as a "classic cozy euro". It slots in at #6 on their Best Games of 2025 (So Far).

Thanks @raybird.bsky.social, @cbarrows.bsky.social, & @ruelgaviola.com for the great discussion about Tabriz!

#BoardGames #TabrizGame #Tabriz

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