Eagle Gryphon Games Review

 The wonderful folks at Eagle Gryphon Games were kind enough to send me several games for review! Eagle Gryphon makes some fantastic, high quality games! I'm excited share them with you today! So let's take a look!

1.) Wildlife Safari - This is a really creative reskin of a couple of older games: Flinkie Pinkie and Quandary!  Now, instead of number cards and chips, you have animal cards and actual toy animals!  This makes this game SO APPEALING to younger kids!  In the game, players are dealt animal cards.  On your turn, you play a card and take an animal (animal doesn't have to match the card).  Once all 6 cards of a specific animal have been played, you use the final number card played for each animal to determine how many points each animal is worth.  I love that its easy enough that a small child can play and rely on luck.  But it also has a good deal of strategic possibility in which cards you play and which animals you take. As a family of 5, I also LOVE that the game plays 2-5 players - s the youngest doesn't have to team up with anyone or feel left out!

2.) Roll Through the Ages: The Iron Age (and Mediterranean Expansion) - This is the highly anticipated sequel to Roll Through the Ages: The Bronze Age!  The creator, Tom Lehmann, has also created such popular games as Roll for the Galaxy and Pandemic: On the Brink.  In this game, you roll the (wooden) dice, build provinces or ports, raise armies, or defeat barbarians. You have several choices when building your empire. Use trade an naval strategies like the Phoenicians, conquer others like Alexander the Great and the Greeks, or use feats of engineering and slowly absorb new provinces, like the Romans! And, in typical Iron Age fashion, the Fate die also plays a roll! This is one of Eagle Gryphon's Knowledge in a Box games - making it great for gameschooling as well!

3.) Caveman Curling - This is a really cute game for 2-6 players, ages 6 and up!  You and your team throw (finger flick) you rock across the frozen lake. Stone Age Hammers (which allow you to move your rock after its been thrown) and totems (which allow you to protect your rock from being moved) add some extra strategy!  At the end of the round, the player or team, closest to the center of the hut scores points. First to 6 points wins!  I love that this accommodates up to 6 players! And I love that children as young as 6 can play!  Play individually in a two-player game.  Or work on your team play in teams of 2 or 3 in a 4 or 6 player game!

4.) Mirror Mirror - If you have a little one obsessed with princesses or fairy tales, then you may want to check this one out!  Mirror Mirror is a 2-player game for 8 years and up! In the game, your 9 courtiers are trying to deliver a letter from you to Princess Persephone. But your opponent's 9 courtiers are trying to do the same! Your goal is to intercept your rival's love letter! This game is similar to chess, in that each different type of playing piece moves in a different way. When you land on a player's piece, you must guess what type of letter they're carrying (a decoy letter with a blue or yellow seal or the true love letter with a red seal). If you guess correctly, you remove their piece from play.  If you guess incorrectly, your piece is removed from play! Yikes!  Don't get it wrong!

5.) Cornucopia - Cornucopia is a card game for 2-5 players, ages 7 and up! You're trying to fill your harvest basket with the fruits and veggies before anyone else!  But before you can, you have to correctly predict how long it will take you t fill your basket.  Can you do it by turning over 3 or less cards?  How about 5 or less?  If you're correct, you when the amount of chips on that particular bidding card.  If you're wrong, you lose a chip.  You can also win chips by correctly predicting how the other players will fair! This is a really simple, and yet really fun, set collecting card game!

6.)  Bazaar - Bazaar is a fun game about trading goods in a bazaar!  Its super easy to learn, but difficult to master! You have to trade based on the exchange cards dealt out at the beginning of the game. Use your stones you collect to buy wares in the bazaar.  I love that this game plays up to 6 players!  I also love that young kids can play! It says 8 and up, but my 6 year old was able to play (with a little help from dad.) 

I received these games, free of charge from Eagle Gryphon Games, in exchange for my honest review.