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Honestly?
This is probably just another desperate attempt by Big Board Game to stay relevant
Because I legitimately am having a hard time trying to figure out what they could possibly change in order to make it more inclusive or less competitive aside from just inventing a cooperative version where you try to fill the board with as many big letter words as you can and add the points collectively
The death of the American Board Game is nigh. Long live the reign of Eurogames.
Better game nights are possible when you realise that board games don't have to be all the exact same 50+ year old Parker Bros shits that either take 5 hours, are incredibly bullshit games of chance, or both.
You can take my Ameritrash bullshit from my cold, dead hands. Well, some of it, anyway.
Okay, yes, there are some decent American board games, but the crap ones are finally circling the drain and that makes me happy as a boardgame enjoyer.
Ooh also I got a really good deals on some nice puzzles from Buffalo last week and got 3 of 'em for $7 US and I'm very happy about it
What are some good ones?
Ticket to ride
Agricola
Race for the galaxy
Word games in general are massively popular on mobile these days, not just wordle. These are all basically some variant of the core challenge of scrabble so they're probably trying to figure out how to surf this wave.
It's just a rules update to make game play faster so a game isn't just 2 hours of looking at a hand of useless vowels.
They could be accused of trying to copy video game like objectives but board games have also been largely replaced with digital versions of the game so makes sense.