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April 17, 2025

Greetings

In a week where San Diego zoo cameras showed a group of elephants protecting their young during the earthquake in, where a young woman overheard an 81-year-old Pittsburgh waitress say she couldn't afford to retire and set up a GoFundMe that raised over $300k for the waitress, where thousands of stone tools from 20,000 years ago were discovered in a cave along the southern coast of Africa, and where the University of Maryland (my alma mater) has chosen Kermit the Frog as this year's Inspiring Commencement Speaker, we're still talking board games here at Meeple Mountain.

April 16th, 2025

The Reiner Knizia Alphabet – The Letter ‘H’

Join Meeple Mountain to celebrate Dr Reiner Knizia’s 40 year board game career by journeying through his game portfolio, from A to Z. This time we have ‘H’!

April 15th, 2025

HUTAN: Life in the Rainforest Game Review

Plant flowers to grow the rainforest and build animal habitats in this puzzle drafting, tile placement game. Join Kevin as he reviews Hutan: Life in the Rainforest from The OP Games

This Week's Puzzle

Here are the seven slices of game box art de-crystalized from last week's puzzle. They are: Atlay, Akropolis: Athena, Critter Kitchen, Floristry, Havala, Stamp Swap, and Tree Society, all of which have been recently reviewed by Meeple Mountain.

Board Game News

What's going on in the tabletop industry?

Date	Headline
April 17th	Steve Jackson Games CEO Meredith Placko resigns after two years in role
April 15th	Final Frontier Games shuts down with three unfulfilled crowdfunding projects worth almost $1.4m, says CMON failing to pay for localisation was “final nail”
April 14th	CMON’s David Preti steps down as non-executive director, seven months after resigning as Chief Operating Officer
April 11th	“Toxic leadership. Rampant gatekeeping”: GAMA marketing and comms head blasts organisation in resignation announcement
April 9th	America’s answer to the Spiel des Jahres, the American Tabletop Awards, unveils 2025 winners
April 7th	“Every decision we make is to do something a little out of the ordinary”: CMYK’s Alex Hague on the backlash to Quacks’ redesigned art, and trying to ‘break board gaming’s monoculture’
April 4th	Board game industry reels as Trump tariffs threaten job losses, company extinctions

News courtesy of BoardGameWire

The Wayback Machine

Meeple Mountain has been publishing content since 2015. Take a look at what we released 5 years ago this week!

April 17th, 2020

Guards of Atlantis 2 Game Review

Competitive team games are very rare in board games and Guards of Atlantis 2 wants to take the throne.

April 17th, 2020

Top 6 Solitaire Wargames for New Wargamers

Can you really have fun playing a wargame by yourself? Here’s a list of wargames designed for the solo player that put you right in the middle of the action.

April 20th, 2020

Contact Video Review

Boardgame Brody tries to decipher the signal to find life and a contact location in his video review of Contact by NSV Games.

April 20th, 2020

Dice Age: The Hunt Game Review

Fans of dice rolling rejoice. A prehistoric area control game roars onto the scene. Check out our review of Dice Age: The Hunt and tri-assic something new!

April 21st, 2020

Curators Game Review

Like archaeology but not excavating? Think architecture is more interesting than any escapade? Check out our review of Curators, now on Kickstarter, to see if this light Euro about museum management is worth the price of admission!

Board Game Conventions

We maintain a comprehensive list of board game conventions all over the world. Here's what's coming up in the next 2 weeks.

Apr. 26-27, 2025
Kitchener, ON, Canada
Ragnarok XP

Apr. 26-27, 2025
Peoria, IL, USA
Con-tribution

Apr. 26, 2025
Lumberton, NJ, USA
4th Annual Moose Tabletop Day!

Apr. 26-27, 2025
Harrisburg, PA, USA
Harrisburg Comic and Pop Con

Apr. 26, 2025
Milwaukee, WI, USA
Concinnity

May. 1-4, 2025
Independence, MO, USA
Midwest GameFest

May. 1-4, 2025
Columbus, OH, USA
Buckeye Game Fest

May. 2-4, 2025
Chicoutimi, QC, Canada
Game Over Saguenay

May. 2-4, 2025
Aalborg, Denmark
Conmar Live

May. 2-4, 2025
Altoona, IA, USA
DemiCon

May. 2-4, 2025
Des Moines, IA, USA
Camp ReFresh

May. 2-4, 2025
Mundelein, IL, USA
The Gaming Hoopla

May. 2-4, 2025
Minneapolis, MN, USA
SCG Con Minneapolis

You can find more upcoming conventions on our Guide To Board Game Conventions.

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Crowdfunding Roundup

Check out our extensive list of tabletop related Crowdfunding campaigns.

End Date	Campaign
April 17th	ALIEN RPG Evolved Edition
April 17th	Raising Rabbits
April 17th	Chrono Core TCG \| War Of The Nine Realms
April 17th	TAXI – The Game of ‘Fare’ Play
April 17th	Computer Junkyard: The Best Computer Game Not on the Computer
April 17th	Chrono Core TCG \| War Of The Nine Realms
April 18th	Qu’arz
April 19th	InfiniBrix: Dream it, Build it, PLAY it!
April 22nd	HELLDIVERS 2: The Board Game
April 22nd	Six Sided Summoner
April 22nd	Mine 77
April 24th	Lily Hop
April 24th	Starline Hill

You can find more campaigns on our Crowdfunding Roundup.

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Coming Up This Week at Meeple Mountain

Here's what's on the calendar for the next seven days at Meeple Mountain.

Date	Title
April 18th	Scoville Second Edition - Tom Franklin
April 19th	Great Western Trail: El Paso - Thomas Wells
April 20th	Hexaquest: The Strategic Trivia Game - Kevin Brantley
April 21st	Galactic Cruise First Look - Justin Bell
April 22nd	Trial of the Gods - Thomas Wells
April 23rd	Cat Blues - Andrew Lynch
April 24th	Combo - Andy Matthews
April 25th	A Beginner’s Guide to Warhammer Tabletop Gaming - Lee Richards
April 26th	Finspan - Justin Bell
April 27th	Comanchería - Andrew Lynch
April 28th	Burum: The Journey from Family Tradition to Card Game Innovation - Kevin Brantley
April 29th	La Fleur - K. David Ladage

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