There Are Pandas, and Then There Are Pandas.
And this isn't either of them! The Pandas we're talking about here, are watches, not bears. And what got me thinking about them (again) was a link posted this morning by @cm.rook who pointed a few of us to the very attractive (and not terribly priced) Yema "Rallygraph" Panda which, in it's most traditional arrangement, looks like the one on the left, but can also be had in the version on the right: The model on the left is a true Panda, while the model on the right is called a reverse Panda. The reason for that distinction is clear--Panda bears, only come in the first arrangement. Now at this point, everyone should be thinking about the most well-know Panda, The Rolex Panda, which is actually a Daytona, and among Rolex Daytonas, the most famous of which is the Paul Newman Daytona, which was famous first, because it was Paul's, and second because it sold at auction for $17.8 million (US Dollars). The story of that auction is well-known so I'll only...
Nov 8, 2019
Dominion - Granddaddy of deck building games. Terraforming Mars - Probably game of year last year Chaos in the Old World - Great assymetric territorial control game. Pandemic: Legacy - Best coop game AND best legacy game Trajan - Underrated classic Tyrants of the Underdark - Streamlined deckbuilding + territorial control Lords of Waterdeep - an excellent, highly accessible worker placement game. Caverna - It's agricola, but with the worst parts of agricola fixed. Blokus - Best game to play with non-gamers. Kingsburg - Best game involving rolling lots of dice.