The 2024 edition of the online World Hive Championship was held recently and Scotland’s Ben Harris…
Calvin Daniels
Calvin Daniels is a Saskatchewan-born, self-taught journalist. He is currently Editor of Yorkton This Week, with 35-years in the newspaper business.
Calvin’s Commentaries: Top 5 Games of 2025 – Part 2
And so the calendar turns to a new year and that means it is time to…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Top 5 Games of 2025 – Part 1
And so the calendar turns to a new year and that means it is time to…
Hyperstar Run
Sometimes in reviewing games you have the opportunity to do something rather cool. I find that…
Reforest: Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast
In a rather short time, The Meeple Guild have become fans of Canadian game designer Sébastien…
Battlefield Cribbage
There are card games one will try that you just want to love. Battlefield Cribbage created…
Topple
High-quality game that provides quick fun Certainly component quality matters in a game. As players –…
Bird Dog – a three-player surprise
It’s a Friday afternoon – one where three Meeple Guilders were off – so it was…
Waggle Dance
There are always games that surprise, some falling well short of expectations and others that exceed…
Catching some fish on the Blackjack River
There will be times headed to the holidays when gamers will find themselves at home alone…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Alpina
If cuteness is a great game, then the recent release Alpina would score very well out…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Vampires & Villagers
Well here we are on the eve of Halloween so one more card game that fits…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Split Trick
Halloween lies ahead, so it seems a perfect time to cover a game themed to the…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Box of Spiders
This pre-Halloween offering comes from designer Stephen Tavener with Box of Spiders. This is among a…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Aridnyk
The Meeple Guild has been reviewing for quite some time, and playing games even longer, so…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Three Hags
Something for Halloween The Meeple Guild is going to be providing some added ‘mini’ reviews over…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Café
Ever get a game to the table and everything about it was fine, and yet nothing…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Odin
So a small box arrives containing the recently released card game Odin. That was immediately interesting…
Try to influence the Gurus
The theme in Kundalini – if theme matters greatly in a two-player card game, is a…
Game reflects truly Canadian theme
With the start of September we roll close to ‘Culture Days’ in Canada so for the…
Sinoda impresses at multiple player counts
When it comes to abstract strategy games – a genre this writer particularly enjoys – a…
Awaken the old trees
Every once in a while you can be wandering down an online rabbit hole and find…
One ‘ECK’ of a game
When it comes to card games, trick-taking might lead in terms of most games with it…
Learn something about aquatic life as you play
Continuing with a Canadian theme for September we take a look at Pacific Ocean from Timashov…
INYO
Wrapping up September’s tip of the hat to Culture Days with a month of Canadian-designed games…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Faraway
Some games cross The Meeple Guild table that prove quite frankly divisive in the sense not…
Calvin’s Commentaries: There be dragons in those caves
When it comes to print and play games some of the simplest ‘builds’ are abstract strategy…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Centurion
Regular readers will know this member of The Meeple Guild loves abstract strategy games. So I…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Fighting off kaiju
Admittedly I tend to gravitate to card-based PnP games as an easy build, but then you…
Calvin’s Commentaries: The Administration — Book 1 London by Night
While most certainly not a huge fan of the fifth edition of Dungeons & Dragons –…