Year: 2020

  • GOTW – Ultimate Werewolf – Belkowitz

    Hello! In the first week of EDL 290T, the class played Ultimate Werewolf. In this game, people are assigned roles. During night phases, players are called upon, one role at a time. The player of each role is able to make a decision that influences the game. As the game progresses, those that are werewolves…

  • GOTW – Hanabi – Belkowitz

    Hi! This past week in EDL 290T, we played two games: Hanabi and Mental Blocks. I am choosing to write about Hanabi. I really enjoyed Hanabi. Hanabi is a card game. Similar to Uno cards, the cards in Hanabi have a color and a number. And similar to Solitaire, the goal of Hanabi is for…

  • Game of the Week: Mental Blocks

    This week, we played both Hanabi and Mental Blocks in class. Both were interesting games that required everyone’s cooperation to complete and win. As someone with little to no board game experience, this was my first time playing cooperative games since I was a young child. These two were a great introduction to the topic…

  • Game of the Week Reflection 1- Ultimate Werewolf

    In week one of EDL 290, we played Ultimate Werewolf. I’ve played Ultimate Werewolf before, as well as many games like it. It’s a Mafia-style Hidden Role Game, where players try to remove all hidden bad guys (in this case werewolves) from their ranks. Each night, the werewolves pick off village team players, with the…

  • Reflection: Werewolf

    Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolfe may be an interesting play, but it’s also one of many secret roles in the game Ultimate Werewolf. In this game, each player is assigned a hidden role from a select list of cards. These roles may very based on player count and interest in certain aspects of the game…

  • Game of the Week: Ultimate Werewolf

    For the first week of EDL290, we played Ultimate Werewolf. I loved a variation of this game as a child (Mafia, for those familiar), so seeing a more complex version available for adults was incredible and greatly nostalgic. The game had several roles, from Cupid selecting lovers to the two Masons whose names we could…

  • GOTW: Ultimate Werewolf Reflection

    The first game that we played in our EDL 290 Class was called Ultimate Werewolf. A game similar to “Mafia” which involves making deductions using social clues, given by the other players, in an effort to win the game. As this was my first time playing such a game, it was confusing at first, but…

  • Top 100 Games of All Time (70-61)

    Time for my next chunk of favorite games of all time! Next is 70-61. 70. Sheriff of NottinghamArcane WondersDesigner: Sérgio Halaban, André ZatzOwned: Yes Why it is on the list:  I’ve got ONE APPLE! Ok…only a handful of people will get that but that was one of the more memorable games of Sheriff I’ve played.…

  • Blog Post – Ultimate Werewolf

    This game boasted some very difficult aspects, mainly in the form of the social component. When I was first exposed to this game, it was in the setting of about 20 people that had never met each other and were not very comfortable with each other yet. This caused a lot of issues in how…

  • Top 100 Games of All Time (80-71)

    Time for my next chunk of favorite games of all time! Next is 80-71. This year I have played two of my top 10 all-time games once each…including the number one game…well, technically earlier today. We played until almost 7am…Anyway…to the list! Also-worth reminding the last list number 81 was Between Two Cities. I may…