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This week, Ed and Ryan review Small World by Days of Wonder. This riff on a Risk-style area control game gives players control over rival mythical races as they set out to conquer the map and decide just the right moment to swap in a new race as their old one's power wanes.

BGG Page: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/40692/small-world

Designer: Philippe Keyaerts

Artists: Miguel Coimbra, Cyrille Daujean

Publisher: Days of Wonder

This week, Ed and Ryan review It's a Wonderful World by La Boîte de Jeu. This postapocalyptic card-drafting engine builder pits players against each other to build the world's top civilization from the ground up.

BGG Page: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/271324/its-wonderful-world

Designer: Frédéric Guérard

Artist: Anthony Wolff

Publisher: La Boîte de Jeu

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This week, Ed and Ryan review Scholars of the South Tigris by Garphill Games. This second game in the South Tigris Trilogy allows players to preserve the time-tested wisdom of Greece, China, and other civilizations by translating scrolls into Arabic for Baghdad's House of Wisdom.

BGG Page: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/367041/scholars-south-tigris

Designer: Shem Philipps and SJ MacDonald

Artists: Mihajlo Dimitrievski

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Ed and Ryan round out October by reviewing Betrayal at House on the Hill, a spook-worthy cooperative game where players explore a creepy old mansion tile by tile until the house's sinister influence turns one player against the rest.

BGG Page: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/10547/betrayal-house-hill

Designer: Bruce Glassco

Artists: Dennis Crabapple McClain, Christopher Moeller, and Peter Whitley

Publisher: Avalon Hil...

On the fourth Tuesday of October, Ed and Ryan review Carnival of Monsters, a card drafting game that lets players compete to build the most extensive menagerie of magical beasts and mythical creatures.

BGG Page: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/231484/carnival-monsters

Designer: Richard Garfield

Artists: Loïc Billiau, Martin Hoffmann, Dennis Lohausen, Michael Menzel

Publisher: Amigo Games

In week 2 of an October chockful of spooky tabletop games, Ed and Ryan review Horrified, a campy co-op game that lets players team up to confront a gauntlet of storied monsters from Dracula and Frankenstein to the Invisible Man and the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

BGG Page: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/282524/horrified

Designer: Prospero Hall

Artist: Prospero Hall

Publisher: Ravensburger

In week 1 of a month loaded with spooky boardgames, Ed and Ryan review Mysterium, a cooperative game that gives the murder whodunit a fresh coat of paint. One player plays as the "Ghost" and uses visual clues to help the others guess the identity of the killer.

BGG Page: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/181304/mysterium

Designers: Oleksandr Nevskiy and Oleg Sidorenko

Artists: Igor Burlakov, Xavier Collette, Oleksandr Nevskiy, a...

This week, Ed and Ryan review Jamey Stegmaier's magnum opus--Scythe. This area control game explores an alternate post-World War I history in idyllic pastoral landscapes populated with intrepid explorers and smog-belching mechs.

BGG Page: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/169786/scythe

Designer: Jamey Stegmaier

Artists: Jakub Rozalski

Publisher: Stonemaier Games

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This week, Ed and Ryan review Viscounts of the West Kingdom by Garphill Games. This final entry in the West Kingdom Trilogy game gives players a chance to compete for influence as the king's power over his realm declines.

BGG Page: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/296151/viscounts-west-kingdom

Designer: Shem Philipps and SJ MacDonald

Artists: Mihajlo Dimitrievski

Publisher: Garphill Games

Ed and Ryan embark on a pilgrimage to put the finishing touches on the singular and unfinished Sagrada Familia cathedral in Barcelona. In Sagrada, players use dice drafting to fill in panes of glass in five different shades to make breathtaking stained glass windows that will catch the sunlight just right.

Designers: Adrian Adamescu and Daryl Andrews

Artists: Peter Wocken

Publisher: Floodgate Games

Ed and Ryan get in touch with their artistic side by reviewing Reiner Knizia's classic auction game, Modern Art. Players take turns as both art curator and auctioneer as they compete to amass the world's greatest art collecting fortune by discerning whose paintings are in demand and whose is not.

Designer: Reiner Knizia

Artists: Manuel Carvalho, Ramon Martins, Daniel Melim, Rafael Silveira, and Sigrid Thaler

Publisher: CMON Games