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Perfect Stranger Has Arrived!
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Perfect Stranger Has Arrived!

At long last, we've received our stock of Perfect Stranger and Perfect Stranger: Spicy Edition! All pre-orders for these games (and the combo deal) will be sent ASAP. Read until the end — there's a surprise you're gonna like. Get the greatest party game in the universe! I know you have questions after hearing that statement — things like "Are you sure?" and "How can you verify this?" and "Are there par...

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Avoiding the Long Game
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Avoiding the Long Game

Effects games tend to last 10 to 30 minutes, but every now and then we hear from someone who played a very long game. And the story usually involves the same thing… “We kept giving each other episodes of Madness!” In Hex Effects, it’s Hanahaki, but the idea is that the group resets each other’s progress mercilessly and the game extends for longer than usual. Here are some suggestions for how ...

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The "Missing" Hanahaki card
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The "Missing" Hanahaki card

So you bought yourself a copy of Hex Effects (or Side Effects) and you played and you thought, “wow, what an awesome game! Let me study this further to dissect the subtle genius behind the breakdown of these cards.” Or... maybe you thought something else, who knows! But you came to the conclusion many of your contemporaries came to: there seems to be a missing card! You’re wrong! (Most likely) ...

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Let’s Talk About Stacking
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Let’s Talk About Stacking

Every so often we get a question about how to deal with Drug-Disorder stacks in Side Effects. What we mean by stacks… Here we have a Psyche with an Anxiety drug on an Anxiety card. But look! This person is vulnerable to Depression and another player is about to give it to them… Upon receiving the new Depression card, this player decides to STACK the card on top of the Anxiety drug…...

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Hex Effects is back, but uh oh…
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Hex Effects is back, but uh oh…

Hex Effects is back in stock! We sold out of our initial Kickstarter-backed first run in just a few months — but we’ve got a bunch more in stock that you can buy now. Shop Hex Effects Let me just open one up and take a look at all this awesome artwork and… wait…  There's something in the rulebook that shouldn't be Hex Effects includes 10 Disasters cards, 3 Snake Oils, and 2 Jinxes. T...

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Meet us at the UK Games Expo! Plus, new game updates…
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Meet us at the UK Games Expo! Plus, new game updates…

Good day to you all! And what a lovely day it is. I write to you now from beautiful Hackney in London. The sky is awash in shades of gray. A slight chill wafts through the deciduous flora of London Fields. There’s a feeling at any moment that it may rain just a little bit. It’s awesome. The Pillbox crew is trickling into Europe over the next week to prepare for the UK Games Expo! We couldn’t be more excited (s...

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