Cakes n Ladders: Auckland’s first board game cafe
On Upper Symonds Street, across from Hell Pizza and down a bit towards the city (number 173 to be exact), there’s a rad new…
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Is tonight’s meteor the most exciting thing to happen to Auckland since #RWC2011?
Twitter and the New Zealand subreddit are tonight abuzz with talk of a brilliant flash above Auckland. Was it blue? Orange? White? A combination…
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Beware The Ghost
A while ago I got envious of this vintage looking platformer my partner was playing, and I wound up buying it on Steam. I…
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I smoked this garlic myself: three hipster foods that live up to the hype.
As I’ve reluctantly embraced my adulthood, I’ve noticed that my tastes, in terms of food, have changed somewhat. I used to be a lover…
Read MorePower Grid, or the time we enforced a seven year power outage on America.
I first spotted Power Grid when we were shopping for another game. I picked it up and went, “Hah! A board game where you…
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The best pianist you’ve never heard of: Will Northcott.
When I was at school and taking piano lessons, I had a friend who was – to my eternal envy – quite a bit…
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Pandemic – cure diseases! Fight infection! Get frustrated at how difficult this game is!
Pandemic came highly recommended by a lot of different people. It appealed to me because it’s cooperative, so I thought, why not? We picked up…
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Carcassonne – high on the nerd scale, high on the fun scale.
I can hear you now. “Carcassonne is a city in France!” Correct. It is indeed a city in France. It is also a fantastic…
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What’s your secret? 3 ingredients you might not know about that are going to take your cooking through the roof
Cooking is about formulae. If you have the right types of ingredients in the right ratios, your food is going to taste great. Once…
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