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Board game and video game writer: IGN, GamesRadar, Dicebreaker, The Guardian and others. Software engineer. There Will Be Puns.

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Sea Scroll Card Game Review

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By Matt Thrower 
| IGN Southeast Asia
Press your luck. This post might contain affiliation links. If you buy something through this post, the publisher may get a share of the sale. Updated: May 20, 2026, 1:47 a.m. Last year, Flip 7 took the gaming world by storm with its simple but enthralling push-your-luck gameplay making it appealing to both casual players and hobbyists alike. A part of its success was down to its straightforward probability formula: each card had a number, and there were that many cards of that number in the deck.
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Brass: Pittsburgh features the "most innovative mechanisms and dynamics" its designer could imagine

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By Matt Thrower 
| Inkl
Brass: Pittsburgh box on a table in front of a window. The original Brass was named after northern British slang for money, which was not only a fitting title for a board game that simulated the booming economy of the industrial revolution but, as it turned out, a prophetic one.
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Brass: Pittsburgh features the "most innovative mechanisms and dynamics" its designer could imagine

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By Matt Thrower 
| Yahoo Entertainment
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The original Brass was named after northern British slang for money, which was not only a fitting title for a board game that simulated the booming economy of the industrial revolution but, as it turned out, a prophetic one.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Writing reviews for Gamezebo.

Who do you wish followed you?

About 750,000 good-hearted gamers.

What story are you most proud of writing or working on?

An expose of how funding was pulled from a successful project researching the use of games in education, apparently for political reasons.

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