Recent Articles & Reviews by Ashley Gariepy

I'm an elementary school teacher who loves board games. I consider myself a euro-gamer at heart and Meeple Mountain's resident escape room gamer, but I have also been known to enjoy the occasional Ameri-style game.

I'm also one third of the Maple Mountain triad, the self-named group of Canadian authors here at Meeple Mountain, along with Kurt Refling and Kathleen Hartin.

What an excellent question, Smash! You see I try to review games that I think I'll like because no one wants to play a game they don't enjoy—and it's particularly unpleasant to then have to write a review.

Ahh! I knew you would ask me this question. I have a really hard time ranking my favourite games because my tastes are so varied and I feel like if I chose six, I'd be excluding so many other good ones. We'll say that my top 6 "I'll play this anytime, no questions asked" games are, in no particular order:

1. 1. Ticket to Ride (all stand-alone games and map expansions)
   2. Kanban
   3. Pandemic (and expansions) & Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 and 2
   4. The Exit series of games
   5. Ganz Schön Clever (That's Pretty Clever)
   6. KLASK

Along with my articles and reviews, check out my thoughts on Monopoly, Apples to Apples, and the following games from Meeple Mountain's First Take Fridays:

1. 1. • Anachrony
      • Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra
      • Blue Lagoon
      • Brikks
      • Codenames Duet
      • Cryptid
      • Dark Stories 
      • Dragon Boats of the Four Seas
      • Exit: The Sunken Treasure
      • Forum Trajanum
      • KeyForge: Call of the Archons
      • Mint Delivery
      • Mint Works
      • Paper Tales
      • Reykholt
      • Spell Smashers
      • Solenia
      • Tulip Bubble