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Piece o’ Cake by Rio Grande Games is named wrong.  It should actually be called “Piece o’ Pie” or “Pie in the Sky” or something like that, because the artwork is clearly indicitive of pies and not cakes.  I’m getting a little ahead of myself here, though–let me start from the beginning.  Piece o’ Cake is a very simple game.  There are 57 pie slices, which compose 5 pies of 11 pieces each, with two pieces left out of play.  The game is five turns long, one pie per turn.  The object of the game is to get as many points as...

The University of Utah had a board gaming event on Saturday, which I went to with a few friends.  There were 28 total players in attendance, comprising 26 men and 2 women.  (This turnout seems typical.  Why is it that there are so few women in the hobby?) It was a fun event and I got to play a couple of new games I hadn’t ever played before: Betrayal at House on the Hill, and Piece o Cake.  In this post, I’ll be writing about my experience playing Betrayal at House on the Hill. Betrayal at House on the Hill is one of the...

Game Master Dice is under new ownership!  I’m Kevin Owens, the new owner, and I’d like to introduce myself. My professional background is in software development.  I also really like making websites, and run a couple of other sites in my spare time: Draconika Dragons, Dark Middle Ages, All About Unicorns, Phonics on the Web, and Active Family Tree are some of the more popular ones. I’m also very interested in games of all kinds.  I originally got interested in computer programming because I liked playing computer games and wanted to make my own.  I’ve worked on a number of them over the years, but the...

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I thought this was a great way to see a whole game.