Forbidden Bridge, the jewel of 1992.

After being bored out of our minds retrying Risk last week, I promised this time we would play something fun — and I’m making good on that promise with Forbidden Bridge, the first board game I ever begged my dad to get for Christmas (I think I asked for the Game of Life a few years earlier, but we’re going to pretend that never happened. We only played it twice, so it functionally didn’t).

Forbidden Bridge is amazing, despite not being that great a game. I’ll explain why.

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