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Review: A Highly Suspect Murder Mystery – The Death of the Great Detective, Fringe 2025

August 13, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

This interactive murder mystery is a standout at the Fringe, putting the audience at the heart of a Sherlock Holmes-themed case. Combining great acting with engaging puzzle-solving, it’s a brilliant and educational night out for amateur sleuths of all ages.

Radar: The UK’s largest D&D convention returns to Edinburgh

July 31, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There are one or two larger tabletop games events in the UK than Tabletop Scotland, such as the giant UK Games Expo, but Tabletop Scotland is the largest Adventurers League event

Giveaway: Adventuring Family – A Family Therapy Role Playing Game

July 20, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood 15 Comments

Released this year, Adventuring Family offers a no-prep adventure system designed for parents and children to enjoy together, welcoming players as young as four.

Review: Girdy & Birdy Lose Badly at Fayre Play, Picardy Place

July 10, 2023 by Girdy & Birdy 1 Comment

Fayre play is a really fun way to spend an evening with friends or family – as long as you remember not to bring any kids along, you’ll have a fab time!

Edinburgh’s Red Dice Games offers 20% off some games in a charity drive

July 15, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Red Dice Games are swapping 20% discounts with board game donations to Edinburgh Children’s Hospital Charity in conjunction with Big Potato Games.

A review of Noughts & Coffees, City Centre

December 14, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This is a trend I welcome; board games are popular again. The return of board games somehow happened while missing the hipster trap and becoming an accepted mainstream thing. If you don’t believe me, then you only need to start counting the number of gaming cafes that are popping up across the country. Edinburgh has […]

The secret war that rages across Edinburgh

March 8, 2015 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

When it launched a little over two years ago a few friends jumped on Google’s alternative reality game (ARG) and started to play Ingress. I ignored it on purpose; I was just too busy. I’m still busy all this time later but at the start of the month I started seeing people discussing Ingress again. […]

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