The idea of Coyote is simple enough. Each player is dealt one card, which they do not look at, and sets it in the provided base so that all the other players can see it. An additional card is placed face down in the middle of the table, and can only be inspected by players with Peek cards to spend. The cards number from -10 to 20, with two additional special cards. On your turn, you either say a total you believe to be less than the total value of all the cards—keeping in mind that your information will never be perfect since you can never see your own card—or you challenge the previous player.

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The American frontier, AKA the Wild West, has always been a source of fascination in popular culture. Clint Eastwood made a career off of his portrayal in Rawhide, “Rough Rider” President Teddy Roosevelt popularized bad boy cowboy imagery, and the shooting prowess of Annie Oakley is legendary. Today, HBO's Westworld portrays a world where customers can go to a western themed park where they can experience the allure of the Wild Wild West any way they want, from the saloons, to shoot-outs with fictional villains, to exploring the great plains. It would naturally make sense to incorporate the Frontier into a board game theme. Great Western Trail does just that, picking arguably the most boring part of the Wild West to focus on: shipping and delivering cattle.

But this game is anything but boring.

In Great Western Trail, 2-4 players compete to build buildings, buy cattle, hire staff, and make deliveries to Kansas City. The goal of the game is to collect the most victory points, which can be done in a variety of ways. Great Western Trail is the latest masterpiece of veteran designer Alexander Pfister, who has recently brought us Port Royal and Mombasa, and the 2015 and…

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