At last year’s Festival International des Jeux in Cannes, France, I had the chance to meet the designer of Colt Express, Christophe Raimbault. Not only was it a lovely conversation, but it was a lovely conversation in English, one of the very few conversations in my native language I had during my four days at that show.

Certainly, Raimbault has designed other games, the most recent being Redwood, a game glowingly reviewed by my colleague Bob Pazehoski, Jr. last year. But there’s no question that Colt Express—a game first published in 2014, with a 10-year anniversary box made available last year at SPIEL in Essen, Germany—has had the biggest impact. Colt Express won the 2015 Spiel des Jahres (beating out fellow finalists Machi Koro and The Game), joining the ranks of fun, light classics such as Azul, Dominion, and last year’s SdJ winner, Sky Team. Colt Express has sold millions of copies and led to the publication of the Colt Express Big Box, a chance to get all those Colt Express goodies in one box.

The team at Flat River Group sent a review copy of Colt Express Big Box, so over the course of about six weeks, I used Colt Express as the filler for my review group sessions.…

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