
2018 back issues
To Win Just Once is a magazine about games (and other things) published by Pevans on paper and online.
This page has links to 2018's issues (as PDF documents). The menu (left) has links to previous years' issues and an introduction to To Win Just Once. ("Booklet layout" for each issue is a PDF laid out to create an A5 booklet – print it double-sided and fold the pages.)
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TWJO 190 (January 2019, PDF 1 Mb) – Pevans concludes his report from the Spiel '18 games fair, including his first impressions of Blossoms, Darwinning!, Fortune, Ganymede, (Neon Limbo) Redemption, Silk, Walls of York and more – booklet layout (hi-res PDF, 9 Mb) |
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TWJO 189 (Nov-Dec 2018, PDF 1 Mb) – the first part of Pevans's report from this year's Spiel games fair, including his first impressions of Chartered, Coimbra, Holding On, Magnate, Pax Emancipation, QMG Cold War, Reef, Romans and more – booklet layout (hi-res PDF, 12 Mb) |
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TWJO 188 (October 2018, PDF 1 Mb) – Pevans comments on games he's played recently, including Bunny Kingdom, CIV, Liberatores, and Spring Meadow – booklet layout (hi-res PDF, 12 Mb) |
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Latest issue (TWJO 187, September 2018, PDF 1 Mb) – Pevans reviews The Palace of Mad King Ludwig and Tulip Bubble – booklet layout (hi-res PDF, 10 Mb) |
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TWJO 186 (August 2018, PDF 1 Mb) – Pevans concludes his report from the 2018 UK Games Expo with notes on the new games he saw (including Athens, Black Orchestra, Darien Apocalypse, Magnificent Flying Machines, Mini Rails, New Corp Order, The Old Hellfire Club, Scrumpy) – booklet layout (hi-res PDF, 13 Mb) |
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TWJO 185 (June-July 2018, PDF 1 Mb) – Pevans reports from the 2018 UK Games Expo with notes on the new games he saw (including Doctor Who: Time of the Daleks, Holding On, North American Railways, Okiya, Red Alert, Tales of the Northlands, U-BOOT) – booklet layout (hi-res PDF, 17 Mb) |
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TWJO 184 (May 2018, PDF 1 Mb) – Pevans reports from this year's Gathering of Friends with notes on the new games he played (including Altiplano, Clans of Caledonia, John Company, Keyper, Nusfjord and Rajas of the Ganges) and beers he drank – booklet layout (hi-res PDF, 8.5 Mb) |
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TWJO 183 (April 2018, PDF 1 Mb) – Nik Luker reviews Azul while Pevans goes on about A Handful of Stars and chocolate beer – booklet layout (hi-res PDF, 8 Mb) |
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TWJO 182 (March 2018, PDF 1 Mb) – Pevans reports from the London Toy Fair and the Shogun freeform game – booklet layout (hi-res PDF, 15 Mb) |
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TWJO 181 (Jan-Feb 2018, PDF 1 Mb) – Pevans reviews the "Fast Forward" trilogy from Friedemann Friese – Fear, Fortress and Flee – while Nik Luker goes surfing in Tavarua – booklet layout (hi-res PDF, 15 Mb) |
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Earlier back issues:
from 2017 (171-180)
from 2016 (161-170)
from 2015 (151-160)
from 2014 (141-150)
from 2013 (131-140)
"Booklet layout" for each issue is a PDF laid out to create an A5 booklet – print it double-sided and fold the pages.