One of the first card games my parents taught to me was Rummy. As I recall, it was my mom’s favorite game. We played as a family most every week and tried out a couple different variations as we got tired of the regular game. One such alteration common among families with young kids was a slight rule change that allowed cards of the same suit ...
The third and final thing we purchased on our trip to a Cedar Rapids Goodwill wasn’t a game at all, even though it was shelved in the same section as Apple Pop and Circulo. Our oldest daughter, Madison, is taking Chemistry this year in high school and we had been looking for something that might help her visualize the subjects she’ll be ...
There’s one type of board game that we can never have enough of. Both of us grew up solving puzzles and as a result we love games that feature something cerebral to solve. Nicole received a jigsaw puzzle or two every Christmas until she was well into her 20’s. My brother and I waited impatiently for our shared monthly copy of Games Maga ...
One of the biggest barriers to people trying new games is the difficulty in grasping unfamiliar game mechanics or reading pages upon pages of instructions. We’re fortunate enough to have a friend who volunteers to read directions for new games in advance of our Sunday game meetup. Most of the time, we take him up on that because it saves us a ...
This past summer as we were walking through the exhibitor aisles at the annual Gen Con convention, we noticed a brand new title being advertised by Next Move Games. It wasn’t the components that caught our eye, nor was it the colorful artwork on both the box and the cards. It was the name – 5211. A number, nothing else. We thought it wa ...
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