I’m sure there aren’t many people that haven’t ever played a game of Farkle. The Yahtzee-alternative, Farkle is a dice-rolling game where you must score points on each roll of the dice. Once you roll and get nothing, you “Farkle” and the turn passes to the next player. There are only a handful of scoring combinations, ...
A couple years ago I drove a car on an ice rink in Denver and visited the zoo to learn about the connection between polar bears and winter tires. It was an incredibly cool experience and extremely informative. I was reminded of that experience when we included a polar bear themed game in our holiday guide to games for teens and adults. And we’ ...
We may have said one, two… hundred times how much I like dice games. The randomness, unique or colorful dice, the luck over skill, the feel of the dice as they roll out of your hands are all factors in why I feel this way. Then we have some games that take the extra step and add cool packaging to the mix. That’s the case with Ya Blew It ...
I don’t know what you’ve been doing over the recent weeks, but I’ve been on the hunt for Easter Eggs! No, not the kind you put in an Easter basket, I’m talking about automotive ones like the Easter Eggs hidden in movies! Last year, as I walked around the Chicago Auto Show, I found several cars from movies. It was a lot of fu ...
Learning about STEAM is easier when it’s entertaining. We’ve shared ideas for incorporating board games into schools, showed how you could turn gummy bears into slime and provided lists of STEM projects to do at home. Over the holidays, we crafted a guide filled with entertaining STEAM gift ideas. One of the items on that list is Just A ...
In history there is occasionally a city with all of the movers and shakers, all the game changers, all the influencers – a city that is the happening place to be. On planet earth during the 14th century one of those cities was Florence, Italy the birthplace of the Renaissance. I want to take you to Florence back to the time of the Renaissance ...
Whether you are an outdoor enthusiast or not, it’s always cool to learn about the beauty of our national parks. I’ve visited some of these, but would love to venture out to more. Trekking the National Parks board game is a great way to learn about which of these locations we should put on top of our travel wish list. We featured the gam ...
You might have noticed a game trend on SahmReviews over the past year or so. We’ve always professed to have a preference for both abstract games and games that utilize dice. Looking back at the games we played in 2018 and it is obvious there is a third category we haven’t officially revealed our fondness for – games of deduction. ...
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