When people ask what my favorite types of games are, I have a tough time deciding. I love the cooperative nature of games that make players work together. I also love the thought that is required for a strategy or abstract game. However, dice games stand out at the top of the list because they require thought but add a touch of luck into the mix. E ...
It isn’t often that we find what one might assume is an entire collection of games at thrift. A few years ago we happened to find two different copies of Qwirkle at the same time. It also happened once when we came across a couple versions of Blokus. This week was especially exciting as we found not two, not three, but FIVE different exa ...
There’s an old adage that says, “With age comes wisdom.” My version of that says, “With age comes a lot of options and conveniences that our parents and grandparents never had.” My generation grew up either tending a garden for fresh vegetables or eating canned produce. Living in Iowa has always allowed us the luxury o ...
This past fall I was on a roll (ha! foreshadowing) when I shared about several roll and write games including Lanterns Dice, Kingdomino Duel and Bloom dice games.They’re a far cry from the traditional game of Yahtzee that we grew up with. As much as I enjoy that classic, unless you’re playing Challenge Yahtzee, you spend most of yo ...
Years ago when we first started getting into board games more seriously, we began attending a weekly game night hosted at a local college. Each week 30-50 people would show up to play all types of board and card games of various levels of difficulty. Before joining, we had only played a few modern board games and would quickly become overwhelmed wi ...
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