Great games come from everywhere. Europe, specifically Germany, is the home to some of the best designers of what are referred to as “Euro Games”. If we had to select a champion of party games, the U.S. would probably come out o ...
I stay pretty on top of the latest movie releases, but somehow I always manage to be surprised by some when I actually sit down to compile this list. Like I said when telling you about movies to see in January, sometimes releases bubble to ...
There was an article in our local newspaper a couple of weeks ago showcasing the Dungeons & Dragons club at our district’s junior high. It didn’t really come as too much of a surprise to me because several of Madison’s ...
Remember a couple weeks ago when I admitted defeat and frustration when I played Pipeline? It had a lot going on and sometimes it takes me a couple times to grasp the flow of a game before I really get the hang of it. A few years ago while ...
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, di ...
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 coupl ...
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 ten ...
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 w ...
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 d ...
2019 was certainly a banner year for movie franchises. In the Spring we saw the end of the story line for the Marvel Cinematic Universe with the release of Avengers Endgame. In December the ninth and final movie in the Star Wars saga was re ...
