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 ...
Lots of people spent their Christmas surrounded by fluffy white stuff on the ground. We did too, but our white stuff was sand. “Sugar white sand” is how it is described in the brochures. Taking a much-needed break from the usual ...
This week’s Thrift Treasure find at Goodwill had two words on the box that caught my attention, “Magnetic” and “3-D”. It didn’t matter how good the game was rated on BGG, Pirates’ Gold would find it ...
Lately it seems that every year is “the worst flu season in decades“. It was certainly true of 2017/18 and this year we’re on track to break that record. It is estimated that there have been at least 6.4 million flu i ...
A year ago around this time, we had a friend craft a story about his recent travels and shared places and games relating to Florence, Italy. I love the idea of traveling using board games which was the catalyst for sharing our list of Japan ...
