Whenever we visit Nicole’s brother and his family, it is inevitable a game will be played. If only adults, a deck of cards is enough for a session of Spades or something similar. If the kids are involved, their favorite is Pirate̵ ...
It’s been six years since we first shared about the massive, multi-year, multi-designer undertaking by Calliope Games. Affectionately termed the Titan Series, the Kickstarter project was an offering of three games per year from well-r ...
While we were shopping at Goodwill last week, we came across something unique. Wrapped in cellophane tape was a cylinder-like set of playing cards. There was no packaging, no paperwork nor any rules – just this odd tube that reminded ...
With each new game we play, I become increasingly impressed with the lengths publishers will take to make sure their themes are authentic, respectful and appropriate. As of late, there’s been a long-overdue push in the game industry f ...
Games of all types have always been a part of my life. We played Boggle, Mastermind and Cribbage as children and progressed into video games with the release of the Atari VCS, Tandy TRS-80 and Apple II+. It seemed that no matter where our f ...
A bit over a year ago we were fascinated to find not one, but two copies of a German language board game, Deutschlandreise. In our area we have a military base (Rock Island Arsenal) which has soldiers and officers transferring in and out on ...
I think every person my age grew up with some kind of knick-knack, curio or printer’s drawer adoring the wall filled with all kinds of random pieces of memorabilia. My mom could recite a story for each and every trinket she had on dis ...
After a long drought, it seems we’ve been finding a lot of Scrabble-like games at thrift. Two weeks ago it was Akumulate, a polyomino-based tile game which used numbers instead of letters. Last week we were playing Plext. It was uniqu ...
Along with trivia games, we rarely pick up word games at thrift any more. Like the former, word games are difficult to play with opponents from different generations as the older players will almost always have a more diverse vocabulary. Th ...
