I’ve lost count of how many polyomino games we have featured here in the past year or so. The interesting thing is that while each used these common shapes, they’ve all had unique themes, boards, rules and goals. As an example, ...
A couple weeks ago we were playing Tuki, a polyomino game where you not only built a vertical structure that matched your card, you had to figure out exactly which neutral-colored pieces to use to elevate and support the entire thing. Playe ...
Continuing with the theme of games that utilize polyominoes, today’s feature is another in the roll-and-write genre, much like this past Wednesday’s Second Chance. If you recall, Second Chance asked all players to fill out a pap ...
Our absolute favorite board game convention to attend is Geekway to the West, even though it’s much smaller by comparison to Origins Game Fair or Gen Con. The simple fact that the convention focuses on playing games over selling them ...
5er Finden from HABA is a dice-rolling race to find the right shape and mark it on your worksheet. Aside from being a roll and write game, 5er Finden is on a growing list of games with polyomino pieces, all which have been quite welcom ...
Our guide to games for teens and adults included a variety of types of games. In Last-Second Quest from WizKids, players are racing to prepare a backpack for an adventure. The items are polyomino shaped so the game is a total puzzle! Hopefu ...
Floodgate Games is known for publishing quality games like Sagrada and Bosk. One of their latest releases, Cosmic Colonies, is among our list of games for teens and adults. I have a weakness for games that utilize polyomino pieces and often ...
I find the ebb and flow of board game themes to be fascinating. If you look through our archives, you’ll see that we cover a lot of similar genres in a short period of time. There were a whole bunch of games that included polyomino ga ...
Quite often I hear people say they don’t like certain genres of games and refuse to play anything they feel falls under that umbrella. It’s unfortunate because games have different designers, developers and publishers that each ...
Throughout the course of my life, I’ve been fortunate to live in a variety of types of cities. I grew up in a rural area and went to the elementary school in a small town that had no stoplights, a volunteer fire department and a gener ...