When Scott and I first met, he earned spending money by selling baseball cards and sports memorabilia. Always the entrepreneurial type, he took a different approach to marketing his collection than what most of the vendors at the card shows ...
Quite often we learn about licensed IPs by playing games. If it weren’t for board and card games like Red Rising or SuperHot, we would have never known about the book or video game, respectively. Loyal fans of those properties will in ...
Are you one of those people that reads the synopsis on the book jacket or do you just open it up and start reading? I’ve noticed that board gamers have similar engagement patterns. Some open the box, set it up and go. Others embrace t ...
My original plan for writing this article was going to be a comparison of the Exit series by Kosmos with their new line of Exit that includes jigsaw puzzles. But Kennedy had a friend over for a couple of nights and we decided to introduce h ...
After a long night of playing games that challenge the mind, we usually like to end things with something a little silly. While we love thinky games like Alan’s Adventureland, Old West Empresario and Lost Ruins of Arnak, sometimes we ...
Thinking back to my youth, there are a number of games that stand out in my memory. We played a lot of cards including Spades, Hearts and Euchre. I remember my parents teaching me Pinochle and it was where I honed the card-counting skills t ...
If you play many games, there are probably times that you think to yourself, “I’ve played something an awful lot like this before.” I’m not referring to the many variations of Scrabble, for example. Those are based o ...
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 ...
One of my current favorite games is Gloomhaven by Cephalofair Games. We get together and play it weekly with another couple who are in our bubble. When Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion released at Target earlier this year, we rushed out and bou ...
