After seeing the last few weeks’ worth of Geekway to the West flea market finds, you’re probably a little bit jealous. I’m not kidding when I say we brought home two full tubs of games. Some of them have been duds, but the ...
There’s one thing that amazes me whenever we’re at conventions or game stores where multiple people are playing games. The number of people participating in two player card games. There are entire tournaments devoted to the hobb ...
Among all the deals found during the flea market at Geekway to the West, there are always many to be had for a dollar or two. These are typically the same mass-market games we’ll find at Goodwill. We can count on finding a lot that we ...
The last several months have been a bit overwhelming. Madison wrapped up her freshman year at college, Kennedy graduated from high school, Scott’s next game is gearing up for release and I was elected to the board of directors for The ...
Back in the late 90’s there was a game published called “Triazzle” which we run into a lot at thrift. I would best describe it as a tile-laying game with mechanics from Chinese Checkers. The object is to match triangular t ...
After I finished designing the game of Gekitai, I posted links to the Abstract Games forum on BGG. The reactions were incredibly positive, and many enjoyed how quick and simple the game is. I believe “elegant” was the term I hea ...
As this article goes live, I’m soaking up the excitement of gamer geeks, prototypes, game debuts, convention promotions and deals at Origins Game Fair. It’s bittersweet because this is one of the places we watched Madison and Ke ...
Back in April, I shared an article about Pin Collecting and how it’s one of the things I missed about not having game conventions to attend. I show up at conventions with no more than a few pins or buttons then spend the event filling ...
Last week’s Thrift Treasure, Skyline, wasn’t the only game we grabbed at the Geekway to the West flea market. Far from it. Truthfully, if I decide to give overviews on all the games I purchased, you’ll be reading about the ...
It’s always funny to me when a board game reminds me of an instance from my childhood. We had a lot of land and my brothers and I were tasked with keeping it mowed. (I’m not complaining, our allowance factored it in.) One brothe ...
