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 ...
There were a lot less things to do growing up on an acreage in the country in the 70s and 80s. My brothers and I spent a lot of time mowing the lawn and helping with the garden. While I liked to spend time on the tree swing or playing with ...
Did you happen to see the taboo words in this article’s title? Let me spell it out for you: M-E-M-O-R-Y G-A-M-E. Those are akin to curse words to these old ears. Like when my kids suggest playing a memory game, I want to tell them to ...
A few weeks ago I told the story of how I picked up a game at thrift that had no English instructions. Deutschlandreise by Ravensburger is an example of a game that I would have normally passed over. Thanks to modern technology, specificall ...
