Last week I showed off a copy of Wok ‘n Roll we found at our Goodwill. It was a particularly good day for us as we found four games in total that were complete and weren’t in our collection. This week we’ve been playing th ...
When you are constantly exposed to a myriad of new games from a range of companies in the industry, you tend to start associating them with specific types of games. Quartos from Gigamic is an ideal example of their abstract games. Dead Last ...
If you thought I got my fill of roll and write games when I told you about Lanterns Dice, Kingdomino Duel, Rolled West and Fleet the Dice Game a couple months ago then you don’t know me well. If it has dice then I’m usually a su ...
Some of my oldest memories are of playing a game of Charades with my family. It was an informal affair with mom and dad acting silly while my brother and I would try to guess what they were doing. This was in the late 70’s/early 80 ...
By now you know that we like to start with an introduction when we write about anything. Sometimes we are reminiscing about some memory jarred by a game. Other times we talk about similar products. This time, I’m going to reserve thos ...
This week was a particularly good week at our Goodwill. On one trip we found four complete games for only 88 cents each! Each and every one of them were titles we had not seen before, and thus needed to add them to our collection. You’ ...
With New York Toy Fair around the corner, followed closely by GAMA (Game Manufacturers Association) Trade show, I’m already getting an onslaught of emails from companies asking if we’ll be in attendance. It’s not unique. I ...
Last month we made you a promise. We showed the first half of Star Wars themed games in our 15 Star Wars Games You Didn’t Know Existed article, but the full list would require another fifteen from the latter part of the alphabet. ...
Another common theme of games in our collection are those that have you pretending to be an artist of some type. Or maybe a connoisseur of fine works. Or even a trader of masterpieces vying to make the most money. There’s no lack of o ...
I first came across Stripes by Breaking Games at Gen Con last year. Because I was in the printing and graphics industry for most of my adult life, games about color have always intrigued me. Most companies get it wrong because they don̵ ...
