When I was a kid, my brother bought me a dictionary for Christmas because I was obsessed with doing different types of crossword puzzles in our local newspaper. I used to keep it readily available on the shelf and would grab it whenever I w ...
♪ ♫ “Over the river and through the woods…” ♫ ♪ Is it too early to start singing that? Hey. We’ve moved past Halloween and have already had snow on the ground. I’m not really ready for the holidays, but when we ...
I’ve made quite an effort to keep from being political on this site. Instead, I’ve maintained that people should set aside any differences and simply sit down and play board games. But tomorrow is a monumental election day that ...
Last week we picked up this copy of Skyjo by Magilano because we had never heard of the game nor the publisher. It also didn’t hurt that while the box had been opened, all of the contents were still in their original wrapping. No inve ...
Science is an incredible thing. The science fiction of the past is the technology of the present and future. It wasn’t that long ago that we first stepped foot on the moon. In fact, it was around the time that I was conceived so I can ...
What qualifies a game as being a “classic”? Is it the number of units sold? How long it’s been on the market successfully? Maybe the total revenue generated? In today’s age, does having it converted into a downloadab ...
Whenever I sit down to watch a movie or TV show, I try to predict what is going to happen. It isn’t quite as entertaining during a RomCom, but it’s certainly fun for a crime show, mystery or even a drama. Being able to think thr ...
Seeing so many board game bits and pieces scattered around the table can be overwhelming. I really enjoy strategy games like Lisboa, Lorenzo il Magnifico and Tapestry, even thought they take up the better portion of a large table. But ...
It’s been a long time since I’ve played Cups, the popular college drinking game played with the recognizable red Solo Cups. There are quite a few games that ask you to throw a ball into something across the table. We found Bounc ...
When I hear that a game publisher is launching a spin-off of a previously released game, I’m always curious what direction it will go. Are they simply 1) reskinning the game with a new theme, 2) re-releasing the same game to correct m ...
