Have you ever heard the term, “Shelf of Shame”? It refers to things (games) you purchased and put on a shelf without having opened or played. If I’m being honest, I have an exceptionally large Shelf of Shame. More like a R ...
When you’re trying to decide between different things, it helps to get recommendations from people already familiar with it. For over a decade, we’ve been sharing details about how various products fit into our family. We’ ...
Because abstract games are my favorite, I feel like I hit the proverbial jackpot this week at our local Goodwill. Tucked among the myriad of Scene It and Trivial Pursuit games was a drab, plain brown game box. It was odd to see how little w ...
Normally I might say it’s THAT time of year when families start planning family bonding activities like summer vacations and day trips to local amusement parks. But, you know, world shutdown means things aren’t exactly normal. T ...
There have been several games which we have enjoyed finding variations created to capitalize on the success of the original. Scrabble probably spawned the most as we’ve found Scrabble Up, Scrabble Overturn, Scrabble Word Rummy and mor ...
When someone asks us to recommend a deck-building game, only two games have been on our short list for a long time. Dominion is the most well-known of the genre, and for good reason. Originally published in 2008, Dominion has spawned countl ...
This week’s Thrift Treasure find is proof that there are few new game ideas in the market. Everything has always been done at least once. Most new games are just variations of a title issued years before. Up a Bit by Cheatwell Games&n ...
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 ...
It’s been a little over three years since we presented one of our favorite abstract-game-turned-hobby-game, Santorini. To refresh your memory, the original game of Santorini was self-published in the early 2000’s by the creator. ...
If we were giving an award for the tallest game we’ve found at thrift, this week’s purchase would be our current leader. And that’s not the only amazing thing about finding this copy of Hoopla by Ideal. This 65-year-old ga ...
