I was at the neighbor’s house recently while her college-bound daughter was home on a weekend break from her summer internship. As I chatted with her mom and dad, she was hard at work making some fancy salad to package in individual storage dishes to take back with her. It made me laugh because when I was in college, a standard meal was Ramen ...
It is no doubt that abstract games saw their heyday back in the 90’s and early 2000’s. This is obvious to us by what we find at the thrift store every week. Back then there were scores of new titles every month from Hasbro, Mattel, Parker Brothers, etc. that all tried to become the next Chess or Checkers. Some became household names, mo ...
Can you stomach another UNO game in your collection? We have by finding a copy of UNO Dominos at our local Goodwill last week. Another in a long line of games developed under the UNO brand, this one is a bit more unique in that it doesn’t use cards at all. All the pieces are dominoes! It’s an interesting concept. Take a well-known card ...
I think I’ve probably mentioned before that before we moved back to Iowa I was in the printing industry. We originally moved to California in 1995 for a job offer that eventually turned into an opportunity to purchase part of the company I worked for. Believing in the industry, the future and my own abilities, it was a no-brainer decision. Ou ...
While we’re on the subject of flicking and dexterity games, I almost neglected to mention another unique one we picked up while at the Origins Game Fair. This one takes the idea of flicking a token for position to an entirely different level by using dice instead of wooden tokens. It is still animal-themed, but instead of dinosaurs, Kung-Fu Z ...
