I remember hearing about this week’s Thrift Treasure on TV a couple years ago. Published by Buffalo Games, it was getting a lot of air time due to the fact it involved Dave Matthews. Yes, that Dave Matthews of Dave Matthews Band fame. ...
I know what you’re thinking. You’re astute enough to notice a trend in the games we’ve been playing the past week or so. First, it was Dragonscales about 10 days ago. Then came Dragon Market this past Friday. Truth be told ...
I recently discovered that we know a lot of teens on the local rowing team. It isn’t a school sport, but rather a community team. Several years ago I remember talking to my coach at the Y regarding her participation with a competitive ...
Most people understand the phrase, “It’s like herding cats.” It takes a bit of skill and luck to figure out how to wrangle them into one place. But have you ever tried a similar feat with other critters? Like bunnies, for ...
Lately it seems like I’ve been purchasing games at thrift just to find out how bad they are. It’s almost a challenge to see what game I can find with the lowest BoardGameGeek rating. Last week we struggled through Hike, a card g ...
One of the fun things we’ve been doing during this shutdown is introducing our girls to classic movies. We’ve already watched the entire Back to the Future trilogy, enjoyed Beverly Hills Cop, laughed during every example of Nati ...
You know how they say there are some wines that get better with age? And that some foods need to be tried multiple times before you acquire a taste for it. Well, the same applies to board games. Some are awesome right out of the box. The fi ...
When my daughters were old enough to progress beyond standard board games like Checkers or Candyland, one of my first purchases was a deluxe chess set. I wanted to teach them how to play the centuries-old strategy game and have their experi ...
Last weekend one of our friends celebrated his 50th birthday. Pandemic or not, his choice for how to spend his birthday was to join us to play board games. We encouraged him to let us know which games he wanted to play and that’s what ...
Broken record. That’s what I feel like sometimes. I say the same things over and over again to my kids to reinforce and remind them of a little bit of everything. Here on the website you may see me often repeat myself as well and it i ...
