If you had asked me months ago what I thought would be the most likely thing or event to disrupt our lives, I probably would have listed off a number of things. The upcoming election season, natural disasters, terrorism and threats from oth ...
The other day a neighbor posted on Facebook that she was splitting her daughter’s aloe plant and asked if anyone was interested. It reminded me that it’s that time of year that we’re supposed to be splitting our outdoor pl ...
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 ...
I have to imagine that conversations with teens in other households are very similar to ours. Around here we’ve been on the topic of computers since our daughters got their first laptops to use for schoolwork. We’ve discussed wh ...
It’s June! And while many are celebrating the end of another school year and the beginning of summer vacation, at our house we’re celebrating another season – game convention season! We’ve already spent four exhausti ...
There aren’t very many game themes we don’t like. Some days we’ll be dividing up pizza while others we want to be pirates. That’s pretty much the same for all members of our family. Except for one. The newest additio ...
Hope you have a caffeine sidekick in hand because you’re in for the first of three days worth of “Ooh, I want that.” revelations. Why? Because we’re only a couple weeks away from the mecca of board games – Gen ...
It’s almost like lightning struck twice. We’ve seen a lot of unique board game themes over the years and occasionally run across one that is unique, at least to us. Such was the case a couple years ago when we discovered Lift Of ...
I’ve always had a soft spot for games with good design. I asked for a copy of Chess for Christmas a few years ago and picked out the exact set I liked the best. I made the decision not based on materials or price, it was all about how ...
If there’s one thing summer brings beyond warmer temperatures, summer vacations and trips to the local ice cream shop that we patiently look forward to, it’s game conventions. It has become a family tradition over the past few y ...
