Let’s talk a minute about value. Board and card games are available at all price points. We enjoy finding inexpensive games at thrift and feature them in our Thrift Treasure series. Even bad games are usually worth spending a buck or ...
There’s a couple our age we’ve been playing board games with for well over five years. They can always be counted on having some of the best titles in their game night bag. A couple years ago they pulled out a card game we hadn& ...
When I was in 5th or 6th grade, my family was stationed in West Germany. My brother and I went to an American school in Worms, but we lived in a regular house. “On the economy” was the term for those of us that didn’t have ...
Most people expected to spend the day wearing green, drinking green beer and playing St. Patrick’s Day board games. Instead, we are all cemented in front of the TV and devices awaiting the latest COVID-19 news from the Center for Dise ...
Are you familiar with the term “point salad” when it comes to modern board games? It is the unofficial definition of a game that has multiple ways to score victory points. We play a lot of games that have this feature. Bora Bora ...
As concerns surrounding the Coronavirus continue to grow, travel advisories have been going out discouraging people from attending festivals, considering a cruise and flying anywhere. While it’s generally a somber time, this is the ti ...
As we approach the middle of March, you may think I’m going to start talking about games to play on St. Patrick’s Day. Nope, we did that a couple of years ago. I want to brag about the Quad Cities St. Patrick’s Day parade. ...
Continuing our story from the past couple of weeks and our great day at Goodwill, Golf Mania! was the third game we picked up. This one in particular caught our eye because of the publisher listed on the box – Fantasy Flight Games. If ...
I have a confession to make. I’ve never been able to get into playing Magic the Gathering. I don’t know if there’s a solid reason. Maybe it’s because we don’t have a healthy local location for our girls to play ...
Last week I showed off a copy of Wok ‘n Roll we found at our Goodwill. It was a particularly good day for us as we found four games in total that were complete and weren’t in our collection. This week we’ve been playing th ...
