As the girls get busier and busier and Madison prepares to graduate and head off to college, Scott and I are realizing that our plans for playing games at home will dramatically change. We can still gather together with friends on weekends ...
One of our favorite series of games is the Exit line by Kosmos. If you haven’t played, it’s an ongoing string of escape room games that are filled with puzzles, challenges and brain teasers. You really have to be able to th ...
I’m starting to realize that it doesn’t take much for me to realize I’m old. It sometimes happens when realizing I don’t understand what my kids are saying or have to look up some acronym they texted me. Those things ...
Confession time. I’m one of the very few board game fans that have never played a copy of The Mind by Pandasaurus Games. As you probably know, in 2018/2019 it was THE new card game to play. It was a nominee for the highest award a gam ...
You’ve heard the adage that there are always at least two sides to every story. I’m always sad when I see people jump to conclusions without having all the facts in hand. Politics has always been a divisive concept and people fa ...
Okay, so I think we’ve made it plenty clear that we’ve been on a run of dragon-themed games lately. But before that, you may recall our overview of the Jaws board game where we talked about introducing our daughters to classic m ...
I find the ebb and flow of board game themes to be fascinating. If you look through our archives, you’ll see that we cover a lot of similar genres in a short period of time. There were a whole bunch of games that included polyomino ga ...
After sharing our Cave Paintings game overview, I got to thinking about how drawing games are usually set up in one of two ways. Either you’re on teams or it’s every man for himself. You don’t see solo mode drawing games, ...
I may sound like a broken record these days (or always, really), but using games for teaching is such an underused training tool. Whether in the classroom or in a home setting, incorporating entertainment into an educational setting is what ...
Things in life aren’t always bright and cheery, but I pride myself in trying to find the good in every situation. While many people have complained about the disruption caused by COVID (which I cannot disagree with), the stay-at-home ...
