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 ...
No matter how long we play games, there’s one theme we will always gravitate towards – the farm. Living in Iowa has given us a special appreciation for the hard work put in daily by our farmers. Whether it’s a card game li ...
If you thought I got my fill of roll and write games when I told you about Lanterns Dice, Kingdomino Duel, Rolled West and Fleet the Dice Game a couple months ago then you don’t know me well. If it has dice then I’m usually a su ...
When people ask what my favorite types of games are, I have a tough time deciding. I love the cooperative nature of games that make players work together. I also love the thought that is required for a strategy or abstract game. However, di ...
This past fall I was on a roll (ha! foreshadowing) when I shared about several roll and write games including Lanterns Dice, Kingdomino Duel and Bloom dice games.They’re a far cry from the traditional game of Yahtzee that we grew up w ...
Years ago when we first started getting into board games more seriously, we began attending a weekly game night hosted at a local college. Each week 30-50 people would show up to play all types of board and card games of various levels of d ...
It’s been a while since we’ve found a unique word game at thrift, but this week was our lucky week. I believe the last one we found worthy of purchasing was last Spring when we bought Scrabble Word Rummy at our local Goodwill. Y ...
Yahtzee is probably one of the first games everyone plays when first introduced to board game. Everyone loves rolling the dice, pushing their luck and trying to get the highest score possible. Plus there’s the rush of excitement when ...
I’ll be the first to admit that when it comes to getting gifts for major holidays, the big gift is always the first challenge I like to tackle. After that, I work on the supplemental gifts and wrap it up (usually at the last minute) w ...
Ha! I bet you thought after our string of roll-n-write (Lanterns Dice, Kingdomino Duel, Rolled West) and flip-n-write games (Second Chance, Deadly Doodles, Kokoro) a few weeks back that we were done with those for a while. Nope. I have foun ...
