Thrift Treasure: Rapido Color Game
Rapido, the bamboo game by HaPe, is another Thrift Treasure find. It says for ages 4-99, but is that really accurate? Find out! ...
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Thrift Treasure: Connect 4 Dunk Game
Sometimes it pays to be patient when shopping at thrift. Usually, when we spot a game we’d like to have in our collection, we must decide if the random price put on it by Goodwill is worth it or not. Their pricing is all over the plac ...
Thrift Treasure: Coggy Puzzle Game
On a recent trip to Stuff Etc. in Iowa City, we happened across a puzzle game that reminded us of the fidget toy craze from a few years back. Coggy by Fat Brain Toys was hanging on a wall of games, missing its original box. Priced at only $ ...
Thrift Treasure: Famous Authors Card Game
What’s one of the first games you remember playing? I have vivid memories of Boggle, Candyland, Chutes & Ladders and Monopoly from my youth. My parents also taught us War, Rummy and Poker with a regular deck of cards. But there ...
Thrift Treasure: No Thanks! Card Game
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& ...
Thrift Treasure: Shifty Eyed Spies
Around here we have a Stuff Etc. store. It is technically a thrift store, but unlike Goodwill or Salvation Army, the merchandise isn’t donated. Everything there is on consignment from regular people, many of who don’t have the t ...
Thrift Treasure: Twenty Four
I am guilty of sometimes overpaying for a game. There’s no consistent reasoning behind it, sometimes a design or theme just speaks to me. Case in point is this week’s Thrift Treasure. I wouldn’t normally pay $3 for a used ...
Thrift Treasure: Triple Triumph
It seems as of late I’ve bought a few games even though they go against my ‘rules’. Normally games that are incomplete, missing rules or in a heavily damaged box are ones I leave on the shelf no matter how badly I need it ...
Thrift Treasure: Kage
I knew when I picked up the box at our local Stuff Etc. that I had to have it. The company logo gave it away – TSR. For the uninformed, TSR was the original RPG company founded in part by Gary Gygax, creator of Dungeons & Dragons. ...
Thrift Treasure: Chinese Chess
We usually have good luck finding games at our local Goodwill stores. And if we’re lucky enough, they haven’t overpriced them. We’ve gotten good at discovering which thrift stores price fairly and which are trying to gouge ...
