Halloween is upon us, along with cooler weather and the beginning of autumn. All this month we’ve tried to find new game titles that fit the theme of the season. First we built up the community pumpkin patch by playing Pumpkin Patch: ...
One of the hottest trends in board games right now is a genre being called “roll and write”. This style of game typically has players rolling one or more dice and recording the results on their own score sheet. The term has beco ...
About that list you’ve been working on… You know, the one with games that you want to purchase? You’ve been working on it for the last couple of days by using our list of the best games debuting for sale at Gen Con Part 1 ...
Have you ever noticed that Scott tends to go in phases? While his favorite games fall into a few categories including abstract games and anything from Stefan Feld or Reiner Knizia, he likes to find similar types of games and play them withi ...
Before we moved back to Iowa from California, we decided to take a vacation to Hawaii. We knew it would be much cheaper to fly out of Los Angeles than to wait until later and have to make a connection there anyhow. We chose to stay in the N ...
There’s a game designer whose games are appearing in our game night bag more often than any other. For our weekly game night sessions we typically look for engaging titles that play more than four players, are quick to teach and still ...
It seems as of late all the space-themed games coming onto the market are marketed towards an older audience. Tabletop games like Fantasy Flight’s X-Wing and Armada certainly require deep pockets in order for your team to remain relev ...
Welcome back! Glad to see you’ve returned to add more to your wish list. I completely feel your pain; we have the same obsession with needing to add more games to our collection. If you’ve just hopped on our bus for details on w ...
If there’s one game theme that we’re always attracted to, it is ones about farming. We do live in Iowa in the middle of corn and soybean fields, so it is natural that we’d have a familiarity with the process of bringing cr ...
There is such a void of games that teach and entertain at the same time. Sure, you can find some lesson or fact in nearly every game, but ones that do a good job of educating and providing a fun experience at the same time are rare. Usually ...
