Back in the late 90’s there was a game published called “Triazzle” which we run into a lot at thrift. I would best describe it as a tile-laying game with mechanics from Chinese Checkers. The object is to match triangular t ...
Last week when I added Escape the Room: The Cursed Dollhouse to our list of family games, I realized something interesting. A lot of time had passed since the first time we played Escape the Room: Mystery at the Stargazer’s Manor, the first ...
Did you happen to see Mystic Market on our list of family games last week? We’ve enjoyed ThinkFun puzzles for years, but games are more of an anomaly. If you had a chance to look over the game, you may have noticed that the components ...
By now you know that board games are the reason we make regular trips to the thrift stores. We’re always on the hunt for good (and bad) games at discount prices. There are so many different that many we find have never even been writt ...
I remember having a copy of Peg Solitaire in our house when I was a young child. You probably did too. It’s the game where pegs are put into a grid and you jump them back and forth trying to get down to just one. Some versions had a s ...
If you’re like us, when you think of ThinkFun, you recall single player games with levels which increase in difficulty as you play through them. These are their bread-and-butter and they’re very good at it. But over the years th ...
As we drive down the roads in Iowa and see cows everywhere, it isn’t uncommon to hear the following conversation: Someone in the car: “Mooooo” Someone else: “What’s that cow doing driving that car?” ...
When you like a company for a particular type of product, it makes sense to return to them to see what else they offer. That holds true for food, clothing, automobiles…well, pretty much anything. We’ve come to know ThinkFun for ...
When we’re shopping for games at thrift, there is one brand we will never buy. If it is from the Cranium series, we have learned to always pass on it no matter how complete or new it looks. The majority of their games include some typ ...
If you haven’t heard our mantra before, we’ll say it again – “All kids should learn coding or programming.” It doesn’t matter if they are destined to be programmers, engineers or even anything that has to ...
