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 ...
It was about this time every year that our favorite activity as kids was to go outside and play hide and seek in the dark. We lived in a rural neighborhood, so we didn’t have to worry about traffic. And street lights hadn’t made ...
It’s not hard to understand that when a company publishes the same type of games successfully over a number of years, you come to expect a certain thing from them. When we play a game by Academy Games, we expect it to have authentic h ...
It was a little over four years ago that we found a copy of Laser Khet at our local Goodwill. We had seen it for sale at local stores, but didn’t want to pay the $40 MSRP since we weren’t sure if our girls would enjoy it or not. ...
I think we all played the classic game of Clue when we were kids. For us it seemed like Colonel Mustard was always using his lead pipe on someone. Maybe we just didn’t shuffle the cards well enough. Either way, it really was a game th ...
