We got Bed Bugs from the thrift store. Probably not a sentence you want to hear, especially in your household. We’ve shopped at a lot of thrift stores across the country looking for games when we travel, and it would not surprise us t ...
Usually when we find a card game at thrift, they are a variation of a classic game where you either try to win tricks or be the first to get rid of all of the cards in your hand. They’re still fun and have their own twists to the rule ...
When we shop at thrift we end up passing on a lot of games we’d really like to have in our collection. Mostly because they’re either missing pieces or been treated so horribly that no amount of repair would make them playable. G ...
Don’t think for one minute that the only games we purchased at our local game store’s annual used game sale were Battle Line and The Great Wall of China. At the end of the sale our cart contained 31 games. Some that we had been ...
If you were paying attention last Sunday, you’ll recall that I mentioned that thrift stores aren’t the only place we find good deals on used board games. Our local game store hosts an annual used game sale on the weekend before ...
If you’re into board games like we are, you probably have a favorite game store that you frequent. In our metro area there are a couple, but none within what I would consider a short drive. One is in a mall on the other side of the ri ...
When I look back at board games from a few decades ago, I notice a trend that occurred. Whenever there was a successful game published, a number of smaller companies would pop up and issue their own take on the same game with a few improvem ...
Just like last week’s eBay find, Mix & Fix, this week we found another mid-70’s game at our local Goodwill. It’s also another dice-centric game, probably best described as a mix between Boggle and Scrabble. But Perquac ...
Sometimes when I’m bored I’ll peruse the used board games on eBay. There are always thousands of listings and many of them for games I’ve never seen before. The vintage game category is of particular interest to me as thos ...
We have played a lot of games about a lot of different things. Zombies, pandas, frogs, raccoons…you name it and we have probably played a game about it. Unless you say horses. Oddly, we haven’t played many horse-themed games. No ...
