It isn’t often that we find what one might assume is an entire collection of games at thrift. A few years ago we happened to find two different copies of Qwirkle at the same time. It also happened once when we came across a coupl ...
This week’s Thrift Treasure find at Goodwill had two words on the box that caught my attention, “Magnetic” and “3-D”. It didn’t matter how good the game was rated on BGG, Pirates’ Gold would find it ...
A few weeks ago I told the story of how I picked up a game at thrift that had no English instructions. Deutschlandreise by Ravensburger is an example of a game that I would have normally passed over. Thanks to modern technology, specificall ...
“Now hold on just a second!” is what you’re thinking. “You’ve already told us about a game called Quicksand that you found at thrift in August!” Yes, that is accurate. We were playing a timer-based abstra ...
It’s been a while since we’ve found a unique word game at thrift, but this week was our lucky week. I believe the last one we found worthy of purchasing was last Spring when we bought Scrabble Word Rummy at our local Goodwill. Y ...
It’s always fascinating to me the oddity of games we get in our local Goodwill. Back in 2016 we had picked up a copy of Łowca Obrazków for a couple dollars. It took some research, but we finally figured out it was a Polish versio ...
Yahtzee is probably one of the first games everyone plays when first introduced to board game. Everyone loves rolling the dice, pushing their luck and trying to get the highest score possible. Plus there’s the rush of excitement when ...
A popular type of game that we’ve really been enjoying as of late are advertised as escape room games. While you’re not physically locked in a room, you are trying to solve a series of puzzles with limited clues and hints. We ha ...
During the holiday season it can be more difficult to find unique games at thrift. The lack of selection probably has more to do with the cold weather and the passing of yard sale season rather than more customers buying used games to put u ...
Last year about this time we featured one of the many games from the 60’s/70’s that were known as “bookshelf games”, Feudal. Issued by 3M, these were complex strategy games that came in a box that was made to look go ...
