You wouldn't know it from the title, but Eat Poop You Cat (yes, that is the name it is known by), is a game that is the drawing equivalent of the game "Telephone." What may start out as the caption "Karen reads a lot of books" can end up as ...
Today's reviewed game, 10 Days in Europe, is a game that, while it doesn’t try to be educational, helped my wife and I figure out where in the world Moldova is. This, primarily, seems to work best as a family game. It works with two to four players and takes about ...
There’s a certain degree of nerdiness required to be someone who writes a board game review column, but today we’re going to ratchet up the nerd level a few clicks. Over the past year, I’ve logged every single board and card game that I played. So yes, if you’ve read ...
There are plenty of silly card games out there. Every year, game companies put out a huge number of card games that hit the market and vanish into obscurity before the year is through. Munchkin, on the other hand, is a game franchise that came out in 2001 and still, ...
I normally begin my board game reviews with a brief overview of how a game works and lead things out with some sort of tease so that you the reader, will click to view the full article. This time, however, I’ll jump right to the chase: Blokus is a great ...
I have to admit, I didn't hold out a lot of hope for the new card game Pirate Fluxx being very good. I like its original version, Fluxx, and so I bought Zombie Fluxx a number of years back and found that it just wasn't as good as regular Fluxx. ...
Dixit is the board game that won Game of the Year last year in Germany. While that’s great for Dixit (and, I’m sure, its sales numbers), I feel like there is no better accolade for a game than for someone to play it and then for someone to say, “That ...
Not all great board games are fun. Not all fun board games are great. While I wouldn’t say that today’s game, Betrayal at House on the Hill, is a game worthy of greatness, it certainly is a lot of fun. If you wanted to pick apart some of its design ...
If you set out to make a board game out of the best elements of capture the flag, hide and seek and the sneaking elements of Metal Gear Solid, you would come up with Nuns on the Run. In this game, one player plays two head nuns, while all of ...
I’ve mentioned before that I don’t care for most party or trivia games, but Triviathon is a game that interested me nonetheless. The best way to explain Triviathon is to show you an example question. [answers will be at the end of the post] One answer will move you three ...
For those of you that have been looking for me to review more family games, I’m happy to report that a few years down the road, I’ll be able to start giving you some: my first daughter was born earlier this month on Dec. 6. Today I am ending the ...
I’ve recently been on the lookout for games that allow players to play on teams rather than an every-player-for-himself game or fully cooperative games. Saboteur is a game that pits a crew of gold-digging dwarves against the Saboteurs among them that would seek to sabotage their progress and take the ...
It's that time of the year when board game reviewers use the holidays as an excuse to write just one more time about the games that we've loved over the past year. While tastes vary from person to person, I've assembled a list of games of different categories that, hopefully, ...
I’ve highlighted games with easy-to-explain rules before, but this marks the first game that I can explain in the first paragraph of its review. The rules to We Didn’t Playtest This At All are simple: Get two cards to start and, on your turn, draw a card and play a ...
After two weeks of reviews about games that aren't my type of game, I'm excited to have the opportunity to talk about Incan Gold. Incan Gold is a game about trying to loot an Incan tomb of its treasures without falling victim to its many hazards. As the explorers get ...
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