Articles tagged: card games
Critical Hits: Eat Poop You Cat: A silly, fun, and free party game
Posted: Mar 28, 2011You 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 ... Read more »
Critical Hits: 10 Days in Europe: A game worth putting on your itinerary
Posted: Mar 21, 2011Today'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 ... Read more »
Critical Hits: A year in board gaming: Logging which games I played most
Posted: Mar 07, 2011There’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 ... Read more »
Critical Hits: Munchkin: a game that, love it or hate it, has stood the test of time
Posted: Feb 28, 2011There 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, ... Read more »
Critical Hits: Blokus: A classic abstract strategy game
Posted: Feb 15, 2011I 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 ... Read more »
Critical Hits: Pirate Fluxx: the best edition of the random, easy-to-learn card game
Posted: Feb 07, 2011I 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 ... Read more »
Critical Hits: Dixit: a game of clever clues and surreal art
Posted: Jan 31, 2011Dixit 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 ... Read more »
Critical Hits: Trust 'Betrayal' for a fun, slightly random game experience
Posted: Jan 25, 2011Not 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 ... Read more »
Critical Hits: Nuns on the Run: An unconventional game of stealth (in a convent)
Posted: Jan 17, 2011If 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 ... Read more »
Critical Hits: Triviathon: A party game best played with two players
Posted: Jan 11, 2011I’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. ... Read more »
Critical Hits: Resolve to play better casual games with Carcassonne
Posted: Jan 03, 2011For 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 ... Read more »
Critical Hits: Saboteur: A quick, fun card game with secretly assigned teams
Posted: Nov 29, 2010I’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 ... Read more »
Critical Hits: Give cardboard, not plastic: Holiday Gift Guide 2010
Posted: Nov 22, 2010It'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 ... Read more »
Critical Hits: We Didn't Playtest This at All: the short, fun game with the long name
Posted: Nov 15, 2010I’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: ... Read more »
Critical Hits: Incan Gold: a great gem of a game
Posted: Nov 08, 2010After 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 ... Read more »
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