Board Game Cafés are sweet!
When I travel for work, I love getting a feel of a city by walking all over. It a great
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Author: Trent
It’s fun to Bring Your Own Book
We’ve always enjoyed reading books in our family.
Jaden and Caleb in particular absolutely devour books. I don’t know where they got their ability to speed-read, but they read circles around me.
So when we got a recently released game from Gamewright that involves books, we were anxious to play it.
And now that we’ve played it, we can confirm that Bring Your Own Book is a fantastic game for families.
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Best Games of 2015! – The Dice Tower Awards
The best board games, card games, dice games, family games, and party games of 2015 have now been awarded!
Just a couple days ago, on July 9, The Dice Tower announced the winners of the Dice Tower Awards — the annual crowing of the best board games published.
With thousands of new games published each year, there’s always so many great games to choose from.
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Burgle Bros. is a great cooperative board game
Just like we’d imagine a real heist to be, Burgle Bros. is a challenging cooperative experience. Players work together to crack 3 safes and escape to the roof in order to win.
However, if they don’t stay clear of the guards, they’ll be caught, rat out the co-conspirators, and lose.
While playing, you’ll feel the tension build as you explore the 3 floors of the bank – setting off alarms, cracking safes to grab the loot, and trying to stay a step ahead of the guards on your way to victory. (Or terrible defeat – which can be a common outcome.)
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One month countdown to Gen Con!
A month from now I’ll be experiencing my first trip to GenCon and I’m super excited!
I’m counting down the days and can hardly wait. (August 4-7 in Indianapolis, IN)
For those that aren’t familiar with GenCon, it’s the largest gaming convention in the United States. Or to quote from their website:
“Gen Con is the original, longest-running, best-attended, gaming convention in the world! Featuring 500+ exhibiting companies from the game industry, award-winning authors and artists, costumed attendees, more than 14,000 events, a Family Fun Pavilion, and the debut of exciting new games, Gen Con truly is The Best Four Days in Gaming!”
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Light your Lanterns for family fun
We’ve never participated in a Chinese Lantern Festival. But we can imagine how cool it would be to see.
After all, we’ve seen the hope lit lanterns can bring in Disney’s movie Tangled. And that led to “happily ever after”, right?
However, our score of participating in a lantern festival is still zero.
Playing Lanterns: The Harvest Festival by Foxtrot Games and Renegade Game Studios is our next attempt at being close to the real thing.
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Six board game review
It’s fun to sit around the table with everyone for family together time. But it’s also fun to sit down one-on-one with a child and go head-to-head in a fun mental challenge.
And today we’re reviewing such a game by FoxMind: Six
Six is a short 2-player board game that’s simple and enjoyable to play again and again.
And Caleb gives it his highest rating!
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Create your own solar system in Planetarium
We very rarely talk about games that aren’t yet available in game stores. But every once in a while we discover a game that hits the mark for a great family board game. And Planetarium is such a game.
Planetarium is a fun game with a great balance of strategy and luck that families throughout the galaxy will enjoy playing together.
And if your kids enjoy Planetarium as much as our Caleb does, you’ll be controlling matter and planets for a long time to come.
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Kudos to Fathers everywhere
Happy Father’s Day!
Today’s another great day to celebrate parenthood. We start with Mother’s Day in May and follow with Father’s Day in June. It’s a nice one-two punch for parents.
Cheers to those who sacrifice so much to raise their children!
It’s not an easy task.
Every year that passes, I come to appreciate fatherhood even more.
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Fugitive – A quick and fun 2-player card game
We’ll cut right to the chase (pun intended) — Fugitive is a quick and fun 2-player card game that keeps both players on their toes.
If you’re the Fugitive, you draw cards and play them as Hideouts in order to escape. If you’re the Marshal, you draw cards to get more information to uncover the Fugitive’s hideouts.
Yet, as easy as the game play mechanism of drawing and playing or guessing a card is, there’s enough thinking in Fugitive to keep both players’ minds working the whole game.
And when one game ends, you’ll want to jump right back in and play it again.
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