Most family board games come with fantastic playing pieces and items that enhance the game experience. After all, one of the things that makes board games fun to play over digital games are the physical components in the game. Players get to move cool playing pieces and markers around to accomplish their objectives.
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Smash Up is the latest card game from AEG that does what the name suggests – Smashes things Up. Not only do players battle to smash up bases to score points, but they do so by having a ‘smashed up’ deck of faction cards to do it with.
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There’s a lot of great stuff happening in the family board game world.
(Of course we think that anything that gets your family together is something great.)
But there are a few things we’ve heard about board games recently that have us really excited.
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It’s pretty common that parents seem to think they’ve got the smartest kids around. Well, now’s the time to put that belief to the test with this family board game from Griddly Games – Wise Alec.
Read moreYou can tell our family likes playing board games. But every once in a while we write about being involved
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Kids love using their imagination to create stuff.
That’s why LEGOS are such a hit. Give a kid a tub of LEGOS and they can build all sorts of stuff.
Morphology Junior is a family board game that taps into that creative imagination and turns it into a game. But rather than just having blocks to build with, Morphology Jr includes a variety of objects that players use to build things.
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We think it’s funny with a board game has the word “game” right in the title of the game. So when we saw The Big Fat Tomato Game by Gamewright we knew it had to be something lighthearted and funny.
If you know anything about Gamewright games, you’ll know they’re all about publishing family games. And The Big Fat Tomato Game is no different. It’s targeted directly at families everywhere (you don’t have to be farmers).
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What a year for games!
In 2012 we played a ton of different board games, card games, dice games, and party games – 128 to be exact!
That’s a lot of games.
At the start of last year I set a goal to play over 100 different games. For each of the 2 previous years, I had played 98 different games. So I set the goal to get over the 100 mark in 2012.
Goal accomplished!
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Snake Oil is a fun party game of pitching crazy products to all sorts of customers. Players take turns being the customer and listening to sales pitches from the other players. Then they must decide which product they’re going to buy.
The catch is that players can’t just sell anything they want. They’re limited to what they can come up with from the cards in their hands – which makes for some pretty crazy product pitches.
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We hope you had a fantastic Christmas break and are looking forward to a nice New Year’s break as well (if even for only 1 day). We had a great time with family and friends and even got to play a few board games during the festivities.
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