Board Games 4 Charity drive
Heading in to the holiday season, we’re starting to think about great family board games on our wish list that
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Author: Trent
Fandooble – Steal the Gold
We don’t know exactly what “Fandooble” means. But it must have something to do with knights, wizards, dragons, and gold because Fandooble is a family board game (or dice game rather) that’s all about stealing gold from dragons (and other players).
Fandooble isn’t a long adventure board game like Defenders of the Realm or Fortune and Glory. Rather it’s a simple, light game of rolling unique wooden dice that’s enjoyable in its own right.
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Timeline – Card game review
Timeline is a light card game that’s great for families. Not only is it simple to play, but chances are you’ll learn something along the way as well.
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Limited Edition Ticket to Ride Halloween Freighter
The Ticket to Ride Halloween Freighter is a new set of 45 custom-sculpted Pumpkin trains and 3 Halloween stations and is only available for a limited time.
There are plenty of Ticket to Ride board games and maps available. So if you haven’t tried Ticket to Ride before, there are plenty to choose from.
Board game blowout weekend
Our nephew (and cousin) returned last week from his 2 year church mission and we got to spend the extended weekend with their family catching up on many things as well as playing lots of board games!
Knowing that we’d be spending a long weekend at their home, and that Jake loves playing board games, we had the tough choice of which games we should first introduce him to upon his return. We wanted to take games he’d already be familiar with, but we also wanted to play games that we’ve added to our game shelves over the last 2 years that we thought he’d love.
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100th Board Game Played this year!
I just played my 100th board game this year!
And we picked a great family board game to play for the 100th different game played – Stone Age!
In January I wrote about the number of board games we played in 2011 and which games we/I played the most. By keeping track of the board games I play, it’s easy to look back and see which games I’ve played the most and how many different games I’ve played.
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Shrimp Cocktail – Quick spotting card game
Shrimp Cocktail is a card game that’s great for kids and helps develop their visual recognition skills as they race to be the first to spot matches among the shrimp on the cards.
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Top 5 Cooperative Board Games for families
Our family loves cooperative board games!
The first time we played a cooperative board game we knew we’d found something cool. There weren’t hurt feelings from being beat. And there weren’t accusations of being picked on by a sibling. Instead there was a lot of teamwork as we tried to win the game together.
Dixit Odyssey – Quite the creative journey
Dixit Odyssey is all about letting your creativity juices flow. It’s a card game full of cards with very abstract and distinct illustrative artwork that let players’ imagination run wild.
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Monopoly Millionaire board game winner!
Congratulations to Amy W of Ohio, USA for winning our recent Monopoly Millionaire board game giveaway contest sponsored by Hasbro!
Monopoly Millionaire is the latest version of Monopoly – the most popular family board game this century. It’s hard to find anyone in the world that isn’t familiar with Monopoly.