With all the new board games available, you may have given up on Monopoly a long time ago like many others. However, Hasbro has changed things up and delivers a digestible Monopoly game that’s very familiar yet has enough tweaks to keep it fun.
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Have you ever wondered what it takes to make a board game?
There’s a lot to the board game creation process. It all starts with a game idea and ends with the game on store shelves. But what happens in between?
Tonight we’re not gathering around the table with a family board game. Instead we’re hanging out on the couch with pizza and popcorn watching college football (“American football” to our international friends) and cheering on our alam mater.
Are you competitive when it comes to sports?
Are you competitive when playing family board games?
TableTop with Wil Wheaton is a web series that’s part of Geek & Sundry – a new online TV channel that launched in April 2012. Geek & Sundry is an internet community centered around web videos with shows about comics, games, books, hobbies, and more. From the outset, TableTop became an instant hit.
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Are you ready for a battle for supremacy in Tokyo? Not the kind of supremacy that takes a lot of strategic thinking and maneuvering. But a battle of supremacy with monsters storming Tokyo and knocking each other out.
Then you’ll love King of Tokyo.
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Today our board game shelves lost some weight. To be exact, our games shelves are actually 28 board games lighter than they were yesterday.
With school starting up for the kids in just a couple days, today was spent in cleaning and organizing mode.
It’s a great time to pass some of our board games suited for young children on to other families.
Wits and Wagers Party is another fantastic family party game from North Star Games! It brings the best of both worlds from the original Wits & Wagers game and the Wits & Wagers Family Edition, but adds a twist that we really like.
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Over the last 2 weeks our family has spent a lot of time around the TV. As you know, we wouldn’t normally spent hours on end sitting in front of a screen. But these last 2 weeks were different. We tried to soak up as much of the 2012 Summer Olympics as we could.
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Reverse Charades Junior is a great charades game for families. Last year we reviewed Reverse Charades and Rollick – a couple games that employed the same new charades game mechanic. But now there’s something even better for families looking for this type of fun.
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When asked how we got started doing video reviews of family board games and card games, our story revolves around Bang!
We bought Bang! near the start of 2009 and it was an immediate hit in our family. After watching a few times, Caleb (then 6) said he was ready to play. As luck would have it, he got the role of Sheriff – which meant that most of the other players would be gunning for him.
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