Growing up I loved going over to my friend’s house to play air hockey. I always thought it was so cool that he had an air hockey table. And I longed for the day when I’d be able to get my own air hockey table.
Well, I still don’t have an air hockey table.
But I do have plenty of other things to play with my kids.
And now this includes what I like to imagine as our mini air hockey table – KLASK.
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This time of year it’s popular among board game reviews to list their Top 100 games of all time.
However, we don’t want to do what everyone else is doing. Instead, we’re trying a new guideline for our favorite board games list.
We’ve narrowed our list down to our favorite games starting with each letter of the alphabet.
That’s right. It’s time to reveal our favorite family board games from A to Z!
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I’m sure you’ve heard the popular saying when trying to outrun a bear, “You don’t have to be faster than the bear, you just have to be faster than the other guy.”
Well, the same could be said for outrunning zombies.
At least that’s what I think every time I play the recently released board game, Hit Z Road by Asmodee.
In Hit Z Road, players are taking a road trip across the United States while trying to outlast the zombie attacks along the way. And in order to win, a player has to stay just one step ahead of the other players.
How would you do on such a road trip?
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Dead of Winter is a cooperative board game where players are a group of survivors trying to last through the winter after a zombie apocalypse.
Like most cooperative board games, players are trying to complete a common objective. However, even though everyone is working together to complete a main objective, players also have their own secret objectives to complete. Only players who complete their secret objective will win.
Will you be able to survive the Dead of Winter?
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Gathering the whole family together to play a fun board game is a great way to spend an evening. However,
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In Speechless, players all take their turn at acting. However, when it’s a player’s turn, they have a limited time to act out 6 words for everyone else to guess.
Instead of shouting out answers, each player has a dry erase board with 6 lines. They only write down a single word for each thing the person acts out.
So instead of getting closer and closer to the right words by elimination, players just make their best guess and move on.
After the timer runs out, the actor reads the words they were acting out and the other players score their answers.
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With so many board games in our game closet, we’re always looking for ways to organize our games to save space.
Some of the culprits that take up shelf space are game expansions.
When the games we love come out with game expansions, what are we to do?
Enter The Broken Token box organizers!
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Are you ready to venture forth with your band of heroes to rid the land of invading creatures and complete dangerous quests?
Then gather your band and dive into the Legends of Andor cooperative board game!
In Legends of Andor, players work together to beat the game over the course of 5 unique scenarios that are revealed through an advancing narrative.
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So far this year, I’ve already played 142 different games!
As I looked over my list this past weekend, I thought about my favorite gaming moments for the year so far.
In some cases, I thought of particular games I’ve had a blast playing. And in other cases, it’s more about the experience overall.
Here are my Top 11 Games and Experiences of 2016 so far.
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At Gen Con 2016 last month, Ice Cool was one of the hot games that sold out rather quickly.
I hadn’t heard about it at all before Gen Con. And it’s probably not surprising because Ice Cool is published by Brain Games out of Latvia.
Coming home with 13 games from Gen Con, Ice Cool was one that I was super excited to play because I thought it might go over well with the family.
And boy, was I right!
Ice Cool is a blast to play!
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