We recently stumbled across a list of best board games at Ranker.com. This website provides a way for people to create lists and have others vote on the items on the list. Items will move up or down the list depending on the votes.
At the time we saw the list, there had been 7,000 people cast their votes. These were the top 76 board games of all time according to the voters.
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We’ve played some big board games before – games with a ton of components that sprawl across every inch of a large table. But we’ve never played a game with such huge dice!
While a game with only 16 dice may not sound like much, the size of these dice draws attention. Each chunky die is a 1 ¼ inch cube and has nice brightly colored pips. The game also comes with a game board to hold the dice in a 4×4 grid for play.
But do the high quality components deliver a high quality game?
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I was quite surprised this morning when I saw not 1, but 2 articles about board games in our local newspaper today!
The first headline that caught my eye on the front page of the Entertainment section was “We are living in a board game renaissance“. Which got a hearty “You bet!” from me.
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It’s time to pull out another fun family dice game – Take It Or Leave It!
If your family loves games that involve rolling dice and you’re looking for a simple, light game that has a lot of luck with a bit of strategy mixed in, then Take It Or Leave It might be just what you’re after.
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Modern family board games have come a long way from just “roll-and-move”. With so many fantastic board games to choose from, what are the best?
What family board games should be on everyone’s shelf so no matter the situation, they’ve got a great game ready to play for some fun family time?
We’ve written about a number of annual board game awards numerous times. However, we haven’t written before about Hall of Fame Games.
What would you put in a Games Hall of Fame?
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How many board games have you played this year?
Here’s our mid-year report listing the board games and card games we’ve played the most this year so far. That’s one of the best ways to see what our favorite games are.
Out of the 3,000+ new board games, card games, dice games, family games, party games, war games, cooperative games, strategy games, and many more published in 2012 – the best have now been announced!
Well, at least according to the more than 40 top board game reviewers around the world these are the best board games. Every year The Dice Tower gathers recommendations from around the globe. Those reviewers then whittle the lists down to the nominations. From there the final votes are cast and The Dice Tower Awards are announced!
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Alien Frontiers is another great board game that sits in our Family Favorites board games list. Not only that, but it also made Trevor’s Top 8 Best Board Games list. With only 8 games on the list, that’s a pretty high distinction.
So how would the expansion Alien Frontiers: Factions affect our opinion of the game?
Trevor sums it up simply, “Awesome!”
We caught a video segment today about board games from one of our family’s favorite internet sensations: Rhett and Link
They’ve talked about board games before on their YouTube show, “Good Mythical Morning”. But this recent video clip from “The Mythical Show” is called “Most Complicated Board Game Ever” and it’s just begging to be watched.
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