One of our favorite tile-laying games in the last few years has been Between Two Cities by Stonemaier Games.
So when Stonemaier Games published an expansion for Between Two Cities earlier this year, I immediately put it on my “must play” list.
Does Between Two Cities: Capitals live up to my high hopes? Let’s find out.
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Last week we reviewed one of our favorite board games in the last couple years – Abyss.
Well, we’re staying in the depths a little longer because we got a copy of Abyss: Kraken from Miniature Market earlier this year and it’s time to review it!
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Abyss was published in 2014 by Bombyx and immediately got a lot a buzz in the board game realms. Some of the buzz was about the game play. But most of the buzz was about the evocative artwork.
After taking a closer look, I added it to my ‘want to play’ list and anxiously awaited a chance to play it.
That chance first came for me at SaltCon 2016 – and I loved it!
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Escape rooms have popped up all around the world in the last few years. They’re set up as entertainment venues
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A few weeks ago I shared a Q&A with Burky about the upcoming Game Toppers game tables.
Well, since then our Game Topper has arrived and we’ve played many games on it.
To cut to the chase, we love it!
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Stained glass windows are a beauty to behold. There aren’t many near where we live. But when we’ve visited historic
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Now Boarding is a cooperative board game where players work together as pilots to get passengers to their final destinations before they get too angry.
The added twist to this cooperative game is that all players take all their turns at the same time!
Have you got what it takes to get everyone where they want to go?
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From toasters and TV’s to moldy sardines and X-ray machines, all sorts of items are flying around the junkyard in Trash War.
But the items thrown around aren’t the only things that make the game feel like a free-for-all. The game flow itself feels like a cafeteria food fight.
When I was first introduced to Trash War last year, I was sure the game would be a hit with our teens. Since then I’ve introduced it to even more kids and teenagers and they’ve all had a blast playing.
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When we started reviewing family board games in 2009 a word game was published that we really loved – Word on the Street by Out of the Box Games.
Not being huge games of word games like Scrabble and Bananagrams, we were pleasantly surprised by Word on the Street.
Unfortunately, Out of the Box Games is no longer around to make more copies.
Fortunately though, Educational Insights is now publishing a new version of Word on the Street!
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Have you ever felt the urge to throw a pig?
That’s okay, because not many other people have either.
Regardless of whether you’ve felt that urge or not, you and your family can enjoy throwing foam pigs around in Pass the Pigs: Big Pigs!
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